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beatles20147 wrote:

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These might not be the five but they're some of the ones who immediately came to mind.

5. Kim P. - What CL said.

4. Mike - Thanks for falling into the fire, buddy. A Kucha F6 would've been predictable but way more entertaining than the "good people" + Amber and Keith. Besides, Tina could still slip through the cracks since she's almost definitely the last Ogakor picked off. Only problem here is that we lose Jerri three episodes early but the Varner/Skupin dynamic was priceless and having that extend a few more episodes would be well worth it. Outback is incredible for the first half and then pretty much dead after F7. A Kucha endgame would have been much better. Since we didn't know Kucha's long-term dynamics it would've made for an unpredictable finish too.

3. Jenna L. - I despise her for many reasons, but even though she was in no way the weakest choice for ASS, if you want to blame anyone for ruining it, don't blame Lex, don't blame Rob; it's Jenna's fault. I'm sure Jenna wasn't the only one who was deadset against seeing a winner win again. But nobody else took it to the degree she did, where she basically felt entitled to outlasting them. To her, they didn't deserve to be there and she wanted to make sure they didn't get anywhere close to the end. Picking off the strong is a legitimate strategy, but it was bound to make ASS an incredible disappointment--only one person who'd made it to the final four the first time managed to make the final seven, and outside of him, the highest-placer had scraped up sixth the first time around. And Jenna was the one who led the pack as far as making sure that the endgame was going to consist of the weakest people who managed to make the cut for ASS.

2. Vecepia - Probst put it very well when he said that in terms of casting a player, they did a great job with Vee, but as far as TV goes, terrible pick. Vee wasn't the first bland person cast on the show (and she wasn't even the most boring person in Marquesas) but she was the first person (and Danni later followed seven seasons later) who deliberately went out of her way to make for boring television. "Too much drama"--kudos for a fantastic strategy but Kathy losing was bad enough; having the winner come out of nowhere rubbed salt in the wounds. I can't hold it against her; she did what she needed to win the million, and good for her that it worked out. But Survivor's not about a game, it's about making an entertaining TV show, and the casting people screwed up with Vee in that department.

1. Brian Heidik - Ok people, put down the gun (I'm not a puppy) and I'll explain. Some people attribute the desensitization of Survivor to Cesternino, but the credit/blame should go to Heidik. The early seasons were all about how far would people go to win a million bucks--at what point do the ethics kick in, etc. With rare exceptions, you don't find Gabes and Rodgers with moral boundaries anymore--not that you always need them, but they actually throw the game for more of a loop amidst all the hardcore strategists and whatnot. Anyway, Heidik's win killed the innocence of Survivor by proving that an ice-cold asshole with not one iota of regard for the people he was with--outside of them being his own personal chess pieces--could prevail. When he won, boundaries pretty much ceased to exist in Survivor. No strategy was off-limits anymore, and it really destroyed the human aspect of the show that made the first few seasons so appealing.

You are DEAD.TO.ME.

Though I agree, to an extent.