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Horrible, soulless season, but by no means the worst.

Came to soon after, so there was no novelty to an all-returning player cast. And it came at the height of the BIG MOVEZ era where Probst and co condition the players to make BIG MOVEZ despite it making no strategic sense just to "build a resume" for the Final Tribal Council.

All the obnoxious patting one's self on the back for "evolving the game" started by Stephen Fishbach in Cambodia and continued by most of the cast came to a head this season. The biggest offender was, of course, Zeke Smith. No, Zeke, talking mindlessly about bathing yourself in the blood of your enemies, idiotically jumping up and down while shouting "REINVENTING HOW THIS GAME IS PLAYED", turning on your own allies just because they didn't let you call the shots (despite there being no sound strategic reason for doing so at the time), and gesticulating obnoxiously from the jury box while advantage-geddon was occurring does not make you endearing. It just makes you look like a pathetic poster child for Probst and co just so you can get airtime.

And speaking of advantage-geddon, crap like that should never happen again. Although not part of advantage-geddon, the non-transferable rule with the Vote Steal was pure BS (though I get that the rule has been in place since at least Cambodia). Hope they remove that if it's ever brought back again.

It's in the middle tier right now in my season rankings, solely because of the Sandra Diaz-Twine arc being an amazing tribute to the statistically greatest player in Survivor history, and for Cirie Fields getting the respect she deserves. Pretty sure this season won't age well though. Definitely moving it lower in my rankings once ends.