Well... That threw a wrench in my plan. I honestly did NOT see the winner coming from a mile away, and spent most of my time watching the season and wishing she'd get voted out, but honey she played the game well.
First off, Amazon split men and women into two different tribes based on sex. Kinda cool. Also kinda weird. Watching the women and men compare who had what like a dick measuring contest was funny as hell. Men had shelter. Women had fish. It was funny. But... I'm just not sure why they voted the way they did. Both tribes were so fueled by testosterone or jealousy that they wound up taking out people who were legitimately working hard from both tribes, while leaving people they took issues with.
Alliances between young and old almost immediately put the women's tribe into disarray, and yet at first they kept winning challenges and sent the men into a depression spiral which was hilarious. SOME of them... were too horny. And dramatic. On both sides. I honestly took major issue with Shawna and Jenna from day 1. They were lazy and just overall pathetic, begging to leave at some points and making an alliance based on age and beauty.
As of merge, I started to see another side to it. Rob was a mastermind and a manipulator before and after the merge. Matthew was cunning and more intelligent than he let on, which helped him coast by. And Jenna jumped from alliance to alliance, making all kinds of allies (and enemies) on the Jury.
In the end, those three TOTALLY deserved to be in the finale. When Jenna took out Rob, despite their deal and her own statements of taking the most deserving, and then later revealed it was a ploy to get her more votes against Matthew, she showed how cunning and manipulative she could be. Total snake. Total diva. Totally deserved what happened. (Even though I hated her for taking out Christy) A side note, despite her betrayal of Rob, we saw her selflessness when she gave her Immunity to Heidi, her best friend and closest ally in the game. Really amazing of her.
And then Jenna got 6/7 jury votes to win. Holy. Freaking. Heck. I loved that for her. In the end, I still rank Tina ahead of her, just because Jenna was lazy, wanted to give up several times, and generally acted like a spoiled child (WHICH she did admit at the reunion). Still, she's close to the top of my favs, and has beaten Brian for the #2 spot.
As for the area, the season in general, I have to say it did better than most. The theme was amazing, though the guys tribe was a bit too monotone for my liking casting wise. The area was dangerous. The weather was not as insane as Australian Outback, but was still pretty wild. Totally happy with this season. Recommend watching it 10/10.
Seasons:
=== Best ===
Australian Outback (S2)
Borneo (S1)
The Amazon (S6)
Marquesas (S4)
Thailand (S5)
Africa (S3)
=== Worst ===
Winners:
=== Best ===
Tina Wesson (S2)
Jenna Morasca (S6)
Brian Heidik (S5)
Richard Hatch (S1)
Vecepia Towery (S4)
Ethan Zohn (S3)
=== Worst ===
A interesting behind the scenes tidbit is that Jenna was actually loved by most of the cast and that her being a bitch was basically edited in in order to make her more unlikable. production really did drag her :(
Christian37 oh! Yeah i am lol i started watching survivor on Tony Vlachos’ Win, so I still have a ways to go before i know what is going on ahead of time.
Now I will admit, I knew Vecepia was going to win ahead of time because I’ve seen a list of winners before and.... that’s a hard name to forget. Then I saw Sandra on the premiere of 7 (the one I’m currently watching) and I know she’s probably the winner because she’s an icon who for sure has two wins under her belt
