Survivor fans: Do you even want an all-winners or legends season?

Though many are positing whether there will be a Survivor season with all winners or legends of the game, do fans even want it so soon?

There’s been a lot of buzz surroundingseasons 39 and 40ofSurvivor.For the past few years, there’s been speculation ranging fromproclamations from former players, toopen trolling on social mediaby former winners, toweird clues offered by the casting team. Long story short; there’s no confirmation of anything, but the players would be game if it were possible.

Logistical nightmares and players’ scheduling aside, there are a few good arguments for or against aSurvivorseason with all-winners or “legends” of the game. For the purpose of this analysis (then later, a poll for you to vote in), a “legend” of the game is a player who is popular and has played well in the game. Cirie Fields, Kim Spradlin, Eliza Orlins, Rob Cesternino, Malcolm Freberg and John Cochran all qualify.

First off, I can see why people don’t want another season type filled with all-star players.Game Changersaired just a year ago, and the attempt of bringing some of the most dynamic players saw the interesting powerhouses (and vile players) go out pre-merge, leaving boring players and an apocalyptically dumb number of powers send home a player who received zero votes at Tribal. It happened inAll-Stars,too, making it seem like all the stars aligned forHeroes vs. Villains.

With season 38,Edge of Extinction,bringing back four playersserving as captains, it would mean three seasons with returning players in a span of seven, and it’s possible that Aubry Bracco could be in every single one of them. That’s not to dismiss a character worthy of being a four-time player, but the fact that it’s possible for aSurvivorlegend to play four times in nine seasons is ridiculous.

Even if it was an all-winner season, I doubt we wouldn’t see a result similar toGame Changers,where the big threats are picked off one by one because they can’t handle being a teammate and not a leader in a group of scheming masterminds. Sarah Lacina’s game was impressive, but it didn’t make the season at large very interesting.

On the other hand, the basic casts of modernSurvivorhaven’t been scintillating, either. We have seen fun characters emerge from recent seasons such as Ben Driebergen, Joe Mena, Lauren Rimmer, Ali Elliott, Stephanie Johnson, Chris Noble, Wendell Holland, Domenick Abbate and Kellyn Bechtold, but these past seasons have produced mundane products hampered by awful twists or predictable gameplay.

As such, bringing the best of the best back for returnee legends seasons might make sense forSurvivorfans. The production team just going to throw more overpowered advantages and other wrinkles into the game to make it more influences likeBig Brotheranyways, so why not pit the very best and most entertaining against each other?

We’ve also seen a great batch of recent winners, with some of them being capable women such as Sarah Lacina, Michele Fitzgerald and Natalie Anderson. Demographically, CBS has found it hard to cast for an all-winners season due to older women winners that might have dropped out of the spotlight, but these players would work well to improve the roster along the likes of Tina Wesson, Parvati Shallow, Sandra Diaz-Twine and Denise Stapley.

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With aSurvivorlegends cast, you could also expand the zone to include great players beyond the past ten seasons (five years), bringing back long-overdue players for a second chance, such as Sabrina Thompson, Holly Hoffman, Jaison Robinson, Taj Johnson-George, Ken Hoang, Matty Whitmore and others.

A legends season would also be the perfect opportunity to open up voting to the public, similar to theSecond Chancesseason. It would be interesting to see how the players would campaign and how sub-sections of theSurvivorcommunity would champion their favorites based on their own criteria.

We’ve given pros and cons, so now it’s up to you.Vote here in our pollto let us know whether you’d like to see aSurvivorwinners season, aSurvivorlegends season, both or neither. We’ll post the results in the coming days.

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