Rites of Passage Analysis

Mistakenly know by many as fallen comrades, the rites of passage is something seen in the finale of each season until Redemption Island entered the game. It is when we remember the contestants from earlier in the season who were all eliminated before the finale (plus, usually there’s one from the finale that’s included to). Some like it and some don’t. I, personally, probably just have mixed feelings about it. Sometimes it works better than other situations. When one group of contestants was successful at Pagonging another tribe, the thing becomes kind of lame since the people talking don’t know much about the people they are talking about. It’s rumored that the rites of passage will not appear in future Survivor seasons. Whether that will end up being true or not is unknown. But I will offer an in-depth analysis of the rites of passage on Survivor. I will go over the good and the bad as I discuss my own personal thoughts on this part of Survivor.

The good: It’s a good way of remembering all the contestants from the season. One may not be able to remember much about all the contestants from this show, but the rites of passage is a good way of recapping who those people were. Plus, it serves as a great build-up to the final immunity challenge. It’s the type of thing that you’d want to be in the finale of a season and expect to be there.

The bad: It’s time consuming. If contestants at the rites of passage don’t know the ones out of the game that well, then it just seems like a waste of time. The type of players in the finale make or break this type of thing. For instance, you don’t want someone like Russell Hantz there who doesn’t say anything about these people that he beat.

More of my thoughts: I honestly don’t know what to say about it. Some seasons it works better than others. I don’t think that we’ll lose anything by it never being featured again. But, it will also seem like something is missing without it being there. It’s hard to tell what to really think about it. If it never appears again, it will have been a good run, although it is over now. So I’m not sure what all I had to say about it, but here this post is anyways. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.