I apologize for the long delay guys. Tengaged was down and it's getting harder to find free time to write the rest of these. For those of you patient enough to keep following along I appreciate the support. The next season had one of the great winner journies to victory in survivor history. This season is:
VANUATU!
Vanuatu is really a season to be marveled at. It's not perfect but man does it shine with their positives. Lets start with the first episode. The show goes into the island culture right away by making the players participate in an island ritual that heavily favored the men. This set up the tribe division of men vs. women. The men have a huge lead in the first challenge until Chris goes on the balance beam. He fails tremendously and costs the guys the win. In some danger of going home, Chris decides to go in the Fat Five to save himself and blindside Brooke. If that episode didn't set the tone for the season than not many premieres have. We of course saw the rare swing vote go home in Dolly. I enjoyed seeing that only because we don't see a lot of swing voters get punished for overplaying their card right away like Dolly. Then we had an entertaining tribe swap. Travis stupidly tries to give a secret sign to Chris during an immunity challlenge that his whole tribe sees, Lisa unintentionally says the wrong thing to Ami and Twila plays Sarge hard to get rid of John K. Not to mention Julie flirts her way in with Sarge by sitting between his legs. Then we see Twila pull a major backstab of Sarge by flipping back to the girls with Julie.
Then we see an unbelievable finish to this season. Chris is the last man standing. He has his wife visit and compete in a challenge with him that he says if he loses, he's going home. Well he goes on to lose the challenge thinking he's fucked. Then we see the collapse of the women. Leigh Ann has pitty for Chris to keep him over Eliza, Twila realizes she's on the bottom of the alliance, snaps and gives Chris an opportunity and Chris gets Eliza to flip and blindside the hidden brains of the game Leigh Ann. Then we see Ami go. To take a moment for her, she was probably the best female villain survivor had since Jerri or perhaps better. Now we see Chris go into the position of power as the swing vote between Eliza/Julie and Twila/Scout. He backstabs the young girls (Eliza twice) and beats the older women in final immunity to make final tribal council. What we see next is the best and most entertaining bullshit speech in survivor history. He pretends to feel horrible about betraying Eliza and Julie when meanwhile, he could care less. And everybody bought it! I absolutely loved seeing a true master of the game win in the fashion and drama Chris did. His comeback really put the cherry on top of this season to make it what it was in its legacy. Who knows how badly this season could've gone if Leigh Ann didn't have pitty.
The negative in this season is that I feel like a lot of things were misinterpreted. The edit made Chris seem to be in big trouble when he was never in real danger and made Ami look like the head honcho among the women when it was really Leigh Ann from what I hear. The cast also wasn't the deepest, especially for a season this high. But luckily, most of the better characters/players stayed in the game long-term.
Overall I thought this season left one big thing to be remembered and that was the story of Chris' victory. The thing is there aren't as much supporting moments to put it higher on the list.
Stay tuned for #6! Hint- a location with a reputation
28. Nicaragua
27. Redemption Island
26. South Pacific
25. One World
24. Thailand
23. Caramoan
22. All Stars
21. China
20. Cook Islands
19. Blood vs. Water
18. Palau
17. Gabon
16. Borneo
15. Australian Outback
14. Africa
13. Fiji
12. Tocantins
11. Samoa
10. Guatemala
9. Philippines
8. Exile Island
7. Vanuatu
Marquesas
Amazon
Pearl Islands
Micronesia
Heroes vs. Villains
Cagayan
PI or Cagayan or Hvv because three times at least. And I get Cagayan was good, but you but Bvw so far down to say you aren't all recently bias yet Cagayan is top six when it really isn't
