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OnlyMatthew wrote:

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Honestly, I loathe how I'm way too young, and I'll never get to be on the show.

Me too, unless they decide to pull a Frosti and let me in after age 18, which would get me on S17 (or if the show goes to S23).

My real complaints at this point are simply that the editing is do dismal. I get what the editors are going for, and maybe it works for a small cross-section of the most casual viewers. But for any real fan of the show, we want to get to know everyone on the cast. We don't want to sit through 8 episodes of an invisible person getting the boot, and we have no idea why or what that person brought to the show. Everyone should have a character arc, and everyone should mean something. There should never be a Tribal Council where someone gets voted off and we think, "So what?" Have your stars, have your villains and heroes, but also make sure everyone gets a fair share of the editing pie, because there's only so much you can do with a few select characters.
The other editing complaint is that the winners are far too obvious. I don't think it's so much that we dislike Yul or Earl (maybe some do, but not the majority); it's that we knew they were the winners from the very first episode, and that can very quickly get old. They went the obvious winner route with Tom, and that was fine, but don't keep doing it. Going into the finale, most of the remaining players should have a legitimate shot. Every season up to Palau, each member of the F2 could have possibly won, in terms of editing. There were no obvious victors weeks in advance, and there was some suspense every step of the way, all the way to the end.
Quite simply, those are the things that make the show work, and they've been neglected to the editors can pursue a more cursory, superficial type of editing technique. They're catering to the most casual viewers, the ones that don't give a damn and only watch half of the episodes in a given season and can't remember anyone besides the three characters that are shoved down our throats. But Survivor's true fan base has been ignored for years now, and that's why I like the show now far less than I used to.

Granted, both of those issues went a step in the right direction with China. I can only hope it continues, and possibly even improves, with Micronesia.