Thread:LuluTDFan/@comment-1734566-20151217074740/@comment-1734566-20151217230736

Well...as I've said before, I felt that this season was a very up-and-down one, to say the least. It had some great pros and noticeable cons that made it ultimately a perfectly average, but watchable season.

But then the finale...this finale....oh man oh man. Everything about it just felt so, so...underwhelming. The opposite of how awesome the Worlds Apart finale was that it improved the season overall, this finale was really lacking, namely in the editing. Yeah, the F6 was cool, but kinda like the Phillip boot in Caramoan. It was awesome in the moment, but didn't change anything in the long run. And yeah, as you said, we were going into this looking like a close vote between Spencer and Jeremy...only to have THE biggest landslide in Survivor history. Like, holy crap; Jeremy was a fine player, but worthy of the biggest landslide ever? No way. The editing this season is the primary culprit; it balanced out the focus betwee Spencer, Kelley, and Jeremy as a sort of three-headed dragon who were ALL doing great...but for the edit to be so off from the actual outcome, in thst Jeremy was apparently just THAT amazing...that it wasn't even remotely close? It was editing as bad as Samoa or South Pacific. Spencer basically got a Carolyn edit in thst he was being painted as a solid underdog player who, though not likely to beat the front runner, could still get some votes and give us the first close vote since Nicaragua...but like Carolyn, one big heaping dose of NOPE.

And that ties back to the narrative of the overall season. For Jeremy to win so big despite being such a relatively minimal focus....and for his "backstory" to be so repetitive, simple, and rarely mentioned, it made it hard for us to get genuinely excited for him to win, or satisfied when he did win. And that also goes back to my main beef with Jeremy himself. He did exactly what I didn't want him to do; he pulled that frickin' pity card. And see, beyond how much I HATE the pity card in and of itself, the fact that he still played a great game, and thus had all the ammo he needed to make a solid FTC performance based strictly on that, yet STILL chose to just use sympathy and his personal life as his entire argument, just made me wanna vomit. It's an insult to the game of Survivor when all they do is turn it from "Who played the best, and thus earned this money," into "Who has the best sob story and needs the money the most?" Like, I'm sorry, but no. Screw that.

Sigh...and there is so much else to cover. Like, yes; Kelley and Spencer both played better games, in my opinion. Kelley was the best, followed by Spencer, then Jeremy. But to see Spencer get ZERO votes...and to realize that Kelley would've apparently gotten, like, no more than 2 or 3 votes if she made it to the end, is just such a disservice to them and the edit they ultimately got. When people look back on this finale and see, on paper, thst Jeremy won 10-0-0, they'll think; "oh, gee; he must've been the greatest ever and would've clobbered all of those goats!" It's just such a disservice to those who did play well but just weren't recognized by the jury. Like...IDK. I'm still struggling to properly articulate my feelings. This whole fiasco just...leaves a really strange taste in my mouth, leaning towards sour.

IDK. Just give me your response so that I'll have something more specific to work off of. My train of thought is a mess right now. :P