Same, he's been mostly irrelevant and never particularly likeable (except for like in the first episode).

Idk I like Zeke's takes on the season & his position and he's kinda entertaining. Good/involved game player too, which I don't automatically like a good player but it usually helps. He came across pretty bad last episode though... a lot more entitled and arrogant, etc.

yeah idk I don't see it. For someone who has been getting a significant amount of airtime, he's really done **** all up until now and it's one of the most obvious cases of "you guys should remember this person since he's gonna come back and play a second time." It's really another Spencer Bledsoe type of situation where the editors are telling us "like him!!!!! he's playing a good game!!!!!" but they're not showing us any reasons as to why we should like him or how he is playing a good game. He doesn't really have a discernible personality either, and his confessionals suck (stop using the word cultivate, we get it -- you want us to think you're intelligent.)

I have no doubt that Hannah's correct in noting that Zeke is annoying condescending (but again, the editors are telling us rather than showing us, so who knows whether he is or not), but what I have picked up on is that he's whiny as **** when things don't go his way. He threw a temper tantrum when Mari was voted out, as soon as Hannah said that she thinks Jay and Will are the most dangerous duo he immediately whined "okay but what you need to realize is that David is coming after me!!!!!", and then he decided to pull the whole "I want to get [male] out so I'm going to take out [female who is somewhat close to male]" move on Hannah purely out of rage that she wasn't looking out for his best interests.

The most hilarious part of it all is that I don't even think a lot of the casuals really like him, so bringing him back for S34 makes even less sense.

1. Hannah ("so do you think David is the biggest threat?" *looks up at the sky for 15 minutes and hesitates*)
2. Ken (just give me more damnit, why has he been UTR for five episodes in a row)
3. Jay (I guess he's Peruvian?)
4. David (I like you but omfg how nauseating was that first hour hero worship)
5. Bret (I desperately want to like you but your performance at Tribal Council was Not A Good Look)
6. Sunday ("What is the plan?" "Ken" ice cold hun...x)
7. Adam (lol this is NO endorsement of him but he actually didn't bother me at all for once)
8. Will (I'd probably hate you if you actually had an edit)
9. Zeke (you cultivate crops, not people. just shut up for once pls)

1. Taylor
2. Michaela
3. Figgy
4. Lucy
5. Jessica
6. Michelle
7. Chris
8. CeCe
9. Rachel
10. Paul
11. Mari

yikes @ all that sandy brown. I'm still refusing the notion that this season is good just because the two hour ep was decent. Cambodia's was decent too and let's not forget how that crapfest of a season was.

1.Hannah
2.Adam
3.Ken
4.Zeke
5.Jessica
6.Bret
7.David
8.Sunday
9.Justin(Jay)
10.Will
11.Chris

1. Jay
2. Hannah
3. David
4. Zeke
5. Bret
6. Ken
7. Sunday
8. Adam
9. Will

1. Adam
2. Hannah
3. David
4. Ken
5. Goat (+4) - I don't like you but thanks for voting for Zeke
6. Jay (+4) - Go on/off with Jay
7. Sunday (+3)
8. Zeke (-1)
9. Brett (-1)

Out:
1. Michaela
2. Jessica
3. Mari
4. Cece
5. Rachel
6. Chris
7. Lucy
8.Taylor
9. Figgy
10. Zeke (LOL biggest drop in ranking)
11. Paul
12. Michelle

1) Ken McNickle
2) Adam Klein
3) David Wright
4) Jay Starrett
5) Hannah Shapiro
6) Sunday Burquest
7) Bret LaBelle
8) Zeke Smith
9) Will Wahl

1. Hannah
2. David
3. Ken
4. Jay
5. Adam (I know)
6. Bret
7. Will
8. Sunday (I don't even know how to rank 5-8 because I feel pretty ambivalent on all of them. Great season great cast!)

1. Taylor
2. Michaela
3. Figgy
4. Lucy
5. Jessica
6. Michelle
7. Chris
8. CeCe
9. Rachel
10. Paul
11. Mari
12. Zeke

Just rewatched the episode and lmfao the amount of orange this season is legitimately alarming. I seriously do not give a **** about like 60% of this cast. Can't wait for this season to end.

I'm surprised you're so high on Ken. But I guess this season doesn't have as many good options as most seasons do.

I think in this day and age it's definitely refreshing to see A Legitimate Good And Nice Person, which I generally think Ken is. But then when you factor in the stuff from people's exit interviews, it makes me like him even more alol. I think Lucy said that he would lecture the other Gen Xers in the most condescending way imaginable for things like not saying please :love: the boneheaded move he made this past week definitely falls in line with that sort of behavior.

1. Jay
2. Hannah
3. David
4. Ken
5. Bret
6. Adam

1. Adam
2. Hannah
3. Ken (+1)
4. David (-1)
5. Brett (+4)
6. Jay
7. Will (-2)
8. Sunday (-1)

Out:
1. Michaela
2. Jessica
3. Mari
4. Cece
5. Rachel
6. Chris
7. Lucy
8.Taylor
9. Figgy
10. Will
11. Zeke
12. Sunday
11. Paul
12. Michelle

1. Hannah
2. Jay
3. Adam (I know)
4. David
5. Ken
6. Bret

1. Taylor
2. Michaela
3. Figgy
4. Lucy
5. Jessica
6. Michelle
7. Chris
8. Will
9. CeCe
10. Sunday
11. Rachel
12. Paul
13. Mari
14. Zeke

So even though I having 5 of the finalists in green and Bret has some likable qualities himself... I really don't feel that strongly about any of them alol. Like, it's definitely a good set of finalists in the context of this season and it's muuuuch better than a final six of like... Chris, Jessica, Will, Sunday, Michelle, and Zeke, but still. I still find this cast very weak and uninspiring and I genuinely wouldn't care if we didn't see any of these people back for a second season :3

This from episode one(!) still stands, but I'll have a go anyway:

Ken
Hannah
Bret
Jay
Adam
David

(I'm not bothering assigning them colours because they're all so close and like Troy, I'm not overly passionate 'bout any of them. Just imagine that they're all some ungodly shade of green-y orange)

Michaela
Taylor
Jessica
Figgy
Michelle
Rachel
CeCe
Lucy
Zeke
Mari
Chris
Will
Paul

(...and just imagine that they're all orange. Or maybe brown)

1) Ken McNickle
2) Adam Klein
3) David Wright
4) Jay Starrett
5) Hannah Shapiro
6) Bret LaBelle
7) Sunday Burquest
8) Will Wahl

1) Adam Klein
2) Ken McNickle
3) David Wright
4) Michelle Schubert
5) Figgy Figueroa
6) Jay Starrett
7) Chris Hammons
8) Taylor Stocker
9) Jessica Lewis
10) Hannah Shapiro
11) Michaela Bradshaw
12) Zeke Smith
13) Sunday Burquest
14) CeCe Taylor
15) Bret LaBelle
16) Rachel Ako
17) Mari Takahashi
18) Lucy Huang
19) Will Wahl
20) Paul Wachter

1. Michaela
2. Hannah
3. Bret
4. Ken
5. Jessica
6. Michelle
7. David
8. Mari
9. CeCe
10. Lucy
11. Jay
12. Rachel
13. Taylor
14. Figgy
15. Adam
16. Sunday
17. Paul
18. Will
19. Zeke
20. Chris

1. Jay
2. Hannah
3. David
4. Taylor
5. Michaela
6. Figgy
7. Bret (would be a couple spots lower if not for the finale)
8. Michelle
9. Ken
10. Zeke
11. Rachel
12. CeCe
13. Adam
14. Mari
15. Lucy
16. Sunday
17. Will
18. Jessica
19. Chris
20. Paul

1. Hannah
2. Michaela
3. Michelle
4. Jessica
5. Mari
6. Lucy
7. CeCe
8. Bret
9. Ken
10. Sunday
11. Rachel
12. Zeke
13. Figgy
14. Chris
15. Jay
16. Taylor
17. David
18. Paul
19. Will
20. Adam

Episodes 9-14 and the final list:

1. Ken
2. Adam
3. Jay
4. Hannah
5. Jessica
6. David
7. Zeke
8. Michaela
9. Brett
10. Lucy
11. Mari
12. Chris
13. Michelle
14. Rachel
15. Cece
16. Sunday
17. Paul
18. Will
19. Taylor
20. Figgy

Okay so here is my list after the first episode compared to my final thoughts :joker: Definitely changed a lot:

1. Zeke
2. Hannah
3. Adam
4. Will
5. Mari
6. Michaela
7. Cece
8. Jessica
9. Rachel
10. David
11. Michelle
12. Ken
13. Lucy
14. Justin
15. Chris
16. Paul
17. Sunday
18. Bret
19. Jessica
20. Taylor

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1. Adam
2. Michaela
3. Hannah
4. Ken
5. David
6. Jessica
7. Mari
8. Cece
9. Brett
10. Jay
11. Rachel
12. Chris
13. Lucy
14.Taylor
15. Figgy
16. Will
17. Zeke
18. Sunday
19. Paul
20. Michelle

Tbh though Adam went it my #1 spot after episode 2 and remained their until the end of the season - first time my favourite has won I think!

1. Hannah (should've received at least one vote wtf)
2. Jay
3. Taylor (so shamelessly committed to being a completely awful person :love:)
4. Michaela
5. David (edit was kinda annoying and shoved down our throats BUT he had actual human qualities so)
6. Ken (would be sooooo much higher if he got a proper edit highlighting his flaws and all, he is a complete joke of a human being :love:)
7. Figgy (her confession of Figtails to Ken and Jessica was the only funny moment of the entire season?)
8. Lucy
9. Jessica
10. Bret (lots of mixed feelings so #10 is the perfect spot)
11. Michelle
12. Will
13. CeCe
14. Rachel
15. Adam (this is not his fault at all, but the show's exploitation of him is kinda predatory and gross?)
16. Chris (dropped for that awful jury speech)
17. Sunday
18. Paul
19. Mari
20. Zeke

Something like this? I can't be bothered to work out the finer details since nobody really pops as an All-Time Troy Favo or anything close (would anyone even make my top 100? I doubt it) and I genuinely wouldn't bat an eye if we never saw any of these people again. An uninspiring cast with bad editing certainly does make for a bad season of Survivor.

Sadly, I'm not surprised to see FigTails at the bottom of a lot of people's lists but some of you guys have been lacking a sense of humor for a while so :3

Michaela
Ken
Hannah
Taylor
Bret
Jay
Jessica
Figgy
Michelle
Adam
David
Lucy
Rachel
CeCe
Sunday (who I now realise I've been leaving off my rankings until now, such impact)
Mari
Will
Zeke
Chris
Paul