Survivor Second Chance: On Those Not Chosen

When they announced that the second chance season was going to happen, we knew that there would be some people that would not be chosen. This blog post of mine will be about those contestants that did not win the vote and my general thoughts on them as well as why I think that they should probably return to play again at some point.

Thoughts on Teresa from Africa: Here’s an interesting tidbit: no member of the original Samburu tribe has returned for a future season. Chronologically, it is the first tribe to not have a returning player come from it. It’s a shame that Teresa wasn’t voted into the game or she could have been that player. Now she was a pot-stirrer and made Lex go crazy by casting a minority vote against him. I liked her which is why I voted for her. But she ultimately didn’t make it back in for that season. I do think, however, that she might return in some future season and I hope that she does.

Thoughts on Brad from Blood versus Water: Of all the potential returning players who could return to play the game again on Cambodia, he is the one who ranked lowest out of everyone on his original season. I imagine that it is possible that he returns to the game again and I do want him to return along with all the other players from Blood versus Water. (Well, all of them except the dead one and the quitter, since they can’t play again anyways.)

Thoughts on Max from Worlds Apart: I liked Max in a way. He’s kind of a lovable goof. He may not know how to play the game well, but he’s still fun to watch. He probably will have learned from his mistakes the first time to do better a second time. So please, have Max back.

Thoughts on Mike from Worlds Apart: Unlike all the other players who didn’t get enough votes to return to the game again, Mike did get enough. But, unlike all the other players, he actual one the first season he played on and was this discounted in the votes. You’d think that the producers of Survivor would have known that he would win and thus shouldn’t have put him on the list of potential people. Maybe they did that just so that Carolyn could be on the list. But we don’t know. I do think that he will return for a future season.

Thoughts on Shane from Panama: This is a crazy person that most people tend to enjoy. Sadly, not enough people voted for him to return to the game to play again. He has been cut from other seasons in the past. It’s a shame too. I say that he’s probably going to return at some point, hopefully. It’s unknown if he will, but I think that it’s bound to happen.

Thoughts on Jim from South Pacific: I can’t remember much about Jim. I know that he had an alliance with Ozzy and the most interesting thing that happened to him was edited out of the show in question. I’m not sure if he’ll return or not.

Thoughts on Carolyn from Worlds Apart: She was a great contender for the win, but didn’t get enough votes to win. She also failed to get enough votes to play the game again. I think that we’ll see here again as she made it all the way to second place.

Thoughts on Troyzan from One World: He may have been a bit of a crazy person when he played, but Troyzan was a very interesting contestant on his season. He’s been an alternate before who got cut from previous seasons. I hope that he returns in the future sometime.

Thoughts on Natalie from Redemption Island: I don’t really have much to say about this player. She was loyal to Rob to a fault. That fault, of course, was that she kept him in the game for far too long and he ended up winning. She might be on a future season, although I wouldn’t care if she never reappeared on Survivor again.

Thoughts on Sabrina from One World: It’s possible that my love of this contestant is only due to the type of person that she is on facebook. Outside of that, she’s still a wonderful player whose only failure was the love of the person who ended up winning and the lack of a bitter jury. Let’s face it, any of the final three of One World could have won, but they faced too much great competition in each other, that it was a blowout for the one who made the most moves. I do hope that Sabrina comes back in the future sometime just because there’s a lot of great players like her that haven’t returned.

Thoughts on Stephanie from Redemption Island: I wouldn’t say that I hate this player per say. I’m just baffled by why she thought that joining an alliance with Russell Hantz was a good idea. She’d probably be a good and likable person without him so I hope that she actually returns.

Thoughts on Mikayla from South Pacific: This player is one that I like because I absolutely despise the player who got rid of her. There was no logical reason why she should be voted out. And maybe her being too unknown was why she didn’t win the poll. But I really hope that she can return and do well on a future season.

Well, I’m not entirely sure where I was going with this blog post of mine. Maybe I should have done a recap of who these people were. But, I’m just mentioning my general thoughts on them and why I feel that all of them should probably be on a future season. This could also be my last post about the Cambodia season before it actually starts airing. I still don’t know if I’ll do a cast assessment or not. There’s really not a reason to since I did a previous post that pretty much had predictions in it. I will still do random blog posts until the season starts. Hopefully, my watching of Survivor: Borneo will bring two new blog posts about that season in general. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.