predictable boots-
here i'll say why i knew who was going home 20 minutes before tribal:
katrina and simone boots were obvious because they both got nothing in episode 1 compared to the other person in debates to go home got a lot. patrick boot was obvious because they wouldn't build up a goat this much. alan’s boot was obvious because he got ignored for 2 episodes compared to ashley and joe who got screen time in both episodes. roark’s boot was obvious because they built up chrissy so much and roark so little that they wouldn't keep roark over chrissy. the ali boot was actually really good and i really thought jp would go. the jessica, desi, cole, and joe boots were obvious due to the healer almost pagonging. as for the boot that fell in between, the jp boot, was fairly decent. then with the lauren boot we knew ben had the idol which he was gonna play no matter what. then WE GET THE SAME DAMN EPISODE 3 TIMES ON REPEAT AND AFTER THE FIRST TIME IT IS NOT INTERESTING (not that it was that shocking the first time).
the cast-
here i'll go over why each and every person should not have been cast:
we don't get to know katrina or simone. patrick was a childish idiot who had no business being on the island. alan was cool but his life in the game was cut short. we didn't get to know roark (but judging on how she handled the chrissy situation i can only assume she was an idiot). ali and jessica were cool. didn't get to know desi. cole was THE BIGGEST F*CKING IDIOT IN SURVIVOR HISTORY WHO SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN CAST AND ALONG WITH JOE SCREWED THE ENTIRE HEALERS TRIBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jp was boring. joe was a wannabe tony (seriously, do what you have to do to win, don't steal from others playbook especially if it doesn't help you. the one good thing joe does is make me appreciate tony). lauren didn't really do much of anything and the one thing she did do, give half her idol to dr mike was so stupid(granted she didn't have to do much since she was in control the whole time so i'll give her the benefit of the doubt. however she was still really boring). dr mike was an idiot who thought he was making an impact but really he wasn't. devon: see lauren. ryan was a cocky arrogant asshole who thought what he did was better than what anybody else did (example: after the final 7 tribal council where ben negates all the votes ryan says "that was almost as good as my idol play"). chrissy: see ryan. i liked ben
editing:
here i'll go over why the editing episode by episode was abysmal:
episode 1: we don't get to know katrina at all who was a potentially fun player. episode 2: since we don't get to know simone in episode and once her name comes up we know she's going home. episode 3: we spend way to much time on patrick and cole being idiots then interesting gameplay (and how does alan get ignored for 3 episodes?). episode 4: way to much time is spent building up an irrelevant advantage (mainly by cole being an idiot) than a potentially fun tribal. episode 5: since chrissy was built up so much and roark so little no way is chrissy gonna go home over roark. episode 6: actually a really well edited episode. if there's one thing they did right this season it's ali. episode 7: joe and cole are built up 2 much as both are complete idiots. and they make it painfully obvious that the non-healers are voting jessica and the healers are using the idol on joe. episode 8: again with giving joe and cole to much screen time and not the interesting players (seriously, how hard would it have been to warrant at least half of coles screen time to desi?). episode 9: to much time spent on idol found immediately. episode 10: since jp doesn't get anything i do not care when he goes home and this episode is irrelevant. episode 11: meh. episode 12: to much time is spent on the reward "challenge" and the editors straight up lie to us by saying chrissy and ryan would vote with ben (if you want to make this episode better then how about say everyone's voting for ben but he has the idol and he's gonna use it and leave us in the dark about who ben votes for. or don't tell us that ben had the idol for shock value when he plays it). episode 13: why not tell us rather or not ben had the idol here when he plays it before the vote (how hard would it have been to do that for the final 7 or 5 episodes?). finale: i feel very looked down upon by the the editors because actually thought we were stupid enough not to think devon was gonna vote for dr mike. and when that's the most interesting thing you have it's pretty sad. the rest wasn't edited great by any means but it wasn't edited bad either.
the twists:
here i'll briefly go over why each and every twist sucked
twist 1: a super idol is the stupidest twist ever. so what a great idea to bring it back. twist 2: the vote block was irrelevant. twist 3: you've had an extra/steal a vote before. and every time you had it it failed except in game changers. so why bring it back here when you know it's just a curse for the person who wins it. twist 4: this is the opposite of an advantage for who ever wins it. fire is only cool because it is rare. and also this made it seem like they rigged it for ben to win. i would expect that from a low quality show like big brother but survivor?
Extra thoughts:
Here i’ll just say i’ll the things i didn't get to say before
If you’re wondering my favorite episode of the season it’s no contest the ali episode (episode 6). Before i choose a least favorite but i will give this season 1 thing, it is consistent. Every episode with a few exceptions is the same level of terrible. That made this a very hard choice for the very worst. Though if i had to just choose one it would probably be the cole episode (episode 9). I would like to see ali, jessica and ben again. If i had to choose a fourth person i’d probably do alan but not count on it. Over all i do think that this is a bottom 5 season but probably not the very worst. #casting#survivor
