Thailandsurvivor wrote:
The honor of being the worst twist in Survivor history goes to...
65. Final 3
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Seasons: Cook Islands, Fiji, China
Memorable Quote: "Mmhmm." (Cassandra's reaction upon finding out about the final three twist.)
There are a lot of twists that the producer's have thrown in to deliberately fuck up the integrity of the game. This is a point blank example. For season after season, Survivor had been running great. Even in a mediocre season, the end game scramble to reach the finals was always exciting to watch. No one could just make an alliance early in the game and just sit down enjoying the ride. Everybody was on their toes because only two people would be able to sit in front of the jury. It worked well because no winner was like any others. Unfortunately, casual fans were complaining about their favorites not winning, and all this "best player always finishes third" bullshit started. So Burnett and co. decided to implement a final three, because they no longer wanted the "best player" to finish third.
When it was first announced, I was pissed off, and the showing on TV didn't help. Becky was completely ignored, and we still didn't even get to see all of the questions towards the other two. Sure it was a close vote, so what? It only took one season for Earl to kill two goats in the end. Exciting stuff right. I had already hated those two seasons due to other circumstances, but it really killed China for me. I thought it helped revive it until the finale where the editors were smart enough to only have four people left and one boot. That meant we had to listen to Denise try and save herself for almost half of the damn episode.
This is the worst twist of all time mainly for almost killing the integrity of the game and for making three boring final tribal councils since so many questions had to be cut.

















