How Can Casting go so Wrong?

From what I understand, the first 38 seasons of Survivor were largely cast by just one woman until she was fired for some reason and the first season without her lead to a contestant being ejected from the game. But there are a lot of seasons that have terrible casts. This leads to a question of both how it can happen and how so many bad players wind up in one season.

Regardless of if you feel the same way about me regarding a certain cast of a season, you’d have to admit that some are seen more as bad than others by fans of the show. You wouldn’t think that they’d all get together in one season, but this happens a lot of the time.

Of course, you can’t always strike casting gold and get a cast as likable as the one in Palau or as cunning as the one from Pearl Islands. You can get horrible casts like in Fiji were there are few standouts or the one in South Pacific where there is hardly anyone ever to root for.

This leads to the obvious question: how can casting go so wrong that a whole bunch of bad players are all in one season together? Why are bad players even cast at all? I’m guessing that there is a lot that the producers simply wouldn’t know about a person before they play the show. Only so much can be known from the casting process and you wouldn’t know that much about who a person really is in that short an amount of time.

Should I give them the benefit of the doubt? After all, this does keep happening over and over, there being bad casts of the show. Wouldn’t they do better at weeding out bad players? It is hard to say. One of the factors that one needs to remember is that the earlier seasons that have already been made and aired might have featured some of the better players. If they want to keep doing this show, they’d have to go with some group of people. And they would have to find someone that would work.

Honestly, I still don’t know for sure just how wrong casting can go over time. I think that part of it is just something that needs fixed in the casting process to weed out potentially bad players to prevent there being potentially bad casts. But it is hard to know who a person will be or how a cast will work unless it happens. I can only hope that the problem can be fixed over time and that we don’t have this issue that much again. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.