User blog comment:UltimateGambit/Recency Bias or Recency Discrimination?/@comment-24347009-20141030214543/@comment-24306483-20141101121951

Yeah, something does feel kind of off about this season. The first few episodes were great, but it's sorta flatlined from there. The swap feels totally pointless in retrospect. And I agree that people are insistent on being right about how much a season sucks. They'll point to anything they can. (Granted, Survivor isn't without its flaws, but still.) What really gets to me is all the complaining about the cast. Around Caramoan and Blood vs. Water, every other comment was something negative about returning players. They wanted an all-rookie cast. Sounds reasonable. But then, when they got their all-new cast, they were written off as a bunch of Kens and Barbies. They're so convinced that they'd fare so much better than the chosen players would. In short, the entitlement is strong with this fandom.