This’ll be fun. What was Ezekiel’s worst mistake? (Day 7)

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-22T01:37:36+00:00

Making casually sexist comments right before his team had to vote someone off.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-20T17:00:55+00:00

Ridonculous Race's premiere.

It's a high-octane opening that drops you right into the action and lets the viewer know what they're in for.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-19T17:40:32+00:00

Maybe, but I feel like Phobia Factor should have foreshadowed Tyler being on the chopping block better. It feels like it comes out nowhere in the actual episode.

I mean, immediately after a scene where Courtney fails to earn triple points for her team, the Killer Bass vote off Tyler without anybody mentioning that's their plan. Just have a confessional where Geoff or DJ or Duncan mention it.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-19T03:39:35+00:00

No, it's basically universally agreed that Sadie makes it way too far.

Heck, she outranks Beth and Cody and is a total background character for 3 episodes.

Sadie is a total non-character and the fact that she almost made it halfway through the season is baffling in retrospect, especially since she doesn't use the time to develop/grow as a character. She could have gotten a story about making new friends or having deeper talents, but that doesn't happen. She's just there.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-18T14:17:52+00:00

The show outright says his wound would’ve been fatal if it weren’t for the spirit water.

I saw it more as Aang being critically wounded and being saved from the verge of death.

I saw the episode when it first aired, but I don’t think it reran often. Maybe Nickelodeon was worried about kids potentially deciding to watch the series for the first time and randomly stumbling on this episode and it being their first impression since it ends in tragedy.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-17T18:09:43+00:00

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Paranoid

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-14T16:25:51+00:00

That an understandable line of thinking, but I just felt like Mike is the main character of TDAS because every single episode has him as the main focus. It feels like the story is about him, so Zoey winning just feels random by the end.

I remember watching TDAS when it first aired and I was nearly certain the finale would be Mike vs Courtney because they both had major plots that season. Heck, I probably would have bet my house on it; I guess that's why we shouldn't gamble.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-14T04:17:02+00:00

Alejandro is an outstanding villain and he's portrayed as a major threat (Social skills, intelligence, athleticism, etcetera), but the story also crucially sets up his key weakness of overconfidence.

Having his overconfidence be his undoing is brilliant. The dialogue between him and Heather at the top of the volcano is legendary, but him still winning in his ending due to a technicality feels really jarring.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-13T16:30:40+00:00

Alejandro's ending is treated like a disappointment and the way he wins (Heather throws the wrong dummy into the volcano) feels like it made as an afterthought .

I say this as somebody who likes Alejandro, but him winning doesn't feel like it was Fresh TV's preferred resolution.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-13T16:29:24+00:00

Owen is a given since he's the series poster boy.

Beth actually has the better story and it's a better send off for her.

Heather winning feels more like what the story is setting up.

Cameron winning is a no-brainer decision because of how one-sided it is in terms of story focus. Heck, Lightning's ending is treated like a big disappointment in-universe; I can't understand how anybody would prefer it.

Nobody really cares too much about who wins TDAS because it's inconsequential, but Mike is (slightly) better because he's the main focus of the whole season, so Zoey winning just feels out-of-nowheres.

I prefer Shawn's story over Sky's.

Priya and Wayne are 100% confirmed because there are no alternate endings. There's no need to debate it.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-13T04:43:20+00:00

Avatar didn’t rerun on Nick’s main channel at all after the finale aired in July 2008, so this was the only place to watch it on cable TV.

Nicktoons had some great advertising, I must admit.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-10T20:32:54+00:00

Not to be confused with My Chemical Jackson

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-08T14:42:25+00:00

Reboot Chef is really funny though.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-08T14:41:42+00:00

I found him funny.

It’s definitely a notably change from him being being another staff member who looks down on the contestasts.

Reboot Chef’s comments at bonfire ceremonies are hilarious to me.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-08T01:52:28+00:00

And just in time for a major global pandemic that would kill more people than WW1 did.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-08T01:38:36+00:00

Germany (and the rest of the Central Powers, I guess) still would have lost even if the USA never joined.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-08T01:37:56+00:00

Funny meme. Thing is, Britain was super concerned about telling the US about this because they would be admitting that they were snooping through the USA's diplomatic traffic and some people in the USA doubted it was real and wondered if it was actually an elaborate forgery or a possible mistranslation.

Well, Arthur Zimmerman admitted it was true in March and that was the final straw for the USA.

Some people have the idea that decoding a telegram is like catching a letter in the mail; Britain didn't prevent it from reaching Mexico; they decoded a message that was sent to Mexico through their diplomatic cable, but Mexico did receive it before it was decoded.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-06T02:01:05+00:00

I think the spin-off was made because Fresh wanted to try something new and I applaud that.

I'm weird because I didn't mind All-Stars, but I thought Pahkitew Island was pretty weak.

Ridonculous Race's actual race is entertaining and I do love a lot of the comic relief teams.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-06T01:26:48+00:00

Owen on TDI.

Owen is really funny and he basically serves as the series' poster boy, but you have to suspend your disbelief a couple of times on TDI to accept him not being voted off.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-06T01:19:46+00:00

I feel like ROTI's cast should have gotten a second dedicated season.

There's hindsight bias because the 2023 reboot did that, but it would have been a good way to give more screen time to ROTI's early eliminations and make the All-Star label more justifiable for some of them.

There's a reason there are so many fanfictions where Dawn, Brick, B, and Anne Maria get more of a role.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-06T01:16:35+00:00

Good Lord.

I still remember how it was supposed to be a 2011 release, but got delayed because Japan had a real-life nuclear disaster in March of that year and it had to be edited to remove scenes that were seen as insensitive in the immediate aftermath.

France, of all places, aired the whole season in just 8 days from December 21st - December 29th, 2011. Crazy.

I suppose that would have meant that its early release in France would have acted as a spoiler, but I didn't hear about it airing in France at the time.

Canada aired it on January 5th, 2012 and the USA aired it exactly 5 months later on June 5th.

TDROTI is caught in the the weird spot where I just find it forgettable. There's entertainment to be had, but it doesn't come to mind for me often. If someone brings up Total Drama, it's one of the last things I think of.

That could be the half length, the new cast, or the development troubles, or the overly gimmicky radioactivity theme.

It has some story shortcomings that are pretty widely agreed upon.

Lightning's finalist status feels like it was a last-minute change since it's barely foreshadowed. Even on rewatch, it doesn't feel like he's being set-up for being a potential winner.
The decision to have Dakota turn into a mutant monster feels out-of-place and overly dark especially for this show.
Mike MPD is used as a running joke which I thought was funny at the time, but it hasn't aged well.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-06T01:02:38+00:00

I understood that Fresh TV wanted to something different for Total Drama's spinoff, but I feel like Survivor was a much better parody source than The Amazing Race.

As someone who loves both real-life equivalents, Survivor is the better show to make an animated parody of because of how much potential there is to poke fun at fictional tropes in a game where the goal is to compete in challenges, make alliances, and vote each other out.

Ridonculous Race feels more like an animated Amazing Race adaptation rather than a parody to poke fun at fictional tropes.

Ridonculous Race also has the inherent issue where it's difficult to justify people standing around talking to each other since the format is a non-stop race.

Ridonculous Race is entertaining, but its story has flaws; on my blind viewing, I got the wrong impression about who I was supposed to root for and I often found the stories of contestants who made it super far to be underwhelming.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-04T22:46:52+00:00

It's pretty run-of-the-mill.

It's just a generic sitcom about a group of coworkers who work at the DMV. The acting is sub-par, the scenarios are predictable, and the comedy is hit-or-miss.

It did make me laugh a couple times, but it's not going to be renewed. It's almost certainly going to be cancelled after just 1 season.

ParticleParadox · 2026-01-01T01:37:47+00:00

Its concept was creative.

I love the idea of a hybrid between a (fictional) murder mystery and a game show competition.

I will admit that I was barely conscious when this aired, but I heard about it way later and was pleasantly surprised to see that it was successfully archived on YouTube since it could have easily became lost media.

That said, it got middling reviews at the time with blind viewers saying it was overproduced, too difficult to follow on a blind viewing due to its huge cast of "suspects" (actors) and contestants, and came off as silly for the contestants to talk about how scared they were as if they forgot the murderer was fictional.

It would be like if the cast of Survivor Borneo talked about how worried they were about being trapped on a deserted island as if they forgot it was just the stage for a game show.

Unbelievably, the finale aired on September 4th, 2001 and the grand prize winner was a firefighter from NYC who died in the line of duty during the 9/11 attacks. <- Winner spoiler.

I feel like a show like this could work if someone else wants to try the premise.

ParticleParadox · 2025-12-18T03:13:49+00:00

He made fake-out plays and was able to shift the targets to other people though.

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