Board Thread:Season Rankings/@comment-24899664-20141222121159/@comment-27391152-20170310121720

We're only nine seasons in and this is getting hard. Guess that just goes to show how much I really love every season. Well....not this one.

#24- Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X

 * deep breath*

Okay, so here it is, honestly a little higher than I anticipated, but here it is nonetheless. Millennials vs. Gen X was the season that caused me to write the list so it's only fitting I have a lot to say about it.

On paper, Millennials vs. Gen X arguably looks like a good season. There were bits of drama, interesting relationships, blindsides, strategy, storyline and even characterisation. So why is it down so low? Well, the simple reason I cannot put this season any higher is because from the merge onwards, I did not give a rat's ass about any of the players left in the game. The entire post-merge was dominated by three people; David, Adam and Zeke, all of whom were boring gamebots with forced storylines. Sure, better characters like Jay and Hannah had their moments but they were extremely overshadowed by the aforementioned three and this ultimatley ruined a lot of the season for me.

The pre-merge, like a lot of these seasons, was pretty strong. The lead up and subsequent fall-out of Mari's boot was SUCH good television and allowed Queen Michelle the church girl (<3) of ALL freaking people to emerge as a strategic goddess. Everything to do with Michaela was hilarious and Figgy and Taylor's showmance made me want to both cringe and burst out laughing at the same time (the moment Figgy told Jessica and Ken about their relationship, thinking they had kept it such a secret, when in reality, it was obvious, will forever be a great moment <3). Unfortunately, the pre-merge and start of the merge happened to pick off a lot of these interesting Millennial characters (Mari, Figgy, Michaela, Michelle, Taylor) and all we were left with was a bunch of gamebots or useless invisibles with only a handful of fun characters.

From Taylor's boot onwards, the merge was absolutely AWFUL. Every single scene was basically about strategy and I didn't even care about what was going on because the players themselves were all boring as well! Simply put, I had nobody to root for, and when I don't have somebody to root for, the season just isn't enjoyable in the slightest. The post-merge also felt extremely rushed in my opinion, with 2 double boot episodes and a 6-person finale really making it even more forgettable than it already would have been. #getridofsixpersonfinales

Even though the merge was boring as hell, I don't even think that is the part that IRKED me about this season so badly. What really put this season as low as it is how much the editors TRIED (and failed) to pull on the audience's emotional strings to feel BAD for these people that were ruling the game! David's storyline is probably the most FORCED storyline to ever exist! He had complete control of the game, everything going for him, but the editors wanted to give him an underdog edit and IT WAS TERRIBLE. From Jeff going on about how AMAZING of an achievement it was for David to win an Immunity Challenge to David volunteering to sit out of challenge but everybody else "encouraging" him not to, I. COULD. NOT. STAND. ANY OF IT! Survivor really needs to stop forcing these sob stories because they are just unbearable! I mean, Adam at least had an excuse, but even so, his constant crying about his mom was really awkward to watch and could have been done without.

I think that I've ranted enough about this season to move on but the fact that some people have mentioned that this is their FAVOURITE season completely boggles my mind. I just did not like this season as a whole, but luckily the pre-merge saves it from being any lower.

 From one overrated season to the next....

#23- Survivor: The Australian Outback

Look, I know it may seem so far that I'm not all that much of a fan when it comes to the older seasons, and truth be told, yes, that's true. I find that many of the older seasons are really quite boring and Australia, unfortunately, does not break that mold. With that being said, this season certainly has its merits. The pre-merge, in particular, had a lot of fun character moments, which I strive for in a season and I did thoroughly enjoy the first five or six episodes. I mean, who can forget Jerri and Colby's HILARIOUS relationship and Alicia and Kimmi's iconic fight?

However, after Skupin's downright nasty evacuation (I could barely look at the screen when I caught a glimpse of his skin), the season loses all of the life it once had. The merge episode was nothing but a guessing game for the two tribes and it only went downhill from there. I mean, the fact that there was one scene talking about how "interesting" it was looking hopelessly into the embers of the fire really goes to show how "interesting" the post-merge was.

Australia has a lot of memorable moments and characters (Jerri <3 Varner <3, Elisabeth <3, Mad Dog <3, KIMMI <333), both of which are my two main criteria for a season, but when you take into consideration how boring it was when these iconic moments weren't happening, I simply can't put this season any higher.

#22- Survivor: Fiji

 In Survivor, there is a period of time I like to consider "The Golden Era". This is a period of time in which I feel most people can agree had  high-quality  levels of Survivor throughout. For most people this would be Seasons 10-20, although I think it's reasonable to extend it from 9-21. So far, I've only had ONE season from this period (Cook Islands), but unfortunately, we've now had to bring up another one. That would be Survivor: Fiji.

<p style="font-weight:normal;">Fiji isn't a bad season at all like many people have labeled it. The Haves vs. Have Nots is a terribly stupid twist, but at least it didn't ruin a season like Redemption Island has. Other than that twist, the season isn't half-bad. From start to finish, amazing characters are developed (Anthony, Rocky, Lisi, Stacy, Boo, Yau-Man, Earl, Dreamz) and they all had their own storylines and relationships that I found very interesting to follow. However, there are also a lot of dud, useless players, but luckily those people get picked off pretty early on, making for a pretty interesting post-swap game.

<p style="font-weight:normal;">I think Rocky and Lisi carried a lot of the pre-merge with their funny antics and the gif of Lisi falling over face-first at the challenge cracks me up EVERY time XD. Post-merge, there's obviously the iconic fall of the four horsemen and perhaps the most UNDERAPPRECIATED move of all time with the Dreamz and Yau-Man deal. That deal should've gone down in Survivor history as one of the most interesting, perhaps stupid, perhaps smart, deals ever, yet nobody seems to remember it.

<p style="font-weight:normal;">Overall, Fiji is a solid season, nothing amazing, but certainly not as bad as everybody seems to think it.