I do think Abi's a little overrated, but it's hard not to appreciate the importance of the role she plays in the season (largely because she'd kill you if you did)

Abi winning individual immunity :clap1: I don't like it when we get into a Shii Ann (AS) scenario, cos it's kinda boring, but you just can't help but back the underdog

does anyone know what personal thing Lisa was avoiding that made her emotional at f7 tribal?

Penner </3

I find Denise hard to warm to tbh. She's quite cold.

abi calling skupin an idiot, moron and telling him he won't win the million at f5 tc was a howl

Queen of dragging pedos.

Phillipines was a solid season. Although there were no stand-out moments, the cast was strong, it plodded along nicely, and there was little to take offence to (unlike in the abomination that is WA). I also wasn't expecting Denise to win - for some reason I had it in my head it would be Skupin!

Philippines:
Lisa
Abi
Penner
Malcolm
Denise
Roxy
Russell
RC
Dawson
Katie
Angie
Carter
Skupin
Jeff
Dana
Pete
Zane
Artis

No one to really hate in this season

Starting S26 later today hopefully - I know Erik, Corinne, Brenda, Fran, Philip, Andrea, Dawn, Cochran and Malcolm are in it. idk who the tenth is (is there even a tenth?) but I thought it was Colton but luckily found out that wasn't the case

There is a tenth :)

Unfortunately

more like teeth

Oh oops I knew Brandon was in this

That 10th was pretty lulzy at least. :joker:

I only got through 10 mins of the Caramoan premiere yesterday and restarting today - but I just find the favourites selection hilarious.

Corinne is horrendous, Cochran is a total wet blanket, Franny (although worthy!) was a first vote-off, Andrea is totally forgettable, Philip is one of the most controversial castaways ever, and Cochran just sucks.

Was there not a bit of outrage when the cast was revealed?

Jeff hyped it up as one of THE BEST SEASONS EVER and then it had one of the worst pre-merges ever. And the post-merge was *slightly* better but a little too little too late (TM Jenna Lewis)

this fills me with optimism!

where has ur sig gone

This is one of the seasons I don't fully get the hate for. I quite liked this season and was shocked it's not that well recieved by fans. It's not one of the best seasons, but for me it was mid-tier, a lot of people put it low tier though. I enjoyed quite a few of the castaways; Shamar, Laura, Brenda, Erik from what I remember.

Although Blood v Water the next following season I loved, which again people think is a mid-tier season, but I personally loved that season and the format/twist was really refreshing, and they repeated that twist for S29, and its one of the survivor twists that actually work. So you've got a good patch of seasons following this one that you can look forward to, S27-S29 are all classics for me.

Half of the Caramoan favorites weren't favorites, and nearly all of the fans weren't actually fans :joker:

Fran was only cast because production enjoyed her ONE episode feud with Phillip

I think that's how they even described her too :skull:

iconic that feud was though!

To be fair, Fran was one of the best on Bikal

I find Brandon hot :skull:

mess @ Allie getting no airtime

The fact this is true :skull: Bikal were truly dire

Most Caramoan people were either boring or awful. Eddie, Sherri and Laura were the only ones I fully liked in the end.

the individuality of seasons has totally vanished post-S21.

like i'm mainly talking in terms of location and theming - from S22 onwards they're all basic beach seasons