Kay. Let's start off with me saying that this was a fucking roller coaster which literally blew its way into the number 1 spot for me hands down! I loved this season so much and I cannot stress how entertaining it was! By comparison, most of the seasons we've watched since could not even hold a fucking candle to this group.
All-Stars started off with an obvious rift between past winners and those who hadn't won the money, and they had NO QUALMS about saying they wanted to vote out past winners for that one simple reason. "They got the money already." I fucking hated Jenna (not Amazon) for starting the Game like that, especially since it sent MY FUCKING GODESS TINA WESSON out with the first damn vote.
The whole pre-merge seemed like one giant shit-fest on past winners, but there were a lot of heartfelt moments too. Rudy being voted out over his health was a huge kick in the crotch. Jenna quitting the game for her mother's sake only to lose her like two weeks later.
I can say the most entertaining aspect was the constant bickering between some people. Jerri and Rupert. (though when he built the underground house for them for that challenge he lost points with me smh…). Jenna and the winners. Richard and Sue. It was crazy!!!
Then there was Richard Fucking Hatch. Not only did the man act like he was God's gift to CBS, he just acted like such an arrogant sob to everybody. When he literally BIT A MOTHER FING SHARK I was impressed. But I was NOT shocked that he left.
This, however, brings us to the biggest shit-fest on Survivor up to this point. Richard rubbing his naked genitals on Sue during a challenge. . . What? I was not shocked Sue took offense to it, but the fact she stayed quiet until the following day instead of just voicing her frustrations then and there I think led to her spiraling the way she did. She should've twisted his grapefruits until the man begged for mercy...
So after Sue left, it became the game of Rob. I mean up to this point Rob and Amber were OBVIOUSLY becoming a power couple. And the funny part was it started out as nothing more than a game maneuver from Amber, and yet they wound up ACTUALLY falling in love. Wow. <3
Then we had Lex and Kathy … TBH I get where Lex was coming from with the 'friendship' bit, however he LITERALLY turned on his allies just a few votes BEFORE Rob voted him and Kathy off, and the major issue I take with that did NOT end with the game portion, but CONTINUED into the Reunion because the two of them could NOT separate the game and the friendship, when LEX was the person who tried to manipulate Rob using it.
This was a poor showing of sportsmanship from both Lex and Kathy, and I think Lex's rankings just plummeted in my eyes and my whole damn family's when it happened. WHICH SAYS A LOT!!! My mom and dad LOATHE liars and backstabbers, which was a vast majority of Boston Rob's gameplay, but even THEY thought Lex and Kathy were in the wrong both in the Game, and in the Jury, and even on into the Reunion.
Shii Ann and Rupert were the only two of any real merit after that portion of the game, and both left under pretty plain circumstances, so I won't delve into that. The game was Rob's to win or lose, and it was kind of a boring post-merge besides the friendship drama.
I will say the Jury portion was the most bitter, most self-absorbed, most straight-up annoying segment I've seen in the whole time I've been watching this show. And I've seen some shitty FTC people... In the end, I was happy with Amber as a winner, but she doesn't take the top spot as Boston Rob rightfully deserved that position.
At the Reunion, Rupert winning that award kinda made up for some of the season's shittier moments, wiping even the sexual misconduct away like a soft gentle wave LOL
I do not remember much about the environment on this one, and in fact it seemed like the Tribes lived a bit more luxuriously than most of their previous castmates had. I do remember Rupert's shitty shack... that was so damn stupid... So the place did have bad storms and flooding so there was a very survivalist aspect to it that I honestly did enjoy a lot!
Seasons:
=== Best ===
All-Stars (S8)
Pearl Islands (S7)
Australian Outback (S2)
Borneo (S1)
The Amazon (S6)
Marquesas (S4)
Thailand (S5)
Africa (S3)
=== Worst ===
Winners:
=== Best ===
Tina Wesson (S2)
Sandra Diaz-Twine (S7)
Jenna Morasca (S6)
Amber Brkich (S8)
Brian Heidik (S5)
Richard Hatch (S1)
Vecepia Towery (S4)
Ethan Zohn (S3)
=== Worst ===
