Duncan may have been a little distracted by picking up a child from a ball pit, but ultimately, distractions like that are a part of reality show twists. Courtney won because she refused to give him an edge. That's how you win these shows.

As for the superhero challenges, it's quite possible that Harold not stopping to talk to the potato sack might have given him a victory. That's utterly irrelevant. The point is, he did in fact do that. Courtney was the superior camper in that challenges. End of discussion.

Until Courtney actually cheats, I'm going to swing my condemnation mallet on Harold for actually cheating rather then Courtney calling her lawyers. What she plans is irrevelant compared to what she actually does.

There's no reason for Courtney to improvise. They are her wire-cutters, and no one was using them since Lindsay had finished with them. What's wrong with using a pair of wire-cutters to cut a wire?

No one should ever, at all, be praising Harold for being a "protagonist" because when it comes down to it, no one has cheated on Total Drama Island besides him. Sure, Duncan's a jerk, but nothing he does has broken the rules of the competition. Heather was super cruel, but everything she did was within the rules of the show. Courtney bends the rules and skirts the gray area, but she has never broken them. Harold, on the other hand, cheated. The fact that he was picked on is irrelevant, it just goes to show what people will hypocritically defend cheating in one place and call someone else a cheater just because they like them. It's ridiculous how people blame Duncan for getting Courtney kicked off. It was, start to finish, Harold. Accept it. Quit whining that he had a motive. Courtney has a motive for everything she does too: she wants to win.

Further, this show is a competition with only one victory. A betrayal is neither rare nor surprising. Why should Courtney be criticized for playing the game as it was intended to be?

There really is no excuse for the bullying that Harold receives. Duncan loves to try to make excuses, but when you look at his actions they are obviously nothing but pretense. He raised his fist threateningly at Harold in the first episode of TDI, made Harold pee-himself in his sleep during the third episode and pointed it out to everyone, and drew on Harold's face. This was all long before he created the excuse of Harold's underwear being left around, and spent an entire episode bullying Harold. Even after Harold promises to never do it again, Duncan continues with making Harold drink oil, feeding him his underwear again, giving him wedgies, and sticking peanut butter in his bed.

Harold is wrong to bring Courtney into the matter, but it's pretty understandable that a character can make mistakes when upset. Harold obviously was upset and frustrated, and this becomes his one truly unethical action.

Duncan continues to bully Harold in TDA, but now he uses the excuse of Harold having voted off Courtney--not that he stops when Courtney comes back. It's just another justification that Duncan's hiding behind for behaviors which Duncan started back at the very beginning of TDI. The truth is that Duncan gets a laugh out of being a jerk to people. He's a bully; that's what they do. He unscrewed the lids on Trent's salt and pepper shakers in Beach Blanket Bogus; in Sand Witch Project he admits to standing outside a kindergarten covered in fake blood and giving a dozen kids seizures. Also, in Beach Blanket Bogus Duncan rationalizes dismantling the bus because he's "always been more of a dismantler than a builder", and Gwen calls him on it because he really just likes to "stir up the stuff". Duncan laughs, doesn't deny it, and says they should disconnect the horn too.

Duncan frequently behaves unethically without the slightest repentence. He doesn't need provocation, and he started the entire conflict with his bullying.

Courtney is just as ethically challenged as Duncan. You can pretend that with no rules everything is permissable, but just because something can't be penalized in the game doesn't make the action ethical or morally sound. Courtney is rude to everyone, and then she blames them for not putting her on the same pestal she places herself on. It's easy to make fun of Lindsay for smelling like cheese, but Courtney doesn't like it when it's pointed out that she doesn't smell any better. She uses her lawyers to secure unethical advantages for herself, though she'd be screaming bloody murder if anyone else had that special treatment instead of her. She would threaten to sue the show. She's a nasty person who is willing to pretend to kiss her boyfriend and then kick him in the nuts instead to win a challenge. Were the situation reversed, she'd again have threatened to sue.

Whether the competition has rules or not, society does have ethics. The golden rule of treating others the way you wish to be treated yourself is an axiom around the world. In reality shows, people frequently break this rule, but it doesn't make them look better for having done so. They look like slime, and people across the world talk about them negatively.

Harold broke it once in anger and frustration; it's a mistake he hasn't repeated. Duncan breaks it constantly for his own amusement. Courtney breaks it constantly for money and ego. To pretend that Duncan and Courtney have any moral high ground to justify their continued persecution of Harold is laughable. Harold is obviously a protagonist for trying to adhere to the ethical treatment of others. Courtney and Duncan are obviously antagonists for having no desire to adhere to the ethical treatment of others.

Hold the phone a moment. I never once stated that there was no rules. I was pointing out the illogic of saying Harold's cheating didn't break the rules because there are none, and yet, Courtney is accused of breaking the supposedly existing rules.

The simple reason why Harold is not excused for being picked on in TDA is simple: Courtney's return had nothing to do with him. Harold didn't bring Courtney back, she brought herself back. Her return does not exonerate him.

You cry and moan about Courtney would be complaining if someone else got special treatment, but there is no evidence to support this. At all. Ever. She used the weapon she had, just as you all claim Harold used the weapon he had. Other then calling her lawyers, she did absolutely nothing when things didn't go her way. Calling her lawyers has nothing to do with suing.

Further, the purpose of the show is to win the competition. Anything goes as long as it's permitted by the rules. Duncan using the lighter was not permitted, there was nothing wrong with Courtney using violence to win a challenge where, surprise surprise, the challenge was to be won with violence.

Harold does NOT adhere to the ethical treatment of others. Where, on earth did you get that? Aside from cheating off Courtney, all he does it talk about his mad skillz. Hell, he was picked last by Gwen and Trent (over Heather and Duncan), not to mention he was completely unhygenic.

Face it, it's all just whiny fluff because people like Harold and are willing to forgive him when he has performed no pennance. No where did I state Courtney was morally superior to Harold: I just it's not immoral to blame Courtney for using her lawyers since it's within the rules.

Unless I missed something, Harold hasn't talked about his "mad skills" for several episodes now.

Harold is both good at challenges, and nicer than Courtney. If it came down to it, I'm sure that most would side with Harold as an alliance leader than Courtney. She may be a little better at challenges, but she will also turn on you. It's a game, and everyone turns on you sooner or later, but at least Harold would probably stick with it till then.

I made a chart yesterday, did no one see it? If points were given out based on both challenge performances, and life outside the challenges, Courtney would score well on challenges, but low on outside them. Harold, on the other hand, would score well on challenges, and well on outside them.

I do not doubt that Courtney is a good player, but the game isn't ONLY challenges. You put everything together and then you know who is best.

Many thanks.

Anyway, the show doesn't make much sense. How could anyone be penalized for breaking rules when there are no rules? When you're competing on a reality show, you need rules. It's a simple fact. If you want to go by Chris's logic, Harold's cheating isn't considered breaking the rules and neither are Courtney's actions. Since it's a cartoon and it's meant for humorous purposes, all is forgiven. But realistically speaking, it goes to show you that tampering with votes is just as bad stealing a hot air balloon. If anybody were to pull any of those stunts on a real reality show, it would resulted them into getting kicked off the show. The fact that Chris is just a bad host throws everything out of whack.

With that being said, Courtney's lawsuit is contributing to the "no longer" Grips team. She was granted immunity for a week in "Ocean's Eight Or Nine," her matches against Duncan were unfairly set up by Chris in "Million Bucks BC" and "Million Dollar Babies" and since then, every other episode has shown Courtney calling her lawyers to get her out when things don't go her way or to make sure the other contestants don't win the million dollars. This/That is downright cheating. Just because Courtney has a good lawyer, Chris is willing to bend the rules into making sure his show doesn't get sued. This is cheating, not to mention illogically inept. Most or almost all of Courtney's victories are due to Chris bending the rules for her. Courtney may have not been successful in reaching her lawyers but as far as I'm concerned, it's cheating and at least Courtney's trying to cheat.

We saw the chart just fine, it's just that you arbitrarily assigned numbers to somehow prove that Harold > Courtney. That's not how charts work.

As of yet, no one has proven where Courtney has broken the rules. Delivering a lawsuit against Chris, and winning, is not breaking the rules. From her victory, it was clear that Courtney's lawyers argued a position that she was terminated from competition unsuccessfully. That's not breaking a rule. Quite the opposite, that's Courtney calling Chris out for breaking a rule.

Courtney received immunity her first week back because of the lawsuit; that's not breaking a rule since it was established beforehand, and all other Grips were aware of the rule (they, in fact, were the ones that broke it.) Courtney's matches were also not unfairly set up by Chris: He chose who fought who in "BC" and "Million Dollar Babies" was established due to tier rankings during the football training. The fact that Duncan and Courtney did worse then Justin and Leshawna, but better than everyone else, is not unfair.

And imverybasic, you make absolutely no sense whatsoever. How, exactly, do ANY of Courtney's victories in the challenges come from her lawyers? She defeated Duncan by kneeing him in the crotch, by pinning him in wrestling, getting through a laser grid, making a better superhero costume, and accomplishing an obstacle course the fastest. Not a single one of these came from her lawyers; the latter three, she was actually unable to reach them. Courtney accomplished this ON HER OWN. Do not let your personal opinion of her disguise the facts. She wasn't compassionate for Geoff's injury because, let's face it, he had a splinter.

alagaseian, your "justifications" are even worse. You claim that Chris did nothing because he's afraid of a lawsuit, but can't even prove it. Beth is the only one who whines that it's not fair Courtney gets perks. It's true that Chris does not appear to be happy about it during "BC" but after that, he never mentions it again. You use a flimsy pretext to get Harold off the hook, and then hypocritically backtrack just to penalize Courtney. Sad. Really sad.

And you guys are way off-topic. No one has yet to reply to such things as "Courtney coming back does not exonerate Harold, since he had nothing to do with it." This just denigrated into whiny Courtney-bashing and mindless Harold-praise.