Board Thread:Season Rankings/@comment-24899664-20141222121159/@comment-27391152-20170308111649

So far in the list, every season has been a pagonging! Let's keep up that trend going with...

#27- Survivor: All-Stars

I think a lot of people remember this season, along with another which will be appearing in my rankings shortly, as being the two ~dark~ seasons of Survivor. I do not want to pass my judgings on the whole Richard/Sue situation since I wasn't there but in my opinion, Sue's decision to quit was completely her own choice and cannot be blamed on Richard regardless of how terrible of a thing he did.

With that being said, this season as a whole is pretty mundane in terms of entertainment. The Lex and Boston Rob confrontation was truly iconic and dropped an absolute bombshell, but Rob not living up to his end of the deal really minimized the drama instead of adding to it, which led to an inexplicably boring post-merge considering how great the cast was (except for a certain Jenna who was unbearable).

The pre-merge is the only thing keeping this season higher than the ones below it, with the blindsides of Rob C and Richard being fun and somewhat shocking to the audience. But, the pre-merge is also somewhat responsible for how BORING the rest of the season was since most of the interesting players were picked off one by one. Amber is by far THE worst winner I think the show has ever had and the fact that Jenna made the Final 3 just added to the terribleness that was All Stars. It was a good thing that they did a second All-Stars season because this one certainly did not do justice to the franchise.

Speaking of a semi-all-star season that didn't do the franchise any justice (segue on point)...

#26- Survivor: Caramoan 

If you are somebody that watches the show for the strategy, blindsides and the like, then I assume this season would be much higher for you. However, for somebody like me, who is much more interested in characterisation, relationships, drama and things like that, this season was kind of a bore. I mean, I think the root of the problems I have with this season is simply the casting. It was downright insulting to call this season Fans vs. Favourites because there was barely a single fan OR favourite in sight. More than half of the fans tribe were recruits, and nobody gave a rat's ass about any of the returnees other than Malcolm, Cochran, Erik, Brenda and maybe Corinne (who none of the casuals would've known anyway, might I add).

On top of the terrible casting, half of the castaways were ignored altogether! I was admittedly very excited to see the return Brenda, the first female player I ever heavily rooted for, but the editors gave her no confessionals until the Final 8! Plus, Erik, who was a very well-known player also got NO screentime, alongside pretty much all the fans that weren't called Reynold or Eddie. Instead, the producers gave confessional after confessional to Cochran and Malcolm, who both became cocky villains as the season progressed.

So why is this season not in my bottom 5? Well, as I said above, there were plenty of blindsides and shocking Tribal Councils to keep this season afloat. Malcolm's move was genius, almost forcing the big alliance to implode but was poorly executed. There were also the blindsides of Corinne, Andrea and Brenda to keep things somewhat engaging, but still, these blindsides do not make up for the terrible casting and otherwise dull pre-merge, which should make it no surprise why this season has landed this low.

#25- Survivor: Worlds Apart

I'm going to start off by saying that this season is underrated. No matter how terrible you think some of the things that Dan/Will/Rodney said were, you've got to admit that this season had its merits. The pre-swap was undeniably really fun to watch, particularly the No Collar tribe with Will screwing up Nina and Vince's PERFECT plan to overthrow the power three. The post-swap was pretty boring but then the merge comes around and it's honestly not terrible. Certainly far from good, but definitely not as awful as people make it out to be.

Now, as for the awful comments that were made during this season, I by no means support them, and they did really sour the feel of the season as a whole. However, that is not even the main reason it is all the way down at number 25. The REAL issues I have with Worlds Apart were the mini-pagonging that happened to the Nagorote tribe and Mike's sleep-inducing victory over somebody who actually played the game like Carolyn.

Coming from somebody that almost ALWAYS supports the winner as a better player than their finalists, this jury clearly only awarded Mike the win because they did not like the majority alliance (which Carolyn was associated with) and they were "inspired" by Mike's underdog story. I'm sorry, but Mike was the one who got himself into such a bad position in the first place by what he did at the auction. He accidentally made himself seem more likeable, and on top of the fact that producers played him up so damn much, his win was by far the worst thing about this season.

Other than that, there were some great moments to this season that have really been forgotten about altogether (Shirin raising her hand to stop Will from getting his letter <3, my mom laughing when that happened <3, Jenn Brown <3, Dan's attempt at an "apology" to Sierra by telling her she was the one that was in the wrong XD). This season is NOT as bad as everyone says it is but still, Mike's win and boring end-game means I can't put it any higher than this.