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Post by Chris McLean on Dec 31, 2013 22:01:43 GMT
Congratulations, Ace, Crindoela, Joshua and Kelsey, you deserve it!
It's not the final leg of the race, with only three more challenges left for the winner to take home the million. Who will it be?
The Jack of All Trades, Ace?
The Party Brit, Crindoela?
The RPG Master, Joshua?
Or the Try Hard Popular Girl, Kelsey?
We've been through two team stages and part of the Free For All, and things surely seemed to pick-up heat, and the ship's moving at full speed!
Before we move any further, though, let's recall the moments of every contestant on the show, with special attention to the Final Four!
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Post by Chris McLean on Dec 31, 2013 22:12:02 GMT
To begin, we had our first phase, the continent phase. 4 teams, each named after a country, poor Oceania being left out, and things got quite wild seeing as we had 5 people leaving after just 3 episodes.
Team Africa, Team Europe, Team Asia, Team America.
They've all fought hard, some harder than others. Two teams began at a major disadvantage, Africa and Asia, but we'll talk about that later. On this team stage, we didn't have a lot going on. Some conflicts arised, there were some funny clash of personalities, but overall, it was pretty tame.
Which, in my opinion, is really, really lame.
Either way, in here we had the full cast. Looking at now, we can see how things changed, well, partially, at least. Team Europe left this phase with a full team, but they were picked off, one by one. Team Asia managed to hold out for a bit, but not for long.
Surprisingly, Team Africa, with only one member coming out from this phase, is still going at it. Crindoela really deserves props for being the underdog and getting this far.
With that said, though, let's begin.
Our first challenge was in Canada, Oh, Canada. Land of Oak Trees, Maple Syrup and well, Total Drama, what else! We began our 4-Part challenge, with Team Asia in the lead, Europe after, and America and Africa trailing behind.
Team America managed to get back and take the lead after some bumps, and Europe snagged second place, leaving Asia to third.
And while things certainly got more wacky with Quinn, and Africa managed to regain some footing, they were still in dead last, and had to vote someone off. It was then that we said bye-bye to our Wannabe Beauty Queen, Melanie.
She tricked some people as seen on the Aftermath, but since she didn't help her team at all, she got the boot, ending up as the first person ever to be voted off Total Drama Cruise, harsh.
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Post by Chris McLean on Dec 31, 2013 22:29:15 GMT
Then, we had Mexico. While we certainly had a blast with the tile and mine challenges, though the latter was pretty much just straight-forward, and dragged on for some time. Despite these rumps and bumps, though, it was pretty exciting, and we got to see some new stuff.We had Ace's competitive side, when he managed to create a strategy that granted him the victory. We saw Knox's aggressive side, when he swore revenge (and then completely forgot about it) against Ace for not lending them the victory.We also saw Paola's 'mean' side, when she took a map of the second floor despite already having one.Ace then went missing for a while, but really, no one cared. Paola and Dakota also fought, ouch. Some of the regulars were also missing, so the tile challenge, while good, was pretty uneventful. Ace won, Knox got second place, like the first challenge, and they reaped the spoils. On the Pyramids challenge, we saw a clever puzzle thought by moi, and we had Team America winning.Sadly for Team Asia, though, they had suffered a major blow prior to the challenge. Eve, the Artistic Otaku, didn't go to any of the cast meetings. Because of that, she had to go home. Later we found out that was actually on purpose because her family wasn't going to allow her going anywhere when they found we'd be cruising around the world.
That said, she left on Canada, immediately. So Team Asia began the challenge with one less player. To top it off, while we had Bernadette and Victor, who were beginning to bond a bit, partake in the first part of the challenge, both basically vanished completely on the second one, so they also lost.
While we'd definitely have Bernadette and Victor voting together to get the lone member Kai off, the latter decided he wouldn't be leaving that way, and instead quit to help his mom back at home, if I recall correctly.
If I didn't, it doesn't matter, because I'm awesome. But, either way, Kai, the fun-loving beach bum, quit, being the third person off the show and leaving the cruise for good. At the end of the second challenge we already had three people out, Team Asia at a major disadvantage with only one player left.
Both Eve and Kai's lives on the show were pretty short. It seemed Kai got a bit interested in Melanie, but that fell short. Kai was also shown to be vegetarian, like Rosetta, but nothing came from that either. Eve also got in a bit of culture shock with Bernadette, but again, nothing really came out of it.
The biggest point would probably be Victor's major crush on Eve, despite well, Eve doing nothing at all on the show, not even interacting a lot with him. And even then, that still didn't factor a lot on the show either.
So can we please finally move on with these characters, they did nothing, really! Are we really wasting precious me time to talk about these dudes three people care abo... Okay, okay, I'll get back on track.
Either way, we left episode 2 with 13 castmates remaining, and while we still had a bunch of people doing nothing, things at least seemed to pick-up steam regarding interactions, but we'll talk about those when we get to those characters.
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Post by Chris McLean on Dec 31, 2013 23:42:14 GMT
Past that, we had the Japan challenge! It was an uneventful one, to say the least, though. We were planning some awesome script writing and really hilarious acting from our contestants, or at least watching them get hurt.
Sadly, neither happened. Not a lot of people even, in fact, appeared. We got two scripts out of four teams, so Team Africa and Team Asia went directly to elimination, where they would face a certain twist. I'm, however, getting ahead of myself.
On the acting challenge, Ace got back from wherever he was. Besides that, well, nothing, I think.
Really, nothing happened.
Anyway, Quinn quit because she was loco, suffering from technology withdrawal and forgot to take her meds. (Missing picture). Her time on the show was short, and she won't be missed, but she at least did some stuff.
She began by befriending Paola, Crindoela, and making a whole mess in the Dining Area. The selfie-like maniac also almost drugged Ace, luckily that didn't happen, or we'd be getting one heck of a lawsuit, hehe. She also clashed directly with Bernadette, and it was really hilarious to see Bernadette getting worked up. Ace managed to stop the situation, though, and Bernadette unleashed her rage on him for some reason, haha! *He falls laughing* Boy I love seeing people getting mad and getting hurt!
Anyway... *He gets up* Quinn did fairly well on the Canada challenge, almost avoiding a loss for Team Africa and basically carrying the team on her back. Her efforts were fruitless, though, as we've seen. After that, the roles were switched and Crindoela turned into the one who did the carrying.
Quinn then went a bit into stasis, not doing anything else before she quit. What she did was funny, but as mentioned, nope, won't miss her, at all.
After the challenge, though, since both Asia and Africa were on the chopping block, second time for each team, both teams with only one player left because of Quinn quitting, we had a dual elimination! Not a 'double' elimination, a 'dual' one, where everyone from these two teams could vote anyone from either team off.
I was expecting a tiebreaker, but Crindoela thankfully saved me the trouble by accidentaly voting Jeremy off, which he was cool about, for some odd reason. Anyway, that was a shocker, and Jeremy was gone.
Jeremy, true to his 'chilling' motto, didn't do a lot either. He interacted a bit with the guys and showed the others a bit of his 'aura' abilities. Sorry, we already had enough with that from Dawn, we don't need another one. He also didn't partake in any challenges, so welp, good riddance for being boring, dude.
Seriously, he showed promise, but that just shows that what shows is not what goes since he ended up doing nothing on the show.
After that, things were complicated. We had Crindoela alone on Team Africa, Victor and Bernadette alone on Team Asia, and Team Europe and America still intact. Well that is no fun at all! Luckily me, your lovely host, had a trick up my sleeve, so the teams changed.
NORTH POLE.
SOUTH POLE.
Opposite ends of the globe.
Castmates on opposite ends of the personality spectrum.
It was sure to be a blast.
And boy... boy it was.
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Post by Chris McLean on Dec 31, 2013 23:44:17 GMT
CONTINUED IN 2014!
Happy New Years, everyone!
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Post by Chris McLean on Jan 1, 2014 5:19:16 GMT
And we're back, everyone.
Anyway, right after that, we had the Australia 3-Part challenge. Things really began to get crazy here, with the new teams. Knox and Rosetta who had just got kissy-kissy were now apart from each other. Crindoela was no longer in a team of one, but she was alone on her team, and Paola and Dakota, who had a recent fight, were not set together as allies.
Our challenge was a good one. First, there was the Kangaroo fight. The North Polars really got through with the challenge, while the South ones fell behind. Ace then took both the Emu Race and the Boomerang Competition, giving the North Polars the victory.
Crindoela was still mad she was never on the winning team, Kelsey sulked because she lost to Ace, who was currently blind, and Joshua was just waiting to debut.
Either way, on the elimination we had another team, with Joshua's debut on the show and a double elimination for the South Polars.
We'll go into further details, but before that we have to say something else. While it appeared that the North Pole Penguins would have a major advantage at the start, because they had 6 people compared to the South's 5, something really unexpected happened, with Bernadette quitting.
Leaving both teams on a 5x5 and on equal footing, well, partially. Bernadette's time on the show was rather eventful, and I was honestly expecting her to get a lot farther. She began as a social outcast, with major culture shock coming. Put on a team with two major Otakus didn't help her a lot either, as Victor was always talking about things she had no clue about.
To top things off, when people finally started interacting, Quinn began bugging her. Ace came to interfere, but Bernadette mistook his actions *cough* and gave him a hard time. She didn't interact a lot with anyone else until Paola and her managed to slightly bond and apparently she forgave Ace and became friends on the Training Grounds.
While she proved fierce at the Canada challenge, and also real competitive, she later began to compete less and less, resulting in her eventual resignment from the game. All in all, though, she was a great contestant, and one of the fan favourites for quite some time, despite her attitude at the start.
After she quit, the teams faced 5x5 on the Australia challenge resulting in the North Pole's eventual win. The South Pole Seals then went to elimination, and the tension was high! Crindoela was just sick of always losing, Kelsey had a persecution complex thinking she was leaving, and... Knox, Mason and Krystin weren't really doing anything, were they?
Anyway, in the surprise twist for the night, both Krystin and Mason got the boot, with Joshua replacing them in hopes he'd actually be active and help the team.
Krystin's time was a bit uneventful on the show, though. She began by interacting a bunch with her teammates, showing at least curiosity on Ace's cooking. Despite that, though, she almost never appeared, and when she did, she wouldn't do a lot either. For that reason, her team voted her off.
Mason, on the other hand, was also pretty boring. Hah, tricked you. Anyway, he began doing well in the Canada challenge, but he also vanished soon after, not interacting a lot with anyone either. Also the only TDC contestant never to make a confessional, despite beating 6 people.
After that double boot, though, most of the people who weren't doing a lot were gone, with a few exceptions. These exceptions, would, though, contribute a lot for some upcoming drama.
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Post by Chris McLean on Jan 1, 2014 5:33:35 GMT
And then, the London challenge. While a lot of people expected Crindoela's knowledge of the Country to be of key here, we actually got quite surprised in a few ways.
Let us recap.
We first started the day with Joshua's joining. That really put the South Poles in a twist, specially Crindoela, because 'Prince Joshua' seemed to have more than a crush on her.
Ace began interacting more with the enemy, seeing as Kelsey was previously from his team, and also apparently knew a secret about him. He and Crindoela talked a bit, too.
Crindoela was overall depressed for always losing, so Ace and Kelsey made a plan to cheer her up. Now, we can't let that happen, though, can we? I made sure to meddle so everyone was sad.
But I disgress, let's actually go from the top now. Joshua joined and began making the moves on every girl of the show. He got a particular interest in Crindoela, though, seeing as she was previously carrying her team on her back. He found that admirable, to say the least.
So Crindoela was depressed, and to top it off, she got onto a date with the brave RPG Knight. The date was definitely not working well, until Joshua tricked her into believing something out of pity.
Meanwhile, Ace and Kelsey were beginning some preparations for Crindoela's party they were planning. However, Ace got captured for the challenge, so that had to stop. I made sure to stop the loverbirds date too to announce the challenge, just when Crindoela was only wanting to rest. Haha, ain't I an evil genius.
Either way, Dakota and Kelsey were trying to sabotage the other teams, Ace and Knox were captured and stashed away somewhere far and the others were on the hunt for their lost teammates. Kelsey managed to neutralize Paola early on, which made the only active member of the North Poles who was on the scavenger hunt stumped.
Joshua and Crindoela were hunting together until Joshua managed to steal a kiss, which made Crindoela really really pissed when she found out it wasn't necessary. Joshua then went on a spree, winning the challenge for his team. Crindoela, while on the winning team, was still mad both because of what happened and because she was the one who knew London, why didn't she won?
So, Joshua won, and, on another twist (boy I love my twists) Ace switched teams, mouthful of cake. Couldn't even contain his hunger, uh? So the South Poles got Ace, but Knox was booted, leaving both teams at 4 contestants each.
Knox's head may not have been entirely on the competition, but he sure left a mark early on. From the start he had shown interested in Rosetta, and they managed to get together before being separated on opposite teams.
Fought a bear and came out with only a few major injuries in the Canada challenge, and had a conflict with Ace for Ace not throwing the challenge back in Mexico. Besides that and hanging out with the dudes, he didn't do a lot either. He was one of the castmembers to get into a couple this season, though, so you can say that counts as a plus for him.
Either way, like most others, after Mexico he didn't do a lot. He managed to take the Kangaroo down in Australia but failed the following segments. Luckily, or not, for him, he was an insta-boot, so we'll never know if he would have been voted off or not had he actually just switched or stayed on the South Poles.
We'll never know!
To add insult to injury, though, I had another trick up my sleeve. The South Poles got to vote someone of the North Poles, and while they thought they would be voting someone off, they actually got Rosetta to be on both teams. Shockingly, she wasn't booted immediately after.
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Post by Chris McLean on Jan 1, 2014 5:46:59 GMT
Next, we were at Portugal, for a medieval challenge! It was a quick flag hunt, and Ace proved a good asset to the South Poles, as they got victory yet again.
On a quick whim, Paola and Dakota joined forces to get Victor off, since he wasn't doing anything and Paola seemed to have a grudge against him.
Things were tense, though, in both teams.
On the North Pole Penguins, we had Paola and Dakota, who despite having a temporary truce, still weren't best buddies or anything. Paola and Victor also seemed to have an inner conflict, though we'll never know. Rosetta was, as usual, either not being there or getting on everyone's nerves.
On the South Poles, Joshua and Crindoela went on a major clash for leadership of the team, with Ace trying to ease things. Crindoela was still mad at Joshua for the kiss, and Joshua was still mad at Crindoela. Kelsey was panicking a bit in the midst of everything.
Also, when Kelsey and Ace went to try and make the party again, they found out someone had ruined the ingredients or stole them or something do you really expect me to go back through all these pages.
Between teams we also had Dakota and Kelsey's conflict because of some taunts Kelsey made back in Australia.
The challenge was simple and straight-forward, only a few people actually participating. Ace managed to get a win for his brand new team and for his performance, got an immunity idol, which we'll talk more about later. Paola got the most flags for her old team, and even though she lost, she still had double votes and took Victor out with a bang. (No image)
Victor stayed on the show for quite a while, but never did anything major. He started out by being a major anime fan, spouting references and always wanting to be watching something. He'd also sometimes address the audience as readers, probably thinking he was in a manga or something.
Once he got to his team, he had a major crush on Eve, too, though she didn't last long. That crush lasted until he was booted, though, where he declared his feelings. Too bad Eve wasn't there to deny them on television, I mean, we all saw the aftermath (and THIS is the second one, in a way).
He managed to get by pretty well on the Canada challenge by saying some Poo Poo about believing in yourself or something, I don't care. He then got stuck pretty quickly on the tile challenge and didn't partake, for some reason, in the Japanese Anime challenge. After that, he only appeared for a bit on the London challenge, and left for not helping his team at all, and for getting in Paola's way, apparently.
Either way, we'll remember him, for good or for bad, as a guy who got pretty far by doing nothing.
And with Victor gone, we had the teams set at 5x3, since Rosetta was in both teams. 7 contestants left, past the halfway point. I decided it was a good time for the merger... and boy, did I make the right call.
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Post by Chris McLean on Jan 1, 2014 18:26:27 GMT
And, ooh boy, now we're getting to the MEAT of things.
With the merge, everyone was against everyone. Paola and Dakota, who had made a temporary alliance to vote Victor off, where apparently voting together. Kelsey and Crindoela had become sort of best of buds, leaving Ace, Rosetta and Joshua to bite the dust.
While Rosetta didn't really have her mind in the game, Ace and Joshua made a plan to counter the existant alliances by creating an alliance of their own, and trying to split the others. The plan backfired when Dakota told Joshua he thought Paola deserved the money more than him, despite their previous fight.
Ace was, for some reason, also pretty pissed at Paola, as he thought she was trying to eliminate him, what a loser, haha.
Now, a mysterious person began to mess around with the contestants, and things began to get crazy!
The challenge was simple, well, in concept. The contestants had to travel from the start to the finish line by carrying a statue of their heads with them. First two to cross the finish line would get immunity.
Mostly everybody opted to go for the Tall Peak, except for Paola, who for some reason went through the deadly white, and Crindoela. Crindoela had to face the fury of tons of snowballs, meatballs, goats, and well, even me. I'm still mad at chef for that, too.
Paola, on the other hand, met Ezekiel. Yikes.
On the Tall Peak, things were more complicated. Joshua confronted Dakota about voting off Paola, but was shot down. Ace, who had exchanged a pair of walkmans with Joshua, heard everything despite being far far away, and swore to get Paola off.
At the top, Ace took the lead but fell into a cave, where he got hurt pretty badly. Nonetheless, he was the first to get a statue across the finish line. Just not HIS statue. Someone had switched his statue for Rosetta's, and, unaware of that, Ace gave Rosetta first place and the immunity.
Joshua, thinking Ace got first place, went and got second place, leaving Ace's other chance of getting immunity, the small statue he had made beforehand, worth nothing.
Things were pretty much about to explode, and to top everything off, Ace and Joshua found notes saying their alliance was discovered, and they'd be voted off if they didn't vote for Kelsey. Since neither wanted to vote for her, though, they approached Kelsey and voted for Paola.
At the elimination, Ace, fearing that whoever left the note could have convinced more people to vote for Kelsey, used his immunity idol on her. However, his immunity idol was switched for a fake one, and that was pointless. Someone had also stole his idol.
When it came down to the voting, though, Paola got the boot.
When confroting her so called friends for voting her, they found out that Paola was clueless about everything, truly, and that someone had managed to frame Paola, tricking Ace, Joshua and Kelsey into voting her off. Both Ace and Kelsey apologized to Paola and vowed to get whoever was behind it all off the show.
Crindoela began to feel the weight of the competition in her shoulders, not everyone being friends anymore, and Dakota began to get suspicious about who could have also voted her off.
After all, Paola was gone, and she did leave quite a mark on the show. When she started off, despite being shy, she managed to hit it off with her team quite well, Ace was polite and Kelsey was overall friendly.
Not only that, but she also began interacting with people from opposite teams, such as Quinn. When it came to the first challenge, she proved her will by managing to climb a tree and trick the bear, giving the victory to their team.
She also quickly told Ace she was liking some of the guys there, including him, so things got awkward between them when Ace shot her down, haha, hilarious! Now, Paola did not let that interfere too much, and actually got stronger because of that.
On the mine challenge, she lead her team to victory once more, by taking down a bat, solving a puzzle and stealing one of the maps on the second floor. After that, she and Dakota sort of became enemies after a fight. When Ace got back, she and him had a really really weird conversation about things in red which I don't really understand.
That lead her to panicking, and when Ace got back, there was the team switch. She was now pitted together with Dakota, who she disliked at the time, so there was some friction. On the Australia challenge, she somehow managed to strike at the Kangaroo but did horribly in the Emu race.
After that, things were a bit calmer for her, for a while. She did rather well on London, but Kelsey neutralized her by stealing the cellphone. On Portugal, she also managed to get some flags, which avoided a tie-breaker by changing how much her votes were worth, getting Victor off.
When it came to the merge, though, she began to not interact as much, isolating herself, probably another thing that lead Ace believing she was mean, others being stealing the map, fighting with Dakota, and all that.
On the challenge, she got stuck the whole time with Ezekiel, which, man, sucks to be her. After that, she also lost the challenge and got the boot, leaving on a tear-jerking elimination cerimony. Haha, awesome. And I'm telling you, Zeke carries a curse.
With that, we were down to the final 6.
Only one more exciting episode until the final 4, and things were tense with tons of conflicts and everyone doubting each other.
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Post by Chris McLean on Jan 1, 2014 18:53:36 GMT
And last time, as you may know, was rather awesome! Ace had vowed revenge to whoever framed Paola, so he disregarded the challenge completely, boiling down his suspects to Dakota and Kelsey. He didn't have proof to say either did it, but he definitely didn't want to believe Kelsey was the culprit, specially after he tried to 'save' him last time.
Crindoela and Joshua were still overall conflicting with each other, but definitely not as much, and everyone was pretty much doing its own thing. However, the people who didn't try to survive or tried to spend the night in the forest alone, aka, Rosetta, Ace and Dakota, ended up missing. Wouldn't last a hour in the real wild, I tell you.
The other three, in the other hand, kept trying to survive. Crindoela was even more pressured by the competition, specially when the wind brought down most of the resources they had built. At the end, a tiger appeared, and Joshua, taking the role of a knight to protect the damsels in distress, ended up just feeding the tiger other stuff and going away.
I, handsome me, then, bravely rescued them all and brought them to the elimination room. With my powerful voice of justice and handsomeness, declared that both Joshua and Kelsey had immunity, since I was feeling like a good person that day.
While everyone pretty much voted for Rosetta, despite Crindoela wanting to vote for Joshua, Ace had another plan in mind, and voted for Dakota, who he believed was the actual mastermind who framed Paola, for some reason. I don't really see the guy being one, though.
So, on another twist and the final double elimination of the game, both Rosetta and Dakota left, much to Ace's relief. Did he make the right choice or did he end up eliminating another innocent person? Only time will tell.
Rosetta's time on the show was uneventful, despite her claim to be the villain of this season, so sad. She began by well, just gossiping, badmouthing and insulting people, things you don't really need to be a mastermind to do. Her team went on a winning streak despite her not doing a lot, even if she appeared a bit on the Tile and Australia challenges, and she hooked up with Knox.
Despite that, though, and some minor conflicts with other characters, not a lot.
Dakota also left, a bit perplexed, even if he didn't actually leave the ship yet, for drama's sake. His time on TDC was a bit more interesting than Rosetta's, thankfully, and he was shown to be a more active member.
He tried to nudge Rosetta and Knox together, despite them hooking up not being that much influenced by him, and he proved to actually hold his weight in some challenges. After the mine challenge, he confronted Paola about stealing a map, revealing the true two sides of the innocent girl. Despite their conflict, though, after the switch, he tried not letting that get to him.
On the Australia challenge, even if he sort of had a bad past with Emus, he managed to stay until the boomerang challenge, winning alongside Ace. There was not a lot he could do to intervene with the other team in London's challenge, because Joshua just kept rushing ahead.
After the Flags challenge in Portugal, he and Paola made a temporary truce, who we'll never know if it was real or not. They got Victor out that way. After that, on Antarctica, he told Joshua he thought Paola deserved the money more than him, oh, that delusional dude, money is NEVER enough.
Lastly, but not least, he did rather well on the Madagascar challenge, well, before going to sleep with the bears. After that, it was an amazing blindside that got him off, when Ace declared he was the mastermind behind Paola's elimination.
Even if not entirely directly, Dakota's participation really changed some of the course of the game. With him leaving, only 4 participants remain.
How will they fare on the most dangerous challenges yet?
Who will win? Who will lose? Was Dakota really the mastermind? My bet is on no way.
So, keep watching, you don't want to miss it, we're down to the wire, and it's time for the RESOLUTION of TOTAL.
DRAMA.
CRUISE!
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Post by Chris McLean on Jan 1, 2014 18:54:30 GMT
GEEZ, THAT WAS LONG. Anyway, hope you all like it, suggest what you thought and all that. It really took some time to write all of this, and I hope there are no major mistakes. If there are, my bad, but it's hard going back through all these pages.
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Post by Chris McLean on Jan 1, 2014 19:04:24 GMT
On another note, you should really answer the questions I'll put in the confessionals. Think of it as a journey down memory lane.
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