Survivor, in general

So this season is over, and I still hate more than anything the fact that they always seem to put the finale on Sunday night. Granted, I still watch it, but it makes no sense. An entire season of a reality show on the same night and time, and then for the one that people really want to see, it is on a new night. That, more than anything else, bothers me about this show.
Now just to qualify, I do watch every episode of Survivor. There was a time where I sometimes made a difficult choice between Friends and Survivor on Thursday nights, but Survivor ended up winning that fight due to Survivor: Australia. I never watched the first season. I saw the finale, at least part of it, but that was all. Everything else since then I have seen, and I did go back and watch the first season later on. I think the show is definitely getting better, although the contestants are not. People know the show too well and they play it now like a formula. What they really need is to recruit people thinking they are going to be on another show and then the twist is they get dropped off in the middle of nowhere and filmed. Surprise, you are on Survivor. Now vote each other off.
Next season is going to be in high definition... not sure how I feel about this. It will be good to FINALLY see survivor in widescreen like my TV is, but every cut and scrape, every oozing bug bite, all will be clearly visible. They will still blur out anything that would be advantageous to high definition anyway.
One thing about this show, much like American Idol, is that the producers intentionally make it so that you only see one side of how things happen. Often this is just so that the winner is a surprise. Alliances are hidden, comments about who is getting voted out are edited out just so there is drama at the end, and nothing ever actually gets said at tribal council. Isn't the point of tribal council to voice issues and opinions? This never happens. If I were on Survivor, the first thing I would do is to make alliances with everyone, and then at tribal council reveal what every single alliance in the group was. Every backstab, every blindside, they would be done away with. It would all be done out in the open.
I might last a week.