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So I tried to explain it in my post above, but CSC nicely summed it up a few pages back:

It won't hold up on a rewatch, simply because there's virtually no entertainment beyond the blindsides, and when you already know what happens, it won't be entertaining anymore.

I agree with that. It concentrated alot on strategy and not enough on character. Fun for the first time, especially post-merge, but then again not many people out there rewatch alot of seasons.

Micronesia, like Pearl Islands, has frequent changes of pace.

Disagreed, to an extent. Pearl Islands defintiely had the change of pace. A couple people in the season were largely ignored in return for awesome drama and blindsides, and it really paid off.

Micronesia did not have quite the change of pace. In fact, one can argue it pretty much settled in after the first four episodes. The back and forth between fans and favorites losing and winning was great, and I always love it when tribes alternate going to TC. It keeps the show interesting.

Then, it was Malakal at TC four times in a row. The Joel boot was great, but the next two kind of slowed down, and the episodes would have been worse if Jonathan and Kathy didn't leave like that. Ami's boot was a good episode upon rewatch. I liked it alot more the second time around. Why? Because they actually really developed Ami and Erik's characters. The drama was there, the struggle to stay in the game was there. I loved it. Sure, it revolved around strategy, but it wasn't about people playing or not playing idols. All that stuff was cast aside, and in exchange was real human emotion, and it really worked.

Once the merge hit, the pace was never changed. It pretty much stayed on course with the women removing the men one at a time. The Alexis blindside was there, but alot of that episode was still all about trying to get rid of Erik. The merge was one episode after another of "how will the girls outsmart the guys this week?" Fun, but no changes of pace at all.

Who else was hoping for Amanda to get James, Erik, and Jason in an alliance at final 8 to take down one of the other girls? Now THAT would have been a great change of pace.