Summing Up the Season With the Survivor Reunion - Film.com

So, even the last vote of this season of Survivor: Micronesia was a surprise. Now it's time to bring everybody back to discuss the season. In keeping with the tradition of Survivors looking way worse once they have access to their makeup and hair styling products, Amanda is working approximately the same look I rocked in my 7th grade class photo, with curly mall bangs and giant yellow earrings, and Parvati is just a few jangly bracelets short of a gypsy Halloween costume.

Parvati revealed that Jonathan identifying her as a threat shocked her into a more aggressive game. Amanda, who was just in the position of coming in second last season, said you can only get yourself so far in the game, because you just don't know what the jury is going to place value on. Cirie, who I think played the best strategic game, said her only regret was losing the final Immunity Challenge. Natalie said she got some hate on her MySpace page (not from me, though even though I did hate her).

This season was all about the blindside, going all the way back to Mary in the first episode. This is one of the first seasons in a while where most of the votes have been a surprise to me. Ozzy said the reason he didn't play the idol was because of the friendship he had with Parvati coming into the game. I still think he's behaved like a jackass, but he says they've made up.

The best incident from the season for me was Jason mistaking the fake idol for the real one. Eliza said she thought he was trying to put one over on her when he put it in her bag, but then she realized he was just that dumb. He still has the real hidden Immunity Idol that he didn't play.

Jeff asked about the Favorites' advantage going in. Jonathan said it was because they already knew how to get by on the beach, but Yau-Man said it was also a disadvantage because the Fans already knew their games. Ami was the first Favorite voted out after the merge (when it would have been possible to vote for a fan instead).

Erik was the ultimate Fan. I think he's exactly what they had in mind when they came up with this concept. Like Todd and Frosti in Survivor: China, he's been watching Survivor since his early teens. He's still starstruck, and now it seems he's a little bit starstruck by himself, if that's possible. Not that his ego is inflated, but he just thinks it's so cool that people on the street know who he is.

Jeff asked James who made the dumbest move out of Jason, Ozzy, and Erik. James said Erik, by eloquently comparing the Immunity Necklace to a life vest. I've said this before, but I still think it's Jason. Not for being blindsided, but for falling for the fake idol.

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