Survivor Redeemed Contestants

Remember when I posted on the tarnished legacy of Survivor players? Those are contestants who had great reputations ruined when they played again. On the flip side of that are those players who may not have had a good impression the first time around, but definitely had a better impression after playing the game again. So using my opinion, here’s the contestants who had improved games.

I’m not sure what order to go with for this list, so my apologies if the order doesn’t make sense. It’s not going to be a top ten this time, partly due to not having enough people for that list. Hopefully, none of this is controversial. No honorable mentions this time.

Now sometimes I don’t understand why different contestants are loved one season and hated a different season. I didn’t like Lex in Africa as much. But it All-Stars, he was a much better person to me. Call me crazy if you want (I already know that), but I say his negative edit in his first season was saved by his better edit his second time playing.

Here’s another contestant that I liked better in later games: Coach. His first time playing he came off as an arrogant player and habitual liar. When he played future seasons, he became better edited in my mind. He came off as nicer and more comical.

Speaking of people who came off badly the first time, John Cochran was well hated by pretty much everyone. They hated him so much, they couldn’t realize that Brandon was the worst player from that season. The second time around, he was a much better player and actually knew how to play the game this time. That’s not to say that he had a chance the first time (he clearly didn’t even if he didn’t flip), but he certainly knew what he needed to in order to win the second time around.

Laura Morett wasn’t entirely bad the first time she played. But she was one of the reasons that Shambo ended up flipping on Galu and handed the postmerge game to Foa Foa. It wasn’t her fault that happened, but we didn’t really know who she was when she played the second time. That’s when we saw her dominate at Redemption Island. If only the last challenge wasn’t so stupid. But she clearly has a much better legacy the second time around.

Monica Culpepper was the fifth person eliminated from her first season of Survivor. While she wasn’t well liked the second time around, she certainly played a much better game coming in second place. In my mind, at least, she was redeemed with her second game.

While Tyson wasn’t bad the first time he played, his second time around made him look pretty dumb when he inadvertently caused his own elimination. But that didn’t matter to him when he played the last time as he made the right moves and won the game.

The last contestant that I’m picking for this list is Kelley Wentworth. In her first season, she was out of the game pretty early into it. In her second season, she played very hard and came very close to winning. She will be remembered better for her time on Cambodia.

That’s all I can think of for this post outside of this probably meaningless paragraph. I know that some people I think were redeemed, other people thought were ruined in their edits. This is only based on my opinion, of course. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.