I know it's been 4 days since my last post so I appreciate the patience from you guys. For those that are hanging in here, don't think it doesn't go unappreciated. Onto the next season. This one had idols play a big part. This season is:
CAGAYAN!
The latest survivor season that has been regarded as one of the best ever lands at #5 on my list. Now I know this may be recency bias for this season being so high but even the doubters gotta admit this was pretty damn good. The biggest positive from this season was the cast. I can't say enough good things. Jeff had an accurate comment in the reunion when he said this cast came to play more than any other. I would argue this was the best new cast in survivor history. It started out great with also one of the best, if not the best season premiere in survivor history. The 2 Brain tribal councils were unbelievable. David tries to be the big player early by targeting Garrett but massively fails doing that when he could've just tried not to stir the pot and vote out J'Tia. Then in part 2 of the premiere we see J'Tia in danger when she was seen as bossy and weak. Garrett fucks up by being upfront with her and Tasha so J'Tia dumps the rice and this results in GARRETT getting voted out since Kass and Tasha didn't trust him. Bryce has his dot dot dot comment and being arrogantly "beautiful", J'Tia looks even weaker getting voted out, Cliff gets blindsided by Trish and Tony then Lindsey quits right after that. To wrap up pre-merge, Alexis gets voted out because Spencer smartly realizes she'll be a bigger threat in the post-merge than Jeremiah.
The merge episode was chaotic as well. We see Sarah as the flip vote, Kass gets pissed at how entitled Sarah gets at that, Tony fails to flip Sarah but Trish sees Kass as the true possible flipper. This sets up for an unbelievable tribal council. Tony and LJ both play their idols on each other thinking one of them will definitely be the target. The target ends up being Jefra with her being in tears when she thinks she's going home. But everybody is shocked when the table turns as Sarah in one of the most karma-filled votes in survivor history to send her packing. We think there will be a simple pagonging once Kass doesn't flip back to save Morgan. Then Tony decides to blindside LJ. After that he finds the special idol and then a regular idol that production tried to throw to Spencer in the auction but Tony had none of that. Spencer manages to buy more time by using Jefra's words against her to turn Tony on her. Once Tasha leaves, we see a surprising vote that we thought would cost Tony the game with Trish going. Then one of my favorite family visits takes place in the final 4. Spencer's sister was very memorable. I also loved the timing of this because this is a big reward for making it that far and a nice momentum swing. Then in the final 3, we see one of the dumbest moves in survivor history take place with Woo picking Tony over Kass for final 2. Woo could've won the season and despite having 2 idols, Tony could've fallen in 3rd place. But instead, we see 2 memorable jury speeches from Trish and Spencer and Tony goes onto win 8-1.
I also loved Tony's edit from this season. To me he had the best winner's edit in the history of the show. It completely fooled me because I thought he was set up to have a big downfall all season. The edit really showed a lot of Tony's negative gameplay, more than past winners. He was also one of the more paranoid players too and this was built in his character but yet he still won.
The one negative thing about this season was the circumstances of the special idol. I didn't like that Tony was the only one that knew what the special idol could do and when it could be used until. It gave him a great advantage in the 4 tribal councils he had it and in the final 4 when he used these advantages to basically give himself immunity to the final 3. This idol is something that failed at Cook Islands and I question whether it should've been brought back here.
Stay tuned for #4! Hint- this season had one of the most famous alliances in survivor history
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
6. Marquesas
5. Cagayan
Amazon
Pearl Islands
Micronesia
Heroes vs. Villains
Also they didn't intend to have the idol found, and the fact that you just said that you think production would rig survivor for spencer really upsets me because I tight you respected the game more
Dinosauro27 I'm talking about the auction idol. I thought it was pretty clear that production wanted Spencer to get that idol but Tony blocked it and surprised everybody by holding his money too. I'm not the only die-hard fan that feels that way as I remember a lot of comments saying the same at the time. I wouldn't call it rigging, I'd call it throwing a bone.
Um no because they would not have the rock thing if they weren't expecting tony to do that. It was definitely not leaned toward spencer especially because they could have made spencer out to e the most rotten troll on the planet earth editing happens post season
