Survivor

I love Spencer as a player. He is really good at Survivor. But, he is also a 23 year old kid. Spencer did a great job of holding back his angst, inexperience, and superiority complex all season... but it did finally come out at the final 4 tribal. He freaked the fuck out and actually thought he might be going home. His natural reaction was to FIGHT. "Cass, 0% chance of winning Survivor" and "If you vote out me, Kelly wins the game" were absolutely 100% true statements, but they are also self serving, mean spirited, and unnecessary. Spencer, as smart as he is, really acted like a spoiled and entitled brat there for a moment. Give your other competitors some credit, they know whats up and how it will play out without you making a show of it all.

It would have taken an all time great Final Tribal speech to sway the jury off of Jeremy. I don't care how great a game he played, the jury was filled with Fathers and Mothers twice his age. You are not just voting for who played the best game, you are voting for who you want to have $1m.

The most curious thing to me, was how little Tasha played or seemed to care. You go back through the season and it is like she had an off-show pact with Jeremy to get him to the end and win it. She was a great wingman and never seemed to play the game for herself. Feels like some under the table money might be coming her way.

Great season, a lot of good blind sides, and some new stuff infused into the game so that it wasn't stale, including the hidden idols. Grats to Jeremy he did play a complete game, Spencer screwed up in the end and Tasha might as well not been there.

The only thing that annoyed me was the family sympathy speech, I get it it's important and you're playing for your family, I just don't like it because guess what everyone is there for family we just don't hear them crying about it. I hope this does not develop into a trend where people start using the family card at the final tribal, I want to hear about why you think you should win, not why you came on survivor.

Also why did they take out the final speech, that seems like such a handicap because you have to rely on the jury to ask the right questions and unfortunately most of the time the jury doesn't, or they might go up and address 1 contestant like Kass did with Spencer, or in extreme cases, pick a number.... great. Then again we probably would have been subjected to 5 mins of Jeremy crying over family.

A great season anyways.

Next season... did they get a ratings boost with the Joe incident and suddenly think it's a good idea to injure all their contestants now?

Surprised they are using Caleb from Big Brother for next season. He was saying racist shit during his stint on Big Brother.

John Rocker loves this casting decision.

Kirun_sl said:

Maybe he couldn't count on Abi, but I feel like Spencer may have made a million dollar mistake by siding with Tasha, Kimmi, and Jeremy.

He would have a cakewalk win against everybody in his final 4, except maybe Wentworth. Now, he's siding with Jeremy and Tasha. I just think his odds are a lot worse now.

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I knew it. He gave away the game by trying to coast with Tasha/Jeremy. It just confirms how overrated the dude is.

Jeremy was definitely a deserving winner. His play on Cierra won him the game. Anybody who thought that idol play on Steven was useless is wrong. Had he not made that move, Cierra would've been able to rope in the numbers to oust him, I have no doubt.

I think Spencer's decision to go with Jeremy and Tasha is a credit to Jeremy more than anything. Earlier in the game, after one of the merges, Spencer was on his journey of, "I'm becoming a real boy and making relationships". He and Jeremy connected and started hanging out together.

Here is the thing though... Jeremy must have done a good enough job with that friendship, that he actually convinced Spencer they could and would go to the end together. I think Spencer was actually enamored with Jeremy. So, at the end of the game, when the right move was to vote out Jeremy, Spencer just couldn't do it. He chose the trust and friendship with Jeremy, when it was obvious that keeping Abi in the game was the right decision.

I give Jeremy the credit for that, as well as his two huge idol plays. Those 3 things, along with his final challenge win were enough to win him the game.

Djay_sl said:

I'm wondering if the thing that "has never happened in 31 seasons of Survivor" will be that none of the votes will count. Thinking Jer and Wentworth both use their idols.

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Called that. Just got around to watching the finale. Definitely one of the best seasons ever. I thought Spencer should have won and was really miffed that he got 0 votes, but Jer was my second choice, so that doesn't tarnish the season for me.

Kiroy_sl said:

I would love to see coach wade, philip shepard, or tony back on the show. I think philip is my all time favorite character followed by wade then tony.

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Thou shalt not invoke the name of Phillip Shepard, without using his full and earned title, Special Agent - Phillip Shepard. I could really go for a buffoonery season soon. Retards, Rejects, and Retreads.

But really, what I would love, it's an all former Professional Athlete season. I'm sure there would be plenty of men to choose from, then you get ladies like Abby Wambach, former olympians, WNBA players, etc. It could work and it could be awesome.