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#7- Survivor: Micronesia

"I wish that I could wake with micro-nesia..."

I don't know why but that song always comes to mind when I think of this season. Jimmy, I see you judging me; stop.

ANYWAY, Micronesia is an amazing season on just so many levels. Great characters, a great storyline, some great moments, blindsides, strategy and even some phenomenal facial expressions (Eliza <3). I mean, Micronesia tells the story of the popular people, under the reign of Ozzy, banding together to take out all the great characters that everyone was rooting for (Yau-Man, Ami, Tracy ;_;). And right after Queen Eliza plays the stick and is sent home, it seems like Ozzy is going to be handed the win. That is until Cirie has the GREATEST EPIPHANY OF ALL FUCKING TIME and decides to band together the Black Widow Brigade to take down Ozzy with an idol in his pocket. <3 <3 <3 Then they go on to manipulate the crap out of all the men by not only blindsiding Jason, the guy they just stuck their necks out to save, WITH an idol in HIS pocket but they also SOMEHOW convince Erik to give up his immunity <3 <3 <3.

Besides the top-notch storyline and extremely pleasing ending, this season really brought it in other areas as well. We had great pre-merge characters like Tracy who was SOOOOO close to being able to usurp Ozzy thanks to Goddess Ami but both were screwed over thanks to Chet asking to be voted out. We also had crazy Kathy, a lot of rivalries such as Amanda/Alexis (which played out perfectly when Amanda whipped out her idol) and Cirie/Penner, who's rivalry often goes unforgotten. There were also some moments that were entertainment gold like Jason thinking the stick was the idol and everyone tricking Jason to step down at the Immunity Challenge "promising" not to vote him out, then actually ending up saving him. And who could forget man-eater Natalie being so evil talking about how she was going to devour all the men? <3

The one burden I can find on this season would probably have to be the number of med-evacs and quits. There were two evacs and essentially three quits (if you include Fairplay and Chet). Having FIVE people leave the game in a way other than being voted out without asking people to do so is far too many for my taste and was the biggest thing pulling this season down. One another knock against could be a slightly unbalanced edit, but that's really pulling at straws her because this season was amazing!

#6- Survivor: Nicaragua

HERE IT IS! <3<3<3

I'm sure most of you probably expected to see this around the 30th mark but screw that because Nicaragua is an iconic, underrated, funny as all hell season and to this day, I have NEVER been able to understand why people think this is a bad season. It literally makes no sense to me. I'll admit, when I first watched this season when I was eight years old, I found it to be a good season but on a rewatch, I realised just how PHENOMENAL it truly is. I feel there are two main themes that run throughout Nicaragua; justice and humour. I mean, other than one other season (which is yet to show up on this list), Nicaragua is by far the funniest season. I mean, we have Tyrone, who is the King of throwing shade (whether it's through his facial expressions or his comebacks). He is literally the male version of Michaela and was ROBBED with a capital R. My favourite quote on his was when Holly went crazy and decided to throw away Dan's $1500 shoes (Side note: who the fuck would bring $1500 onto Survivor? CRAZY UNCLE DAN, THAT'S WHO!!), Tyrone said "I better keep one eye on her... and one eye on my shoes." YAS TYRONE!!!

Other than King Tyrone, there is the hurricane goddess herself, NaOnka. Was she an extremely unlikeable villain? YES! But was she entertaining as hell? YES! Some of her best moments include: flipping out on Fabio because he's stupid, knocking Kelly out of the way just to get the idol clue, randomly calling Marty out at Tribal Council because (and I quote) "I just don't like him! His hair, his walk SUCKS!", responding to Jeff's question of "are you a little complicated?" with "NO! ME? AM I?" and suddenly having an epiphany to vote out her closest ally Brenda. Plus, as much as it sucked, her quit was iconic and completely shook up how the rest of the season would've played out. And these are just NaOnka moments. There's still plenty of other hilarious things that occurred such as Purple Kelly's only confessional about getting to "milk our own milk...I guess", Marty giving Sash his idol for NO reason, Dan failing at every challenge, Fabio trying to tell the viewers what his strategy is and Jane dumping out the water onto the fire. <3 <3 <3

Okay, I know I just spent a whole two paragraph on the amazing moments of Nicaragua but there are just SO many. However, I should probably move onto the other things now. I said earlier that justice was a huge part of this season, which it definitely was. We see Jane and Holly being treated as complete outcasts on the original Espada tribe, only to take the power back from Marty later on. On the flip side, we see King Brenda and Sash control the entire game up until the Final 10, where the underdogs essentially band together to take down the king in a truly amazing way (I love Brenda, but her downfall was necessary for the season). The power was constantly shifting and was nowhere near boring or clear-cut. The ONLLLLY knocks against this season are the Final 3, who were all bad in their own rights and the editing, which yes, was imbalanced, but ultimately didn't really affect the season for me since I still feel we got to know almost all the characters, even if they were under-edited.

I. LOVE. NICARAGUA. I know that the strategy was horrendous, but honestly, I don't necessarily need, or even want, good strategy to enjoy a season. What I look for are power-shifts, amazing characters and memorable moments, which this season is FILLED with. I could on and give more reasons why this season deserves to be in the Top 6 but you probably skimmed over this anyway so I won't waste my breath (let me know if you're even reading this; I kinda feel like nobody is :P).