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Finished this season a few weeks ago, but only got around to doing my write-ups now. Decent season, but definitely not the best. The cast... for the most part was likeable (in the sense that I didn't hate a lot of them), but they were pretty bland. A few standouts, but not very many... so yeah, let's get on with it.16. Coach Wade (5th Place)
I’m sorry. I understand that if Coach wasn’t in this season, it would be even more boring than it was. But that doesn’t mean I have to like him. Coach was so annoying, and even if I didn’t take him seriously, it was just annoying to watch him have pretty much all the screentime, and have him be a pain in the ass. “Oh I’m playing honestly and I’ve never lied”. Yeah... right... that’s a lie right there. He’s a little better in future seasons, but I don’t think I’ll ever like Coach.
15. Joe Dowdle (10th Place)
Okay, so I watched Tocantins pretty much when it aired, but I think I missed a few episodes because I did not know Joe got medically evacuated lol. And I call myself a huge fan of Survivor haha. Anyways, Joe was boring. That’s about sums it up.
14. Sydney Wheeler (11th Place)
Really don’t remember anything except her sort of being the flirt...
13. Carolina Eastwood (16th Place)
She was alright. Kind of annoying, but I liked her moment with Sandy about wishing she didn’t have to vote Sandy out... and then Carolina left lol. I’ve read that Abi-Maria(Phillipines) was originally supposed to be on this season, but Carolina replaced her. Kind of glad they saved Abi-Maria for a stronger season.
12. Candace Smith (15th Place)
Slightly boring, but she had a good rivalry with Coach that was entertaining to watch.
11. Spencer Duhm (12th Place)
He was a little bit boring, but I didn’t dislike him. Plus it’s really cool that he was 18 during filming.
10. Jerry Sims (14th Place)
He was cool, but I feel most of his screentime was dedicated to him feeling sick, so I didn’t really get a feel for who this guy really was.
9. Stephen Fishbach (2nd Place)
Stephen reminds me a lot of Kenny from Gabon. He’s charming in the beginning with his innocence, and geekiness, but later he because a strategic force... except I didn’t like Stephen nearly as much as I liked Kenny. He was less of an interesting strategic player, and wasn’t that entertaining to watch. Stephen’s face when Taj told him about the Exile Alliance was priceless though. Literally a
expression except verging more towards a smile lol.8. J.T. Thomas (Winner)
When I first watched Tocantins, I really liked JT as the winner... and I still think he was a pretty good winner, I just didn’t think he was as interesting as I remembered him being. I don’t agree with the argument that everybody was playing the game to let JT win, but it did seem like he had an easier time than most winners (unless you’re Yul). Not a terrible winner, but not my favourite.
7. Brendan Synnott (9th Place)
I expected to hate Brendan, because he reminded me so much of Marcus... but he didn’t have nearly as much control as Marcus did, and it was entertaining to watch his Exile Alliance... except it really sucks that it kind of just died at the merge. It would have been pretty epic.
6. Debbie Beebe (6th Place)
I agree when people say she was a little boring, but she was extremely nice and it was good to see an older lady who wasn’t extremely emotional (I feel like all the older ladies we get recently have been an emotional mess, which is kind of understandable, but is getting tiring).
5. Erinn Lobdell (3rd Place)
Last surviving Timbira member, and although not the most interesting person, I enjoyed watching her journey to the final 3. Any rivalry with Coach I’m going to root for the person against Coach, so I did like Erin a lot because of this.
4. Sandy Burgin (13th Place)
Okay, Sandy was hilarious and crazy and just pretty amazing. As soon as she was voted off her tribe and found out she wasn’t going to be making the trek she was celebrating which was funny to watch. And then the whole calling her tribe “Jalapeno” was entertaining, and not knowing what a pace was. Sandy had a bunch of good moments, and she should be on a second chance season (although I doubt we’ll ever see one).
3. Taj Johnson-George (4th Place)
Another good character in Taj. I really liked her and was rooting for her most of the season. She kind of fizzled out at the merge, but that family visit episode at the auction was hilarious. Probably my favourite moment from the season. I’m pretty surprised her and Eddie George weren’t on Blood VS Water, but I guess they already had the Culpeppers.
2. Tyson Apostol (8th Place)
This is like the only season I liked Tyson in. He was a goofball, and a really good villain to Sierra. He had a lot of funny moments in this season, and he had some good confessionals and one liners. Sadly, he loses all of that in future seasons...
1. Sierra Reed (7th Place)
I think Sierra may be in my top 5 of all time players. She has one of the greatest underdog stories on any season of Survivor. From being voted out first, to going to camp and actually building shelter for her tribe, and constantly going from good to bad positions. I really loved how much fight she had, and honestly... if she had got to the end and won, this would have been a lot greater of a season.
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...Coach didn't really have all the screentime, though? Unlike Russell/Rob/Phillip etc where it's just them getting all the confessionals and airtime, we got to know other characters through their interactions with Coach and it rose said characters immensely. Without Tyson/Brendan/Erinn constantly smack-talking Coach he's actually pretty low-visibility compared to the three aforementioned camerawhores.
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Compared to those three, Coach is definitely not as bad. But still, it felt like pretty much everything this season surrounded around Coach, and it got old pretty fast. The whole "changing the game" thing was kind of stupid, because he pretty much played the same as every single person that played before him... target the people who target you.
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That's what makes him Coach though - he makes all these fantastical analogies, calls his alliance mates by these fantastical names and he thinks he's above the whole aspect of the game that makes it Survivor. But he's not. He's on the exact same level as everyone else and he acts like he's above it all, and it's simultaneously fascinating and cringeworthy to watch him, especially in his later seasons, think he can promise everyone the exact same deal and not have to break any of his promises. I mean from the sounds of it in South Pacific he promised John and Edna and Brandon and Rick and Ozzy and Albert and Sophie Final Three deals yet he couldn't deliver on the majority of them and had to break a shitload of promises to get to Final Three, yet he kept on acting like he'd played an honourable game and hadn't' broken any promises. It's present in all of his seasons but most prominently in his next two.
And that's on top of his character - he's the "one-up" guy. He always has to be better than everyone somehow. Whether it's trying to convince Brendan he invented the art of Samurai, telling Jeff that he made sure his tribe had all the right supplies at the start of the game because he directed them with his eyes, pointlessly saying that he's thrown balls underhand at tiles before, making sure he has the worst possible Exile experience possible so it minimizes everyone else's experience, or delaying TC just so he can read a poem before he's voted out. And it continued in post show interviews, where he claimed he lost a quarter of his body weight while he was playing Survivor and stressed that it was more body weight lost than anyone else in Survivor history. Hell it's even present in South Pacific where he sees Brandon is religious and then basically turns himself into the most devout Fundamentalist in Survivor history just so he can show-up Brandon. And says that he lost a challenge for his tribe because nobody would listen to him. It's all just Coach.
I get that there is room to hate him because of these reasons and it's pretty reasonable since there are a million different ways to look at Survivor (believe me I know plenty of people that do hate him for the reasons you've stated, and others for different reasons altogether like religion and stuff) but I think the only reason one can hate Coach is if you take him seriously. Remove that from your life, see him as the harmless joke that he is and you'll ultimately get Coach.
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Haha reading through this whole thing and the entire time I'm pretty much just saying "That's why I hate him... that's why I hate him". I guess there are 2 ways to look at him, and I took Coach seriously because the way he comes across, he seems to want to be taken seriously. Like... in my eyes it doesn't seem like he was joking around at all. All those moments you talked about, it seemed like actual Coach, and how Coach would be in real life. I don't think he's worst than Russell or Rob, but he's pretty high on my least favorite Survivors list. Clearly we see 2 different things in him lol
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He's not joking around at all, that's what makes him so funny - he's dead set serious in basically everything he does. You just gotta see the humour in a guy who goes around making medieval analogies and tries to go to the Final 2 with literally everyone in the cast and still thinks he's above the game and invented a new honourable way of playing Survivor.
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