Survivor 50 is bringing again some legendary fan favorites, however a powerful case could possibly be made that your entire Mt Rushmore of the present is lacking. None of Boston Rob, Sandra, Parvati and Tony made the journey to Fiji for the milestone season, and there are many followers who aren’t glad campers about it. They voiced their outrage about these obvious omissions, in addition to some extra area of interest superfan complaints, after the forged was first introduced, however in gentle of Parvati Shallow reminding everybody why she’s so freakin’ good throughout the newest season of Australian Survivor, the noise has began to get loud once more.
In reality, longtime host Jeff Probst was requested about Parvati not getting a spot on the present whereas he was on the Emmys by CBS favourite Gayle King. He informed her it was as a result of followers just lately acquired the possibility to see her through the actuality competitors’s fortieth anniversary season. King didn’t actually appear to be shopping for his reply, and judging by social media response, neither had been many followers. You possibly can check out a portion of his quote beneath…
That’s unlucky that she didn’t know, however the reality was when you’re a Survivor fan, we had simply performed a season of all winners. And it had Parvati and Rob and Tony and all of those nice gamers, and we simply felt like we simply noticed them. Let’s do one thing totally different for 50.
The “we simply noticed them” portion of the quote is what many followers appear to be fixating on, largely as a result of it doesn’t actually make sense given the remainder of the forged. The Survivor 50 forged is made up of half so-called New Period gamers and half OG gamers. When you’re not a Survivor superfan, which means half of the gamers (12 whole individuals) are coming from Survivor 41 and past. Meaning half the forged we’ve actually seen extra just lately than Parvati.
CBS put a video of Probst’s quote out on its TikTok, and many of the high feedback are pointing that out, or they’re questioning why Boston Rob was allegedly invited again (and declined) and Parvati allegedly wasn’t contacted in any respect. I don’t actually have a great reply to that final query, however I do assume, based mostly on another feedback, that I’ve a greater concept of why Parvati didn’t find yourself on Survivor 50.
Throughout a latest interview, Probst mentioned he didn’t take a look at Survivor 50 like he was making an attempt to place collectively as many legends as doable. He checked out it like he was making an attempt to create a season that had little bits that represented Survivor’s lengthy historical past. That meant not completely going after the large names however as a substitute specializing in getting a range of various kinds of gamers so it could extra carefully mirror an actual season. Now, perhaps he got here to that conclusion after Boston Rob handed, which is why Parvati allegedly wasn’t spoken to? I do not know.
I’ve determined to be excited for Survivor 50. Sure, I’ve loads of complaints identical to everybody else, however I’m nonetheless excited to see Coach, Cirie and different favorites work together with a number of the larger personalities from the New Period. The early buzz is nice. That being mentioned, would I take one other season in some unspecified time in the future full of extra precise legends, beginning with Parvati? Sure. Please make that occur too.