Pondering the Ending to the 35th Season

There wasn’t much time for me to mention how the season of Heroes versus Healers versus Hustlers ended in the last post as I tried to quickly write everything and get it published in a good enough time. There was a new twist that I feel I need to talk about as well as doing other, various ramblings in this post of mine.

The main thing that I should discuss is the new final four twist. Jeff said that it will appear in the next season and it might keep appearing over and over again. Or, it might only appear in next season and then we’ll go back to the normal way of doing things. It already makes me wonder if they will try and save a player in the next season like they seemed to have done this season.

One thing that we need to agree on is that if Ben had won final immunity, the new twist wouldn’t have mattered. It is the fact that he won because of the twist that seems to be generating instant controversy with Survivor fans. Some people think that Ben’s pile for the fire making had more wood in it, but since Devon never really got much of a fire at all, I don’t think this probably bogus thing matters anyways. I mean, don’t we have better things to do with our time?

Still, this twist ending has caused problems like we saw back in Marquesas when Paschal drew a purple rock. Surely that was just a dumb thing, right? Nope. The purple rock has been part of the game ever since. Now the new twist will appear in Ghost Island according to Jeff. Will it stay in every season? I do not want it to and I think that fans might stop watching in backlash if there isn’t a promise to get rid of it. Too many things could go wrong with this. Now Ben is the only winner outside of Fabio to have a win that is pretty much tainted. Two quitters voted for Fabio and he won by only one vote. Ben would not have even made it to the end if this twist hadn’t happened.

What people seem to be forgetting is that most twists are planned before the season even starts. Jeff said that this was the season of secrets and it was the last of the advantages that we saw. But why put it in the game? One can wonder if it relates to the fact that they got rid of the final two and the decision of who to take to the end. This new twist does this instead by the winner getting to pick someone to go to the end with them. But wouldn’t a better idea be to bring back the final two? I don’t even like the final two that much, but it still seems better than getting rid of the last real vote out of the game.

I have the feeling that the reunion show was as bad and short as it was in order to not talk about this twist. We know for a fact that they will mess with the reunion show as much as they want to. We saw this in Caramoan and we could see this often. The more they mess with it, the worse things will be. But I think that they didn’t want to risk anyone talking about the twist ending of the season and the small time that people got to speak at the reunion show was pretty much the best way they could insure that people wouldn’t be able to air their rightful complaints.

What else is there to say? I’m not sure, but I will do a post in the future where I talk about the final four fire making tie-breaker and if it is all it lives up to be. Them forcing it still seems like a bad idea. I hope that after Ghost Island, we don’t ever have to see this terrible twist again. If it stays around, that would be bad. But it might be here to stay. I guess that we will see for sure what happens in the future. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.