User blog:NicoTDaddicted/TDPI Review

WARNING: THIS REVIEW HAS SPOILERS SO IF YOU HAVEN’T GOTTEN AROUND TO SEE TDPI AND YOU DON’T WANT TO BE SPOILED YOU SHOULDN’T READ THIS

Season Overall
OH MY GOD LET ME TELL YOU, THIS IS DEINETELY ONE OF THE BEST SEASONS IN TOTAL DRAMA. It was better than Revenge of the Island, All Stars, and Action. I must say it’s really hard to believe that this masterpiece of a season was the follow-up to the shitty Total Drama All Stars, but it really did feel like the original. If it weren’t for the over-the-top challenges it would have felt exactly like the first season, since most of the plots between the characters were pretty simple. I like how they also didn’t keep the background limited and had many different settings due to the island being….robotic? Okay, the whole ‘Pahkitew Island is a robotic island’ WAS pretty stupid. Even more stupid than a radioactive island. But eh, guess they had to keep up with their tradition of ‘everything around them is fake’ like how they did in Island and Action. Though one thing that I REALLY hated in this season was how they settled the team names. They tried to do them in another language—like the language where the word Pahkitew comes from, which in English it means ‘explosive’, and due to this the team names were pretty long and hard to say, to the point that I couldn’t even tell what team was Chris talking about.

But there are things this season did better than the first. For one thing, the comedy is better. Honestly I loved TDI, but there humor wasn’t always laughable. Mostly since they re-used most jokes. But in Pahkitew Island there was always a moment in each episode that made me laugh. It was probably the second funniest season, after Total Drama World Tour, in my opinion. Another thing that they did better is that I liked every single one of the characters. There wasn’t even one that I hated. Unlike Total Drama Island, where most characters I loved, but there characters I disliked and hell one that I hated. But Pahkitew? I liked everyone in the cast. Yes, there were characters I liked more than others, but overall they always had something good in them that I had to give them praise for.

Which is why I can’t make a ‘Worst To Best’ character rankings because I liked all of them, so therefore, none of them really fit in the ‘worst’ category. And so, I present to you my‘LESS LIKED TO MOST LIKED’ CHARACTER RANKINGS—I know that sounds weird but dammnit I liked them all okay—I might make VERY long paragraphs as to why I love certain characters, so I will just put an ‘In Summary’ after the paragraphs for those who don’t want to read too much to scroll down to and see my point.

Less Liked to Most Liked Character Rankings
14. Dave – A lot of people hate him in Tumblr but honestly, I don’t. And the reason to this is his stereotype. Dave is what happens when you put Trent and Mike together. Ironically, I like Dave and I actually hate those two. The reason to this is probably his stereotype. Dave’s stereotype is ‘The Normal Guy’. However, his character centers around how in every single episode they try to make him more bizarre and eventually be anything BUT  a normal guy and even turn out to be the less normal in all of the cast members, and in a show where you have a girl who acts like a princess and a wannabe super-villain, THAT’S saying something. Dave was the writers attempt to show that they were smart, especially after their last seasons showing otherwise. THAT’S why I like Dave. So why is he last in this list? Well, because compaired to the other contestants, he had the MOST negative qualities and seemed to leave a bad taste in my mouth. Yes, this WAS the intention, and we were supposed to see the bad in Dave’s disorder and see the wrong in him, unlike Mike who is seen as a hero even for all the bad decisions he takes, which is why Dave is higher on my list than Mike concerning the show overall. But the bad thing about Dave is that HE never realizes he is in the wrong, even when the audience does. He cuts off Sky’s ‘But’ and declares them to be an official couple, but then when he finds out what the ‘But’ was, he completely takes it against Sky, as if this is all HER fault. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Sky was in the right at all. Both were at fault. I’m pretty sure that for ALL the times they had together, she had enough time to tell Dave over how she already has a boyfriend but was planning to break up with him. However, she’s still the better person because at least she realizes she’s in the wrong. Dave never realizes he’s wrong and actually thinks Sky deserves to die for what she did to him. Like I know this was part of a challenge that could eventually get him money, but dude seriously how low can you go?? Unlike the others however, Dave didn’t become my LEAST liked character in the finale, though the finale sure was enough to make him look worse. His reaction to Sky suddenly going against him WAS hilarious at first, as he seemed to act like a teenage girl that just got dumped. But as time went on he just got annoying and a pain to sit through…And yet, THIS wasn’t where I started to hate him. THIS only adds up to his negative list. It was that damn scene where he refused to listen to Sky and called them a couple just like that. Can someone say selfish? The main fault with Dasky was miscommunication, which let me tell you is one of the most painful things to sit through in a TV show, and even though I can always ship them together and just ignore Dave’s elimination episode like I already do, Dave would STILL be the contestant I less like from this season.

In Summary: Dave is a character that I like for proving that the writers are smart, yet just as how he has enough good qualities to be liked, he has enough negative qualities to be the character I less like from TDPI.

13. Rodney – Now Rodney was a character that I saw a lot of fanart of before the season started, and a character everyone seemed to be pretty hyped for. Me? I thought him out to be a Nice Scott, but other than that, he did seem promising, and so even if I wasn’t AS hyped as others, I was interested to see what was set for this character. What did I think about the outcome? …Well, you can tell from this ranking that it was upsetting. He wasn’t as bad of a character as others in Tumblr make him out to be, but his character IS something to look down upon. The guy literally falls in love with every girl that pays attention to him. If I met a guy like that in real life, I’d be creeped out, wouldn’t you? The odd thing about this character is that the reason I hate him is the same reason I like him. I’ve had characters which I like only because I find them interesting—or just think they’re interesting enough for me not to hate, and Rodney is one of those cases. Confused? Well, what I mean is, the fact that he falls in love with every single girl that pays attention to him leaves me to question, WHY is he this way? What if he’s so ignored and lonely where he lives that when a female actually realizes he exists, he gets so excited he develops feelings for them? You see, that’s why I like Rodney. He’s interesting and leaves me asking questions, just like how any character should do, especially in a show called Total Drama.

In Summary: Rodney’s personality and character is a mix of creepy yet interesting, which is enough to like, but not enough to consider a favorite, which is upsetting for a character that I was rooting for.

12. Shawn – Ah yes, the winner of the season. You can see by his ranking how the fact that he won this season bugged me. But eh, hard not to expect from a guy that was revealed to be Canadian in a Canadian show, which was probably my biggest hint that he could become the winner of the season. Honestly? I had hopes for the guy. I had hopes that he’d turn out to be a decent character. What I got? Not at all what I was expecting. When I saw that fearless look on his face in the group picture, the last thing I expected was a guy that lived in paranoia for nothing but the zombie apocalypse. Now, I never got the big deal in zombies. I never found them as awesome as everyone does. So the fact that Shawn seemed to say the word ‘zombie’ in almost every episode he was in pissed the shit out of me. The reason he isn’t higher is that he doesn’t have anything for me to find likeable…or at least before I saw the last few episodes. His armpit serenade was one of the best parts of the season, and honestly? Even if Jashawn is just an ‘okay’ couple for me, I liked how that little plot with him not wanting to share the money with Jasmine and only have half was resolved. He didn’t feel bad and agree to split the money just because it was his girl and he loved Jasmine. He went along with it because he saw how Jasmine was doing all the work and you could even argue that she was responsible for his win. Even when Shawn gave her the opportunity to say ‘Fuck this shit you should do all the work you’re the one who gets the money’, Jasmine always insisted and told Shawn not to worry about her. It wasn’t lovey-dovey bullshit that edged him on, it was the fact that it was the fair thing to do. And really, a winner that believes in fairness is all I could ask for Total Drama.

In Summary: Shawn started off as annoying in my eyes, and it wasn’t until the last few episodes where I saw that he really WAS worthy of winning the money. Though he’s still not worthy to be considered as one of my favorites.

11. Max – I know what you’re thinking. How is Max this low? He was a hilarious character! But let me remind you that this is a ‘LEAST LIKED TO MOST LIKED’ list, and I like every single character on here. When I did the list I was surprised that Max made it up to be THIS low. Most of THE best jokes in this season where given by him, which is a shock for a character I, and other people as well, were expecting him to suck. When I was watching the first TDPI episode on my computer I was ready to get out a gun and shoot him, but then he actually made me laugh, and I set my gun down. Nice save Fresh TV. Nice save . So then how can I be such an ungrateful bitch and not give the man that made me laugh through this season such a low position? Not even I seemed to know the answer to that. It took me some time to think about it when I realized what the deal was. You see, those characters higher than him in my list have LIKEABLE qualities to them and their decisions. Max didn’t have that. He was just a character that I liked having on the show so that I could laugh and have a good time. It’s a good enough reason to be a likeable character, but with so many likeable characters this season, it wasn’t enough to make him stand out.

In Summary: Max was a MUCH better character than I and most of us expected, but not even his jokes are enough for me to like him as much as the other contestants.

10. Scarlett – It probably is a bad thing that when I ranked Scarlett the only thing that puzzled me was that I didn’t put Max and Scarlett in the same ranking due to being an awesome duo rather than how low she is compaired to how others ranked her. Scarlett is what happens when Harold, Cameron and Courtney decide to have a threesome. She’s got smarts and skills to go far, while also having a competitive ruthless edge. Despite the fact that the previously mentioned characters are all in my Hate List, Scarlett doesn’t really have the qualities in which I hated in those three. She’s not incredibly annoying like Harold, she’s not aggressively controlling like Courtney, and she’s not a godplayer like Cameron. Granted I might have liked her more if I hadn’t been spoilt about her being the main antagonist and would have gotten the thrill of surprise. But the real problem with her is that, even though she is nowhere as near as bad as Justin, Scott, hell even Courtney, at being antagonistic, I really can’t consider her as one of the best. She didn’t make me both love her and hate her like Heather, she didn’t have schemes that constantly kept being successful like Alejandro, hell I actually was more interested in Mal then I was with her. By no means is Scarlett a bad antagonist, hell she was actually a good antagonist, but I really can’t consider her to be as GREAT as other previous antagonists. She has the best hair though--

In Summary: By no means a bad antagonist, yet I can’t consider as one of the best, Scarlett is a character that has smarts and skill, with some neat moments and beautiful hair, yet even so I can’t find myself to like her as much as the following characters.

Clue for the next character: The character was eliminated in one of the first five episodes