Just finished this season and....they finally got it right.
This was an excellent season. It had everything! Great characters, great challenges and twists. It felt like old school GOOD ole Survivor!
This season they took 2 retired sports players (popular in South Africa) from Rugby and Soccer and had them lead the 2 teams. They couldn't get voted out, but they weren't contenders for the million either.
When the team merged the captains took on new roles as they battled privately every day for the "Redemption Cup" that burned one vote at tribal for a member of their choice.
Good idea but never made a difference at any of the votes so it kind of fell flat. But I liked the general idea.
As for characters....man they had some good ones! (spoilers ahoy!!!)
Savion was an arrogant beast of the man who gloated over the weaker members on his tribe, telling them to their faces they wouldn't last long.
After the first tribal council the weak formed a stronger reliance and started voting out all his alliance members. Savion did a complete 180 and was nothing but humble for the next 24 days of the game...until he thought he finally had the upper hand again and become his old arrogant self. Telling the 2 remaining weak players in the game goodbye in advance as he gloated over their eventual withdrawal from the game.
Only to be STUNNED by a hidden immunity idol one of them had (and the producers of the show let the viewers know it) and he was out. Amazing.
Shivu, a weak kid who dominated the end of the game in the final two challenges and pulled off a HUGE blindside of Savion. The votes were set to go his way but in the end before the jury, he got to high an opinion of the player he was and talked like he DESERVED the million more than anyone on the jury! Literally losing 3 votes and losing the entire game.
It was such a disaster that someone who outright told him she'd be voting for him (at the beginning of the jury stage) ended up switching her vote after hearing Shivu's pride take over his persona. Unbelievable.
Shane, the mastermind who had BOTH immunity idols and got voted off even when he suspected a blindside but greedily held on to his idols instead of risk them.
Shona, who started on the outs but midway through found herself in the most powerful alliance in the game...until she made a STUPID mistake to steal the idol from someone and get busted for it....immediately voted off that night. Brutal.
Buthle the coattail rider who thought she deserved to win because she won the last challenge....and did nothing else of meaning. She got 2 pity votes and the rest of the jury told her she wasn't getting their vote or attention during the final council.
Graham, the winner. Who was a jerk, but made the right decisions at the right time. The jury rightfully hated him for it but amazingly he turned most of them around in the end with his speech about how the winner shouldn't win by "pity" vote but by who played the game the best.
That would never work in America but it worked in South Africa.
Wonderful season. Looking forward to the next!
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