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Originally Posted by JerseyWins
In fairness, it does have the best endgame between seasons 1-3 but that's not saying much.
Also in fairness, the format of Survivor just causes a lot of boring and/or predictable finishes so it's hard to bash Borneo on a weak finish when it wasn't that weak compared to a lot of seasons.
It's rare that you see an actual eventful/entertaining endgame... Cagayan, SJDS, Pearl Islands, China, even MvGx & Kaoh Rong come to mind as seasons that didn't slow down at the end. They are pretty far up among my favorite seasons of Survivor mainly because that's a big advantage over many seasons that just kinda die out.
Borneo definitely slowed down though... one of the biggest moments during the last couple of boots was like, Kelly & Susan's argument which wasn't anything spectacular, and there wasn't much else aside from an entertaining confessional here and there.
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This reeks of ~BIG MOVES~ which duh, you're not going to find those in the early seasons of Survivor. I could go on and on about the game serving as a vehicle for human drama and the Borneo finale being fantastic in that Tagi had to start cannibalizing and turning on themselves and every storyline got resolved in a narratively satisfying way, but if you're dismissing the Kelly/Sue dynamic as nothing spectacular then you're probably not gonna get it.