How soon we forget a few early merge votes... and how the MedEvacs really FORCED them to stop playing.
Nick blindside, Debbie blindside, Scot blindside all early merge. And the medevacs didn't stop anyone from playing. People were still working angles and strategizing. "Playing the game" isn't just blindsides and voting and "live tribal councils".
Million dollar gamble, Scot fucking FAILED check.
Objectively wrong. The "Million Dollar Gamble" did not happen in Kaoh Rong and for you to say it did means you have zero appreciation for Survivor history.
It's a generic fucking title that could apply to MANY moments that carried more emotional weight than Jessica Lewis picking a rock. I'll take Scot Pollard, who had an idol and knew he was in danger, not playing the idol because he thought Tai would give up HIS idol to make for a super idol, a far bigger gamble, and one that was far more interesting as well.
Intimately personal winner, checkaroonie.
Not at all.
We got to know Michele INTIMATELY, since the editors couldn't build her up as a strategic mastermind. If you won't accept her, then you can't really accept Mr. "My Mom Has Cancer and That's the Only Thing Anyone Knows About Me" either.
I'll give you the "interesting bunch" but that's the only thing my write-up for MvX has in common with Kaoh Rong.
Honestly, your write-up barely has anything in common with MvGX, aside from the negatives about the forced theme. The cast wasn't high-level since over half of them were shit players: Rachel, Mari, Paul, Lucy, CeCe, Figgy, Michelle, Taylor, Jessica, Sunday, Bret, Ken, Adam. And that's not including the idiots that made unnecessary big moves just to pad their "resumes" and ultimately put themselves in worse positions because they just had to rack up blindsides: Zeke, Will, Jay, Hannah.
The cast wasn't interesting outside of David, Jay, Hannah, Figgy, Taylor, Michaela and Adam. And Adam isn't "intimately personal" aside from him being given one nugget of information that was hammered into the viewers' minds over and over again. I wouldn't call Jenna Morasca intimately personal either.