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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 2825691" data-attributes="member: 4779">Those who know me around here know my greatest guilty pleasure: Survivor!I didn't start routing for him until 2 weeks ago but, Yay Aras!  Terry and Cirie were probably most deserving of being in the final 2 (Cirie, the mastermind.  Terry, Captain Challenge) but I was happy with the outcome.  Danielle would have been a fool to take Terry to the finals.  She may have gotten one vote if she did.  Against Aras, she had a fighting chance.Aras, obviously, was the stronger player.  He made relationships (good and bad) with everyone on the jury.  His head was on the chopping block more than once and he wiggled out.Terry's only mistake (which wasn't really a mistake, more of a calculated gamble) was not giving D the hidden immunity idol.  That would have cemented her in their alliance.  It's too hard to turn someone who has been loyal to a group for over a month in just 3 days.  It would take a considerable gesture to do so.  That may have been it.The final immunity challenge was a letdown.  The guys had no chance of beating Danielle.  The small female had a serious advantage in the balance challenge.  The big guys had no shot at all.  She had no trouble from the start and it was easy to see that the guys would have been lucky to make it to the final pad, which I actually thought would happen.  I don't have an answer, but I think the Survivor producers need to come up with a different final immunity challenge than an endurance/balance one.  An obsticle course isn't fair as it punishes those not in shape, a balance challange kills and bigger guy and an endurance challenge is typically easier for the females but the fairest of the 3 - however it is BOORING.All said, this was a terrific season.  The personalities were all there:  the good one (Cirie), the unstoppable force and good guy (Terry), the super-annoying one (Courtney), the crazy one (Shane), the tag-along (Danielle) and the easy to route for (Aras).  The "bad guy" would be up to personal preference.  Mine was Terry.  I was simply sick of him winning all the immunity challenges.  It made the hidden idol useless. Yeah, it sorta had an impact but not really.The Exile Island concept is great and should be included again.  The hidden idol should also re-appear.  I'm also hoping something else new will pop up in the next season.Now, I'm off to watch the reunion show...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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