User blog comment:Rhonda the stalker fan!/Total Drama 30 Day Challenge: Day 3/@comment-1736722-20180703194353/@comment-3350823-20180704054529

Oh my god, that trailer! The hype was so real. Don't forget that Heather had hair now too xD (although I also hate how that trailer just straight up spoils Leshawana's elimination).

Honestly WT really did try to shake up the formula. Even the new team names follow a different naming scheme. It's kind of sad they haven't tried to shake it up yet. I do think some of the development was poorly handled (i.e. the writers forget that characters had grown and knew them by their labels) even before the fourth and following seasons.

But that season did something that seems crazy if you've only seen Island; it made Heather not only a winner...but the winner you could root for. It elevated her to a whole new kind of iconic.

I wasn't as active in the community, but I remember those Australian spoilers and being disappoitned at Victory keep losing xD For me, Action had that same kind of following and spoiler guessing. I remember Canada got most of the episodes, but then had these real long breaks so America could catch up. So there was so much speculation going on. Especially because an episode preview had been given...and leaked a Courtney return. So it was just exciting trying to figure out what was going to happen and how we got to that point.