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Thailandsurvivor wrote:

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tullfan2 wrote:

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In most seasons, I prefer the pre-merge part of the season. For one thing, the entertainment over time diminishes as contestants get voted out. I generally will watch the early episodes of any season more than I watch the Finales. Secondly, most seasons such as Africa, Marquesas (after the power shift), Thailand, Guatemala, Panama etc. have stretches of 3 or 4 lackluster, predictable episodes in the early to middle post merger period where the group with numbers just picks off the outsiders who have no chance unless they win Individual Immunity. It took Survivor six seasons (thanks to the great Rob Cesternino) to finally liven things up during that period and thankfully Pearl Islands was even better (thanks to Fairplay and Sandra). But later seasons such as All Stars, Guatemala, Panama, Cook Islands were a return to the old paradigm

And these past 4 episodes have been nothing like that?

If you don't read the spoilers, at least there is some suspense and uncertainty regarding which tribe wins the Immunity Challenge. In the examples that I cited, I can predict exactly who will be voted out before the episode starts.

Thailandsurvivor wrote:

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tullfan2 wrote:

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Thailandsurvivor wrote:

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tullfan2 wrote:

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In most seasons, I prefer the pre-merge part of the season. For one thing, the entertainment over time diminishes as contestants get voted out. I generally will watch the early episodes of any season more than I watch the Finales. Secondly, most seasons such as Africa, Marquesas (after the power shift), Thailand, Guatemala, Panama etc. have stretches of 3 or 4 lackluster, predictable episodes in the early to middle post merger period where the group with numbers just picks off the outsiders who have no chance unless they win Individual Immunity. It took Survivor six seasons (thanks to the great Rob Cesternino) to finally liven things up during that period and thankfully Pearl Islands was even better (thanks to Fairplay and Sandra). But later seasons such as All Stars, Guatemala, Panama, Cook Islands were a return to the old paradigm

And these past 4 episodes have been nothing like that?

If you don't read the spoilers, at least there is some suspense and uncertainty regarding which tribe wins the Immunity Challenge. In the examples that I cited, I can predict exactly who will be voted out before the episode starts.

I do not read spoilers, and it is obvious which tribe is going every week because of the editing and the situation presented that it'd be stupid for the favs on Malakal to not throw immunity challenges.

Ami stated in her interviews that Malakal did not intnetionally throw the immunity challenges. There is no comparison. There is nothing more predictable than contestants getting booted post-merge because of numbers. Production understood this and this is why they introduced new devices in the game like the Hidden Immunity Idol. The HII doesn't always work out but episode 10 of Fiji was one of the best post-merge episodes ever mainly because of the two HIIs.