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Total Drama Series Episode Rankings: The Very Last Episode, Really

I was mainly waiting to post this until the review results for the TDI special were in so I could do a double post, but it seems the special will be given more review time due to the scarcity of reviews, so if you have something to say, you can do so here.

The review for the TDI season finale comes from Craze.

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Total Drama Series Episode Rankings: I Triple Dog Dare You

The review comes from icey.

TDI Episode 25: I Triple Dog Dare You This episode is ultimately a long build up to Heather getting her karma for the season, but it works very well overall. The challenges are a bit slow at the start but the lead in before the challenges with all the confessionals gives the F3 time to show where they are at this point in the game. It also contains what is probably the most iconic moment of TDI, Heather getting her head shaved and then being eliminated (sorry Lindsay, yours is number 2), which is very nicely executed. Character Interactions [18/20] – Gwen knowing how to talk Owen into helping her is one of the only particularly new interactions now that we’re down to three players. Heather and Gwen both want the other out, and Owen is pretty oblivious to the tension and just assumes he won’t win as revealed in the confessionals at the start. Heather also foreshadows Owen’s victory this episode by discussing his obscene eating habits at the start. However, since some of the interactions, like the taunting during the challenge, were getting a bit stale by this point, I took a few points off here. Challenge [18/20] – The montage compared to the number of freebies doesn’t really line up, and Heather’s decision to alternate her challenges to Owen and Gwen is a bit odd seeing as she should have tried to deplete Gwen’s stash (unless she just assumed Owen would give Gwen more). While the gross factor is quite high this episode, since it’s all animated, it’s tolerable, and the two montages in particular work to show a bunch of weird challenges that people completed. Giving Lindsay the last challenge is the perfect followup to her line as she left, so I’m very happy with how it ended (even if it was again a bit unfair as Heather obviously would have said Chef could finish shaving her head if it meant staying in the game). Drama/Humor [27/30] The episode could have used just a bit more of both dimensions, but the confessionals at the start, alliance between Gwen and Owen, and the tension around the head shaving challenge work to put a good amount of drama in the episode. Similarly, Owen’s complete obliviousness in the confessionals is funny when juxtaposed with Heather and Gwen bashing the other and talking about the game, their banter during the challenge is good, and some of the challenge scenes are quite funny (like the hand puppet show and Owen’s reaction after it). Elimination [10/10] – Can I give this elimination over a 10? As much as I love Heather as a character, her getting burned by Lindsay’s dare is the perfect karma, especially since it was a cheap twist like what took out Lindsay. She’d probably have lost anyways with all the dares flying her way, so having her leave the way she did was pretty perfect. Overall Effect [20/20] – It’s easily one of the most memorable episodes of TDI, and even with slightly slow pacing in a few parts, that’s not the part of the episode that sticks with you. The challenge is entertaining enough and Heather getting shaved and eliminated is a satisfying end to her plotline. Penalties: Continuity Errors [-0] Nothing major Editing Errors [-0] Nothing major. There are a few inconsistencies with the freebies, but it’s pretty hard to notice unless you’re looking for it. Icey’s Score 93/100 – This is episode is easily the top episode of TDI and one of the top episodes overall. Heather is one of the most iconic players of the first season and this episode provides an excellent closure to her storyline with fitting karma. Gwen is certainly lucky it wasn’t actually a jury vote though as she’d have been much better off taking Heather who everyone hated than the super popular Owen.

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Total Drama Series Episode Rankings: Are We There Yeti

It’s a Craze review this time.

Also the episode I Triple Dog Dare You was given an extra day for reviewing, so that review will go up tomorrow while the review for the finale will be up Tuesday.

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Total Drama Series Episode Rankings: Camp Castaways

Today’s review comes from icey

TDI Episode 23: Camp Castaways Unless there’s a compelling story to tell or it’s a two part episode, I don’t particularly care for non-elimination episodes late in the merge, and this episode is no exception. As I said in my last review, I’d have rather had the Playa des Losers segment be non-elimination and have an elimination here. Adding in Leshawna would have meant slightly less time for the other characters, but since much of the episode drags on, that wouldn’t have been a bad thing. You could easily remove this episode from the series and change nothing (I guess Mr. Coconut wouldn’t exist but where’s the loss there?) Character Interactions [15/20] – Other than the bonding moment when everyone but Owen confesses a dark secret, we don’t see much of interactions we haven’t already seen. Gwen, Duncan, and Heather are all frustrated with everyone else and Owen still wants everyone to get along. Everyone does get some focus and have a unique plan for the island (Heather – just a challenge, Duncan – stay put so they find us, Gwen – find our way back, Owen – have a mental breakdown), which does earn it some points. Challenge [12/20] – There’s not really a clear challenge which leads to no elimination. While the scenes are funny and slowly push everyone back to camp, it’s not particularly compelling action. I do wonder if Gwen and Duncan would have won or lost had their raft made it to camp. Drama/Humor [20/30] The episode doesn’t have any major drama other than wondering how they’ll get back to camp and watching the small feuds among the players who ultimately need to work together. Humor isn’t too bad with great lines about Heather wanting to throw Owen to the sharks for being large and chewy (or something similar) and funny scenes like Owen’s quick degradation into insanity, him knocking out the snake, people asking if Owen knows Mr. Coconut is a fruit, and Duncan fumbling with his arrows. Elimination [2/10] – Since they had a ceremony, I think it’s fair to keep the elimination category (especially after reading plenty of fans that Mr. Coconut generated). With four marshmallows, there’s immediately no tension, so it doesn’t really succeed there. I guess it did effectively get rid of Mr. Coconut other than a few brief reappearances but that’s about all it did. It was just more padding in an already padded episode. Overall Effect [5/20] – I think a five is pretty generous here. None of the character interactions really matter from this episode but we already knew the four characters well enough without it. The pacing is slow, and there’s just nothing particularly interesting or memorable to tie the episode together. Penalties: Continuity Errors [-1] Owen complains he’s never kissed a girl, but he made out with Izzy in the serial killer challenge. Editing Errors [-0] Nothing major Icey’s Score 53/100 – I’m surprised this score came out as high as it did. Reasonable humor and good character focus saved this episode from a sub-50 score, but it’s certainly not one I’d watch again and again. I think the main reason I remember it is it’s so blah compared to most of the late season episodes (although the next episode is still fairly average but leagues better from what I remember).

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Haute Camp-ture/After the Dock of Shame

The review is by Craze

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Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon

This is a review by truebluefangirl

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Total Drama Series Episode Rankings: Wawanakwa Gone Wild

The review for this episode comes from Craze

Character Interactions [20/30] - Felt like there was much more individual play in this episode, with all the "here's why I should win" confessionals, but I feel those should count for something. They showed everyone's standing in the cast and what they thought of each other. Have to agree with Icey, thought it was weird that Heather was actually more helpful to others than Chris in this challenge. Duncan and Heather aligning was a great part of this episode. Drama/Humor [15/30] - Extremely funny episode, but completely devoid of any sort of drama. Challenge [3/10] - Decent challenge, I suppose. It seemed to be a bit short, leading to a weird episode where most of the time was taken up by confessionals. It led to some collaboration, at least. Elimination [7/10] - This elimination was explained far more than I remember, tbh. Mid-episode, we get "manipulative cow has been trying to get rid of me for weeks" and that the only thing saving Leshawna was immunity, implying that despite Heather being outed as a manipulative bitch, she still holds a lot of power on the Island. (makes a bit more sense when you think that Owen and Geoff are really the only ones there who seem to care about friendship while Heather, Gwen, Duncan and Leshawna are just there to win which we also saw throughout the episode). They even explained why Gwen was in the bottom 2 (sans invincibility, which I can only assume because this was a reward-based challenge). Geoff and Leshawna look bitterly at her display of food and Gwen chalks it up to jealousy. We can assume people voted for her because she got a big dinner all to herself. Points off for the same reason I took off for Sadie's: great set-up, but Heather speaking before the elimination just sucked out all the drama. Overall, still a less random elimination than I remembered. They even gave Heather a little more leverage by giving her an alliance with Duncan. And it's one of the few eliminations that gave both people in the bottom 2 a clear reason to go home. Overall Effect [15/20] - This was a rather odd episode, but it did a great job of spacing out the challenge and using strategic confessionals from contestants as padding. Elimination was a bit rushed. I think this episode also goes a long way for setting the tone for the final 6 castaways: a bunch of miserable people who are focused on the competition... and Owen (well, Geoff is fairly positive too, but he was also strategic). Everyone else's confessionals involve complaining or strategy, while Owen is just all "WOO HOO!" and thinks he's the second-least deserving to win. 60/100 Extremely average episode, tbh. Nothing really memorable about it and the elimination was filler. It was entertaining but very meh.

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Total Drama Series Episode Rankings: Hook Line and Screamer

For this episode we have a review from Northstar

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Total Drama Series Episode Rankings: That’s Off the Chain

The review for That’s Off the Chain comes from icey.

TDI Episode 18: That’s Off the Chain That’s Off the Chain is another one of the incredibly iconic TDI episodes, and it’s one of my personal favorites even with its one glaring flaw. The challenge. While the challenge is entertaining, the way the elimination was decided was terrible. Having Lindsay leave due to Heather double crossing her was fine, but the challenge ultimately gave everyone no incentive to try and had even worse rules than Hide and Be Sneaky! However, Lindsay sells this episode and gets a very memorable elimination which helps to redeem the episode quite a bit. Character Interactions [18/20] – DJ does get his cowardly streak going this episode, but he’s still pretty forgettable while everyone else gets at least one major scene. We see the guys continue to rally (which, I’ll admit I had forgotten since it doesn’t play out in votes again) and we see a bit of a friendship between Leshawna and Izzy. Of course, I’d be remiss to not mention the most famous character interaction, the major fallout between Heather and Lindsay which ends in Lindsay finally realizing Heather’s true colors and cursing her out! Challenge [10/20] – The challenge was entertaining, but, and this is a major failing of it, made immunity irrelevant. Everyone who didn’t qualify for the final round was automatically immune, including Izzy and Leshawna who only built a bike/did nothing for the challenge. Since the challenge became sudden death, it would have been better to have all the bikes that failed compete in a final round after being rebuilt to actually reward those who did well. There’s no excuse for the challenge “twist” other than coming up with a unique way to get Lindsay out. The only part of the challenge twist that works is the technicality of people not actually finishing, and even then, it’s still kind of a cheap out to again, boot the second place finisher in the finale race while giving immunity to the 7 other players who couldn’t qualify/finish? Since Heather’s immunity was pointless, they probably should have given her a reward or something too to compensate…or just had a vote. It wouldn’t be that hard to have the guys vote Lindsay out and have Heather be at fault in some way, or just have Lindsay realize Heather’s true colors like Beth did. Drama/Humor [30/30] I don’t see how an episode with Lindsay completely telling off Heather could not get high marks in drama, and the sudden death twist of the last race also amped up the tension. Humor is also quite good with the furry book, Leshawna not recognizing a pedal, Izzy’s crazy ride, and DJ being a coward. Again, Lindsay steals the show with lots of great lines about her bike, the ugly doll, and just being herself though. Elimination [7/10] – I hit the challenge pretty hard for the lousy way of determining the loser, but I felt it relevant to ding elimination for it a bit too. Otherwise, it’s a great elimination with a strong ending wish from Lindsay that Heather gets everything her karma owes her. Overall Effect [20/20] – This is one of the episode I remember most vividly from the first time I watched it, so it clearly made a strong impression. It has enough focus on the non-central characters while keeping Lindsay very central for her boot episode and does a nice job of foreshadowing too. Penalties: Continuity Errors [-0] Nothing major. It seems like Heather is excluding Izzy from the alliance already but maybe she just wanted to keep her plan to take apart the bike between Lindsay and her. Editing Errors [-1] Duncan’s bike has pedals at one point, but that’s the only one I remember noticing. Icey’s Score 84/100 – I wish I could give this episode more points but the challenge is just too much of a disaster. Still, it’s a strong episode and still earns a solid score from me and is one of the most iconic episodes from the first season. On an unrelated note I wasn’t sure where to put, how does Lindsay somehow know how to build a bicycle but Leshawna can’t figure it out? That seems like odd/bad writing. I could have handled Lindsay managing to take apart Chef’s bike, but building most of Heather’s too?

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Total Drama Series Episode Rankings: Hide and Be Sneaky

This Sunday will be another opportunity to catch up on reviews you may have missed before. Also the deadline for the premerge scoring arguments have been pushed back to next Saturday, so there’s still a chance to put one of those in.

The review for Hide and Be Sneaky comes from Northstar

Hide and Be Sneaky's MVP - Izzy She didn't speak this episode, but Izzy was one of the characters who got the most screentime. She was just so on point all episode, and seeing Izzy mimic Chef as she stalked him made me kind of sad. This is the Izzy that I loved, not the ADHD psychopath from later seasons. Izzy was a weird girl, but she didn't become INSANE until later seasons. Also, we had her first ever battle with Chef in this episode! A recurring theme for the next four seasons (stupid All-Stars ruined the streak). 26 lines - Heather 23 lines - Duncan, Owen 17 lines - Lindsay 12 lines - Geoff 10 lines - Bridgette 9 lines - LeShawna 6 lines - DJ, Izzy 5 lines - Gwen Thanks to this challenge, this is the first episode where everyone gets a decent amount of screentime. The only problem I have is that this is an episode that probably should have focused more on Geoff, Duncan and Bridgette and it could have done without as much Heather/Lindsay. The build up to Heather's betrayal of Lindsay was nice, but Lindsay seems to be growing tired of Heather's crap... and yet that doesn't come up at all in the next episode. Unless the reason Lindsay wants to win herself is because Heather stole her drink and knocked over her nail polish? Anyway... I took Bridgette's elimination as Duncan testing Geoff's loyalty. It was kind of foreshadowed in the Brunch of Disgustingness, when Duncan got mad at Geoff for helping Bridgette (and thus the girls) win the first round. This isn't really explained in this episode though, which is why I thought we could have done with a bit more of Duncan/Geoff/Bridgette. If only removing one of Heather or Lindsay's confessionals and replacing it with Duncan talking about not trusting Geoff and Bridgette as a potential power couple. Aside from the formation of the Guys Alliance, this episode was fairly light on the drama. However, it made up for that with its humour. Lindsay and Owen in particular really shone in this episode, along with the aforementioned Izzy. I especially loved Lindsay's "Fooled you! This isn't even my bunk" and Owen blabbing about the alliance to Gwen. I realise Gwen told the girls about the alliance in this episode, but it would have been nice to see the girls mention it again in future episodes. Especially after Bridgette and Lindsay are gone, leaving the numbers even. In fact, that could have been used for justification of DJ's elimination... it still wouldn't have been great, but it would have been better than "you're a pussy so we all voted you out" I noticed a continuity error with this episode, also. Unless I'm mistaken, Izzy has voted with Heather and been considered part of their alliance in previous episodes, right? So why is Heather trying to convince Izzy to vote with her? Izzy's already in the alliance, right? I don't know, I just feel as though that scene would have served better in an earlier episode maybe, considering Heather randomly says Izzy is voting with her in Not Quite Famous without any build up to it. I'm giving this episode a 72, earning it a C

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Total Drama Series Episode Rankings: Search and Do Not Destroy

Reviewer: icey

TDI Episode 16: Search and Do Not Destroy This episode is one that hits the drama factor very hard, but upon rewatching, it doesn’t quite stand the test of time. Both Trent and Gwen should have been much more suspicious of Heather’s set up, since, you know, Heather has made it her mission to torment Gwen? Also, it ends with Gwen saying that she and Trent are still ok…and while she’ll mope that he’s gone, she’s also back to angry the minute they reunite. I guess that’s not this episode’s fault. What is an issue for this episode is DJ, Duncan, and Bridgette are all horribly underused, Geoff gets a brief gag with the sewage and later cologne, and even Izzy and Owen barely get any screen time but get a bit more than the others thanks to their animals. Lindsay and Leshawna get some focus as key members of Heather’s side and Gwen’s side, and then Heather/Gwen/Trent get most of the focus. The episode does deliver on humor, however, helping to boost it somewhat. Character Interactions [5/20] – The Lindsay/Izzy friendship is interesting…but I don’t think Izzy was ever formally in the alliance but randomly is this episode. However, it’s not really relevant here and she never votes with Heather again. Trent clearly should have been suspicious when Heather, Gwen’s nemesis, is telling him all the dirt on Gwen. Heather even read Gwen’s diary earlier, so unless Gwen was in on that plan, there’d have been no reason for her to have faked liking Trent there…. Yeah, the whole plot doesn’t work well. On the flip side, Gwen isn’t at all suspicious to get a note from Trent telling her to meet him…only to see him kissing her enemy? Yeah, Trent definitely would have written a note so you could catch him cheating. The whole plot to get Trent out here is just clumsily done and it eats up all the time other characters could have had to interact and develop. As I mentioned above, Izzy and Owen do get some funny scenes, but DJ, Bridgette, and Duncan are all pretty much non-entities which with two of them being nearly done and the last one being a final 4 player, all probably should have had more screen time. Leshawna has one of her more extreme revenge on Heather scenes with hooking up the sewage line to her shower (though why Heather doesn't just leave the shower instead of screaming I have no idea). Challenge [14/20] – The challenge is decent, although the pacing of how we’re supposed to believe characters did their challenges is completely illogical. Trent is able to find the sharks, get fish, and retrieve a clue AND help Gwen get her key from the skunks AND kiss Heather before Bridgette can find her rabbit for the first time despite no one else struggling to find their animal? Similarly, since all Duncan did was jump through a flaming hoop that should have been easy to find, that probably should have happened a bit earlier? They really just rushed through Gwen, Trent, Heather, Izzy, and Lindsay so they could be involved in the main plot and then just tacked the others on in my opinion. Also, DJ’s results are never clear. It looks like he never tried opening chests/got a key, but he broke the branch with the key, so it should have been on the ground with him? (I guess I could have penalized goofs for that instead). It’d probably have been more interesting to see Leshawna fight the crocodiles than the long Gwen/Trent crying/yelling scene really. Drama/Humor [30/30] As much as I complained about the execution of Gwen/Trent/Heather, there’s no denying that it’s one of the more dramatic and memorable moments in the show. There’s not a ton of other drama outside of that, but it’s enough and has enough parts to carry the episode. Humor is also very strong with Owen and the bear, Izzy’s snake kisses, Lindsay’s animal magnetism (the bees, cockroaches, and birds), Geoff’s lines with the cologne, and Heather trying to get her key from Chef. Also, major points for the A Christmas Story lamp! Elimination [4/10] – We have a clear majority on this vote, so no complaints there, but again we don’t have much suspense with Heather immune. I appreciate the irony of Duncan voting out Trent for kissing Heather as well and Gwen being so upset that her boyfriend kissed someone else though! It seems like, even though Gwen didn’t, someone else should probably have questioned the situation along the line rather than just blindsiding Trent for kissing Heather too, but no one did. It’s probably a good thing Chris just rushed through the ceremony as there wouldn’t have been any tension. It’s also the first of Heather getting a key immunity to justify her not getting eliminated but I didn’t take off much for that as it’s still the first one and somewhat believable that she just got lucky here. Overall Effect [14/20] – The episode moves at a decent pace with a challenge that seems like it would lend itself well too everyone getting focus, though it doesn’t really succeed there aside from everyone getting lines. It’s also memorable for being one of Heather’s big moves at the merge, but the episode just doesn’t quite click for me, costing it points. Penalties: Continuity Errors [-0] None, other than Trent apparently forgetting everything he and Gwen has ever done and how Heather is sneaky and hates Gwen, but I destroyed Character Interaction for that. Editing Errors [-0] Nothing too major unless DJ’s key is an error. Icey’s Score 67/100 – This episode scored way higher than I expected, and that’s due to the drama/humor category which gave it nearly half the points it earned. While it was a reasonable time to drop Trent, I’d have rather seen Heather have a slightly more coherent plan, especially when her immunity was not assured at that point to really tie the episode together. Oh, and it’d be nice if everyone else actually got focus that wasn’t in the central plot.

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