Will Survivor 47 Hold Up? (Survivor 47 Review)

[@MagnitudeReviews]

Andy had such a cool character arc. It’s such an incredible full-circle arc for a single season. Ends in a reasonable way considering how it started. But also ends in a way that his arc could continue as a returnee.

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

It was so fun watching him go from someone no-one took seriously to being desperate to be taken seriously, to being taken out for being a serious threat. It was Shakespearean (have read one Shakespeare play) in the way he got what he wanted, but not how he wanted it

[@XanderMatthews-nv9zf]

The firemaking this challenge is genuinely one of the saddest displays of bad luck Like Teeny lost because of wind 💨

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

Their panic was palpable, it's a bit split because on one hand i don't like final four fire, on the other hand it does produce some really heart-wrenching moments...damn you Jeff!!

[@e_eyster]

It was a factor... but Sam just going all in by throwing all the combustibles on his fire was a brilliant move.

[@Martial300]

She lost bc she herself didn’t know what to do. She could’ve won long before the wind kicked in if she knew what was going on

[@thebumpercar1344]

I think that Survivor 47 has the unique position of being best enjoyed when paired with 46. 46 was very Gabon-like, with all the incompetent strategizing, failure to utilize idols or numerical advantages, and the sheer personal drama between the people who made it the farthest. It has a tense endgame where we don't know who will win, and the winner is a surprise because of who voted for them! 47 is the opposite of 46, with top tier strategy even in the premerge (with the notable exception of poor Teeny who would have probably done better on 46, TBH) and has little personal drama (except for Rome, another person who probably would have thrived on 46). I think the Charlie and Maria duo would have been far more terrifying when in the cast of 47! So yeah, 46 and 47 as a double feature to show the two different kinds of shows Survivor can be is a fascinating take, I think.

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

That is a fascinating take, especially because every other New Era season has come in pairs (41/42, 43/44). I think you're right though, and we know 46 influenced idol plays on 47. I probably rate 46 a bit higher than 47, with more stand-out cast members and consistent fun. Although neither are my pick for best season of 2024...

[@thebumpercar1344]

@@HenryHickmanSurvivor : I'd rate 47 higher than 46, because I enjoyed the gameplay and the story of 47 more than 46. 46 seemed to be very Big Brother-y in how the focus was on how much conflict there was between each person, and IMHO Bhanu overstayed his welcome by at least half an episode. The postmerge of 46 absolutely frustrated me and I was dreading getting another Gabler-esque winner. Thankfully Kenzie ended up being a worthy winner in my eyes, even though she wasn't the best strategist or biggest personality of the season. 47 I'd get mad at the strategy because they sniped someone I was rooting for. The only time I got mad at someone for pulling a boneheaded move strategywise in 47 was when Gen took out Sol 1/2 rounds too early, and whenever Teeny would do anything involving strategy.

[@cameronsayers1375]

Swapping Rome and Teeny for Charlie and Maria’s slots would be so perfect. I think 47 would be worse without the drama of Rome but 46 would be so much more full of drama with egotistical Rome and salty teeny

[@thebumpercar1344]

@@cameronsayers1375 : I think the more gamebotty/strategic players can come to drama if their plans all collide. Or when their messy feelings make it personal, like with Andy and Gen. But in general I just want to see whether Rome would end up being the first boot on the disasters that were 46's tribes.

[@KBonilla]

This season suffered from lack of villains,random vote outs and stale format. Great cast, decent game play and good winner.

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

Yeah once Rome went home we were really short on villains. Even Gabe doesn't count as one in my eye, I do not remember a single confessional.

[@KBonilla]

@@HenryHickmanSurvivor his TK Vote out confessional was money

[@scottwaldo]

Lack of villains? We had Rome, Andy and Genevieve. Rome being almost as entertaining as Russel hantz. The vote outs were super entertaining, I was on the edge of my seat the entire time

[@tekkenaddict1]

Also quite poetic how Andy almost foreshadows his downfall. During his meltdown, he states that everyone was going to vote him out next, to which Jeff says, "the game's not over." In his last scene with Rachel, he considers Rachel's game to be over, taking for granted that she'll be voted out and a likely vote for him at the end, only to be voted out himself.

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

Phenomenal point, the editors love their foreshadowing. It is moments like that which make a rewatch worthwhile, no matter the overall quality of the season.

[@tommacpherson5852]

Merry Christmas mate! Agreed, Andy is THE GOAT!

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

Merry Christmas to you too! Andy is my second favourite Survivor castaway of 2024, and favourite from the US!

[@Ren_Davis0531]

I like your content. You do good work. Earned yourself a subscriber 😊

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

What a great Christmas present, welcome aboard!

[@logansmith2703]

It's a solid season. I think the split finale will be better when you know for certain it's a coronation edit.

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

Yeah that's a good point, I think Andy probably deserved a whole episode to himself, but seeing it as the crowning of an inevitable Rachel win, as opposed to bein uncertain if it was setting Rachel up as the final boss, will probably improve things!

[@KBonilla]

@@logansmith2703 split finale was a waste of time when 15 mins in the clear winner wins finale tribal council. Also I read this only happened because CBS feared an election year would throw off their schedule

[@aronpuma5962]

Fun without being too sticky is I think a good way to think of it? The word I'd go with is solid. I think I'll be happy to see a Sol clip in a highlight reel or meme like five years down the line, or something with Andy or or Genevieve or Rachel or Rome. That said it's not... exceptional. Normally there's at least one really distinct challenge moment even in the new era of repeating challenges, but all we have here is Sol getting mad at Rome in the merge challenge? I guess? Rome failing the puzzle premerge?

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

Honestly a perfect summary. A fun season while watching, but nothing that makes me desperate to see it again, or anyone in particular again (except Andy but even that may wane in a few weeks, especially as we have 2 seasons until returnees)

[@aronpuma5962]

@@HenryHickmanSurvivor There's a weird feeling with 50 that there are so many great casting choices, arguably too many. Would Andy, Genevieve, and Rachel all be worthy additions to 50? Absolutely. If none of them were on 50, are there still going to be 20 players who feel just as deserving to have another shot and we won't miss them too much? Yes, absolutely. We're going to enter 50 with 13 newbie seasons in a row that didn't get a real returnee season, and all have worthy returnees assuming that 48 and 49 aren't total duds. Will they try to get a person a season? Will they skip any? Especially if they reach back before 35, I think 47 is a season where it might be nice to bring Andy back, but the slots are already close and that's a more acceptable loss when we can have Omar or Cody or Q.

[@ConnorBeyers-xw6ng]

@@aronpuma5962 Honestly, 45 or 46 should have been an All Returnee or Fans vs Favorites style season. Having so many newbie seasons in a row (almost all of which have had casts with at least 3-4 people who could be considered to return), no matter how good the S50 cast is, there's going to be a couple players that won't make it and we'll inevitably be left dissapointed.

[@jedhead25]

@@ConnorBeyers-xw6ng For sure they should have done one by now. I'm wondering if the hype generating for 50 might be enough to get another returnee season soon after. I for one would love 50 and 51 to both be returnees (with maybe one of them being second chance 2)

[@jaimynino]

@HenryHickmanSurvivor I've been wondering for a while, do you rally wear an eyepatch? I've unfortunally become blind in one eye a year and a half ago, since then I've been wearing one. Dont know if yours is just because it looks cool as your avatar or youre actually wearing one too. Whatever the reason I do feel some support in a weird way. So thanks ❤ Merry christmas and a happy newyear from the Netherlands

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

Well this warms my soul. Time for a long comment! When I was a kid, I had retinoblastoma, which resulted in me losing my left eye. I was a baby, so for as long as I can remember I've had a prosthetic eye. Prosthetic eyes are really good, they're hand painted to be an exact match, and they only really look like a lazy eye if you look really closely at it. About three years ago, I started doing stand-up comedy for fun, and wanted to talk about my experiences being half-blind. But because the prosthetic eye was so good, I would have audience members come up to me and tell me off for making fun of disabled people, not knowing that I was talking about my own experience. It was quite weird. So I bought an eyepatch to wear when I perform, especially when I want to tell stories about having one eye. It's part of who I am, and it's not something I'm ashamed of, so I like to incorporate it into things when I can, hence my avatar having an eyepatch, but for day to day life I usually just rock the prosthetic as to not draw attention to it when tutoring or hanging out. Also eyepatches do look sick af and it's fun to be able to wear them unironically. They're also a great aid because the number of people who sneak up on me unintentionally when I don't wear it, or do things in my blindspot without realising, is super high and can get frustrating. Anyway, Merry Christmas from literally the other side of the world! Hope it's a great one.

[@XanderMatthews-nv9zf]

I do find it funny that Rite Of Passages has been discontinued, but basically the entire Day 26 feast was the ROP but just for the jury members Like no shot any of them forgot any of the jurors😂

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

That's such a good point! We barely saw the finalists on day 26, but we saw lots of epic slow zoom in shots of jurors!

[@paulcooper8818]

Congratulation on your anniversary

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

Thanks very much, and thank you for watching!

[@jackguy5643]

I like the Santa hat on your character lol

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

Thanks very much! It's Christmas over here so getting into the spirit

[@iconicsurvivormoments]

Part of me thinks if andy won this season wouldve been an all timer. His story was captivating whereas rachel sort of just felt like the inevitable winner that i didnt wanna root for

[@Foudroyant20]

And yes, Andy holds the record for 6 episode titles including 5 in a row. 6 is good but I wanted several.

[@BradsPitts.]

Also given how good a game Andy played overall I almost wonder if his Day 3 breakdown was planned 🤣

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

I do want to find out about this, maybe it was a wake up call. It does make me wonder how players like Hannah and Brandon from 45 would do given a few more days!

[@jimmz6]

cant wait for andy to be on survivor 50

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

I can only hope! Let's go!

[@nasecoo]

🙏 Prayer circle 🙏

[@5martis5]

Yes! Andy deserves all the love it's possible to give him and i am glad that he got love here. It was pathetic to read the hate towards him on twitter and reddit. Though I'd dissagree on your view on Caroline. Before the game she seemed boring to me too, leaving her picked last in a draft i had, but damn... but the middle of the merge she was right behind the big three (Rachel, Genevieve, Andy) in my likeability rankings. I hope Caroline gets her second chance and i am sure she will be a dark horse amongs 47-ers to win on her her second chance.

[@Xiatter]

I never cared for Caroline on Survivor proper, it felt like she thought she was playing a compelling game from her perspective, but not from mine. But I like what I've heard from her at Ponderosa.

[@theninjagamer1]

Why was there no survivor bingo this season

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

Great question, I was in Europe for about a month at a few conferences for start of the season, and so I had to make quite a few videos in advanced, including the first few weeks of 47. You can catch me saying Survivor 47 starts "in a few weeks" in a video that was released either the day before or the week after the season aired!

[@survivorturnover]

andy, genevieve & rachel absolute locks for future all-stars returnee season tho

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

Agreed with Andy and Genevieve, Rachel I think depends on how soon, I could see her being forgotten. But I'd certainly be happy to have her back!

[@e_eyster]

I think this season killed it. For most of the "New Era" the seasons have been either storytelling that I enjoyed with characters I did not care about, or characters I cared about with storytelling I didnt love. From the (official) merge on, Sue and then to a lesser (but still acceptable) extent Teeny were the only people I would not have been happy with winning. Sierra? Cool. Sol? Awesome. Caroline? You go.

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

I think it's in conversation for best New Era season, with 46. I agree with you satisfied about anyone winning, with the caveat that I hope they'd give Caroline a slightly better edit if she won

[@Foudroyant20]

I like Caroline but I think some fans loved her because she was UTR1 and thought it was therefore edgic's winner

[@asmodeus58XX]

This season was good because it was blessed by the legend that is Jelinsky, by being Forty Several.

[@BradsPitts.]

My “What If” for Survivor 47 is if Rachel had gone at that tribal instead of Anika

[@realteamwall]

sam wins easily and has a better game than he did in real life

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

I think I agree Sam likely wins, but anything that happens before the final I want to say 8 dramatically changes the game in ways we can't predict!

[@bobojo6447]

There were a lot of lows but the highs were the highest of the new era

[@KirbyThePig]

Same with 46

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

Operation Italy will go down as one of the best episodes of Survivor I hope, although knowing it seals Andy's fate makes me so sad...definitely a highlight!

[@jessetorres8738]

I have a prediction: When Survivor 50 comes, it will return to the 39 day format & feature 18 or 20 players just from Seasons 41 to 49.

[@PaulWubler]

I hate to burst your bubble but all of these have been confirmed to not be true

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

I would be fond of most of these, although I'd wante people from before 41, and probably including someone from 49. But I don't think it'll happen, we'll see though!

[@KBonilla]

@@jessetorres8738 my guess 50 will be New Era All Stars, 51 pre 40 returnee players with a combination of new players aka Fans v Favorites

[@EmptysfwJC]

This season had interesting players that made it far into the game. Sam Rachel Geniveve and Andy. I just don’t like the same two people won a majority of the challenges. How “balanced”

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

It's really interesting that the one player you'd expect to be really good at challenges (Sam) was just not. Survivor challenges are not really about general fitness and strength, Kyle and Rachel clearly had the finesse needed for them. I don't mind a good challenge beast, but when it feels like the challenges are all the same it makes it less interesting for the same people to win. Tom winning 5 challenges in Palau felt more varied than Rachel or Kyle (although I may be wrong there)

[@EmptysfwJC]

@@HenryHickmanSurvivor I agree I love old challenge beasts but they were actually good at a lot of things. In the new era you only need to be at least capable to do the physical part and be good at puzzles. Or be good at balancing which seems to always be the first few challenges of the merge where individual immunity isn’t as important. Thank you for responding I love your channel.

[@TheAckeePlant]

To me in the long run I'll see it as a worse version of 46. Kinda similar merge gameplay but with characters nowhere near as unique or interesting as those in 46. Too many lost votes annoyed me to no end. Charlie vs Kenzie felt super up in the air to me too whereas Rachel was pretty obvious

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

It and 46 and two very different but similar seasons. I do wish they'd set up Sue or Teeny as bigger threats to win, but I guess if they had nothing to work with that's how it goes sometimes. I think I'll rate 46 higher, but 47 is probably the 2nd best New Era season so far.

[@therealbensoule652]

Andy was the best part of this season hands down. Needs to be on 50 ‼️‼️

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

Jeff has said someone from 47 was asked back for 50, it could be John for all we know, but my money is on Andy!

[@bdavid19922]

When Andy said he "did things to make himself seem like a goat" I was hoping they would confirm that he faked his entire mental breakdown in episode one. I'd be a huge Andy fan if that was the case.

[@bdavid19922]

I assumed it was fake because instead of playing sympathetic music to try and force us to like Andy, they played psycho villian music and seemed to give us permission to hate Andy, other castaways who have breakdowns usually get sad music.

[@the_fd_180]

Very predictable winner/eliminations.Lacks big characters. They had 90 minute episodes and a 2 part finale and still made it bland. I did like the twist on Sams story. An underdog that got judged for his physical strengths. Good thing were getting a new Australian survivor season.

[@blazingbard5103]

So why did he say that in German again?

[@logansmith2703]

The Germans caused the downfall of Rome.

[@HenryHickmanSurvivor]

Apparently it's because the Germanic empire was what caused the downfall of the Romans!

[@bobojo6447]

There were a lot of lows but the highs were the highest of the new era