Survivor: Gabon- A Look Back

Well, I have this season on DVD and will now blog about it. At the moment, this season’s post will be on Sundays. This means that if a current season is not being blogged about, the random posts you see on Wednesdays will be gone as I will devote my time to just doing this season in the blog. If there are any other seasons for me to blog about, you will see them at their own time as mentioned in those, potential, future posts. Also keep in mind that this post will serve as an introduction to future episodes and will not be about a single episode itself.

What this season was like: One of only two seasons thus far to take place in Africa, we got a whole lot of dynamics over the course of the season. Exile Island was back, but it could have a hidden luxury with it instead of just being an isolated place. We saw a lot of crazy personalities this season, which can be good in its own way. There was a second tribe swap which hadn’t truly happened before.

Why it was good: There was a lot seen from the good characters in this show, even those that didn’t last long on the season. The winner may not have been outstandingly wonderful, but he deserved the win in my mind compared to others in the season. It might have helped shaped Survivor’s mold in some ways that it wouldn’t have otherwise.

Why it was bad: This season was bland and forgettable. Most of the contestants on this season were either annoying or forgettable. Too many bad players were focused on a lot and some of them made it too far in the game. The final vote was as boring as one alliance voting for one player and the other voting for the other player. Not much memorable happened in it.

My overall thoughts: I do not think fondly of this season and rank it among the worst ones Survivor had. In fact, there aren’t many that I think were worse than it. I don’t think that it had much to offer on a whole as too much of it just didn’t really work in the long term. To show just how forgettable the people on this season were, when I learned that one of them had died, my first thought was who? I did not know who this person was and it wasn’t the first fan out of Micronesia.

Current ranking of the season and why: I rank it as 36^th best out of the 38 seasons thus far. The fact that so much of this season’s airtime was wasted on terrible players speaks to the fact that not much of it really worked in terms of good Survivor that we were used to from other seasons. A rewatch of it could improve my thoughts of it or somehow make it rank even lower.

That’s about it for this blog post. I do plan to be back as many Sundays as I can in the near future with blog posts on this season. There might be some issues with me being able to keep watching it over and over again due to lack of time or other issues like that. But keep your eyes out for posts about Survivor: Gabon on Sundays for the foreseeable future. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.