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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
I'm finding this season really dull. Not sure why. I just don't have strong emotions to any of the players. There's no one i'm really rooting for or rooting against. Probably the worst season in recent memory by a good margin.
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I think becaause:
- Too small tribes. When there's three people left in a tribe, there's no real room for strategic moves and social dynamics/maneuvering, the reason I watch.
- And they cut down on showing those strategic and social dynamics to give us weird-ass advantages. Real great we got to see JD interact with the two other tribe members that contributed nothing to the game since he was voted out.
- The weird human interest pieces. Not trying to sound too heartless but do we really need to spend 10 minutes each episode on some sob story?
- Trying to keep everything secret. We could have the making of some really good villains in Shan and Ricard if they just let us watch them play and control the tribe. Instead we get 20 minutes of them pretending that the vote is going to go a different way and someone we don't care about gets evicted because we barely know anything because last episode they spent 20 minutes pretending the vote was going to go a different way. Like did anyone know Brad and Genie were that close?
3 minutes for recap/post tribal dynamics.
5 minutes of some secret advantage bs (whether going to the island or running around looking for advantages)
2 minutes to explain the advantages
10 minutes of people crying about their personal life (again, sorry for being heartless)
10 minutes on competitions
5 minutes on copouts that we know aren't going anywhere
10 minutes on tribal
Like that's all the time they have. Instead of going with "Season 41 is going to be the new Survivor" I wish they did the exact opposite and said Season 41 is going to be the same as the first. Two tribes, no advantages, no hidden immunity, no swaps and just a merge. Also here's no food so survival is important.