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Does Trent really have any other role besides being with Gwen?

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    Irfantastic

    [1]Feb 10, 2009
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    Is it just me, or are the storylines with Trent revolve around Gwen somehow? Almost everyone except Who Can You Trust and BOD.

    We haven't seen Trent so much actually competing to win, he just competes for Gwen's feelings, and that's all he did in Total Drama Action. At least with all the other couples we've seen the individually and have gotten to know them outside their love lives (i.e. Duncan and Gwen)

    So does Trent have a bigger role besides being with Gwen ?

    Edited on 02/10/2009 2:22pm
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    alagaesian

    [2]Feb 10, 2009
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    I don't think so. When the G-T relationship starts getting old, they start a plotline to get them to break up, and he gets voted off. That's a pretty sure sign that the only real plans they had for him was to hook up with Gwen. And now that that's said and done, they might not use him for anything ever again, unless they decide to flesh out his character a little more.
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    OrSoIThought

    [3]Feb 10, 2009
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    I would like to see them go into his character without Gwen a little more, though I do admit. He's just there to be "McHottie"
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    Brodoin15

    [4]Feb 10, 2009
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    I do think it's a little messed up that they made Gwen and Trent pretty much the main couple in TDI, only to break them up so early in TDA.
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    stalemate666

    [5]Feb 10, 2009
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    It's kind of impossible to have a story with Trent that doesn't revolved around Gwen when he's obsessed with her
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    SqueakyYugi

    [7]Feb 10, 2009
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    Irfantastic wrote:

    Is it just me, or are the storylines with Trent revolve around Gwen somehow? Almost everyone except Who Can You Trust and BOD.

    We haven't seen Trent so much actually competing to win, he just competes for Gwen's feelings, and that's all he did in Total Drama Action. At least with all the other couples we've seen the individually and have gotten to know them outside their love lives (i.e. Duncan and Gwen)

    So does Trent have a bigger role besides being with Gwen ?

    Good observation. You'll find that several characters become flat as the series grinds on, and that's usually a sign that they're going to be kicked off soon. Now DJ, Justin, Beth, Haeather and Harold all have plots a-brewin' and unresolved conflits, that will force them to stay on TDA until the resolution. A sort of plotline immortality, if you will. Now that Trent's storyline has nowhere left to go... Buh-bye!

    Let's look at the four major couples from last season: GwenxTrent, LindsayxTyler, DuncanxCourtney, and GoeffxBridgette.

    In the first few episodes, Trent left Gwen buried under the beach, Courtney hated Duncan's guts, Geoff gave Bridgette a heart-shaped ashtray, and Lindsay and Tyler made out a lot. You can tell which couple is going to get split up first; it's the one whose story is flatter than Heather's chest (Leshawna gave me that analogy.)

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    Skyancez

    [8]Feb 10, 2009
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    No. That's why he's such a dull and uninteresting character.

    I'm even thinking that he's probrably the show's most useless character right now.

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    OrSoIThought

    [9]Feb 12, 2009
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    Yes, but you must admit, resolving your character conflict is akin to character going buh-bye on this show. Darn...means Duncan isn't safe....unless they're waiting to bring Courtney back on. Kind of pointless to do that if he isn't there.
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    stalemate666

    [10]Feb 12, 2009
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    OrSoIThought wrote:
    Yes, but you must admit, resolving your character conflict is akin to character going buh-bye on this show. Darn...means Duncan isn't safe....unless they're waiting to bring Courtney back on. Kind of pointless to do that if he isn't there.

    not really Izzy's conflict with Owen wasn't resolved when she got kicked off
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    LordGrievous

    [11]Feb 12, 2009
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    stalemate666 wrote:
    OrSoIThought wrote:
    Yes, but you must admit, resolving your character conflict is akin to character going buh-bye on this show. Darn...means Duncan isn't safe....unless they're waiting to bring Courtney back on. Kind of pointless to do that if he isn't there.

    not really Izzy's conflict with Owen wasn't resolved when she got kicked off


    Hopefully she'll come back like she did in TDI.
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    TBMSFriday

    [12]Feb 13, 2009
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    I gotta say...no. You can kinda tell, like the main thing with him in TDI was getting a girl to like him, that happned, and he got voted off. In TDA he gets dumped, then voted off....hmmm... It stinks, I kinda liked Trent....sorta. He's not as cool as Duncan though...
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    Irfantastic

    [13]Feb 13, 2009
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    At least with Duncan it wasn't surrouned by Courtney, we got to know him after she got voted off, and we got to know her besides being with Duncan in like the first five episodes
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    Kingcool7789

    [14]Feb 15, 2009
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    Irfantastic wrote:
    At least with Duncan it wasn't surrouned by Courtney, we got to know him after she got voted off, and we got to know her besides being with Duncan in like the first five episodes
    Yeah your right we didn't get to know Trent. Like Duncan and Courtney I think. Trent was put in the show for Gwen because everything in TDI with him. Was centered around him and Gwen's relationship.
    Edited on 02/15/2009 9:26am
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    Brodoin15

    [15]Feb 15, 2009
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    Kingcool7789 wrote:
    Irfantastic wrote:
    At least with Duncan it wasn't surrouned by Courtney, we got to know him after she got voted off, and we got to know her besides being with Duncan in like the first five episodes
    Yeah your right we didn't get to know Trent. Like Duncan and Courtney I think. Trent was put in the show for Gwen because everything in TDI with him. Was centered around him and Gwen's relationship.

    They really should have done something for us to get to know Trent better.

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