The Blood versus Water New Player Problem

I thought something that I still wonder a bit now. Ever since they did the 27^th season where they paired returning players versus their family members, I was wondering if any of the new players that we could have gotten that season would appear on their own in future seasons. Now that the 41^st season is set to start in the future, we still haven’t seen any of these potential new players on their own yet.

Was this a onetime exception? Will we never see any of these people as new players? I’m not even sure that I should be bothered by this in the end. There are a lot of new players in seasons that we don’t have to worry about specially going after those who have connections to existing people who have already played the game. If we only went after them, there would be issues when a lot of people play the game or want to play the game.

It is worth noting that, to date, only one person outside of the 27^th season has had a connection to one of the previous players in the game. That player is the infamous Brandon Hantz, the nephew of Russell Hantz. With a player originally from the 19^th season now having a connection to a new player from the 23^rd season, it is possible that this lead producers to the idea of having returning players effectively bring in a new player that is related to them not that many seasons later.

But why not have any of these new players related to previous players come in for a future season on their own? There have been plenty of future seasons and not one of these people that could have been on the 27^th season have yet to appear on their own. You’d think that they would be known in some way by producers and be able to work their way into a future season with a bit of an edge. But maybe none of them want to take away the limelight from their loved ones that they are related to. Maybe they are okay with Survivor just being someone else’s thing.

I doubt that anyone else is bothered by this or even cares. I might do more posts related to this at one point in the future as I want to cover more of this in the future. I still feel the need to write more and more of this blog and the others like it. I will see you back next week as usual, probably. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.