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Survivor Season Ranking #25

Oct 19, 2013 by Yerg
#25- Caramoan (26): I debated between this and some of the next few seasons on the list for second to list, but I realized, that this is the season, I most passionately dislike. Compared to RI, it most certainly has it's redeeming factors, but while RI is just a complete fuckup, this season showcases EVERY SINGLE THING that's wrong with Modern Survivor. The editing is at its worst this season, in multiple ways which include but are not limited to: a. not well distributed air time, b. barely any character development or story lines at all c. the only story lines are contrived and forced or d. so badly edited that you wonder how people care about them.
Not only this, but it also has returnees, way too much talking about vote splitting, over the top camera hogs, a Hantz and is loved/overhyped by Jeff Probst.
The pre-merge, I think we can all agree was horrible, with the airtime being pretty much completely split between Fillup Shepard, Brandon and Shamar. (Hell even Cochran had a low-key edit at this point) and the post swap just being painfully boring, the only redeeming part of it is the fans (specifically Sherri and Laura) but Laura goes out 4th and Sherri is inv for pretty much the whole post-merge. So while we all hated the pre-merge, the post-merge was praised by quite a few people (and believe or not, I get that), for it's 'exciting blindsides' or whatever, but the post-merge forced a horrendous, contrived storyline with Cochran (Who I actually like but editing made it so obvious he was going to win and made him completely unlikable) and just fucking weird editing. I mean there was quite a few blindsides, but why the hell am I supposed to care that Brenda, who was barely present in the season, was voted off? Because sad music was played?
Oh my god, Andrea got voted off with an idol in her pocket, so exciting, except it's already happened, and Andrea got no development outside of the game.  The three amigos vote, to me at least, was incredibly overhyped as a move and a moment, barely mattered in the long run seeing as the 'three amigos' all went out with a whimper, and was completely unsatisfying.
The only legit character arc this season, other than Cochran's disney plot, was Dawn. I like Dawn a LOT, and her moral struggles/heel turn into a villain this season were the only part that I kept watching, but editing gave a very simple portrait of her as a middle aged woman who cries and lies a lot, and again why am I supposed to care about Brenda? Not to say there aren't people I like this season, but they're all screwed over by the shit editing and decisions much like all of Caramoan.
I stand by my idea that Survivor is a show about people, there are multiple ways you can watch it, whether for the survival aspect (lol @that idea in post Guatemala survivor), the strategy, or the drama and fights, but the thing that should connect all of them, is the people in the game, and when for the whole season they're portrayed as nothing but robots playing a game, ott characters or not even shown, how can you care about them?
It's not fun watching a computer play chess.

~highlight~ FTC I guess? It was pretty fun.

Cast Ranking:
20th: Phillip Sheppard (Bottom two seasons in my ranking have this guy on them, and in dead last place. Coincidence?)
19th: Brandon Hantz (Bottom two seasons in my ranking have a Hantz in the bottom four. Coincidence?)
18th: Shamar Thomas
17th: John Cochran :( (Like him irl, but by default, he kind of has to go here)
16th: Hope Driskill
15th: Allie Pohevitz (Post-show Alli love forever < 3)
14th: Julia Landauer
13th: Matt Bischoff
12th: Francesca Hogi
11th: Michael Snow (If only on a different season...)
10th: Reynold Toepfer
  9th: Erik Reichenbach (Should've gotten a sympathetic edit tbh...)
  8th: Brenda Lowe (NO BUILD UP TO HER STORYLINE OTHER THAN ONE. FUCKING. SCENE)
  7th: Sherri Bietham
  6th: Corinne Kaplin
  5th: Malcolm Freberg (I'm over him by now, but I can't deny I enjoyed him on the season, maybe some philippines bias)
  4th: Andrea Boehlke
  3rd: Laura Alexander
  2nd: Dawn Meehan
  1st: Eddie Fox (Dogbar 5ever)
That top 4 are all pretty close, and they switch pretty constantly, so don't go around saying Eddie's my definitive favorite.
None of these would probably in my top 100, but maybe some of the top four, would be close. (It really has an okay cast, but ugh editing)

Thanks for all the people who read last blog, I expect a few people to disagree with this one. #Survivor jackyboy

Comments

tag me :)
Sent by cjuddy,Oct 19, 2013
Tag me please
Sent by MrPokeguy9,Oct 19, 2013
I love Malcolm so I'm sad he's #5 even.

But I love your ranks so far. I'd maybe put South Pacific before Caramoan though, because watching SP was uncomfortable for me ._.
Sent by 01Gohan,Oct 19, 2013
tag me!

RI should be be last because it's predictable but Caramoan is acceptable since I hated 90% of the players and the 10% were either invisible or left early.
Sent by Kantus,Oct 19, 2013
Lmao I'm so dumb I didn't see the last blog. Keep going :)
Sent by Kantus,Oct 19, 2013
01Gohan I'm actually a pretty big Malcolm fan too, but he was way better in Philippines when he wasn't just a gambot.
Kantus RI was last :)
Sent by Yerg,Oct 19, 2013
oh lol
Sent by Yerg,Oct 19, 2013
I agree. The editing of this season is horrendous
Sent by Alyxandra,Oct 19, 2013
I don't think he was just a gamebot in Caramoan, I just think it was the way he was edited. Like the only thing he was ever doing was finding idols or talking about idols. If he had a more rounded edit like he did in the Philippines he would've been just as likeable :)
Sent by BlueJays96,Oct 19, 2013
This season has horrible winner ,and Philip has a lot of screen time which I hate,I hate Shamar and Brendon,and I was disappointed to see Francesca go first again
Sent by Kikorus,Oct 19, 2013
tag me too :)
Sent by Kikorus,Oct 19, 2013
tag me plz
Sent by _JB_,Oct 19, 2013
BlueJays96 that's what I meant, I doubt someone is actually all game 24/7.
Sent by Yerg,Oct 19, 2013
This analysis is spot on :) however I don't think it deserves 25th

Also I think Phillip doesn't deserve his hate and Cochran is a good player put in 2 seasons where he couldn't make moves.
Sent by Koin,Oct 19, 2013
Tag me.
Sent by DatBlackGuy,Oct 20, 2013
yerg I agree that this wasn't a very good season, but at least it's better than Thailand, Fiji, One World, and Nicaragua.
Sent by masterchef,Oct 20, 2013
masterchef wait until the write ups!
Sent by Yerg,Oct 20, 2013
yerg tag me

I agree with you a lot except Dawn. I think the edits were awful and I hated everyone in this season. I feel some of these should just come back for a better season cuz I was over all of them. The first time in survivor history I didn't want the finale.
Sent by Arthurking,Oct 20, 2013

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