SJDS:
Rate the season 1-10 on the winner: 7. Played a great game and proved a worthy main character after Josh and Jeremy went home, but I wish we could have seen more of her (excluding her and Baylor on Exile was inexplicable).
Rate the season 1-10 on entertainment: 7. Some of it was the right kind of entertainment (Keith being Keith, Drew being Drew, the F5 idol play) and some of it was the wrong kind (flint drama, rice drama, trail mix drama, John Rocker drama), but there were no dull stretches.
Rate the season 1-10 on the cast overall: 4. The editors did an alright job of making hay with what was almost guaranteed to be only half of a good cast. The family that stays together does not watch Survivor together, apparently.
Rate the season 1-10 on gameplay: 5. The gameplay was presented as an extension of family ties and interpersonal conflict, which in theory is something I should love, but it was frustrating at the time, largely because of the impenetrable "family final five" that agreed on who would place 4th and 5th to give the remaining 3 a better shot with the jury. Thankfully that didn't happen, but still, holy shit. I need a rewatch to properly evaluate.
BONUS
Rate the season 1-10 on the location: 4. Looked better than the last time they were in Nicaragua, but aside from the cool-looking exile spire, Nicaragua still falls in a weird no-man's-land between not beachy enough and not jungly enough.
Rate the season 1-10 on the challenges: 5. Points awarded for the creativity of the hero challenges (as well as the best-ever iteration of the Massive Obstacle Course at F4), points docked for the merge being nothing but balancing balls and endurance challenges. Seriously, switch it up a little!

TAO:
Rate the season 1-10 on the winner: 8. Tina is iconic, not only as an antithesis to Colby, but as an antithesis to Hatch.
Rate the season 1-10 on entertainment: 7. Provided our first dose of Survivor as we know it today, as well as the biggest survival-in-the-wild moments the show has ever produced (the camp flood in particular is riveting television). The merge SERIOUSLY drags, though.
Rate the season 1-10 on the cast overall: 8. Think about how many people from Australia came back a second or third time. Think about how many of them you actually wanted to see a second time.
Rate the season 1-10 on gameplay: 5. Ranks lowest out of all of the original 7 seasons; wasn't really that much of a leap forward from Borneo.
BONUS
Rate the season 1-10 on the location: 9. The inland/beach combo is something we've only seen once since (Tocantins, and even then just barely), and it strikes an excellent balance between unique and Survivoresque. And HOLY SHIT THAT TRIBAL COUNCIL.
Rate the season 1-10 on the challenges: 4. Doesn't retain as much old-school charm as other things we love from the first several seasons; they mostly look amateurish. Would be a 3 if not for the cliff-jumping challenge.

...and yet I voted for SJDS, because its gestalt entertains me more, even as its individual components fail to impress.


EDIT: OMG I just realized both seasons feature Probst coming to camp and dismantling the shelter in exchange for giving them more rice. OLD SCHOOL AND NEW SCHOOL AREN'T SO DIFFERENT AFTER ALL!