Survivor: Palau- A Look Back

Introduction

 

    For my birthday, my kind sister gave me this season of Survivor and now I am blogging about it and what has happened during it. Here's a look back at tenth season of Survivor. It is one of the more interesting seasons that has ever happened. This look back will include what contestants I think should come back for future seasons who haven't already. This season has a deceased contestant Jennifer Lyon, who placed fourth in the game. One wonders if they will have a special commemorating her time on Survivor. So Survivor: Palau was notable for being the first season with twenty contestants, the only season without a merge, the first tribe of one, the unofficial introduction of Exile Island, the only season where one tribe won every immunity challenge, and a season where two contestants never even got a chance to play the game. But I'll get to all that later, as the blog progresses. For now, I'll focus on who I'd want back in the future who isn't dead and hasn't already played the game again. One wonders if they'd allow Janu back because she quit the game. It was a strategic move, so maybe they would. Here is information I have written as I come up with it.

 

Palau Episode 1- This Has Never Happened Before!

 

    The season premiere started with the division of players into two tribes by the players themselves. It started with twenty players, but two of them never got a chance to play the game. There were no official divisions on the first day, but two people, Jolanda (the woman) and Ian (the man) who won a challenge got to divide the two tribes that would become Ulong and Koror. Ulong would become the worst known tribe in Survivor history. Three people would leave the game. Two by not being chosen by either tribe member and one by being voted out at the end of the episode. Jonathan feels unappreciated and tries to do whatever he can to make it further. Wanda acted like a crazy person. Crazy is good so I'd have say there's a 90% chance that she'd make a great player. I'm pretty sure that she was an English teacher, so that would explain her craziness. Jonathan never made much of an impact on the game so I'd say there's a 50% chance that he'd make a great player. Neither member would be chosen, but I'd like them both back for a future season.

 

Jolanda would soon fall victim to the Survivor leader curse. No one likes leadership in the game of Survivor, so they get voted out of the game. The only known exception was in Survivor: Samoa where the leadership was a big part of the first half of the game. We don't know what happened most of the first day of official tribe divisions where they lived at one beach for the moment. Koror did better at the challenge by just picking fire. Ulong stopped and brought too much which is how they ended up losing the challenge and sending someone to tribal council. There was no sense of leadership in the Ulong tribe, so, naturally, they immediately voted out who chose them. The Koror tribe is more of a risk-taking tribe and they went to a new tribe beach. They lost the fire making materials at first. While Jolanda, Bobby Jon, and Ibrehem would vote for Angie, the rest of the tribe would vote out Jolanda. She seems like another Survivor stereotype, the black woman with attitude. There was no leader and since she proved a rather ineffective one, she was voted out. I'd say it's a 25% chance that she would make a better player the second time around. I think that she went on to be an alderman, although reality stars and politicians shouldn't coexist. I mean, why would we want such stupidity associated with reality stars? (That's a joke, by the way). But I don't know what's right for her. If she can prove a better leader, then she should play again. If not, then she was the first out for a good reason.

 

Palau Episode 2- Love is in the Air, Rats are Everywhere

 

    The tribes were still getting used to their horrible conditions in the game. Koror was thinking that they were doing worse in the game with the new beach that they went to. At the reward challenge, Ulong actually did well and won. They got flint in the game. Angie was helping the tribe much better than before. She wanted to prove herself as a part of this team. Ashlee proved weak to the other members of Ulong. She never made that much of an influence in the game. Ibrehem would vote for Kim and Ashlee would vote for Jeff. Everyone else would vote Ashlee out of the game. Since she never made much of an influence in the game, she might be a good choice to bring back. I'd say there's about a 50% chance that she'd make a good player the second time around.