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Chaeix posted...

that was the worst episode of all seasons ever

No way. It's not even bottom 5, as without giving it much thought at all there's at least two episodes of All-Stars, at least two episodes of IotI, and the HvHvH finale that are all worse. If I deep dive, it may not even be bottom 10. But it was really bad, and just to summarize why:

-A stupid, convoluted tribal twist the very next episode after already doing the really stupid now-commonplace one.
-Poor Matt doesn't even get the dignity of playing his Shot in the Dark because of the stupid way it's activated and the fact that he didn't arbitrarily go "I'll take all my shit to a challenge for no reason."
-Instead of something like letters from home for the winners that would have been a nice character-building moment, we're treated to a long scene of people running around looking for keys.
-The least-relevant person left in the game gets a really shitty advantage designed to make an already inorganic vote even more unnatural, but in the end she plays it in the least-effective way possible and makes the entire time spent on it fucking pointless.
-The Ghost Island-esque cocktease that maybe Matt and Yam-Yam might both be spared that didn't pan out and was a waste of time.
-We lose one of the best characters of the season and the only real story thread ends abruptly halfway through the season. And the alternative wouldn't have even been much better.

It was awful and I'm sure the backlash will be vocal enough that Jeff will have to respond to it, and will do so in the most condescending way possible as always.

I still like this season as a whole better than last, but it's still solidly in my bottom half, and last night's episode was the worst of the post-COVID era.

I agree with Matt's take that it feels like the best player really doesn't necessarily win. I used to feel that was the case but somewhere in the 20s that started to change drastically.

I vehemently disagree with Brandon that there's always a way out. I suppose technically there is in the sense that you could get down on your knees and say "please don't vote me out," and there's a 0.01% chance they go, "you know what, he said please." But like, what the hell could Aaron have done to escape that mess in China? And that's in a season that I think had very reasonable twists, both in nature and in quantity, and we still saw one of the most screwed over players ever.