While I still have to finish with two Gabon things considered episodes by not worth blogging about in my mind, I’ve decided to prepare for its replacement. I am going to blog about this season of Survivor again. While I have already blogged about this season when it originally aired, I’m going to write about it again and cover more of what I’d like to and possibly haven’t already before.
What this season was like: While not the first season to feature half returning players and half new players, we got a twist as each returning player started with a relative. But they were on the other tribe and had to compete against them. Redemption Island returned and a loved one could switch with the player that was voted out, although only one person was foolish enough to do it. There weren’t reward challenges as a result for most of the season.
Why it was good: The dynamic of this season was interesting and not the type of thing that you could have ever seen on the show before. While there weren’t loved ones challenges as a result, we got to see a lot of connections between the season and players adapting to their loved ones being gone from the game and in some cases, having to do it themselves, whether by winning a duel against them or, in one case, voting that person out.
Why it was bad: Redemption Island, while actually working for once this season, did take away from a lot of what was going on with the main game. Too much of the early alliance that dominated was only there because of the early vote outs. Colton quitting was a downer. While Caleb could have turned into more of a dominate part of the game after that, it turned into a one big move before the rest of his game fizzled out. He never got to play again so we won’t know what he could have been like again.
My overall thoughts: This was quite a good season in my mind. It may not have giving me some of what I wanted out of some of the players, like my favorite Survivor contestant being out first, but it did do what I wanted: made Redemption Island work, and gave us likeable new players not overshadowed by most of the returning players.
Current ranking of the season and why: I have this season ranked as 9 out of 40 seasons. It remains a top ten season in my mind because so much of it was done well with memorable moments, such as the first rock draw in over 20 seasons, and not too many things wrong with it.
Well, I won’t know for sure when you’ll start seeing posts on this season and it being in the first six choices of what I want to watch will actually harm its ability to be watched. But now you know that it is on my radar. Of course, I’ll have to post in the start of 41’s posts why Sundays may be a problem for posts of this blog as I’m yielding it to another blog, which I’ll explain there. I still want Sundays open for potential posts of this blog in case there are delays with when a regular post is supposed to appear before the start of Advent. Too much of this is in flux, but I will explain what’s up with the new job that I have now that won’t affect me hopefully like other jobs have in the past. We’ll have to see what will happen in the future. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.
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