'ho boy that was bad.

These twists were.... absolutely god awful. The fourth wall breaking was dumb. The on-the-spot reunion was different in a very poor way.

The shameful thing is... this cast was great! Lots of really good characters. I would actually say this season had one of the strongest prejuror casts of characters (which makes it even more shameful there was no proper reunion!). Also some really cool stuff with the revamp, such as the flashback scenes and the action shots. But the dumbass twists just muddied too much of the season for me.

Erica was a fine winner. Very clearly the best choice there. But I didn't find myself heavily rooting for anyone in the F5. Ricard was a really great player but I had a tough time rooting for him. Maybe I was still bitter about him taking out my boy Brad.

tbh, I'm trying to get through them as fast as possible to avoid spoilers now that I'm actively participating in Survivor discussion again and following the Reddit sub. It's inevitable I'm going to see a name as a Survivor winner that'll stick with me, much like it did with Ghost Island and HvHvH, which spoiled the winners for those seasons before I could watch them even though it had been years since I seen those names of men I couldn't even pick out of a lineup.

I cruised through HHH through IOTI because I was on staycation from work and really didn't do much of anything but sit in front of the TV (: I'm knocking out a few episodes a day now after I get off work.