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Thinking it over, that may be the episode that gets me to stop actively watching. It was really that bad. I wouldn't say it's the worst of all time (that dishonor probably goes to the merge of IotI), but it's the straw the broke the camel's back.

Next week, I'll probably be playing Pokemon with Survivor in the background. That's how mindless the show has become. It requires fewer brain cells than catching a Feebas. I don't like Survivor to be dumbed down.

And the best player doesn't always win and that's always been the case. Rob Cesternino was the best player in Amazon and he didn't win. Jenna just beat him at the Final IC and to some people, apparently that makes her a better overall player - just because the last domino fell in her direction. If it were a different challenge, Rob could've won it.

Underleveled posted...

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.

The twist that screwed Aaron was extremely unfair, but otherwise China was very reasonable with its twists. The version of "Warrior Swap" we saw this season was much better, aside from the fact that each of them got an idol. No, because each tribe swapped ONE warrior that was chosen by the tribe that won the challenge (without their knowledge that this is what they were doing), those three people should've been granted immunity up front for the Tribal Council in that episode. This should've been revealed at the challenge. "Because you three need time to acclimate to your new tribes, none of you are going home tonight. For the tribe that loses this challenge, their new addition will have immunity for tonight only." Thankfully it worked out like that anyway.

The biggest reason the China twist was unfair was that each tribe got to pick two people from the other tribe specifically to fuck over. Aaron was screwed because of Leslie's big, runny mouth painting him as the leader at a time earlier than Todd and Amanda had wanted. James had a way out with the kidnapping + idol in the next episode - which is one of my favorite episodes ever (because it goes from Zhan Hu wanting to throw the challenge to thinking Sherea had flipped and thus not caring if she was booted, which is hilarious to me). But they should've done the kidnapping in the prior episode as a way to grant a potential way out... if anyone cared to.