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foolm0r0n posted...

The players do blindsides, not Jeff. Any player who does a modicum of research will learn that blindsides are the optimal way to play the game, and especially to win the million.

It doesn't make sense to long for the era when players were voting on emotion and not game theory. It's long gone.

I'm not saying blindsides as a strategy are bad. I'm saying production wants the AUDIENCE to be blindsided and surprised far too often (and every tribal council needs to end with some shocking vote that becomes a water cooler moment), and the end result is a bunch of disjointed final results that often carry little emotional weight. I'm just particularly worried, because it feels like their response to an unsatisfying ending to 43 is "let's throw in countless advantages so players are FORCED to make big moves each and every episode, and we won't get a final 3 like that group of duds again!"