Episode 1 I watched a decent amount of time ago, it was an OK premire but again premires have pretty much sucked or have been mediocre since Season 1 ended. Episode 2 was actually pretty hilarious, and episode 3 was decent but a bit too tennis-rivals focused I guess lulz, though it was great otherwise. I also in general think with this very large cast and quick pacing some teams barely gets noticed in the first episodes and the lack of interactions between teams isn't great obvs, but I do like the interactions between the teammates themselves.
Update (Episodes 4-5): The Ice Dancers are still pretty cool. McArthur continues to be the funniest thing. The Goths gets more lines, which is pretty great. I actually... like the Father/Son more this time, I never really cared about them but Dwayne is decently witty I guess? lol. Emma is kinda annoying but I guess that's the point lulz, Kitty is kinda cute. It's stil just 2 episodes so I don't have MUCH to say about the rest, but we'll see. The Stepbros still suck. As for the episodes, I feel like both were pretty funny... especially 5 though again I don't think there was a clear standout so far.
Update: (Episode 6-11): Brazil episode was fine, though felt bad for the Vegans haha, the Ice Dancers continues to shine in all episodes though. The Transelvenya episode had a great challenge, interactions, humor, location, everything. Wasn't huge fan of Hawaiian/Dubai overall, but the Mom/Daughter were show-stealers and decent, man I definitely think it was Stephanie's worst showings in a way, I remember liking her overall but those episodes I was really mixed on her (she did have some fun moments prior and after those 2 episodes), New Beijinging was like, fine, but the Rocknrule episode was great, the goths really shined <333 Also, Nemma is just sort of weird lol, from Noah's side it's a total cringe for sure, from Emma's it's fine and I love Owen/Kitty for supporting it but man Noah is just so weird and sometimes such a selfish bitch to Owen. The Daters were pretty hilarious once they turned into the haters, especially Ryan! Their silent treatment is pretty great. The Stepbros didn't annoy me as much nor did I liked them really.
Update: 12-14: All 3 episodes were excellent. Ice Dancers absolutely shined through all of these, 12 featured the Daters being hilarious as hell, 13 had amazing rivalry moments between the Cadets an Ice Dancers (also why they didn't let them keep their amazing black uniforms? ugh) 14 had Rockers being funny and bunch of great stuff.
Update: 15-18: The Daters fucking ruled these episodes, Lord of the Ring Toss was hilarious actually! And I liked Father/Son in their boot episode, Noah's boot episode was eh, and he was pretty lame in this season.
Favorite teams:
Update: 19-23 -- 19 was fine-ish though i was pretty tired while watching it, but then 20, 21, 22, and 23 were all pretty great, so yeah.
Ice Dancers are obviously pretty funny. The Cadets (especially McArthur) are obviously hilarious.
As of right now, my favorite teams are The Cadets and the Ice Dancers, other great teams are the Goths, the Haters, I would include Father/Son they're just not really my type of characters, there's a limit to how much a young kid in this silly show could be engaging imo. Devin... acutally doesn't do much in the first half of the season, but I'm looking forward to see his broken-heart/angry side, Carrie was the more relateble one. Kitty/Emma are decent, but kind of out focus lately. Surfers/Owen are fine, but man Noah is just so weird lmao what the writers did with him in this season.
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Decent teams:
Sisters, Best Friends, Goths, Vegans (cute), surprisingly the Adversity Twins , Tom/Jen,
OK Teams:
Father and Son (tho they're improving), Rockers, Nowen (Noah has some funny moments but man Owen almost felt like a parody in episode 3 lol), Mom/Daughter, Surfers (cute but Geoff reverting to his TDI self feels weird imo, he's even more chill than TDI), Daters
Worst-characters-ever team:
The Stepbrothers -- what the fuck how can anyone can not think they're Z- characters. I just roll my eyes wherever they talk who the hell thinks they're even funny. Like I get people hate Leonard cuz he's too weird and maybe annoying to some, or Mike (duh) cuz he ruined the show or obviously his friends Zoey/Cameron since they do suck sometimes. But those two are probably the most unfunny characters ever in this show. Right now they're in the right direction... of beating Mike as my least favorite characters.
So in general mostly everybody are fine and I'm sure some will improve <3
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ELIMINATED:
Pairs might be ranked together or individually, obviously it depends since some teams will have one member ranking much higher.
Love/Favorites:
1+2. Ryan/Stephenie -- The Daters/Haters had a great arc overall, they started out pretty one-dimensional, with their constant making out, then we had like one or two episodes where Stephenie was pretty insufferable and very abusive in a kinda unfunny way. But once their "tag" changed into the haters they were pretty much always hilarious, always fun, it was always great seeing Ryan trying to find ways of annoying (or egging) Stephenie while watching her getting annoyed with him, and also learning more of each other alongside the way, pretty fantastic and I could write more but I'm lazy but I'll just say they're really fun characters who added bunch to this spin off.
3+4. Ennu/Crimson -- What's not to love about these two? Their sense of dark humor was fantasic, and everything about them (including Loki) was pretty great, I just wish we gotten more <3
Likeable:
5. Dwayne -- I'm not sure about this, but the guy did have a decent character development, and I do think he had some pretty great jokes, and I don't have anything bad to say about him much (I guess his sexist jokes? tho I get he's from a "differente" time or whatever, I do think he's likable he's just not really my type of character if that makes sense.
6+7. Kelly/Taylor -- Had a fine, geniune, decent 2-episodes arc in their very last 2 episodes. Kelly learning to put her daughter into her place is funny and Taylor learning to appriciate her mom is pretty neat, not to mention Taylor (Despite being a spoiled brat) has some pretty funny lines throughout, I would rank Kelly higher tho.
8. Rock - Rock is one of those characters I didn't really care for before the rewatch and I'm leaving it... still unsure about him, because I don't really think he's bad obviously, but he's not that funny or engaging. He's obviously the one I'm supposed to root for/care for in the Rockers and he fills that job decently well and he has some decent lines, I just feel like he's one of those characters I'm not that meant to care for or maybe I just didn't clicked that much with him, but he is definitely funny sometimes and his frustrations with Spud are pretty hilarious.
9. Spud - lol
10+11. Tom/Jen - Pretty great in their boot episode, loved their hoenst friendship and they were quite funny throughout, just wish we would have seen more.
12+13. Mickey/Jay -- Surprisingly had their funny moments, obviously a little too self-pitying, but that's their character-point I guess, they didn't all TOO much but in general their cowardince and phobias worked out well, I feel like they're Cameron-done-right, in the sense that the show obviously knew those two wouldn't make it so they didn't push the story/narrative in making them the underdog forced heroes who would beat, like, I don't know the Cadets or something in the end lmao. They had the exact right amount of screen time and some funny lines. Even felt bad for them in their boot episode when Mickey got manipulated by Emma.
14. Junior -- Like, his father, but without the awesome humor. He was written fine but how can a kid be that engaging to me as a character lol.
15. Laurie - I appricate her role throughout, and was kinda sad by her elimination, she was pretty tragic all things considered. A vegan who's deticated to do the right thing yet she secretly loves meat? Sad. Obviously doesn't help when her teammate kept reminding her of that lol. Also her outburst <3
16. Owen -- Owen was very out of focus and in the early-season he was pretty much one-note and sort of a mixed bag with his fart jokes. I do appriciate him much more later on when he's being hs regular positive self, he's very likable (obv) and kinda fun.
17. Ellody -- Yeah I'm seperating the geniuses. Mary's like OK but whatever, Ellody's a random super-cute favorite with a Courtney voice <3
18. Miles -- Was generally pretty cute, but she goes down a bit for reminding Laurie of her mistakes lol, kinda annoyed me a bit. Still fine-ish.
OK:
19+20. Leonard/Tammy - Sometimes funny, sometimes a miss. Kinda a pointless returning choice obviously, but whatever. I'm not a Leonard hater anymore but they could have done something more exciting. Neutral
21. Mary -- The lesser Ellody, just isn't as whimsical, cute, or graceful.
MEH:
22+23. Gerry/Pete -- Their jokes are unfunny to me but at least they left early and weren't really annoying.
Bad:
24. Noah - As seen above, Noah was a total dissapointment this season. He started out pretty hilariously (funny in the France episode) but once he fell for Emma he fell down in my ranks big time. He was... pretty much worst than Zoey, he became obsessed with Emma and it was just really tiring and not funny, he was also a total bitch to Owen through most of the season and sometimes it was unpleasent mostly because it was usually Noah's fault for them sucking in challenges and also for their elimination!! Owen deserved better. As for Nemma, well, they were barely relateble at all, I guess this format isn't that great for relationships unless they're partnered up, but it just seems forced and weird. Sorry Noah ;(
25+26: Chet/Lorenzo -- Already all explained above, I guess their last 3 episodes made them bottom 3 characters (above Mike) and not 1/2, because they were semi-sufferable I guess, still can't really get through with them and honestly think those 2 are probably the most unfunny characters in the series, and would have been much better as forgettable early boots rather than stealing the spotlight from characters like Mom/Daughter, Vegans, Fashion Bloggers.
CrimsonEnnui obviously it's just for now, in the first episodes they're very quiet. I suspect they'll be my third/fourth favorite team by the end of this.
