Ok I totally forgot to record me giving my thoughts on Damien so imma just drop that here LMAO He’s honestly one of my favorites. His bit is really funny, it doesn’t overstay it’s welcome, and I’m glad he has other personality traits than just his running gag.

Minor characterization spoiler, but I find it weird how Raj and Wayne’s intros make them seem like antagonistic bullies, but then immediately become the best pair of himbos that can do no wrong

I kinda like the season leaning into the influencer/online stereotypes, as i feel it calls back to 2007 when they heavily used common teen stereotypes from that era.

I was so scared that Bowie is gonna have only one personality trait but im so glad that i was wrong. He was so cool and effortlessly the most likable character. And I also loved how Zee with his leg were shown as an actual representation and not just as "oh guys look we also have someone without a leg, please praise us". My jaw actually dropped when he said that thing about "oh you never said you have both legs". overall, very impressed

Dude my favorite characters are Damien, Bowie, MK and Raj. I love all of their personalities and interactions with other characters.

Well in contrast, we listened to Emma and Chase talk about their heterosexual relationship all season, so I guess Bowie mentioning he kisses boys every once in a while its not bad 😅 This season was so unexpectedly good!

Honestly I thought they'd keep cashing in the dramarama checks. Good on them for creating an at least semi-faithful reboot with thought and care. (Except Chris's new voice, thats almost as criminal as his actions.)

When I realized that Bowie was more than the token gay stereotype, I was SO RELIEVED! He's easily one of my favorite characters in this season. His friendship with Emma also really made me happy, and despite wishing she'd been written better, I really like Emma, too.

Can we all agree that this season was great *aside from episode 5*

We were too quick to judge a bunch of these characters. But Y know since it’s 2023 and lots of shows nowadays are bad, especially reboots, who could really blame us for thinking it wouldn’t be good?

I feel they tried to go with the fans and think of teen stereotypes in 2023 which is nice as as of this generation a lot of them fit in or are crazy as hell and I love it like Zee or Crazy Girl.Also at Zee do he number 1

I think if they were gonna bring in Don's VA, they should have swapped out Chris for Don outright

Even though they say it’s a reboot I simply call it season 7. (I don’t call Pahkitew Island season 5B)

honestly lost faith in reboots after what happened with teen titans go, but total drama should be an example of how to revive a show thats beloved by so many people

Zee is one of my favorite characters of 2023 he is just too funny and somehow the fact that he wasn't the brightest was never annoying to me plus he was just always fun to watch

Total Drama Island 2023 revived some hope that Total Drama will be great again. The cast of characters was surprisingly good, considering the trainwreck Pakitew Island's cast was. I've only seen a couple episodes and so far, Zee and Bowie are my favorites.

Might contain spoilers The season really surprised me. I didn't expect a 13 episode season to actually be this amazing. I also really liked what they did with Chef this season. He actually somewhat cared for everyone's safety especially When Wayne And Raj got hurt. This might be Chef's best season honestly.

the way we all expected this show to be trash but it's actually really good 😭

I can’t believe I’m saying this but I think this is the third best season after world tour and island. I love everyone on the cast except scary girl and emma. Other than the blatant fetish inserts/fart jokes and some contrived eliminations, I really have no complaints. It’s really flipping good

Bowie absolutely carried this season and he’s absolutely my favourite

Legitimately Bowie surprised me the most out of all the cast members, I thought he was gonna be a one note character voted out but he’s honestly my favourite contestant in this season though I do think his love dynamic with ray was the weakest part of his character but I think it’s probably due to the shorter episode run time they’ve been doing for years now, guaranteed if it had the 26 episode run it would have been much more fleshed out.

Why do people keep complaining about Chris' voice? It's fine for me and it doesn't detract from the show. I loved how Chris' whole kill the kids thing was halted by Chef a lot in this season, really lets Chef get more screentime and doesn't let Chris go full murderous again. Damien is the best TDI character of all time, I love him, he deserves to win.

After the disappointment that was Pahkitew Island, I'm just glad to see that this was a fairly decent season. For your two main gripes, here's what I have to say: For the voice change, while it does seem a bit off-putting, it doesn't really seem that bad if I'm being quite honest. The same applies to the new theme song of the show, while it's not as good as the original, I still liked nonetheless.

Glad to hear the reboot is good I thought the series was dead after dramarama tbh

1000% Agree this is this makes it into my top 3 Seasons tbh (WT is first and og season 2nd ). This cast brought fresh life to the series and I'm excited to see them back, hopefully they do it in another setting! (Like Action or WT).

I'm keeping my fingers crossed they bring back some Gen 1 characters, whether for them to be contestants again or cameos. I really want Owen and Izzy to come back and pick up their relationship again they ended it so horribly

I was very conflicted on Scary Girl. I appreciate the goth girl archetype and I guess she was the double down that eventually becomes Harley Quinn wannabe that craves blood and violence. By the second episode my eyes rolled back into my skull, down my spine and ended up down the flush of shame from whenever Scary girl spoke. However, by the time she was gone I ended up missing her a little.

I would put this series in the dead middle on a tier list. I would always be down to watch it again and it's really good, but at the same time, I don't think anything can compete with the brilliance of the first 3 season (Until they start bringing back 26 episodes per season) In fact, I think that's the only issue I had with the show. 13 Episodes was not enough time for one season, and while I'm glad the entire cast is coming back for a second season so we get more development, I do wish that these two seasons were 26 episodes each, but what I am hoping is that these two seasons serve as a "trial" that tells the producers that people really like this series and want more seasons, so they'd make more 26 episode seasons

As an italian fan, the fact that the new tdi season came out in italy first is so funny and weird and i love it

I'm like 6 episodes in and this season low-key fire. Also at times the Don VA sounds like Chris so imo he's doing a good job

Damien, Bowie and Julia were the best. I loved them

I've been waiting for years for Total Drama to come back so I was so excited to hear that this came out! I'm glad you said something about the Chris voice actor, the theme song, and chef being more like the daycare version of him.

1:40 Keep in mine, Terry" who is the va for Chris" said it was a creative decision to recast Chris, which has yet to be confirmed also based cast

The Best thing about this season is that wawanakwa is there again which means that all stars is not Cannon anymore 🎉

I personally think Axel's more of an Eva Also, Bowie's the best character 🙃

My only problem is that Julia didn’t get to the final It should’ve been Millie, not her

i love the elimination ceremonies tbh... from the teams walking to the campfire and how chef will list all the reasons someone might be voted, its just my favorite campfire ceremony equivalent in a while. especially since in the OG island so many people were voted out with very little explanation, mainly Izzy who didnt make much sense as the boot for that episode (especially since the other person in the final 2 was gwen meaning gwen and izzy got more votes than heather that episode?) and bridgette because while they explained why she was eliminated, the votes dont really add up, and if everyone told the truth it wouldve been a tie between her and duncan

My only criticisms of the new remake were Chris's voice and the tempo. I'm not sure if the show's creators knew how important Chris's voice was to the show. They kept his dialogue fairly consistent, but I wish they had gone the Rick and Morty approach and hired someone who sounded similar. It is good to see it back though.

They never explained How they brought the Island back

its so good for no reason- like of course alot was bad but the good was SO good! I love the characters especially

I give this season a 7/10. Because of episode 5 and 8 I can’t give it a 10. And also because of the lack of drama because of the focus on challenges

This season was awesome, major spoilers ahead. I wish the f3 had Julia instead of Millie, that just makes more sense to me. But I would keep the same ending overall. This show genuinely made me laugh and I’m so happy it came back.

Well, seeing by all the opinions, now I can confrim that... *Zee and Scary Girl (Lauren) are the fan-favorites of this season*

I feel so bad for the poor person that had to sing "hey whats up im here to slay"

wish damien went farther

Raj, wayne, and zee. Best characters

RIPPERSWEEP WOOOO!!!! #RIPPER4EVER YEAAAAHHHHHHHHH LETS GOOOO RIPPER I LOOVEE YOUUUUU

i hate how nichelle was eliminated quite early

Tbh I didnt even think ripper was that bad, the toilet humor is definitely a problem and I can see why people would hate him for that but he has many funny moments and great one liners later in the season that I can't help but love him

Im pretty sure Wayne and Raj were based on Reily and Jonesy from Letterkenny

The intro tho 💀💀💀💀 “Yeah what up I’m here to ✨sLaY✨”

Zee is literally the goat

Total Drama being good again feels wrong >haven’t actually watched it yet but with everyone saying it’s like actually good, I’m shook Also hi DJ you can see I’ve watched the vid now :)

This new season had such lousy marketing that did not impress me and made me DREAD this season's arrival. A long LONG wait for any further news from when they first announced it. Spoiler leaks in the trailers. No release fate for the longest time. The news that it was gonna be thirteen episodes and not twenty six. The animation shots on the posters looked like something from Paketiew Island. The conformation that the season would tackle a gay pairing, when TD is KNOWN for bad representation (even if you love TD, you have to admit that). And of course, releasing THE ENTIRE SEASON, in ONE DAY. (What is wrong with Fresh TV and their marketing strategies?!) Also, they gave the season to Italy and no one else, and it's caused KZfaq to attempt an Undertale Genocide Run on TD KZfaq channels. So I was expecting the WORST going in... Now I desperately want someone out there to make a side by side comparison with Velma and TDI2023 on how and how NOT to make a franchise reboot. They came out in the same year. It's perfect.

i still know nothing about this show, but i appreciate that the video ended with its joever

some of these characters have no right being so iconic

My man's just pulling bangers consistently now huh

How dare he not talk about Damien!!!

Awesome, I'm glad it is actually good. I really didn't want to watch it after all the Twitter stuff, hearing the intro, and Chris' voice change but since it's for a good reason they changed his voice actor I'm fine with it and if the characters are decent them I'm definitely interested!

So true. I love this cast a lot. I didn’t expect most of what they did at all 😂

I absolutely love this season, even more because my favorite character ended up winning.

This season was fire I am so glad that because of this season there is hope for the entire franchise i itself. The only issue is the new intro song if they made it the old version then that would've been so much better. But for real though this season was really good Rankings (My Opinion): 1. World Tour 2. Island 3. Reboot 4. RR 5. Action 6. Revenge 7. All Stars 8. Pakitew

Priya pretty much reminds me of Courthney

I mean it’s not really a reboot reboot . It’s just a new season

my favorite has to be Julia, imo she definitely carried tdi reboot, and shouldve stayed longer ngl, also i rlly like the theme song

I feel like next season Damien, MK, Scary Girl/Lauren, and Axel are going to develop more, maybe not be finalist but just get more screen time and plot, cause they set Damien up to be a main character of next season, clearly Scary Girl has a thing for Damien and they are 100% using that for next season plus she's such an unique character, MK was getting more interesting and then she got eliminated, i really hope that they develop her more, Axel is kinda the best "strong badass woman with anger" character they have done, i hated eva but shes like a mix of Eva and Sean and i would like to actually her get just a little bit more of screen time

can anyone help me please, i cant find this season ANYWHERE

Here’s my new ranking of every total drama season(my opinion) 8 All stars 7 Pawkital 6 Revenge 5 Action 4 Island 2023 3 Island 2 Ridoncules race 1 World tour

i keep imagining chris as jonesey from 6teen

Nothing bad about the review, loved it, and I liked listening to your recap of the characters. I just… find the whole “Every reboot is an immediate cashgrab” gag a bit much. While yes, a lot of IP’s have gotten cheap reboots, it does not mean that every reboot is bad. There were also a lot of great reboots & revisits to older shows in the last few years. Ducktales is the best example of it, but things like animaniacs, Looney toons show/Looney toons cartoons, The tom and Jerry reboots, Rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles and TDI also do justice to modern reboots. Even stuff like the Ben 10 reboot, after the extremely tough start, begins to show its passion and honestly become a decent show by the end, with a lot of connections to the old show and fun references, in addition to building its own world with the vilgax specials and the time travel episode. What I’m saying is, please don’t just rule off something for being a reboot, that stigma feels misplaced and can prevent stuff similar to the invader Zim or rocko movies to not be greenlit , and cause people to skip on shows they might really like Also seriously watch ducktales 2017 it’s awesome

i don’t love small things about the new season, but THANK GOD the writers, SOMEONE, … someone *finally* listened.

A reboot suits this show especially well because the type of show it's parodying usually has a new cast every season so it just kind of fits

When u say the Italian title I fall of the Chair 😂😂😂... Cause I'm Italian

Can we all agree that Scary Girl is the best character in Total Drama's history?

Og 2007 themesong: DEAR MOM AND DAD IM DOING FINE YOU GUYS ARE ON MY MIND YOU ASK ME BUT I WANTED TO BE BUT NOW I THINK THE ANSWERS PLAIN TO SEE I WANNA BE FAMOUS I WANNA LIVE CLOSE TO THE SUN WELL PACK YOUR BAGS CAUSE IVE ALREADY WON EVERYTHING TO PROVE NOTHING IN MY WAY ILL GET THERE ONE DAY CAUSE I WANNA BE FAMOUS LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LAAAA I WANNA BE I WANNA BE I WANNA BE FAMOUS I WANNA BE I WANNA BE I WANNA BE FAMOUS *whistles* 😍😍

i really enjoyed it i cant wait for s2 but i will admit i did zone out a couple times awtching it

Episode 5 sucks and Ripper is grading. Spoilers - Really wish Axel stayed longer. I loved it when Axel gives some payback to Ripper. I love it when they play ripper off as the bad guy you’re supposed to hate who gets shit on.

HOW DO YOU HAVE LIKE, LESS THAN 1k SUBS? This is such a big plot twist.

hehe glad you liked it

i think chris feels like world tour chris, just more honest, because he interacts with characters and has a good dynamic with chef, which works here as a “reboot”

While Not up there with the original Island, I would say that this season is an improvement over Dramarama. Because it restores the quality of the older seasons while putting new gimmicks in it. Not to mention how it also goes back the original roots of Total Drama as well. And as for the characters, my favorite of this season would have to be Damian since i did find him enjoyable and a funny a little to and his personality and charisma is entertaining to watch in my opinion(especially seeing him freak out and such). But even though this season is an improvement over Dramarama, it still does have things that I don't like in them such as Chris' New Voice Actor, The Episodes feeling fast-paced at times, This season having FIVE DUMB characters(Chase, Ripper, Wayne and Raj, Zee), The New Theme Song, Chase and Emma's relationship and especially how the former is portrayed and written, They never even to explain how Camp Wawanakwa came back or how it was restored after the events of All-Stars, and how this season tries to be "cool" and "hip" at times with today's kids. But Overall I still do think that this season was an Okay one at best. And i'd definitely looking forward to seeing Season 2 of it.

I never viewed this as a reboot but a continuation of the old show with a new cast! Also Chef being made a softee makes sense if u watch total drama Rama where chef SHINES it makes sense he would be softer comin off that. And yea there’s a guy who does Chris voice in Switchies videos he could’ve did Chris voice easy

glad to know that total drama is still great again! 👌

My issue with the new Chris voice actor, is that he sounds exactly like Don. There wasn't an effort made to distinguish the new Don from the new Chris, so you end up just wondering why they didn't just have Don hosts the show instead

*SPOILERS* I loved this season, the only things that o don't liked it was Elimination order: the early boots, like, c'mon almost all my favorites ones were gone too early (Scary girl, axel and damien) but it's okay bc julia maked it far and slaped this season Fart jokes: fart jokes are ok if they are used moderately, but ripper overused that gag for 8 damn episodes and its just disgusting and unfunny Emma and chase relationship: it was funny at the start but it took too much screen time of those 2 arguing, at one point is just anoying seeing again a scene of them about the same thing PD: Julia deserves to be in 3rd place instead of millie, just my opinion.

Hey What’s Up I’m Here To 💅✨SLAY✨💅 Don’t Know Why The Rest Even Bothered To Stay

Zee is my son as well and I’m willing to go to court with you over it 💼 📝 (p.s. great video!!) 💕

zee is one of my fave stoner characters

5:45 bro forgot redonculous race existed

NO FR ITS SO GOOD

I watched TDI when it first aired. I kinda left off around TDA, because the tv was full of realities during that time and I kinda got tired + the fact we didn't have CN anymore...yeah. and back then, you didn't just google "TDA all episodes free no virus"..anyway I watched the entire reboot yesterday, and hoo boy, it actually did bring back memories. a lot. Chris is somehow still the very exact same, absolute sadistic monster, he is the only one between these type of characters, who I absolutely love. I actually liked Chef in those few episodes, which I've seen of the season, where everyone is a little kid. Chef is a good character. I'd have loved if the show actually showed us more about their relationship, because they could be interesting, knowing that Chris doesn't really like anyone else, but himself, and yet.. and as for the rest, there were actually moments that surprised me with their twists! like, I have 10 years of experience working in media, and even I was, like "ah, this is smart!" idk how, but they somehow achieved a very similar quality to the original TDI and I'm all for it.

1:48 Also Jonesy from 6teen,Terry McGurrin he is a friend or at least was friends with Chris Potenza they worked together on 6teen bc Chris voiced Jude. I thought that was kinda interesting I wonder if Chris approves.

me when i saw the winnie the pooh blood and honey : What they do to my boy winnie.

I've never bene so proud of being italian

How the hell do you only have 573 subs!!!

Aye where da boi Damian at?

100% agree except I would’ve taken out the fart fetish episode entirely. Cmon Total Drama, we’ve moved past this

Zee is the goat frfr

They could have just replaced Chris with don like Chris could’ve been in jail or something and don took over for a bit

Also the season is only 13 episodes long BUT scroll down may have spoilers there is going to be another season with same cast hinted in the final episode