LogFAQs > #901791655

It's the worst season ive seen.... out of Samoa, HvHvH, and a few eps of Heroes vs Villains. So that doesn't mean much.

It has some really entertaining players in Jacob, Dom, Wendell, Chris, Donathon and Michael. I'd say this season had the best this tribals iv seen by far. Even when they are holding Naviti strong Michael is usually attempting some crazy shit. STRONGLY disagree with the people who say he was boring.

A lot of the rest of the cast was unfortunately forgettable, but whatevs.

I'd give this season a solid 6.5/10 for enjoyableness. I had a great time watching people sabotage themselves and get voted out or do their best to save themselves and fail all the same.

It doesn't even lose too much points for half the cast being boring, or for unfortunate decisions by the players like staying Naviti strong or Kellyn and Laurel being afraid of going against Dom (which are terrible reasons to blame the show... players are going to make their own choices and it wont be what you want or what you think they should do. Getting mad about that is begging for production interference )

It mostly loses points for the failure to realize Ghost Island's potential. I really think they had something special here. I'm not a super fan with knowledge of history of the game, but immediately the majesty of Ghost Isand was missed. I don't feel like I saw anything cool on Ghost Island. Like Jacob commented on all of the snuffers hanging off a roof but it was just a quick shot of a bunch of clutter and then over. Do they even show it anymore? I never notice it during episodes but this should be really cool stuff to present. I'm more impressed by the way challenges look or even the random shots of nature they give us. How did production fail so hard at making GI so visually distinctive?

Secondly, the gameplay implications of GI have fallen flat

The first two episodes were good in selection - there was strategy in who they picked to go, and it had a very real effect. They miss tribal which is huge. It protects them but also precludes them from being involved. I totally understand why this couldn't cotinue too much further into the game, but they didn't replace it with something equally interesting... they basically gave up on the concept all together.

Sending someone meant they didn't miss anything important. They'd be back for competitions and for tribal. They missed some socializing time which probably matters in the game but does not translate to he viewer. Selection also disappeared. Because of so many swaps, the tribes would never agree on who to send, so it would go to rocks. Either they shouldnt have swapped so mub to establish more unity on tribes or they should have made rocks not an option. They have to choose either by majority or unanimously or suffer a penalty.

Actually going to Ghost Island has proven useless as well. It's almost always been no game or game of chance which is boring as hell. Game of chance risking your vote would be fine once or twice but when it's every time that you get to play, and the alternative is just not playing... weak

The reward should be so much much more interesting. This season suffers from somehow not having many interesting advantages and also having a lot of idols... which don't even come from Ghost Island.

imo this is the biggest miss of the season. This was a great opportunity to try lots of small advantages and move away from ridicuously powerful hidden immunity idols.
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So more power to North Korea for this one. Good show. - MWC