Agreed that they needed to do something with the Edge. That's almost 2/2 getting knocked out early and winning the game. I wouldn't have minded if Nick or Jeremy had made it through since they would have only missed the odd tribal here or there, but Natalie missed almost all of the game. At least when Chris did it, he challenged the dominant player and won, and was left with 2 goats. Even if Natalie had won fire vs Tony, I fail to see how she should beat either Sara or Michelle, and yet it might have happened.

I think as far as "player returns from being voted out" mechanics go, redemption island was a much better idea than the edge of extinction. At least on redemption you had to keep winning as you made your way through, giving a huge advantage to players who recently got voted out. As for edge, the advantage went to players who had been there the longest. No way does Nick or Denise pick up that many fire tokens. The only issue was redemption island though was that it sucked up so much airtime - you needed to have another challenge each and every episode.

Happy that Tony was able to win. Either him or Sara would have made a fitting champion.