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I guess you'd have to live the first 7 seasons while they were on TV to get it.

You really have to watch those assumptions. I watched Outback when it first aired and hated it. It was very much like when a really fantastic, high quality low-budget movie comes out and does unexpectedly well, and so then they make a sequel that's all high-budget and slick and overhyped and has tons of production value, but that has no soul whatsoever and therefore sucks donkey balls. I found the cast unpleasant, the scenery lackluster, the game-play stupid, and the editorial bias offensive. What saved the season for me, though, was all the survival stuff that solesurvivor123 hates so much. That was the only thing about Survivor 2 that I liked. (Well...that and the winner. I didn't care all that much for Tina personally, but I greatly admired her game and remember being both very surprised and very happy when she won over Colby.)

Fortunately, I loved Africa. If I hadn't, I almost certainly would have written the franchise off and just stopped watching.

Having said all that, though, I find that I no longer hate Outback nearly as much as I did when it first aired. It's grown on me a bit over time, although I still rank it pretty low.

The last time I posted on this thread was shortly after Micronesia. I think I'll wait until Samoa finishes before ranking again and finding out how my tastes have changed since then.

Francois40 wrote:

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19. TOCANTINS. After 18 seasons, I actually lost interest in the show and had to MAKE my self watch every week.

Sigh. Yeah, that's what Samoa has been for me -- only worse, really, because I couldn't even manage to make myself sit through it week after week. I actually stopped watching altogether somewhere around Episode 5 or 6, and they've been piling up on my DVR ever since. So now I'm trying to make it through them in preparation for the finale, because it just seems a pity after so many seasons to give up on one altogether, and besides, I have a really nasty cold and can't manage much but watching TV anyway, but I'm hating it so much that I keep coming here to post crap instead. I'm procrastinating watching the fucking episodes. That's just sad.