The Outcasts versus Redemption Island

I had this post planned for a while now. After Edge of Extinction, I thought that I would do this post at last, even if it doesn’t include Edge of Extinction in it at all. Before it, there were two twists that were done in the game where voted out players got a second chance to play again. I’m going to go through the pros and cons of each of them before mentioning what I think was better.

A good part of the Outcasts twist was the shock of it all. You didn’t know it was coming as a fan until the promo of the episode before it and you wouldn’t have seen it coming as a player unless you were part of the tribe in the first place. They weren’t guaranteed to get a player back in the game unless they came in first or second in the challenge. They had only one chance to attend this tribal council in question. I think that most people, even those that didn’t like the twist, know that the season worked better because it was there in the twist. It was a one and done twist.

A bad part of the Outcasts twist was that too much of it seemed sudden. Parts of it were random, such as who would come back into the game being decided by a vote. The people were now certain to be part of the jury or make the end where they had previously been out before hand.

With the good of Redemption Island, the players in the game knew about the twist before it started for real and some of them learned who was winning what challenge in the game. There were different challenges that one had to do to keep winning their way in the game.

The bad of Redemption Island seems to be easy to figure out. Some argued that it in earlier seasons did not have much of an influence on the game as the winners of Redemption Island would just be voted out of the game again. Some of the challenges just didn’t work as do or die duels. It might not have been considered fair that someone was certain to win their way back in the game. Pretty much everyone thinks that it lasted too long and shouldn’t have been a part of the game after the merge.

Which was better? Well, I think that most people like the Outcasts twist better. I think that I like it better as well. It was more of a onetime thing and made more sense and worked better that way. It made for a more interesting post merge and influenced the game in a way it otherwise wouldn’t.

That’s all for this post of this blog. I don’t know what posts will happen when. I hope that I can finish watching Survivor: Borneo to start watching Survivor: Gabon and blog about that on Sundays. I will have to do that at some point in time. There are other seasons that I might want to get as well in the future. I should be able to explain more in the next post on an episode of a show, be it the newest season or any of the old ones I want to blog about. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.