Board Thread:Season Rankings/@comment-24899664-20141222121159/@comment-25629305-20160628193439

I'm gonna do MY season rankings! YAY!

32) Survivor: Redempshit Island.

Was there ever any doubt that this would be last on the list? Even those who are HUGE fans of Boston Rob (I am decidedly NOT one of his fans, however) agree that this is the WORST season Survivor has ever done. It's a grim march to the inevitable end where Boston Rob's zombies hand him a million dollars on a silver platter. Even though I'm a fan of Boston Rob in Marquesas and HvV, I couldn't STAND him in Redemption Island so him winning was the just the cherry on top of what was already an irredeemable season. At least it wasn't Phillip who won -_-.

31) Survivor: All-Stars

All-stars actually started out pretty strongly, believe it or not. The whole "winner's must die!" thing bothered me in the early episodes, but the first five episodes of the season were all relatively strong. However, once it hit the Sue quit (one of the grossest things to ever happen on the show- Sue really had been violated and harrassed and the show/the contestants treated her like SHIT on the way out. Disgusting.) After that, All-stars just became a black hole of negativity, destroying real-life friendships and just creating a highly negative atmosphere that hurt the season majorly. All this lead up to an unremarkable finish where Romber dominated to the end and Amber won. Bleugh. BORING. It's no wonder this season is second to last on my list. It'd be a crime to put it any higher.

30) Survivor: Cook Islands

Speaking of bland seasons...

Cook Islands was just that. Bland. Boring. Unremarkable. I can't even remember the pre-merge boot order because it's just one long slog where nothing interesting happens besides the whole Billy/Candice thing. People push Cook Islands up because of the whole "Aitu 4 Underdog Story" but they forget that the Aitu Four was filled with self-righteous, condescending assholes. Remember when they wouldn't let the other alliance even EAT? Ugh. I hate that alliance. The post-merge is basically the second-worst alliance of all time picking off the only 3 good people in the season (Candice, Penner, Parvati) in a row, leading to a bland and predictable Yul/Ozzy f2 with Yul ending up winning. YAWN. NEXT.

29) Survivor: Samoa

I hate Samoa. I really really REALLY hate Samoa. Not because of what actually happened: had the editing been more balanced out, Samoa would EASILY be a top 10 season at the very least. But what I dislike Samoa for is what the editors did to it. Samoa became The Russell Show. And, as we all should know, Russell is the most egotistical, sexist, obnoxious blowhard the show has EVER seen. Samoa became all about him, and about how "Russell is a mastermind!!!!! He's running the show!!11!!!11!!!" when that CLEARLY was not the least bit true because everybody hated Russell. The editing deciding to focus on such a horrible person and make HIM the main character, giving him 90 more confessionals than the WINNER of the season (who, btw, is the most underrated winner of all time and is definitely a top 10 winner for me) is one of hte reasons Samoa is so low on this list.

The other reason is the impact Samoa had on the fanbase at large. Ever since Russell, all of the casual viewers and even some superfans of the show think that making big, flashy moves is the ONLY way to win the game, even when it's been proven time after time after time that that is not true! The whole "big moves" movement is not only annoying, but it creates seasons like Survivor: Cambodia (which will show up on this list very shortly) which are just filled with gamebots doing gamebotty things and "making moves". Yawn. So not only is Samoa terrible all by itself, but it's caused major problems for the show itself, which makes it totally deserving of being this low on the list.