sav0001
Well-Known Member
I’ll probably elaborate on this in the future, but I actually believe having the HMs vote each other out all season and then suddenly leaving the final evictions up to the public is a contradictory move that actually makes little to no sense.
I feel like Endemol agreed on having the public vote for the winner to keep some semblance of the original format, but it actually works against the new format and ultimately can make or break a HM’s gameplay. The new format encourages this idea of “playing the game” and, as the US and CAN seasons prove, often this must rely on deceit and lies to get you there. But the public are usually going to have a different opinion (case in point with what’s currently happening in regards to Dan and Mat), so having the public’s involvement at the last minute actually makes an entire season’s worth of game playing (or even lack of game playing) completely redundant if it means absolutely nothing in the end anyway.
I just don’t think melding the two voting systems makes much sense at all. I think this Wednesday’s finale is going to make this point even more evident.
I don’t think completely taking out the public influence is a good idea though. Then it really would be just Survivor 2.0.