Overall, an enjoyable season! Some good moves, fun moments, nice players.
However, I'd love to see more skill and strategy and less backstory of people. Every single person was great and they all have inspiring stories. But that's not the main reason people watch this show and it gets too soapy, kind of flat, and with few exceptions, not exciting from a gameplay and challenges perspective.
New challenges (preferably more physical as well) would also make this show repetitive, and would prevent some players from training on specific clasic challenges, which would benefit players that are more well rounded and are better at multiple types of challenges.
When selecting the cast, backstory should't be relevant. Everyone should be worthy enough to participate in the show, even if their story doesn't seem so unique and inspiring. I'm sure unique stories would naturally show up anyways, and it would even be more inspiring as they wouldn't feel cherry picked. Excellence is also inspiring and this is what's Survivor used to be.
However, I'd love to see more skill and strategy and less backstory of people. Every single person was great and they all have inspiring stories. But that's not the main reason people watch this show and it gets too soapy, kind of flat, and with few exceptions, not exciting from a gameplay and challenges perspective.
New challenges (preferably more physical as well) would also make this show repetitive, and would prevent some players from training on specific clasic challenges, which would benefit players that are more well rounded and are better at multiple types of challenges.
When selecting the cast, backstory should't be relevant. Everyone should be worthy enough to participate in the show, even if their story doesn't seem so unique and inspiring. I'm sure unique stories would naturally show up anyways, and it would even be more inspiring as they wouldn't feel cherry picked. Excellence is also inspiring and this is what's Survivor used to be.