#this is about the first few episodes of tdrr

[fraudulent-cheese]

hello Fresh TV writer. In front of you is a sheet of paper. Your challenge is to write Owen's character without dumbing him down or revolving his entire personality around fart jokes. You have 3 hours until the saw trap goes off.

[wren-em]

In honour of the reboot characters existing, I have decided to make posts dedicated to the non reboot characters of the franchise, starting with Team Escope. Might do the reboot characters if I ever end up watching the reboot.

For being one of the two characters I most relate to in Island, I'm surprised how little I've talked about her. Eva is a clear introvert with low patience and anger issues that repeatedly get the better of her. What seems most consistent at checking these is the music from her MP3 player. Her blowing up after losing her MP3 player leads to her first elimination. Her anger also leads to her second elimination. She channels her anger into a focus on getting the team that voted her out, more specifically Bridgette, out of the competition. LeShawna ends up winning that episode's challenge and the justification for Eva's second elimination is her anger. Despite showing her long history of video frakouts in Celebrity Manhunt, her participation in the World Tour Aftermaths seems to show at least a bit better anger control. She repeatedly plays along with the insane shit that happens before dipping halfway through. This could be a result of a possible friendship with Izzy. Eva's team-up with Izzy and Noah in the TDDDDI special, and their fanon perceived friendship, was not something I expected upon viewing Island but was something I ended up enjoying. Their interactions are easily the most enjoyable parts of the special for me and it's a shame that the only real chance that Eva got at interacting with either of them after the special was with Noah in the TDA Aftermaths. Aftermaths that were honestly more focused on Geoff, Bridgette and the eliminated contestants that were being interviewed, and rarely ever on the contestants that didn't make it into TDA. I would have loved to see her on TDA or TDWT, just to see her interact more with Noah and Izzy. The thing with Noah and Izzy is that neither are shown to be scared of Eva, with Noah even directing his patterned snark at her after Justin gets away with the million-dollar case. People often compare her to Jo from TDROTI. However, Eva's similarities with Jo are the fact that both are athletic people that aren't as feminine as other members of their respective casts. Eva is a lot more willing to work with others when it isn't her plan being performed, as shown when she appears to be willing to listen to both Noah and Izzy. In my opinion, it would have been interesting to see if that would have impacted plot points in TDA and TDWT. Eva knows she is stronger than a lot of the other people around her, including the guys, but this solely doesn't affect how she sees herself or the others. Overall, Eva is a character I wish we had seen more of.

Moving onto Izzy, she is the clear extrovert of Team Escope, the wild card of the Island cast, and the member of Team Escope that has yhe most screen time in the main show (TDRR is technically a spin off). She probably wouldn't be out of place for the TDPI cast and is one of the few characters that is hard to fuck up most of as a character. A lot of what she does remains in character due to her wild card status. However, the part of her character that is the easiest to fuck up the most is the part of her underneath her craziness. She has emotions other than crazy and I feel like that gets forgotten, especially in fanfic. Her first act after her introduction is swapping with Katie, allowing Katie and Sadie to be on the same team. She also fell in love with Owen in the first season and got mad at him during the Hook, Line and Screamer. Despite her not being able to lift a couch single-handedly, she's also pretty strong and can go tow to tow with Chef, doing so in TDI and TDA. She was eliminated quite quickly in TDA before returning three episodes later. The number of times Izzy returns kind of annoys me. She's a fan favourite, so it makes sense that she returns that many times, but it did get annoying to me. I feel like they should have a larger gap in TDA for it to work or just not had her leave that challenge at all. Her second run in TDA shows off more of her human side, making it my favourite of her runs. The Explosivo was honestly one of the better ways to send her off and the bit at least didn't overstay its welcome. Izzy in TDWT doesn't participate in the challenges as much as in previous seasons and she's back to her crazy antics. She became the first one eliminated on Team Chris due to being taken by the military. Due to her role as comic relief, this was probably for the best. One of the few things that I remember from my first viewing of TDWT was my surprise at Izzy not returning a second time in TDWT. Izzy makes cameos as a spider in TDROTI and TDAS, getting beaten by both Cameron and Mal. Honestly, the thing I kinda hate most about Mal's writing is that they made him strong enough to be able to pummel Izzy without a single fucking scratch. Her Dramarama counterpart leans more into her crazy aspects. In this case, both the main series and Dramarama versions of Izzy remain similar. A thing with Izzy that I feel the need to address is the Izzy isn't crazy theory. On one hand, she's probably one of the smartest characters on TDI and a good actor (good enough to make a career as an actress before her Celebrity Manhunt freakout). On the other hand, she's wanted by the RCMP and I fucking hate the theory. At most, I think Izzy is just feeding into her crazy reputation for her own amusement. In conclusion, Izzy's a fun character that probably shouldn't have come back so many times.

Finally, we have Noah. Noah, like Eva, is a clear introvert. Unlike Eva, his main issue (at least in Island) doesn't lie in any anger issues but his laziness. His Island elimination comes after he refuses to participate in dodgeball, alongside Justin. Unlike Justin in that episode though, Noah actively talks throughout and his laziness combined with his snark gets on his team's nerves. I got the feeling that Noah wasn't going to make it to the merge in Island but holy shit was Noah dumb in that episode for someone supposedly with a high IQ. The TDDDDI special gives the wonderful "anti-me" comment about Justin. The potential of this comment was then never expanded upon after Noah doesn't show up in TDA and Justin doesn't show up in TDWT. Hey Fresh, you can't give a character a line like that and not follow through with the implications. The only thing that Fresh did with that was make me relate to Noah's ability to make what can be assumed to be one-sided rivalries. Celebrity Manhunt shows that he decided to work as Chris's assistant. He's also fired over coffee, which makes sense since Chris is his boss. Noah in TDWT makes it a lot farther into the game through a combination of non-elimination episodes and the entirety of Team Victory being eliminated. Ultimately though, he is the first person on his team to be voted out and the second person on Team Chris to be eliminated. His TDWT elimination occurs after he reveals his suspicions about Alejandro to Owen and Tyler. Given that Noah seemed to be liked by Alejandro before "I See London" at least compared to the rest of their teammates, he probably would have gone further if he had kept his mouth shut. Noah then competes in TDRR with Owen and we get Nemma. Noah isn't almost entirely comic relief this season, which is amazing. We also get to see Noah when he isn't being entirely sarcastic, which I like. I really don't get why people dislike Nemma so much when its not that bad in terms of post TDWT ships, and is probably the second best canon TDRR ship. Some of the writing was cringe, but considering that TDRR is also the season that has the Daters and Best Friends subplots, Nemma wasn't the worst writing wise for me. It probably could have been built up more at the start, considering how many more episodes TDRR had compared to TDPI. My full thoughts on Nemma could be a post in of itself so we're moving on. Noah's final appearance is then in Dramarama. There he's a different character than how he is in other seasons he appears in and I find that funny. If you look at Dramarama and then at TDI and TDWT, Noah has gone through the hypersensitive child to sarcastic teenager pipeline. Dramarama also shows Noah gaming, which seems to be something the main series competitions seem to forget. While I feel like Noah was probably at his best during TDWT (mix of his characterisation that season and the other characters he bounces off of), I find Noah's still entertaining in all his appearances.

[pigspeetsandhooflikefeets]

How many seasons of TD are there? I remember watching 1, 2, and 3, and then when they started 4 I was like "I've grown out of this" and never watched it again.

I gotcha

Season 1 is TDI: Total Drama Island. It's 26 eps, plus a special that I don't think you could watch on Netflix for whatever reason. It's the one everyone knows, and people often mistake this as the franchise title. The franchise is TD: Total Drama. Island is the first season.

Season 2 is TDA: Total Drama Action. Instead of being a campsite, it instead is on a movie lot and every ep is based off different movie genres. The cast is slightly cut, with some of the filler characters being removed. There are "aftermath" episodes where there's no competition but rather insider information about the meta. It's 26 eps, plus a special that introduces multiple new characters that debut better next season

Season 3 is TDWT: Total Drama World Tour. Instead of a campsite, they visit different places in the world, and every episode has at least one song. The cast is also smaller than TDI, but has a different set of characters, where some return for WT that didn't for A, as well as two new added characters. The "aftermath" episodes return, also with songs. There are 26 episodes with no special episode.

Season 4 is ROTI: Total Drama Revenge of the Island. An entirely new cast is introduced, but only has 13 episodes. There are cameos from the previous lot of campers, who are essentially guides to some of the challenges. Chris kind of goes off the deep end this season, as this is where he gets Worse

Season 5 is TDAS: Total Drama All Stars. The subjective "best" of the previous two casts are compiled and set to fight against each other in 13 episodes. It's... a show.

What season 6 is, is the most confusing thing in the world because it's technically a later thing. But the episodes immediately after TDAS is TDPI: Total Drama Pahkitew Island. I won't explain why, but they had to use a different island for this season, and we have another new cast for 13 episodes. This cast is a bit more exaggerated than previous seasons, so it's very YMMV.

ACTUAL season 6 is the 2023 reboot that uh. I don't think we have an acronym for. I call it TD23. New cast, 13 episodes, and it's set to have a follow up season of 13 more episodes. It takes place 15 years after the debut season in 2008, so it focuses on more modern trends and doesn't have too many references to previous seasons

SPINOFFS

Right after TDPI came TDRR: Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race. Rather than Survivor, this series is based off The Amazing Race, traveling the globe to different locations. This series is 26 episodes long, with 18 teams of 2, as well as a new host to replace Chris, named Don. Four of the characters return from their respective TD series, but 32 are brand new characters. Due to the larger cast, it can get a bit buried with characterization, but I think some got a lot of good attention and development. It's probably the most standalone series where you need little characterization of previous seasons to enjoy

Between RR and 23, came the baby spinoff TDR: Total Dramarama. Here, the cast is aged down to four years old, and have the setting of a daycare, run by Chef. Chris is barely present, only making cameos and does not interact with the children. Jude from 6Teen (another show by Fresh) is also added to the cast. While there's a cycling cast, not every TD character has a toddler counterpart. Many fan favs like Heather and Lindsay never appear, as well as very few characters beyond Island. There are- oh my fucking god. There are 152 episodes over a 3 season span, as well as a special. Good lord. However, these are 11 minute episodes, with only select episodes being 2-part episodes, so that cuts the total time for it. Still that's so many oh my god-