Marquesas wants to come back?  That's news to me.  I guess she didn't get asked at all to come back for All-Stars since she was such a boring player.

Most of the winners don't want to play again.  Going season by season, so as not to be spoiler-y:

Yeah, I mean most decent players who go out early think they got fucked over by the luck of the draw but Troyzan seemed to be under the impression that, not only was he the best player this season notwithstanding his bad luck, but that he was the best player this season, period, and everyone knew it.  That guy's exit…

On the other hand, it did spare the world the scene where Catherine Zeta Jones' character pretends to be Catherine Zeta Jones the famous movie star for some kind of heist or something?  I don't know but it's meta and that's what the kids like.

This is true.  Porny Brian genuinely seemed like a sociopath; Kim was just a low-key player with a clear vision of her goal.  What she wasn't, though, was a terribly memorable character.  A great player, to be sure, but a person whose entire character was built around her gameplay.  This isn't totally out of the norm…

Dystopian.

Top 10, definitely not top 5.  I don't want to get too spoiler-y, but I did a quick ranking and I put her at 8.

We do not agree.  I have no fondness for Thailand, but Nicaragua was awful on a much bigger level.  Awful twists, two players quitting, a completely undeserved winner, and no memorable characters other than batshit Naonka.  At least Thailand put a player into an All-Stars season.  No one from Nicaragua should ever…

I thought they said something about having a kid?  I could be mistaken.  In any case, there's a prenatal genetic test for achondroplasia which would reveal if the affected gene is present on both chromosomes.

(The worst season is Nicaragua.)

Come to think of it, it's pretty weird that Kourtney was the first woman to ever get medicaled out of the game.  The men who play this game are pussies.

Yeah, Kourtney's the only one.  Just thinking out loud, not really about this particular twist, but in general.

I wonder if their kid is a little person too.  Mother Nature is a maaaaaaad scientist.

Yep, that'll do it.  That's cool, at least it's a good mix of the different periods of the show.  Could be nice to have a returning woman for a change, though.

God I wanted some fireworks, especially after Tarzan's pointless "I know big words!" speech.  Alicia brought the crazy, which thank God for that.  But what a huge disappointment Kat's final speech was, after all the moping and glaring she did from the jury box.  You were so angry, Kat!  And it just dissipated.  You…

At the end of the day, I really think that Leif's box will be the thing I remember most fondly from this season.

What an incredibly lackluster finale.  Not only did no one even come close to ousting Kim (which she made academic anyway with her immunity wins) but she didn't even axe anyone who could manage to come back to haunt her at the final tribal.  In the annals of Survivor winners, I think Kim is the closest the game's ever…

Yeah, it's this one.  Poor Dave.

CLEAN UP YOUR JIZZ FIRST!

I don't know what that is but yes.