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IMO, the past two seasons have had so many boring characters, not because of race, but because they've had 19 or 20 players, and the editors seem to think it's best to focus on one or two of them, something they didn't do even when they only had 16 players in EI. Jessica, Erika, Liliana, Rita, Edgardo, Mookie, Cassandra, Stacy, Michelle (Basically the entire female cast except for Lisi and Sylvia) were barely there in Fiji. Rebecca, Sundra, Stephannie, Cecilia, Flicka, Parvati, Becky, Jenny, Cristina (ONE woman out of TEN was interesting) were all barely shown. This season, thankfully, they're showing us more of the women in the cast. Of course, the one player who's been basically invisible in BOTH episodes is female, but still, 7/8 ain't bad.

If the number of players was the issue, then you'd be hating on 20-strong Palau as well. And Fiji had PLENTY of characters. It doesn't make sense when people lump CI and Fiji together except for the race ratios. In terms of the criticism of players from each of those seasons, I still don't see what was so significantly more boring about those characters than the duds of all the other seasons. And I thought CI had some of the best females in the majority seasons

I liked Fiji way, way more than CI. It doesn't have a damn thing to do with race.

Then why lump Fiji and CI together? When people do that it seems really suspicious since those 2 seasons were like polar opposites. Fiji had a lot of intense people with edge, while Cook Islands was a lot more competitive and politically correct. Even Palau had a pretty obvious winner's edit with a 20-person cast, so people don't seem consistent when they only bash the last 2 seasons like they do. And seriously, the idea that people were so much more interesting in the other seasons is like . Again, how interesting was Diane Ogden of Africa or even a sweetheart character like Liz from Outback? I found Rebecca's game more interesting than Elisabeth banking on "good people" and even as a character, Rebecca started fire for her tribe and spearheaded the women power movement against JP. Elisabeth's best moment was the heart-shaped rock she received from Rodg and saying she'd never vote for him. And that's it basically. Maybe Alicia's commentary that she was playing hard too

In fact, Jonathan was the only white person on CI I liked at all; beyond that, the "good" characters were ethnic minorities. Fiji has a good cast with a great storyline. CI had a terrible cast and a boring, predictable storyline enacted by boring, predictable characters.

What Fiji storyline? Everybody against the horsemen? That was about it. Dreamz vs. Yau-Man too, but the ending to that sucked, since I was a Yau fan

CI is my favorite cast. I would've been content with like any of the players winning. Up until the mutiny, it seemed like the more deserving or stronger competitor won out, and all the weaker players lost like they should've (except for Cecelia). The matches between Raro and Aitu were very close, with no 1 tribe just dominating the other, and Aitutaki was much more interesting to watch win being the diverse tribe. Then the mutiny happened, which has never happened, and the Aitu 4 was a great underdog storyline, and it felt like every round was one of survival. Got a little predictable towards the end, but I really liked how Becky didn't take the idol at F4, and that the Aitu 4 wasn't just a sham for the sake of the game like so many other seasons (big contrast to Fiji). Then, the F3 was 1 of the most deserving and very much suspenseful

Eventually, you'll realize peoples' opinions about a season don't simply stem from subconscious perceptions of racial issues.

I know I could be wrong, and I'm not saying that's the issue for sure. But what else could it be? The things people are saying aren't consistent. It seems like the problem is some bias that makes certain people not appreciate or relate to the characters for whatever reason. I know I didn't have a problem, so the issue isn't that the cast was fundamentally worse. For that to be true, everyone would have to agree and see the same thing. So the issue is individual preferences, and I'm trying to understand why you wouldn't have taken to the cast like I did. Race seems as good as any bias, especially when people lump the very different Fiji and CI together