Thread:LuluTDFan/@comment-1734566-20151217074740/@comment-1734566-20151222035753

Yeah, that was an assessment I've seen across Survivor Sucks in the wake of the finale; that the jury, as a whole, was NOT happy with this final three in general and felt that ALL of them were arrogant. Again, the fact that Jeremy got all 10 votes isn't necessarily indicative of the jury loving him, anymore than it was of the Redemption Island jury "loving" Boston Rob by giving him all but one vote. It was simply the least of three evils. And yeah, I agree; as I've said before, a Kelley/Spencer/Jeremy F3 would've been AMAZING. Like, seriously, possibly the BEST final three in YEARS.

But yeah. The main problem with this season is the editing. Beyond even Jeremy and Kimmi, there were PLENTY of people who got minimal edits from early boots (Vytas, PG, and Monica) to people who made it roughly halfway (Woo, Kass, and Kelly freakin' Wiglesworth). Ciera was underwhelming up until her last few episodes, Keith got a mediocre level of focus culminating in the last two episodes being his biggest, Abi got a TON of focus pre-merge but then became a sideshow post-merge...and again, that REALLY weird bit of the first four episodes disproportionately being The Varner Show. Between this and HvV (which, again, both rank about the same level of mediocrity for me), at least HvV gave adequate focus to just about every player, and you could FEEL the all-star status of every one of them. Here, there were so many duds who were almost completely ignored, on top of the fact that it was already pretty difficult to call a lot of these people "all-stars," just as it was to call roughly half of the returning players in Caramoan "favorites." But I guess that's to be expected when the criteria is "only one-time players, and no winners."