[JerseyWins]

Decided to get through the rest of Redemption Island tonight and I'm on the jury questioning during the finale now.

Phillip (while sounding like a whiny child): You sound like a whiny child!

Phillip Sheppard everybody.

I've found him pretty annoying at times (mainly the Stealth R Us code names / corporation bs - which is part of why I didn't like him much last time) but damn this guy cracked me up a lot through the season.

[JerseyWins]

Omg these have to be the two biggest goats taken to the end in Survivor history.

[JerseyWins]

Redemption Island

Terrific final 6 or so IMO that resulted in a few quality final moments to end the season... it was a decently good season at first which died out through the middle & became predictable by the end but definitely had its moments with Phillip constantly acting a fool around camp. Also enjoyable to see Rob entertain while also completing an amazing game even if it made for a boringly predictable mid-to-end game with no power shifts. It makes me wish I saw all of Rob's seasons before seeing this one but oh well.

---(faves)---
1. Boston Rob
2. Stephanie
3. Russell
4. Phillip
5. Natalie
---(liked)---
6. Ashley
7. Grant
8. Krista
---(ok)---
9. Andrea
10. Matt
11. Ralph
12. Francesca
---(meh)---
13. Sarita
14. Kristina
---(disliked)---
15. Steve
16. Mike
17. Julie
18. David

I'm tired and I also had a long gap between watching episodes so it's sort of tough to think back but I'd go with something like that for a cast ranking.

[reece(:]

Legends only?

[Braden]

THE Leslie Nease?

I remember her and Courtney had a cute bond during China, I'm surprised but glad they still hang out. Love the tight bonds she has with Todd and Sandra too, and Boston Rob.

[reece(:]

More legends!

[JerseyWins]

Going to start South Pacific a little later.

Ozzy's back

Coach tho...

[reece(:]

Legends Stacey and Christine are back!

[JerseyWins]

OH GOD, they brought Redemption Island back?!

[JerseyWins]

Well I was liking Semhar quite a bit so at least there's that chance of her returning but 1) I doubt it and 2) I still don't like the idea of Redemption Island / returnee(s) in Survivor.

[Macie Lightfoot]

Timehop informed me that Richard beat Kelly 16 years ago today so that's fun.

[MB.]

Um spoilers Timehop!!!1!!!1!

[DouglasS]

I was thinking of watching Survivor Palau, as I've never seen it. I've heard its an average season though

[Braden]

I quite enjoyed it, Douglas. I think you should watch it

[JerseyWins]

I decided to finally finish what I had left of South Pacific while I wait for the episode of BBUS that I missed tonight to get on CBS.

This season was pretty damn awful. It got interesting right at the merge and that's literally it. Not many people in the cast that I liked either. And Sophie winning is super disappointing as well. She was semi-ok for a while but became the worst by the end, and she wins SMH.

Cast ranking:

---(faves)---
1. Ozzy (renewed himself as being a top Survivor favorite of mine)
2. Semhar (first boot legend there was no one else I really liked enough to be #2)
3. Brandon (lmao... his antics were one of the few highlights this season)
---(liked)---
4. Albert (didn't care for him for most of the game lol yet he's #4 for a pretty good second half)
5. Cochran (pretty likable, not that he was bad on Caramoan, but I much preferred him this time.. not even mad he flipped because aside from Ozzy that tribe sucked anyway)
---(ok)---
6. Mikayla (I'm struggling here to rank people)
7. Elyse (^)
8. Mark (had a few little funny moments and I liked his general attitude... good enough for me to give you some credit on this cast)
9. Coach (he's gotten slightly more rootable with each season but he's mostly even this high because I didn't care for anyone else at all)
---(meh)---
10. Christine (the fire under her was pretty rootable at R.I., she had a few moments even before that I guess)
11. Rick (not lower because he never really annoyed me... but he was basically never really there to have that opportunity)
12. Dawn (nowhere near as annoying as in Caramoan but still just so meh)
13. Whitney (kind of like an entitled, non-endearing, & bland version of Natalie from Samoa... doesn't mean she's awful, a poor version of Natalie is still somewhat decent to me lol)
14. Jim (abrasive personality that was never really funny or likable, had maybe 1 or 2 quality moments but mostly annoying)
15. Stacey (^ but her little rant over "Benjamin" at the R.I. battle was kinda funny and worth noting)
---(disliked)---
16. Edna (painfully boring and like... boring)
17. Keith (douche with zero personality or charisma.. even as an ally of Ozzy I just still couldn't support him whatsoever, part of why I didn't mind Cochran flipping lol)
18. Sophie (brat was a very good way to describe her so I'll leave it at that)

At least I now have this season out of the way. On to the next one.

[VanessaFeltz.]

Originally Posted by JerseyWins

I decided to finally finish what I had left of South Pacific while I wait for the episode of BBUS that I missed tonight to get on CBS.

This season was pretty damn awful. It got interesting right at the merge and that's literally it. Not many people in the cast that I liked either. And Sophie winning is super disappointing as well. She was semi-ok for a while but became the worst by the end, and she wins SMH.

Cast ranking:

---(faves)---
1. Ozzy (renewed himself as being a top Survivor favorite of mine)
2. Semhar (first boot legend there was no one else I really liked enough to be #2)
3. Brandon (lmao... his antics were one of the few highlights this season)
---(liked)---
4. Albert (didn't care for him for most of the game lol yet he's #4 for a pretty good second half)
5. Cochran (pretty likable, not that he was bad on Caramoan, but I much preferred him this time.. not even mad he flipped because aside from Ozzy that tribe sucked anyway)
---(ok)---
6. Mikayla (I'm struggling here to rank people)
7. Elyse (^)
8. Mark (had a few little funny moments and I liked his general attitude... good enough for me to give you some credit on this cast)
9. Coach (he's gotten slightly more rootable with each season but he's mostly even this high because I didn't care for anyone else at all)
---(meh)---
10. Christine (the fire under her was pretty rootable at R.I., she had a few moments even before that I guess)
11. Rick (not lower because he never really annoyed me... but he was basically never really there to have that opportunity)
12. Dawn (nowhere near as annoying as in Caramoan but still just so meh)
13. Whitney (kind of like an entitled, non-endearing, & bland version of Natalie from Samoa... doesn't mean she's awful, a poor version of Natalie is still somewhat decent to me lol)
14. Jim (abrasive personality that was never really funny or likable, had maybe 1 or 2 quality moments but mostly annoying)
15. Stacey (^ but her little rant over "Benjamin" at the R.I. battle was kinda funny and worth noting)
---(disliked)---
16. Edna (painfully boring and like... boring)
17. Keith (douche with zero personality or charisma.. even as an ally of Ozzy I just still couldn't support him whatsoever, part of why I didn't mind Cochran flipping lol)
18. Sophie (brat was a very good way to describe her so I'll leave it at that)

At least I now have this season out of the way. On to the next one.

Imagine having Ozzy as your fave and Christine as your 10th fave

Christine is the real winner of SoPa

[JerseyWins]

I looked back at my R.I. ranking which I still about 100% agree with and won't bother bringing it up but then.... I decided to look back at my thoughts on South Pacific from right after I watched it and I'm actually kinda surprised at first but then afterwards not so much.

Originally Posted by JerseyWins

This season was pretty damn awful. It got interesting right at the merge and that's literally it. Not many people in the cast that I liked either. And Sophie winning is super disappointing as well. She was semi-ok for a while but became the worst by the end, and she wins SMH.

Cast ranking:

---(faves)---
1. Ozzy (renewed himself as being a top Survivor favorite of mine)
2. Semhar (first boot legend there was no one else I really liked enough to be #2)
3. Brandon (lmao... his antics were one of the few highlights this season)
---(liked)---
4. Albert (didn't care for him for most of the game lol yet he's #4 for a pretty good second half)
5. Cochran (pretty likable, not that he was bad on Caramoan, but I much preferred him this time.. not even mad he flipped because aside from Ozzy that tribe sucked anyway)
---(ok)---
6. Mikayla (I'm struggling here to rank people)
7. Elyse (^)
8. Mark (had a few little funny moments and I liked his general attitude... good enough for me to give you some credit on this cast)
9. Coach (he's gotten slightly more rootable with each season but he's mostly even this high because I didn't care for anyone else at all)
---(meh)---
10. Christine (the fire under her was pretty rootable at R.I., she had a few moments even before that I guess)
11. Rick (not lower because he never really annoyed me... but he was basically never really there to have that opportunity)
12. Dawn (nowhere near as annoying as in Caramoan but still just so meh)
13. Whitney (kind of like an entitled, non-endearing, & bland version of Natalie from Samoa... doesn't mean she's awful, a poor version of Natalie is still somewhat decent to me lol)
14. Jim (abrasive personality that was never really funny or likable, had maybe 1 or 2 quality moments but mostly annoying)
15. Stacey (^ but her little rant over "Benjamin" at the R.I. battle was kinda funny and worth noting)
---(disliked)---
16. Edna (painfully boring and like... boring)
17. Keith (douche with zero personality or charisma.. even as an ally of Ozzy I just still couldn't support him whatsoever, part of why I didn't mind Cochran flipping lol)
18. Sophie (brat was a very good way to describe her so I'll leave it at that)

At least I now have this season out of the way. On to the next one.

Like at first glance, WTF @ me ranking Coach #9. I might lower him a bit now BUT then after I think about it I guess Coach in SoPa was my favorite Coach incarnation (I won't go into detail because I still don't think he's good by any means)... However, the SoPa cast as a whole was just so garbage and that's the main thing here. It was so hard to find people to like in South Pacific. I'd lower Jim a few more spots and maybe higher Stacey a spot or two but aside from that I still agree with the rest of this cast ranking. But regardless of how I do the ranking, the people on this cast are mostly just a big blur of meh or annoying people. I said Whitney was entitled and in a non-endearing way, which yes she was, but yet I still gave her some credit within this cast.

Literally #11-18 are so bad that I have a hard time ranking them in hindsight as well.

"11. Rick (not lower because he never really annoyed me... but he was basically never really there to have that opportunity)"

Actually funny to me because when Macie was re-watching and I read "Rick" in the cast, I had NO CLUE who that was even after going to check what he looked like.

Anyway, not that Redemption Island is great but it's definitely a better season than South Pacific. Not only based on casts but the drama/entertainment in SoPa literally revolved around Brandon being psycho & the Cochran flip which was also semi-hard to watch (@ both Brandon & the Cochran flip ).

[Macie Lightfoot]

yikes...

[MB.]

yikes x2

[JerseyWins]

yikes x3

[reece(:]

Yikes x4?

[Macie Lightfoot]

I think Sophie is my favorite non-Sandra winner? Her victory makes SoPa sooooo narratively satisfying and an overall redeemable season. There's just something beautiful about someone with no tolerance for bull**** being placed on a tribe that is entirely fueled by bull****

[TomC]

Rob C is okay, but a bit annoying and cringey (he clearly knew the show very well), and I don't like how he dominates the airtime so much.

Amazon has been a good series, but seems overrated judging by the first eight episodes. The last two vote offs were very predictable.

[Macie Lightfoot]

lol just wait hun, things are about to turn up...x

[Jack_]

I'm a few episodes into All Stars and was baffled to randomly find out that Jenna and Ethan dated for ten years?!

But can anyone tell me why this wasn't at all mentioned on the show? Or does it get brought up later on?