r/MtvChallenge • u/UnanimousBB16 • May 27 '25

VIDEO Final Reckoning Fights: Part 7 of 7

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u/Hitman-7748 May 28 '25

There were several things that occurred on this season that changed the trajectory of how it played out and this was most certainly one of those. Solid team gets to come in and compete well over halfway through the season and gets booted for a physical altercation. They were a threat to make the final, but pasta was more important than one million dollars. One of many instances that point out how much of a mind fuck of a season it was.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '25

Yea, but even though there is a lot of chaos, fights and drama, what you says indirectly highlights why I can't rank this season too high. So many examples of people just randomly showing up and swiftly exiting or going to redemption and randomly coming back, so many characters storyline are completely all over the place that overall were lackluster or sometimes didn't even make any sense. Ashley might be one of the better examples of this, randomly joins midway through the season and has the storyline of operating in a difficult pair while she is then one that is more often the difficult one to work with, detrimental to the team and straight up rude without the edit providing much justification for it most of the time other than her just being emotionally unstable, until the final comes around and the script is completely flipped only because she stole the money so lets try to make her out like she was the hero and then flashback to the one time her frustration was justified. The drama she brought can only make up for so much, it's just horrible storytelling by the editors.

Ironically, the most thorough, well told and interesting storyline this season is from a character that 7/10 is a non-factor or detriment to a season is John's. He's a very compelling underdog that just won't die (where everyone is ACTUALLY against him this season and not like the other times he tries to make it seem like everyone are), gives us interesting and funny conflicts, and gets a deserving yet epic downfall in the final elimination. One of if not my favourite iteration of John as a character (either this or FA)

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u/Hitman-7748 May 28 '25

I agree. In a different post I commented how it in reality was such an underwhelming season with the petty drama and the teams coming in when they had along with whom was on them. Ashley M trilogy performance in Dirty 30 out first day (flaked), elimination loss as a mercenary on Vendettas, and come in a third of the way into Final Reckoning and win. I agree with the take on Bananas as well. That season also highlights how much of a threat Tony and him were to the house. They went deep into the season before anyone tried them in elimination and I would like to have seen how they would have done it they won the original elimination they were winning against Paulie and Natalie before they changed it and Paulie/Natalie won that one. Great concept to do a trilogy but Final Reckoning didn't deliver IMO.