12 Minutes Straight of Unpopular Survivor Opinions - 2024 Edition (Part 1)
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- We all have our unpopular opinions about CBS' Survivor and this is the video where we get to say them all and hope that we aren't lambasted too hard. All of that and more in part 1 of the 2024 edition of unpopular Survivor opinions.
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Bruce was the best part of season 45
Jesse from survivor 43 was over rated. Kinda like Dean for island of the idols he waited till very late in the game to actually start playing. I just find it hard to respect that type of gameplay. I also feel like he was a salty jury member which I can’t respect either.
Having longer episodes (even hour long) are unnecessary and make the show boring. It just feels like a slog to get through and with so many "twists" and little to none "villains" to spice things up, modern seasons are boring.
Sierra Reed was my personal favorite underdog in survivor history
Austin (Survivor 45) is just a simp, and ruined the later part of the season for being one
The great thing about survivor WAS that there was mixing of personalities, that is why the outwit outplay outlast theme of survivor is getting muddy is because everyone is the same. We need that personality diversity as well as different backgrounds to really have a compelling game
Not my opinion but someone said that promoting Jeff from just a host to the top dog (Executive Producer) was possibly the worst move in the shows history. Think about all the dumb stuff Jeff has come up with: island of the idols, edge of extinction, and the “too nice” people being cast as opposed to great tv villains/pot stirrers, etc.
He gets mad about people quitting but he's got a huge voice on who gets cast in the 1st place.
I might be wrong, but hasn’t Jeff been there as an executive producer since toccantins ? I don’t think every season after Gabon is bad personally
@@Pixeloflocame here to say the same thing. Jeff has been EP for ages. Some of the best seasons are under his direction 🤣🤣
@@VivanLaMNWANot like he was involved in Tocantins to Heroes vs Villains
EP doesn't mean what you all think it means. EP are often IN-NAME only, meaning a majority of their job is financial. Jeff is hands on, sure, but at the end of the day he still has to go through other producers, EPs, board members, etc. Guaranteed, beyond suggestions and casting, his main role pre-season is effectively investing. He's the host and face of the brand which is why he's seen as being a lot more powerful than he frankly is.
I don’t think this is unpopular but: Jeff trying to make every moment he can an emotional tear jerking scene is cringy and results in those moments feeling far less natural and real. I can’t tell you how many hundreds of times I’ve probably heard Jeff say “what is that feeling” to prompt an emotional breakdown from players. I also think the high frequency he does this at makes it feel more like gameplay between players than a truly emotional moment.
Also get rid of Final 4 Fire Making. It was originally designed to help save the front runner at the Final 4, where idols could no longer be played, ie Ben, Wendell, etc. but has resulted in strong players being cut earlier as the rest of the players fear someone getting to the end. This also results in skill in fire making being a detriment to your game at the final 5/4, bc front runners are likely to target the best fire maker at 5, and the winner of the final 4 challenge will place the best fire maker against the front runner.
I loathe how much Jeff is trying to make everything a cringy emotional moment, like in the first 20 or so season the emotions were all organic and everybody talked about them organically, now it’s “where is the emotion coming from?” Like really Jeff??
My unpopular opinion is that survivor needs to go back to just 2 tribes. Yes, 3 tribes can be interesting, but overall, i think i liked just 2 better. Now players have less people to work with, and they’re pretty much forced into alliances with whoever the 4 other players in their tribe are.
Additionally, it’s too easy to just have an unlucky draw and get one tribe that’s much weaker than the others, which becomes unfair to the remaining players on that bottom tribe since now they’re going to automatically be on the bottom of their new tribe after the swap. with 2 tribes however, physical abilities were much more balanced, making it less predictable as to who would win or lose each challenge. additionally, there were more options of people to work with, making alliances more chaotic and less obvious.
Whenever they stick to one or the other for too long, there are always more and more arguments as to why the other format is better. What they need to do is to keep mixing it up, just to keep things interesting. Nobody wants to see one or the other happen 10 times in a row, it’s lame
They just need to switch it up more regularly. Variety is the spice of life.
Also, 3 tribes theoretically disadvantages the tribe with numbers at the merge. Since the other 2 tribes have an incentive to gang up on them. Which an unfair reward for playing the game well.
Has anyone else noticed that when a season has three tribes, we usually see one tribe get steamrolled?
Typically the first tribe to lose immunity will start to death spiral until only two or three members remain.
That's not to say that it never happens on two tribe seasons or that three tribe seasons will always have one tribe get demolished
but I am pretty sure it is more likely to happen on a three tribe season.
I don’t think that’s unpopular
That last opinion saying Jeremy is a terrible winner tilts me hard LOL. Jeremy won literally the hardest strategical season (even more so than Winners at War), plus he played a pseudo perfect game where the only votes against him were negated and he unanimously received the jury's votes.
I don't disagree Jeremy played a good game. I just would have liked to see if he would have won without all the "Val is pregnant" sympathy sh@t. Like bro, you left your pregnant wife at home to go play a game show essentially, stop crying about it.
He almost for sure wins either way, but I can see it no longer being unanimous. He is a decent winner (even though I think the season is massively overrated and borderline bottom third all time to me) but not sure how anyone puts him outside of top half for best wins.
@@easy_nator_gamer8498 I'm pretty sure Ciera votes for Spencer if Jeremy didn't announce that at FTC but I see it being near-unanimous anyway. My guess is 9-1-0 instead of 10-0-0.
Yea I didn’t really get that argument. Also no one who voted for him to win ever brought up his family as the reason why they voted for him. They went off of his gameplay. Not to mention EVERY SINGLE PLAYER has stuff going on at home… like what?😂
If Jeremy and Adam barley beat their opponents I would agree. They both would of still easily won without the sympathy story’s.
I think there are way too many stamina based challenges in the post merge. 45 only had two immunity challenges that didn't end up being some form of a stamina challenge (The one in episode 9 started out as an obstacle course, but ended as a stamina challenge), and 44 had something similar. Watching some form of "who can hold on to this the longest" over and over again gets repetitive and predictable. The reward challenges were often way more interesting to watch, as they had way more creativity and variety.
More variety in immunity challenges balances out the game.
Australian Survivor All-Stars thankfully excelled at that
Reward challenges where everyone gets something, but the winner chooses who gets what (think Guatemala as an example) should come back.
Like All Stars as well?
This would be fun and telling where people stand. I like it
I would like to see them just revamp the auction a bit. Maybe something like:
Everyone starts with $500 (or whatever)
Normal for first few food items and then drop the twist
Letter from home, the catch is everyone will write down their bid without making it public. Highest wins. If there is a tie, the people who were tied both lose their money and the next highest bidder gets it.
That’s a great twist! I like it
I think they should do the money thing they did this season dropping the random number of items or just do the opposite as either could be a cool twist without the other.
As a survivor fan who is just as big of a fan of rupaul’s drag race, the whole “fakeness” and “niceness” and lack of good villains is such a problem on reality tv nowadays. It’s either a person is too controversial for the tv network, they’re too scared to speak their mind for the fear of being attacked by fans, they do speak their mind and basically get cancelled for anything remotely mean/shady/strategic, or you get no villains at all and a boring season. The old seasons of drag race were the same as survivor with abrasive, shady queens that MADE the show. Now, every season that comes out at least one of the queens gets bullied off the internet (not exaggerating) or gets their social media accounts bombed by trolls reporting them just because they said something villain-ish on the show. Even one of the judges for drag race Canada had to take a mental health break after he was torn apart by fans saying he was a harsh and nasty judge. And most of the time when you look back at the season, those villains are what kept us watching even if we hate them!
I definitely agree with the auction being broken. They could’ve let the castaways know at the end of the auction that the person who has the lowest amount of money loses their vote or something like that for suspense
To that last opinion it didn't matter that Adam and Jeremy revealed those things they were winning anyway
I seriously don't understand who Jeremy critics think should have won that final 3 if not him. Jeremy was the biggest threat from at least Final 7 on - and Tasha and Spencer never took him out. Also Adam played a great game in Millenials vs Gen X, there's an argument for Hannah being over-hated by the jury - but Adam had an incredible social game, strong threat management, and understood exactly what the jury wanted to see in the gameplay. The jury was leaning towards Adam well before they learned about his mom at FTC. I think its fair to criticize the show for leaning too heavily on the sappy parts of both of their stories, but that's hardly a knock against their winning games
The sympathy pleas they both run off at final tribal definitely overshadow their gameplay, but aren't the reason they won. I think the critics for these two aren't seeing the fact that their gameplay was overshadowed, and just call it dropping a baby bomb or a dying mom card for an easy win, which neither was. Both were deserving winners. The sympathy pleas were just the cherries on top in ensuring they won.
Agreed with you Jeremy 100% deserved his win. Although I do agree somewhat with the comment in the video about Adam’s win
Adam 100% deserved to win. Hannah was a terrible and clueless coattails rider.
Yea I agree adam was my pick to win like half way through, I don’t see how ppl think Hannah or Ken played a better game. Same for Jeremy but I haven’t seen that whole season
I actually liked the original tiebreaker of past votes to decide who goes. It was by far the most fair, and on a rewatch you can see how this forced players to be even more strategic with their votes (namely Survivor Africa). Just switch out the survival quiz with fire making for the past vote ties, and I think it's golden.
“We need people that don’t care what people online think about them” well to be fair, very controversial players have literally gotten like death threats and ruthless harassment over survivor. Not talking Varner or Dan, I’m talking even like Dawn
I'm rewatching Vanuatu and honestly all of my favorite seasons are ones with little to no advantages/twists (Tocantins, Vanuatu, Palau). It just had a group of honestly fun characters competing with occasionally something like exile Island or an immunity idol popping up. Nowadays they don't rely on the characters to make a season, they rely on the twists which really doesn't endear people to a season longterm
"Unclesquirrelstache" is one of the best usernames I have ever seen.
My unpopular opinion, I like final 4 firemaking as if you’ve been living on the island that long, you should know how to make fire by that point
That's definitely not unpopular. Most people who get cast now do know how to make fire. It's just whether or not they can make it fast enough or perform well under pressure
My unpopular opinion is that I do not give two shits about the players backstories, I don’t care who you are outside the game. I think it goes hand in hand with what some people have called the “softening” or the casting of “too nice” contestants. Giving people so much backstory, sob story, and overall motivation air time takes away from what makes the show enjoyable in my opinion. While they’re can be external motivators that factor largely into *some* players game play getting into that much nuance with *every* player is extraneous and tedious. I remember when it used to be shocking when someone revealed something deeply personal on the show, now it feels like in every episode someone’s divulging a deep dark secret, trauma, emotion, motive, etc. which I also find icky from an exploitation standpoint, you shouldn’t have to sell your personal details to win a reality show.
I think the new version of the auction from 45 was my favourite update to it. Id rather it just be a dun thing again though. No clues/advantages and no drawbacks aside from not buying something. I think the random number of items is absolutely fantastic way to get people to try and spend their money and having that little challenge to determine how much money each player gets is also pretty fun
This may not be unpopular, but it’s not talked about enough: Fire tokens ruined Winners at War. Being voted out first meant that Natalie had far more opportunity than anyone else to get them. This isn’t a knock against her, because she played the game laid out before her. It’s a knock against the season design and structure as a whole.
My unpopular opinion is I’m not as big of a fan of 45 than others. The 90 minutes definitely helped exploring dynamics (like Katurah hating Bruce), however the gameplay was so stale. I like a season with great gameplay and great characters (take Kaoh Rong as an example). There needs to be a balance, 45 had amazing characters but just boring gameplay.
Also, PLEASE BRING BACK 2 TRIBES. I think it can lead to more excitement and not just a pagong
I mean I kinda get why they ditched 2 tribes, think about the last season they did that
39 flopped, 38 was intensely controversial, 37 was okay, but 36 was horrific
I feel they’re ditching the idea without considering the underlying reasons those seasons failed where others soared
an idea for the survivor auction is to have a consequence still for whoever has the most money at the end but dont let that exclusively be known or a definite. I am thinking there will be 3 scrolls on the table and the survivors have to vote on which random scroll they want for their auction. This wont be opened until the end but it could say things like "whoever has most money loses vote" or it could be an extra vote, able to include yourself in any reward in the future, a small cash prize, or even sent to another beach alone with no shelter for the night. It could be a good thing or a bad thing and they wont know until the end and that would make people spend money a bit more unpredictably.
Winners at War is one of the best Seasons of any show ever. The twists all made the season 10000% better, I loved edge of extinction, I loved Natalie throughout the whole game, everyone had amazing screen time, the family episode is PEAK NONFICTION. EVERY SINGLE EPISODE WAS AMAZING, (except the one that Yul gets out in, I’ve never liked that one tbh).
Thanks for including mine!
Your voice is everything. I wish they’ve have you narrate an episode of Survivor but you can be brutally honest😂. Now that would be an episode!
For the auction I don't understand why the included the lose a vote thing, completely ruined the whole thing and it was easy to predict that's how the players would respond
45 indeed was a steamroll by reba when you analyze closely. But I think the editing of the show did a great job with it.
8:59 I WAS ACTUALLY FEATURED! I CAANOT BELIEVE IT!
I agree with you most on the 1hr podcast post season interviews being a good thing !
New era has a lot of bad twists and casting issues for sure. But it’s really not too bad and people like to complain cause they just like to complain.
even in the old era, there were good seasons and bad seasons. you kind of have to sit through a couple predictable boring straightforward seasons to get to the ones that are good.
Yeah let’s not act like Guatemala, Cook Islands or Fiji are these shining gems compared to 45
We just wanted China and maybe Gabon
sadly CBS doesnt produce entertainers on the show anymore but people who fill out their checklist.
totally agree!!
Anyone who thinks adam and jeremy won because of sympathy is delusional. On facebook there is a group called survivor fan jury and while she was still alive Sunday was in that group and shut that down every time. Jeremy dominated season 31. Adam had the respect of the jury including his enemies. They won. Maybe adam got 1 or 2 votes, maybe. But Sunday said he had Jey 100% behind him, David, Chris and Jessica too. She was behind him. Taylor went with Jey almost immediately. Ken was a goat and Hannah had maybe 1 vote.
Hasn't jeff stated pver the years that the edit originally is closer to what would be needed for a 90 monite episode and then trim down to a 60 minute epispde
There are unpopular opinions and then there are flat out wild takes especially Adam and Jeremy at the end. That being said, most of these were interesting so good job community.
Totally agree about Samoa, it's a top 10 season for me. If they had just spread the edit around more it probably could have been my all time favorite.
Before I start watching, I'll say Family visits, and Letters from home, should be removed in it's entirety.
Don't allow Jeff be part of the selection process.
A week before filming, he gets a picture of the cast, and maybe, everyone's name. That's it.
Give us more advantages/disadvantages, I've got some good ideas, really make people think about their decisions
Also, the survivor auction should have advantages, but they should covered items. or maybe written on the back side of the plate/tray of the food (it could be good or bad food).
Like the fish eyes, Katurah didn't want it, but there could've been an advantage attached to it.
Natalie W is an S-Tier winner and I had this opinion *before* the OUAI player analysis video came out. Not sure if this is still a hot-take in 2024. Maybe "S-Tier" isn't the general consensus, but it's nice seeing objective-recognition being thrown her way in recent years.
Intentionally casting Russell's or Intentionally casting Rupert's, isn't going to make the show great, they need to cast first based on personality types and have one friend and one person that will get on their nerves for each player to create conflict. Once you have the 18-20 character types then cast players based on different styles of gameplay so that we get dynamic gameplay and interpersonal drama.
Agreed with the auction, I hope they revert it back to how it used to be and without advantages. Everyone is buying whatever they can for the sake of it so they don't lose their vote
I think the people on the jury should stop taking things personally when voting for the final survivor. I enjoy the more smart cutthroat people who actually played the game intelligently, and sometimes it's just annoying to see them lose to a people pleaser because some dud jury members were upset that they weren't on final 3.
having early episodes be longer COULD be better as more people are still in the game and more stories are able to be told, it’d be a good way of keeping the winner ambiguous without intentionally tanking their edit to do so
I'd like someone do a reverse Gabler. Announce to the jury you're going to donate all your winnings to like a kids cancer organization that's close to your heart. Win. Then go "psych! Got you again, you fools! It's all miiiine, mwah hah hah!". If nothing else, it would at least nullify the impact of final jury sob stories.
In season 22, Rob played the exact same game Russell did and won, showing that Russell's style of play works, it was just a matter of how the rest of his tribe reacted to his presence as opposed to russell's tribe
Look at how Rob talked to his tribe and how Russell talked to his tribe that season. Rob was nice to his tribe and Russell caused dissent.
@@OnceUponAnIsland russell's tribe didn't want him there from the get go (just look at their reactions to being on his team) Russell didn't cause the dissent the rest of his tribe did
@@OnceUponAnIslandThis is correct. Rob played a strategy where he put himself as the clear leader in charge of the tribe, but at no point was he out right mean or demeaning to his tribe mates. Russell would openly berate his team mates and mock them when he knew they were the ones going home next. That being said the show needs more Russell’s. You need people the viewers can love to hate, people that make you tune in to see if they finally get voted out.
@@jansonshrock2859 W Statement, Just depends on the People in you play with, on Samoa the Jury Screwed its self By not Voting the way your supposed to vote, if B Rob was on samoa he would of lost too
@@jansonshrock2859 Russell's style of play doesn't work and will never work. He has no social skills at all. No one has played a game like Russell and won
I agree the auction is worthless now. That’s my unpopular opinion, it was a huge waste of time. No idea why they wouldn’t just do the old auction style but only do food and also say “every auction item will have a parchment. It might be an advantage or it might be a blank piece of paper.” Problem solved. Bid on everything. I’m so confused why they don’t do this? Or even just hide an advantage in one food item and don’t tell them which one. Also problem solved.
Maryanne’s 5 hour podcast is my favorite podcast of all time, so, have to disagree with you on that one 😢😢 freedom of choice is a good way to put it though. I don’t enjoy the one hour ones, i find them so rushed.
Not sure if this is unpopular or not but I would love for them to surprise a bunch of new era players by making a purely old school season. 16 people, 2 tribes and the twist is there is no twist.
Hi. I'm your huge fan from Finland!
Few points: constant twisting things mean more luck, not good gameplay, just like someone said he/she likes more twists - this isn't nice - this show was amazing already. I would hope the best player always wins but planting idols etc. does not mean that the best player always wins. There is no need to be like twists on every episode. Hate it when Probst calls this as something as "new era" where they put more randomness on every season.
I can't find any site where to watch Ponderosa, I'd love to see these because they're geolocked and no one uploads them. Maybe some good VPN would be ok for me.
This new auction was the biggest joke ever.
I strongly disagree that Russell would not win now. Usually jurys are not so bitter now compared to 10+ years ago. Yeah, sometimes they are but they put their personal feelings aside more and this would favor Russell so much. I know he isn't your favorite. :)
I absolutely love Maryanne. I was so happy she won!
Also modern day Survivor is full of Hyenas!! Each season should contain a couple of sharks!!
The only positive change for new era survivor (I call it budget era) is 90 minute episodes. Otherwise literally everything else about new era is worse.
An opinion i get a lot of hate for is saying that Denise is the exact same kind of strategic player as Sandra
Their gameplay is almost identitical. A quiet mama type to the person with the most balanced charisma for the cast (rob/rupert- Malcolm) only beefing with the town idiot when the moment is right (fairplay-Abby) and an unsuspected on island, but highly expected wins at the end.
I think we're getting very close, if not already, to having a cool season that would be just contestants that lost to fire-making.
We need more Russell and Brandon Hantz 😂
Jeff has publicly said Survivor is a “family show” now. I think this gives all the insight needed as to why everyone’s personality has had the edges sanded off, and why there are so many “SURVIVOR HELPED ME OVERCOME MY STRUGGLE AND BECOME THE UBERMENSCH” stories. I also think each cast is a huge luck of the draw, and recruits aren’t a bad thing. Both china and Gabon had a bunch of recruits and those are my favorite seasons. Also it’s old hat but 26 days is too little. Even increasing it to just 30 I think we’d end up with a better product.
both of those seasons you listed was before Jeff got more hands on.
The thing that bothers me about that mindset is that it was never inherently not family friendly in early seasons so feeling like they have to “tone it down for kids” really irks me.
I’ve been watching it since I was 4 years old with my mom, lots of other later season contestants have said they watched since they were kids too. Obviously the adult stuff and the finer points of strategy went over my head when I was younger but there’s no sexuality, swearing is bleeped, nudity is blocked out, the level of “violence” and competition is akin to watching sports, and as a kid I loved the new pretty locations and watching “games.” It was definitely a more mature show, obviously it was made with an adult audience in mine, but Jeff insinuating it hasn’t always been watchable by families annoys me. The kid-ification of adult oriented things is a weird trend, especially when things were already okay for kids with proper parental guidance.
My big unpopular opinions: first, the way "hidden" immunity idols are placed & found in last dozen or so seasons lacks credibility. Too many idols, found too easily. All too often it appears that they are placed so as to be found by a particular player at a particular time. Its getting top point where I have difficult time believing that these scenes are not being scripted.
Second, the "sob story" game, where players seem to be trying to outdo each other to see who can come up with the most tear-jerking background story to win sympathy from the audience. EVERYONE has a family at home they miss, but im tired of long, tearful confessionals about dead grandmas, rough childhoods, cancers, recovery from injuries or addictions, underdogs, and all other manner of stories that bring on the sad music. "Ill see your childhood poverty, and raise with a handicapped sibling" - slaps cards on table. Boring.
Also, bring back "Come on in guys". That whole scene was one of the absolute cringe scenes ever filmed for the game.
Whew, Im glad I got all that off my chest. Carry on!
What’s some if the dark stuff they do after the season ends?
Drea was really awful to Omar at Ponderosa, making comments about his deceased father and Islam, saying he made up or exaggerated the first part and used the latter to search for idols.
I thought that was a dig at Dee personally, who played Austin like a fiddle … but hey it was for a million right ?
OMG totally agree, hate the fakeness. The over the top theater kid reactions 'omg so and so was voted out at the last tribal council, I'm shocked I can't believe it! Even though I never once spoke to them and didn't even remember their name till you said it just now Jeff'. The casts seem filled with these soft drama queens who get casted for their big fake reactions. And half of them end up quitting because they're soft and not cut out for competition. How about some straight shooter, hard working, dudes who want to play.
Don't get me wrong, I love survivor, but the more I think about it and look at it the more I think that Jeff Probst becoming Executive Producer wasn't a great decision.
I thought season 45 was one of the worst seasons ever. I couldn’t use the fast forward button enough.
it was pretty bad but 44 was worse.
Censoring Drea’s behavior was a very cowardly and disgusting move by CBS
Agreed, blacklist her with the Varners of the world
3:44 the person just named all the stars on those seasons.
0:05 - doesn't sound too bad to me
Nah Jeff Probst gotta be running that Jason account
Lol
@@jasonfieler Hi Jeff
Well i think getting rid of villainous players only damages the show for entertainment also there are to many advantages per season your right maybe no more than 3 like immunity idol, block a vote & idol nulify for example
Also as an old school fan id lije the days to be increased but i get because of covid they reduced them i just personally dont like it
There should be an oops all villains season
They need to give tribes actual names again. It seems like modern Survivor is naming every tribe any random combination of four letter words they can. I get these words still have meaning in Fijian, but for crying out loud LuLu in 45 means “barn owl” in Fijian, what the heck? Tribe names sound so similar nowadays. For example: Lulu in 45, Luvu in 41, Lesu in EoE, Levu in HHH. Another example: Soka in 44 and Soko in HHH, or Vesi in 43 and Vati in 42, or Yase in 41 Yara in WaW and Yawa in HHH. One last example: Mana in Game Changers and Manu in EoE. Please give a tribe’s name more than four letters
Tribe swaps. More of them. I would love to see a season where the tribes swapped before every immunity challenge so that players were forced to make alliances with people outside of their starting tribe. Watching Reba run the post merge in 45 got boring quick because there was only one tribe swap and those tribes didn’t last long because the merge was right around the corner.
If there was a swap every episode, I feel like the players would start voting out the super buff people as tribe strength wouldn’t be an issue
I just don’t think there’s a lot of room for strategy when you don’t know anyone for more than a couple days at a time
People who think 45 is the best season of the new era- what are you smoking? 2 quitters, a dominant alliance that never gets contested, Austin throwing the game by being a simp, and Emily's unfortunate exit all make this season so damn boring. They casted a dude who can't climb a ladder people! I was legitimately more excited by Kaleb's SITD and Jake's fire than anything done by the Riba 4 and Dee's win was basically guaranteed when Emily left. Jesse from 43 had better gameplay than anyone on 45 and the Tika 3 were all better characters and a more exciting storyline than anything that came from this season. Please show me a single moment from 45 that is more captivating than any second of Carolyn's screentime or more emotional than Yam Yam helping Carson practice fire. If you think 45 is the best of the new era please don't apply for the show because you'll probably be pulled for withdrawals from all the hard drugs you're currently on. I wish the previous 2 seasons had the longer runtime because 45 managed to become a weekly 90 minute snoozefest. Sorry, not sorry.
Change up the end and have no fire challenge.
They all should get together and put Jeff's name down to be voted off the island.
The shot in the dark is completely overrated because it’s an awful game move otherwise. Emily told him to play it, however Emily didn’t use her vote in the event it was a success. She could have had a wicked blindside but instead was just a revote
Tom from Palau is one of the biggest bullies the game has ever seen. I have been rewatching old seasons awaiting 46 and had to skip the final episode of Palau as I can't stand seeing Ian bullied so hard by Katie and Tom. I understand he made mistakes and told too many lies, but damn it's difficult watching them bully such a seemingly nice human.
I feel like after episode 2 of the next season things might take a turn for the worst and give us one of the worst seasons of the new era, not as bad as 41 but not better than anything else. This may be why there are doing 2 hour episodes for the first 2 episodes to make us enjoy the season at least 30 extra minutes
Australia survivor shows you the weakness in the US version. Lack of character diversity and people who are cautious of the fact that their reputations can be affected.
My unpopular opinion would be that I would be in favour of replacing all of these journey's with a pre-merge exclusive Redemption Island where they join back into the game at the 'earn the merge' bit. My reasoning is that it lengthens out the pre-merge portion of the game so that we get to see stronger tribal bonds and more interesting dynamics later in the merge. As well as making it secret to the contestants. Tell them that Redemption Island is there only during the pre-merge but keep all of the duels away from the contestants so that at the 'merge' it would be a surprise to everyone.
Plus Redemption Island would work better in the 90-minute episode format and it would add another level of complexity to the game focussing about the social aspect of the game, not strategic with all of these advantages. That being said, once the pre-merge is over, so is Redemption Island.
Let me know what you think
One of the biggest reasons RI failed is because half the players already voted them out and the other half haven’t met them
I feel like 3 tribes could make it work considering there’s more players and dynamics to call on especially with some tribe swaps
@@XanderMatthews-nv9zf Yeah I agree, that was what I was thinking mainly as now modern Survivor loves 3 tribes. It would give the returning player more options rather than being used as a vote for a dominant tribe or immediately coted back out again.
And yeah, if you add tribe swaps into the mix like what we saw in Survivor 45 then it would make returning to the game a lot less hostile and a better chance of making it further.
11:48 "How can I get attention?"
Adam and Jeremy were both winning heading into FTC
I liked Chris Underwoods win In Edge of Extinction sure Gavin would have been a more satisfying winner but in my opinion he would have been a boring winner Chris has a really fun story of being on one of the worst tribes in survivor history then being voted out 3rd spending most of the game on the edge of extinction to come back at final 6 to have the best 4th quarter games being really flashy in his gameplay to win and i get people will cry about how he had an unfair advantage bonding with the jurrors and i say its fair i say if you don’t like the twists blame production not the players taking advantage of the twists same with Ben from Heros Healers and Hustlers for all of his idol plays dont blame him for using thrm blame production for replanting them also i believe that not every winner has to have played the best game or be likable to be satisfying as long as there fun to watch also bring back redemption island it adds an interesting dynamic to a season
Ever heard of punctuation?
I wonder if there are still "honesty and integrity" people even watching the show, let alone considering to participate.
I am in fact not Jeff's alt account lol
The last one is brutal, but I kinda agree even tho I like both of them.
The jury has from Adams season has said that they all planned to vote for him before ftc.
Katura didn't actually hate Bruce 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Why dont all three contestants make fire and the first two win instead of giving a free pass to one contestant in the final tribal council
My unpopular opinion: I don’t mind returnee seasons being gamebotty since we already know who they are, this was the main criticism of Cambodia(second chance) and that season is one of my favorites
It would make the casuals go away though
I wholeheartedly disagree with the Adam and Jeremy one. Out of that final 3 Adam legitimately played the best game. He made the most strategic moves and played a very social game (that did include his mom, especially with Jay). With Jeremy, he played a very dominant game in second chances. He was the type real golden boy Stephen should have been worried about. He would have won even if he didn't drop the baby bomb.
Hannah made herself a goat when making big moves that aren’t good (similar to Ciera Eastin), but especially when she kept interrupting at the FTC.
I was surprised at Ken’s zero votes. I thought he’d at least have David or Jessica, and I didn’t expect TAYLOR of all people to vote Adam.
9:11 Nah what is this guy smoking
Your unpopular opinion I agree the most is Samoa is a top tier season. It had a pagonging, and unbalanced edit wasn't a good thing. But also... it had everything. Chaotic characters, comedic characters, pure heroes, pure villains and more. Natalie is imi a great winner - she was riding coattails (she admitted that she was silent because overagressive girls were out), but still managed to make strategic moves, build bonds, being viewed as a non threat. Like she said, her strategy was to be underestimated while building friendships and very much succeded. Also Russell just knew how to make an entrataining TV, but failed to understand that making moves isn't everything, all of your actions decides if people respect you or not.
And mine opinion: Jenna M is underrated as a winner and production, fans and others treated her way too terrible. Despite stereotypes of being viewed as a week and spoiled girl, her game was effective, she won multiple challanges and she is one of the few players, who gave away her immunity and still was safe.
Survivor is Nuts! They need to use season 46 to season 50 only using returning players they should never introduce new players in that time period. The ratings would go through the roof! They have 45 seasons worth of returning players that people want to see play again and would breathe life back into the show!
I personally think that it should not matter if you are on the “bottom” of your alliance. Especially since if you flip you’ll most likely be on the bottom of your new alliance. Also, your position could change before next tribal council due to power shifts or your relationships with other players. Unless you’re playing a intentional flip-flop game like Sarah in GC, it doesn’t matter if you are on the bottom or not of your alliance. If you are going to win from the bottom start to earn power in your original alliance.
Heres my opinion - Tarzan was funny on one world when he was on screen and he was the modern Rupert ngl also the best and wholseome love one visits on survivor
Jake is the realest.
I kind of agree with the HvV one. I think it's a fun season with the best cast ever, but gameplay-wise it's pretty meh. The heroes fall apart so quickly, and the villains early are quite interesting, post merge is just Russel and his annoying girls in full control. It's not the kind of class I was hoping for. And I would have much rathered it be Sandra with Rob, Courtney, Jerry and Coach over Russel, Parv, and Danielle. Damn you Tyson for changing your vote.
Have to disagree hard on Jeremy being a bad winner. He played a smart game in a super strategical season, found multiple idols, and won in a landslide. Yes he had sympathy with Val, but even without that I'm confident he still wins.
after 40 something seasons of watching it from the start inclusding australian survivor from the start i suggest we throw the concept of survivor out the window and we do a never ending marrathon of bear grylls the island with men vs women, forever and ever until the end of time
Season 2 "Men vs Women" was the best piece of reality TV in decades.
Yam Yam was the least deserving member of the Tika 3 to win
Facts. Caroline lost to him because she is bad at pleading her case. That's it.
What dark stuff spill the tea
I like my friends
I agree that Dee was a VERY boring winner. VERY! I adore Jeremy winning though...he`s a superstar (but yes, the whole family aspect was not really necessary, and Adam was just a drama-queen...though I was sorry for his loss)
You dig deeper on every episode right? Well I think a 2 hour episode does the same thing. I’m all for the 2 hour episode sounds good. The more survivor the better! I would not say the same for Amazing Race. It already kills me watching 90 minutes of watching the different teams (especially if they’re bad) do the same thing over and over.
cook islands is the best newbie cast with ozzy, yul, parvati, and penner
I'm not sure if this is unpopular, but I would love for them to bring back the Thanksgiving recap episode like they had in earlier seasons. I also think episodes without vote outs at the end should be a more common thing (especially at the merge) so I can really know the stakes and where everyone stands. I'd love a shot where every player says their ideal final 3 or 4
My mom always hated the recap episode so I guess it’s unpopular at least with her😂
I know this likely a popular opinion, but I think we're all tired from seeing the same scenery. I know CBS has a deal with the Fijian government, and it isn't really possible as of now to find some new beaches, but the new era of survivor has felt more like a set than an island. I also think the lack of immersive experiences with the locals that survivors would get on rewards has contributed to this. I do miss when survivors had opportunities to learn about the culture of the places they were staying in. My mind sees the same beaches from the last few seasons and just thinks of it as "Survivor Island."
I love Survivor Samoa. It's both a comedy and a tragedy of near Biblical and Shakespearean proportions.
Season 30 is one of the best seasons of the 2nd half of the show. Had some villains and conflict. Only 28, and maybe 32 and 37 are better IMO.