User blog comment:Sunsummer7/Season Rankings/@comment-9284325-20130508155242

1. Vanuatu - Great characters, great story, and my favorite Survivor of all time winning

2. Pearl Islands - Dynamic cast and lots of confrontation which created an entertaining story

3. Australia - Really defined the game as we know it, with a superb cast

4. Panama/Exile Island - A few legitimately insane characters and domination in challenges, both individual and tribal

5. Tocantins - You never knew what you were going to get, and that's what made it so fun

6. Fiji - The combination of a couple brilliant strategists and more than a few boneheads made this season very entertaining

7. China - Good cast, good story, good winner

8. Gabon - Different yet interesting cast... lots of fighting and confessional potshots made it really funny

9. Amazon - A few really entertaining characters and the gender gimmick make up for a mostly bland cast

10. Borneo - Fascinating to watch Hatch invent Survivor strategy. The only bad thing is that a few characters refuse to really strategize

11. Guatemala - This season would have been great if not for the insanely pro-Steph editing job by the producers

12. Thailand - The cast mostly stinks, but the gameplay was interesting and we got to see a legitimate psychopath win Survivor

13. Micronesia - I'm generally opposed to All-Star seasons, but this one had a captivating story and a few genuinely shocking moments

14. Philippines - A mostly good season with a few down episodes... promising that future seasons may hold a candle to the classics

15. Palau - Boring story, but it was shocking and interesting to see one tribe dominate the game so fully

16. Africa - This season is alright, but the first couple of episodes are marred by everything looking miserable and the last episodes are predictable

17. One World - Not bad, but the editing took away from what I thought was an interesting cast all-around

18. Marquesas - Pretty interesting strategically, but the location took away from the gameplay and the Final Two was very disappointing

19. Cook Islands - Had some interesting characters that didn't live up to potential because of a boring (albeit dominant) strategy of a few players

20. Heroes vs. Villians - There was so much going on that it almost made up for the fact that the editing was obsessive about Russell

21. Samoa - So many interesting characters, but it's completely wasted by the editing focusing so intently on Russell. Very disappointing

22. All-Stars - An absolute disaster of a season. Almost no entertainment value because everyone took it too seriously, and one of the weakest winners in the history of Survivor

23. South Pacific - Baffling because of the way the editing neutered the most interesting character in Survivor history (Coach), this season is utterly boring

24. Nicaragua - The most exciting thing to happen was two people quitting. It seemed like nobody knew what they were doing strategically, and the twists were inane and boring

25. Redemption Island - This season is also known as Survivor: Hand the Money to Rob! This season was so set up and predictable that I can't even watch it anymore. Absolutely terrible.

I'll withhold judgment on Caramoan for now, but I think it has the potential to be ranked in the Top 15 or Top 10; I've really enjoyed it. They didn't totally ruin the returning players aspect as they have so many times before.