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28) Survivor: Worlds Apart

Survivor: Worlds Apart is another instance of a season like All-Stars, where the overwhelmingly negative atmosphere of the season swallows up ANYTHING good. Much like All-stars, Worlds Apart's pre-merge was fairly good, and I had hope that Survivor's 30th season could turn out as good as it was hyped up to be. But then... the merge happened. The final 11 onwards is pretty much a pagonging of the ONLY likable people on the season by the WORST people (Dan, Will, Rodney). What's even worse about this is that the villains never get their comeuppance. Dan was idol'd out by Carolyn, but that didn't make up for an entire season of his bullshit. Rodney was voted out in a firemaking competition, which, once again, was not really fitting comeuppance. And Will tied with Mama C and got to share the prize money which was just gross, Will didn't deserve any sort of prize that season. We had gross moments like Rodney saying that "women need to hold themselves to a higher standard for men" (news flash: women don't need to do ANYTHING "for men". STFU.), Dan saying that somebody needs to slap Shirin, and Will harrassing Shirin. Just gross stuff that soured the entire season. The Axis of Evil was the worst alliance in the history of Survivor and the fact that they won out over the likable alliance was just awful. The other negative thing about Worlds Apart was Mike's win; while at LEAST it wasn't a member of the Strong Six (puke), Mike's win was pretty much obvious from day 1 and that took a lot of suspense out of the season, so despite Mike being a huge underdog, the ending was STILL boring and obvious. In the end, Worlds Apart was just a negative and boring season, and it deserves to be out this early.

27) Survivor: Caramoan

I can't believe I haven't cut this season yet. It just sort of slipped by, but the fact that it's NOT in the bottom 5 is a shock to me. Anyways, Caramoan is just crap. It has some of the worst editing in the show's history (the only ones who got screentime were Phillip, the Three Amigos, Cochran, Brandon, Shamar, and Dawn, and Dawn was the only likable one out of that group), and the cast overall was just bland and unlikable. Only Sherri and Dawn were good, but Sherri was very underedited and Dawn, despite being an angel, was very repetitive in her story. Still, those two are MILES better than anyone else in the cast of Caramoan. People like to talk about how the post-merge had plenty of blindsides, but it was basically just a pagonging of Michael, Reynold, and Malcolm with Phillip's vote in the middle, which, while entertaining, didn't do much for me since I was never a fan of the Three Amigos in the first place, so I wasn't really cheering for them at all. Admittedly, the Andrea and Brenda blindsides were fun, but Brenda's FTC speech as a result of her blindside was just disgusting, and the fact that the show made Dawn out as this evil witch and Brenda out as the victim was terrible to me. Finally, there's Cochran, who really rubbed me the wrong way this season because he got cockier and cockier as it went on, and his whole fake and forced "underdog story" annoyed the hell out of me and caused his eventual win to be very, VERY obvious. Overall, there are only two positives to Caramoan, Dawn and Sherri, and they're overshadowed by all the terrible-ness that went on throughout the entire season. So, unfortunately, Caramoan lands here.

26) Survivor: Cambodia


 * 1) VotingBlocs4Lyfe #BIGMOVEZ #Gamebotting

^ the best way to sum up all of Cambodia.

Cambodia was just a bland, boring game full of bland boring gamebots. I supported the Witches Coven the whole way through, but they were beaten out by the awful trio of Tasha/Spencer/Jeremy. The editing was unbalanced and Jeremy's win was obvious. Spencer's whole story about building relationships was obviously faked because nobody voted for him at the FTC, so the whole thing was just the editors lying to us because Spencer is a production pet, despite being mopey, bland, and condescending. Furthermore, the entire season was spent talking about voting blocs and blindsides, but I couldn't give a flying fuck because I didn't care about ANYONE who was being blindsided. It was just boring. It may have been flashy and exciting, but the fact that we didn't get to know ANYONE throughout the entire season other than Spencer and Jeremy, whose stories were very repetitive and bland, lead to it being very very boring and just annoying. What annoys me even more is that people say this is a top 5 season, and I'm like, "um... how?". I just don't understand the love for it, it's a boring season and is bottom 10 without a doubt. Good riddance, Cambodia.

25) Survivor: Thailand

Thailand is pretty much universally reviled by the Survivor fanbase, and for good reason. It's not my least favorite season, but by and large it's pretty bad. The cast for the most part is boring and negative, just like all the other seasons that I have in my bottom 10. The one memorable moment other than the fake merge that screwed over goddess Shii Ann is freaking Grindgate, one of the most controversial (not in a good way) and disgusting moments in Survivor history. Thailand is higher up, however, because there are a few hilarious characters that give the season SOMETHING to laugh at, like Jan and her dead pet cemetary, Helen, Robb (with TWO B'S!), and the Shii Devil (<3), but other than that the season is just sort of a boring pagonging with a lot of negativity, so I can't bring it up any higher.

24) Survivor: One World

You know, watching One World while knowing what happens makes it a much better season. Kim's domination is much more fun to watch when you're not wondering whether she'll ever be toppled, and even for me, a guy who is probably the opposite of a gamebot, watching Kim's game was interesting to me, because the post-merge of One World is basically just a class on how to play Survivor by Professor Kim, p.h.D. Even freaking Colton and Alicia aren't as bad, because you know they get their comeuppance in the end (they're still pretty terrible tho :x). Also, the One World cast isn't nearly as bad as everyone says it is. The MALE cast is terrible, but Kim, Sabrina, Chelsea, Christina, Kat, and even Alicia all have their moments, as well as Nina and Monica, who were pretty good for pre-merge boots. And the fact that it was the overall likable group of females that got to the end makes the endgame a lot better to me, despite it being kind of bland. So, One World was pretty bland and so it can't get any higher than this, but at least those that made it far were fairly likable and didn't make me want to hurl into the nearest trashcan like Worlds Apart's cast did :-).

23) Survivor: South Pacific

I don't really have that much to say on South Pacific, which is weird, because I had a lot to say for other seasons. The entire first three quarters of the season was very bland and just a pagonging of the Savaii's, but that was kind of good because I didn't like the Savaii tribe all that much, especially awful Jim Rice -_-. The endgame did get fairly interesting to me because it was basically showing religious hypocrisy on Survivor, and it was some pretty dark stuff. Honestly though, that was better than what we had gotten before, at least it was entertaining, and the fact that an athiest who was clearly just barely tolerating her tribemates (Sophierce <3) won the game was just SUCH a great and fitting end to the season, but Sophie's amazing win doesn't make up for 11-ish episodes of blandness and 3 episodes of darkness. Also, they turned Coach into a gamebot -_-. UGH. Moving on...

22) Survivor: Fiji

Fiji is another weird season for me. The whole Haves vs. Have-Nots twist was really stupid and it was no wonder the Ravu tribe lost so much so early on. Also, much of Fiji was encompassed by negativity, which is a characteristic of many seasons that lower them down on this list, so I can't put Fiji much higher up. That being said, the fact that all the most unlikable people of the season left before the final 6 was great and helped push the season higher up on this list. The downfall of the Four Horsemen was iconic and amazing, and their subsequent pagonging was wonderful. Dreamz, Yau-Man, Cassandra, Lisi Linares, and Stacy were all great and made the season a lot better with their presence. The stuff with the car deal was very interesting to me and watching Dreamz's moral dilemma was captivating television. Earl was a very strong winner in terms of gameplay but kind of bland to me and his win doesn't really help the season much. This write-up is also all over the place, probably coz I'm so scatterbrained. Um, that's all I really have to say for Fiji, it's overall a pretty negative and bland season but the good characters and some interesting scenarios help push it up higher than seasons like Worlds Apart and Cook Islands.

And that should round out the bottom 10! Or is it the bottom 11? Not sure, and too lazy to do the math. Oh well.