Board Thread:Season Rankings/@comment-24899664-20141222121159/@comment-27391152-20170408130926

You guys have no idea how badly I am flipping between #3 and #2 right now. They are both amazing seasons obviously but unfortunately, I feel one is just ever so slightly better than the other.

#3- Survivor Gabon ;_;

It really does SUCK to have to cut Gabon (it was originally #2) but after much consideration, I was simply more entertained by the other two seasons than I was this one. When I was writing up Nicaragua, I said it was the SECOND funniest season of all time because, and I'm sure you've all guessed, THIS season is the season I found the funniest. From Gillian Larson finding elephant dung and deciding to share it with the whole tribe to GC being elected tribe leader only to "quit" being leader THE VERY NEXT DAY to Sugar "teaching" Corinne how she should behave, to Crystal's voting confessionals to Sugar taking Randy's cookie and giving it to Matty, to Crystal accidentally spilling the rice, only to later to GC to "eat yo rice" to Crystal in EVERY challenge to the golf challenge where Randy and Matty were literally ONE INCH away from the hole and went for about two minutes arguing over how they should angle their slingshot to Randy playing the fake HII and him and Corinne acting SOOOO smug only to learn it's fake and give the funniest facial expression of all time to SUZIE OF ALL PEOPLE almost winning the game (who people HATED)...should I go on? I mean I'm already thinking up of more hilarious moments like Randy's jury speech and Suzie telling Corinne that she was going to vote for her. THIS SEASON IS COMEDY GOLD! Thanks to the AMAZING cast this season had, we were provided with episode after episode of funny moments which I loooooove to watch on Survivor.

Now, I know a lot of people who are more "strategy-focused" really don't care for Gabon considering almost everyone is a complete moron to say the least (Sugar voting out her closest ally Ace? Marcus throwing a Hidden Immunity Idol into the ocean? SUZIE TELLING CORINNE SHE WAS GOING TO VOTE FOR HER?). And, I COMPLETELY understand where these people are coming from. I'm not going to sit here and say Gabon has good strategy, but when it comes to me, good strategy is not what I look for in a Survivor season. In fact, I almost find bad strategy MORE entertaining than I do good strategy. I don't know about other people but I love watching people fail, which this season showcases quite a lot of. It's the perfect season to go back and watch if you just want to have a good laugh.

Speaking of watching people fail, one of the best parts of this season was watching the Onion Alliance get their comeuppance. The alliance was full of arrogant, condescending people and seeing the leader of the alliance, Marcus, go home was THE shining moment of the season. He was talking about how much he was controlling the game all episode, he threw an idol into the ocean because he was so confident he wouldn't need it, only to get BLINDSIDED by Queen Suzie at Tribal Council because it was blatantly obvious she was the outer layer of the Onions and had enough sense to send his ass home <3. Not only did this shape the rest of the post-merge not to be a runaway win for the Onions but provided arguably the best GIF of all time with Fang's reaction at the next challenege when they found out what happened (MATTY'S GRIN <3)

Simply put, this season was just incredibly enjoyable, which is really the sole criteria I judge my seasons on. I was thoroughly entertained from start to finish, there was a great cast with plenty of returnee potential (I know Gillian is on CBS' waiting list, I'M SURE!). So why is it lower than Cagayan and Pearl Islands? Well, I do feel that while the cast was great, the cast was SLIGHTLY worse than the other two seasons. Plus the other two also had a lot more interestingly gameplay - more switches, more blindsides etc. Not to say this season doesn't have interesting gameplay, it just wasn't quite as good as the two above it.

To finish it off, here are some amazing voting confessionals this season has to offer:

- "You are not the Kota God, goodbye!" - Crystal

- "You have made my life HELL! From DAY. ONE! So forget you, GO home, GOODBYE!" - Crystal

- "You are a disgusting, old, hot-headed, chauvinistic, alcoholic bigot and you need to grow up before you die alone.....LOSER!" - Sugar

- "This vote is not strategic, it is strictly personal" - Randy

- "I'm voting for you because payback's a BITCH" - Corinne