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Another franchise falls!

#14



Points: 153

Highest from Survivor

Much like The Debbie Wanner Experience mentioned earlier in the ranking, The Alecia Holden Experience was just as magical, except that little bit more… concise, let’s say. By that, I mean that she was so hated by her tribe that she was voted out in a mercy kill after eleven painful days on the beaches of Cambodia. You see, Alecia was never meant to be a Brawn. She wasn’t as strong or as intimidating as her fellow tribemates. She was, in fact, a mental giant. She lived by her own tune – so what if she didn’t realise that you have to take the pen lid off the pen in order to be able to write with it? Alecia didn’t care for rules, for order, for the kind of routine and regime that her Brawn tribesmates craved. She didn’t use her muscles; she used her brain. So what if that didn’t come to fruition in the challenges, where she’d completely forget how puzzles worked? She had heart. Look at the time where she spent almost an entire day trying to make fire, starting with just the smallest embryo. She cared for her tribe, as much as she didn’t fit in with them, even when they didn’t care for her. She shared the clue to the hidden immunity idol with Cydney, even though she’d later be trampled over by Scot and Jason for it. She managed to plead her case well enough that she was, inexplicably, spared over Darnell and Jennifer, even if she wasn’t able crack the other three in the end. And, perhaps strangest of all, even notorious holder of bad opinions Jeff Probst sided with her. Now that’s the making of a legend. And with that, Survivor is out of the ranking, which is a little bit of a shame considering it produced two top-tier seasons (and one Millennials vs. Gen X) this year. Plus, Alecia was in the top 10 for a while (or so my terrible memory tells me), but was ultimately pushed down to 14th by the people above her. That's how these things tend to work. But hey. Onwards and upwards!