User Reviews

Now we all know this as an iconic piece of television history. So I have to give points for that.

My main issue here is with the fire challenge. It's very boring to watch and had no tension. One team was leading from the Start.

The elimination in this episode was fairly sensible and predictable. The vote split however is interesting, showing that even in these early days of the show strategy was being used.

It is hard to know some of the classic Survivor in comparison to what we have now. I'll admit that what we have now is often too flashy at times. But this is a fairly decent episode to start off the series. Parts of it are boring and fairly run of the mill. That's to be expected since they don't know much about how the show would evolve over time. We get a fairly easy vote off and not too much is revealed right away. There isn't much drama, although there is a lot of working together, which you don't always see in the show. The immunity challenge is simple. A part of me wonders if they changed the form of fire to flint since water proof matches takes much longer to say. It is actually good that some of what we see in this episode isn't part of the common place part of Survivor in the future. But it is a fairly good episode and we get a simpler, less glorified version of Jeff than we have in current seasons.