So as soon as I had watched the first episode I was immediately hooked on it. The whole format seems so amazing, and the first season was brilliant - especially for a show produced in 2000. I love the concept of it all and the cast dynamic was really good too.
Now, on to the actual outcomes. I wish that Sonja had stayed longer, she seemed like such a fun and lovely person, but at least she holds the record for the first ever eliminee. Also, when I was watching it, it was a few days after BB had died, so atching his elimination was pretty sad knowing that he's not living anymore
But I wasn't too fussed that he went so early, he didn't seem like someone who would've contributed much to the series. Stacey was just boring, I literally had no idea who she was until her elimination episode when everyone started getting tired of her, for reasons I don't even know why. Ramona seemed like a good character, I wished she had stayed longer, but she didn't seem like someone that would've gone very far post-merge. Dirk was pretty dull and I barely remember him, so I wasn't too disappointed at his elimination. Same can be said for Joel, except I found it hilaious how we eliminated over something Gervase said that had no relevance to Joel whatsoever
Now, on to the Rattana mergers
I loved the fact that the Tagi tribe all had a voting alliance (even though I preferred the Pagong tribe members more pre-merge). But WTF @ Sean's "alphabetical voting"??! Like, that's one of the weirdest things in reality tv that I've ever seen. Anyway, I originally liked Gretchen but then she started to become really boring and useless and I questioned the reason why she was even there, she literally just pointed out the obvious during all her confessionals and that's about it really. I thought Greg was really cool throughout the show and I liked him, but in his elimination episode he started to go cray and his reaction to his elimination was hilarious but odd at the same time. Now on to Jenna, I really really liked her, and she was probably my favourite female left at the time but I felt so sorry for her when she didn't get a video from home
At least she got a letter though. Gervase was probably my favourite male of the season purely because he was the only one that wasn't talking about the game 24/7 and actually liked to do fun stuff too. I wished he'd stayed a bit longer, but I know he comes back in one of the recent seasons (the current one right? don't tell me where he placs plz). Colleen was another irrelevant dud until merge and I only started to warm to her once Greg was eliminated, but she was wiped out by the Tagi voters <333
Moving on to that, I loved how the Tagi tribe all stuck together and block voted everyone out 1 by 1 until they were the top 5
I am not sure whether I liked Sean or not, at times he was really good, but at other times he seemed a bit boring. His voting methods guaranteed him some airtime though. Sue was just such a bitch but that's what I loved about her. And in the finale when she was acting really bitter and was like "I hope my vote is the decider" and in the end it was
Anyway, she came out with some great lines and was the star of the show IMO. Rudy was great too, can't believe he was 72 and managed to outlast all the younger ones! He was pretty funny at times and I thought he had the best character development throughout the show. Now, at first I thought Kelly was a bore (getting beat by Gervase in a water challenge when she was a sailing instructor or something
) but then when she started winning all those immunity idols and all her alliance turned on her because of it, I was rooting for her from F6 onwards
But, the she lost to the deserving winner, which was Richard. He played a great social game and, although he didn't win so many comps, he knew exactly what he was doing and definitely deserved the win. Catching all the fish was the main reason they kept him around IMO.
I have no idea who returns for All Stars (try and not tell me if you can resist, I want to be surprised when I watch it), but I hope Sue, Kelly, Gervase, Rudy and maybe Sonja (just to see how she really is) come back and play again.