Survivor 50- In the Hands of the Fans

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Holy crap, we're at 50! Last night's night episode got us off to rousing start. I had to work late, so I didn't start watching until almost 11pm. Jeff gave some great speeches to get everyone pumped up. Naturally, everyone's gotten a little bit older, and they've changed from their previous time on the show. My opinion of some of them has changed. Ozzy actually seems likeable. Same thing with Coach. In previous seasons, I hated Coach and was annoyed by Ozzy. And then, of course, Cirie who is on the show for I believe a 5th time. I love her as a person, but her game has always been too one dimensional. Great at the social aspect of it. Not much else. Otherwise, a pretty solid cast. Savannah has nicely decided to rock the leopard panties again, so a big thank you for that. I didn't participate in the fan voting. I think I forgot about it. Lol! Obviously, Jenna started the game too aggressively and it zapped her in the end. Sucked to see Kyle leave the game. He was a good dude. I'm very excited for this season. It was a great season premiere. Lots of Alphas in the cast. Should be explosive.
 
Good first episode. Jenna dug her own grave right out of the gate.
Coach wants to play with honor except for when he wants to be dishonorable. Screw him.
Colby starting to look and sound like Kvin Costner. A couple of folks who I have close to zero recollection of, Chrissy (remember her name but she left no impression on me) and Angelina.
Cast seems to skew heavily toward recent seasons, only a few real old school players (Mariano claims to have declined). Would like to have seen a couple more from the first 10 seasons.
As soon as Kyle hurt himself, I said, "Achilles tendon". Sucks for him.
 
Remember, Angelina was Hugh Jass. It's not huge anymore. Lol! Let's face it, those folks from the early years are OLD now. Lol! Can't live without the creature comforts. Lol! Coach should just admit he's cutthroat and be done with it. And, yes, 3 "lols" in a post. :ROFLMAO:
 
Hoping for a great season, but with low expectations. Not a fan of the cast- way too recent heavy. 24 players and 12 of them are from 41-49? Ridiculous. Rooting hard for the old-school players Coach, Colby, Steph, Ozzy, throw Aubry in there. Not a fan of Cirie- I think she's one of the most overrated players ever and don't understand why everyone fawns over her. The whole "mom off the couch thing"- I mean, isn't that true about just about everyone? Didn't they all get up off the couch and apply? I don't see why she's so special for doing it.
 
There have been a lot of players from the early years on the seasons that featured returning players. It's just been a while. 6 years to be precise. Winners at War. I've got no problem with seeing players returning from the more recent seasons. I'm no Cirie fan, though. I like her as a person, but I didn't want to see her again. Same thing with Coach and Ozzy. Maybe even Colby. But I get a different vibe from Colby and Ozzy this time. I'll be a fan of Survivor until it ends. There have been some shitty seasons, but mostly good ones.
 
I decided to challenge myself and come up with what I think the cast should have been, and it was a lot harder than I thought it would be. I went through the cast list of every season and tried to pick a good mix of personalities, heroes and villains, fan favorites, and make sure it was a good representation across all the years. And since they just did Winners At War recently, I omitted winners, except I made an exception for Richard Hatch just because.

Men:
Richard Hatch- 1
Colby Donaldson- 2
Rupert Boneham- 7
Ozzy Lusth- 13
Coach Wade- 18
Russell Hantz- 19
Phillip Shepherd- 22
Malcom Freberg- 25
Brad Culpepper- 27
Christian Hubicki- 37
Jonathan Young- 42
Joe Hunter- 48

Women:
Jerri Manthey- 2
Cirie Fields- 12
Amanda Kimmel- 15
Brenda Lowe- 21
Andrea Boehlke- 22
Ciera Eastin- 27
Kass McQuillen- 28
Aubry Bracco- 32
Cassidy Clark- 43
Carolyn Wiger- 44
Venus Vafa- 46
Eva Erickson- 48
 
Rupert, Survivor's worst player ever, should never grace the beach again (he'd just build another shelter that would get washed away with the tide).
 
I can't stand a lot of people on your list. Lol! Russell is banned from the show.

I was surprised and disappointed by this week's vote. But it was a smart move. After a week, Coach is back to being the anus that he is. Did we get a fake idol drop at the end? That was cool! Joe isn't long for the game. Liked him in his previous season. Not so much now. Both challenges were pretty intense. Aubry took a mean faceplant in the water during the Reward challenge. I would have died. Everyone was gassed at the end of the Immunity challenge. Even Jonathan. Colby almost hurled.
 
Thought Ozzy was gonna go home with an idol in his pocket. He definitely needs Cirie cause he's pretty clueless about how the game works outside of challenges. Which is hard to believe for a guy who's played in 69 of the 50 seasons.
There should be a rule that anyone who searches another player's bag gets evicted immediately. That **** is just wrong. But love that they suspected Aubrey of having an Eilish Idol, searched and found she didn't, then later that day she gets one.
Coach is a complete tool. Was hoping his cramps would get him med-evac'ed.
 
Yup, Cirie has got Ozzy by the balls. I'm not a fan of going through people's stuff, but they've been letting them do it for years. The whole segment with Christian having an accident in his pants was totally a waste of time. Coach looked like he was dying out there in the water.
 
Nice to see there is Survivor discussion here! Coach is the greatest character in Survivor history and is bringing the entertainment value to prove it. Ozzy is such a little bitch. Coach never agreed to the deal, yet there's Ozzy hilariously whining about Coach still in the second episode in front of everybody. We can laugh at Coach's honor and integrity bullshit (he's a cartoon character) but he's firmly in the right in this scenario.

The Cirie talk in here is blasphemous. Technically, this is her sixth season. She made it far in four of the five and got idoled out in Heroes vs Villains because she was a big threat to J.T. If you're wondering what the sixth season was, it was Australia vs. the World last year on Australian Survivor and that season effectively elevated one name to the Greatest To Ever Play throne, no question. You can look it up if you want or watch the season.

Just in this last episode, Cirie was getting the target off both her and Ozzy, subtly manipulating events that only Savannah really caught on to. Her skills worked just as well in Big Brother and even better in Traitors where she became just one of two Traitors to ever win the US version of the game. Sorry but she put herself in the position to call the shots in a whopping six of her eight strategic reality shows (not in the driver's seat yet here or, arguably, the Game Changers season). She is unquestionably the best to never win and the Survivor resume speaks for itself (lost because of fire making (twice), lost when no votes were cast, lost via final immunity challenge, idoled out. She's never gone home by being on the wrong side of the numbers, only via being a threat to win the game.

I'm liking the cast more and more after having a lot of questions about it. There's a lot of missing New Era strategists/players in favor of some B-listers and it's pretty insane that the pre-Chrissy players are all back for a 3rd-to-5th time. Overkill! However, they all have a case to be here with the exception of Tiffany who just spent her whole season whining about Q. Aubrey and Dee seem like they'll be in the hot seat no matter what until they're dealt with but at least the former has that Idol and knows everybody is out to get her. Best overall games would be Coach (everyone loves him, zero incentive to boot him, almost won this game once), Christian/Rick Devens and on the other tribe, uh, I dunno, Genevieve (although I really love how Rizo has worked his way into the key alliance).
 
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