Rob Cesternino

This was a nice send-off for Survivor, for Colby.

You know, you sort of like that the idea of Season 50 being this celebration was supposed to be where you were going to have these, like, great iconic players coming back for one last, like, doff of the cap curtain call.

Yeah.

And if Colby was going to get blindsided, you wouldn't get that.

So in a way where it was such an obvious vote for Colby, he really was able to get his flowers and have an emotional send off after, you know, as a survivor viewer, if you started, you spent 25 years watching Colby come in and play the show.

This is his fourth time coming back.

Took Tina to the end.

Tina, Tina, that's who it was.

But at that point in time, Survivor was such a phenomenon, and Colby was the good guy, America's hero, cowboy hat.

I think he thought that he had a big career coming in movies, and I think that he felt like... Kind of did, I mean... He did have a career, certainly, but I think he felt like, hey...

Maybe I'll win, maybe I won't, but I think I'd rather do that and be beloved than screw Tina, who he cared for, and they're still friends to this day, to win the million dollars, and then at what cost?

You know, where I'll be hated, but I won a million dollars.

I think that he really was thinking about his image, too, along the way.

You know, he actually was before this season, just to put the bow on Colby.

Yeah.

He had this great run, and then he played two more times, and it was kind of underwhelming.

The last time he played, he seemed like he really wasn't that into it.

He was kind of miserable the whole time.

He was called Superman in a fat suit by one of the other contestants, where he was this young buck who was winning everything in his first time out, and then he was kind of seemingly over it and was like a sad, mopey version of Colby.

Oh, no.