Favorite season of Survivor. LEAST favorite season finale. Wow. First Jeff f*cks up by spoiling the fire making challenge. Then the final tribal council was like a free for all, fukking jurors talked more than the finalists. And they wouldn't even let all three finalists answer the question asked before jumping in with a different question or comment. Absolutely horrible.
I agree, it really felt like everyone wanted to give their own "snake vs rat" moment where they swung the jury for their preferred winner.
Never been a big Aubry fan, but she’s been through a lot since her debut and it’s nice that she’s finally able to let go of the baggage.
Can’t say I’m excited for the next “new era” to lean even harder into advantages/twists.
Overall a fantastic season. I personally wouldn't have voted for Aubry but she was deserving.
One of the main drawbacks from bringing back a cast full of returning players from a show as long running as Survivor is is that these people all know each other and it's really hard to ignore that fact when you see them award the 2 million dollars to someone who was certainly deserving, but maybe not the most deserving.
Overall I really enjoyed this season. We got to see Cirie work her magic, Ozzie being Ozzie (both good and bad), some good blindsides (which is really hard when everyone has played before), and very little poor gameplay. I personally would have given the win to Jonathan for basically running the game post merge but in fairness to Aubrey she wasn't a coattail rider. She just didn't have much impact on the game until her final 4 win.
I think Cirie was my favorite player to watch in this game but I don't think anyone viewed her as an actual threat to win because in these new rules, if you can't make fire or win immunity, you're ******. Riz had better spend the next two years or however long before they bring him back working on building fires.
I really wish Kyle hadn't gotten hurt, it would have been really fun watching him work with or against Cirie and Devens.
Dee and Kamilla played well but the luck part of Survivor bit them.
Christian really needs to tone down the paranoia if he plays again. Devens will need to tone down the chaos. It's almost like he gets bored out there. I don't really need to see Joe on Survivor again. He seems like a really great guy and the decency he showed to Eva in season 48 and Riz last night demonstrates that. The relationship between him and Eva is one of my all time Survivor highlights. He's just one of those players who plays a great game to make final three but a terrible game to win. Don't know that that type of player needs a third season.
As for next season, my hope is that while "all the twists that have ever happened on the show" are available, they only pick one or two each season to use. There were way too many twists this season but the cast was strong enough to overcome that. You can't count on that happening with an all new cast.
It's not going to happen, but it would be nice for one of these upcoming seasons to do an "old rules" gimmick where they have two tribes, no hidden idols, and no tribe swaps.
