Palau

Survivor ended as expected. Katie never stood a chance against Tom (or, realistically, against any of the other final four). While a couple of weeks ago the prospect of an Ian-Tom show-down would also have been fairly close, Ian just kept shooting himself in the foot the past couple of episodes, really hurting his credibility to the point where he likely wouldn't have won even if Tom had taken him into the final two. Tom really dominated the game from start to finish anyways, so he's a deserving winner. He won the majority of the individual immunity challenges (which he sort of had to, given he was a physical threat), and when you look at the rest of his tribemates, I think he was a major factor in Koror never losing an immunity challenge. In the final analysis, as much as they talked before the start of the season about how different this incarnation if Survivor would be, it wasn't really that different. How they select the teams at the beginning usually always varies, so how they picked people wasn't really that much of a curveball. Immediately sending two people home was a bit different, but it was sort of a waste as well. All in all, I enjoyed the season nonetheless.