Survivor All Season Retrospective Part the Eighth: Africa Post Merge

(The opinions expressed in the following are mine and not necessarily those of anyone else, although in some cases they should be and probably are)

The first few episodes of the Africa post merge are awesome episodes of Survivor. Despite the fact what should have been the most dramatic 5-4 vote in history was ruined by the editors (WHY DID THEY SHOW BRANDON'S VOTE?!?!) these 3 episodes are perfect.

I could go into detail, but the truth is given the shit that followed I just don't want to. We got 9 great episode of survivor and then the season took a nose dive. The remained sucks so much it makes me hate all of it and not want to talk about it. This sort of shit is just boring. Like for fuck's sake. I'm not that impatient of a person, but I cannot force myself to sit through the end of Survivor Africa. It's just not happening. This may seem like I'm quitting, and well I am. I'm just jumping ahead to Marquesas.

End season wrap up stuff go!
Best Player of the Season: Ethan (beautifully positioned himself as the #3 so he got ahead and took no heat whatsoever)
Best Jury Member Question/Speech:
Best Episode: Either 5 or 8
Worst Episode: 10-13 take your fucking pick (just like Australia)
Best Challenge: The boulder push reward challenge
If I were on the Jury, who would I have voted for (based solely on their final tribal performance): Ethan
Person I most grew a new appreciation for: Silas

Survivor All Season Retrospective Part the Se7enth: Africa Pre-Merge

(The opinions expressed in the following are mine and not necessarily those of anyone else, although in some cases they should be and probably are)

With the computer problems that were preventing me from posting solved, lets get back into the swing of things.

The premerge of Survivor Africa is AWESOME. The first 3 episodes of post merge of Survivor Africa are also AWESOME. The rest of Survivor Africa ? We’ll get there.

Now I never saw Survivor Africa when it was on. I may have mentioned this, but to refresh your memory, I didn’t start watching weekly until Pearl Islands. I did however watch this season one episode per day at like 1 pm when I was in 11^th grade. See my high school was under construction so the space was limited, therefore 11^th and 12^th grade students went to school from 8am to 1240 pm. It was pretty cool. I would get home, and watch Survivor Africa on… some retro station and have lunch. It was a pretty sweet deal all things considered. And since it was an episode a day (with the finale split into 2 parts) the whole thing took about 3 weeks. (This network showed all of Africa, Marquesas and Thailand, but when Thailand ended it jumped to Palau, which I had already seen so I didn’t bother watching, although I did notice that they never got all the way through the Triumph of Westman so… yeah, funny tangent?)

As I said, pre merge, this season is great. Boran is an awesome tribe full of colourful and amazing personalities. Lex, Tom, Kelly, Ethan, Clarence? All whacky and awesome people, throw in the ‘straight’ person in the form of Mama Kim? And we have a winner. Best tribe to watch on TV outside of the context of Survivor thus far. Love them. Well after 2 episodes anyway. See, early Boran was tense. When they were losing, it sucked because everyone was either fighting or dying. Fortunately, peace was made for the purposes of trying to win and the corpses named Diane and Jessie were removed. Love this tribe.

Samburu on the other hand? An amazing to watch train wreck split right down the middle. They were also awesome television.

Unpopular opinion: Silas Gaither is awesome.  LOVE me some Silas. Why? The dude was an amazing Survivor Villain. He was such a cocky dick, and got exactly what he had coming to him, and took it right on the chin and gave props to the victors. The dude flat out got fucked by the tribe swap. He had the game by the balls and bad luck screwed him. He was the first, and would not be the last to have his game ruined by a tribe swap. It happens, and some people just can’t overcome the position that they are thrust into by chance. I will say, if Silas had bitched, I probably wouldn’t be praising him. I would not disagree, but the fact he took it like a man and praised the game in his exit interview shows that he got it, and I, as a fan appreciate that. Some people take it too seriously, and take losing way too hard.

Popular opinion: Lindsey was difficult to tolerate. As was Linda. And also Carl. Need I say more? Generic pre merge boots. Bitchy, bad at challenges, no one liked him.

Overall, this is 6 great episodes of Survivor. Really good stuff. What follows might possibly be even better.