Total Drama Pahkitew Island is a Mess... 

The title: Pakhitew Island was a Mess The thumbnail: *has dave* A person of culture.

Jasmine and Shawn saved the season

The only thing I liked about this season was Ella’s elimination. She left with a smile AND managed to annoy Chris till the very end. It’s one of the most positive and satisfying eliminations in the whole series.

Jasmine and Shawn’s shoulders must hurt from carrying this entire season

I feel this was more targeted to a younger audience because when I was a kid, I really liked it, but going back to it it’s mediocre at best.

I feel like everyone is a cheap rehash of the old characters. Topher is Sierra, Max is Duncan, Scarlett is Mal, beardo is Bev, Leonard is Harold, Dave is Mike, Skye is Zoe, I guess Sugar, Shawn, and Jasmine are original. I think characters like Max and Ella and Scarlett had a lot of potential but suffered from bad writing. Jasmine and Shawn are the only good characters to be honest. Sugar is… I shouldn’t even have to explain it.

It took me years to realize Topher’s name was a pun on how he’s trying to replace and be Chris’s carbon copy... Chris, topher Christopher 🤦🏾‍♂️

Honestly found Ella to be a really fun character and wanted her to stick around longer, but yeah it felt pretty awful seeing her constantly getting bullied for dumb shit

Leonard's character is ONLY good if you know who he's based off of. If you don't know about the wizard who walks around New York City then half his jokes make no sense.

If only Amy slowly stoped being rude to Sammy she could of been the Heather of that season🙄✋🏻

I really think Dave could've been a good character until they made liking Sky his entire personality after the first few episodes. I thought he was a pretty good straightman to the rest of the cast, then the writers just took his character and made him unbearable. Really sad to see. Overall this season is a mess.

I think the wizard guy could have been more interesting if he believed he had magic because every time he tried to do a spell some weird coincidence happened to make it seem like he was magic (at least to himself. Some of the others can see that it's a coincidence). I don't know if that would totally fix it, though...

My only hope for the new seasons is that the writers really seemed to course correct in Ridonculous Race. There was a good mix of characters who were insane caricatures but also had relatable human moments that I feel the Gen 2 and 3 casts really don't have. Was it because they were playing a different game? Maybe. I hope they at least learned something.

I still can't believe that Dave straight up just tried to kill sky like when I saw that the first time even then I was like he should be locked like izzy may have been pretty crazy but this guy just tried to commit murder on someone.

Something I notice is that the earlier seasons focus more on teenager stereotypes, and PI has more...well, general stereotypes that are really in your face. There's even teen stereotypes in the race season, like the adversity twins and the goths, that make at least entertaining, if not compelling characters that would've been good characters on an island season. Making Ella a Disney adult or theater kid, or Max a future chemistry major, or showing more of the twins' school spirit to drive home the point that they're popular cheerleaders? I think that might've improved the season a lot.

I honestly love Topher because it’s insane to see a character that only wanted to be on the show to take Chris’s job 😂 that’s lowkey iconic and makes a decent threat for Chris lol

I feel like chris going insane and actively trying to maim the contestants could be changed and explained away by saying it was severe exposer to radiation from the last season and it scrambled his brain

I feel like I would've liked Jasmine's character more if they didn't push the Australian stereotype onto her so much

My main problem with Pahkitew was that the cast was _too_ cartoony(?) I get it’s a cartoon, but the previous casts were characters that I feel like people could relate to or had great character development. Shawn, Jasmine, and Sammy were great parts of Pahkitew. Everyone else was a carbon copy of someone I already knew (like Skye literally being a downgraded Zoe) or too comical.

Topher for me is THE biggest miss of the entire series. The idea was so clever, and it was clear Chris had gone of the deep ends since S4 Seeing him actually be challenged by someone would have been a very interesting development. Have him be useful and make it far (the showman personality is great) As a side note all you had to do with Dave was keep him normal, maybe give him a random mental breakdown here and there but nothing serious

Shawn (and Jasmine) is the only reason why I willingly go back to watch this season. I love how Shawn goes from a one dimensional guy who’s paranoid of zombies to a guy who’s conflicted if he should stick with his usual ways or to let his guard down and make new connections. I was ecstatic when he won this season he deserved it!! 💙💖

This season was so bad. It had like 3 ok-good characters one of which was Sammy and she got out too early

Personally I feel like they could’ve done so much with Ella and her motivation to get the Million dollars. In her audition tape she mentioned that she lived in an apartment with her family and I’m assuming a low quality one that that due to her thin walls. That could’ve implied her family was at a financially bad place which could’ve been her motivation for the Million. Another motivation could’ve been that her mom/dad was a terrible parent due to stress and let it out on her growing up which is why she is quite childish and wants everyone to be happy and peaceful. It could’ve been an after effect of some form of abuse. If she had that as part of her character she could’ve had a motivation and a reason as to why she is the way she is.

It's funny with how hard I rooted for them in the beginning before we knew any better, but once the season was over I realized how highkey abusive Dave and Sky's relationship was, from Dave's end. Guy essentially forced this manifestation of a relationship with her and never let her explain why it couldn't happen, and then when it was revealed why, he blamed HER, when Sky literally tried to tell Dave that she couldn't be with him because she had a boyfriend. He got mad at her for not explaining that to him, yet he stopped her every single time she TRIED to tell him because he didn't want to hear it since it went against his motives. He lived in a fantasy land that, whenever he got a reality check, blamed everything but himself, and it's what wound up being his downfall both in the competition and in his chances with Sky. If he literally just let Sky explain why they couldn't be together, he ironically enough would've had a MUCH better chance with her since she said she was gonna break up with her boyfriend back home. But Dave let his insecurities get the better of him. A lot of people hate Dave and rightfully so, but him and Sky's arc actually shows a lot about a certain type of abusive relationship.

Tbh I liked Ella. Really wished her to win or be at least in the three finalists. Was catchy her swan songs haha, specially the one she sang in her elimination. Hate Sugar so much

Y'know, I forgot how decent of a dude Chris used to be.

all i'm thinking of Shawn and Jasmine's relationship is just "death by snu snu".

No one will ever be as Iconic as the og td crew

Amy and Samey had so much potential to be the main characters of this season!!! So much potential wasted

Personally the only good characters this season to me anyway were Shawn, Max, Jasmine, kind of Sky, Beardo surprisingly, and that was about it; either the rest were characters I didn’t like or didn’t care about. Literally, the intro alone shows you how bad it’s gonna with unlikeable and hateful characters, this and All Stars is what killed it for me

Mal was genuinely terrifying, like when he popped out of the shadows to smash Gwens head in with a shovel. Scarlet was just the cartoon villain stereotype, she had none of Mals’ intimidation.

I literally only watch Pakhitew Island for Jasmine, Skye, and Shawn. Shawn was cool and Jasmine..."awakened" something in me. Jasmine and Shawn carried this show and I didn't hate Skye.

Am I the only one who thinks the guy you tried to take Chris's Job looks exactly like the guy who did the Ridonculos raise

Honestly, Jasmine, Scarlet, Shawn, Samey, and Sky (huh, a lot of S names) were the best characters

Honestly the thing I really hate about this season is that the nicest people are taken for granted.

Theory: Chris is monokuma's son.

Most these kids weren’t even alive when the original came out

To be fair chris was bat shit crazy since season one but as years went by chris started to shoe how off the rails he really was

My sister and I really liked Dave’s character at first, being just an awkward guy who has a crush. He was simple and straightforward, but we felt like that was needed given the rest of cast was so weird this season. We hated his character development tho, that ruined him honestly

Sky could’ve had a better season, and something that goes kinda unnoticed is how Shawn told Dave to try and show Sky he is a good competitor and can be her bf and then it went to point where he started trying to one up her which got her upset. So Shawn didn’t completely do it but he did make Dave think he can get her by trying to one up her. Dave could’ve made it to the final 5 and Shawn, Sky, Dave, and Jasmine could’ve teamed up and got Sugar out and let it go on from there.

dave, sugar, and leonard were the reasons I almost skipped on watching Pahkitew, but I couldn't skip out on Shawn. Shawn was too good.

Put Jasmine into the main cast if they ever return for another season, she deserves it!

'Having an entire character revolve around those sounds (cartoon sound effects) just felt a little excessive'... *screams in Michael Winslow*

I honestly thought Dave was fine, until the last episode

Bruh u forgot to talk about my main man chef

As a total drama fan, in my opinion this season is the worst (yes even worse than TDAS in my opinion) the cast is just so unlikable with a few exceptions. I specifically despise Dave, Rodney, Lenord and Topher. Scarlet had so much potential to be a unique villian but Scarlett Fever ruined her character for me. I did like Shawn and Jasmine's relationship though

I think I'd prefer it if they just had another Ridonculous Race season, I loved seeing the unique challenges it had (and a fresh change from Chris as the host) and loved the character interactions; the bieber kid and his dad, the goths (of course), the step brothers. Whether it's new or returning cast I feel like there's a lot more opportunities for characters and ideas

Not gonna lie, I way prefer this season over All Stars. A lot of characters here can still be used and fixed in future seasons, but a majority of the All Stars cast are kind of just ruined forever.

Shawn kicking every ass of the Robot Chris McLeans was the best of him ever in TD, since he went Beast Mode on it. Not a doubt he will survive every Zombie Apocalypse Media, like The Walking Dead and every George A. Romero Film

The only thing that kept me watching that season was the Jasmine and Shawn romance

Watching this video made me realize 2 things. 1. I dont remember anything about pakhitew 2. Seeing one second of Scott made me have big nostalgia for revenge of the island

they really thought “oh let’s make dave liking sky his personality”

I enjoyed the season. I would say all-stars is the worst season but I think every season is enjoyable enough. I liked pahkitew island because I just watched it for what it was and didn't compare it to other seasons. All the characters were funny or at least entertaining. I just wish we got more time with them so that they could have been more fleshed out and multi dimensional.

Dawn was my favorite character!! I’m so sad Scott got her booted 😩

Amy could’ve manipulated Sammy into eliminating contestants like Heather did with Lindsay and Beth, they could’ve had a much longer and better storyline and it would’ve been cooler to see them last longer this way

My LEAST favorite aka WORST things about Pahkitew Island: -Sugar -Sugar -Sugar -Sugar -Sugar

I'm not gonna lie- If Dave is brought for the new season he better get some redemption not the crap we got- however let's be real he probably won't be back ;-;

Eh, I still think AS is worse for terrible writing. I thought the writing was at least decent in this season after re-watching recently, but yeah, most of the characters aren't very well-written since most of them are either one-note gimmick or one-dimensional. Nonetheless, this is my second favorite season tied with ROTI.

there are more seasons coming? neat. Also Shawn and Jasmine "saved" that season.

Before watching the video, let’s see how well I can remember the season’s cast: -Zombie dude -tall Australian girl -honey boo boo -simp -psychotic nerd that tried to kill everyone

Jasmine and Shawn are the only memorable characters from this season to me, only ones that kept me interested with their interesting relationship. Didn’t care for the rest of the new cast since some of them are just copies of characters from the previous seasons.... but not as well executed.

I really Hope they go back to what made total drama so great a diverse cast of characters there own personalities and each one brings something special to the team. the romance characters need to happen more naturally, and I this is just me I did like the idea in revenge of the island where they know already they are in for some crazy challenging and understand more of chris also with the added bonus we could see familiar fan favorites come in for one episode, for special appearances

I feel like all the characters this season were too caricature-based and they could've had so much opportunity to branch a lot of them out, but the only ones who felt like they were the "main characters" were Sky, Shawn, Sugar, Jasmine, Dave, sometimes even Max to an extent. I thought having Scarlett as a surprise villain could've been a bit more of a natural process and then her elimination being a bit later after the reveal so we can see her "potential", because immediately booting her off just for a 1 episode concept of her going insane feels kind of weird. One of my problems is that they made it WAY too obvious who was going to last long and who wasn't from the beginning to the end, I thought it was obvious Ella, Beardo, Leonard and Amy weren't going to last long. Another thing they could've done was utilize the twins more, I thought Amy getting her karma was definitely good but they could've made her arc stronger in terms of being able to manipulate her sister, playing the game deviously, and occasionally being snarky or rude instead of being downright unnecessarily cruel to Sammy the whole entire time. There was a lot of opportunity and the season felt so corny and campy.

Every time I see Jasmine, I am disturbed by how tall she is.

Completely agree, couldn’t relate to the characters, Chris didn’t mesh with that pep cast and the challenges felt lazy. This is where I thought total drama was at its end, but I was pleasantly surprised with ridonculous race. Even if it’s not technically a season it’s one of my favorites

Me and my gf have a whole ass pahkitew island rewritten, and Sugar is this Texan animal hunter who is actually really scary lmfao

It’s been a year… I’m still waiting for these seasons.

I actually liked Ella, and would actually get mad whenever Chris interrupted her. That was a while ago, though

Man this season was such a dud. While I still think All-Stars is worse overall, this season has SO MANY interesting ideas that were either wasted (Amy being a more competent villain), rushed (Sammy growing a backbone) or just completely botched (Scarlett as a nerd antagonist, something that hadn't been done before in Total Drama). And not only did Chris get way too sadistic as you pointed out, but he didn't even suffer any major karma for it. At least at the end of Revenge of the Island he got arrested and sent to jail. And the Dave/Sky arc... holy shit. Not only was that the worst romantic subplot in the show, it was one of the worst subplots period.

The only things i enjoyed about this season was Jasmine and Shawn. Jasmine was interesting and Shawn's apocalypse paranoia was ok but the thing that made it a cool aspect of his character is he was actually useful because of it. And like like both of their character designs. Also. Topher and Chris's interactions were amusing too. It was a really fun idea that i loved.

I rarely felt this uncomfortable watching a season/show to be honest. Almost every single character in this season made me so unbelievably irritated and/or uncomfortable, there were some good moments there like the twins the zombie guy and all but there was definitely too much crap going on. I also enjoyed watching Chris and his descend to madness, I actually think it was fun watching him go from someone with sadistic tendencies to a complete power hungry criminal and I wish it was explored more by showing his personal struggle with fame going to his head or something. Just a little bit since he was never meant to be the center of the show, but going a bit more into it would have been nice.

I think that the characters could be more developed in terms of relationships and personalities. Topher- one-note.... total filler Beardo- one-note... I think they tried to redo B, but wasn't effective. Glad he was booted first Leonard- one-note ... while i wouldn't love real magic (or anything too fantastic) in the season, maybe a hint of something he did right, but didn't know how it happend (ergo, a bit or magic ;) ), could been cool. Maybe something that could be done very early that impact the season entirely, such as discovering the tech-island Amy and Samy- these two had potential. Amy had the potential to be the Heather of the season, as she could mess up with everything and blame her sister for it. Sad these two had to go waaay early Rodney- he had the potential to be the uber-romantic character of the series, maybe some humor added like Owen Ella- loved the character, even if it was unrealistic. Skye- I think she was very flat.... maybe its an unpopular opinion. Her personality resembles like a lesser version of Zoey. Her script was based on winning or Dave... maybe the proble was that she was paired with him. Max- he was ok, but a little one-note Jasmine- good character Shawn- good character, but the zombie theme was a little overexploited. Sugar- well, while she was annoying... it was a character that made a good balance in the cast. Scarlett- WTF!? She was great before that dramatic twist. Imo, Scarlett represented those teens who are super obsessed with school and science, which I can relate to an extend (which it was one of the reasons why the 1st cast is so loved, you could relate to any of them). So, Scarlett actually was designed like the 1st cast... a teen, with a relatable personality... and then BUM! Ruined the character (and the season for that matter). Dave- oh... god... I think they tried to add a weakling again (such as Cameron or Cody), but took it to the extreme, and added a shitty personality.

I really like the cartoon character shape you chose.

This season was. Straight ass not one character was good expect Jasmine and shawn

Some of the interesting characters eliminated early, the villians were annoying and really happy aussie girl and zombie dude stayed for long time because otherwise i couldnt finish the season.

shawn deserved better, I wish he was in some earlier season

Never heard of this version of Total Drama

"I'M A BUS!... chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga"

HONESTLY...everything went downhill when courtney and duncan was over

I think that Rodney's character itself definitely had potential. They could have implemented a lot of his physical characteristics into a character similar to DJ, take his country upbringing to make him a more awkward yet strong and likable character like Brick or DJ. If you look at most of the contestants for this season, you can see that a lot of their characteristic traits and value are just being silly or goofy. And although that can be done right, for example; Sierra or Izzy. But here it doesn't work because almost EVERY character is silly or goofy. It's like taking the entire cast of TDI and just making them all insane like Izzy. Yeah sure a specific contestant might be cartoonish but so is everyone else. It just dulls out the season itself with the over exaggeration

Honestly a lot of these characters had potential to be better, it could’ve been a good season.

Me and my friends always joke that Chris is some type of godly entity. • Characters that do things that would certainly kill them in Chris’ presence end up fund (Trent eating deadly blowfish in season 1) • He can set up terrifying nightmares of game show challenges without getting sued • Chef always seems to stay by his side, like an archangel

Honestly Amy and Samy make me so sad because they had a lot of potential. Like, Amy doing something to a contestant, then blaming Samy and most people believing Amy expect for a few seeing through her lies would have worked fine with me..

I know this is late but I did really like Beardo, despite him being a gimmicky character that would've gotten annoying overtime. I do think they should bring him back and keep the same concept of him being shy and communicating with noises until he's comfortable but do it in a way where it's less random and more like a way of speaking through actions and emotions. Then get serious and have small talks where he slowly opens up to the other contestants. They could've also made him cunning and not in an evil way but more like using his sounds to confuse the enemy contestants and hiding it was him like he did with pretending Sugar farted. They could also give him some sort of power like some of the contestants where when he makes noises it's almost random in how they'll act. Like you said in the weakest character video you made, for example when he made a car crashing sound and shook everything around him and fell of the toilet it would be cool to see that, like his powers work but only effect him positively or negatively and he starts off random with the noises being inconsistent making both bad and good things happen to him but soon hones it as he develops as a person. Yes he was a gimmicky character but I genuinely think he had a lot potential to be interesting if they just were more creative with him.

These characters are just great value versions of the og characters

I know when I was younger I liked it, but looking back I realize it was just because of Shawn and jasmine

Really love this style of video Would you consider doing one of these for any of the other seasons?? Really wanna see your full thoughts on stuff like all stars and revenge of the island

Really Nice Redesign for your channel :D

i really like the new art style!

Challenge: turn on auto captions and see how many times it screws up the word “Pahkitew”

I say chris had the biggest character development in the series, becoming more insane as seasons go by

"4* since Scarlett would have escaped." And Max suddenly ceased to exist.

I remember when this season first came out when I wasn’t able to watch the first episode because for some reason my cable box wasn’t working so I ended up crying on the side of the bathtub while my mom tried to get me to stop crying over a cartoon

I liked seasons 1, 3, 5, and 7. All of the others were kinda crap. Action was fine, revenge of the island was bearable, but Pakhitew and total dramarama sucked ASS. I said seasoned as regular numbers, so no one would get confused. Y’all can stop being big babies now.

i only just now noticed that Pahkitew Island was were that one LARPER premiered..and not the Ridonculus Race..neat

I just finished this season and I’m so surprised not a lot of people like this one. I know there’s writing issues and all that but honestly it’s enjoyable! It’s one of my favorite seasons!

Let’s be honest, Jasmine, Shawn, and Max saved the whole season

Honestly, Pahkitew Island was my second favorite season (only second to World Tour). Sure, Dave was really annoying near the end and in my opinion, single-handedly RUINED the finale, but everyone else was entertaining! Jasmine and Shawn were the best, obviously. Sky was a great competitor, Rodney was the dumb but funny one, similar to Owen but not near his level, Ella could be annoying, but could also be funny at times so it evened out, Leonard was annoying but it was funny seeing his reactions to his “magic”, Max was hilarious, Scarlet was a psychopath, but still amused me, Amy and Sammy (I refuse to call her Samey) had a good rivalry and I think Samey should’ve gone to the finale. Beardo was criminally underused, Sugar was a bitch, but a good antagonist, Topher would’ve been a better host than Don. All of the characters had a high point in my eyes and I can’t just overlook that. All in all, I loved the season, but Dave kind of ruined the ending

I want a season where the Queen of Mean, Heather- ravages the twerps trying to even be near the same universe as her. Sugar would be freaking dog food in an hour xD

Dont remember much but chris slowly changing over the seasons makes sense, love to see a redemption arch for him in the new one