User blog comment:Ḡwẵine Ḹٍٍkƨ Ĺiĸe Ͼềлȑềd/Returning Players My Ass/@comment-1871576-20130714093513

I agree so much. Having returning players every season is stupid honestly. They should make a season with just sixteen new contestants.

It's really out of hand. A good returnee season is awesome every now and then. Like, every five or six seasons it's great. But now, it's all the time. I thought that after Redemption Island and South Pacific, it'd go back to the old times of new contestants, and it did or One World. One World wasn't a terrible season, because it did have some colorful characters.

Then Philippines came. I didn't totally mind it, because this made sense. I liked how they brought back Penner, Russell and Skupin. It gave us a chance to show how they play actually (although Penner is kind of an exception, but he was still amazing). I thought for sure it would be done with returnees for a while, and I was pretty happy that they would get some new faces.

Caramoan was terrible. First of all, not even half the fans are true fans. I can really only see Allie, Sherri (she named her kid after Colby, she I can see her having auditioned), Matt because he knew a few of the older challenges, and I don't even know the final one who auditioned, but probably Hope since she was close to Allie.

Fans vs Favorites was a good twist, but it should not have been season twenty six, and the favorites were awful. The only favorites I liked were Eric, Brenda, Corinne and Malcolm. Bringing back Fran was an awful idea. Like, why bring her back? She literally just took up space. I don't get it. And the fact 6 of the so called "favorites" were from Redemption Island seasons. (Just realized the only four favorites I liked were the ones who weren't from RI seasons).

Overall, I am not excited for Blood vs Water at all. The returning players again, and the twist is stupid. The twist is awful, because bringing family on Survivor defeats the purpose of isolation. Plus, are they going to do a Loved Ones Challenge? Like, with what loved ones? I really hope season twenty eight can do fully original players. If they do that, I'll be so happy.

All in all, this is really because Survivor is starting to die out, with the returnees and these stupid twists. The reason no one watches the ones with returnees is because they don't like the returnees. I wouldn't watch if I hated the returnees, and I did hate alot of them. If Jeff Probst wants some advice on how to get ratings up, do an original season. No twists (maybe idols or Exile Island, but that's it), and with new contestants. That would get some more viewers. And, don't recruit people. I'm sure Survivor does not have a shortage of people auditioning.