Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-1294345-20171215132543

In recent years, I've been increasingly getting annoyed by Probst, mostly for his partialism to males and in general, contestants who fall for his call for "big moves."

Survivor was introduced as a social experiment, but with production constantly feeding the contestants with Hidden Immunity Idols and advantages, the show has degenerated into a mindless strategy game. A race to find these idols and advantages. It's sickening me that he and his cronies (those gamebots who fell for Probst's idea of "big moves", and Survivor writers like Dalton Ross) fail to find wisdom in stepping back, analyzing one's surroundings, before making a move. All Probst does nowadays is basically begging for suicide bombers to fuck the game up by forcibly squeeze aggressive moves for shock value. Heck, I was repulsed by advantage-geddon, moreso seeing the commenters on the Facebook page, saying that it was Cirie's fault for not looking for an idol. Survivor is a social game, not a race to find idols. Building social bonds is the foundation of game play. When relationships are established, strategy follows. All Probst did was shove these advantages to extract cheap blindsides, with players like Spencer, Zeke, Joe, Ryan, Chrissy falling for it; and punish those who choose to play under the radar with little to no airtime/edit.

Of course, Survivor is way past its prime; but this is not how you move with the show. Before, survivors play to win a million dollars. Now, survivors play to compete for Probst's attention so they can play again for a future season. It's saddening that all we see is Probst's vision of the show, not what the show was meant to be from the beginning. What I've been seeing lately are kamikaze players who make "big moves" for the fun of it. This is why it is refreshing to see someone "basic" like Lauren, who appears to be a generic Survivor fan, but is not enamored by "big moves", or being too flashy in social media (she barely posts anything Survivor-related online).

How about you? What are you thoughts about the show's trajectory? 