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Originally Posted by troynuncdicit

And you're acting like Cook Islands wasn't tainted? My god I hope you've seen the earlier seasons, you can't call yourself a Survivor fanatic if you haven't.

Yes, I've seen every season, bar Redemption Island & South Pacific. And I realize Cook Islands deviated a lot from what Survivor is supposed to be, as I quickly realized when I bought Borneo, Australian Outback, and Pearl Islands on DVD about halfway-through Cook Islands, but it was nothing like the mutt that Survivor has become now. The HII was too powerful, the jury starting before the merge was unfair to any finalist who hadn't lived with that juror, the message-in-a-bottle was rigged, and the final three doesn't really work because one of the three is always just dead-weight (with the exception of China of course ) and although those do make it a pretty poor season, I don't feel it completely betrayed the spirit of Survivor as the last two have.