u/Charming-Platypus210

u/YourSoBye

Tess and Ashley were the PERFECT Final 2 pair, but ONC stupidly chose not to go with this decision even though Tess and Ashley are beautiful angels and a great Final 2! 😭🥺♥️ They took Tess and Ashley away from us. 🥺💔 But they didn't make that decision because they weren't "interesting enough", it was because Tess and Ashley are nice women who actually deserve the money. But ONC not only dislikes poor contestants, but they REALLY dislike kind, moral people. They could have made a refreshing, entertaining storyline with Tess and Ashley, but they didn't because that, for some reason, was going to take "too much work".

And ever since the day they foolishly switched the boot order, and that's if Tess and Ashley were even going to be the Final 2 to begin with! (I'm skeptical because of ONC's favoritism issues), ONC has written back to back seasons with TERRIBLE "winners" and a general storyline that several people appear to dislike. I think it's very concerning that there are so many people who are actively wanting to make a rewrite of the seasons when the seasons aren't even halfway finished. That kind of tells you that ONC is doing something pretty wrong!

Tess and Ashley were the perfect characters to make the Final 2 in All Stars! They each were going to emotionally overcome their individual hardships and their worst nightmares, and they were going to win the money and be comfortable for the rest of their lives!

But what did ONC do? They gave us an unappetizing, shameful ending where they glaze and give plot armor to a poorly written, morally disgusting beast! Their thought process apparently is: "Why reward 2 hard working women who actually need the money, when we can glaze our Writers' Pet Riya, and give Riya the money without making her struggle or apologize?" 🤬🤬🤬 People think they didn't have any bad intentions with the All Stars ending, but they absolutely did.

This is a pattern now! They aren't making these boot orders by mistake! 🥺 Their favoritism is VERY clear: the Riya clone makes it to the Final 2 or Final 3 EVERY season! Whether or not you think this was a "last minute change", they still did it! They still CHOOSE to go out of their way to villain glaze their most unpalatable characters! 😒

And then last season, Plotastasia rode through the whole game without getting voted out and almost made the Final 2. As a dedicated student of the series, who admittedly has his own preferences for the "nice, kind, caring female therapist" characters.... I'd like to know if ANYONE has ANY reason to tell me why I shouldn't expect Arastasia to make it to the Final 3 this season with Tom and Sam/Spencer???

Like, why should people even keep their hopes up when we know what ONC is going to do? (which is to make the same choices they've always made)? They've never written a single season of this show where their "girlboss villain" character doesn't make it to the Finale, and I don't have any reason to believe they're going to change their ways this season. People are going to be lenient to ONC and say "give them a chance" but every season they make the same mistakes they always make. The Riya clone makes the Final 3, and people talk for months on end how ONC "did their best" even after they showed RIDICULOUS favoritism to that same character type, but nobody wants to try to look underneath the surface and ask themselves why it's the same result for every season!

I recognize the very real issue that people are grappling with regarding Gabby's character. Believe me, I understand. But Gabby doesn't have a prayer to win. She may be an irritating, hypocritical jackass for 5 more episodes.... but ONC will never allow her to WIN the season! However, Arastasia is for "some reason" still in this season. And if what you're telling me is that ONC would never even THINK about repeating the same mistakes they made in DC3, and DC4.... then you are MISTAKEN! 😕

My most loyal disagreeing colleagues have kept to the same story: Which is them telling me that my dream of a Tess & Ashley Final 2 is "terrible and really boring". But I'd like to ask everyone else in this subreddit:

Is a TESS and ASHLEY Final 2 REALLY a terrible outcome compared to having to watch Riya make the Final 3 EVERY season instead of the other characters??? People kept bickering with each other for WEEKS after DCAS ended, and I'll fully admit that I was one of those bickering people! But all of my criticisms and beliefs about how unfairly both Tess and Ashley had been shortchanged were legitimately reasonable!