- Awesome Music: Most of the lyrics are pretty good. Highlights include Owen and Noah's musical duet in Niagara Falls, Izzy's shipping song (which doubles as a Funny Moment), the love song in the finale, and the Triumphant Reprise of "Come Fly with Us" in the epilogue.
- Crack Pairing: Cody/Courtney, and Sierra/Noah.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Alien Cody became a big one.
- Growing the Beard: The fic starts out solidly for a response fic to the DxG kiss scene, but only after delving further into the emotional complexities of the plot did the story start to really emerge as a product of its own.
- Heartwarming Moments:
- Most definitely the finale in Chapter 10, with the romantic lead-up and Ezekiel's victory.
- Trent and Bridgette's serious talks with Gwen and Duncan respectively, which really shine a light on all four characters.
- Jerkass Woobie: Duncan and Gwen, thanks to Character Development.
- Memetic Mutation: "HAND OVER THE BRA OR DIE TEMPTRESS!"
- Moment of Awesome:
- Duncan's No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of Alejandro and his speech are immensely gratifying as a representation of Duncan's redemption and as Alejandro's "punishment" for everything he has done in World Tour (both canonically and in the fic).
- Courtney using a loophole in Chris' rules that allows Ezekiel to become the winner of the season.
- Moral Event Horizon: Alejandro crosses this in the final chapter when he tries to kill Duncan with his own pocket knife and subverts My God, What Have I Done? when he stabs Duncan only to then reject the feelings of shock and guilt from going too far.
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