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Macie Lightfoot

12-02-2019, 10:34 PM

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Finally finished Nicaragua today. Will post my ~thots~ and season ranking and stuff tomorrow!

I don't really have many finale thoughts? It was pretty linear and straightforward: Jud won out in the Challenges and the Jury loved him, although Chase came shockingly close to winning. That being said, it was still a fun finale with Dan's final words, Sash's double dealings and general fakeness getting exposed, and a pretty solid FTC with good performances from Chase and Jud and from the jury bashing Sash and a little bit of Chase too. Jud is a definitely a Not Good winner in the grand scheme of Survivor because all he did was win Challenges and be a presence that was liked, especially in comparison to presences that were HATED, but I'm not even mad about it because #socialgame and whatnot.

Nicaragua as a whole season...... I'm kind of mixed on it! It's definitely underrated in terms of casuals claiming it's the worst season EVER, but it's also kinda overrated in terms of forum gays claiming it's a top 5/10/whatever season just because it's messy. It's definitely an entertaining season because these people are human disasters (I've said it before, but imagine being stranded on La Flor beach and finding yourself having to share space with NaOnka, Brenda, Alina, Purple Kelly, Chase, Sash, Shannon, and Jud) and there's always something juicy and good happening, but at the same time the season can be a little grimy at times and the editing is kinda shoddy so it's tough to follow everything. It doesn't help that the REALLY dramatic and interesting stuff was left out of the edit, like Sash allegedly offering to pay off Jane's mortgage and NaOnka apparently being one of the best social players and being a huuuuge Jury threat. I don't know exactly where I'd put Nicaragua in my season ranking, but it'd probably be light green and somewhere in the -teens range?

1. Holly (A tough season because a bunch of people were jockeying for #1 spot but Holly keeps it! Her whole story is effortlessly epic, from her Day 5 meltdown over the snails and Dan's shoes to becoming a power player who took out Brenda and did her best to keep Purple Kelly from quitting with her Coach Holly peptalk. It was slightly disappointing to watch Ponderosa and see only Alina and eventually Brenda come up to her and realize that Holly actually didn't stand that good of a chance at winning, but her CPP journey is still a great one and it's a shame she hasn't returned yet)
2. Jane (I actually was Not much of a Jane fan when the show first aired but I'm fully converted now! A faker than faux fur country bumpkin who is extremely camera aware and constructs a narrative where she is the hero and people who are nice to her are good and people who are not nice to her are evil villains? Okay, I'm intrigued. She would literally go on screeds about how good will triumph over evil, how Marty is a disgrace to all fathers and she would never let her children go on a play date with his, how Brenda is a villain for trying to break up her original alliance with Chase even though Brenda met him eighteen days before she did, how everyone is awful for killing her pet chicken while she was on Reward even though she almost killed the chicken one episode earlier when other people were on Reward... I could go on and on :love: but of course I need to talk about her ****ing ominous exit, where she learns that her alliance is about to backstab her and she reacts by flipping them off and dumping water on the fire because BY GOD I STARTED IT, I'LL PUT IT OUT <33333333333333 seriously a top 10 boot episode performance)
3. NaOnka (okay so I know I've trashed her quite a bit but she's still Very Good. The ableism against Kelly B is gross and does not age well AT ALL, but when you remove her from the picture it's easy to remember why you fell in love with NaOnka back in 2010. Amazingly telegenic and funny, holds a shocking amount of social currency and is somehow a huge threat to win, and it becomes clear how important she is to the story after the double quit when the season quality dies down quite a bit)
4. Dan (Gruff and delusional and grumpy and physically USELESS, but somehow a huge jury threat to win?! One of the many absurd things in Nicaragua that makes no sense but I'm not even going to question it because Dan's hilarious both physically and verbally. His attempts at Challenges, the gif of him kicking his legs in the oversized chair, his angry final words, his mini feud with Holly over the shoes, telling Chase at FTC that beauty fades but dumb is forever.... it all just works for me)
5. Wendy Jo (alol so I actually underrated her big time, and I'm not quite ready to call her one of the best first boots EVER but she's pretty darn good? An annoying chatterbox who becomes the first boot because she's SO worried about being a chatterbox that she doesn't talk to or connect with anyone :love: a tragic arc)
6. Chase (he was fine! I didn't really care for him either way when it first aired and while I still don't love him, I firmly like him! I think the show could've done a better job with his edit but I guess it was fun to see him constantly be the swing vote and having to betray his allies when he was just trying to somehow play an honest game, and as a result ended up pissing evvvveryone off on a daily basis :love: He also had a better FTC than I gave him credit for back when the show first aired, and I looooooved how he pretty much gave Marty the dumber than a bag of hammers award even though he wasn't really allowed to <3)
7. Jimmy T (okay so I remember REALLY liking Jimmy T a lot when the season aired, and he was definitely Good with his struggles with attaining any sort of tribe leadership :love:, but I was kinda letdown and he wasn't as good as I remembered)
8. Kelly S (lmao okay so this is half ironic because she seriously is THAT inconsequential and it's charming to find any Purple Kelly moment that you can possibly find, but when she does make an appearance she actually is kinda funny and likable and adorable? She was CLEARLY way in over her head and it's totally believable that she had nothing left to suck, but she's undeniably a legend in super fandom for inventing the purple edit so gj sis)
9. Alina (lmaoooo I'm SUCH an Alina fan after this rewatch, at least as much as one can be. A great iteration to the long list of Those Girls. Her whole journey is inspirational to me: is entirely skeptical of Kelly B but is forced into an alliance with her over an Idol clue, has a terrible read of the room during the Shannon boot TC and votes with him even after his outburst against Sash, is really forced to begrudgingly take on Kelly B as an ally (:joker:), is found grimy and false by just about everyone, accidentally stumbles upon NaOnka hiding food and eats an orange to calm her nerves as NaOnka's suggestion, somehow becomes the recipient of everyone's ire for the food fiasco even though NaOnka was totally more guilty that she was, and then gets almost unanimously booted at the merge just for being that irritating :love: the fun continued with her final words being about how STUPID everyone was for getting rid of her and Chase screwing her over at the Shannon boot, but then talking in the Rites of Passage about how at least she was taken out for being a threat rather than dispensable :joker: another top three secret scene was when Jud attempted to give Alina a "let death take you" speech right before the merge TC, where he pretty much told her that nobody likes her and can see right through her fake smile <3333)
10. Benry (UTRfun douche king who really isn't much of a douche <3 I don't really have much to say but it was fun how he was always ^_^ about Chase while Chase had some weird unexplained one-sided hatred of him)
11. Jud (he was fine. I'm neutral on him but lean towards liking just because I feel like he'd be fun to spend time with in real life? I think the whole secret mastermind theme is lame and BS and he definitely is one of the worst winners objectively speaking in terms of The Game, but I'm not even mad about it because he made the boring endgame slightly better by exposing Sash's bull**** double-dealing <3)
12. Tyrone (I remember finding him funny but I don't really remember why anymore! Other than the first TC where he reacted to Wendy Jo freaking out that nobody asked her how old she was and his voting confessional about WENDY JO HAS GOT TO GO *sage nod* and then he turned into an OTTN camp life dictator in his boot and it was weird and random)
13. Brenda (controversial? This is my truth! I really don't care for Brenda at all. She's entertaining and funny like 20-30% of the time but she relies entirely on reputation rather than anything she actually did. Especially coming off the back of HvV, her fandom definitely comes from Parvati fans trying to find a successor to cling onto. What aggravates *me* about Brenda is that she's boringly cocky and arrogant about her position in the game and how good of a player she is, but it's entirely circumstantial and she didn't really do anything to get into a power position. And then when she faced her first bit of adversity in the game.... she just folded over and refused to strategize and was booted unceremoniously? Girl you're all talk!)
14. Kelly B (slightly more boring and less likable than a Jimmy Johnson below her, but man did I feel bad for her for being the only normal person on a tribe full of psychos. The ableism doesn't age well at ALL and she would rank super high if she was like, even remotely telegenic. That being said, the secret scene of her getting bit by a crab and nobody from La Flor even pretending to care is a top 3 secret scene of the season)
15. Jimmy J (definitely A Good Person but also a snoozefest who took up WAY too much airtime with his vis 5 edit every single episode)
16. Yve (she was fine? Entirely invisible until her boot episode which was YVE'S LAST STAND... where she decided to play da game and it was admirable for a quick second but then her campaigning was horrible and she was booted :shrug:)
17. Sash (I feel like with a more honest, transparent edit I could totally get behind Sash in an ironic way but with what we saw I just found him to be creepy and off-putting :\ it's perplexing how blatantly transparent he was in telling everyone single person "you're my number one girl ;)" and yet people fell for it for more than half of the game? I'm super glad that it all fell apart but it would've been better to actually see some of it happen rather than having to infer it through awkward cut-scenes and reading in between the lines in a choppy edit)
18. Jill (okay so she herself is probably fine but ugh what a lame-o. A decently perceptive and smart woman who did absolutely nothing with it! The lowest of lows was when she figured out the Idol clue and just walked up to Mr. Farty all "here buddy, go find it *pats on the back*" :rolleyes: glad she was a pre-merge boot)
19. Marty (Mr. Farty...... he's just suuuuuuuch a dickwad omg. Constantly posturing about his own intelligence and superiority despite BARELY making the merge and jury, constantly condescending others for being dumber than him despite the fact that they ****ing ran circles around him and didn't do things like give away an Idol... even after the show he continued to be a douche by talking about how he NEVER lied once even though he pretended to be a grandmaster of chess for no real reason :rolleyes: he was really just a prelude to David Murphy, Jim Rice, Spencer Bledsoe, etc and I was not here for any of it. Chase was right in wanting to give him the dumber than a bag of hammers award <3)
20. Shannon (ew, even more gross than I remembered. Even when you remove the Sash being gay accusations, his entire arc is him bitching about how he's too old and wise for all the young and dumb people at La Flor, bitching about how men are tied down by marriage, bitching about how pretty soon we'll have a women president, etc. Just a really, really dreadful human being)

Headie

02-06-2019, 04:22 PM

Headie

11-06-2019, 10:40 PM

I'm watching Survivor South Africa: Maldives (Season 4) for the first time ever and the theme is literally "Celebs vs Plebs" and the name tags even say "Pleb" next to them in the confessionals :joker:

On Ep 5 and one guy just said he wants to quit the show and gave his reason for quitting as being "I have vitiligo" :skull: All because his hands were getting a bit blotchy and he said it would affect his career (I'm guessing he's a model/actor) :skull: I-

And then another contestant in their confessional was like "Ohhh are you Michael Jackson now??? You're not gonna die :rolleyes:"

:joker:

Survivor SA is honestly so superior to any other version lmao <3

Headie

12-06-2019, 07:39 PM

This girl really almost snapped her damn neck in half in a challenge and they still made her show up to tribal council... I-

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Headie

12-06-2019, 10:03 PM

This girl really almost snapped her damn neck in half in a challenge and they still made her show up to tribal council... I-

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Asdfghjkl it gets better

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Headie

14-06-2019, 06:42 PM

Smh I see million dollar mistakes aren't just exclusive to Survivor US :rolleyes:

Enjoyed the season tho, merge was definitely better than pre merge! Was so close to having one of my all time favourite F2s as well

Joe.

16-06-2019, 06:49 PM

Season 1: Borneo: Episode 1- The Marooning

Watched every season around 2-3 years ago, now back to the beginning as want to watch with more detail.

Jheez this is grainy, if only it could be in HD.

The theme tune is way better back then, more of a heartbeat in it.

Probst looks young, wonder who his first man crush will be.

Richard Hatch arguing with Sue Hawk on Day 1 :hehe:

BB and Ramona saying that because they are the only ones who know the route to the water hole means they won't be voted out.

This is crazy watching, reality tv in history!

Rudy is an early favorite- 'I don't even know what MTV means ya'll!'

Sonja's song- 'Bye bye blues' :lovedup: Cannot remember who goes first but she does scream first boot to me...

BB vs Gretchen, the first shelter argument.

Sue: 'All a rat is- is a squirrel without a fuzzy tail!' :joker:

Probst seems a lot more natural and himself than in later seasons- 'Don't make me have to make a judgement call, I don't want to!'

The first challenge was so simplistic and over so quickly, lame compared to later challenges.

The iconic friendship of Rudy/Richard! :cheer: Truly one of the best things about season 1!

The first deception! Sue- 'The chicks think I'm voting for one person and I'm not!'

Probst's speech during the 'trek to tribal' makes it even more dramatic!

Probst not directing his questioning and everyone talking all at once...:nono:

The questions before the vote lasted for about two minutes, so quick compared to the 15 minutes of questions we got in recent season 38!

This episode is so grainy I can't even read what's written on the voting slips lol, must be 144p if that!!!!!

Prrobst- 'You've come this far, nobody turned around, and that gives you bragging rights for life.' It's only ep 1, bloody hell.

Poor Sonja! :bawling: At least she has iconic first ever torch snuff.

It's amazing how after 38 seasons the format has stayed the same, as in format I mean the way the episodes are structured.

A good start to the season!

Joe.

17-06-2019, 05:40 PM

Season 1: Borneo: Episode 2- The Generation Gap

Rat for dinner ay?

Richard saying he wants to keep it secret that he voted for Jenna, when she thinks it was Rudy- oh the deception!

BB 'first to go' says Ramona.

Liking both tribe dynamics so far, some interesting characters.

'He doesn't know I'm a homosexual'- this Richard/Rudy friendship is brilliant. 'The homosexual, he's one of the nicest guys I ever met!' has to be one of the top reality tv quotes ever?? :joker: Also 'We became good friends, not in a homosexual way that's for sure!'

Ramona is how I reckon I'd be on Survivor, being sick from the food, although I'd love to say I'd be a strategic threat I couldn't cope with rice and bloody beans!

BB: 'I'm not here to win a personality contest.'- part of me wonders do they know about the format of jury etc or have been all briefed on it??

Colleen and Greg- the first Survivor romance!?

OOP BB VS everyone, we love a controversial older character! Washing his clothes in the cooking pot though is kinda gross :nono:

BB questioning throwing the challenge, very controversial, but him engineering it for himself?

Love an eating challenge! 'In chinese restaurants you've eaten worse than this!'- wow.

Probst is so much more natural, sat there wetting himself at the challenge.

These challenges are over so quickly and relatively easy so far compared to the challenges and difficult puzzles of later seasons!

So looks like it's BB VS Ramona, feel bad for Ramona as she's actually ill, but then again there's no room for lazy people!

Kinda liked Probst summarising as they trekked through the jungle, wonder how long that 'trek' actually was, probably about five minutes! I like 'the only unlit staff' representing Sonja!

Barely any tribal questions, seems so quick once again!

Want BB to go, think Ramona could be more of an interesting character, yet again BB is especially fiery.

This is sooooo grainy I can barely see anything at tribal.

It's a shame not seeing so much strategy, kinda obvious BB was going but we saw barely anything on the beach after the challenge.

Boots-

Sonja
BB

Joe.

18-06-2019, 06:44 PM

Season 1: Borneo: Episode 3- Quest for Food

Lots of scheming going on, love the three girls scheming on the boat.

I love that this season is so much more about the 'Survival' aspect and there's a lot more of 'the unknown' there with the group, stumbling upon the mud volcano for a dip is a great scene.

Dirk and his bible segment, and Dirk's 'crush' on Kelly. Can't help watching Kelly thinking about what a flop she was on season 31.

Dirk being controversial about Richard's 'homosexuality'.

'Tagi, you saw they are missing a member', no no no I much prefer the 'Tagi getting their first look at the new Pagong tribe!'

Such a feel good atmosphere at the challenge it's almost annoying. :hehe:

First ever solo reward challenge- ye haw.

Love the funky mtv style music during the challenge, no Probst commentary- instead subtitles like 'Tagi Leading'!

The other team loving Richard's fish whilst Greg shows off the 'rat trap', eurgh.

I love the tense/dramatic music as Ramona passes the rat around to Gervase, then the music changes to jolly music as Gervase pronounces- 'We are gonna need to kill some more rats!' lo;. :joker:

Like the idea of the 'pre-challenge' challenge where they have to bring something already made to the challenge, in this instance a stretcher.

Dramatic slow-mo walk into the challenge :shocked:

That challenge just abruptly ended, very strange.

'Immunity walk' where the idol hangs in the tree, interesting.

Looks like it's Rudy VS Stacey, love Rudy's 'I don't like Stacey, and I never will!'

Rudy is one of my favorites, hate that he's always an option :fist:

So the everyone talking at once at previous tribals has lead Probst to introduce a shell, whoever holds the shell can speak, omg :laugh:

Probst: 'It's raining too hard, let's end this tribal!' I died. Then- 'It's gonna be a downpour buddy, write clearly!'

'Next vote, fading...Rudy'- The pens aren't sharpie's that's for sure.

Dare I say Stacey seemed like the first person to ever be annoyed at being voted out- 'Alright, you switched your vote!'

Not sad to see Stacey go, bit of a boring character for me, although liked her fued with Rudy.

Probst allowing them to stay at Tribal until the rain stops when later seasons have to endure typhoons!

Boots-

Sonja
BB
Stacey

Joe.

20-06-2019, 06:18 PM

Season 1: Borneo: Episode 4- Too Little, Too Late

Greg and the coconut phone, probably one of my favorite early survivor scenes ever. :joker:

LOVE the idea of the challenge to see who can make the best SOS sign, would like to see that replicated in modern survivor!

Loling at Dirk shaking his head at Kelly's idea of loads of colored condoms laid out on the beach!!!!

Richard using the challenge as a way to gain allies nice.

Probst in the helicopter is a mood.

That was a fun challenge, definitely should be done again.

Here for the Kelly/Richard/Sue alliance- 'Three of us against the world!'

Rudy not agreeing with the alliances, but they aren't after him anyway.

Ramona 'turning it around', nice to see her working hard and trying to change her tribe's opinions of her.

Glad Tagi won the challenge, the clearly superior tribe!

I actually am growing to like the Probst summary narration when the group is 'trekking to tribal'!

Feel like Ramona is going, don't want her too though- just when she's getting in her stride, love her face paint too.

Probst with the leading questions- 'Anyone wanna own up and say they feel invincible!?'

Gervase, feeling invinsible and vulnerable- 'I may have just played myself', starting to be one of my faves.

Love Ramona's- 'No comment' at tribal when holding up her vote for Colleen'!

Gutted Ramona's gone. Just when she was starting to fight to be there too!

Boots- (In order of faves)

Ramona
Sonja
BB
Stacey

Joe.

24-06-2019, 05:59 PM

Season 1: Borneo: Episode 5- Pulling Your Own Weight

Sue telling the guys they wasted time fishing :joker:

Rudy has the best quotes- 'The only reason I'd bring a Bible out here, and I'm religious, is for toilet paper!'

Actually love when Probst comes with a hammer to nail the tree mail up.

Sue's kinda goofy and I'm here for it.

Woah, that challenge was over so quickly, a montage of shots fired then Probst goes- 'Great first round!' within literally 7 seconds.

Very close end to that challenge, Sue and her spear is a partnership I adore.

Mess @: 'What are you going to name these chickens?'- 'Umm, breakfast, lunch and dinner!'

Don't blame Greg not wanting to be seen as a leader.

'When we go off it's all about sex!' - Not Colleen and Greg turning Survivor into a sex island.

Richard hurling a snake into the ocean. :hehe:

Sean and the first 'bowel movement' in two weeks, a piece of information I would have rather not know. :fist:

Sue: 'Dirk you look like a nazi war prisoner camp dude.'- This would be banned from tv in snowflake 2019 jheeez.

What is this 'Tapiyokah' they are looking for?

Sean not knowing the name for tribal- 'I don't want to go the immune council tonight by any means' :joker:

'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' Not Kelly quoting Kelly Clarkson.

Richard's very good at making alliances etc and strategy then talking a good game at tribal.

Dirk's gone, won't be missed really. His religion was interesting but wasn't in any key alliances. Sue's evil grin when he went was hilarious.

Next week looks wild, naked Richard and sexist Gervase!

Boots- (In order of faves)

Ramona
Sonja
BB
Dirk
Stacey

Joe.

02-07-2019, 06:25 PM

Season 1: Borneo: Episode 6- Udder Revenge

Oooo the alliance looking forward to the merge, they seem to have an unspoken bond. Richard thinks he's in control, interesting.

'Don't take offence to this but... women are the stupidest thing on the planet next to cows!'- No Gervase no! Cue montage of lazy Gervase also- can;t help but like him.

Refreshing seeing a season with no idols or mad twists. I for one am always in favor of idols i not handed to players by production.

Richard eating dog food whilst Sue yells- 'Yeahhhhh!'

'It's just dog food.'- 'What if it's dog!' :joker:

Like the history of the island being included in the challenge.

Yay for the challenge being at night, meaning I can see even less...:nono:

Mess at Kelly not knowing the challenge was over and Jeff having to stop ehr and say- 'It's over!'

Foreshadowing of the alliance picking Pagong off one by one?

Great segment getting to know Joel a bit more.

'I am definitely not a chauvinist' *grins at camera*

Amazing challenge set up, giving me high budget teas.

Nice summary from Jeff on the outcome of who goes, hoping it's a Tagi/Pagong 5-5 spit at merge, will make it interesting. :hee:

The music during the challenge gave me chills, classic Survivor.

This episode is looking like a Joel boot so far??

I love them just throwing around the carcass of the half eaten chicken, gross. :shocked:

Probst calling out Gervase- yes. Everyone see's it as him joking though.

Gretchen about Joel- 'He seems to have the most money out of everyone so I think he needs to win less!'

Joel was interesting in his views, but won't be missed.

Boots- (In order of faves)

Ramona
Sonja
BB
Joel
Dirk
Stacey

Joe.

07-07-2019, 11:21 AM

Season 1: Borneo: Episode 7- The Merger

Like the idea of the 'ambassadors' from each tribe going to check the livability and then deciding where the tribes will merge at a 'summit'!

Still digging the alliance of Sue, Richard, Rudy and Kelly.

Rudy: 'She hasn't shut up since she's been here!'

The ambassadors summit is so posh I absolutely love it, very formal.

The bed situation at the summit LOL, and the way Jenna clocks that they are trying to make it romantic between her and Sean- she's having none of it.

Not Jenna/Sean drinking FOUR bottles of wine.

Not sure of the name- 'Rattana'

Rudy- 'I'm the old guy, don't forget!'

I really like the breath holing competition, would be crap at it myself though and find it really unnerving!

Glad Greg won the first immunity, he's one of my favorites.

Shame not seeing any strategy or the alliance discussing options.

Sean's alphabetical voting strategy is awful.

These votes are a MESS, think everyone got one vote at least almost? Not sad to see Gretchen go, her iconic- 'Oh my God, it's me!' will be remembered.

Boots- (In order of faves)

Ramona
Sonja
BB
Joel
Gretchen
Dirk
Stacey

Braden

09-07-2019, 06:45 PM

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Nobody asked for it, but you're all getting it...

Braden

09-07-2019, 07:49 PM

- Could not be less arsed with any of the returnees. They've all played way too recently, so I'm really not bothered about any of them coming back again.
- It really does surprise me that Aubry has played 76/78 of the days from Kaoh Rong and Game Changers. It still surprises me that she was such a no-mark in the latter.
- Keith coming to play Survivor but not being able to swim :love:
- Honest to god, Kelly Wentworth becoming such a presence in Survivor lore is so bizarre considering she was such a nobody during her first season.
- Wendy is soooooo sweet. I don't want to sound condescending, but she is super-likable so far.
- "I'm gay and I'm team Joe." No Aurora! No!
- Mother Reem :love:
- I like the Keith/Reem/Wendy alliance.
- God, Jeff Probst is getting noticeably older and less sexy. Hopefully, that doesn't come across as ageist.
- It's so weird looking at edgic, but then seeing it in action. Like, it always feels so different for some reason.
- I'm obsessed with how camp Keith is.
- Wardog throwing out my baby's name (Wendy). He can choke.
- "Wentworth...Didn't she get hurt today? I didn't get hurt today :smug:" Let. Them. Know. Mutha. Reem.
- Reem throwing out age discrimination accusations :love:
- Wardog sounds like a cartoon character.
- Ugh, I already love the fact that I'm getting a whole season of Reem of Extinction.
- Oh my god, the way the ending was edited. A new feature film starring Reem Daly.

That was quite a good first episode. The newbies actually seem like a well-rounded good cast. There's nobody objectively awful among the returnees (Joe is close), but none of them are particularly exciting to watch again. I'm intrigued to see how the season will pan out, especially know what happens at the end (which I cannot wait for)

Also, major love for the fact Reem was voted out for moving people's clothes. Nobody else's mutha could ever! I'm so thrilled for the Edge of Extinction twist for the mere fact I'll be seeing a whole season of Reem.

ranking

Reem

MB.

09-07-2019, 10:46 PM

Nobody asked for it, but you're all getting it...

Just like Edge of Extinction itself :love:

Joe.

10-07-2019, 05:54 PM

My grainy second Borneo watch continues...

Season 1: Borneo: Episode 8- My Name Is Duplicity

Pagong blindsided by the 4 Tagi choosing to get rid of Gretchen proves great tv, Rudy proudly announcing in the water: 'It was my idea to get rid of Gretchen!'

The voting lines are drawn, this is where it get's interesting.

Richard is playing a brilliant social game, they are depending on him for food. 'If we vote Rich off, we don't eat!'

Oop Greg is on to Richard.

When Probst opens the box to reveal the tv, jheez it makes this season look dated! The tape into the VCR!

The video's are sweet, lovely moment.

Feel sorry for Jenna not having a tape when everyone else does.

'It was really special for you to send me, and everyone here what you did. We felt like we could feel you, and we felt you, and some of us felt you and some of us iamgined what it was like to feel you!'- Greg what!?!? Rudy- 'It sounded like incest!' BIZARRE! :nono:

It's heartbreaking watching Jenna continue to fire the arrow whilst the video for Greg is playing.

Found myself really rooting for Jenna in the immunity challenge, especially after Gervase's comments- then he wins. :fist:

Interesting, Colleen pitching that four come together to vote one of the alliance off!

Start of the jury!

Some of the comments are just savage- 'I'm voting for who I dislike!' etc, much prefer Survivor when it's like this than the nicey-nice game we've recently been having!

Can I just say it again please, Sean's 'alphabetical' tactic ****ing SUCKS.

Actually gutted Greg went but glad Jenna stayed. He provided some brilliant moments and was one of my favorites!

Boots- (In order of faves)

Greg
Ramona
Sonja
BB
Joel
Gretchen
Dirk
Stacey

Joe.

11-07-2019, 08:30 PM

Season 1: Borneo: Episode 9- Old And New Bonds

Not Kelly ready to turn her back on the alliance!?

Richard's winner edit coming through <3- 'They are not voting me off because I'm not letting them!'

You see on paper you wouldn't expect Sue and Richard to get along but I find their relationship fascinating. The same with Richard and Rudy really.

SO videos from home and now letters from home, hey at least hopefully Jenna get's something.

Those kebabs even look tasty in grainy 140p to be honest.

So sex mad Colleen won after her beau Greg went.

Probst: 'How do you feel like inviting...', Colleen: 'EVERYBODY!', Probst: 'Not quite!'

Love the cuts between sad music of everyone eating rice to samba music as Colleen and Jenna enjoy their kebabs!

YES Jenna and Colleen conspiring against the alliance!

Richard in his birthday suit, quite literally :joker:

'A queer who ran away bare ass all the time!'- Rudy pleasantly describing Richard.

Sean on about his alphabetical tactic again :bored:, all the girls wanting to be named 'Zelda'! :hehe:

This challenge is frustrating, because it must be interesting to play but as a viewer it's very confusing and difficult to keep track of.

Jenna/Colleen/Gervase all talking about the 'uprising'- I AM EXCITED, let's hope it happens.

Colleen wearing her buff as a skirt, Sean- 'Not doing that sue?' DEAD :clap1::hehe::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

Oop, Kelly acting 'odd' by making friends.

Rudy CONTINUES TO DELIVER: 'I was worried about a female alliance, I even thought about LESBIANISM!' :joker::joker::joker::joker:

Sean trying to justify his 'alphabet' strategy being strategic- LOL. Yes @ Queen Sue calling him out- 'He doesn't have enough balls to make a decision!'

So Sean has gone with Jenna. There were FOUR Jenna votes, does that mean Kelly put Sean? To be fair the alliance were lucky that Sean's 'alphabet' strategy fell on Jenna this week! Most interesting vote so far!

Boots- (In order of faves)

Greg
Jenna
Ramona
Sonja
BB
Joel
Gretchen
Dirk
Stacey

Joe.

14-07-2019, 03:52 PM

Season 1: Borneo: Episode 10- Crack In The Alliance

How does Sean still not realize there's an alliance when there has been clear voting blocks.

Coleen seems woke with the alliance, but still somehow wants to vote Sean out?

Oop Sue- 'I trust Kelly 100%!'- Can see this being the start of their fued.

Jheez, the next reward is a phone call home- making it the third consecutive episode to have home contact!

Gervase using the nokia, makes the episode look so prehistoric.

Talk of the '15 minutes of fame'

Like the challenge being at night, adds a whole new element to it. Love the scramble for wood int he challenge, everyone is getting very competitive!

Richard won the challenge, I still think he would have been safe if he didn't win.

Lol at Gervase/Coleen naming themselves 'Bulleye' and 'Sitting duck' as they know they are next!

Oop Sean/Gervase/Coleen/Kelly is the alliance we need!

So the four stuck together, and Coleen and Gervase decided to vote Sean? Very strange as they should have gone for one of the four. Not too sad to see Gervase go, but it looks like Coleen/Sean's days are numbered!

Boots- (In order of faves)

Greg
Jenna
Ramona
Gervase
Sonja
BB
Joel
Gretchen
Dirk
Stacey

Joe.

15-07-2019, 07:28 PM

Season 1: Borneo: Episode 11- Long Hard Days

The end game is in sight, the Tagi alliance all have money on their minds!

Rudy is so honest, definitely one of my favorites left- 'If I got bit along the way by someone that gave me their word, I'd do something to them!'

The yacht reward looks amazing!

Sean is a SAVAGE. Telling Kelly she's coming with him for breakfast then shouts off the boat- 'See you in the morning Hatch!'

Montage of Sean eating, then chatting with Jeff is hilarious. Love the captain being his Dad, that was a sweet moment.

Probst- 'Hey Richard, get your skinny ass over here!' Blimey.

Jheez they are eating a lot of food, I'm surprised their stomach's can cope with it. I know it sounds filthy but I always wonder what their **** is like.

Sue with quote of the series- 'UNLESS IF YOU CAME BACK WITH SOMETHING WE DON'T CARE IF YOUR BACK!' :joker::joker::joker::joker::joker::joker::joker:

Sean walks in with his father and none of the girls even get up to say hello :hehe:

Sue wanting to know about the stock market, she's brilliant. Then Sean's Dad dosen't know and she goes- 'For him to visit the camp is cool and everything but he didn't know anythaaaang!' I LOVE HER.

Jeff actually in the water dismantling the challenge himself...

Richard's narration during the challenge is hilarious.

So Jenna falls, looks like she's off :wavey:

Oop Kelly the double agent being a potential name thrown out there.

Why is Probst calling the 'alphabet strategy' INFAMOUS, that is the last thing it is!

Sean is literally just the worst, changing Colleen's name on his voting slip to Cool-ean. :nono:

So Kelly voted Sean, she's not voting with the alliance at all anymore, admire her for doing her own thing.

Sue VS Kelly next ep, OOP.

Boots- (In order of faves)

Greg
Jenna
Ramona
Gervase
Sonja
BB
Joel
Colleen
Gretchen
Dirk
Stacey

Joe.

17-07-2019, 06:14 PM

Season 1: Borneo: Episode 12- The Death of an Alliance

So it's just Tagi members left! The alliance....and Sean!

That Sue VS Kelly argument came out of no-where, it was like the cameramen missed the start of it :conf:

Kelly talking to Richard first is very smart, she's playing well.

Damn this challenge is the infamous- 'You win and come to a bar with me' one I remember fondly. Such a strange reward going to a bar in the middle of Borneo with Jeff Probst playing the first episode of Survivor. Weird but I love it- this really is Season 1!

This reward seems just so strange, Probst leading a blindfolded Kelly into a bar- 'Cigarettes if your so inclined...' :nono:

The fact the bar's been named 'Survivor Bar' too, ok.

The way Probst is trying to have a chat with her and act normal, but also seems weirdly like he's on a date with her. THIS IS SO ODD.

The size and quality of the tv in the bar, bless 2000.

This episode has been a lot of- 'How long left!'

'Last night Jeff Probst went missing! All that was left was this camera.' They play the clip: loads of heavy breathing from Probst. After his night in a bar with Kelly... :laugh:

I skipped a lot of the stories Probst was reading out for the challenge, Sue was sat open mouthed though as if it was all believable, classic.

So with Kelly winning the challenge, surely it's time to say goodbye to Sean!?

Kelly ready to 'GET DURTY'- Yes.

Rudy's homophobia coming into play again: 'When this is all over I will shake his hand and never see him again!'

Sean going was inevitable. The fact he had a confessional saying he was going to win this episode is hilarious. LOL at the fact his torch went out during tribal- a sign.

I just LOVE how dramatic that trailer for the finale was- 'It's so top secret we cannot even show you a.single.second!'

Boots- (In order of faves)

Greg
Jenna
Ramona
Gervase
Sonja
BB
Sean - This low because wtf is an 'alphabet strategy'
Joel
Colleen
Gretchen
Dirk
Stacey

Joe.

26-07-2019, 08:40 AM

Season 1: Borneo: Episode 13- The Final Four

So here we are, the season finale!

Shame we don't have Probst in the studio, makes it even more epic.

Oooo the challenge straight away- and at Tribal too!

Not- 'Who's shirt is this?' and then letting them all personally smell it!

Kelly wins immunity when she needs it most and the other's are seething!!

So no break between the challenge and the vote, that's a real shame.

Oh snap, a tie. At this stage I so want Sue to stay.

Can tell Sue is fuming, real shame she's gone as provided a lot of entertainment.

Boots- (In order of faves)

Sue
Greg
Jenna
Ramona
Gervase
Sonja
BB
Sean - This low because wtf is an 'alphabet strategy'
Joel
Colleen
Gretchen
Dirk
Stacey

Lol at the overly emotional music over the montage of past players.

This challenge is iconic. I remember it being done in Australian Survivor 1 where Kristie fell to the floor dramatically after several hours- great TV.

Rich dropping could have been such a risk, but he is right and a gamble could pay off.

Probst telling Richard that he’s sat there waiting for one of them to win and not doing any work :laugh:

Feel really sorry for Rudy, taking his hand off after over four hours was a genuine mistake, but that’s Survivor!

All in all I think Kelly should take Rudy, he’s more of an ostracizing character than Richard who can make his humor likable, but they have stepped on toes.

Wish they’d given time for Richard/Rudy to plead their cases!

Kelly brought the urn back, was that intentional?

The burning of the shelter is very symbolic, and I wish it’d been kept a tradition.

Pretty solid final two, both have played brilliant games.

Love the jury’s narration as they walk to the final tribal.

Sue: ‘I can’t wait to get up there tonight’- OH DAYUM.

Sean- ‘I don’t have any questions!’- just a speech?

‘FNF’- Fat, Naked, Fag… oh deary me.

Rudy :joker: ‘I don’t have anything to say I just want to let everyone know how dum I feel after the mistake I made yesterday!’ ICONIC.

Sue’s Snakes VS Rats speech: Seriously one of the most iconic jury speeches of all time. Incredibly harsh and over the top but brilliant. ‘The way mother nature intended…’ This is one of the biggest Survivor moments I think of. The jury speeches were a bit crap until then, Greg’s whole ‘Pick a number’ thing then Sue comes and absolutely slam dunks everyone with that speech- wow!

Nice we are seeing the whole explanations of jury votes.

Rich deserved the win in the end, exciting how it was so close, Kelly did play a brilliant game though but it was her going against her alliance that sealed the deal.

Overall Ranking
Sue
Rudy
Greg
Rich
Kelly
Jenna
Ramona
Gervase
Sonja
BB
Sean
Joel
Colleen
Gretchen
Dirk
Stacey

Will be posting my overall season thoughts/reunion thoughts this weekend!

Joe.

28-07-2019, 10:35 AM

Overall Season Thoughts/& Reunion

Reunion wise, a really good reunion with fair questions- preferred the host not being Probst actually and someone completely different, a viewer like ourselves. Rudy being cheered after answering if his pre-conceived ideas about homosexuals have changed and answering no is hilarious, think to a modern day audience he'd be booed. Rudy applying for Survivor 2 :joker: Kelly saying the word 'alliance' is dirty and made the game not fun, well for us viewers it made it very interesting. Gretchen seemed very switched on about the game and separating yourself from the game, wish we'd seen more of her. Like the audience questions, feel the reunions should be longer and more fan/audience led. Colleen/Greg admitting they lied about the sex to make good tv- interesting!

Overall- Brilliant first season that sets the trail for almost 40 seasons of Survivor. The game play of the alliance and the race to the finale was brilliant television with some unforgettable survivor characters. Watching nearly 20 years later it is definitely dated with a bit of a slow-burner of a start but I can see how the format has lasted and how initially America was hooked.

Overall Ranking
Sue- Such a goofy lovable character with one of the most iconic jury speeches ever.
Rudy- Hilarious and set in his ways, shame he went out third due to a mistake.
Greg- Brilliant TV, the coconut phone and some great confessionals.
Rich- A worthy winner, great game play.
Kelly- Very interesting game play, kept a viewer guessing.
Jenna- Was a rootable character in the end I wanted to beat the alliance.
Ramona- We didn't see enough of Ramona! She had such potential!
Gervase- Very funny and likable character.
Sonja- A lovely woman who went too early. Her ukelele.
BB- Angry old man, a meaner Rudy.
Sean- Alphabet strategy, what even... that's all I'll say.
Joel- A bit of a non factor, some entertaining moments, silly game play.
Colleen- America's sweet heart, but also quite dull.
Gretchen- Liked inm the end but at the start a bit of a non factor.
Dirk- The religious one, went early.
Stacey- Only known for her fued with Stacey.

Onto Australia next in a few weeks!

Macie Lightfoot

29-07-2019, 04:55 PM

I think I just had a heart attack at Colleen being described as QUITE DULL :skull:

JerseyWins

29-07-2019, 05:06 PM

Colleen :love:

Joe.

11-11-2019, 07:22 PM

Yeah I found Colleen dull, and?

Anyway, here's my season 2 re-watch!

Survivor 2: The Australian Outback: Episode 1

LOVE the setting change, they should do Australia again soon, bored of Fiji currently!

NOT '42 days...', thought they'd extend it huh?

Really miss the shots of them in their everyday life as they are all introduced coming off the plane.

Varner looks... thin.

The excitement of early years survivor is really there, and I'm excited for them!

Debb coming across as quite short tempered already.

Refreshing seeing some of the hut building, don't get that in newer seasons as much.

Yes Jerri looking for reasons already to vote someone off!

Not 'Where the hell am I gonna masturbate out here!?' BLIMEY.

Gross, Michael biting into a bug filled fig.

Alicia's silver bikkini is already iconic.

The scale of this first challenge is pretty impressive, the three different stages, mind you Survivor challenges I always find impressive as to how long they would have taken to construct/think of.

Episode highlight: Kimmi nearly being flattened by her team's overturning raft :joker:

Varner was a potential first boot, ouch.

I fondly remember how damn cool the tribal setting was for this season, on the edge of a waterfall, incredible stuff. Probably one of the coolest tribal settings in the 39 season history of the show.

There's some strong characters in this tribe, will be interesting to see who goes, not sure who's screaming first boot, can't remember who goes, maybe Rodger?

Is my video flipped or is Probst speaking to them from a different side than he usually does?

Feel sorry for Debb, could have been an interesting character later on as she was so strong willed.

Boots (In order of faves)-

Debb-

Joe.

12-11-2019, 09:26 PM

Survivor 2: The Australian Outback: Episode 2

The importance of food, the Kel fishing segment was interesting. The survivors saying 'There's no fish down there' and the camera panning down to fish.

Wow- Probst really is stood on the edge of that cliff.

The encouragement for Rodger swimming was lovely though I fear e will be the second boot if his tribe loose again!

Not a gourmet chef not being able to serve nice rice!?

Keith talking about hard 'physical labour' as he throws two tiny twigs off the cliff.

'Aspiring actress' Jerri taking over cooking from professional chef Keith is brilliant.

Mike's prayer where he basically tells the tribe that he is the new leader of the tribe, lol.

Jerri and the beef jerky rumors: can see why she was one of the first 'villains' of the show!

Interesting seeing these initial days play out, I do feel they were wrong for searching Kal's bag without asking him.

Good on KImmi for keeping her morals, takes a strong person.

Elisabeth and her weird head-dresses eugh.

NOT Survivor Bushtucker trials haha.

Mad dog taking out her gnashers is a top tier Survivor moment.

Big respect to Kimmi for eating the worm and winning the challenge.

I like Kel so far, he seems promising, don't remember much from him, hope he isn't a second boot.

Probst asking the questions we want to hear!!

NOT winner Tina on her first tribal- 'I should be the one to go!'

Kel is cancelled for voting Jerri.

Marilyn is ICONIC for quoting legend Sue- 'If you were dying of thirst...;

Am sad to see Kel go, he seemed an interesting character,

Boots (In order of faves)-

Debb
Kel-

Nicky91

13-11-2019, 02:59 PM

it's a huge shame our expeditie robinson (dutch survivor) isn't online, with english subtitles

since any of you would love it, especially this years robinson Mariana Verkerk being a real bitch, and strategic genius in working out her competitioni put it in spoilers, cuz you never know if they ever get put online with english subs

Joe.

13-11-2019, 06:08 PM

Survivor 2: The Australian Outback: Episode 3

The struggle for food and nutrition/survival is much more prevalent in these earlier seasons, all we see is strategy nowadays, I like a mix of both.

Remember this water challenge being really good!

As if Mike's pole actually snapped :joker:

Love the comment from Mitchell that all eyes were on Keith gutting the fish as he was playing the role of instructor so they knew his skills.

Ooer, Colby and Jerri, can see why she was painted as evil- 'If it comes down to voting for Colby, I would!'

Jeff/Alicia strategy talk- Still not liking Jeff, maybe because I know of how he is in later seasons. Love Alicia though.

The exhaustion and starvation factors of Survivor I'd find the hardest, I think so far in this season more than any other you can really see that affecting the survivors.

Tina has her eyes on the game, I respect that.

Keith is a FOOL for wanting Marilyn to stay, he's the other option surely?

The Tina/Jerri/Colby/Amber/Mitchell alliance- I dig it.

Hey- turns out Mad Dog really isn't that much of a Mad Dog (War Dog anyone???) But at least she gave Amber her hat.

She was a bit dull, didn't really fight to stay either. Her parting words were cute though 'Am I alive, did this really happen?'

Boots (In order of faves)-

Debb
Kel
Mad Dog

Matthew.

14-11-2019, 10:31 AM

So I’ve gotten into Survivor! And I have also recently finished watching Survivor Borneo over the past week and I really enjoyed it. I’ve never watched Survivor before, and I’m glad I started with this one. It’s a lot like BBUK1 in that it’s quite basic, but it flowed together really well, and I was always interested in the islanders throughout, which was a good, likeable cast (Dirk was the only one I didn’t like) as well as the individual storylines. Would definitely recommend.

I was glad that Richard won in the end, because he brought strategy to the game for the first time that nobody else ever had. As a person he’s ok I guess, but this season probably would not have been the same without him. I think he’s like Nasty Nick but better. But I was glad that in the end, it was what Mother Nature intended, and the snake ate the rat.

Edgic (Another new thing!)
https://i.imgur.com/SRrqgYD.jpg

Joe.

15-11-2019, 06:52 PM

Survivor 2: The Australian Outback: Episode 4

'I didn't come out here to be pushed around my some bartender wannabe actress!'

The shot of Mike holding a knife whilst looking at the chickens had me in stitches, wants to hill them asap as he is the 'food giver' and wants to go back to that!

Those bush fires are crazy, then the way it zooms in on the camp which is actually quite close...

I feel like the strategy talk has gone waaaay up since Borneo. It's nice to see the show coming into it's own!

Michael running after the pig is truly horrifying television, the shot of him stabbing it repeatedly with the sequels is vile.

'This is like a murder scene!'

I wish there'd be more trivia challenges on modern day Survivor, they are always brilliant on The Challenge!

A TIE! Is this the first? Dayum. 'In the spirit of the olympics, let the games begin!'- go Tina.

Mitchell's 'save me' speech- 'Keith is stronger.' :nono:

Not another tie! People just ain't budgin! Please be rocks.

That's ridiculous stuff. 'Votes cast in previous tribals' shouldn't count, this is a fresh tribal. Wanted Mitchell to go though over Keith so Tina stays winning but still think it was unjust!

Liked Mitchell, was a strong character and a number for Jerri's side, a bit weak though physically unfortunately.

Boots (In order of faves)-

Debb
Mitchell
Kel
Mad Dog

ICONIC CHICKEN FIGHT NEXT EP.

Macie Lightfoot

17-11-2019, 02:50 AM

Vote countback was a great tiebreaker method and added a whole nother layer to the strategy. And the Mitchell vote off is soooooooo important in the history of Survivor. Keith was slated to be the next boot but Tina realized that it would just make her in the firing line, she tried to flip Colby and Mitchell to vote against Amber with her and Keith but Mitchell wouldn't budge, so then Tina convinces Colby on the walk to Tribal Council that they need to get rid of Mitchell in order to keep the tribe strong since he's suffering physically out there and getting weaker.

It doesn't seem monumental at all, but this was still in an early enough time in Survivor that forming alliances to begin with was seen as immoral, let alone making a move to flip on your alliance and form a new one for entirely self-interested reasons. Tina completely ****ed with Colby and basically told him that if he remained loyal to his alliance with Mitchell/Jerri/Amber, then he would be going against everything that he preaches about maintaining a strong tribe and he would show America that he cares more about his alliance than who works hard and ~deserves~ to be there, something weighing heavily on everyone's minds after 50+ million people watched the Borneo finale in pure disgust at the Tagi 4 for breaking the game.

And now, talking on the way to Tribal Council is prohibited. All because of a revolutionary power move Tina made on the way to Tribal Council. In the spirit of the Olympics, let the games begin!

Matthew.

17-11-2019, 09:20 AM

I’m halfway through this season, and I like Countback too, but I wonder what would happen if somebody lied about how many votes they had previously to stay in the game?

Matthew.

17-11-2019, 11:47 PM

Finished Survivor Australia! (Spoilered for Joe’s benefit)

1. Jerri - Idc what anybody says Jerri *was* Survivor Australia. Such a compelling character that kept me gripped from the start all the way up until her boot. Her out-there personality rubbed everyone up the wrong way, and she absolutely loved it :love::love::love: Her hatred of Keith, his rice, and his compliments :love: Her one-sided relationship with Colby :love: Her chocolate/sex comparisons which pissed Colby off :love: And finally, when she found a note which said that someone was medically evacuated and she just said “Oh no.” in THE most deadpan voice possible and told Tina that Roger had a stroke :skull:

2. Tina - Tina’s really underrated imo, besides from her side of being very sweet and nice, she could also be very sneaky, and I mean that in a good way. She was very good outside of strategy, such as Tina Vs Jerri and her occasional snarky comments which nobody even noticed because it’s Tina. A great winner. In the spirit of the Olympics, let the games begin! :hugesmile: You seem like a great guy but you said that you were tired of playing the game and you weren’t having fun anymore, so here’s your ticket buddy! :hugesmile:

Jeff: “$60 for 4 Doritos and dip. Tina, I know how much you love Doritos!”
Tina: “I do, but that’s like $10 a chip. :(”

3. Kimmi - An early series howl, was sad that she was cut so short but she packed a lot into her 15-day stay, so much that it feels weird to say she only lasted that long. :love:

4. Elisabeth - So when I started watching and saw Elisabeth come on screen I was like ohhhhh ffs it’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s season and I’ve watched The View a fair bit so was expecting… a much different Elisabeth than we got :clap1: She came across really well and I liked her a lot. (Keith counts all 50 states in the balance comp) E: “Boy have things sure got fun around here :bored:”

5. Rodger - Such a lovely guy, it was like reliving The Donny Thompson Experience all over again. Never heard anything remotely bad come out of his mouth and I rate that :clap1:/has jerri at number 1

6. Keith - I kind of like Keith, which I assume is an unpopular opinion? A bit of an obnoxious moron at times, who’s admittedly not too exciting on his own but the guy’s a natural conflict rod who everybody wanted out and idk I just like that :clap1: Think Hardeep but not as good.

7. Maralyn - Mad Dog :love: She seemed like she was just coming into her own and then she gets booted. A shame. (removes teeth)

8. Kel - Poor Kel got chucked off the island because he had the audacity to eat some grass that looked like Beef Jerky :joker: He seemed nice and he could have done with staying at least a little bit longer.

9. Debb - A fairly big character to the first episode but she wasn’t much of a loss unfortunately, and in terms of Survivor Australia, an after-thought. Fun Fact: She dated her stepson after her husband died. :)

10. Colby - A lot of people hate him but I don’t get the hate, nor do I particularly *like* him either, I’m neutral on him. I think he made a big mistake taking Tina to the final 2 though...

11. Alicia - She might have gotten in one fight one time but apart from that… Alicia’s kind of boring? I hear she’s pretty awful in All Stars too :worry:

12. Amber - I have very little to say on Amber as she was barely shown, although I assume that changes in All Stars.

13. Nick - Really boring for someone who I originally thought was one of the big characters of this season going in :skull:

14. Mitchell - He’s 7 feet tall. Can’t think of anything else to say.

15. Jeff - Annoying, boring, smarmy dick. (This placement does not take into account his recent disgraceful re-attempt at this game)

16. Michael - Some people like Mike in this season, but **** no, he creeped me out far too much. Idk if it’s because I know he’s a raging nonce now but I just found him creepy and it killed me to have to give him an OTTPP5 in his leaving episode.

Edgic
https://i.imgur.com/QXhEpKZ.jpg

Overall, a very good season, which I enjoyed just as much as Borneo. Hopefully I’ll start Africa soon because I hear The Frank Garrison Experience is a great one. Adios!

Joe.

19-11-2019, 07:39 PM

Survivor 2: The Australian Outback: Episode 5

So the first chicken being cooked, and the infamous chicken fight is coming up!

Do I feel sorry for Kimmi? In a way yes because she's forced to see what's happening. The 'should we kill the chickens' story line is a classic Survivor moment that re-appears season after season.

Annoying we start the fight as it had already started, it's such an iconic moment in Survivor history.

'I WILL ALWAYS WAVE MY FINGER IN YOUR FACE!' <3

'I wanted to run up and grab her by the throat!'- Jheez, Alicia is THE original Bad Girls Club star.

Not Kimmi having a dirt tan line, she is truly the star of this episode!

As if the survivors on the stretchers are called 'The victims' at this challenge, how ominous!

I just love that the equivalent of Target sponsoring this challenge is Sainsbury's sponsoring a challenge :joker:

Not sure if the health and safety would have necessarily passed this challenge in today's age...

Kimmi's celebratory bath omg.

The scale of this challenge is yet again, extremely impressive- two weeks to build! Makes me wish that one season we could see a proper behind the scenes Survivor special where we could learn about the building of challenges etc.

I'd LOVE to play this maze challenge personally.

Wow Ogakor absolutely SMOKED Kucha in that challenge, not even a competition!

Mike is so annoying the way he keeps saying he was the leader because he brought in food.

Tribal council questions aren't as probing as they are in more recent seasons, I guess it's quite nice though that the vote is more of a mystery- but I need to know the strategy!

Do miss hearing- 'If anyone has a hidden immunity idol...'

NOT MISS KIMMI, she absolutely was the best this episode! Says a lot she only lasted five episodes though, but then I remember how much of a ghost she was on 'Game Changers'!

Boots (In order of faves)-

Kimmi
Debb
Mitchell
Kel
Mad Dog

The first big med-evac next ep!

Macie Lightfoot

19-11-2019, 08:43 PM

Kimmi being a ghost on Cambodia is much more of an indictment of Cambodia than it is of Kimmi.

Also, the ~strategy~ of Outback was very meta and under the radar because everyone was forced into strategizing in a way where they don't present themselves as being people concerned about the game. It's the whole mission statement for Tina actually being shrewd and calculating and cutthroat but having to mask it under the motherly figure who wants The Deserving People to make it to the end. It was all in reaction to how the Tagi 4 were perceived by America.

JerseyWins

20-11-2019, 06:19 AM

I was surprised to like Kimmi in Australia after she was the dreaded combo of boring & annoying on Cambodia. But somehow it happened :dazzler:

Matthew.

23-11-2019, 09:45 PM

Survivor Africa

1. Frank - (This is one of my longer write ups but it’s a good one nonetheless) FRANK :love: Such a strange creature that I enjoyed the whole way through, yes as a person I’m not *that* keen on him, but as a character I could watch him all day long. Frank is a very blunt and unsociable person but as Teresa put it, “What can I say about Frank other than, Frank is Frank.” Highlights from The Frank Garrison Journey include but are not limited to:
- Refusing to take a break from lighting a fire because he had his break when he spent 9 months inside his mother’s womb.
- Describing his military service as “It’s called FREEDOM.”
- Objecting to Lindsey having a friendship bracelet because nonsense does not come before fire, shelter or water.
- Spending his birthday carving his children’s names into a tree.
- Being 43 years old and not having heard the term “brunch” before and having to ask Kim if it was a combination of breakfast and lunch, and then asking when it is consumed.
- Wanting to collect wood as opposed to meeting the new tribe members.
- Saying that he connects more with the elephants than most of the people in his tribe.
- Describing the merge as being invited to a Wagner family reunion when your last name is Smith.
- Playing Never Have I Ever for the first time and following Tom’s confession that Kim Johnson “turns him on” and Teresa having sex in an airplane, with his own confession that he has never broken the honour of a handshake, then going to collect more wood instead of hearing other people’s turns.
- Having a confessional that he loves to mingle with people (self-awareness isn’t really Frank’s thing in this area)
- Deciding that the day he was most likely getting voted out was the day to come out as a conservative who hates the liberal media and anti-gun activists.
(I could go on and on. :love:)

2. Kelly - Kelly is a very witty person who was a delight once she crawled out of the UTR1 pit she got herself stuck into for the first few episodes.
“Frank is a very big loner, he socially seems so inept, I mean a guess a large portion of the population is introverted and anti social, and that’s....... fine, but i feel like there are prescription drugs to counteract that and he should be on them! :rolleyes:”
“Lex is soooo politicing for a win, and that!s fine, but just watching him kiss Tom’s ass in front of everyone, in his Dad Voice, annoys me. Am I the only one who noticed this? :rolleyes:”
(after Lex tells Clarence that he is going home) “Oh and as if that’s more ethical, Lex is like oh I can’t bold face lie to him! Ok you can just lie to him all day when it would be inconvenient to tell him the truth, but then at the last possible moment you slip in the truth and that makes you an ethical person. OKAY. :thumbs: I really like Clarence, the kid has really grown on me. He’s part of the group. Unlike Crazy Outcast Frank! :)”
“This morning, Lex was just a total jerk, I mean, what do you expect in this game? :rolleyes: Somebody voted for you, Mr Ego. Deal with it. Okay, it really wasn’t me, but screw you Lex!”
“Benjamin, isn’t there something you want to tell me? Oh yes Mrs Robinson, thank you for the opportuni… No, no, Benjamin. The room number. 568. :D The Graduate’s my favourite movie. Congratulations! ;)” :love::love::love:

3. Lex - I know that Lex isn’t popular among the people who watch Survivor here and I totally get it. Lex can be a ****ing asshole, and WAS one for a large portion of the game. But that just endeared him more to me for some reason :joker: I really enjoyed the transition from obnoxious MOR person who was trying to be everyone’s Dad to this CPN-turned OTTN maniac who was a contender the most paranoid person alive and inadvertently threatened to slit Teresa’s throat :love: The only objection I have to this is that it led to the demise of angel Kelly Goldsmith </3

4. Lindsey - I really enjoyed Lindsey! Not quite the OTTN5 mess everyone makes her out to be but still a very enjoyable one nonetheless, who announced to the whole tribe that she was on her period, which Frank did not appreciate. I AM A WALKING MISTAKE :lovedup: DROP DEAD FRANK :lovedup:

5. Linda - Lmao what a mess :love: Her obsession with Africa to the point where she didn’t like people joking about it was a hoot, and Brandon summed her up perfectly when he described her as a typical crazy mom.

6. Clarence - I felt really sorry for Clarence in the beginning as the treatment of him was pretty uncomfortable to watch, but he solidified himself in Green Zone when he dragged Diane as he voted her off by telling her she was nothing like his mother and he was ashamed to have once thought otherwise :clap1: Fun Fact: He auditioned for BBUS2 but they thought he was better suited for this instead. So he went from Mike Boogie to Big Tom and what a choice that is :sad:

7. Teresa - Slightly overrated but still enjoyable nonetheless. And let’s not forget the time she was just like ok let’s all admit who were voting out before the TC! :hugesmile: All out in the open! :hugesmile: And if it wasn’t for her, we may not have gotten Crazy Lex so there’s also that!

8. Brandon - Brandon was quite witty and I enjoyed him for the role that he played in this season. Someone on Sucks described him as the cynical eye-roller of the season and I feel like that sums him up fairly well? “I would rather go home than align with Frank” :skull:

9. Kim Johnson - A lovely woman but I’m not entirely sure she’s worth all the hype she gets, although I did like the sneaky dig at Tom being a sexist in her JURY SPEECH of all times :joker:

10. Carl - Pretty irrelevant but being an old guy who is voted out third for having a Mercedes is a hilarious arc to me :laugh:

11. Silas - Silas was fine I guess but for a CPNer, he didn’t leave that much of an impression on me. And sorry to bring up edgic again but I weirdly like how his edgic goes 1/2/3/4/5 :love::love:

12. Kim Powers - Kim was fine but she left little impression on me other than that she hated Lex and that’s pretty much it?

13. Ethan - Nice guy but dull sorry about it.

14. Jessie - Seemed fine but left too early for me to make a decision.

15. Diane - This twat :umm2: Imagine becoming ill, having someone take care of you, and then throwing that person under the bus because lmao why not. Because that’s what Diane did to poor Clarence who gave her a tin of beans to get her strength up, which was a nice thing to do, albeit not the smartest thing to do but w/e, and when he was getting screamed at by everyone, she was like yeah but I didn’t ask you to do that. Miserable, ungrateful dickhead who I’m glad went first.

16. Tom - Everyone referred to him as Big Tom to make him seem like an influential person and somehow this idiot was a fan favourite? On the first night, because Clarence gave Diane some beans, he legit screamed at him, made him apologise to everybody in the tribe, threatened to SHOOT him, and went on about how he’ll forgive, but never forget, and all this was pretty sad to watch. But aside from this, Big Tom is so boring, who’s personality traits are that he is southern, old and big, which last time I checked aren’t personality traits? The fact that I’ve got another season of him too is… something I don’t look forward to.

Edgic
https://i.imgur.com/217EAuT.jpg

Overall, this was a very good season! :clap1: I could be wrong, but people say that this is not a very good season but I enjoyed it a lot and it was really hard to choose between Kelly and Frank but gave it to Frank in the end. Would definitely recommend this season, as well as the other two.

JerseyWins

23-11-2019, 10:30 PM

7. Teresa - Slightly overrated but still enjoyable nonetheless. And let’s not forget the time she was just like ok let’s all admit who were voting out before the TC! :hugesmile: All out in the open! :hugesmile:
:joker: I like how so many people had no clue what they were doing in the early seasons

(I mean plenty still don't but there was something fun about how only a handful or less truly knew any kind of good strategy on this show early on lol)

Joe.

25-11-2019, 05:26 PM

Survivor 2: The Australian Outback: Episode 6

The strategising before the 'merger', interesting stuff.

Varner is just extremely unlikable isn't he!

Jerri describing her ultimate fantasy to the camera, pouring chocolate over a guy whilst having sex with him, lol.

'I may be a lot of things, but I ain't no hershey bar!?'- Colby quote of the ep??

Chicken Feed: 'IT'S POPCAWNNNNN!'

Jerri is really turning into star of the season.

The one dorito chip for each tribe is hilarious :joker:

This really is a classic chalenge and I can see why they brought it back many a time in later seasons. Do eel sorry for Jeri, she really tried in that challene and it was an unfortunate loss!

The med-evac is horrible to watch, especially the shot of his skin faling of his hands, just horrific. Must have been quite shocking to the audience at the time also.

The first of many med-evac's on Survivor. It really is intense with the music and the way it's shot. As well as the pure shock from the other tribe.

Damn a 5-5 merge, bring on next ep!

Boots (In order of faves)-

Kimmi
Debb
Mitchell
Michael
Kel
Mad Dog

Matthew.

25-11-2019, 05:28 PM

Jerri describing her ultimate fantasy to the camera, pouring chocolate over a guy whilst having sex with him, lol.

:love:

Joe.

26-11-2019, 05:58 PM

Survivor 2: The Australian Outback: Episode 7

Interesting that the previous vote situations will come into play now, funny how one Kucha are like 'Will they remember that?'' in regards to a vote on Jeff lol.

I like the visiting other camps then deciding which camp is he nicer one to stay at for merge!

Chicken being the merge feast, nice of that tribe.

Finding the Jerri/Tina relationship fascinating to watch, a love/hate thing. Or Tina's tolerating Jerri.

The reaction to food then weird salsa music had me howling.

Love this challenge, seems like challenes lasted way longer in earlier seasons.

What would you jump off for after 10 hours? For me it would be a huge pizza, but even then i I've stayed up that long. This challenge is impressive stuff!

Good riddance VARNER! The one vote against him coming back to haunt him. I think I prefer the modern way of those two becoming immune and then re-voting, then rocks.

EDIT: VArner makes out like someone let the vote slip, so they could have tried to keep it secret. Now that would have been interesting to watch!

Boots (In order of faves)-

Kimmi
Debb
Mitchell
Michael
Kel
Mad Dog
Varner

Macie Lightfoot

26-11-2019, 11:08 PM

The story is that Kimmi blabbed about Varner's past vote to Tina during Reward Challenge after the Debb boot.

Matthew.

26-11-2019, 11:39 PM

The story is that Kimmi blabbed about Varner's past vote to Tina during Reward Challenge after the Debb boot.

Another reason to stan.

Joe.

30-11-2019, 10:17 AM

The story is that Kimmi blabbed about Varner's past vote to Tina during Reward Challenge after the Debb boot.

Love Kimmi, wish she'd lasted longer.

Survivor 2: The Australian Outback: Episode 8

Am starting to like Rodger, he's smart and a good asset to the tribe.

The croc just chilling :dead:

Jerri: ;Your back will be stabbed faster than... you can spit.' Mm.

Too many cooks in the rice kitchen!

Of course they are having a boomerang contest, lol. Jerri;s throw was amazing. Love they've started the 'you an pick someone else to come!' Always makes things interesting.

I like the concept of this challenge but as a viewer it's difficult to keep track of and watch.

Alicia was fierce and I'm sad she's gone, really hoping that the votes aren't as predictable from here on in.

Boots (In order of faves)-

Kimmi
Alicia
Debb
Mitchell
Michael
Kel
Mad Dog
Varner

Matthew.

30-11-2019, 10:45 PM

Survivor Marquesas

Edgic:
https://i.imgur.com/8GBdrNT.jpg

1. Sean - My favourite changed between the top 3 throughout the season, but I ended up giving it to Sean in the end. Sean was adorably enthusiastic throughout the season, charismatic, and rootable. He was also a hilarious CP figure during the whole season and I am glad he lasted the whole way.
“Five years ago, I’d have shoved Boston Rob in the fire”
“If you’re true to yourself, that is the true game of life. The only thing that changes is my attitude. See how happy I am? I can pass gas and feel free as a bird.”
“Neleh’s one of those people who will cleverly have the perception of working but I never see her carrying jugs or wood. I never see her doing the work that she says she is doing. But she’s always the first one to go I Have So Much Energy :) and I would too if all I did was take naps, walks and relax?”
“Checkmate bro. Thought you had me. Any time you go to Vegas, bet on black. ;) But we definitely going to have chicken and waffles when this whole thing is done.” :love::love::love:

2. John - I was really shocked by how much I liked John. At first I didn’t really like him because he was against Kathy and made her cry, but then I really started rooting for him. :clap1: He disliked Rob - which is a good thing - and he also disliked Gabriel - which is also a good thing (“Gabriel says he is not playing the game. I mean you ARE here to play this game. If you’re not here… you’re on the wrong show. You know, this is not the 60’s and free love, and all that stuff. :bored:”) Aside from his impeccable taste in people he dislikes… he would have times when he would do the most obscure **** like skinny dipping and jumping into the waterfall while saying that HE is the leader and that HE runs the show, and he ended up getting voted out after blowing a kiss to Sean as he eliminated him from a comp :love:

3. Kathy - A very rootable underdog figure, Kathy kept me interested all season long :clap1: Kathy started off as a weirdo who would go off on her own at various occasions to the frustration of certain people in the tribe. One day, she brought seafood back which she found, which was met with the height of ungratefulness (The seafood lifted everyone’s spirits up and I thought oh this will give me a point, I won’t get voted off now, but not once did they say Way To Go Kath! Thanks Kath! A pat on the back? I didn’t get one. Weird. I mean I’m not *that* hard to get along with.) She then cried and people started to realise that making a 46 year old mother cry for trying to be nice is not a good look in the slightest and everybody started to realise the greatness that is Kathy Vavrick-O’Brien. (An amazing name) I also think pissing on John after he got stung by a sea urchin might have had something to do with it as well. :laugh: Following this, Kathy really started to play the game, so well that she ended up being safe at most TCs and this is an arc which I really enjoy! (Also, she has reminded me of somebody who I assume was a BBUS houseguest from the first episode, a week later I still haven’t figured it out :sad:)

4. Zoe - A miserable, unsociable twat but she was so funny with it, the way she was this UTR-irrelevance for the first half of her stay and then turned randomly into this horrible cow was hilarious to me. She’s even better in hindsight too! When I originally posted this ranking, she was lower. Like some people don’t like her because she was irrelevant for ages, but I feel like that’s part of her charm lmfao. Her jury performance is also impeccable. And speaking of things that are impeccable, let me also take the opportunity to recommend her website! (https://monheganzoe.com/) Best website ever. TiBB is quaking.
- “Let me tell you, from the get go, I didn’t like you. I didn’t really… dig you. I didn’t like… dig… the way you… your eyes were… your presentation.”
- “I have a Work Hard, Play Hard attitude, and I feel like *I* should be sitting up there in that seat. I feel I worked really hard out there, and I played hard with the people who wanted to play, but I’m not going to talk about lies… and deception, because I was there too. We All Were There. Basically, I believe both of you have good hearts, and… you made it. To the spot, where all of us wanted to be at. Congratulations there, and that’s all I have to say. :)”
- “I’m going to make this short and sweet. V is not for Victory tonight. NELEH IS THE ~SURVIVOR~”
:love::love::love: Such a strange woman.

5. Tammy - “I went down to the beach where nobody could see me practice. But I’m not out of it. Not yet. Not until I hear my name read at Tribal Council.” For the first half of the season, Tammy was *there* but not in a way which I cared about her at all and then I suddenly really liked her! :love: And her Zoe hatred :lovedup: “Zoe, I’m voting you out tonight because I just don’t like you. :wavey:”

6. Vecepia - Sarah has a good body. She… paid a lot for it. If you’ve got it. Flaunt it. - This is the introduction to Vecepia Towery. After that, Vecepia was an enjoyable background presence who could regularly be seen protesting against drama, or praising God in various situation. She then went on to win, where she was my choice out of the final 2, although I liked both Vecepia and Neleh, Vecepia is a better winner for me.

7. Neleh - (Neleh comes back and just talks about the trip and the food)
Neleh: “I wish so bad that I brought something back. I feel horrible telling you guys this. Did you guys feel horrible telling us? :)”
Sean: “No, but then again, we actually brought back some food.”
Neleh: “The only thing I brought back was this mint that I shoved in my mouth really fast. So if everybody wants to take a little nibble… No, you guys, it’s good! It’s a little hard peppermint that I don’t want! :)”
Sean: “You’re offering 7 STARVING adults a piece of candy out of your mouth. Keep your mint candy, man. That’s like saying, anybody want a lick of my doodoo?”
Neleh: “Nobody wants it? :)” (eats the mint)

8. Sarah - I just find it funny how Sarah was nice to pretty much everyone, apart from Peter, (I would have to say tonight I’m going to vote for Peter. He’s just got this strange smirk on his face, he always looks like he’s up to something. He’s just... strange.) and Patricia (I’m 24 years old and my mom hasn’t told me what to do in 8 years? :sad:) yet everyone literally DESPISED her and somehow somebody that was nice ended up getting an OTTN edit due to everyone’s intense hatred of her :joker:

9. Patricia - Probably would have been one of my favourites if she stayed, and she was fun for the 2 episodes we had her. Well, I say fun, but moreso as a viewer than for those that had to live with her overbearingness. :love: The fact that Jeff called her “Mom” as well :skull:

10. Robert - “People don’t like that I’m a little abrupt. I don’t give a fat ass what you like. This is me. Like it. I couldn’t care less. You’ve still got to live with me for a couple of days. And if I win immunity, you’ll have to live with me longer.”

11. Gina - Her dream job is to have a log cabin restaurant, in Alaska, with a wildlife area, where she comes out and greets everyone, gives them coffee and every now and then, she’ll give them biscuits. :love:

12. Hunter - I feel like he had potential as he seemed pretty charismatic in a good way, but he got cut fairly early on.

13. Peter - Just too holey for this game :sad:

14. Gabriel - Barely there but the few occasions that he was there, he was bringing Kathy down for being too positive. Go away.

15. Paschal - Painfully dull and was a really rubbish version of what I assume was meant to be a replication of Rodger Bingham. It didn’t work at all, and it creeped me out more than anything else. Also, his comment about how he’s from Georgia, whereas Sean is from *Harlem* and how this thing runs deeper than strategy is questionable at BEST :umm2:

16. Rob - I came into this expecting to like Boston Rob and to my surprise, I don’t like him at all. He’s boring, slimy, annoying and the way he randomly outed John was really bad. Like for the first 7 episodes, this irritating man was just thrust upon us for a lot longer than he should have been, despite being a dull prick. The main game-players from previous seasons were all hated by viewers, but now suddenly that he’s a young, good-looking guy and has an accent, we’re supposed to love him? Honestly, I probably wouldn’t even mind him as much if he wasn’t forced upon us as much as he was. :bored:

Macie Lightfoot

01-12-2019, 01:52 AM

Yeah honestly Rob being shoved down our throats as a figurehead of Survivor is even more insulting with the recent events of Varner outing Zeke and the whole Dan/Kellee thing considering how he handled John's sexuality and the Richard/Sue thing in All-Stars. I know people are going to come in and chime about how ~things were different then~ but it's still not cute.

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John and Neleh are also BFFs now and both want to come back and play again? Get them and T-Bird *BACK* already ffs!

Macie Lightfoot

01-12-2019, 01:53 AM

**** bring Kelly Goldsmith back too, I don't think she's as vocal about wanting to go back as the others I mentioned but I swear I remember listening to an interview with her not all that long ago and she said she wouldn't mind returning?

Joe.

01-12-2019, 05:43 PM

9 was an extra footage episode, so onto 10!

Survivor 2: The Australian Outback: Episode 10

Jerri and Colby being paired is just brilliant, I love their relationship

The great barrier reef, there's a reward worth winning!

The editing on this challenge seems really off, like just a really quick montage and then some weird ass music.

An amazing reward, what an opportunity for them both, looks like paradise. Jerri exclaiming how romantic the setting is too, she's hilarious.

Another interesting challenge, like the concept of this one. Colby is an absolute savage telling Jerri to put the rope around her neck.

So Nick wins immunity when he probably needs it most, after he was saying he was weak and thinking of quitting.

Jerri is gone! Such a shame as she was a brilliant character and this episode really solidified her as a villian. Her own tribe turned against her, shame she didn't last a little longer!

Boots (In order of faves)-

Jerri
Kimmi
Alicia
Debb
Mitchell
Michael
Kel
Mad Dog
Varner

Macie Lightfoot

02-12-2019, 07:08 PM

So I am getting SNOWED IN and I am going to celebrate by spontaneously rewatching and tweaking my edgic for SJDS? It's always been on my rewatch list because it's a legitimate top five season and there are so many questions I have...

https://i.imgur.com/bM8Qhut.png

Are Natalie and/or Jeremy CPP instead of just CP? How is Keith not OTTM?! How on earth are Jaclyn and Dale MORP?!?!?! Some scores need to be settled and I think it is time!

Also I remember NOT liking Keith this season and then he had the biggest glo up ever in Cambodia, so I'm ready to let him into my heart this time because I'm 99% sure he's actually just as good in SJDS too but I only had room for one man in my heart and his name is Jon Misch :love: I'm ready to let everyone else into my hearts, except for like Reed and Josh and Jon Rocker.

Braden

02-12-2019, 07:47 PM

I'll be keeping my eye on the thread, Macie :love:

Joe.

04-12-2019, 07:50 PM

Survivor 2: The Australian Outback: Episode 1 1

Absolutely savage singing 'Ding, Dong the Witch is dead!' after Jerris elimination. Was she really THAAAAT bad? I suppose Rodger and her never really got on?

Damn that bag of rice looks suspicious eh Amber?
https://i.ibb.co/gJRncF1/Survivor-Amber-suspicious.png

'Everyone would bring back Jerri... if she had rice to come with her...' desperate time's ay Elisabeth?

YES, the Survivor auction- probably one of my favorites ever, so wish they still did this on current seasons.

One of the rewards: Six fries and some dip, lol.

The auction isn't the same without the ADVANTAGES though! Add a whole different aspect to the game other than them just enjoying food.

Yeah the burger would have tempted me, that or a pizza.

The water rising, this Australian location is one of the most interesting. Visually Fiji is absolutely stunning and I can see why mot recent seasons have stayed there, however I'd love a different type of location from 41 on wards to change things up- who agrees?

Love this challenge, not sure who I want to win but probably Amber as she was left out of the last vote.

Jeff coming to leverage with them is a first, interesting too, it's the tribe's own fault that this happened and it's good he's bargaining with them.

Amber could be the pivot vote right now, going against Colby, Tina and Keith- an important role right now.

So Nick's gone, meaning Amber stayed with her alliance, think it was the best decision for her at this point though she may be bottom of her alliance now?

Boots (In order of faves)-

Jerri
Kimmi
Alicia
Debb
Mitchell
Michael
Kel
Nick
Mad Dog
Varner

Joe.

07-12-2019, 04:22 PM

Survivor 2: The Australian Outback: Episode 12

So looks like Amber will be the next boot, hope it's not as predictable as that, either her or Rodger/Elisabeth.

Ugh Colby had to win that didn't he. Really was rooting for Amber with that reward. Real shame he couldn't bring anyone with him either.

This cowboy reward is one of Probst's wet dreams ffs.

Wow that storm was intense, one of the worst I've seen in Survivor!

Then kangaroo trying to get out of the storm is heartbreaking.

You can tell Probst absolutely loves Colby.

Crazy they spotted the tin of food still sealed down by the river. Could it have been placed there by production?

We are seeing a LOT of this reward, literally ten minutes of Colby eating food nearly. Then inter-cutting with everyone at camp struggling.

Colby got immunity :eyeroll: His wins are becoming frustrating.

Rodger blaming the ruined camp on the 'females' decision, lol.

Genuinely sad to see Amber go, really started to like her and was championing her as the underdog.

Boots (In order of faves)-

Jerri
Amber
Kimmi
Alicia
Debb
Mitchell
Michael
Kel
Nick
Mad Dog
Varner

JerseyWins

07-12-2019, 04:44 PM

Wait, did Boston Rob out John in Marquesas? And how did he handle the Richard/Sue thing in All Stars? :think:

Matthew.

07-12-2019, 05:22 PM

Wait, did Boston Rob out John in Marquesas? And how did he handle the Richard/Sue thing in All Stars? :think:

Yeah, John wasn’t planning on revealing his sexuality to the tribe, but one day Rob and John were having one of their arguments, and Rob randomly asks John if he is gay, to which John responded “Ahhhh don’t ask me that”, hesitated for a bit, but then confirmed that he was. There were other people present at this argument too iirc. John then had a confessional about this, and said that he was very passive aggressive about it, and then sarcastically thanked Rob for outing him. It’s not on the same levels as the Varner/Zeke situation in Game Changers, but still pretty bad imo.

JerseyWins

07-12-2019, 05:30 PM

Yeah, John wasn’t planning on revealing his sexuality to the tribe, but one day Rob and John were having one of their arguments, and Rob randomly asks John if he is gay, to which John responded “Ahhhh don’t ask me that”, hesitated for a bit, but then confirmed that he was. There were other people present at this argument too iirc. John then had a confessional about this, and said that he was very passive aggressive about it, and then sarcastically thanked Rob for outing him. It’s not on the same levels as the Varner/Zeke situation in Game Changers, but still pretty bad imo.
Hmmm I don't remember this at all. Not sure if I even caught it the first time around or if I'm just forgetting but I do remember some questionable confessionals from him re: John C & Tammy

Rob was funny tho :dazzler:

Joe.

08-12-2019, 05:07 PM

Survivor 2: The Australian Outback: Episode 13

Outback internet cafe :dead:

Oh my God the size of that Computer
https://i.ibb.co/LgWxkX8/Survivor-Computer.png

This messaging reminds me of when I used to race home from school and g straight on MSN lol.

Wow, Keith's wife is beautiful.

YES, so glad Tina won that reward and not Colby, she really deserved it.

I like the immunity challenges at night, makes it even more eerie and dramatic. Love the nod to Australian history as well.

So Colby wins immunity once again, his immunity streak is getting frustrating, I don't know why, I like him but I am finding it annoying.

Very commendable of Rodger saying he'll go over Elisabeth, hate such an easy vote, would love them to turn the tables and get rid of Keith instead.

A shame Rodger went actually, was a predictable boot, he was a good contestant, wish we'd seen a bit more of a fight for him int he end instead of giving up.

Boots (In order of faves)-

Jerri
Amber
Kimmi
Rodger
Alicia
Debb
Mitchell
Michael
Kel
Nick
Mad Dog
Varner

Matthew.

10-12-2019, 03:02 PM

Survivor: Thailand

Survivor Thailand is finished! It was my least favourite series so far but not unwatchable either. When put like that, it sounds a bit like BB2? I also sorted out a few of my Edgic charts from previous seasons, especially Borneo, as I watched that season without knowing the elimination order, and there were a lot of ratings that needed fixed. I’ll also add a cast ranking for Borneo soon.

Edgic
https://i.imgur.com/syRmjWE.jpg

1. Shii Ann - Shii Ann was a fun narrator for the first half of the season, and this season was already dull as it was, but it became even duller once Shii Ann left. Her sarcastic comments, and her hilarious confessionals were missed.
“He is messing with the wrong girl. You do not mess with the Shii Girl and not get the horns. :)”
“Food is one of the things which human beings share to show affection for each other. :)”
“Robb is an idiot who talks too much with no logical thoughts. :)”
(voting out Robb) A wise man knows much but says little; a fool knows little but says far too much. :)”
“Penny, you are manipulative, I know that’s not a pleasant word but that’s just the way it is. :)” :love: I am looking forward to watching her in All Stars.

2. Helen - Same idea as Shii Ann in that Helen’s confessionals were good to watch as she would sit back and talk **** about her tribe-mates all day long. :love:
Helen on Jan: “She’s a nightmare. At one point, I was about ready, if I had a pistol in my pocket, I’d have shot her first and shot me second. That’s why I don’t carry a gun. :rolleyes:
Helen on Jan’s pet bat who died: “I feel bad if a kitten dies, but I’m looking at this slimy bat going uhhh yeah that’s real sad, bury that thing before flies get all over it. :rolleyes:”
Helen on how much she likes her tribemates: “Hehhh I guess so as much as you can like STRANGERS. :rolleyes:”
Helen on Clay: “Quite frankly, Clay does SQUAT in camp. He has gone on ONE water run in 33 days and he swamped the boat when he went. That stuff goes right up my hnnnnnnn HELL NO. :rolleyes:”

3. Clay - Probably not a good person irl but he was funny to watch because he was such an asshole who thought he was above everybody else, but was actually quite pathetic, as reflected by Robb strangling him and Clay’s natural reaction is to flap his arms like a bird and go “HRGHHHHHHHHH” :joker: Everybody hated him, and he hated everybody :laugh: Moments from The Clay Jordan Experience include but are not limited to,
- Bringing in a golf club as his luxury item and raging when people want to use it.
- Comparing Helen to an encyclopaedia, because she is not fun and there is nothing fun in there to read, and you only open it up when you want information.
- Writing down “Bye Bye Denver Diva”, to evict Ghandia and getting a warning from Jeff Probst that nicknames were not allowed (although strangely he was fine with Ted voting off Ken as “NYC” in the same season but anyway)
- Saying he would rather eat a hamburger, fries and apple dumpling than have sex with his wife.
- Giving the camera the most unimpressed look when Jan got excited about the Survivor Auction.
- “Penny is a cute sweet little girl. She thinks that her looks and her little talent can get whatever she wants from men, well, I am 46 years old and she ain’t getting **** out of me!”
- His Jake impression :love: “HeY i’M jUsT a GoOd OlD mOuNtAiN mAn WhO gOeS oUt AnD kIlLs ThEm ElEpHaNtS aNd FaLlS dOwN tHem MoUnTaInS aNd I fIgHt OfF mEn WiTh AlLiGaToRs AnD… if he thinks we’re buying that, he’s crazy.”
- Refusing to answer Helen’s jury question after he watched her shout at Brian, because no answer in the world would satisfy her, so why try? :joker:

4. Ghandia - GHANDIA JOHNSON! 33! LEGAL SECRETARY! (Holly Allen 24 Wyoming left shaking) Ghandia was a scream and I wish she lasted longer. Wanting to punch Clay in the ass and the eye :love: Screaming LUCKY BASTARDS at Sook Jai after Chuay Ghan lost a comp :love: Getting so frustrated with Grindgate that she went to the ocean and screamed at the top of her voice, only to be referred to as “Ugh, crazy lady” by Clay :love: Calling Ted “stupid, asinine and crappy” :love: BYE BYE DENVER DIVA x

5. Jan - Ever so slightly overrated but still very good nonetheless. Jan was the MORP happy-go-lucky person who shines very brightly because they are cast in a **** season but we still appreciate them anyway, eg Helen Adams. Basically, Jan was a very kind-hearted, slightly crazy grandma who loved alcohol, got upset over a dead bat which she went on to name Oscar, and said stuff like “First thing I’m doing when I get out of here is having 4 beers, 2 in each hand and a big fat pizza, that’s exactly what I’m going to do, and find some sucker with a cigar and con it off of him. AND LAUGH. :)” :love:

6. Robb - I could not stand Robb at the beginning because he was far too obnoxious, but I ended up liking Robb in the end. Ordinarily I’d have rolled my eyes at someone “going on a journey” in 6 episodes but I didn’t mind it? I also liked that he voted off Shii Ann because she was annoying but assured that it was nothing personal :joker:

7. Stephanie - I kiiiiind of like Stephanie because she went from being “the fun one who is full of life and goes skinny dipping etc” to hating everybody and just wanting the whole experience to be over with :laugh: But overall, an inconsequential ep 5 boot who I wouldn’t have minded if she stayed, but wasn’t bothered if she went either.

8. Jake - Came across like a very nice man :love:

9. Jed - Lmao he was only on the show for 3 episodes and all 3 of them were just people moaning about how lazy he was :laugh:

10. Ted - I don’t really care for anybody from #10 downwards, but Ted was the more likeable one out of this group so here he is...

11. Penny - Ehh I think she’s liked among Survivor fans, and if so, then I think she’s overrated because I don’t really get the Penny thing at all. She was just kind of, *there*, and her tribe-mates didn’t like her. For a CPN, not very exciting at all imo.

12. Ken - was a contestant on Survivor Thailand.

13. Tanya - Seemed to have potential but then she got ill and was voted off, shame.

14. John - https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/John_Raymond

15. Brian - A smug, arrogant, dick and not even in a funny way either. Helen summed it up when she described him as “the epitome of a used car salesman.” I don’t dislike him though because he at least brought something to the series but **** me he was sleazy as.

16. Erin - Really boring, and also made some pretty questionable comments about Shii Ann’s culture and how repulsed she was by Shii Ann eating the neck of the chicken.

Joe.

11-12-2019, 05:39 PM

Survivor 2: The Australian Outback: Episode 14

The classic car reward! Such an iconic challenge of early Survivor, high stakes and important- could impact the rest of the game too!

FFS Colby. I remember liking Colby first time around, I mean he is a nice guy but his wins are so predictable. I think the joy of Australia though is the final outcome of underdogs vs Colby.

Like the way they were given scales, really puts into perspective the survival aspect of the game.

'We got enough grub, I'm gonna join ya!' OF COURSE Probst is joining Colby on this reward, he's just finished fapping over the cowboy reward.

Starting to find Elisabeth very attractive, especially when she's not wearing that vile head-gear!

Like Keith's reflective statement, am liking him more and more too.

Don't even like the car anyway, it's yellow and annoying.

Colby's mum third wheeling his date with Jeff...

This reward get's weirder, Colby in the shower then it cuts to his mum taking a picture of him in there. :nono:

So Colby wins immunity AGAIN, you may as well call this episode the Colby episode. If I were Keith, Tina or Elisabeth I'd be DESPERATE to vote him out!!

Sad to see Elisabeth go, liked her in the end, she was a tough cookie. *Taps Tina's shoulder on the way out*- 'Try wear that thing' meaning immunity lol.

Boots (In order of faves)-

Jerri
Amber
Kimmi
Rodger
Alicia
Elisabeth
Debb
Mitchell
Michael
Kel
Nick
Mad Dog
Varner

JerseyWins

12-12-2019, 04:42 AM

Shii Ann was a fun narrator for the first half of the season
Facts

this season was already dull as it was, but it became even duller once Shii Ann left
Facts

Her sarcastic comments, and her hilarious confessionals were missed.
Facts

I could not stand Robb at the beginning
Noooooo :omgno:

but I ended up liking Robb in the end.
Ok facts :fan:

Joe.

15-12-2019, 01:58 PM

Survivor 2: The Australian Outback: Episode 15

These reflection sections last a ridiculous amount of time, I swear the first half of this episode could just be glazed over as it's not that important.

Whew, any idea why it's Day 40? Was the season extended due to the weather?

Dislike the 'memory walk' or whatever it's called, just really strung out and as a viewer I want to get to the finale!

Not a fan of challenges at tribal, doesn't allow for much strategy afterwards.

Wow, Colby again continuing his winning streak. At this point I'm shocked he didn't win, Tina must have put up an impressive final tribal speech surely?

So Keith is gone, he seemed to give up in the end, I think this is the right final two even though I dislike Colby now and all of his wins.

Boots (In order of faves)-

Jerri
Amber
Kimmi
Rodger
Alicia
Keith
Elisabeth
Debb
Mitchell
Michael
Kel
Nick
Mad Dog
Varner

Would have loved to have seen Keith or Tina win immunity and get rid of Colby. Real shame.

I think Colby's lying when he says he dosen't think he can win against TIna, I think he's very confident. See I know America (and Probst for that matter) loved him, so I'm interested to see this fall from grace!

I really like the way the jury narrate their pre-final tribal thoughts as the final two walks to the final tribal, nice format.

Colby talking about his water consumption during the final tribal as it helped him get to the end lol.

*After winning a car already* Colby says he’d buy a motorbike with the money.

Love Elisabeth’s question on ‘Which two jury members would you exclude from winning the game’!- Absolutely savage and inventive.

I think Tina’s being a lot more honest in her answers and has handled the jury a lot better. Colby not even having last words for the jury sums it up, I think he thinks he has it in the bag.

Wow, the live stage is impressive, and Tina/Colby look so different!

Am so happy Tina won, Colby winning was such an obvious ending but I think Tina played a very clever game and handled the last tribal council very well.

Boots (In order of faves)-

Jerri
Amber
Kimmi
Tina
Rodger
Alicia
Keith
Elisabeth
Colby
Debb
Mitchell
Michael
Kel
Nick
Mad Dog
Varner

Will post reunion/overall season thoughts very soon.

Joe.

18-12-2019, 10:03 PM

Overall Season Thoughts/& Reunion

I enjoyed the reunion, everyone was given a fair secment and the questions we wanted to hear were asked. Watching it a second time around it's clear this seasonw as largely character based and there were some really strong ones. Colby would have porbably got America's favourite had it been a feature.

I loved Australia, it seems like the game already from Borneo is evolving into a much more strategically based game. Most of the episodes had longer strategy talks and less filler though the classic 'survival' skills were still there. We had our first medical evac and an extremely close final two vote among many other enjoyable things. I think the only moan was that it would have been too long and we still had some goats in the season. Memorable characters such as Jerri provided a great villain and I just loved underdog Tina's win. Interested to see what happens when the show travels to Africa,
can't remember much from my first watch except Theresa and Lex!

Overall Ranking
Jerri- 'Laughing all the way to the bank' Jerri really was one of the stars of Australia. So funny and a hilarious 'love to hate' character. Can't believe people actually had her pictures on a dartboard. Brilliant.
Kimmi- Have I placed Kimmi too high? I don't think so, yeah she was a letdown in Cambodia but in Australia she was a SCREAM. The fight with Alicia will forever be iconic. She was just hilarious and the first to bring up vegetarianism.
Tina- A well deserved winner. HEr son says beforehand that the family were just normal 'hillbillies' and it's craz how famous she became, nowadays Survivor contestants could probably pass you in the street. But Tina was so likeable, so normal and against Colby deserved the win full heatedly, a true underdog. She was worth rooting for. I so wanted her to win and even watching 'Back to the Outback' really backs that up in how lovely she is and what a brilliant winner she was.
Amber- I loved Amber. I was really rooting for her, found her extremely attractive and found her enjoyable to watch. Wish she'd stay longer, but I obviously know about her Survivor legacy!
Alicia- 'I will always wave my finger in your face'- what a legendary quote. Alicia was tough, athletic and rocked an iconic silver bikkini- what's not to like?
Colby- I don't dislike Colby, that's why he's in orange. HE wasn't my favorite either. He was an extremely and annoyingly likable and good looking guy. His immunity streak became frustrating and almost like he was unbeatable, some of the things he said just didn't seem sincere. But as I said, I don't hate him, he was a great player.
Rodger- The original Donny Thompson. A real lovable character and likable to watch. You need characters like Rodger in Survivor and his relationship with Elisabeth was lovely.
Elisabeth- She was tough in the end, annoying to watch at first but became a likable character.
Mad Dog- Moved Mad Dog up actually after watching 'Back from the Outback' as she's walking round in a red bikkini, is actually hilarious and is giving me Debbie vibes. Wish we could have seen more of this in the actual season!
Mike- He was a big character, a leader and a bringer of food. I think if it wasn't for the med evac then he would have gone far. The med evac is such a big part of the early seasons, showing how dangerous the game could really be.
Debb- 'What did you think of me in Survivor?' .. 'Go **** yourself' LOL. I felt bad for Deb after the season and during the reunion, like she was properly upset as to what happened on the show. She wasn't a favorite but I wish we'd seen more of her.
Keith- Keith was a nice guy and I was surprised how far he actually made it. He was friendly and a likable character really who provided some funny moments.
Mitchell- Mitchell is in red because he was just meh. But when there are so many great characters he fades into the background. He was a nice guy and funnier after the show than when he was actually on it. Can see why getting rid of him was such a big move now.
Kel- One thing I'll give Kel is he was funny. In the game he wasn't that interesting and not much of a big loss when he went.
Nick- Nick was one that kinda slipped through the net, was deemed 'lazy' and 'boring' by viewers and I felt the same. Even in 'Back from the Outback' he was dull- 'My life hasn't changed.
Jeff Varner- There's something really unlikable about Jeff. I think my opinion was tainted because of the Zeke thing as well as his current tweets about the Dan situation. But still even in Australia he is smarmy, bitchy and frustrating to watch.

Onto Africa next in 2020

Matthew.

18-12-2019, 10:07 PM

Jerri at the top and Jeff at the bottom :clap1: Obviously we all know what Jeff goes on to be like later in life, but he was slimy since the very beginning :yuk: Horrible man

JerseyWins

19-12-2019, 12:59 AM

Jerri at the top and Jeff at the bottom :clap1:
It's literally the opposite :smug:

Matthew.

21-12-2019, 04:45 PM

Survivor: Amazon

Great series. Much better than Thailand.

Edgic: https://i.imgur.com/OlUKB0w.jpg

Fun moment for the Edgic fans :love:

Jeff: Deena, Christy...
Christy: WHAT :)
Jeff: ...a plate of spaghetti and meatballs!
Christy: NO GARLIC BREAD? :unsure:
Jeff: ... This is it.
Christy: (turns to Deena) No garlic bread. :/
Jeff: Deena, Christy, 60 seconds, right now.
Deena: (mouthing) What do you want?
Christy: You want the necklace? :)
Deena: I’ll share, it doesn’t matter.
Christy: :)
Deena: WE’RE SHARING. :D
Jeff: The food?
Deena: The food. :)
Jeff: Who’s going to take the fall and who’s going to win immunity?
Christy: Ooh I want the necklace too! :) Okay! UMM.....
Deena: (symbolises rock paper scissors with her hands)
Christy: Oh, you want to do Rock Paper Scissors?
Deena: (rock)
Christy: (scissors)
Deena: (points at Christy, then points at the water)
Christy: DID I LOSE? :) (jumps)

1. Deena - What a jourmey :clap1: She started off being very excited that the tribes were split into men vs women because she doesn’t like men :joker: Pre-merge Deena didn’t leave much of an impact on me but Post-merge Deena is something everybody should watch in their lives because it is inspirational. Deena, a left-wing feminist, comes across Roger Sexton, an old right-wing, openly homophobic and misogynist. Or as she describes him, A SEXIST… ARROGANT… ***MAN*** :yuk:. She seemed as if she even hated the fact that he was even alive and she made it her mission to get him out and she succeeded after winning immunity herself and voting him out by saying “Reality check… and MATE. NEVER underestimate the power of a woman. :)” She then went on a power trip and started saying things like THE GAME IS MINE :) without any ironic tone to it whatsoever but ended up getting booted early jury :sad: :love:

2. Matthew - What an awkward **** :love: Most of the tribe noted that Matthew would probably benefit from a psychiatric evaluation, because he would sit about sharpening his machete just because he was maybe planning on killing everyone? Matthew is probably the most anti-social person to ever play Survivor apart from fellow legend Frank Garrison and I wish that I took note of **** Matthew Says/Does in the way that I took note of **** Frank Says/Does because that’s always hilarious and the Matthew equivalent is probably too! Time for another rewatch maybe?

3. Christy - For somebody who was expected to get the sympathetic edit, lmao @ Christy turning out to be one of the annoying ones to the tribe and STILL getting an OTTP edit? The fact that she hated Jenna and Heidi and would refer to them as THE EVIL STEPSISTERS :devil: and ended up voting for Jenna to win the game after essentially calling her ableist in her jury speech :joker:

4. Rob - Idk how well liked Rob is around here but I like him. I thought he was fun and I also liked how he took Matthew, someone who was not as clued up on Survivor as everybody else and essentially made him his student in the game. I thought this was smart. I also liked how Rob was one of the game players of the season but was also entertaining as well, because not many people manage to combine the two (*glares at S39*)

5. Jeanne - Meanne Queanne Jeanne :love: When she started a meeting by saying “I think we need a camp leader I PICK DEENA ^_^” :love: When she provoked Christy into inadvertently bitching about Joanna while she was standing right next to her :love: When her departing words were “I guess I wasn’t made to play this game because I didn’t want to lie or cheat and I know that’s how I’m off right now. I played a tough game, I’m tough, I’m mean, I’m determined but I guess I’m not a nasty liar. Good luck to them because in the game of life, I’m the winner!” :clap1:

7. Jenna - Like Heidi, very vapid but she was entertaining with it because she went on a journey from being a spoilt brat to winning in a 6-1 jury vote. Even Jeff was like “How did THIS happen? :umm2:” :laugh:

6. Heidi - Had such a high opinion of herself but it was occasionally funny, Making comments like “The cuter girls, me, Jenna and Shawna, went off from the older women, because we are younger, curer have better bodies and for some reason that is a huge issue with old women” :skull:

8. Daniel - “The thing that irritates me about Roger is that he barks orders, he’s not friendly about it, he just tells people what to do. And also, he smells bad, he smells like… spoilt vinegar?”

9. Butch - With every episode, Butch would pop up for about 10 seconds to either be praised by the camp, talk about how attracted he was to Jenna or burn the whole camp down :love:

10. Ryan - A messy first boot :love: He hated Roger (always a good thing) and voted him off because he kept giving too much advice to the other tribe members :joker:

11. Alex - I don’t have too much thoughts on Alex but I appreciate him for standing up to Roger and his homophobia. :love:

12. Janet - Queen of granola bars? “Vote me off if you want, but vote me off because of me. not because of the candy bar! :)”

13. Dave - Can take him or leave him. Rob’s hatred of him :love:

14. Shawna - Can take her or leave her. Deena’s hatred of her :love:

15. Joanna - I can kiiiiind of get the appeal but I thought the way she treated Christy was pretty nasty, even if she was probably a bit harsher off camera than the edit let on, getting in the face of a deaf person and shoving your hand in their face is not a good look at ALL... I appreciate Joanna for her objection to the idol because it was kind of funny but the way she treated Christy puts a damper on it for me :sad:

16. Roger - ****. If I hadn’t just watched Island Of The Idols I’d have been perfectly comfortable with saying Roger was my least favourite of all time because be’s such an awful arrogant bigot but now he has competition. Utter piece of **** and I don’t find him funny in any way at all.

(Part 1 of 4 of The Sandra Diaz-Twine Experience will be coming soon........ Merry Christmas if I haven’t watched it before then :love:)

JerseyWins

21-12-2019, 05:04 PM

(Part 1 of 4 of The Sandra Diaz-Twine Experience will be coming soon........ Merry Christmas if I haven’t watched it before then :love:)
No, it's a Merry Christmas for you Matthew :fan:

Also the Jonny Fairplay part 1 of 2 experience :flutter:

I hope you like both like I did but idk :joker:

Morgan.

27-12-2019, 11:59 AM

Survivor Borneo
1. Kelly
2. Susan
3. Rudy
4. Greg
5. Colleen
6. Richard
7. Ramona
8. Jenna
9. Gervase
10. BB
11. Sean
12. Sonja
13. Stacey
14. Gretchen
15. Joel
16. Dirk

Matthew.

29-12-2019, 10:55 AM

Finished Survivor Pearl Islands! Such a great season and I think it’s now my favourite of all time.

Edgic:
https://i.imgur.com/xfop87K.jpg

1. Sandra - After watching Pearl Islands, I can see why she is seen as the best Survivor player ever and this is only part 1 of Sandra’s Journey. I watched Pearl Islands being conscious not to just like her because everybody else does, but she may even be my all time favourite atm? I don’t watch Survivor for strategy so the main thing that sticks out to me is how hilarious Sandra is without strategy being involved. Read all this and tell me this isn’t the words of a hilarious human being:
Sandra on Jon: “I really can’t stand him, he talks too much crap all night long, cursing, he thinks he’s cute but it’s already old :bored:” “Let it be known that Jon wakes up at noon and then he goes under the bushes, he has this secret spot where he takes an additional nap. I have yet to see him wash a dish, OR EVEN CLEAN A FISH.”
Sandra after stealing Morgan’s tarp: “Well you guys sleep tight don’t let the bed bugs bite, and um no hard feelings I see you guys tomorrow take care ^___^”
Sandra after getting shouted at: “YOU KNOW WHAT I CAN GET LOUD TOO WHAT THE **** I CAN GET LOUD TOO :oh:”
Sandra on Trish: “We said you were a snake from Day One and you can’t be trusted, so goodbye ADIOS ^__^”
Sandra’s method of choosing who’s going home tonight: “Well somebody has to go home. Who wants to go home? Raise your hand right now! :D Don’t everybody jump up at the same time!”
Sandra on being blindsided “Where’s that snake mother****er Jon? I’ll tell you what, can’t nobody trust that bitch right there. I never trusted you from Day 1 LADIES HE CAN NOT BE TRUSTED :oh:”
Sandra on trust: “I said I’d swear on my kids and in my head and under my breath I said I swear on my kids that I’ll screw you over and Burton :hee:”
Sandra on her survival skills “I think I’ll give myself a 5. I think I could do good for a few days before I just… I dunno starve to death because I won’t eat hermit crabs. FIVE :)”

2. Lillian - “These characteristics are Lillian Morris. I can’t change them. That’s just how I am.” Pearl Islands is my favourite season so far and it is helped by 3 factors, 1) Sandra, 2) The Outcast twist which let Lill come back, and 3) the final 2 of Sandra and Lill :love: Lill was voted off on Day 9 after a fairly OTTP episode where she was very sad to be leaving and her torch did not go out on first try. This was a sign. She then came back and wanted to brighten up the series with The Scoutmaster, saying “I went out there and gave it my all, and I still want to prove them sonofbitches that… I AM TOUGH.” :love: She did get voted back in, to which she reacted “OH MY GOD :amazed: I AM a nice person! :hugesmile: My heart! :hugesmile:” She then proceeded to do things like take a fishing trip, briefly regret it as she can’t fish, but goes on it anyway and gets drunk :love: (Lill: “I AM THE SCOUTMASTER :joker: WOOHOO!!!”
Jon: “You’re drunk Lill!”
Lill: “I’VE HAD THREE QUARTERS OF A BEER!!! :D”) and be a mediator (Jon: “I have a million questions I’d like to know about my grandmother but obviously some people don’t give a ****”
Sandra: “IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU ALL THE TIME :rolleyes:”
Lill: “HIS GRANDMOTHER JUST DIED :(” and against all odds made the final 2! Everyone was too scared to let Lill get to F2 because she was “too nice” only for her to lose 6-1 :joker: An arc :love:

3. Christa - A fun, sarky CPM narrator which is always good :clap1: Shawn is… the biggest puss I have ever met in my entire life :)” “I think because we have won so many challenges, it’s starting to get annoying because we really want *someone* to leave :)” “Jon is playing 500 games… SCREW HIM :)”

4. Rupert - Rupert was fun! I thought he might get a bit obnoxious but he was hilarious throughout because he manages to combine being a weirdo with being a really good person. Stealing Morgan’s shoes and selling them :love: WHO THE **** VOTED FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE??????????????? :love: JONNY FAIRPLAY IS JONNY PAININTHEASS TO ME :love:

5. Tijuana - Tijuana, or as Lill thought she was called, Tyuana :love: She peaked in the launch episode when she was screaming at the shopkeepers, as opposed to Trish’s strategy of accidentally flirting with them (:laugh:) and getting in a fight with Nicole, the next episode contained calling Sandra a bitch after taking her tarp (Ok… regardless I take the tarp :hee:) and then she became a fun CP3 presence in Pearl Islands :love: “I have NOTHING to say to Osten! :hugesmile:”)

6. Shawn - A fun MORN who’s 7 episodes all bar one had at least one confessional of someone complaining about what a dick he was :love: His reaction to Jon was fun too: “You want to sit there and call me an ass? We’re going to go and ****ing take care of this because you are not going to sit there and call me an ass anymore, alright you little ****? ENOUGH.” :joker:

7. Darrah - Ironic appreciation because… well just look at that edgic for one thing, but the every 40 mins we would see her, she would say things like Jon is a snake, he lies, but he also tells the truth too” or finding out that her boyfriend knows nothing about her courtesy of the loved ones reward challenge :joker:

8. Trish - A fun wannabe strategist with a messy downfall, and inadvertently flirts with Panamanian shopkeepers :love:

9. Burton - I didn’t really like him in his first attempt because he treated Rupert in a ****ty way but he came back, apologised to Rupert and he was fine!

10. Ryan S. - An afterthought in terms of Pearl Islands but he was a good friend to Lill when she needed one and he overall came across like a genuinely good person in his two episodes?

11. Nicole - Was interesting in her first episode and I preferred the brief time she was shown to the various episodes of Osten, Andrew, Rhino, Michelle and Jon so congrats on that!

12. Osten - Soooooo ****ing pathetic and sometimes I liked him in an ironic way and then other times he would try and cut off a pelican’s head because he was scared of it and given that I am here for Part 1 of the Sandra Diaz Twine experience, not Part 2 of the Michael Skupin experience, I didn’t care for it.

13. Andrew - I don’t hate him as much as everybody else seems to? He was fine? The rant about the Outcast twist did give off a sense of entitlement but I feel like if it was one of the more popular people from this season, it would be one of their iconic moments so idc too much. I still don’t care for him though.

14. Ryan O. - A fan of pelicans and has a fun animal nickname in Rhino (which I liked because it sounds like Ryan O.) to fit in with that. Besides that… a non-entity.

15. Michelle - Pretty irrelevant but I appreciate her telling Jeff that he was talking crap because… he pretty much always does!

16. Jon - I probably take Jon too seriously but he is so infuriating to me lmao. He is a weasel with no morals and I could not stand watching him. He was painfully arrogant for somebody who has no redeeming qualities and lying that your grandma died for sympathy, and then being proud of it, is gross to say the least, especially when it was either him or Lill that got to see their loved ones and Lill was just about at breaking point.

I will move onto All Stars soon, even though it’s apparently awful and certain people I liked become awful in it too :sad: But positive thoughts! Here is my ranking of the cast based on their initial seasons:

1. Sue
2. Jerri
3. Shii Ann
4. Rudy
5. Tina
6. Kathy
7. Lex
8. Rupert
9. Richard
10. Rob C.
11. Jenna M.
12. Colby
13. Alicia
14. Ethan
15. Amber
16. Jenna L.
17. Boston Rob
18. Tom

Let’s see how that changes :worry:

Macie Lightfoot

01-01-2020, 11:19 PM

Celebrating the new year with a San Juan del Sur rewatch! I really haven't had too much to say because the pre-merge is watchable but nothing special, but now that I'm in the merge stage everything is starting to ramp up. The Julie quit is a hilarious showcase of Missy coaching Baylor on how to be fake to everyone else, followed by her telling Julie that "I'm your loved one now :)" in the most fake tone and expression imaginable :love: Somehow, this actually propels Julie to quit even more quickly than she was already planning on :love:

The Josh boot though was a very great episode mainly because of the emergence of JACLYN SCHULTZ. Jon went to Exile Island for two days and Jaclyn was completely appalled and dumbfounded that the boys weren't talking to her when they knew she was the swing vote and they knew that Jon was going to do whatever she wanted. How dare they!!! Wes spent this entire episode with bad gas after the taco reward, Keith ordered Baylor to do some work around camp and explicitly called her lazy and told Missy her daughter does jack **** and he would've given her seven whoopings by now, and Alec fantasized about making Baylor smell his farts and burps and then treated her like a slave by making her throw out his trash. Of course, then Jon comes back from Exile Island and Jaclyn firmly digs her heels in the ground and REFUSES to work with the boys, leading to a 6-5 Josh boot and a full season of Jon, Jaclyn, Missy, Baylor, and Natalie :love:

Surprisingly enough the biggest glo up on this rewatch is from Baylor? I used to think of her as good but not great and definitely the weak link of the endgame cast, but she's just soooooo effortlessly irritating and immature and annoying in the best way possible. It's not that overt and highlighted in the edit, but if you look closely enough you can clearly see why everyone barely tolerated living with her and why she received so many votes at nearly every Tribal Council :love: Reminds me of during the exit interviews when each boot would do word association and "young" was the nicest word anyone ever used to describe Baylor :joker:

EDIT: There was a scene this episode where Josh went on a walk with Baylor and literally told her that she really owes him at least one vote after all he's done for her pre-merge (including voting for her in the first TC?) and Baylor followed it up with a confessional about how Josh is blackmailing her and that's not very Christian of him and he should be giving gifts without expecting gifts in return, and I couldn't think of a better scene that captured both of their characters in the best sense. They both are audaciously self-righteous but at least Baylor does so in a way that's laughable and entertaining. Josh is just kind of a boring whiny drip.

MB.

01-01-2020, 11:22 PM

JACLYN SCHULTZ.

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Matthew.

04-01-2020, 09:51 PM

Survivor: All Stars

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1. Sue (-) - Maybe a different choice for favourite of All Stars but although she only lasted 6 episodes, Sue entertained me the most throughout 15. She started this experience by drinking dirty water and justifying it by saying she’s drunk enough in her life time to kill off anything that grows inside of her. :love: She then shouted at Big Tom for being an interfering asshole and ranted about how much she hated her STUPID tribe. :love: She heard about Richard’s fishing skills over on Mogo Mogo and then the following conversation happened:
Sue: “That must be better eel than what you caught when you were out with me because that was all bone.”
Richard: “That’s because I was feeding you, honey. :smug:”
Sue: “It was ALL BONE!”
Richard: “That’s why I gave it to you!”
She then said the following about Big Tom: “If I could vote anybody out right now it would be Tom. He’s a stupid drunk. Stupid, clutzy… DRUNK. I don’t care for the man whatsoever, I don’t think his sexual innuendoes are funny. Tom came down with the whiskey to christen the vessel, and I’m like, oh guys don’t move, I gotta pee. So I peed right on the raft :D So we decided that christened it right there. :hugesmile:” She then got rubbed against by the penis of a naked Richard Hatch and had to leave the game because she was traumatised. :sad: Overall, a fantastic contestant and one of my all time favourites. :love::love::love:

2. Shii Ann (+1) - “I wouldn’t count me out just yet because Shii Devil has a few tricks up her sleeve” - Shii Ann Huang, a few hours before getting voted out :love: I enjoyed Shii Ann as the fun, sarcastic CPM narrator until the pre-merge of Survivor Thailand and this time she was still a fun CPM narrator (“Mother Nature can be one forceful bitch :D” is an underrated Shii Ann confessional) but she would bring these qualities out of the confessional box and bring them to the tribe more often. She would do **** like ask for the shelter to contain a rope ladder, a hammock, to chisel their names, or the Mogo Mogo icon, into the shelter, two levels, a door, a rock garden, a coconut phone that connects from the top floor to the bottom floor and palm beds........ all before the shelter was even built. :laugh2: She, like Jerri, also ****ing HATED Colby, and when he would try and convince her why he is a better gameplayer than anyone else, she would pretend to listen and say Blah blah blah blah BLAH, lecture, lecture, LECTURE, Captain America with his good teeth and his nice smile, handsome guy, zzzzz, oh sorry are you done?” in the confessionals :joker: STUPID PEOPLE, STUPID PEOPLE, OH SORRY I’LL SAY THAT AGAIN STUPID... PLAYERS.

3. Jerri (-1) - Very glad she returned for another shot at her reign of jerrir and she did a great job of it too! She came across better to the audience too, at least until she got booed at the reunion for stating that THIS IS A SHOW ABOUT ENTER..... **TAIN** MENT. :laugh: She sadly never made it to the jury, but 2 of my favourite Jerri moments are:
Jeff: “Shii Ann - who can the tribe most afford to lose from a physical point of view?”
Shii Ann: “Well, from a physical point of view, probably me or Jerri, sorry Jerri to speak for you.”
Jerri: “YEAH PLEASE DON’T :hugesmile:” and Jerri on Colby going home: “HAHAHAHA! :laugh2: Yes I feel evil but it feels good. Colby’s gone! What else can I say? I’ve now officially lived out one of my goals in this game and that is to make it longer than Colby. Knock knock, you hear that sound Colby? That is the sound of of the bell boy and he just took all my baggage away. My closet is clean, my SURVIVOR closet is now clean! :)”

4. Jenna L. (+12 :skull:) - I’m shocked too because when I first saw that Jenna was an All Star I was sceptical because I don’t remember her being that good in Borneo at all but she was fantastic in All Stars, even if she was a slow burner. For me, The Jenna Lewis Journey is about how insufferable everyone finds her, and how she then has the nerve to discuss how insufferable Shii Ann is :joker::joker: The TC when Shii Ann was voted off, where Jenna and Shii Ann expressed their dislike for each other in front of everyone is up there with my favourites and it gave us this: “It’s time for you to go, and if you’re wondering if you can eat, and how much you can, because you think that I monitor that, eat a LOT, Shii Ann, EAT A LOT.”

5. Rupert (+3) - I’m surprised I have him this high because I don’t think he was *as* good in this season as he was in Pearl Islands, as he mostly benefitted from the pirate theme of that season, but Rupert was still a fun character in All Stars who would do stuff like make the world’s worst shelter and make his tribe work through the night to fix it (:joker:) and say stuff like “This is telling me that I’m not, you know, I thought I was The Outdoors Man. And I am! With a lighter :joker:” while still coming across as a very good person and I rate that. :love:

6. Lex (+1) - Unpopular opinion but yeah I still like Lex for all the most ironic reasons! Yes he’s got a bit of an inflated ego and yes he can be entitled and all that but I do enjoy that. Unfortunately he did not bring his amazing meltdowns about inadvertently wanting cutting off Teresa Cooper’s head to the Pearl Islands with him :sad: I also like how he goes up to people and is like “Ummmm hi so we’re voting you off sorry :hugesmile:” (Oh yeah because THAT’S more ethical!) and although he didn’t like it when the tables were turned on him, I really felt for him as he had done Rob a favour as a personal friend as opposed to an ally and Rob threw it in his face, only to be misled by Kathy into thinking that she would give him immunity, so she could give him the final shove off of the metaphorical cliff. It was a real shame, and I would say I hope he comes back for another season (he was asked to go on BVW with his son but his son didn’t want to) but given how SOME people acted on their second chance, maybe it’s for the best.

7. Rudy (-3) - Very good for his only 2 episodes and provided moments like this :love: Jeff: “The water is of no value?”
Sue: “Well....... I drank it!”
Jeff: “Navy seal, how wise is that? Is that alrigh-“
Rudy: “Yeah.”
Jeff: “Is it wise because it’s the other tri-“
Rudy: “Yeah.”

8. Jenna M. (+3) - “We’re such morons, we left everything we love to come and STARVE! And have no water, have no fire! Seriously we’ve got issues. :hugesmile:” It was a shame she had to leave because she was very good in Amazon, but she obviously made the right call by going home, especially as her mum died 8 days later :sad:

9. Ethan (+5) - I went in thinking that he would be way better than in Africa, and I definitely preferred him, he was wittier and his Jerri rant was fun, so he’s one of the people that came out of All Stars looking better than they came in, which are few and far between.

10. Tina (-5) - Really liked her in Australia but she was pretty irrelevant in her only episode so this is as high as she can go :worry: But she was UTR1 bordering on INV in her first episode of Australia and she turned out great so maybe that’s just Tina’s thing and Saboga never gave her a chance? </3

11. Rob C. (-1) - Was very good in Amazon and just bordered on that in All Stars but wasn’t in it for very long so he is forgiven for that, and was disliked by the correct people too!

12. Richard (-3) - To my surprise, for the first few episodes, Richard Hatch was my favourite :shocked: He was a cartoonishly smug, arrogant dick and was pretty much great for all the wrong reasons. He had realised the public’s perception of him and played it up even more on his second appearance. Usually, this is not a good thing, in the cases of Nikki Grahame, Nicole Franzel and Neda Kalantar, but Richard brought a charm to it that was fun! THEN.... he rubbed his penis on Sue Hawk. I was enjoying Richard but that was totally unacceptable and should have never been allowed to happen, and it changes my opinion of him completely.

13. Tom (+5) - A shock? Big Tom was my least favourite of all time for a loooong time (specifically, until I watched Island Of The Idols) but in All Stars he was fine? Singing “Ding dong the witch is gone” when Sue was left wasn’t a good look but towards the end he became kind of fun and I sided with him. :worry: DON’T BE STUPID, STUPID :oh: I still don’t really like him though so this is as high as this can go.

14. Amber (+1) - Fine but she was kind of dull sorry! :worry: Congrats on your win though and if nothing else, at least I can add another winner that I’ve seen to my Winners At War list!

15. Colby (-3) - Never really paid much attention to him in Australia so didn’t get all the hate from recent watchers for that reason, but now that I’ve paid a bit more attention to him, I get what a bore he is to watch, and this time it was only 7 episodes.

16. Rob M. (+1) - I mean props to him for playing the game and all but that doesn’t mean that he isn’t a boring dick. Just like in Marquesas, he was just as dull but shoved down our throats just as much, except this time it was doubled as they never got rid of him. He’s incredibly dull and just happens to know how to strategise, so producers love him. WELL I DON’T. :bored:/noirinkelly (and side note, accusing Sue’s upset over getting sexually violated, as being either an act so that she cash in on a huge pay day or she was using it as a strategy is disgusting!)

17. Kathy (-11) - Kathy should never have returned. She was fantastic in Marquesas and she was just a nasty piece of work in All Stars. She told Jenna (who’s mother was dying from cancer at that very moment) that her sad mood was “a cancer to the tribe.” She was offended at Sue being upset at being sexually violated because how dare she drag everyone into “Sue’s Core Of Hatred.” She was upset at Rob, who was like a son to her, for blindsiding her, despite the fact that she played a huge role in Rob blindsiding Lex, who Lex considered to be like a brother to him. I really wish that she remained as one of those that we wish would come back but never will and we refer to as some variation of “robbed legend”, and I’ll keep this in mind next time I want someone to return.

18. Alicia (-5) - Alicia was a miserable, grating, self-righteous cow. She spent her 30 days moping around the Pearl Islands with a face with a slapped ass and talking down to people as if she was better than them due to gaining a reputation in Australia for being a mardy twat, which she carried into All Stars. I hated when she told Jenna (who was crying about her mother dying from cancer) that she shouldn’t have come out here in the first place in the most passive aggressive tone possible, and then judging the sensitivity of others in later situations. The extent to what a miserable person Alicia is can be summed up by her voting out Rob C because what the tribe needed was a little more seriousness :rolleyes:

Moniqua

04-01-2020, 10:56 PM

maffew are yew readeh for t'mia galeotalanza experience xD :dazzler:

Matthew.

04-01-2020, 11:12 PM

maffew are yew readeh for t'mia galeotalanza experience xD :dazzler:

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Joe.

05-01-2020, 04:28 PM

Bumper post to kick start Season 3- Africa.

Survivor 3 Ep 1

Love Africa as a location, adds a new element to the show with the danger of animals.

The initial trek was funny with Frank and Kim striving ahead. Didn’t seem as gruelling as other years though.

All smiles now, the camps seem cool. Like the idea of someone having to stay up at all times to keep watch for animals, another thing to be aware of!

Naughty Clarence with two cherries, that may come back and bite him.

Very difficult challenge, looks absolutely exhausting.

Savage Diane and Clarence eating a can of beans behind everyone’s back.

Tom is an early fave, having the guts to say wht he feels.

‘You a doctor? Let me see, you ain’t no doctor!’- Go on Tom!

Diane is hilarious- flopping in the challenge, then eating the can of beans.

Looks like Clarence is an easy choice for a first boot, not even been any speculation whatsoever of a second vote!

Glad Clarence stayed, he has a lot of potential to cause drama and stir the pot.

Boots-

Diane- Despite only being in one episode she was hilarious- falling all over the place and then looking absolutely in shock when voted out.

Survivor 3 Ep 2

Like Jessie- ‘Don’t tell me your not worried about the game because you are worried about the game!’

Oh so we have young Kim and old Kim.

Ah yes the age divide, I remember this well. Can’t remember who I liked/disliked though.

*Am rewatching this with my Mum who’s watching for the first time, she comments- ‘Isn’t the picture bad!’- I remind her of it being Season 3 not Season 39!*

Old Kim feels responsible, bless her it was a tough challenge. Those steps looked heavy.

Don’t blame the ‘old’ for trying to sway Silas, kinda hoping that it does work.

Like the Lex/Kim/Ethan alliance. From my first watch I distinctly remember Lex being one of my favourites.

The stabbing of the cow and taking of it’s blood made uncomfortable viewing and something that probably would be banned and heavily complained about if aired today.

Love Teresa, remember being disappointed she wasn’t chosen to return for second chances.

This blood challenge is pretty disgusting, and there’s like no challenge to it because everyone’s downing it!

So one tribe is old vs young and the other are trying to get rid of the girls- classic Survivor ay.

Shame about Jessie, she seemed to have some attitude and could prove a loyal asset later on. Looks like Clarence isn’t out of the woods just yet.

Boots- In order of faves
Diane
Jessie- Liked her, she was ill though and therefore used as a scapegoat for the second vote, think she had potential.

Survivor 3 Ep 3

The scene with the two Lion’s was very intense, doubt production would allow the animals to get much closer though.

Lol at the girls making ‘bead necklaces’ and Frank complaining about it.

Am liking Silas, he’s playing the game well and being quite strategic so far.

As much as I love the Africa setting the lack of water or a lake would be missed.

The challenge is brutal, Tom literally shoving Kim out of the way is a personal highlight.

Love this challenge where they have to make the SOS signal, allows them to be creative and interesting what different approaches the tribes take.

Oop just remembered, I swear one of the tribes decides to get nakey nakey to be seen- grim.

Yep I was right, Tom with is ass out and a feather poking out of it, eugh.

Boran’s SOS signal was WAY better, like it wasn’t even close.

‘If your excess baggage, get the hell out of my way!’- Yes Frank.

The friendship necklace thing is so lame and silly by the younger lot. Like to think this vote would be 4-4 but don’t think it will, hoping Silas will turn!

Oop it’s 4-4! And there’s no previous votes to go off, come on Silas switch and let’s say bye bye to Lindsay!

Woah this is savage it’s going to questions and I kinda think a little unfair? Lindsay and Carl should have become safe like in later seasons and then everyone else be vulnerable!

Very tense tribal with extremely high stakes, I am glad that Carl went- though worried about my main gal Teresa now!

Boots- In order of faves
Diane
Jessie
Carl- Hate the ‘he didn’t need the money’ argument but yeah Carl was just sort of there really, no big loss. Carl leaving though will have big implications for his tribe I feel!

Ep 4 later this week!

Matthew.

05-01-2020, 04:47 PM

The scene with the two Lion’s was very intense, doubt production would allow the animals to get much closer though.

Lex did an AMA on Reddit and said that after the lion incident happened, the executive producer came out and shouted at them all for not building the wall as high as they had been instructed. He was angry because as much as he would hate to send any of the players home in a body bag, sending members of his production crew in a body bag would be completely unacceptable. That’s why you see them building the wall the next day.

JerseyWins

05-01-2020, 04:48 PM

Vanuatu is another one I found pretty boring :worry: Although I think I'd definitely say better than Thailand & All Stars (other than those two I think it's only better than South Pacific for me)

Honestly a good chunk of the earlier seasons are a bit boring IMO. You'll be on Cook Islands & Fiji & Palau & Guatemala soon as well which aren't all that

Macie Lightfoot

05-01-2020, 08:17 PM

I can't wait for Matthew to experience Ami and Twila and Scout and Eliza :love:

JerseyWins

08-01-2020, 04:29 AM

I can't wait for Matthew to experience Twila and Eliza and Chris :love:
:love:

I'll give Scout a stamp of approval too. There's not much else though or a whole lot material for entertainment throughout the season.

But idk why I could see Matthew liking that season & a lot of the cast. :think:

Joe.

08-01-2020, 07:09 PM

Survivor 3 Ep 4

Here we go, the young being all cocky now that Carl has gone after loosing over one question.

Tom climbing the tree whilst Clarence shouts- 'HELL NAW, HELL NAW!'

I like Linda, coming into camp really early and forcing one oft he young to read the note then shouting 'Rise and shine' in their faces :laugh: Her OTT discussion with Frank then which culminates in her shouting 'THANK YOU' in Kim's face is a top tier moment. 'LET ME ON THE TEAM!', 'CAN WE DEMONSTRATE A HUG SWEETIE? DID YA MOMMA NEVER HUG YA?'

That netted thing they run along just looks so... unsafe. :nono:

All of the pots shattering for Sabruru, that's pretty bad. They are by far the most interesting tribe at the moment!

I wonder what production would have done if the angry Ox did come charging for one of the tribe?

Actually wanted Sambruru to win that challenge, would rather see a member of the other tribe go.

I REALLY don't want Frank, Teresa or Linda to go- why can't it be one of the others. Brandon is vile, Silas is getting on my nerves and eugh Lindsaya and Kim are so annoying!

I'm confused how 'whoever being voted out' voting for Lindsay will help them come merger, surely that means Lindsay will go if there's a split vote? Oh wait I understand now, so that all the votes are in one singular place?

At least the olds went against the youngs desired plan and didn't go out without a fight.

GUTTED to see Linda go, she was one of my favorites.

Boots- In order of faves
Linda- She fought to the very end, didn't change who she was and stayed loyal to her alliance. Love how her alliance didn't just go down without a fight and be told who to vote for either. The scene where she stood up to the young Sambruru folk was one of my faves and I feel Linda could have been a winner if she survived this vote!
Diane
Jessie
Carl

Ep 5 maybe this weekend.

Matthew.

08-01-2020, 09:52 PM

[I like Linda, coming into camp really early and forcing one oft he young to read the note then shouting 'Rise and shine' in their faces :laugh: Her OTT discussion with Frank then which culminates in her shouting 'THANK YOU' in Kim's face is a top tier moment. 'LET ME ON THE TEAM!', 'CAN WE DEMONSTRATE A HUG SWEETIE? DID YA MOMMA NEVER HUG YA?'

Linda- She fought to the very end, didn't change who she was and stayed loyal to her alliance. Love how her alliance didn't just go down without a fight and be told who to vote for either. The scene where she stood up to the young Sambruru folk was one of my faves and I feel Linda could have been a winner if she survived this vote!

:love::love::love:

Joe.

09-01-2020, 07:15 PM

:love::love::love:

Shame if we were in a later season production would have lanted an idol for ehr to find!

Joe.

13-01-2020, 06:38 PM

Survivor 3 Ep 5

Post Linda Survivor Africa :bawling:

Silas and Lindsay hounding Teresa and Frank, leave them alone, at least Brandon said outright he'd have done the same with the votes!

YES a tribe swap, and at such an unexpected point! LOVE that Silas went with Teresa and Frank, hopefully he can be out soon! Our Sambruru Oldies are SAVED :cheer2:

Silas looks absolutely blindsided :hehe:

Teresa/Frank spilling the tea to Boron is music to my ears- get Lindsay/Silas/Brandon and Kim out!

'We got a queer and two girls as tight as a...' - Lovely thanks for that Tom.

Tom is vile but funny- 'When a woman has trouble with her butt I told her that's the job I was made for!'

Unsure how I feel about challenges using live animals.

Lindsay crying against a tree, how the tides turn!

Blimey, Brandon was quick to drop Lindsay *in the immortal words of Bea Hamill* like a cold bag of sick!

Shame Boran lost and Lindsay's staying, but let's say goodbye to Silas or Clarence then instead?

Wheeeeew Chile, Silas seemed FUMING on his way out- cya!

Boots- In order of faves
Linda
Diane
Silas- Made more of an impact than Jessie/Carl but disliked Silas in the end. I liked him to start of with but his alliance was frustrating and he became the villain quite quickly. Very happy to see his downfall due to the twist, all because he chose to be one of the three to answer tree-mail- classic.
Jessie
Carl

Joe.

17-01-2020, 04:08 PM

Survivor 3 Ep 6

‘Three people here for a resort vacation!’- The young letting the switched Boran do five-hour long night shifts is savage.

Lindsay really is worrying about her past votes isn’t she!

Ah the age-old chicken, debate, eat the chicken or wait for eggs. I always think it’s wise waiting for eggs really- but the temptation to eat the chickens would also be tough.

I love trivia challenges, would love to see more of them on Survivor!

‘The big five’ still makes me lol as it reminds me of the apprentice and Ryan Mark.

Looks like Brandon and Lindsay are seeing the light on how they acted, Lindsay saying she acted like the ‘Queen of the land!’.

I’m warming to Clarence- ‘I’ve spoken individually to all the chickens and told them that you know, they’re on notice!’- Giving them 24 hours to lay an egg or that’s it haha. The next morning- AN EGG! Just the one but an egg nonetheless! Clarence’s reaction to the egg: ‘OH HELL NAW!’ then telling the chickens he hates them and they laid it to spite him! :laugh2:

Love the romantic music as the tribe eat the chicken!

Very clever Kim trying to let the tribe know that Lindsay already has votes, but hey if it is a Brandon/Tom split I’d LOVE to see Tom beat Brandon on trivia!

Liked the challenge, think that I’d be useless at it though, have a rubbish aim.
YAAAS Lindsay just missed a target. Get ha gone!

SO felt like Brandon was going before tribal but now it’s clear Lindsay is, at least she was humble upon leaving!

Boots- In order of faves
Linda
Diane
Silas
Jessie
Carl
Lindsay- Disliked Lindsay really, she was childish and rude to other contestants then when voted off said she didn’t like the ‘malicious behaviour’? She was a good villain however and extremely humble when leaving, one thing I’d say about her is that she was loyal to a T.

Headie

19-01-2020, 10:44 AM

Rewatching Africa, the first ep was such a scream <3 The Clarence food drama is so iconic, and Diane trying to throw him under the bus pretending she didn't ask him to open the can of beans for her sksk

Also I forgot how much racist vibes Tom gave off on his seasons... he was a lil too riled up when confronting Clarence lmao and also him being the only one to vote Clarence off other than Diane... dot dot dot hmm!

Oh and Ethan was SO hot, I forgot how hot he used to be :flutter:

They really don't make Survivor like they used to, old-school Survivor really is untouchable in terms of reality tv <3

Headie

19-01-2020, 11:30 AM

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Headie

19-01-2020, 12:38 PM

Lindsey defeating Carl in the tiebreaker quiz <3 An outspoken legend <3

Speaking of outspoken legends:
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"What's wrong with ya? THIS is a hug sweetie. Did ya momma never hug ya?"

:joker:

Joe.

19-01-2020, 05:58 PM

"What's wrong with ya? THIS is a hug sweetie. Did ya momma never hug ya?"

:joker:

Truly iconic, LOVE Linda.

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Survivor 3 Ep 7

Brandon saying he was so glad Lindsay is gone when he was her best friend literally days ago!

Clarence going for a dump until a heard of elephants disturb him :joker:

Remember Lex being one of my favorites the first time around but this time he's not that prevalent, maybe it's because he's better in the second half of the game.

YES finally an individual challenge, now the game really starts.

Here for Teresa's version of 'Tomorrow' during the challenge topping the charts.

Oop here comes Probst with a burger, I'd be tempted.

Those that have dropped out have now and a burger and a pizza, lucky ay.

Good on Clarence for honoring the deal of rock, paper, scissors after six hours! SO glad Teresa won the challenge, she so deserved it!

Strange comment from Kelly- 'Half the population are loners but there are prescription drugs for that!' Frank is definitely one of the more interesting characters there.

Bloody hell, Tom talking about 'taking Teresa' and finding her attractive- :laugh:

Is it just me that finds it annoying that there are two 'Kim's' left, young Kim and old Kim and they are both pretty irrelevant so far?

BOLD by Lex telling Clarence they are voting him off. Clarence has grown on me. So a real shame to see him go really.

Boots- In order of faves
Linda
Diane
Clarence- Interesting character and very entertaining. His food wars at the start were hilarious and I warmed to him as a character as the season progressed, would have liked to see him make the jury.
Silas
Jessie
Carl
Lindsay

Headie

20-01-2020, 12:00 PM

iEa4NC_SazA

One of the best Survivor moments ever, if not one of the best reality moments of all time :love: No other show could produce something like this

Headie

20-01-2020, 12:23 PM

Sucks seeing Kelly booted, I remember really liking her on first watch but this time round she was pretty insignificant for the most part, but she really came alive in her last 3 episodes :love:

Brandon definitely made one of the dumbest moves in Survivor at the time - Kelly had flipped to the minority Samburu alliance, which would've put him at least in the top 4 on the 'pecking order' as they now had the numbers over the original majority Boran alliance of 5 (who had voted out another of their alliance members - Clarence - last round). But Lex came to Brandon and straight up told him he would be fifth in their alliance of five if he joined them, and he still went with it???

I wonder how different the season would have been had Brandon not made that dumb flip move. Him or T-Bird probably would've won the season.

Headie

20-01-2020, 12:30 PM

Jigs

20-01-2020, 02:50 PM

Ugh older seasons of Survivor really do slay. I love that survival > strategy on the earlier seasons. It means we get to see more blowups and meltdowns because tribes used to disagree over their means of survival as opposed to just arguing over who should be voted out next

Joe.

20-01-2020, 06:02 PM

Survivor 3 Ep 8

Lex and his ego, going mad about the one vote, but surely worrying about that one vote is the right thing to do- I like Lex.

Now this is a cool reward, properly experiencing the African culture and something Ethan/Lex will never forget!

Must be surreal for the Africans seeing this TV company come to their town, let alone the other way around.

Savage for the goat buyer to head straight for the butchery!

This reward reminds me of the early days of The Amazing Race in Africa- an incredible time for reality tv.

Ethan coming out the toilet to a crowd of people :laugh:

Teresa is playing with fire, and I absolutely love her.

Pretty boring immunity challenge to watch as a viewer, but something I think I'd be quite good at.

Glad Ethan won immunity, he wasn't in danger at all though so pretty pointless.

SO frustrating- Lex thinking Kelly was the vote, I like Kelly! Hope they don't go for her...

This looks to be an interesting vote, feeling bad for Kelly if she get's targeted though.

Boots- In order of faves
Linda
Kelly- 'If this is the last vote I cast then at least I voted for you, who I have always considered... not fun to be around!'- What a parting vote. Sad to see Kelly go really, wish she'd trumped Lex but she was let down by snakey Brandon :fist:
Diane
Clarence
Silas
Jessie
Carl
Lindsay

Matthew.

20-01-2020, 06:03 PM

Lex :love:

Headie

20-01-2020, 06:22 PM

I always had it in my head that, if Lex made the final two, he would've won the season, but watching how aggressively Lex played the game, if anything I think he'd probably be a goat. He burned so many bridges, played extremely selfishly and didn't really abide by any decisions made by his alliance that weren't created by him.

A good example of someone who was controlling the game but not necessarily winning at it.

Okay I spoke too soon :joker: I'm on the finale now and it's clear the jury respected his game and he probably would've won.

Screaming @ Brandon asking the finalists who deserved to be in the final 2 the least out of all the jury and Ethan just replying "You." with no elaboration :joker:

And then Brandon saying in his voting confessional that he's switched his vote from Ethan to Kim because Ethan slammed him on his own question :skull: Such a tragic castaway, easily the worst of the season! Such a bitter betty the whole season

Headie

20-01-2020, 06:43 PM

Tom's final voting confessional, one of the funniest ever :joker:

And Kelly's was iconic too, quoting her favourite film and using it as the reason for voting Ethan over Kim <3

Headie

20-01-2020, 07:38 PM

Clarence at the reunion talking about the can of beans incident:

"It was mad... like I ain't seen white people that mad since OJ got acquitted"

:joker:

Headie

21-01-2020, 12:09 PM

Survivor Africa rankings:

1. T-Bird
2. Lindsey
3. Ethan
4. Kelly
5. Linda
6. Kim P
7. Clarence
8. Big Tom
9. Lex
10. Frank
11. Kim J
12. Silas
13. Jessie
14. Carl
15. Diane
16. Brandon

Went back and forth on my top two placings, but T-Bird was quite revolutionary for her time in the sense that she was always trying to make smart, strategic moves to further herself in the game, and if it wasn't for coming up against a solid Final 4 alliance, she would've definitely been able to win the whole game <3 Her love for the game was just really sweet to watch as well!

Matthew.

21-01-2020, 03:08 PM

Finished Survivor Vanuatu! A good season with some very entertaining people in spite of having a fair few people I didn’t really care about, although I didn’t dislike anyone :shrug:

Edgic (disclaimer, Eliza’s may be my favourite of all time?): https://i.imgur.com/a6I7gSQ.jpg

I can't wait for Matthew to experience Ami and Twila and Scout and Eliza :love:

You know me so well :love:

1. Twila - Often compared to Sue Hawk but the comparisons are very true. Twila’s journey, like Sue’s, is so interesting to me. She started the game as a mother of one who works 3 jobs, 7 days a week to keep them financially stable, and was not very much of a people person with little social skills. She was put on a tribe with 8 women, which she wasn’t keen on because she has so few female friends in the outside world. However, she grew to like them, particularly Scout, which makes her story even better to me because reserved introvert meets 60 year old hippie :love: Twila ruffled feathers when she started playing the game and swore on her son and then went back on her deal, which everyone held against her for the rest of the game. It’s all very sad because it links back to the person who’s life she wants to improve - her son. Aside from her story, Twila is ****ing hilarious :love: Saying that girls who want to be pampered should go to the Holiday Inn, threatening to “whoop Mia’s scrawny lil ass”, enjoying being in an earthquake while everyone worries they might die, and calling Eliza a mother****er and telling her to go kiss her ****ing ass :love::love::love:

2. Scout - Floaty hippie who legally changed her name from Janet Spencer (Linda Spencer the Lynne Dispenser who?) to SCOUT CLOUD LEE :lovedup: We have to stan already. As if this didn’t make for an interesting enough character, Scout is also incredibly grouchy (she’s pretty good at hiding her nasty side, but when her true colours come out, they’re no part of any rainbow I’ve ever seen) yet everyone still considers her the old lady full of wisdom. Yes, the same one who said **** like “Mia your volcano erupts more than I like, good luck in finding a husband that’ll put up with you :fan:”, “Ami, queens get dethroned, and lightning will strike a lone tree on top of a mountain faster than anything.” :love: Special mention to that time that Sarge was sitting red with rage that he’d been blindsided while Scout sang a song about a little candle next to him :joker:

3. Eliza - I read a post on Sucks which describes Eliza perfectly, “Eliza’s charm stems from her complete lack of it.” I present the thoughts and feelings about Eliza:
“Why would they keep ELIZA around without a muzzle?”
“I honestly trust ELIZA more than Lisa”
“SHE is killing our tribe”
“There is no way in hell I’m going home before ELIZA”
“ELIZA... she’s like a little kid”
“Oh we’re sending ELIZA home GOOD RIDDANCE” :laugh2:
Also, DECEPTIVE. LYING. BITCHES. is one of my favourite jury speeches :love:

4. Ami - Was a slow burner to start with but became really good a few episodes in, and anyone who reminds me of Deena Bennett from the get go (I WILL NEVER COME SECOND AFTER A MAN) is obviously a top tier Survivor contestant. :love: Her objection to Bubba joining the tribe because Michael Jordan doesn’t whisper to the other players during a game :laugh: Also this is underrated: (Survivors have to guide their loved one)
Scout: “RIGHT RIGHT KEEP GOING RIGHT :oh:”
Julie: “JUSTIN YOU’RE GOING THE WRONG WAY TURN AROUND :oh:”
Eliza: “TURN AROOUUUUUUUUND :oh:”
Ami: “You got it!! :) Woohoo! :) I love my girlfriend! :)”
Twila: “STRAIGHT STRAIGHT STRAIGHT STRAIGHT :oh:”
Chris: “GO LAURIE GO GO GO GO GO :oh:”
Eliza: “NOOO NOOOO TURN AROUND LISTEN TO MY VOICE!!!!!!!!!!! :oh:”
Chris: “STOOOOPPP DROOOOOP IT :oh:”
Ami: “Follow my voice! :) I love you baby :)”
Chris: “LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :oh::oh:”

5. Rory - Underrated weirdos who make me question how they’ve gotten this far in life (see Frank, Clay, Matthew) are one of my favourite types of Survivor contestants and Rory did a good job of it :clap1: WE DO NOT NEED A DANCE :oh: “Ami I have no respect for you and you’re like a bad rash” :skull: Spinning in a field while everyone plots to get him out :skull:

6. Mia - maffew are yew readeh for t'mia galeotalanza experience xD :dazzler: I liked her for annoying Rory and Twila in the 3 episodes she appeared in but then she unfortunately went, but she had to in order for Twila to stay :shrug:

7. Lisa - I WILL *NOT* KISS AMI’S BUTT TO STAY IN THE GAME I HOPE SHE GOES HOME :oh:

8. Travis - “I’M SWEATING LIKE A PROSTITUTE IN A CHURCH :D” I liked Travis a fair bit and would have liked to see him last a while longer because he was fun butalso seemed like a good person who I could have really gotten behind?

9. John K. - Was fun in his episodes where he had a vis above 2!

10. Chris - There’s something I liked about Chris during the series that I couldn’t quite put my finger on, but the fact that he told his wife he got voted out straight after the Loved Ones challenges instead of telling her that he got to the final 2 is a highlight of the reunion :love:

11. Lea - The Scout song moment is a highlight of Vanuatu, which leads to this placement. I also like the effort he’s put into shouting at challenges, his shot at being the caller was an experience.

12. Leann - (*Leann’s reflection on her Survivor experience*) “There are days where I think, why am I not at home on my couch, watching TV, eating chocolate cake, but it was so worth every minute for me :hugesmile:”

13. Julie - Was on the show for almost the whole season and yet the only thing I can think about her is Jeff Probst :umm2:

14. Dolly - I kind of liked her for about 2 minutes then she got voted off. :sad:

15. Chad - Very UTR but respect to him for going on the show and showing that amputees can do Survivor :clap1:

16. Brady - There are two things I like about Brady. The first is his edgic. The second is that he pretended he was on a Temporary Bureau Assignment to his work so he could be on the show.

17. John P. - was a (forgettable) contestant on Survivor: Vanuatu.

18. Brook - was also a (forgettable) contestant on Survivor: Vanuatu. Casted by Kelly Godsmith. (Not a typo)

Jigs

21-01-2020, 03:46 PM

I haven't seen Africa or Vanuatu but you guys are making me want to watch them. But which is best???!!

Matthew.

21-01-2020, 03:53 PM

I haven't seen Africa or Vanuatu but you guys are making me want to watch them. But which is best???!!

I would go with Africa

JerseyWins

22-01-2020, 03:27 AM

I wouldn't watch either tbh :fan: Unless it's for completion purposes if you want to watch the entire series

Vanuatu is one of the worst & Africa is like.... meh & below middle of the pack.

Headie

22-01-2020, 11:02 AM

I haven't seen Africa or Vanuatu but you guys are making me want to watch them. But which is best???!!

Definitely Africa. Nothing much exciting really happens in Vanuatu tbh.

Headie

22-01-2020, 11:18 AM

What series have/haven't you seen Jigs?

Africa is pretty good but if you wanna watch a Survivor season you might as well watch one of the best ones/near-perfect ones!

Jigs

22-01-2020, 12:04 PM

I’ve seen every season from Guatemala onwards (except HvHvH and EoE but who cares~) + szns 1/2/7

So Africa, Marq, Thailand, Amazon, AS, Vanuatu and Palau are the seasons I haven’t seen!

Headie

22-01-2020, 03:44 PM

I’ve seen every season from Guatemala onwards (except HvHvH and EoE but who cares~) + szns 1/2/7

So Africa, Marq, Thailand, Amazon, AS, Vanuatu and Palau are the seasons I haven’t seen!

Amazon is definitely the best one out of those seasons! Africa & Marquesas would round out my top three from that list.

Firewire

22-01-2020, 03:53 PM

I'm watching Vanuatu atm

Eliza and Twila are my messy queens.

Joe.

22-01-2020, 05:36 PM

Sorry if my re-watch's are quite slow, just am a teacher so never have free time!

Survivor 3 Ep 9

:dance: Young Kim finally realising she can't trust Brandon!

Lex is being quite stubborn and coming in quite harsh with his game-play.

Tom's neck is just gross, surely medical need to check it out?

Love Tom taunting Frank about being paired with Brandon :laugh: Hilarious how then they work together well and win the reward.

The move night i cool though, some of Survivor's best rewards are this season!

Quite a dull challenge to watch realy, I mean we've watched them make frire a gazillion times. Meh at Lex winning it.

Would be really happy to see Brandon go this tribal!

Older Kim is keeping it very safe at the moment isn't she.

:cheer2: Goodbye Brandon!

Boots- In order of faves
Linda
Kelly
Diane
Clarence
Silas
Jessie
Carl
Lindsay
Brandon- A snake through and through he dropped his friends when he needed to, I guess you could say this was playing the game but he was a pretty unlikable character that I'm glad is gone!

Headie

23-01-2020, 06:36 PM

Have started my Marquesas rewatch, honestly the original Maraamu tribe is one of my favourite Survivor tribes, everyone is such a unique character and they bring a good level of entertainment and likeability <3

Their morning 'radio shows' are hilarious, Sean in particular is a scream :joker:

Vecepia: "So Hunter, there are two types of no-no's (insects) out there, the black ones and the white ones. Which insects do you think have been biting you the most?"
Hunter: "I would have to say the black ones because-"
Sean: (pretending to call in) "RINGGGG!! RINGGG!!! RINGGGG!!!"

:joker:

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Headie

23-01-2020, 10:34 PM

Sean is ****ing hilarious :joker:

Rotu giving Rob, Sean & Vecepia tasks to do immediately after they're swapped onto the tribe, and Sean saying in his confessional "I can hear the Roots theme playing as we speak" sksk

Headie

24-01-2020, 03:11 PM

Rob getting annoyed by Vecepia for being friendly with the Rotu alliance and calling her fake for not arguing with them like he does - that's called jury management love, something you wouldn't know about!

On a side not Marquesas is definitely Rob's best season for me, he's FAR better as an underdog and it's no coincidence that the seasons he ran from start to finish (All Stars/Redemption Island) are two of the worst.

Headie

25-01-2020, 10:56 PM

Ddd Neleh coming back from a reward and the tribe mates being fumed she didnt bring back any food for them, so she takes the mint out of her mouth and offers the remaining 5 players to each take a bite of it :skull:

Neleh: “I wish so bad that I brought something back. I feel horrible telling you guys this. Did you guys feel horrible telling us?”
Sean: “No, but then again, we actually brought back some food.”
Neleh: “The only thing I brought back was this mint that I shoved in my mouth really fast. So if everybody wants to take a little nibble… No, you guys, it’s good! It’s a little hard peppermint that I don’t want!”
Sean: “You’re offering 7 STARVING adults a piece of candy out of your mouth. Keep your mint candy, man. That’s like saying, anybody want a lick of my doodoo?”
Neleh: “Nobody wants it?” (eats the mint)

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Headie

26-01-2020, 12:17 AM

Headie

26-01-2020, 12:46 AM

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Neleh: "Shhh"
Sean: "Y'ALL NOT GON' SHUSH ME, VOTE ME OUT BUT IMMA SPEAK MY MIND"

Joe.

27-01-2020, 05:32 PM

Survivor 3 Ep 10

How close woul production allow the lions to get before they definitely have to step in?

Gross, eating unpopped popcorn and it hurting their teeth.

YES, the Survivor auction, one of my fave challenges, BRING THIS BACK TO MODERN SURVIVOR!

So Probst is calling Kim J 'KJ', is that really a thing?

OMG KJ holding her own private auction for some of her chicken and potatoes has me screaming :laugh:

How's the sandwich Teresa? 'Good enough to make ya wanna slap ya mamma!' LOVE HER.

Frank is so opinionated, the segment of him talking and everyone shouting 'ENOUGH!' was hilarious!

Teresa is a strategist, so want her to stay but sadly know and remember her fate!

Boots- In order of faves
Linda
Kelly
Frank- A real interesting character, he'd be funny on Big Brother US or something where we could have seen more of his personality. Unfortunately he wasn't very good at the 'outlive' part and ostracized himself from other cast members!
Diane
Clarence
Silas
Jessie
Carl
Lindsay
Brandon

Joe.

31-01-2020, 05:37 PM

Survivor 3 Ep 11

Love the family messages, the videos are very personal and I prefer them to the longed out family visit of modern survivor that takes up a half episode!

Oh my God Tom's family are even more country than he is, hilarious.

Lex's video with his son and wife was just the sweetest thing ever, warming to Lex a little more.

Now this reward sounds amazing. Screaming at Probst's 'own personal visa!'

This is a very interesting challenge and it's good involving the families.

What a reward! I’d love to go on safari like that, would be absolutely amazing!

‘I’ve never drunk beer with a hippo before!’

Oh wow, drunk Tom is hilarious, the slur is REAL.

Incredible- watching the Lion attack the wilder beast from the hot air balloon, what a treat.

So Teresa is in trouble sadly again, will be gutted to see her go. She was very reflective during tribal and it’s clear she knows the game she’s played.

Everyone saying they’ve missed family the most except Tom who says he’s missed ‘cheeseburgers’!

Ah so I missed the part where Kim P became the target, but I guess she was the sole remaining member of the ‘young alliance’!

Boots- In order of faves
Linda
Kelly
Frank
Diane
Clarence
Silas
Kim P- Of the ‘young’ alliance Kim P was kind of inconspicuous as Lindsay and Silas took the leads. She didn’t really play a big part in the later game but was a likeable girl.
Jessie
Carl
Lindsay
Brandon

Headie

31-01-2020, 05:50 PM

I just realised I never posted my Survivor Marquesas rankings - partly because I've been working on Sean & Vecepia Best Moments vid which I'm currently trying to upload without copyright restrictions :laugh:

1. Sean
2. Kathy
3. Boston Rob
4. Vecepia
5. Sarah
6. Neleh
7. John
8. Gina
9. Tammy
10. Peter
11. Gabriel
12. Patricia
13. Hunter
14. Zoe
15. General / Robert
16. Paschal

A really good season, such a shame it always gets overlooked. A good amount of drama, power shifts and entertainment alongside some interesting and engaging social discussions. Sean is one of my all-time favourite Survivors, he's just soooo funny but also really smart as well. I pray he returns one day!

Joe.

03-02-2020, 04:39 PM

Survivor 3 Ep 12

Hilarious at the elephant doing a dump in the water, ‘It looked like that elephant hadn’t done his business in a couple of weeks!’ Then Kim J washing her stuff in the elephant dung water eugh.

Next topic for the episode is Tom’s stinky feet, saying they need to put his shoes in the fire :laugh2:

‘A lotta people saw a chicken out, I saw my dinner out!’

The car reward! Amazing reward and kind of happy Lex won it, brilliant for his family and him.

Wow, delivering the medical supplies, what a ‘rewarding’ reward, an incredible experience yet again- and such a ‘real’ moment for a reality show. Touching stuff.

Interesting we are seeing a lot of strategy now, Tom gunning for Lex and Teresa saying she’s glad Kim J has finally ‘woken up’ and is thinking of getting rid of one of the guys.

Again, Teresa is a target, especially being the last Sambruru left, but she’s an easy target, and predictable.

Would Lex have gone if he hadn’t had won this immunity? I’d have liked to think so, but doubt it.

T-Bird’s best play is to get the others to vote for Tom as he is extremely likeable on the jury!

Lex is brutal with his commentary talking about Tom- ‘I’ll cut his throat!’ I appreciate how brutally he’s playing the game but it will work against him with the jury!

Kelly writing ‘shameless’ on her top to communicate with those left, classic.

Nooooooo Teresa!

Boots- In order of faves
Teresa- She fought until the very end and I think she played a brilliant game. ‘T-Bird’ was an extremely likable character and I’d definitely want to see her return to play one day! She could have won!
Linda
Kelly
Frank
Diane
Clarence
Silas
Kim P
Jessie
Carl
Lindsay
Brandon

Joe.

07-02-2020, 06:24 PM

Survivor 3 Ep 13- Finale Pt 1

Lex is playing the game very aggressively, but power to him if he’s going to take that villain stance.

Jheez Lex is interrogating Tom! ‘Why dig up blood?’ I’m not digging up blood- this is current events!’

Tom’s making up words now- ‘worrynation’ anyone? :joker:

Of the final three I think Kim has played the worst game and Ethan has probably played the best and fairest game. Kim’s just laid in the shadows and been a goat, but Ethan’s been thinking about the jury and took sides where needed.

Ethan’s right, this quiz is difficult because if they get it wrong then some bitter jurors could hold it against them later on!

So, Kim wins the final immunity when I don’t think she needs it, then votes for Tom for ‘manipulating people’, uh it’ Survivor!

Tom leaves in fourth! I think it was his time to go as I’d have seen him as a big jury threat, he’s very likeable.

The ‘Rites of Passage’ is usually a really extended segment but this one was quite nice with a simple quote and added African tradition.

YES. This final immunity is a Survivor classic, so simple yet so effective- one hand on the idol. I remember distinctly Kristie falling to the ground in pain after winning it in Australian Survivor!

Only three hours, hmm thought it’d go on a lot longer but hey it’s warm out there. Good on Kim.

Boots- In order of faves
Teresa
Linda
Tom- Survivor is about characters like Tom, the sort of character you wonder where they find. He was extremely likeable, and I think was playing the game hard in the background. That’s why he was such a threat and sadly didn’t make the final three.
Kelly
Frank
Diane
Clarence
Silas
Kim P
Jessie
Carl
Lindsay
Brandon

Survivor 3 Ep 13- Finale Pt 2

If Kim was sensible, she’d definitely take Lex to the final two as he’s played a more deceiving game whereas Ethan is clearly more liked by the jury. But hey, we all know what decision she makes- how’s it feel to lose a million dollars Kim?

Would have loved to see Lex VS Ethan in the final two really, it’s kind of obvious Ethan will win now as Kim was a goat.

I remember Lex being a favourite of mine on first watch…

Boots- In order of faves
Teresa
Linda
Lex- A really important player who played the game aggressively and will be remembered. I remember liking him a lot more the first time around but he still is one of my favourites of the season, definitely would have liked to see how he handled the jury!
Tom
Kelly
Frank
Diane
Clarence
Silas
Kim P
Jessie
Carl
Lindsay
Brandon

Now onto the final tribal…

Blimey Kim’s arms are tanned, her face not so much.

A last bit of retrospective before the final tribal, I think it’s clear though at this point what will happen.

Oop Ethan thinks it’s going to be more of a half and half vote with Brandon being tie, interesting.

Ahh one of my favourite aspects of old school survivor, the jury narrating the walk to tribal with their thoughts!

Brandon stays vile to the end, saying he dislikes someone up there and wants to vote against them, eugh.

I’m liking Kelly more after her commentary, may bump her up in my ratings.
Ugh, of course Kim is playing the ‘old card’ in her speech. ‘You made me young!’ :laugh2:

ETHAN IS A SAVAGE. Brandon- ‘Who deserves to be here the least?’ Ethan without hesitation- ‘You.’ I AM DYING.

So Sue is playing the old card and the charity card, lame.

Kelly’s speech is brilliant, she’s a great jury member and is evaluating the whole game whilst delivering a brilliant speech!

Not ‘Pick a number between 1 and 1000’! :dead:

Brandon is one of the bottom tier survivor players EVER.

‘Shhh I’m hushing you!’- Is there a general hatred between Kim and Tom or something?

Kelly is ICONIC quoting the Graduate.

Boots- In order of faves
Teresa
Linda
Kelly- Iconic in the final tribal so up in ratings.
Ethan- Played a fair and honest game. Was an extremely likeable guy and didn’t shy away from telling it how it is. Definitely deserved the money in the end against Kim, am interested to see how he’s going to fare in Winners at War, I’m thinking at least top 5 for him.
Lex
Tom
Frank
Diane
Clarence
Silas
Kim J- Didn’t really offer much to the series as was sort of just there until the very end. Made the wrong decision to take Ethan and got quite a few jury votes which I was surprised about. Her answers at the final tribal I found boring and predictable, playing the old card.
Kim P
Jessie
Carl
Lindsay
Brandon

Later this weekend I’ll post a few thoughts on the reunion and the series as a whole.

Matthew.

08-02-2020, 09:15 PM

Finished Survivor Palau, and while I didn’t not enjoy the season, let me just say it was a ****ing SLOG to get through, and I don’t really care for it, or it’s cast. It’s currently my least favourite so far, and tbh I’m surprised so many people like it or think it’s above average, because I was never really that interested in it as I was with the other seasons? I was only really rooting for 2 people by the end because pretty much everyone I liked went home early. (So essentially, all the good people were on Ulong :laugh:)

Here’s my edgic chart...
https://i.imgur.com/j70I8yq.jpg

And here’s a song for the edgic fans…

Survivors
(Wanda Shirk, 28 October 2004)

Survivors…
We’re going to be the Survivors…
We’ve got the energy…
And heroes we will be…
Again…

Have a good time guys!

And here are my rankings...

1. Caryn - A miserable nag who everyone hated because she was insufferable to live with and would do the most random **** like blow up on Katie for being “such an outspoken TART” or go HAGHHHHHHH TAM YOU ARE SUCH A LIAR :oh: but they ended up having to keep her because they kept winning immunities :love: Don’t forget that Caryn SUCKS either, or that she is a very good actress, VERY VERY GOOD :)

2. Janu - Another misery who sat around all day and only began enjoying the Survivor experience when she was sent to Exile Island to live by herself :love:

3. Wanda - Yes this season really is that bad that my 3rd favourite out of 20 is a woman who came, sang a lot, and left the next day never to be seen again much to the joy of the rest of her tribe :skull: WE ARE SURVIVORS :D

4. Jolanda - Yes this season really is that bad that my 4th favourite out of 20 is a woman who came, bossed everyone around a lot, and left 2 days later never to be seen again much to the joy of the rest of her tribe :skull:

5. Kim - Completely useless around camp and spent all her time with Jeff to the irritation of everyone else, only for her to think that she was the smartest and best gameplayer of her tribe :joker:

6. Jeff - An arc of an smug and sarcastic prick who gets in a showmance, only to hurt his ankle and request to be sent home is so random to me but one that I enjoy?

7. Ian - Seemed like a really nice guy, who has nothing but good intentions, and I feel like he did the moral conflict storyline very well :clap1: Hope he’s living his best life because he truly deserves it :D

8. Katie - Grumpy bitter woman who everyone hated :love: Refusing to answer Janu’s jury question reminded me of Clay Jordan so she gets an extra point for that too! :clap1:

9. Willard - Grumpy bitter man who everyone hated :love:

10. Angie - She seemed like a really good person and for a while I thought she’d end up being my favourite of the season but when I think about it more, she was just above average, and unfortunately that’s about as high as she can go :sad: I will say that she went home in a bull**** twist which I would say is one of the most unfair ever but the Schoolyard Pick twist exists too....... from the same season funnily enough!

11. Coby - I did like him for a while but I don’t really remember why, although naming his adopted daughter Janu is probably my highlight of the reunion. :lovedup:

12. Stephenie - Unpopular opinion but I don’t really care for Steph that much? A few days ago I thought she was one of the better ones, and I do appreciate her arc of “The Last One Standing” but take that away and I’m not really interested in her at all, despite, *that* edgic which is the result of the show more or less being the Stephenie show :worry:

13. Tom - Good strategist but that’s about all he has going for him? Congrats on your win though :clap1:

14. Gregg - Meh, some people on Sucks seem to think he had good random spurts but I never really saw or appreciated them, sorry :worry:

15. Bobby Jon - I don’t have much to say about him? What did he do, he came, swung on trees, got called a “hard worker” god knows how many times and lost the fire making challenge, then got sent home, only to return next season.

16. Ibrehem - Don’t really have anything to say about *him* either, but the twist in which he was given immunity at a TC where he’d have otherwise most likely gone home was unfair.

17. Jenn - Idk, the UTR 4th placer arc was ironically funny when it was Butch Lockley and Darrah Johnson, but Jenn never really had anything in the middle of it to make me appreciate her. (R.I.P. </3 )

18. Ashlee - There was an Ashlee?

19. Jonathan - Sorry you went home in a bs twist but you were barely shown up until then so I can’t rank you that high as I know nothing about you :sad:

20. James - Was weirdly bothered about getting beat in a competition by Coby because he was gay :umm2: And it was brought up in the reunion, so homophobia is James’ story then? Nice. :thumbs:

Moniqua

08-02-2020, 09:57 PM

a very similar ranking to mine tbf

Macie Lightfoot

08-02-2020, 10:19 PM

lol you WILL be interested in Steph very soon :3

Matthew.

08-02-2020, 10:22 PM

lol you WILL be interested in Steph very soon :3

Yeah I thought that too, and said to someone the other day that I assume Steph was better in Guatemala, and he said that most people agree Guatemala is her worst season out of the 3 she is on. Guess I’ll soon find out :hee:

JerseyWins

09-02-2020, 06:12 PM

12. Stephenie - Unpopular opinion but I don’t really care for Steph that much? A few days ago I thought she was one of the better ones, and I do appreciate her arc of “The Last One Standing” but take that away and I’m not really interested in her at all, despite, *that* edgic which is the result of the show more or less being the Stephenie show :worry:
The StepheME show is the best show :clap1:

Joe.

10-02-2020, 07:13 PM

Survivor 3 Reunion

I kind of prefer this presenter to Probst as a reunion host, he offers a more un-biased opinion and everyone is getting airtime.

Frank outright saying he dosen't agree with Brandon's 'lifestyle' is awful and would be booed if in front of a 2020 audience. Wouldn't probably be aired actually.

LINDA <3 Bring her back.

Not an audience member asking Tom- 'How's your boil?'

The bit about HIV testing was so sweet, Goddess Linda spent two weeks after the show helping out with nurses and in hospitals <3

EUGH, why would anyone go to snakey Brandon's bar. At least he owns up for 'looking like a raving bitch'!

Tom singing his song, why on earth are they allowing this!?

Marquesas looks good, may re-watch again soon ;)

Rudy in the audience, RIP Legend.

Overall Season Thoughts

Maybe an unpopular opinion here but I preferred Africa to Australia. The Young VS Old was fascinating and although the divide didn't last long it provided some interesting tribals. The tribe switch was brilliant and offered Teresa and Frank a way out but in the end one alliance went all the way to the end. The season had some brilliant villains in the form of Lex, Silas and Brandon and some lovable heroes such as Linda, Teresa and Ethan. In the end the final tribal wasn't as exciting as Australia's final tribal but overall a very enjoyable season. Africa as a location was something we hadn't seen before and was fascinating to watch. You can see Survivor evolving with Africa, the producers thinking of new challenges and twists and it is getting exciting.

Jack_

11-02-2020, 01:14 AM

Am delighted that this is gonna be my first post in like 3 months

Currently in the process of watching all seasons I haven’t seen before S40 (7 down, 6 to go), I’m on Nicaragua and tbh it’s been a bit of a drag but I have JUST pressed pause cause I’m ****ing screaming at Jane pouring water all over the fire :joker: :joker: :joker: :joker: :joker:

Nothing else has made me wanna comment as much as that

kbye until I’ve finished the rest xx

JerseyWins

13-02-2020, 04:26 AM

Matthew.

17-02-2020, 08:51 PM

I finished Survivor Guatemala and unpopular opinion but I thought it was very good! Much better season than Palau and I watched it quickly so I can move onto Panama because I’m ready for THE Cirie Fields Experience. I have also amended the Rank The Series and Favourite Per Season threads accordingly. Also, just treat the top 3 as a collective #1 but Judd just feels right for just now, I’ll edit it later if I change my mind.

Edgic: https://i.imgur.com/BF7ljp5.jpg

A quote for the edgic fans........

“I’m going to kick your ass afterwards! I’m going to find you in Michigan... I’m going to put in Gary Hawkins, 46, it’ll come BING BING BING, cell phone, address, MAPS, I’ll call the locals over there, can you give me the low down on Mr GARY HAWKINS, ex-professional football player”

Officer Amy O’Hara, 2005

1. Judd - I HOPE YA’LL GET EATEN BY ****IN CROCODILES SCUMBAGS :D I’m sorry but Judd is hilarious to me, even if I do get why he’s not liked. A paranoid, loud, argumentative, oblivious, not a bad sportsmanship man, who is continously OTTN and proud of it :love: YOU HAVE AY DEE DEEEEEEE :oh: HEY MAWGRET GET OUT NOOOOWWWWW :oh: “It’ll only work for a millimeter of a second” :hugesmile:

2. Margaret - Loving motherly nurse who looked after her tribe.... until some left and she had new people to look after and she was just not having it and became a miserable presence around camp and apparently told Judd he had ADD and happily pointed out his recall issues :joker:

lol you WILL be interested in Steph very soon :3

3. Stephenie - I think StepheME’s far better in Guatemala even if most people disagree. In Palau, she was known as the CPP hero of the season who everyone loved and was the last one standing and was an inspiration etc (and I didn’t really care for her) and then she came back and completely bought into her own hype :joker: “Danni reminds me of myself - she’s just a COOL chick ^_^” “Boohoo Lydia I am SICK of hearing your crap you’re luckt to still be here :rolleyes:”

4. Jamie - Not quite the random neurotic he’s lived up to be but he did provide entertainment with how much he pissed everyone off :clap1: BLINDSIDED, NICE, NOW ***THAT’S*** HOW YOU VOTE SOMEBODY OFF :D (cut to Lydia looking unimpressed) :love:

5. Amy - The Sue and Twila comparisons are true because she seemed so Raw And Real and the fact that she broke her ankle in the first episode (I think) and lasted 2 weeks with it is pretty good going :clap1: And she sussed out Gary and revealed it to him when he was least expecting it too :joker:

6. Gary - Initially my favourite for reminding me of Frank Garrison, Gary’s initial weirdness unfortunately stopped a few episodes in but I still enjoyed him nonetheless for giving us moments like “Kansas is in love with Brandon.............and so am I :lovedup:

7. Brian - A nerd who says the most obnoxious **** ever in the most patronising voice but is still loved by his tribe :skull: “You may be The Golden Boy..... but I’m Platinum. :smug:” “This would be the OUTWIT part of Outwit, Outplay and Outlast. :smug:”

8. Bobby Jon - A huge glow up from Palau :clap1: In one episode, he said some variation of the phrase “I HATE JAMIE I MIGHT KNOCK HIM OUT :)” 3 times :joker:

9. Lydia - MORP tribe mom who everyone loves even though she stabbed Jamie in the back and then randomly has a theory that by breaking a Guatemalan tradition and eating a chicken, she caused a huge storm :skull:

10. Cindy - “I would much rather hurt Jamie’s feelings than Brandon’s. Brandon is a solid dude. :p”

11. Danni - I don’t really care about her at all as she’s so *just there* for a winner? Stephenie should have won imo :)

12. Brianna - I liked Brianna in her leaving episode and I can’t remember why lmao

13. Blake - Completely unaware that he was coming across as someone who’s only personality trait was “having a girlfriend who he insisted had big boobs” :laugh2:

14. Jim - I hope your arm has healed because you seemed nice! :worry:

15. Brooke - I had no thoughts or opinion about her :sad:

16. Brandon - I had no thoughts or opinion about him :sad:

17. Morgan - I had no thoughts or opinion about her :sad:

18. Rafe - (***rant alert***) Just a painfully pathetic human being and possibly in my bottom 5 ever? Looking down on people who talk about others while they’re not there because it’s “not pretty”, crying because Jamie was sarcastically cheering Judd on in a challenge, hoping that Jamie reflects on his actions the previous day and then calling him untrustworthy for giving up his reward to apologise for his actions, complaining because Jamie feels he can trust him, refusing to give people his word for being scared he’ll go back on it because he’s such a gOoD pErSoN, complaining that Cindy took a car she won instead of giving a car to everyone else and then complaining that she spoke about her new car, insisting that Danni vote him out and then refusing to vote for her because she actually did it and the worst Rafe moment..... “I’m a really touchy person and Cindy isn’t, so it’s nice to be touchy feely with Cindy :)” Very Dan Spilo-ish. And there’s The Good Person/Hero of the season, everyone :clap1:

Matthew.

28-02-2020, 08:47 PM

Finished Survivor Panama! Such an interesting season with some of my new all time favourite contestants! :love:

Edgic:

https://i.imgur.com/gJFU9m7.jpg

Ranking:

1. Shane - Suuuch a compelling character, in my top 5 and probably my favourite male Survivor so far (Sean Rector has been dethroned :sad:) and I prefer him to Cirie oops? There was moments of insanity and abrasiveness from Shane but I never felt like it was too uncomfortable to watch and with Shane, I feel like his flaws make him a better character? Also you can tell he is actually a great person underneath it all who clearly loves his son :love:
2. Cirie - Hilarious and sweet :love: I also like her journey from someone who’s scared of the outdoors, particularly leaves, to someone who fully embraces living on a Panamanian island 36 days :love: She’s also in my all time top 10 atm!
3. Courtney - Infuriated everyone for the whole experience like just LOOK at that edgic :joker: When Bruce was being medevaced and she offered to sing, so he declined and she just did it anyway :love:
4. Danielle - I stan if for no other reason than Terry teaching her how to make fire only for her to win the fire making challenge and then vote him off :joker:
5. Bruce - What a weirdo :skull: Getting infuriated by Courtney doing yoga in his zen garden and spending his time on Exile doing martial arts rather than idol hunting :love:
6. Aras - WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TERRY SAY SOMETHING BAD ABOUT WOMEN x
7. Bobby - Stealer of wine and user of phrases such as “COURTNEY IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE 2 OR 3 MOST ANNOYING PEOPLE PROBABLY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD :oh:”
8. Tina - The Lumberjack Lady :love: She seemed so nice and the scene of her writing her son’s name into the sand as she cried her heart out is probably the saddest scene of Survivor I’ve ever seen :sad: I wish she stayed longer given her circumstances </3
9. Nick - He also had some potential one episode but I had barely any opinion on him at all?
10. Sally - Had some potential but I never really had any opinion of her?
11. Misty - I have no thoughts on her either but she only lasted 3 episodes so...
12. Melinda - I’m sure she’s fine but she had to go to save Cirie :hugesmile:
13. Ruth Marie - was a contestant on Shane Powers’ season of Survivor.
14. Dan - I got a creepy Paschal English-y vibe from him so that’s an automatic red!
15. Austin - Irritating, self-impressed bores who constantly pat themselves on the back and laugh at their own rubbish jokes are not fun to watch!
16. Terry - Smug, condescending prick. Telling Aras his family visit was more important because he’s married and Aras wasn’t :umm2: Winning every immunity challenge and being referred to as SuperTerry all season and acting as though he’s some hated underdog :umm2:

JerseyWins

29-02-2020, 09:08 PM

Matthew.

11-03-2020, 11:27 PM

Finished Cook Islands and like everyone else I don’t really care for it at all as far as Survivor seasons go, it’s not very exciting at all and idc much for the cast (as you can tell by the ranking) but it was worth watching it for completion purposes! :hugesmile:

Edgic:

https://i.imgur.com/BuPzssE.jpg

1. Cao Boi - Hilariously unique and he was taken far too early </3
2. Adam - Became really good at the end with his Jonathan hate :love:
3. Jenny - Voting for Ozzy who she never met because she hated Yul and Becky :love: :gun:
4. Parvati - Not even that good this season but had a few good episodes?
5. Billy - We ship Bandice :lovedup:
6. Candice - I don’t like her thaaaat much but I get why she is liked?
7. Cristina - Fun edgic strip!
8. Jessica - Peaked when she lost the chickens but that’s more than anyone else from this season can say...
9. J.P. - Was kind of fun in his leaving episode
10. Sekou - I think I liked him but idk why.
11. Rebecca - Idk any of these people so this is in elimination order.
12. Brad ^
13. Stephannie ^
14. Cecilia ^
15. Sundra - Idk I just don’t hate her as much as everyone else but she isn’t great by any means.
16. Ozzy - Didn’t mind him at the start but I went off him so much towards the end when he would hide food with Yul from everyone else...
17. Becky - Not even that bad a person but stuff like enabling Yul’s win all season long and literally counting all of his potential jury votes for him :umm2:
18. Jonathan - Smug twat
19. Yul - Smug boring twat
20. Nate - Smug boring homophobic twat

(Edit: The fact that this was posted half an hour before Yul discussed Jonathan’s wife having ALS on Winners At War is an unfortunate coincidence. I wish he and his wife nothing but the best. :love:)

JerseyWins

11-03-2020, 11:32 PM

Yeah Cook Islands is very dull and the cast is not very inspiring :joker:

The fact it gave us Ozzy & Parvati tho :clap1: ALTHOUGH Cook Islands is probably each of their best season to me so oop

LukeB

11-03-2020, 11:34 PM

Yeah Cook Islands is very dull and the cast is not very inspiring :joker:

The fact it gave us Ozzy & Parvati tho :clap1: ALTHOUGH Cook Islands is probably each of their best season to me so oop

Ozzy sucks!

But fans vs favourites and heroes vs villains parvati slays!

Matthew.

25-03-2020, 08:43 PM

Finished Survivor Fiji! The season itself was fine and perfectly watchable, and not awful as some people say but I can see how it wouldn’t be enjoyable if you weren’t watching in order and went from Pearl Islands to Fiji or something :joker: But luckily for me, I went from Cook Islands to Fiji, so it benefits from that.

Edgic:

https://i.imgur.com/115jRcs.jpg

1. Lisi - Duh she’s like a Maffew Favourite personified :joker: Completely unaware and charmless old(er) women with messy jury speeches >>>
2. Cassandra - Mmhmm uhhuh... Rootable and unintentionally hilarious :love:
3. Dreamz - He is a honourable person, he is noble, he is a..... truth teller, he is.... DREAMZ :) (and a grown man who should consider a name change x)
4. Stacy - Anyone who nauseates Alex Angarita is good by me :clap1:
5. Yau Man - Appears charming and cherubic but is actually calculating and surprisingly cutthroat?
6. Sylvia - Askew, it’s like ORTHOGONAL :)
7. Boo - Surprisingly fun post-merge when nobody could stand him?
8. Anthony - Socially awkward but seemed like a genuine good person who was picked on by Rocky :sad:
9. Liliana - INV1 | INV1 | INV1 | OTTM3 :love:
10. Erica - Had potential but then got cut short
11. Rita - Was a nothing and then emerged as a chatterbox who nobody could stand :love:
12. Earl - Fine as a human being but I felt he was a little too much of a gamebot at times
13. Edgardo - I have no thoughts on #13 to #16 so they are in elimination order
14. Michelle
15. Gary
16. Jessica
17. Mookie - I remember not liking him!
18. Alex - Was horrible in his jury speech!
19. Rocky - Contender for worst non-Dan Survivor ever in all honesty, homophobic racist bullies do NOT make for good television.

Macie Lightfoot

27-03-2020, 04:33 PM

Hi. If there's one good thing coming from quarantine (I don't go back to work for at least another month to the day at the very earliest), it's that I had time to restart and finish my SJDS rewatch this past week! For reference, here was my chart when I watched live.

https://i.imgur.com/bM8Qhut.png

Are Natalie and/or Jeremy CPP instead of just CP? How is Keith not OTTM?! How on earth are Jaclyn and Dale MORP?!?!?! Some scores need to be settled and I think it is time!

https://i.imgur.com/4L231Rl.png

So to answer my questions: Yes, Natalie is CPP if barely. Jeremy is just CP. Keith is definitely OTTM. Jaclyn is in fact MORP somehow and Dale is actually CPP :joker: and that doesn't even go into the fact that I also changed Julie's and Alec's overall ratings.

Anyways, fantastic season as I said. A very good cast that was fun and bounced off each other well AND the right people made it the farthest. Like, just imagine how terrible the season would've been if the endgame was dominated by Reed and Josh and Alec and Wes rather than Natalie and Missy and Baylor :skull:

1. Jaclyn (I break up the Jaclyn saga into four parts: the first part is pre-swap when she was the UTR Tribal Council assassin who would be UTR all episode until she came in with an answer at Tribal Council that was scathingly honest or where she would just start yelling at Baylor with Val alol. The second part is after the swap when she was reunited with her long lost love Jon Misch and they would just stand in the middle of shelter kissing each other while Baylor sat there in awe hoping that someone would love her that much one day. The third part is the first half of the merge when we had Swing Vote Jaclyn, who held the entire fate of the game in her hands seemingly every week. She and Jon ping-ponged back and forth between Jeremy's alliance and Josh's alliance but she showed her true power when Jon went to Exile Island and the boys all ignored her and thus she squeezed Jon's balls and DEMANDED that they go against the guys because they're dirty pigs. This is the same Jaclyn that also REFUSED the speak to Jon for five hours after he came back from Exile Island and effectively sealed Reed's fate :love: the fourth part is Finale Jaclyn who turned into the ultimate underdog after Jon was blindsided at F6. She cursed out Natalie and cried in her confessional about how she's not used to people not loving her and Jon, survived the F5 vote against all odds thanks to Natalie's Idol, and then had the most amazing come from behind victory in the final IC all while Jeff trashed her for being way out of it AND falling hard on her way down the tower and almost killing herself :love: a complete inspiration both legitimately because of her MRKH and entertainment-wise because she was the heart and soul of San Juan del Sur)
2. Jon (yes I am obsessed with Jonclyn. Not only was Jon good-hearted and FUN and loyal to his woman, but he also went through a great story arc where he was kind of an anti-villain? He started out as a bit of an underdog on the original Hunahpu, swapped to NuCoyopa and found himself in a power position, found himself in the ultimate power position when the tribes merged and he and Jaclyn were the swing votes, then became the Top Dog when he ruthlessly blindsided Jeremy because Jeremy figured out that he found the HII on Exile Island, then became a bit of an overdog who survived multiple assassination attempts due to Immunity wins and Keith having a big mouth (:love:), and then was ultimately blindsided at F6 without seeing it coming at all? It was a great morph from underdog to hero to overdog and when you couple that with a nice and likable and fun personality it all turns out even bettter)
3. Natalie (I know some people are going to call me crazy for not having her as #1 or even #2 but #ThisIsMyTruth. Natalie's *not* a top 10 all time for me or anything like that BUT she's still legitimately great. She is kind of a CPbot but she makes her strategy fun so it's kind of a trick because you're never bored by her and she never feels like a CPbot? She had some good moments in the beginning of the season like cursing out John Rocker after an Immunity Challenge just because she felt like it but post-Jeremy is really where Natalie shines: she became OBSESSED with taking down Jon and did it in the most calculated but amazing way. Pretended to accidentally vote out Alec instead of Keith so she could secure his trust going forward, somehow convinced Missy to go against her in-game husband/son Jon, wrangle Jaclyn back in after getting cursed out by her and ruthlessly stabbing Baylor in the back, and then winning in a pretty clear landslide? Just a fun personality and one of the few people who could ACTUALLY pull off a CP edit)
4. Baylor (I think my biggest surprise is just how much I *LOVED* Baylor this time around? A bratty and immature 20 year old who is convinced she's mature for her age and has no clue that she infuriates everyone around her? Count me in :love: I loved how she would cry at the drop of a hat the second anyone threw criticism at her or Missy, and I looooove that she was an aspiring musician with her ~Sticky Situation~ because the Missy/Baylor dynamic just makes SO MUCH SENSE when you realize that Missy's That Pageant Mom and Baylor's That Daughter who isn't really that talented even in spite of what mommy says :love: I could not stop cackling at the scene in the swap episode where Missy is cooking rice and Baylor keeps yelling at her to add more scoops in while Dale just sits there stewing :joker:)
5. Missy (guys this F6 is SO GOOD like Missy would be a STAR in any other season, and she still is in this one despite only being #5 for me? Extraordinarily fake and cliquey, transparently biased towards and defensive of her bratty daughter, having her three marriages and three divorces constantly referenced, almost breaking her ankle because of a Challenge made by a Make A Wish kid :love: and perhaps my favorite moment was the merge episode where she tells Julie not to quit yet and that she's her loved one now (:)) and telling Baylor she's gonna have to be a little bit phony :) :love:)
6. Julie (okay so she definitely gets docked some points for willingly associating herself with John Rocker but she kinda owned it and I'm impressed that she was able to have the agency to turn it into her own storyline. And I've seen a few people say that the merge episode is weak but I actually thought it was GREAT and a lot of that was due to the #TrailMixScandal and insisting that people judge her for her makeup and boobs and quitting because of how fake Missy was to her :love:)
7. Jeremy (yes he was a CPbot but he was FUN and ultimately righteous most of the time? He was grumpy for the right reasons and aligned with all the correct people. My only complaint is that during Ponderosa he was always so quick to bitch about the other guys for acting like they were amazing gameplayers when they weren't and being bitter for being got but that also kind of applies to him oops)
8. Keith (lmao I had him in red when the season first aired but time has proven that he's completely harmless and fun! Came into the show and had no clue how to play the game, somehow got really far and was a huge threat to win all while providing lots of comedic relief. What's not to like?)
9. Drew (suuuuuuch a sleaze omg but thank god the editors were In on the joke because he's legitimately insufferable alol)
10. Val (she's good and all but I don't think she's all that, like she's nowhere near a top 5 person this season. Her double Idol lie was fun but kinda painfully stupid to watch at the same time)
11. Nadiya (points literally only for being a Twinnie but her stuff about Josh being one of the girls doesn't age that well oops)
12. Wes (I wouldn't even go as far as to say he was UTRfun because he wasn't really BUT he didn't make me mad at all and his Ponderosa was cute bc he made Josh cry for being ~an ally~ to the gays)
13. Alec (pretty much the same douchey personality as his older brother but underedited? and also with a complex for being In Drew's Shadow? I don't know, I could see myself liking him potentially with a bigger edit but at the same time I couldn't decide if I found his behavior hilarious or irritating? There were some times where was rude and it wasn't cute but most of the time it was so bold it was funny like when he openly commented on the trail mix in front of Julie :love:)
14. Kelley (she's decently fun and snarky during Drew's OTTN episodes but it's not nearly enough for her to somehow be brought back TWICE :skull:)
15. Dale (I remember liking @farmguy69 for being sour and grumpy but it wasn't as cute this time :( there are still some moments that I liked ironically but blegh, nothing special and received a lot of focus for someone ultimately so inconsequential?)
16. Josh (BORING and actually not good at the game at all. "Baylor, I'm sorry I voted for you in the first Tribal Council of the season last night but I promise I only did it so it would strengthen our alliance" like what the ****?)
17. John (duh. A legitimately horrible person cast because he's a legitimately horrible person, and when he was being yelled at for being a racist and a homophobe and a bigot he was just a boring CP bot. Nooooo thank you)
18. Reed (sorry but I just can't. An annoying Broadway gay who showboated in the most cringe ways and got upset when people didn't want to play his game and make moves that benefited him? Regardless of how grating both Missy and Baylor are, I can't STAND how he was somehow deemed as In The Right when his only actual grievance with them was that they were in power and he was not. His Jury speech is legitimately infuriating and doesn't even make sense. The only good part of the season was when he got eliminated because Jaclyn refused to talk to Jon for five hours ad;sfjwlefj)

Matthew.

29-03-2020, 04:41 PM

I’ve finished Survivor China! I really liked this season, it was a lot of fun to watch and I never felt bored during it like I did with the previous two seasons. Each episode kept me intrigued to watch the next one, so I got through it quickly

Edgic:

https://i.imgur.com/eSpojPS.jpg

1. Courtney - Had no idea what Survivor was yet managed to make it all the way to the end despite hating everyone she came into contact with :love: “I hate Todd and Amanda less than everyone else but I hope they don’t mistake that for friendship x :hugesmile:”
2. Jean-Robert - Completely unaware and irritating to everybody who intereacted with him but he was one of the most entertaining with how egotistical he was :D
3. Sherea - So underrated :love: I almost choked when Dave told her not to throw the rice over the edge so she threatened to throw him over the edge :skull: Her JR bubble busting voting confessional too :skull:
4. Peih-Gee - So rootable yet snarky :clap1: Asking Amanda if she knew hidden immunity idols were in existence because she took longer than 2 seconds to respond to her question :love:
5. Leslie - Sister Christian who insists she’s not a Christian but has a confessional about Christianity in every episode :love: THE BIG MAN UP THERE’S PROVIDING x
6. Ashley - I’m voting for Derek Zoolander. Oh I mean Dave. Enough said.
7. Denise - Lunch lady turned janitor turned custodian turned fraudster is..... an arc.
8. Amanda - Kind of a one dimensional gamebot for a while but she became better at the end with moments like “I’M NOT STUPID PEIH GEE” and flat out refusing Denise’s deal in front of everyone :love:
9. Todd - Kind of a gamebot but was actually fun and righteous at times eg his reaction to JR and James talking about Courtney?
10. Dave - Aggravating and condescending but in a way that made good TV :)
11. Chicken - DAYUMMMM :oh:
12. Jaime - Hidden immunity slabs :love:
13. Frosti - Every now and then drama would be happening in the background and the camera would pan to Frosti making faces or doing something strange lmao
14. James - Kind of fun to watch towards the end of his stay but nothing worth bringing back for FvF?
15. Erik - Ik he’s thought of as great because he’s nice, and he is nice but he’s kind of dull too sorry!
16. Aaron - He’s honestly fine, this cast is just so good that the one who I have pretty much no thoughts on is at the bottom of my ranks?

The next season is Micronesia, which is Fans vs Favourites, so here’s my pre-show ranking of the Favourites before I start:

1. Cirie
2. Eliza
3. Ami
4. Yau-Man
5. Amanda
6. Parvati
7. James
8. Ozzy
9. Jonathan
10. Jon

JerseyWins

04-04-2020, 03:35 AM

Doing a Cagayan rewatch and wow I don't even think it's close when it comes to best season ever... Cagayan hands down. The cast is phenomenal, the storylines are so real and entertaining. Entire pre-merge is incredible and I know the post-merge is about just as amazing.

I just watched the merge episode and lmaoooo @ how great it plays out. Kass playing for who gets to destroy the game :joker: :joker: :joker:

Matthew.

04-04-2020, 02:30 PM

I’ve finished Survivor Micronesia and I’m going to go out on a limb and say this is my favourite season so far. It was great from start to finish :love:

Edgic: https://i.imgur.com/YodCDJw.jpg

1. Cirie (-) - In Panama she was top 10 but she managed to be even better somehow in Micronesia :love: She didn’t take **** from people and was more cutthroat :clap1: My mother always told me, you may not be able to beat them with these all the time... but you can always beat them with this... sorry... :hugesmile:
2. Parvati (+4) - So much better than in Cook Islands, for the first half of the season I was w/e on her but then she decided that everyone apart from Alexis, Natalie and Amanda were dead to her and the Parvati experience began from there :clap1:
3. Tracy - One of my all time favourite pre-mergers, she was hilarious without trying to be with her cutthroat ways whilst dressing it up as being a mother figure to the tribe. A true arc :lovedup:
4. Ami (-) - Not quite as Ami Cusacky as she was in Vanuatu but I felt like her leaving episode was the perfect end to her Survivor journey? She was OTT at her last TC whilst pleading to stay and then getting voted out as she ran out of the council area barefoot with her bag in one hand and shoes in the other :love:
5. Natalie - Completely UTR for the first 10 episodes until she emerged as an abrasive arrogant **** stirrer :love: And I thought it couldn’t get better than Zoe Zanidakis, turns out it can? Admitting she is her own biggest fan :love:
6. Eliza (-2) - Aside from It’s A ****ing Stick, Eliza was hysterically messy throughout the season, see wishing for James to get so ill he gets evacuated... and then he does :skull:
7. Jason - What planet did production find him from :skull: Eliza: IT’S A ****ING STICK. :oh: Jason: I know! :D IT HAS A FACE ON IT :D :D :D
8. Kathy - Unintentionally OTT hilarious (I’VE NEVER SEEN IMPLANTS BEFORE :hugesmile:) but also has a really deep and vulnerable side which is hard not to empathise with, as showcased in episodes 2 and 7 :love:
9. Erik - He is defined as The New Dumbest Survivor Ever but aside from that he was actually fun and seemed like a decent person :)
10. Chet - Lazy and hated by everyone :love: Bonus points for aligning with Kathy and Tracy :love:
11. Amanda (-) - Meh I don’t like her as much as I did in China but I still like her for some reason. Black Widow allegiance maybe? :shrug:
12. Yau-Man (-2) - Anyone who tries to kill Jonny Fairplay for an Immunity Idol is fine by me :love:
13. Alexis - Telling Amanda that her crying over Cirie’s elimination is deserving of an Oscar :skull:
14. James (-) - The fact that he ate numerous bats during the course of this show makes me think he’s to blame for the Coronavirus :worry:
15. Mikey B - I feel like I should have an opinion on him given how visible he was but really I can take him or leave him :shrug:
16. Mary - Kind of seemed as though she had potential but then she got voted out 2nd
17. Jonathan (+1) - Not a bad person but still the same self satisfied dick he was in Cook Islands. Doesn’t mean I wanted his knee to get infected though :worry:
18. Joel - Ehh I don’t hate him as much as everybody else but the way he screamed at Kathy as she sobbed doesn’t sit well with me at all
19. Ozzy (-1) - I still don’t like him. He’s arrogant but sooo boring which is not fun to watch although I do credit him for The ****ing Stick
20. Jonny Fairplay (-) - I still think he’s an insufferable try hard weasel.

JerseyWins

04-04-2020, 03:29 PM

The Eliza & Jason hopeless duo :love: Cirie on every season :love:

Matthew.

09-04-2020, 11:14 AM

The Eliza & Jason hopeless duo :love: Cirie on every season :love:

:love::love::love:

I’ve finished Gabon and I know I said a few days ago that Micronesia was my favourite season, but Gabon easily takes #1. It’s hard to put a point on exactly what makes it so good but it’s definitely my favourite season. Would recommend even to those who haven’t seen Survivor before because it’s just that good of a season :clap1:

Edgic:

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1. Susie - Okay so hear me out - A kind hearted 47 year old woman who aggravates everybody in her tribe just by talking 24/7 who unintentionally provides the most UTR-hilarious moments at any given opportunity, only to have a segment in every episode about how crazy and loud she is and how her tribe wants to bury her alive and stab her in the face (actual comments made!) so ends up being OTT overall? And to make it even better, she makes it all the way to top 3 and is one vote (or one cookie according to Randy) away from winning $1,000,000? Sign me up. :love:
2. Randy - Self labelled King of Gabon :love: Randy might be a disgusting, old, hotheaded, chauvinistic, alcoholic bigot who needs to grow up before he dies alone and a loser but he’s one of the most unique characters Survivor has ever seen because he’s so ****ing strange and he’s my #2 for it.
3. Crystal - Olympic athlete who can not compete to save her life :love: She was also hysterical with dealing with GC, Ace and Randy as well as possibly giving the best voting confessionals ever?
4. Sugar - Completely crazy and irrational in spite of getting an OTTP edit :love:
5. Gillian - Such a nice and joyful woman :love: She was the first episode of Survivor Gabon with her love of elephant dung and failure to see Randy’s cut head, so she, as a nurse, calls the medical team in :joker:
6. Dan - All round decent person who did actually make fun television with his weirdness all whilst living out the Survivor Gabon experience in a suit way better than Andrew Savage could ever attempt to.
7. Kelly - Thinking GC got eaten by a monkey :love: Being picked last for the first time in her entire life :love: Being glad to be around people who respond back :love:
8. Bob - Decently likeable tbf and although the Fake Idol moment was unleashed to its full potential by Randy, Sugar and Crystal, Bob was the one who set it all up so :clap1:
9. Paloma - “Do you think you and Ace were brother and sister in another life” “Maybe in another world, 1000 years from now. When I’m DEAD :D” “Um... okay”
10. GC - I don’t really care for him at all but the arc of - GC’s been through a lot in his life, he’s a good guy -> Everybody hates GC -> GC goes missing -> GC is quitting? That’s bull**** - Crystal Cox -> GC’s not a bad guy, he’s been through a lot in his life -> GC goes home - is a fun one!
11. Charlie - I <3 Marcus I <3 Marcus I <3 Marcus *gets voted off*
12. Michelle - Really grumpy and miserable but it was only for one episode so she makes for a kind of fun first boot, but if she stayed I might not have been as fully on board.
13. Ken - Don’t have any strong feelings on him either way for someone who was so prominent throughout the season?
14. Matty - He annoyed me a few times but nothing worth full on disliking him for.
15. Jacquie - She seemed okay?
16. Marcus - “Susie you’re a mom and a teacher, how can you justify lying to me” erm what :unsure:
17. Ace - Awful and grating to watch, I could physically feel the sleaze and slime through my screen and that’s not what I look for in a Survivor contestant.
18. Corinne - So pathetic and unnecessarily nasty, one of my all time least favourites and idk why people like her at all. I’m guessing it’s because she’s sharp tongued but lbr Sugar was right when she said she plays all nice to people’s faces yet acts all big and clever when it’s just her in confessionals. Her jury speech was beyond gross as well.

Macie Lightfoot

11-04-2020, 07:52 AM

Recently restarted my watch of South Africa: Champions and episode 5 is an amazing piece of television so I'm quoting this post from nearly two years ago.

So Survivor South Africa: Philippines inspired me so much that I decided to take on Champions! I just finished episode 5 and hooooooly **** these people are insane, what a fantastic episode. Even in spite of him being blatantly racist against Indians last episode, I am in looooooove with Zan and his boot was just everything I wanted. Being such a nuisance that Marian hid all of his pants for no reason, politely asking to quit bc he wants to go home to his girlfriend (:love:), pissing everyone off even more bc he's a good fisherman and he wants to quit, Stephen plotting to blindside Buhle bc he thinks she has the HII, Shane going along with the plan even though he has the HII, Buhle finding out about the plan to "blindside" her to flush out the HII she doesn't have, Zan stealing the flint and giving to to Buhle so they don't vote her out, and everyone casting the NASTIEST votes towards each other such as "Zannex," "Zan is not the man," and "Solly *full-fledged paragraph written on the ballot about how much he sucks" :joker:

AND THERE WAS STILL ANOTHER TRIBAL COUNCIL THAT WAS JUST AS MESSY :love::love::love: the whole David-Shona alliance is what dreams are made of. The two most annoying people immediately becoming tribal outcasts and getting saved only to blindside the cocky overdogs finding a HII and then having everything blow up because they're sooooo annoying and stupid :love: like... David found the HII and told Shona but refused to tell her where he hid it, everyone getting suspicious of David for being David, Shona planning to blindside him just for fun and STEALING the HII, David owning up to having an HII and fully implicating Shona as a two-faced backstabber, a and then the entire tribe agreeing to give the HII to Corne while Shona is just left crying on the beach about how she tanked her game so badly :joker::joker::joker: oh my god what a fantastic hour of television.

and adding picture evidence:

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EDIT: ****ing **** how is "discordapp dot com" a banned phrase now :skull:

JerseyWins

11-04-2020, 03:46 PM

:love::love::love:

I’ve finished Gabon and I know I said a few days ago that Micronesia was my favourite season, but Gabon easily takes #1. It’s hard to put a point on exactly what makes it so good but it’s definitely my favourite season. Would recommend even to those who haven’t seen Survivor before because it’s just that good of a season :clap1:

Edgic:

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1. Susie - Okay so hear me out - A kind hearted 47 year old woman who aggravates everybody in her tribe just by talking 24/7 who unintentionally provides the most UTR-hilarious moments at any given opportunity, only to have a segment in every episode about how crazy and loud she is and how her tribe wants to bury her alive and stab her in the face (actual comments made!) so ends up being OTT overall? And to make it even better, she makes it all the way to top 3 and is one vote (or one cookie according to Randy) away from winning $1,000,000? Sign me up. :love:
2. Randy - Self labelled King of Gabon :love: Randy might be a disgusting, old, hotheaded, chauvinistic, alcoholic bigot who needs to grow up before he dies alone and a loser but he’s one of the most unique characters Survivor has ever seen because he’s so ****ing strange and he’s my #2 for it.
3. Crystal - Olympic athlete who can not compete to save her life :love: She was also hysterical with dealing with GC, Ace and Randy as well as possibly giving the best voting confessionals ever?
4. Sugar - Completely crazy and irrational in spite of getting an OTTP edit :love:
5. Gillian - Such a nice and joyful woman :love: She was the first episode of Survivor Gabon with her love of elephant dung and failure to see Randy’s cut head, so she, as a nurse, calls the medical team in :joker:
6. Dan - All round decent person who did actually make fun television with his weirdness all whilst living out the Survivor Gabon experience in a suit way better than Andrew Savage could ever attempt to.
7. Kelly - Thinking GC got eaten by a monkey :love: Being picked last for the first time in her entire life :love: Being glad to be around people who respond back :love:
8. Bob - Decently likeable tbf and although the Fake Idol moment was unleashed to its full potential by Randy, Sugar and Crystal, Bob was the one who set it all up so :clap1:
9. Paloma - “Do you think you and Ace were brother and sister in another life” “Maybe in another world, 1000 years from now. When I’m DEAD :D” “Um... okay”
10. GC - I don’t really care for him at all but the arc of - GC’s been through a lot in his life, he’s a good guy -> Everybody hates GC -> GC goes missing -> GC is quitting? That’s bull**** - Crystal Cox -> GC’s not a bad guy, he’s been through a lot in his life -> GC goes home - is a fun one!
11. Charlie - I <3 Marcus I <3 Marcus I <3 Marcus *gets voted off*
12. Michelle - Really grumpy and miserable but it was only for one episode so she makes for a kind of fun first boot, but if she stayed I might not have been as fully on board.
13. Ken - Don’t have any strong feelings on him either way for someone who was so prominent throughout the season?
14. Matty - He annoyed me a few times but nothing worth full on disliking him for.
15. Jacquie - She seemed okay?
16. Marcus - “Susie you’re a mom and a teacher, how can you justify lying to me” erm what :unsure:
17. Ace - Awful and grating to watch, I could physically feel the sleaze and slime through my screen and that’s not what I look for in a Survivor contestant.
18. Corinne - So pathetic and unnecessarily nasty, one of my all time least favourites and idk why people like her at all. I’m guessing it’s because she’s sharp tongued but lbr Sugar was right when she said she plays all nice to people’s faces yet acts all big and clever when it’s just her in confessionals. Her jury speech was beyond gross as well.
Tbh I'm surprised but not surprised Gabon is your #1 season. Like it was just kinda ok/decent/but solid to me but it does feel a bit like a Matthew-classic idk why :fan: It does have a good amount of legendary/funny characters and some fun unforgettable moments.

Corinne - while her jury speech was nasty and gross - was a really funny legendary character despite that! But I watched Caramoan first where she's also great so I already had a high opinion for her going into Gabon. She's kinda nicer and a lot more tame in that so maybe that'll change your opinion on her in some way... or maybe not :fan:

I do like how she was pretty nasty throughout Gabon but she got asked back for a "Fans vs. Favorites" season :joker: Does anyone know: Is Corinne really popular among Survivor fans or was she just like a random production pick for that season?

17. Ace - Awful and grating to watch, I could physically feel the sleaze and slime through my screen and that’s not what I look for in a Survivor contestant.
This one I can agree with :joker:

Matthew.

11-04-2020, 04:41 PM

The thing with Corinne was that I already disliked her going into the finale as I always felt like her confessionals throughout the season came across more as desperate than funny. Like in the premiere, she said she is a total bitch and if people cry, she laughs in their faces. I guess lots of people found this funny but I just rolled my eyes at it. Amongst other moments throughout the season such as rolling her eyes and making faces at TC when Sugar was crying about her dead father, her overreaction to Susie telling her that she planned on voting for her at the next TC which I thought was clearly played up for the cameras, saying Dan was probably a former fatty..... it just never worked for me anyway, and it was the jury speech that solidified her as being one of my least favourite Survivors so far.

And I think she is popular (I searched her name in this server when I was watching and iirc most of the posts about her were fairly positive) and tbh a few days later after watching the shkw, I do realise why she is liked, because she brings the shock factor in how far she goes, but it wasn’t really my thing in Corinne’s case. That’s my take on it anyway :laugh:

Also I knew she does come back in a later season, but when I watched the reunion, I could tell Jeff really disliked her, so I’m surprised she does come back actually?

(I felt like I wrote a lot there about Corinne of all people but hopefully I got my point across :joker:)

MB.

11-04-2020, 05:12 PM

Important things I have learned from this page: the men of Survivor South Africa: Champions are attractive

Macie Lightfoot

11-04-2020, 05:59 PM

Matthew.

11-04-2020, 07:07 PM

The Thing About Corinne is that people project all of these qualities onto her that just aren't there, and they only do so because she's a bitchy girl who pretends she has a feisty personality. In reality, she's non-confrontational and humorless. She tries too hard and isn't even that villainous in doing so. Even in Caramoan when she tried to frame herself as an anti-Phillip warrior, all she did was cry and ask him to stop being mean to her? Someone once compared her "witty, scathing remarks" to a game of Cards Against Humanity and if that doesn't sum it up then I don't know what does.

Yeah I agree with you, sums up my thoughts on her too. That last sentence is a great summary of her :laugh:

JerseyWins

12-04-2020, 06:37 PM

Macie Lightfoot

12-04-2020, 07:17 PM

My point stands.

MB.

15-04-2020, 09:55 AM

I recently finished a Pearl Islands rewatch, and below is an artist's rendering of my reaction to Burton's choice of jury facial hair (that lasted for the entirety of one tribal, I assume because he looked in a mirror immediately afterwards)

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I'd also forgotten, but was very happy to be reminded of, how much of Lill's endgame strategy was determined by menopausal paranoia :love: There's still room in her boy scout troop if you'd like to join, Jeff!

Matthew.

15-04-2020, 01:47 PM

Finished Survivor Tocantins. The season itself was fairly average but still fine, and I didn’t dislike anyone which is good. This cast is probably the hardest so far to rank, so tbh just treat the entire top 6 as my #1 as they’ll be more or less back to back in my ranking. But for now Sierra seems right.

Edgic:

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1. Sierra - Went from the girl who was sick at the start of the game to the girl who everybody hated by the end of it :love: A true arc and I had never even heard of her prior to the season, so I was surprised by how much I liked her
2. Taj - Provided some great one liners throughout the season, it would have been less enjoyable without Taj’s input for sure
3. Debbie - Her edit is polarizing but I really wish she was shown more because those last 3 episodes were enigmatic.... just makes me wonder what we missed out on :sad:
4. Tyson - He’s so bitchy but I like him a lot! How tf does this guy win a future season though :joker:
5. Coach - Completely delusional and his obvious bull**** was funny :laugh: I would have liked him more if he was shown just a little bit less though because it definitely crossed the line of being too much at times.
6. Sandy - How could I not like a grandma who says stuff like AM A REAL SEX KITTEN THIS MORNIN ^__^
7. Erinn - “Dragon slayed x” is a top tier voting confessional :love:
8. Candace - Kind of fun in her last episode but nothing special
9. J.T. - I have the slightest liking towards him but icr why?
10. Jerry - Seemed like he could have been good tbh
11. Stephen - I also have the slightest liking towards him but icr why?
12. Carolina - Was slightly good in the premiere but I was fine with her going first tbh
13. Brendan - I have no opinion on the following people so this is in elimination order ⬇️
14. Joe
15. Sydney
16. Spencer - Didn’t dislike him but I had no opinion of him and he was first to go out of #13-onwards so he’s last because of that

Jack_

15-04-2020, 02:30 PM

reece(:

15-04-2020, 03:32 PM

Coach ruined all his legacy with his South Pacific religious obsession stint which was another case of a good character ruining themselves on a return season.

Braden

15-04-2020, 04:08 PM

In terms of Coach I would say:

Heroes vs Villains > South Pacific > Tocantins

His edit was too overbearing and obnoxious in Tocantins, but I did somewhat enjoy him all three times he played, tbh.

The only season where I (again, lmao) somewhat enjoyed Tyson was Tocantins. Even though he ended up being an arsehole to Sierra, his elimination was delicious to watch.

JerseyWins

15-04-2020, 05:26 PM

What’s the general consensus on Coach on here and in the fandom? I found his delusion hysterical on Tocantins, his stint on Exile is one of the funniest scenes I’ve ever seen on Survivor :joker: but I thought he was pretty disappointing on future seasons when he tried to tone it down

Which is a contrast from Tyson who I genuinely couldn’t stand first time around (and was angry he was invited back), but find him more tolerable with each future appearance
Idk I didn't find Coach funny at all. In fact, I think he's the one person from Tocantins that I have a lingering hate for. :joker: He might be the only one on Tocantins I'd rank in red in hindsight (can't remember if that was originally the case or not).

Agree with Tyson, he's kinda grown on me to where I at least think he's "alright" and great/hilarious at times (and on social media)... after seeing more of him I appreciate him more on Tocantins as well now.

JerseyWins

15-04-2020, 05:31 PM

I think most of my Tyson/Debbie/Coach hate originally came from being a fan of the Sierra/JT/Stephen/Taj/etc. side (& that I couldn't stand Coach in particular) but they're a decent funny trio looking back at it.

I agree with Matthew that who I liked on that season varied a lot. I remember changing my mind and having a hard time ranking (outside of my top 3 of JT/Sierra/Stephen who were GREAT :clap1:)

Matthew.

15-04-2020, 06:38 PM

In the reunion, apparently Coach was hated by most of America :joker: I thought he would have been liked. I was expecting to like him more than I did though. I feel like if he wasn’t so overexposed on the edit, I’d have liked him more, but I still think he was good nonetheless

Macie Lightfoot

16-04-2020, 06:18 PM

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Got through the premerge of SA: Champions and the swap phase was alright. Nothing stellar, but definitely a nice refresher compared to how US Survivor has been lately. Not the most exciting dynamics or character development and the last episode had a bit more focus on ~survival~ and being hungry and running out of food, but it actually feels like a season of Survivor and you can actually follow what's going on.

I initially thought that turning Touchy Subjects into a tribe swap was a great and fun idea, but then Stephen and Shane broke it by purposefully timing when they would get questions correct to make sure that their entire alliance stayed on the same tribe :rolleyes: I can't blame them for ~playing da game~ but it was lame to see them effectively break a twist.

I feel really bad for Gena. For a MOR townsperson she really came to light in her boot episode as an OTTP fun force and probably could've been a fun MORP presence with a better edit. She got swap****ed and clearly her old tribe loved her enough to sneak an Idol in her bag to her at the next IC, but then god bless Corne for "discreetly" telling her to check her bag when she gets back to camp :joker: everyone heard and then in what I think is probably one of the most controversial moments of the season, Shane went into her bag and stole the Idol from her and she got booted because she couldn't play it. The whole thing just kinda felt icky and gross, and I really impressed with Selatan collectively agreeing to use their tribe's Idol to try to save her from her impending doom.

If I have to criticize anything about the tribe swap, it's that the focus was always on Utara. It makes sense and is inevitable because they went to TC every episode, but it was't fun since they're all kind of annoying and unlikable? Sonette and Sivu are fine but largely irrelevant. David is A Big Character that production is pushing forth, but he was kinda smug and lost a lot of his charm crawling up Utara's asses. I think there was definitely a lot of work he actively put in that wasn't shown because it's impressed how he went from being swap****ed to passing over Sonette and Stephen in the tribe's pecking order (which I think is a huuuuge oversight on Shane and Marian's part), but then he comes out with some **** about how Gena got what she deserved even though the poor girl didn't even realize that they were going into a tribe swap.

I kind of appreciated Stephen as someone who seemingly had some moral dilemmas where he realizes he's aligned with ****ty humans and he doesn't want to play the game like them but he realizes that he benefits from it, but I wasn't really a fan of him acting like he was above stealing Gena's Idol when he actively distracted her and led her away from her bag so Shane could steal it. Marian definitely was a little overboard with her distaste for him, but she was absolutely right that he can't expect to benefit from everyone else's work while trying to keep his hands clean.

Marian is someone who I feel like I'm supposed to like as a Suckster but I just can't. She's just way too permanently sour and grimy and vengeful and it just feels a bit overdone. I don't know, I wouldn't say she's cut exactly from the same cloth as a Corinne Kaplan or a Stephanie Valencia but I feel like they all have enough similar personality traits that I just don't vibe with.

And then Shane, holy **** I cannot staaaaaaaaaaand him! It feels like Andrew Savage in Pearl Islands all over again. The self-impressed sense of intelligence, always putting himself in the leader position of any Challenge despite being completely unremarkable both physically and mentally, saying that Sonette should willing fall on their sword because she's weak in Challenges and holding them back, repeatedly having confessionals about how he's the smartest player on the island despite CONSTANTLY making bad decisions, he's just testing my patience each and every episode. The only saving grace is that he and Marian are certainly being setup for a downfall. Keeping David or Sonette was one thing, but then keeping David over Stephen makes absolutely no sense (although to David's credit I think he definitely put in a lot more hustle than was shown) and I think they're going to pay for it. The scene on the beach where Marian was worried about David being a double agent and Shane said he doesn't have the people skills for that just felt like the biggest foreshadowing ever.

I didn't talk about Selatan at all because they were so ****ing irrelevant since the tribe swap, but they seem like fun and I would love to live on their island! Corne actually seems like a great captain and he's creating a great atmosphere for their tribe to thrive as a team and he's actually embracing the game of Survivor and they all just seem like fun people? I stan.

So yeah, that was a large ramble about a season that most people haven't seen! I am enjoying it quite a bit though, it's been a fun watch so far. My main issue is just that I don't really have a favorite yet? The only people with prominent edits so far are Shane and Marian who I hate, David who I'm mixed about and I imagine is overhyped, Zavion who I'm pretty indifferent towards, and kiiiiinda Graham who is just getting a blatant winner's edit. But I'm excited for the merge because it's been forever since I've watched an actual good merge portion of Survivor!

MB.

16-04-2020, 07:37 PM

Headie

16-04-2020, 07:49 PM

I've got two eps left and agree with pretty much all your comments, bar Marian who I love :love:

It's a shame most people haven't seen this season and only really started from 6 onwards because it's definitely on a similar level to them, even if the rules/twists are a bit more questionable.

Headie

16-04-2020, 07:56 PM

Since we won't be getting a new season of Survivor SA this summer, I'm tempted to start Champions (at some point between now and September, naturally) going off of your recommendations! I may even push the boat out and track down some of the older seasons, like Santa Carolina, which I've heard is... in existence!

You should give it a go, you'd enjoy it :clap1:

Macie Lightfoot

16-04-2020, 08:09 PM

Macie Lightfoot

20-04-2020, 07:33 AM

but then keeping David over Stephen makes absolutely no sense (although to David's credit I think he definitely put in a lot more hustle than was shown) and I think they're going to pay for it. The scene on the beach where Marian was worried about David being a double agent and Shane said he doesn't have the people skills for that just felt like the biggest foreshadowing ever.

yuuuuup got through the two merge episodes and Shane's personality was just *so* off-putting that he not only managed to firmly push Solly, Buhle, and Vel away (even though Marian was convinced that booting Stephen would secure them somehow), but it also even managed to push David away :joker::joker::joker: David's back to being good again, especially considering that next episode's preview has Shane DEMANDING for an apology and David refusing to do so, which is one of my favorite type of conflicts ever (remember Britney demanding an apology from Kathy in BB12 and following her around the house after losing a POV Comp and Kathy adamantly refusing? :love:)

Anyway, the whole theme of this episode was Shane and Marian completely humiliating themselves and pushing everybody away and it was a hilarious comeuppance. For two people who love to posture and grandstand about how they are the smartest players EVER and they're playing such high-caliber games that nobody else can dare keep up with, they really put on a clinic of how to completely blow any good will you have and embarrass yourself in the progress. Like, I can't name anything that they even accomplished in the game that was worthwhile? They secured a majority alliance pre-swap but never needed it, self-cannibalized on their own alliance TWICE in the swap for no ****ing reason, and then their merge play was even more horrendous? They have two Idols between them and Shane "lost" his and decided to confront the entire tribe and accuse someone of stealing it from his hiding spot, and I guess he thought that it would make Selatan paranoid of each other but all it did was unite them against him even more :joker: Then he gave his "other" Idol to Marian at Tribal Council and she pretended to be all shocked that he had a second Idol but then she just played it on him anyway? She gave this big speech about how she played a PHENOMENAL GAME and she's sure she made A LASTING IMPACT ON SURVIVOR, and then managed to get voted out :joker::joker::joker::joker::joker: bye bitch!

Personal highlight of the episode was during the Idol confrontation when Shane described what it looked like and Zavion just went "that sounds really pretty :)" in the most deadpan tone :joker:

Matthew.

21-04-2020, 11:32 AM

I’ve finished Survivor Samoa. This season is a lot like BBUK11 to me; a season that had a lot of potential, but only has a select few that I really liked, and is a victim of a season ruiner. I put it just above red tier in my season ranking (https://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forums/showpost.php?p=10741857&postcount=120) because it at least had one storyline which I was interested in, but I could change that later on.

Edgic:

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Ranking:

1. Shambo - Obviously she’s my #1 :love: An OTTM lunatic who has a passionate hatred for yoga and Laura Morett, has had a Shambolicious Mullet since 1986, and bases her votes on her dreams :love::love::love:
2. Laura - I mostly like her for her Shambo feud, but the image of her cycling to Starbucks with her pastors is hilarious to me too :love:
3. Natalie - Episode 1 she was defined by Russell as just a member of His Dumb Ass Girl Alliance, well look what said Dumb Ass Girl ended up doing :clap1:
4. Yasmin - THEY'RE NOT GONNA SAY OOOH YEAH HE'S SO GOOD HE TACKLED A GIRL NO THEY'RE GONNA SAY HE'S A BIG SISSY :love:
5. Betsy - Ben boy ben boy what you gonna do? What you gonna do when they come for you? :whistle:
6. Erik - Perception is not reality, reality is reality :love:
7. Brett - I don’t have any strong feelings about *him* but lmao @ him arriving on Episode 12 of 14 and being a main target straight away :skull:
8. Dave - Was kind of a fun awkward presence!
9. Russell S. - I thought he was actually fun and seemed like a good guy who had potential to go far, shame he had to go out the way he did :sad:
10. Monica - I had like no opinion of her until her last episode where she tried to blow up Russell’s game, which I appreciate the effort :)
11. Mick - feckless /ˈfɛkləs/ adjective 1. lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible. "her feckless younger brother"
12. Marisa - Had some potential but she left early and I didn’t really think about her again
13. Kelly - Lmfao
14. Jaison - Well done for standing up to Ben in episode 3 but in the others.... he was kind of boring :worry:
15. John - I know some people don’t really like him but I’m not fussed either way about him
16. Liz - Kind of boring but I can take her or leave her
17. Ashley - For somebody who was one of the most visible in the first stage of the game I don’t remember her at all?
18. Mike - I didn’t really have an opinion on him but didn’t want him to leave the game that way
19. Russell H - Okay so I don’t think he’s the worst of all time or even of the season but **** me is he a stain on what was otherwise a season with potential. A repulsive, arrogant and obnoxious person with a CPN6 edit every episode........ **** that.
20. Ben - A repulsive racist who gets often overshadowed by Russell Hantz but not in this ranking :hee: He told Yasmin she was ghetto trash who needed to go back to where she came from, eat ketchup sandwiches, drink Kool Aid and go to grammar school. **** him.

My next season will be Heroes vs Villains, so here is my pre-season ranking for that series.......

1. Sandra
2. Cirie
3. Parvati
4. Courtney
5. Jerri
6. Randy
7. Sugar
8. Stephenie
9. Danielle
10. Rupert
11. Tyson
12. Coach
13. Amanda
14. Candice
15. J.T.
16. James
17. Tom
18. Colby
19. Rob
20. Russell

Macie Lightfoot

23-04-2020, 10:41 PM

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Moyra's boot is my dream scenario about how I would want to be booted if I were ever to go on Survivor: become complacent within in the majority alliance, proudly state that I'm taking an OFF SHIFT day because I'm sick of talking game nonstop, and then fantasize about making it to the Rites of Passage as my own alliance plots to blindside me :love: her edgic strip doesn't look that inspiring but she was a lot of fun and definitely one of my favorites.

I'm really enjoying this season! I think it's the weakest cast of the three I've seen but it's fun to see a season of Survivor South Africa where the gameplay and dynamics are actually fluid, and I think that alone has me liking it better than Island of Secrets right now? No one is in the Nicole Capper tier of favorites for me but I'm kinda fine with everyone? Graham is very palatable as a gamebot partly because I think his gameplay is actually interesting and drives the plot forward in an interesting manner, David has been a bit low-key lately but so much better when he's not stuck on that godawful Utara beach, Zavion has a few funny one-liners and in general is a fun presence, Buhle has proven herself to be fun but her merge edit has been abysmal, Sivu is a little too self-congratulatory about the game he's playing but his edit is so barebones that it doesn't bother me, Altaaf is just there but not bothering me, and I still don't like Shane and think he's an ass BUT he's been at his best (least worst?) since Marian was booted because I think he was humbled a bit, although he congratulated Zavion and Graham for finally playing the game after the Solly boot :skull:

Fave motif of the merge has been Zavion singing ominous songs as the show cuts into a commercial. During one of the merge episodes it was "I Knew You Were Trouble" when I think Shane was walking up towards everyone else on the beach, and in this past episode it was "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" as they solidified the Moyra blindside.

Macie Lightfoot

24-04-2020, 08:46 AM

WAY past my bedtime so I’ll elaborate more tomorrow as I go to bed hysterically laughing at World’s Smartest Human Shane Hattingh getting booted with TWO IDOLS and being completely blindsided by people he hardly disregards as humans like Buhle and David :love: GOODBYE ASSHOLE xxx

Macie Lightfoot

24-04-2020, 09:30 PM

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What a humiliating but extremely satisfying boot! Shane spent the entire episode talking about how FINALLY everyone has started to see the benefits to playing the game the way he has been playing all along, how he's actually the most honest player in the game because he's honest about his deception, how he absolutely could've won the endurance IC but he dropped for ice cream because he knew Sivu was gonna win (that statement doesn't even make sense???), how he *wants* to have the record for the most votes cast against him, how it's *hilarious* that he has two Idols and one is hidden in his shoe at camp and NOBODY WILL EVER THINK TO LOOK THERE HAHAHAHA.....

and then he got completely clowned by people like David and Buhle, players who he clearly thinks less of and doesn't respect at all, to the point where he didn't play either of his two Idols (!!!) at the F7 (!!!) and got humiliatingly blindsided :joker::joker::joker: goodbye asshole!!!!!

Captain.Remy

25-04-2020, 02:23 PM

Somehow Youtube recommended me to watch Jeff Varner outing Zeke today.
It was as horrifying as the first time it aired. What an outrageous person Varner is.
It's really one of those TV moments you can't forget, and I hope Zeke is living his best life since.

Macie Lightfoot

28-04-2020, 10:55 PM

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Kind of a long post about a season hardly anyone has watched, so click the spoiler tags below if you care about my thoughts on Survivor South Africa: Champions!

Finished SA5: Champions and really enjoyed it! The endgame was dynamic and compelling and a lot of fun and just reminded me of how good Survivor used to be. It felt like something plucked around the China/Gabon era almost? Shane's blindside was a hilariously embarrassing ending to someone who ****ing sucks, Altaaf solidified his boot by accidentally spilling rice at camp and then reacted to this by bringing the rice to TC and dumping it all in the fire on purpose much to everyone's horror and disgust, Zavion got super cocky in an enjoyable way and then got Idol'd out at F5, we had an epic endurance FIC that went on for more than three and a half hours and ended with deals getting cut and deals getting broken, and we even had a fight on the night before FTC? :love:

Even the FTC was a throwback because there was equal emphasis on strategy and morality, a component that's been entirely erased from the current state of the show. It was just refreshing to hear certain questions like Vel asking Buhle if their friendship was real and Altaaf asking if they would've changed how they played the game if there wasn't any money involved. And then as lame as Zavion's question was, he ended up giving Sivu his vote because he needed the money more. And Solly literally flipped a coin in the voting booth before casting his vote :joker:

I was very satisfied with the end result too! Graham clearly ran the show for almost the entire time and even though he was a bit of a gamebot he wasn't a bad one? His gameplay was cutthroat and actually entertaining without trying too hard to be, and he even had a mini meltdown at the end over the prospect of Sivu potentially winning just for playing an Idol correctly and coming from a poor town :joker: Shane and especially Marian were awful at FTC, with Marian leading off with a David Murphy/Spencer Bledsoe speech about how she's one of the best players ever, how it would be an injustice if Sivu didn't win, and she even congratulated him and said that his bank account will go into cardiac arrest. And then, in true fashion to her ancestors Corinne Kaplan and Stephanie Valencia, she fell so ****ing flat and ended up voting for Graham to win :joker: What an idiot.

So yeah, I would definitely recommend this season to everyone! I know most people have only seen 6 and 7 because they're the revival seasons, and even though 5 has a weakest cast of the three it's the only one to have dynamic gameplay so I'd definitely say Champions > Island of Secrets :3

1. Shona (SO stupid and thought she was playing a good game but she was a ****ing mess :love: her boot arc is maybe my favorite thing ever, where she goes from spared outcast to Idol stealer (?!?!) to getting exposed and being left sobbing on the beach as her game came crashing down in a matter of hours. Hilarious in every sense of the word, starting from the marooning when she just sat on the raft yelling STROKE! STROKE! to everyone in the most cheerful voice as she did no work rowing their raft to shore :joker:)
2. Moyra (another person with a fun boot arc who felt a lot more prominent than her UTRM strip. Started off as the last picked for her tribe and found herself in a comfortable position in the majority alliance, got exposed for hoarding sugarcane and lost the trust of the entire tribe, and then coasted to the merge where she stuck with the majority alliance until she got brutally blindsided. Her boot episode consisted of her proudly stating that she's taking an "off shift day" and not talking game, and she just sat around camp waiting for the boys to tell her how to vote as she fantasized about taking part in the Rites of Passage :joker: basically a dream for how I would want to play Survivor)
3. Zan (Utara was an awful tribe so of course I love their tribe nemesis? He was the provider but he was laughably selfish and abrasive, openly criticizing the shelter everyone made and using the tribe flag as a hammock bed and catching various sea creatures but letting them go because he's randomly passionate about marine conversation :joker: Then he wanted to quit to go live his life with his girlfriend and the tribe was FURIOUS and stole his clothes and planned on blindsiding Buhle instead, so he responded by stealing the flint and giving it to her at TC as a makeshift Idol so they would vote him out instead :love: honestly would be my #1 probably except he had one random suuuuuuuuuuper racist moment where he made some gross Indian joke about Killarney)
4. Graham (I really dig him as a winner? Seems like a boring gamebot on the surface but his gameplay was kind of Jackson Michie-esque because he spearheaded multiple ruthless blindsides over the smallest slights like Moyra hoarding sugarcane ~10 days earlier and Altaaf coming after him in an elimination Immunity Challenge ~5 days prior. For someone who seemed boring at first, he actually wasn't prone to conflict and was kind of funny? His endgame morph of dreading losing to Sivu was great because he flat out told Sivu to his face that he didn't deserve to win just for one Idol play and got in a fight with him over using his poor upbringing for sympathy :joker: I don't even care that much about gameplay but he definitely deserved his win so it was a satisfying ending!)
5. Buhle (kind of a nobody and should've gotten a more prominent edit for being the runner-up but she was just likable? Good taste in allies, touching backstory, randomly REALLY ruthless like when she blew up Sonette's spot by spoiling their Idol clue and when she tried to cut Sivu at F4 much to his horror. I do think she's kind of an introvert and not exactly compelling television so I don't even know how she got cast on the show in the first place, but she overcame a lot by being immediately labeled the weakest on Utara and being the perpetual alternate boot target and then going all the way to the end, even if it was mostly by floating by and not really doing anything)
6. Zavion (I thought I'd hate him at first for being part of that cocky Ashleigh/Philip/Marsha alliance but he was immediately humbled by Ashleigh's boot and kinda got his game in check? Very impressive at Challenges, unique archetype as a gay wedding planner pretty boy who also happens to be a very good athlete, and just was a fun presence? He had good spirits all the way through the game and had some funny one-liners during the merge, and his boot was very satisfying as he openly told Sivu that he was going home and asked him for advice on how to move forward in the game only to get Idol'd out by Sivu :joker: he was a good sport about it and just seems like a good person and I dig that?)
7. David (I feel like the show wanted us to think of David as The Character of the season, and he was okay but I just liked some other people more! Immediately the outcast on Selatan for haphazardly forming alliances and talking strategy with people as soon as they hit the beach, randomly found an Idol and formed an alliance of opportunity with Shona that ended with him waving his dirty underwear in her face and making her cry :joker: sadly I feel like that was peak of David! His tribe swap era was not good because he shoved himself right up Utara's asses, which I get that he had to do it for self-preservation but it was still not a good look. And then it was fun to watch him flip back to Selatan at the merge because Utara was just so unlikable and completely disregarded his opinions, but then that was kind of it? Endgame David was more inherently likable but also the least remarkable, so I guess that's why I only have him ranked as #7. He just kinda floated along as a number of Graham and Zavion and made a deal where he would get booted at F4 because the Jury didn't like him, which I kinda appreciate but it's also kinda lame)
8. Gena (kind of a MOR townsperson but had such a UTRP personality? Apparently she was The Spirit of Selatan and then she got swapped onto Utara while entirely clueless that the Challenge they were playing was actually the mechanism for a tribe swap. Her old tribe members conspired to save her by smuggling an Idol in her bag and giving it to her at the Immunity Challenge, but they were so obvious that Utara stole her Idol and ruthlessly booted her at the first instance :bawling: such a tragic story but her edit before her boot episode was kind of nothing sadly)
9. Solly (sometimes a little bit too much about CHALLENGES and I WANT PEOPLE TO SEE ME AS THE THREAT THAT I AM despite being like... above average but not out of this world? However, he had good taste in allies and HATED Shane and even cut Sivu off during his question at FTC because he was answering it so poorly so I kinda stan)
10. Vel (the vapid favorite, I mean just look at her edgic strip :love: I still have no idea what her voice sounds like)
11. Stephen (YES he was a dumb hypocrite about the Idol steal and the majority alliance but I don't think he was entirely fake because he actually did seem to be a nice person who enjoyed the company of people his alliance was targeting like Sonette. It was very weak-willed but I was impressed that Survivor in 2014 could still at least kinda pull off a moral dilemma, it was a big Kelly Wiglesworth-esque)
12. Sivu (I don't dislike him but I don't really like him either! He wasn't overbearing at all but his confessionals from the beginning were vaguely cocky about how he is playing THE BEST GAME because he is PLAYING BOTH SIDES and HE CAN GO EITHER WAY which may be true but he also like..... didn't actually do anything other than Idol Zavion out so Graham was entirely correct? He just seemed kinda self-righteous about how he played a masterful game and deserved to win even though Graham was right there alol I'm still perplexed at how he went from MASSIVE JURY THREAT that people openly cheered for and celebrated to being the third placer at FTC :joker:)
13. Altaaf (didn't even feel that prominent despite his MOR strip. Apparently he was transparently nicey nice and pandering to the Jury by spoiling blindsides and throwing his vote away at TC but it wasn't really shown to us and just kinda told to us through confessionals. His eleventh hour boot meltdown was entertaining BUT his confessional about Zavion during it was homophobic and not a good look!)
14. Sonette (got a pretty prominent edit at first for being an MOR townsperson but all she really did was cry? She cried when Mark labeled her as one of the weakest and sat her out of a Challenge, she cried when Buhle blabbed about their Idol clue, and she cried when her alliance openly turned on her but she didn't even use the Idol to save herself so I have no sympathy)
15. Ashleigh (a completely inconsequential first boot BUT I kinda liked the one time she sensed the impending doom of being stuck in an alliance with Marsha and Zavion)
16. Marsha (I can't describe her personality at all, she just got her whole tribe to turn on her immediately because her alliance of four somehow thought they could control a tribe of ten by transparently promising everyone that they were number five)
17. Killarney (I liked that she hated Mark as a captain BUT she was also kinda whiny just because Zan told Nico at a Challenge that her shelter was uncomfotable :joker:)
18. Philip (very cocky for no reason and ultimately BORING. He acted like he was Boston Rob but he literally never had control over Selatan and was a sixth boot alol)
19. Marian (again, I can't help but compare her to Corinne Kaplan and Stephanie Valencia because she tries so hard to be something big in the realm of Survivor and will do anything to further advance her villainous persona but in reality she's just a sour, lame, grimy, vengeful cow. No fun, awful Juror, and used every opportunity to talk herself as a SURVIVOR LEGEND who played A PHENOMENAL GAME and MADE AN IMPACT ON THE FRANCHISE despite accomplishing **** all as a player!)
20. Shane (basically Andrew Savage from Pearl Islands. Incredibly smug and a self-impressed sense of intelligence and physical strength and leadership but he has absolutely nothing to show for it. For someone who hyped himself up as one of the best players of all time, his pre-swap game was lazy and just about corralling up a majority alliance, his post-swap game was actively bad because he just took shots at his own alliance for no real reason, and then once the merge hit he just got used by Graham until he got humiliated and blindsided with TWO IDOLS IN HIS POCKET!!!!!)

Oh and as for the captains... Corne would be green and Mark would be a very low yellow. They were both in WAY over their heads and thought the game should be about tribe strength so of course they both immediately blindsided after the first TCs they attended. The difference is that Corne kinda embraced the game after that and gave Selatan cute pep talks at every moment he could and even smuggled an Idol to Gena to save her :love:
but then Mark was just kinda like "ugh I want nothing to do with the game leave me alone" and was kind of a dick when it came to tribe Challenges, always giving Shane important roles and always wanting to sit out people like Sonette and Sivu and Killarney. I don't know, he just kinda seemed like a dick who had very rigid views on what physical strength looked like and it was just macho bull****.

Matthew.

29-04-2020, 09:18 PM

I’ve finished Heroes vs Villains! Such a good season, especially given the lack of Cirie, Sugar, Stephenie, Courtney and Randy, but on the other hand, what was we to expect from a season with Sandra, Jerri and Parvati on it? :love:

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1. Sandra (-) - The queen stays queen :love:
2. Parvati (+1) - She has the ability to make strategy fun which I don’t usually find fun but Parvati manages!
3. Jerri (+2) - Villain turned sort of hero is a great arc :love:
4. Danielle (+5) - Absolutely hilarious to me, and grating to everybody on the season :joker:
5. Rupert (+5) - I have always tried to show that Good Will Always WIN :angel:
6. Coach (+6) - He works so much better when his delusion isn’t in every episode :clap1:
7. Amanda (+6) - I’ve never properly liked Amanda but cluegate is a top tier Survivor moment tbh so I stan now
8. Courtney (-4) - Pretty UTR on the show but “bandy legged little troll” and her jury reactions were hilarious
9. Stephenie (-1) - Next time **YALL** lose a challenge a little less cursing off might help x
10. Cirie (-8 :()- Not as good as her other seasons due to going early but I have no doubt she would have delivered if she stayed
11. Sugar (-4) - Messy first boots >
12. Tyson (-1) - CPN turned UTRP :laugh2:
13. Randy (-7) - *throws buff in fire*
14. Colby (+4) - Pausing Treasure Island so he didn’t miss anything as he broke up cluegate :laugh:
15. Tom (+2) - I appreciate him for sticking up for Steph against James :clap2:
16. Candice (-2) - Unpopular opinion but I still don’t really get the Candice hype? Maybe in BvW...
17. Rob (+2) - Surprisingly bearable this time round?
18. JT (-3) - Despite being the new dumbest Survivor ever I don’t really have an opinion on him?
19. James (-3) - Pretty dull and miserable this time round and his treatment of Stephenie was pretty uncalled for
20. Russell (-) - Not as bad as Samoa but still awful and obnoxious

Matthew.

04-05-2020, 10:04 PM

I’ve finished Nicaragua, I really liked it, and I have no idea why some people think it’s the worst ever because it’s good from start to finish. It’s also absolutely worth the watch purely for the penultimate episode because Jane’s reaction to finding out she is going home is one of the funniest things ever on this show :joker:

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1. Jane - Her last episode was one of the funniest things I’ve ever watched on Survivor with her meltdown and putting out the fire and subsequent rant at TC :love: Made even funnier by her winning AFP by the biggest landslide ever :skull: BY GOD I STARTED IT I’M PUTTIN IT OUT x
2. Dan - Everything about him is hilarious, his final words to his jury speech and pretty much everything he said and did in this season :love: My favourite has to be thinking Holly is a big threat because only 1,100 people live in her town.... just wtf :joker:
3. Holly - Her story reminds me a lot of Marquesas Kathy from OTTM crazy older lady to a CPP big player and threat to win... so on that note she probably should never return :hehe:
4. Chase - I was surprised to like him as much as I did! He’s like a younger Jimmy T in that he just tried to be a good person but found himself in awkward situations and people were annoyed at him because of it
5. Jimmy T - A really fun guy, who just tried to be a good person but annoyed his tribe in doing so so sadly went early. He was probably my favourite when he left
6. Sash - For somebody who I don’t think is liked, I thought he was decent, with how obviously sneaky he was yet he still thought he was a major player lol
7. Wendy - I feel like she could have been such an interesting character if she stayed :sad:
8. Kelly S - Lmao what a messy journey
9. Tyrone - I liked him for how shady he was and felt like he had potential to be great but then he got booted for eating too much chicken :skull:
10. Brenda - She was okay! I liked when Marty admitted he had an idol and she was like “....great! :)” but then ranted about him in confessional
11. Naonka - I assume this is an unpopular opinion here but tbh I thought she was so vile premerge with her treatment of Kelly B but she randomly became good and funny postmerge? I’m so mixed on her so a high orange feels like a good spot for now.
12. Benry - I liked his voting confessionals, eg Dirt Squirrel/Benry’s here baby *drops pen* but that’s it sorry?
13. Alina - A 100% grade A dirt squirrel who cried when Naonka and Kelly quit :skull:
14. Jimmy J - He seemed like a nice man :)
15. Kelly B - She seemed okay, but I didn’t like Naonka’s treatment of her
16. Yve - I don’t have much thoughts on her but I liked when she said she didn’t brag about her wealth and Dan was like “Well I do :)”
17. Jill - I don’t really have much thoughts on her either about her but she has bad choice in allies :laugh:
18. Jud - Seems like a nice person and I liked him initially but he became really annoying and grating towards the end imo
19. Marty - I wanted to get behind Mr Fartay as a villain but he was sooo boring for someone who was vis-5 in almost every episode
20. Shannon - So dim and pathetic and horrible with his obvious bigotry. Showed himself up even more at the reunion, what a twat

Jack_

05-05-2020, 07:05 PM

The only things I liked about Nicaragua were Jane’s amazing meltdown and Fabio being one of the more underrated winners

Also re. HvV - what was productions obsession with James and Amanda? I can just about understand him for the horny housewives (although he is SO overrated and at times a bit of a twat), but Amanda is basically the personification of the word ‘meh’. THREE SEASONS for both of them? :umm2:

Macie Lightfoot

06-05-2020, 08:39 PM

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Amanda's SUCH a weirdo and I love how she presents herself as a normal likable girl but then as soon as she turns on someone they come to the realization that she's a fake demon :love:

I feel like I don't like Nicaragua as much as people here do. I think on paper it's a good and fun and chaotic season but the edit is kind of clunky and hard to follow, and there are SO many things left out like an accurate portrayal of NaOnka, Mortgagegate, actually explaining how Jud got his Jury votes, etc. and I think it takes away from the quality of the season since the narrative is kind of poorly constructed.

GOOD LUCK because if CI/Fiji were the dark ages of Survivor, RI/SP/OW are..... whatever's darker than the dark ages. RI is legitimately awful television in every sense of the word.

Captain.Remy

06-05-2020, 09:42 PM

Let's not remember ourselves with Redemption Island, I will have a Survivor breakdown again :skull:

Nicaragua was weird. I mean, it's not a hateful season but I didn't get anything out of it. It just...happened.

Captain.Remy

06-05-2020, 09:46 PM

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Amanda's SUCH a weirdo and I love how she presents herself as a normal likable girl but then as soon as she turns on someone they come to the realization that she's a fake demon :love:

I think HvV was too early for Amanda. She had done well in two seasons and I think she would have been a better contestant for a third round if she did it years later. It was a lot in a short period of time.
I like how she always acted like she was lost and all of a sudden she was there, involved in stuff :joker:

Macie Lightfoot

08-05-2020, 10:42 PM

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Finished the premerge of South Africa: Maldives earlier this week and it's been okay so far! Not bad but definitely the least eventful and exciting of the SA seasons I've seen so far. The plebs vs. celebs thing was kind of convoluted at first but it's not uninteresting so I don't mind it. Same with the Black Cowrie, it's ultimately irrelevant but I was sometimes impressed with how it affected the strategy around certain votes.

Raituhn is definitely the inferior tribe and I'm bummed that a bunch of unfortunate events in the eleventh hour somehow led to them entering the merge with the majority. They're just a little more underedited and bland and I don't think the show will be able to hold its own if it just turns into a Pagonging. Tshepo was kind of a fun mess of a first boot for their tribe but he kinda peaked in the premiere with his swimming struggles turning into him catching rats for the celebs to eat, which was a fun throwback to Borneo. Tasleem basically accepted defeat and was lame as hell in the process, Carmel was kind of stank and indignant about Harry not telling the tribe about the Idol but she had a little bit of hustle to her that could have maybe turned into something, and Harry I was vaguely mixed on. His edit would've been much more overbearing if he was on US Survivor because they would've played up the whole nerd angle, and I did laugh at him finding an Idol and hiding it in such a good spot that he lost it, but he was also a little bit too whiny at times like when Hykie did the puzzle and won a Reward Challenge for them and Harry like screamed and asked him questions about the puzzle to prove his worth :skull:

Goma has definitely been the superior tribe and I can hear MXO's Goma chant vividly in my head as I'm typing this out. Luka didn't really have time to shine but it was interesting to see an alpha get booted first and I think he could've been a fun villain if he had more time to shine. I feel like most people would like Philicity because... reasons, but I thought she was vaguely sour and condescending and I didn't really miss her at all! Jacques didn't really exist for much of anything until he quit over his vitiligo (:skull:) and I appreciate him for being a loyal Roxnessa cub but his quit really did **** them over so :\ Sindi's edit was nothing and she was always on the side I wasn't rooting for so I didn't care when she went. And then there was Roxnessa...

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What's not to love about two vapid blonde celebs who are actually very into The Game and have an impressive understanding of it for random celebrities but are just SO cliquey and off-putting that they're perpetually on the outs of their tribe? :love: Their story really is an epic tragedy, between Jacques's quit, Roxy playing the Idol on Vanessa and them taking out Sindi, and then Vanessa's freak neck injury coupled with Roxy's inevitable boot that episode. It's such a shame that they both went out right before the merge because they were easily the two people I cared about the most. I don't even know who I like more, because at first I was really vibing with Roxy but then the scene of Vanessa "comforting" Alison is legitimately one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen in any show.

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So yeah, I'm ready for the merge even though I'm not fully convinced it will be that good. I'm kind of in a similar situation I was with Champions where I don't really have a favorite going into it. It might be Alison or even MXO?

Matthew.

10-05-2020, 03:11 PM

I’ve finished Redemption Island. It’s true what everybody says - this season is not great. I’d say it’s my least favourite season so far, because I found it dull and littered with characters who I don’t like getting far more airtime than they should

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So much yellow

1. Steve - I liked his dry humour and his opposition to Phillip as well as his sarky comments (and mock salutes) :love:
2. Ralph - He was fun and a nice person and unintentionally provided a few (some of THE few) funny moments throughout the season
3. Julie - Her jury speech was probably my highlight of the season?
4. Francesca - A fun first boot who I wanted to stay but didn’t miss too much when she was gone
5. Ashley - Her hatred of Phillip and villainous edit towards the end was fun
6. Sarita - I liked how she infuriated David but she’s not as great as she’s made out but it’s RI so I get it
7. Kristina - She had some potential but then she went early
8. Matt - He’s not that great but by default he’s one of the better ones
9. Mike - He was a nice guy and fairly inoffensive
10. Grant - I didn’t find out what his voice sounded like until episode 11 :skull:
11. Krista - I don’t really have much thoughts on her
12. Andrea - Kind of annoying at times but she’s not too bad I guess
13. Natalie - Not a bad person but she was an irritating Rob enabler
14. Stephanie - Her devotion to Russell was annoying, also she was so misguided and so RUDE
15. Russell - Not even that bad this season but it’s still Russell so w/e
16. David - Most self satisfied human being alive good GOD
17. Rob - Boring and overedited and the buddy system was so ****ed up. I am NOT a fan
18. Phillip - This is pretty much self explanatory

Jack_

10-05-2020, 10:36 PM

Matthew.

10-05-2020, 10:41 PM

Also re. HvV - what was productions obsession with James and Amanda? I can just about understand him for the horny housewives (although he is SO overrated and at times a bit of a twat), but Amanda is basically the personification of the word ‘meh’. THREE SEASONS for both of them? :umm2:

I always kind of liked Amanda but agreed with you that she was overrated and three seasons for her was a bit much. But then in HvV I really liked her, way more than in her 2 previous seasons so I was fine with her coming back. James is definitely overrated though

Matthew.

10-05-2020, 11:00 PM

Sooooo, far from me to go against the grain but...I quite enjoyed Redemption Island :joker:

I think a lot of it depends on whether you like Rob though, and weirdly this is his only previous appearance where I actively did?

Also I screamed almost every time Phillip was on screen. The man’s a disaster :joker:

Yeah I agree with you with the part I bolded, Rob and Phillip are definitely the two main characters and if you like both of them like you do, then you’d probably enjoy RI. (I found a confessional chart on google images and the person with the 3rd most confessionals after Rob and Phillip is Matt, the person who spent most of the game on a seperate island :skull:) However, I can’t stand either of Rob or Phillip so that’s a main reason for me not liking the season :joker:

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I think it’s a lot like Samoa, where if you like Russell Hantz, chances are you’d like that season too. I just wish this season wasn’t so Rob and Phillip-focused, as I’d have liked to see some of the other people more

Macie Lightfoot

10-05-2020, 11:31 PM

Rob's gameplay in Redemption Island just actively prevents anything interesting from happening. He's played played like a bully who refuse anyone from having any sort of fun, but he cranks it up to a ten this season by controlling his alliance's diets, who they talk to, what they talk about, where they go, etc. It's just entirely suffocating and that dynamic completely castrates any attempt at a shakeup or forward plot development or anything. It also doesn't help that his alliance consists of Phillip, who is abhorrent in every sense of the word, and a bunch of dumb nobodies who don't have any discernible personality traits. And it really doesn't help that the opposing tribe is the most MOR group of human beings alive.

I've pointed it out before, but after Rob and Phillip the third most developed character of the season is Matt, someone who spent a total of 8 days playing Survivor and 29 days basically living on an island by himself. That basically sums up Redemption Island in a nutshell for me.

JerseyWins

11-05-2020, 05:11 PM

Rob & Phillip MADE that season

caprimint

12-05-2020, 08:05 PM

JerseyWins

13-05-2020, 03:25 AM

Starting S28 :dazzler:

Episode 1:
- Jeremiah and LJ's HOT accents :drool:
- Can't believe J'Tia has the audacity to be bossy af whilst doing absolutely nothing
- The way Kass was blatantly honest telling J'Tia she was going to vote her out :skull:
- Garrett finding the idol :love:
- Lindsey: "her voice, her attitude... I cannot STAND her" @ Trish :flutter:
- Tony and his spy shack :joker: "useless Cliff and weasel Woo" AHHHHHHH
- A MESS @ J'Tia pouring rice on the fire, she's so dumb/trash

Pretty good premiere overall. Super disappointing that Garrett was voted out (and I didn't even like David but) over J'Tia when she's clearly the most annoying and worst person in the tribe.

Surprised by how much I like Kass when I didn't at all on the other season I saw her on. Sarah seems a lot better so far too, like she has an actual personality and isn't just this moody bitch? Tony and Spencer great as ever :love:

All the girls on the beauty tribe seem to have the exact same personalities. Zzzzz.

Faves: Spencer, Garrett (:(), Tony, Kass, Lindsey
Least faves: J'Tia, Brice, Trish, Tash
YESSS @ you starting this. I love Tony in WaW but he doesn't even COMPARE to his greatness in Cagayan :clap1:

I think you're gonna like this season! I did like Garrett too but there's so many good & big personalities on the cast that the season still does fine without him.

I also disliked J'Tia :skull: On rewatch she warmed to me a bit tho. A tad comical in hindsight.

Lindsey was so damn good on rewatch too :laugh2: Her beef with Trish is pretty hilarious! :joker:

caprimint

13-05-2020, 03:34 AM

He's been pretty damn good this season, so a lot of hope for 28 one in that case :fc:

You liking Garrett because he's a poker player? :suspect: :fan:

J'Tia staying over Garrett though just left her with no room for redemption tbh :worry:

caprimint

13-05-2020, 03:39 AM

Oh and do you find Morgan hot? I thought you would for some reason :think:

armand.kay

13-05-2020, 04:09 AM

Rob & Phillip MADE that season

made the season grim? i agree

armand.kay

13-05-2020, 04:10 AM

Currently rewatching Guatemala after Dani's harrowing botox barbie look on the edge

armand.kay

13-05-2020, 04:19 AM

i forgot about them swimming in crock infested water, it's stressing me out

JerseyWins

13-05-2020, 05:19 AM

You liking Garrett because he's a poker player? :suspect: :fan:
Facts :fan: Nice, goofy guy too tho, easy to root for :clap1:

Oh and do you find Morgan hot? I thought you would for some reason :think:
Not really no, like definitely at least somewhat attractive and a curvy body :eyes: but not thaaat hot to me. Oh and kinda annoying. Are you liking/disliking her?

Alexis especially & Jefra were sooo cute/hot tho

caprimint

13-05-2020, 05:29 AM

Facts :fan: Nice, goofy guy too tho, easy to root for :clap1:

Not really no, like definitely at least somewhat attractive and a curvy body :eyes: but not thaaat hot to me. Oh and kinda annoying. Are you liking/disliking her?

Alexis especially & Jefra were sooo cute/hot tho
Yeeees @ Garrett :clap1:

Omg I'm shocked you find the others hotter. Jeffra is really pretty though :love:

Morgan is okay, I like her the most of those girls right now but they all seem pretty annoying honestly

And I can't even tell the difference between Jeremiah/LJ. Both gorgeous but maybe just haven't seen them enough yet to tell them apart/see their personalities.

JerseyWins

13-05-2020, 06:10 AM

Yeeees @ Garrett :clap1:

Omg I'm shocked you find the others hotter. Jeffra is really pretty though :love:

Morgan is okay, I like her the most of those girls right now but they all seem pretty annoying honestly

And I can't even tell the difference between Jeremiah/LJ. Both gorgeous but maybe just haven't seen them enough yet to tell them apart/see their personalities.
Whaaaaaat? :joker: They have pretty different looks & personalities! Although maybe it's just that they haven't gone to TC and been shown enough yet at the point you're at

caprimint

13-05-2020, 07:33 PM

S28EP2:
- Kind of here for the Cops'R'Us alliance. The way Tony lied though about Cliff/Lindsey and Sarah said she believes him 110% :skull:
- J'Tia is literally SO bad at every challenge. But Spencer single-handedly WINNING the tribe immunity on that maze :clap1:
- "I hope you fall on your ass... dreams do come true in Survivor" WHO the hell said this?!? :laugh2: I think it was Lindsey @ Sarah but couldn't see properly
- Just noticing how hot Jefra's accent is in this episode

Pretty glad that Brice went although Alexis is dull as hell and adds nothing new when we've already got Jefra. Brice's eye roll was soooooo annoying in that TC though.

Faves: Spencer, Kass, Lindsey, Tony
Least faves: J'Tia, Brice, Trish, Tasha

Whaaaaaat? :joker: They have pretty different looks & personalities! Although maybe it's just that they haven't gone to TC and been shown enough yet at the point you're at
Couldn't even remember which one got the idol in the latest episode, I think it was Jeremiah though :skull:

Macie Lightfoot

14-05-2020, 08:49 AM

So i n the spirit of watching something actually good and not Winners at War, here's the latest SA: Maldives update!

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The merge has been okay so far! The Simon boot was pretty rudimentary because Goma was down in the numbers and they had to spend a lot of time with a Reward Challenge, merge feast, and Immunity Challenge. The Malusi boot would've been a bigger deal if I cared about him, but it was really just putting the final nail in Tejan's coffin. I don't really have much of an issue with Tejan because he's actually not nearly overbearing as his edgic strip would suggest, but he really fits in with the era of his season as a failure of a CPN mastermind (Maldives aired in 2010 so we're right at the peak of Hantzmania.) From continually lying to the celebs about the premerge votes, willingly letting Harry go for keeping the tribe strong despite suspecting that they were about to merge, and completely giving up control to Bonnie and Hykie at the worst time and letting them spearhead a Malusi boot, Tejan really just set himself up for disaster. The Cold War between Bonnie/Hykie and Tejan was brewing for a while and in the latest episode it finally blew up.

What I did love about the Tejan boot episode was that it was able to tell a really compelling story despite its simplicity, something that Survivor in its current state completely fails at doing. We've seen Tejan continually pissing off Bonnie and Hykie with his gameplay and we knew that they were preparing to strike, and it actually manifested itself in an interesting way. They openly broke off their alliance with each other, declared that they were going to vote for each other, and spent the episode trying to rally their troops. A straightforward but still suspenseful story, one much more exciting than something like the Chris Noble boot in Ghost Island. Hykie had Bonnie in his corner and Tejan had Letshego in his corner so it came down to what Goma wanted to do. MXO went with Bonnie and Hykie presumably because of the celeb connection, Alison went with Tejan and Letshego because she's sooooo over Hykie's moralizing and holier than thou bull****, and then for some reason Sean didn't agree with his number one ally Alison and had some weird hangup where he unfortunately trusted Bonnie and Hykie more than Tejan.

I've been unable to make up my mind on Bonnie and Hykie because I wasn't crazy about them at first but ended up liking both of them by the end of Raituhn and heading into the merge. That being said, they were both sooooooo terrible this episode and I hate them both!!! They are absolutely validated in their feelings towards Tejan because he did blatantly lie to them multiple times and he really was dumb for letting them get this far in the game, but the two of them are just soooooooo up their own asses and keep pushing forth the narrative that they are The Good People and it's nauseating. You could see pieces of it premerge when Hykie gave Bonnie a passionate speech about how they're actors so it's time to act, not , and this episode was full of passionate speeches from Hykie about how Tejan is THE SNAKE and he lied to him TWICE (or three times, because Hykie can't make up his mind) and HE NEEDS TO GO!!!!! The most nauseating part was after Malusi was voted out when Hykie was somehow allowed to directly address Harry and say that this was for him. Thank **** Letshego and Alison astutely pointed out "ummm you had just as much of a hand in booting Harry, you ass" and they're both sooooo over his bull****.

And then Bonnie in particular, good lord. Her talk on the beach about how her whole body *repels* Tejan whenever she looks at him, finding the Idol while Tejan was looking for it and basically gloating in his face that she found it instead of him, and her speech at Tribal about how Tejan is a scorpion on the back of a crocodile who is ready to sting and just say it's in his nature.... like, Tejan is definitely more of an outward gameplayer and more dishonest than them, but Hykie and Bonnie are both clearly and openly concerned about the game and are playing it too!!! It's just constant moralizing and dramatics with the two of them, constantly preaching about how they just want to be honest and *not* play a calculating game, and then they proceed to...... flip-flop alliances and break them but justify it as the righteous thing to do.

Oh, and Bonnie cast her vote for "Tsotsi Tejan!" and Google tells me that tsotsi is a South African slang word for a young urban criminal :skull: I'll end on that note.

armand.kay

14-05-2020, 11:42 AM

I'm at the bit in Guatemala where Cindy wins a car and Jeff ruins her moment by telling her the car is cursed and offering to give everyone else a car if she gives up hers :skull:

armand.kay

14-05-2020, 12:43 PM

not them eating a sacrificial chicken and causing a thunderstorm

caprimint

15-05-2020, 03:48 AM

S28EP3:
- :laugh2: @ the blindfolded task and the way they all keep running into things
- Omg can't cope with the beauty girls having a convo about how chickens lay eggs, they're so dumb :worry:
- Morgan: "I don't think Jeremiah is that beautiful" funny that she only says that after he went against their alliance :think: Bitter af
- Literally never seen someone as **** as J'Tia in every. single. challenge. Wow
- The way Spencer carried the tribe and did EVERYTHING in the water/throwing the balls in the hoop. :clap1: He deserves a way better tribe, they keep ruining it for him

Thank ****ing god that Spencer was saved. Would have been one of the worst votes ever if they actually saved J'Tia over him :umm2:

Faves: Spencer, Kass, Tony, Lindsey, Jeremiah
Least faves: J'Tia, Trish

Oh and I found out it was actually LJ with the idol, not Jeremiah :skull:

JerseyWins

15-05-2020, 05:56 AM

caprimint

15-05-2020, 05:59 AM

Ohhhh I actually was really close to putting Woo in my faves list, I like him a lot so far :clap2:

Eh idk about LJ. He just seems really serious right now and hasn't done that much but I think he could have potential :think:

caprimint

15-05-2020, 06:33 PM

S28EP4:
- That challenge where they were all dragging each other through the sand looks brutal :omgno:
- Spencer: "nice upgrade from the moms to the hot girls" :joker:
- Lindsey: "Trish totally exaggerates her laugh around guys and it makes me sick... you're 50 yrs old stop trying to get attention from 20 yr old men" AHHHHHSHDKEKSW I CAN'T :joker: :joker:
- Tony saying he doesn't know if Trish is bipolar :skull:
- Cute @ the brains tribe coming together :love:

:clap1: @ Cliff leaving. Really thought it was gonna be LJ and he was dumb not to be playing his idol but great result, surprised Tony voted for Cliff tho

Lindsey slayed this episode and looks like she's going to in the next one too. Love her :love:

Faves: Spencer, Lindsey, Kass, Tony, Jefra
Least faves: Trish, Cliff

Matthew.

15-05-2020, 09:11 PM

I’ve finished Survivor South Pacific! I really liked this season, the cast, and Sophie winning topped it off :clap1:

Edgic:

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1. Sophie - I liked how blunt and honest she was and got called out for being a brat in the finale yet she still won :clap1:
2. Stacey - Almost every sentence that came out of her mouth was hilarious :joker: ADULTS CALL HIM BENJAMIN
3. Edna - I liked her throughout the whole season but especially in her boot episode, she was great :love: “Brandon, you came out here to cleanse your family name. You’re not doing a very good job. Sorry”
4. Christine - These are TEMPORARY players :)
5. Coach - I still liked him this season even though he wasn’t as good as usual
6. Semhar - She was a really fun first boot
7. Albert - He thought he was this great gameplayer despite everybody hating him :skull:
8. Dawn - I liked how fake-nice she was to people but I do think she’s a nice person too? Atm she’s probably my favourite returnee going into Caramoan
9. Mark - I liked him in his few episodes! And during the finale when he was jumping around on stage lol
10. Rick - He was kind of funny whenever he was shown
11. Elyse - She seemed fun but she was barely shown
12. Ozzy - I didn’t mind him as much as his other seasons tbh? Even liked him sometimes but he was offputting at times too
13. Mikayla - I only remember her for Brandon hating her randomly (and for dating Russell post show but that’s a different story)
14. Keith - I don’t have any thoughts on him at all
15. Cochran - I don’t like the way he was treated and I do think he’s a good person but I agree with Sophie that he was kind of annoying too and not in a good way?
16. Whitney - The only thing I remember about her is being nasty to Cochran after the Keith boot
17. Brandon - I feel bad for him but then again he’s awful to watch so. I get liking him, but he’s not for me
18. Jim - Soooo ****ing smug and awful. “Coward. Coward.” might be even worse than “Don’t get too confident” :rolleyes:

JerseyWins

15-05-2020, 11:22 PM

13. Mikayla - I only remember her for Brandon hating her randomly (and for dating Russell post show but that’s a different story)
WHAT

All I can bother commenting on for that boring, awful season topped off with the WORST winner :fan:

JerseyWins

15-05-2020, 11:25 PM

caprimint

15-05-2020, 11:28 PM

Was lindsey popular or not with the general Survivor fans??

I feel like most would side over her with Trish, but as I do, maybe not

:think:

MB.

15-05-2020, 11:31 PM

I, er... think you'll find out the answer in the next episode

Matthew.

15-05-2020, 11:46 PM

WHAT

All I can bother commenting on for that boring, awful season topped off with the WORST winner :fan:

Did you just-

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Macie Lightfoot

16-05-2020, 08:02 AM

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So the last two episodes were kinda fascinating but in a bull**** garbage kind of way. I just can't with Bonnie and Hykie, and somehow they're even worse and insufferable now that Letshego has joined them for no reason? Like, Sean won the family reward and brought Alison and MXO with him, so then when Letshego was left back at camp with Bonnie and Hykie she took it as a sign from her mother and a sign from God that she should realign with Raituhn after voting against them last round? And she was randomly gifted an Idol in the most bull**** way so she felt vindicated by God being her side?! :skull::skull::skull: Like, she literally just got an Idol for not going on Reward, there were three sandwich bags back at camp and she just chose the right one. Suuuuuch bull****, and even more so when you factor in the White Cowrie just lamely getting passed back and forth between Bonnie and Hykie as they jerk each other off to Jesus being on their side.

The whole showing during the Sean boot got even worse because somehow Letshego tried to pin the blame on Alison and Sean for not talking to her, when they only started not talking to her when they realized that it was a lost cause because she had already flipped. Thankfully Alison, MXO, and Sean read everyone to ****ing filth at Tribal, with Alison basically telling Bonnie to go home if she doesn't care about winning and MXO providing the read of the century by calling Hykie and Bonnie the preacher and the preacher's wife :joker::joker::joker:

I also have decided that I ****ing haaaaate Bonnie. Even's not even how smug and holier than thou she is (which don't get me wrong, she absolutely is), but she's also just so gormless and pathetic. She openly said she's not concerned about losing the money. She gave possibly the worst Idol play speech ever, saying she'd rather lose everything for the truth than for the million. But what really tipped the scales against her was how after MXO dubbed her the preacher's wife, she spent the next day crying to Hykie and had multiple confessionals about how Alison and MXO are so malicious and what they said was uncalled for, even though Bonnie's probably the nastiest person of the entire merge and the only person who rivals her is Hykie.

SPEAKING OF, holy **** Bonnie's codependency on Hykie legitimately creeps me out. Like, the two of them and Letshego are all crazy religious zealots and it's definitely affected the season in a negative way, but Bonnie spends every waking minute sitting on that ****ing log talking to Hykie about how her heart always leads her in the right direction, she just can't explain it and then when they get separated after a Reward Challenge she just spends the day sulking around camp desperately awaiting for Hykie's return. It's even creepier when you factor in the fact that she's a married woman :skull:

This is long enough already so I'll wrap this up with some closing thoughts: Alison's pretty awesome and I'd love to see her return even though her final words make it seem like she'd hesitate to ever come back. She impressed me a lot in the first two episodes as someone who strategically was head and shoulders above the rest of her peers, and even though she was a bit low-key in the midgame (the only thing preventing her from reaching a CPP overall, really), her endgame was a strong character performance where she effectively ran out of moves but she had everyone pegged and didn't hold back in her confessionals or even in person. She didn't go down without a fight and definitely would've been a huge threat to win if she didn't get screwed by a quit and a medevac and a double TC.

And finally, I just realized that MXO is basically a much more benign Josh Martinez and I kind of love him for it. Another one whose edit has been on and off but when he's on, oh it's on :love:

caprimint

16-05-2020, 05:57 PM

S28EP5:
- Lindsey: "I think you might be the most horrific person I've met in my life" :joker:
- Sooooo sad that Lindsey decided to leave </3 One of the funniest/most entertaining there
- Spencer clocking Alexis for acting dumber than she is :clap1:
- :skull: @ Tony trolling Jeremiah with the idol like that

Good episode and great result :clap1: Alexis was sooo dull and kind of annoying too. Morgan's reaction when she was eliminated :love:

Faves: Spencer, Lindsey, Kass, Tony, Morgan, Jeremiah, LJ
Least faves: Trish

Sooo with Lindsey @ how annoying Trish is. She's literally awful

caprimint

17-05-2020, 12:48 AM

S28EP6:
- Sarah going on a power trip and coming for Kass & calling her a bully when she didn't even do anything wrong :umm2:
- Tony bringing his idol out at TC and playing it for LJ and vice versa :love: Soooo cute
- Jefra's reaction when she was safe :love:

That was a FIRE episode :clap1: Chaos Kass running the show and blindsiding Sarah after thinking she was the deciding vote :love:

Faves: Kass, Spencer, Tony, Jefra
Least faves: Trish, Sarah

caprimint

17-05-2020, 12:49 AM

Now I get why people like Kass, although I don't get AT ALL why people like Sarah. Could she be anymore annoying???

JerseyWins

17-05-2020, 12:57 AM

Kass making the move because if someone's going to destroy the game she wants to make the preemptive strike and be the one to do it :joker: :joker: :joker:

Around that time was PEAK Chaos Kass

caprimint

17-05-2020, 01:08 AM

Kass making the move because if someone's going to destroy the game she wants to make the preemptive strike and be the one to do it :joker: :joker: :joker:

Around that time was PEAK Chaos Kass
Omg yes, 'dethroning' Sarah whilst doing it. A queen :love:

caprimint

17-05-2020, 01:10 AM

I'm also kinda surprised @ Tony & Sarah's relationship. From the way they acted on S40 I expected them to be super close on their first season too because they seemed to have a strong bond :think:

JerseyWins

17-05-2020, 02:39 AM

I'm also kinda surprised @ Tony & Sarah's relationship. From the way they acted on S40 I expected them to be super close on their first season too because they seemed to have a strong bond :think:
Lol they just forgave each other for everything and I guess as cops & having that initial bond they always stayed tight

caprimint

17-05-2020, 07:05 PM

S28EP7:
- Kass comparing Morgan to a dog :joker:
- Gross @ the way Morgan talks about Kass though, she comes across as soooo conceited when she's not even anything special :skull:
- Tony: "you can't tell if she's a pillow or a person" :joker:
- Spencer finding the idol when Kass wasn't looking AND then winning immunity :clap1: KINGGGGG

Another GREAT episode :clap1: Morgan was literally trash so I'm happy she's gone. Spencer saving himself JUST at the right time too <3

Woo is really annoying now, the way he outed Spencer like that and took the clue off of him. Noooot cool. Finding it difficult to actually pick between Spencer/Kass as my #1, probably Kass though

Faves: Kass, Spencer, Tony
Least faves: Trish, Morgan, Woo

JerseyWins

17-05-2020, 07:56 PM

caprimint

17-05-2020, 08:15 PM

caprimint

18-05-2020, 01:10 AM

S28EP8:
- Tony getting LJ to say that Woo should leave :skull:
- I keep noticing the way Kass is always just sort of hanging out in challenges like she doesn't know where to go :joker:
- Sarah's face when Tony said he does construction :fan:

Another really strong episode :clap1: Tony is definitely really good at lying but also he doesn't come across that sincere :think: BUT his gameplay was literally amazing this ep. I don't get how nobody is able to get him out :skull: Spencer being the only one clocking him tho :clap2:

Ehhhh @ LJ leaving though, he was boring tbh

Faves: Spencer, Kass, Tony
Least faves: Trish

JerseyWins

18-05-2020, 01:59 AM

Yeah I can see she has potential to be annoying :laugh: Even in the Spencer/Kass argument though it was so easy to root for both. <3

I can't even remember now why I didn't like Kass on Kelley's season? She must have done something though :think:
I didn't like her much on that season either. She lost a lot of her appeal and was more boring or something :shrug:

Macie Lightfoot

18-05-2020, 02:25 AM

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Finished and I feel pretty okay about this season! Definitely the worst of the SA seasons I've seen (4-7) and definitely my least favorite winner, but it was never a chore to watch. That being said, there were a lot of flaws with the God Squad running the endgame thanks to the most inconvenient Challenge wins and flawed twists like the White Cowrie and gifted Idols.

The penultimate episode was a personal nightmare for me, with Bonnie talking about how she asked God for just one Challenge win, her somehow actually winning despite being laughably unathletic, Letshego and Hykie obnoxiously cheering as soon as it became clear she was going to beat MXO, and just the general smug celebration of the God Squad making the final three.

I find Letshego pathetic in a lot of ways and Hykie is suuuuuch a hypocrite who is completely indignant to the fact that he was playing the game despite slipping and half-admitting that he was playing the game and making calculated moves multiple times. I don't know, part of me went into the finale like Hykie less because Bonnie and Letshego were just so pathetic in following his every word, but then when Hykie won I was mad to the point where I think I might've liked Letshego more as a winner? Who knows, they both suck and the highlight of the reunion was Alison pulling out a makeshift Oscar award to give to Hykie for being Best Actor in a Leading Role :joker: the shade of it all.

1. Vanessa (she wasn't my #1 for most of the season but just watch her get murdered in a challenge and show up for TC in a neck brace and wheelchair. Just watch that streamble of her "comforting" Alison. Also I think she had a lot of potential as a player? The Philicity vote was stupid and she had to be saved with an Idol to even make it to her medevac *BUT* she had strategic chops and was doing all the right things by trying to make inroads with Simon and MXO. But at the same time Alison did not like her and Sindi haaaaaaated her so maybe she wasn't that good of a player? But A+ viewing)
2. Roxy (she was actually my #1 for most of the season but she never had quite the highs that Vanessa did. For a celeb, she was actually pretty game savvy and had a lot of good instincts but she isolated herself so much with Vanessa that the rest of the tribe rallied against her. She had some spunk and got completely ****ed by a medevac and double TC in the same episode, but she was a lot more into playing the game than I expected a celebrity to be so I wish we could see more from her one day)
3. Alison (robbed. Reminds me a lot of T-Bird in the sense that she's a tough 53 year old woman who had wayyyyyy too much game sense for this dumb as hell cast. Her hustle was fun but her over-it-ness in her boot episode was even more fun? Would love for her to return)
4. MXO (Josh Martinez from BBUS19 without a victim complex OR a wannabe bully complex? Was really ****ing loud and infuriated people around him but he was FUN and FUNNY. His patented Goma chant, his Michael Jackson comment re: Jacques and his vitiligo, his read of the century by calling Hykie and Bonnie the preacher and the preacher's wife... so much fun :love:)
5. Simon (was the Goma alpha male and tribe provider but he was kind of a fun presence? Didn't really have any moments but I think he could've shined if he stuck around long enough and really got to see Bonnie and Hykie's bull****, especially if his vote for Letshego to win is any indication)
6. Sean (was kinda UTRfun as a physical threat and obstacle towards the God Squad and I loved how he came for Hykie in his jury question but he A) voted for him to win and B) sided with Hykie and voted out Tejan at F7, and in particular that F7 vote was the final nail in the coffin for any sort of good outcome)
7. Jacques (I think he could've been fun as a loyal Roxnessa cub but his quit over vitiligo completely ruined the chances of anyone from Goma winning so yellow it is)
8. Lukhanyo (I think he could've been an interesting CPN villain and at first I was entertained at an alpha male being the first boot but now I'm wishing for an alternate timeline where he maybe leads a charge against Hykie's God Squad in the merge)
9. Malusi (randomly maligned by Bonnie so of course I moderately like him? He was apparently lazy around camp but we never really saw it. Was just kinda there and given N SPV for things we never saw *BUT* he read Hykie for filth in his jury question and voted against him so he gets points in my book)
10. Tejan (a little too boringly CPN for my liking and was just not really that good of a Survivor player but he was ultimately harmless and I would give anything for him to survive the F7 vote over Hykie)
11. Harry (his edit would've been soooo overbearing in US Survivor but he was fine here. A little whiny and it was annoying how he voted for Hykie after claiming that Hykie bullied him on Raituhn, but he was still ultimately harmless and kinda funny like 25% of the time)
12. Tshepo (I thought he was going to be a BIG CHARACTER and could've been fun but he peaked when he caught rats and made the celebs eat them. Even his OTTN boot episode was kinda lackluster, oh well)
13. Philicity (probably a CTS favorite if people watched this season bc black girl named Philicity BUT she was kinda sour and looked down her nose towards MXO so I wasn't really a big fan whoops)
14. Sindi (this season's vapid favorite wasn't even that good!! Not even UTRfun, hardly ever on the show, and was never on the side I was rooting for. Her blood feud with Vanessa came out of nowhere but obviously I'm #TeamVanessa so goodbye)
15. Letshego (Was in yellow and actually borderline green until the F6 when she deduced that THE ALMIGHTY kept her out of the family visit Reward because she was destined to be gifted an Idol back at camp :skull: She was also infuriatingly smug whenever anyone tried to tell her that she was playing for third place behind Bonnie/Hykie and she would just be like "and what of it? :)" god she was pathetic)
16. Hykie (I think he made some moments happen and I would've had him in yellow until about the F7 but oh my goddddd he's so smug and in denial about the fact that he was playing a game. God does *NOT* care about your success and your success alone in Survivor South Africa, and whenever he was confronted about playing the game he would just put his fingers in his ears ago "I do not know what you are talking about, how does one even play Survivor" as he continued to pander to the Jury and to the audience each ****ing episode)
17. Carmel (apparently she's randomly seen as a ROBBED PREJURY GODDESS but she was just kinda stank and got really mad that Harry found an Idol and didn't tell the entire tribe. I think she was starting to get a little bit of hustle and game sense so maybe she could've done something in the merge but oh well, missed opportunity I'll never care about!)
18. Tasleem (just really really pathetic who practically quit in the most lame way. Complete waste of a casting choice. Lmfao @ I think Hykie calling her KIM KARDASHIAN during the Rites of Passage like no)
19. Bonnie (I've gone on and on about her but just so smug, condescending, useless, gormless, and infuriating with absolutely NO desire to play the game. Her codependency on Hykie just creeped me out and made me feel uncomfortable, and she was NASTY about anyone who opposed her in the tamest of ways. A complete hypocrite)

So yeah, an overall mixed bag of a season that definitely had potential but often times had the worst case scenario happening over and over again. Onto Santa Carolina!

caprimint

20-05-2020, 04:48 PM

S28EP9:
- Tony and his iconic spy shacks :love:
- Jefra: "everybody listens to Tony like he's jesus" :hehe:
- Wowww Tony is a pro @ finding these idols, good that he got the special one cus he's probably gonna need it :clap1:
- Spencer: "you can steal as many clues as you want Woo I've got the real thing" AHDJKSHS YESSSSSSSSS :joker:

The way Tony trolls them all with his bag of tricks :skull: Spencer slaying TC though as always :clap1:

Would have wayyyy preferred Woo going over Jeremiah, the Spencer/Tash/Jeremiah alliance was pretty cute. Hopefully Spencer and Tash can find some way of staying next episode :worry:

Faves: Spencer, Tony, Kass, Jefra
Least faves: Trish

caprimint

20-05-2020, 04:51 PM

Ranking as of now:
1. Spencer
2. Kass
3. Tony
4. Jefra
5. Tash
6. Jeremiah
7. Woo
8. Trish

Matthew.

21-05-2020, 12:05 AM

Finished Survivor One World, and imo it wasn’t very good. Nothing that interesting really happened and it was quite dry. I don’t think anybody would make my top 100, and that’s saying something because all other seasons I have watched have people in there, even RI :skull: Maybe Chelsea would make it at a push (she was hilarious at times with how much she hated everyone :joker:) but that’s about it

I don’t want to be completely negative, so I will say that I thought the F3 was good and that Kim was a good winner, and is actually funny despite her reputation as being boring, which is true, but she is ironically funny because of it? I also liked that they brought back some of my favourite tasks/challenges that had been left out in previous seasons, such as the Survivor Auction and Q&A.

Here’s my edgic chart:

https://i.imgur.com/shKkPeD.jpg

1. Chelsea - Has never heard of her prior to watching, but she was funny and rootable despite being one of the most mardy people on the planet :laugh:
2. Kim Spradlin & all of her options :love:
3. Monica - Idk she just seemed nice and I was sad when she went early? I also laughed at her during Kim’s win announcement when she tried getting Chelsea’s attention on stage (I would gif but I can’t atm for some reason. Skip to Jeff’s introducing the reunion show to see it)
4. Sabrina - Her sarcasm towards Troyzan’s obnoxiousness propels her to #4 in a series like One World
5. Bill - He seemed like a fun guy and it’s a shame that a) he went early, and b) his Survivor journey was ruined by Colton
6. Kat - She was annoying at times but I did find her reaction to not getting chosen to go on the reward funny lol
7. Christina - A fun UTRN presence at times but not that great
8. Tarzan - Had potential to be funny with moments like “Leif is EGREGIOUS” but at other times he was annoying and gross and kind of spiteful at times too. I also felt he was a bit Phillip Sheppardish for my liking at times
9. Nina - Could have been fun if she stayed but she didn’t leave that much of an impression on me in her 2 episodes
10. Leif - I found it kind of funny when he would sleep in a box I guess.
11. Jonas - He seemed like a nice guy
12. Kourtney - :(
13. Jay - The following 3 people were contestants on Survivor: One World.
14. Michael
15. Matt
16. Troyzan - I feel like I’m supposed to have more of an opinion on him than I do. He *was* an awful sleazeball at times but I don’t have a heavy dislike for him either
17. Alicia - Awful horrible bully
18. Colton - Awful horrible bully

Macie Lightfoot

25-05-2020, 09:10 AM

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Got through the pre-merge of Santa Carolina and it started off SLOOOOOOW and honestly kind of not good at all lol but I think the last two episodes were actually good and we might be moving in the right direction? I felt like it was watching the same thing each episode with Darren being on the outs of Timbila and a random Chibudu person quitting but there's been a lot more life in the last two episodes, especially the last one which was REALLY good with Okkert vs. Louw in the Challenge and Louw vs. Gys in the kidnapping when Chibudu hid all of their supplies.

I haven't really cared about any of the boots so far so I think that might be part of why the pre-merge has felt uneventful. Christina's quit happened in like two seconds and was lame, Garth basically quit with his leg infection, Jub Jub's quit over his penis infection sounds hilarious on paper but he was actually an ass and not fun whatsoever, Cindy had a bit of potential for being extremely good at the survival aspect while being a pageant girl but I didn't really miss her once she was gone, Craig was a ****ing DRAIN on Chibudu and was just annoying in the most boring way, Lady Lea didn't really exist, Darren wasn't terrible but it was basically the same storyline each episode so it's better that he went, and Sandi didn't exist.

As for the tribes..... I kinda feel like I don't really know anyone that well still oops! At first I thought I liked Timbila better (I have their tribe's chant stuck in my head as I'm typing this), but then I was digging Chibudu's underdog story and Okkert just dominating every physical Challenge. But then Chibudu were kind of awful during the kidnapping by hiding all of their supplies and being smug about it so that was't really a good look either! So I'll just comment on a few random things: the Hanna/Sade friendship is cute and I think Hanna could be a fun MORP person with a better edit. Sade is a fun narrator and I really felt for her when she felt on the outs because everyone else on her tribe is white and speaks Afrikaans while she only speaks English (Gys saying he was gonna keep Hanna for being part of their clan is sooooooo dicey holy ****.) On Timbila I don't really feel like I know anyone all that well because Darren sucked all of their airtime, but I'm kind of appreciating Louw lately as a wannabe alpha male who keeps getting owned by Okkert and Chibudu. Some of his temper tantrums aren't justified but some of them are and I at least appreciate him for bringing SOMETHING right now.

My final paragraph will be about production because so many things don't make sense this season. Splitting up the marooning between a group of seven and a group of eleven was just weird and seemingly pointless. Exile Island literally only lasted for two rounds for the pre-merge so that also seems dumb and pointless. Even more nonsensical was how the person who got sent to Exile Island got to pick someone from the other tribe to take their place until they returned. Like, that was just a dumb twist that didn't affect anything and was just confusing. And then the kidnapping was kind of cute but why do it only in the last round before the merge?

Okay thank you for reading my random essay on Santa Carolina see you later when I have merge thoughts xxx

Macie Lightfoot

26-05-2020, 08:18 AM

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While this is still my least fave South Africa season so far, I'm appreciating the merge as the battle between two tribes that are even in numbers and the fact that vote countback is the tiebreaking method. It feels like classic Survivor in the best sense and it's a nice reminder of what the show used to be.

The Hanna boot was sad because with a better edit she really could've been a fun MORP presence. A physical and mental threat who just barely lost the first individual IC and got sent home in a tiebreaker is the PERECT storyline for a merge boot, especially one who was targeted for being such a threat, but the show just kinda didn't really go there the way that they could have. She was tied with Louw and even though he had a a previous vote against him from before the merge, apparently in SA the countback resets at the merge so they were deadlocked and had to go to a sudden death elimination challenge which was...... counting to 30 and touching a skull :joker: It was equally intense and bizarre and I can't believe that the fate of the season seemingly came down to a BBUS POV Comp.

But then the end result of the next episode ended up being even more hilarious. Izak, who REALLY should've had a CPM conflicted edit since the kidnapping or the merge episode, had a moral dilemma where he respected Okkert too much to vote him out with the rest of his alliance, so he tried to convince Okkert's allies to turn on him in order to save themselves. GiGi and Sade played along but didn't buy into it, Izak thought they bought into it and thus threw his vote away Sean Kenniff/Kelly Wiglesworth style, and as a result it was a 4-4-1 tie and Louw got sent home over Okkert via countback :joker::joker::joker: It felt like a fanfic gone wrong and I kinda love it, even though I appreciated Louw as a beta male constantly punching higher than his worth in trying to one-up Okkert as alpha male of the tribe.

MB.

29-05-2020, 02:44 PM

MB.

29-05-2020, 05:02 PM

A cute interview with Sonja Thee Christopher, ahead of Survivor's 20th anniversary (and thus the 20th anniversary of her being voted out) on Sunday:

https://ew.com/tv/sonja-christopher-survivor-20th-anniversary/

And there's this oral history of Borneo from Inside Survivor, featuring interviews with producers, crew, Gretchen, Gervase, Sean, Joel and Ramona, and anecdotes about (but not limited to) Sean accidentally outing himself as a doctor on the flight to Malaysia, Gretchen accidentally stumbling across the Tribal Council set after being voted out, Pagong feeling sorry for the malnourished crew and feeding them their rice, and a producer ordering in a helicopter full of McDonald's:

https://insidesurvivor.com/birth-of-a-phenomenon-an-oral-history-of-survivor-borneo-43932

Macie Lightfoot

30-05-2020, 11:37 PM

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I finished Santa Carolina last night and I definitely enjoyed the endgame more. It was entirely the Ashley show, and despite her being a gamebot I enjoyed her because she played the game in an interesting way that was fun to watch. She was just head and shoulders above everyone else strategically and she pretty much ran a clinic on how to us the vote countback tiebreaker as strategy. Like, the entire chain of events where she makes a F3 with GiGi and Sade on Reward, uses them to spread votes at F7 on every guy remaining, and then use those votes to take out Izak in a 2-2-2 tiebreaker is brilliant and shows how much potential that tiebreaking method has. The Kaseran boot was also a fantastic episode and once again shows that often times the best episodes are not ones where the audience is blindsided. We all knew his fate was sealed as soon as he lost the Immunity Challenge but it was still gripping watching him come to that realization and melt down once Ashley told him she was voting for him.

GiGi winning is definitely disappointing because look at her edgic strip, but I can't be that mad about her win because Ashley definitely screwed up by not taking her out lol. GiGi had four locked Jury votes from all of Chibudu and I think she would've stood a better chance against ProVerb, who although he was very cheerful and ^_^ he also had a lot of people talk **** about him for being completely useless around camp. I don't know how many of the Chibudu votes Ashley would've been able to snag if it was her and ProVerb in the F2 but I think she could've stood a better chance.

But in spite of this season picking up during the merge, it's definitely my least fave SA season so far. I don't dislike it but it has a looooot of flaws. The premerge is slow and full of quitters and lame unanimous votes, it takes a while for storylines to pick up, and the editing is really atrocious. I think this cast actually had a lot of potential but the show just did not know how to product an edit that would create long-term storylines. Like you kind of got there with Okkert and Ashley, but I feel like there was a lot of wasted potential in Hanna, Louw, Izak, GiGi, and kind of Kaseran from a narrative standpoint. The season definitely has its merits and I wouldn't say not to watch it, but I wouldn't particularly go out of my way to recommend it and I'm perplexed as to how this is The Best Season before Philippines.

1. Ashley (yes she's a gamebot but she lives up to the hype. If you have any doubt of the potential of vote countback as a tiebreaking method just watch her entire merge game and get back to me. I really hope she comes back for an All-Stars season because she seems like the type of person who can actually acknowledge her mistakes and learn from them)
2. ProVerb (just very good-natured and seemed like a lot of fun? Didn't have the most prominent edit but I appreciate how it was divided between "ugh Pro is so lazy and useless around camp, he is WORTHLESS :rant:" and him giving confessionals like "yeah I only got this far because of moves other people made but I'm still thankful to be here ^_^" and his jury speech about how Ashley USED and ABUSED him and THREW HIM AWAY when she didn't need him anymore, followed by giving her a round of applause and congratulating her for doing so :joker:)
3. Izak (they really ****ed up by not giving him a better edit in the kidnapping episode and the merge episode because he randomly turned into a big factor in the merge? He had a cute storyline about how he wasn't going to be a sheep and how he was going to play the game bravely and courageously and it led to some unexpected turns like Timbila giving up their numbers advantage and then flipping back one round later. The events that led up to his boot were also a lot of fun, including the storyline about "ugh Izak is such a poser, always prancing around in his red Speedo" which :flutter:)
4. Sade (she was a fun narrator!)
5. Hanna (she was fun and cute when she was shown, and she was apparently a big challenge threat? She really should've been a MORP merge boot fallen angel who got taken out in a deadlock tiebreaker but alas)
6. Okkert (he was fun as a challenge beast who helped lead his underdog tribe and served as what seemed to be the final boss for Timbila, BUT towards the end of his stay he was kind of a little too whiny about how people weren't playing the game when it was just that he didn't have the numbers)
7. Louw (his jury speech was kind of awful and soured me on him BUT I actually enjoyed him when he was in the game and I think he had a lot of potential as a beta male who kept punching above his weight and routinely got beaten by Okkert and Chibudu as a whole. I don't know if I would've enjoyed him more with a better edit but I think he could've been A Big Character)
8. Cindy (I think she had potential as a Miss South Africa who was randomly REALLY good at the survival aspect of the game but I could also see her being kind of a purist who didn't want to strategize so I didn't particularly miss her once she left)
9. GiGi (she won Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina. And I guess according to Gys's jury question he proved that exotic dancers aren't sluts)
10. Darren (he was kind of rootable in the beginning when he was desperately trying to figure out alliances and even on Day 2 when he called Jub Jub out for bathing in the drinking water but then he lasted like two or three episodes too long and just had the same exact storyline of being on the bottom of his tribe and having no allies)
11. Sandi (idk her but I think she seemed nice like once or twice?)
12. Gys (he was a vaguely likable underdog in his boot episode for reasons I can't really remember *BUT* he also had one frightening quote about how he wanted to boot Sade next out of Chibudu and keep Hanna because "she's part of our clan" aka she speaks Afrikaans like all the other white people in the tribe and unlike Sade :umm2:)
13. Garth (he cut his leg in the first Challenge and then couldn't walk so he was voted out first)
14. Christina (she quit like Day 2 or 3 bc she missed her kid)
15. Lady Lea (idk her)
16. Kaseran (he thought he had the game on lock after Timbila got the numbers in the merge and just thought he was untouchable and was indignant to anyone overtaking him, which made his loss that much juicier when Ashley knifed him at F5 after we had so many confessionals about how "Ashley would NEVER lie to me. I trust her with my life. I would never make any decision without consulting Ashley first!")
17. Craig (took up a lot of cameratime in the first few episodes and was REALLY annoying and would've been a hell demon if he lasted any longer)
18. Jub Jub (was really rude and unpleasant and did dumb **** like use the drinking water to wash off and then get mad at people getting mad at him about it. And he acted like he was all tough and mighty but then he quit episode 2 bc he had a rash on his balls GOODBYE)

caprimint

02-06-2020, 04:58 PM

S28EP10:
- Trish bidding $60 for a small dish of rice :laugh2:
- Was soooo rooting for Spencer to get that black rock instead of Tony but also wasn't surprised he didn't </3
- Spencer making Tony paranoid :love:
- Tash winning immunity AGAIN :clap1: She's so damn good

Spencer & Tony coming together and voting out Jefra :love: I can't get over how Tony plays the game so well because they all see what he's doing but he still controls the vote every single episode :skull:

Kass is getting annoying now. Maybe I don't like her as much when she's so anti-Spencer...

1. Spencer
2. Tony
3. Tash
4. Jefra
5. Kass
6. Woo
7. Trish

JerseyWins

02-06-2020, 05:06 PM

Spencer & Tony coming together and voting out Jefra :love: I can't get over how Tony plays the game so well because they all see what he's doing but he still controls the vote every single episode :skull:
The way he then managed to do it again in Winners at War :skull:

Also I told you Kass will get annoying at times. :fan: (but not for anti-Spencer reasons :hehe:)... SUCH a benefit to the season tho

caprimint

02-06-2020, 05:22 PM

Yeah lol. They watched him do it the first time and let it happen all over again. :facepalm:

Idk like I wonder if she was anti-Trish or something I'd probably still be enjoying her :fan: But she just seems to like complaining about everything and hardly has anything positive to say

Macie Lightfoot

03-06-2020, 12:23 AM

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Got through the pre-merge of SA: Malaysia and it's actually pretty good so far and I'm enjoying it a lot more than Santa Carolina and even Maldives :o It's a very old school season (but in good quality on YouTube!) where alliances and votes are driven both by tribe strength and interpersonal conflict and it's glorious. There's been exactly one scene of an alliance getting formed and the confessional was literally like "lol we aligned but idk why we did, it just happened" :love:

Iban is okayish as a tribe. Kind of boring and their two boots have been all about tribe strength, but I'm keeping an eye on LISA, who I actually kind of hated in the first episode? She was, like, boldly not doing ANY work in the premiere and boasting about it but wasn't really doing it in a fun way, but then after surviving a 4-3-1 vote she's like ":o I have to start working *picks up a coconut and brings it back to camp* guys aren't you proud of my contribution?!" and all of the sudden I'm finding her a lot funnier and loving her as a worthless cockroach who is starting to become more in on the joke :joker:

I will say though that I don't feel like they've really done a good job flushing out the dynamics. Angie, Grant, Viwe, and Lisa immediately formed an alliance "for no reason" in the premiere but then Lisa voted against Grant according to Wiki (the end credits only show the votes against the boot which is annoying) and Irshaad is voting with Angie/Grant/Viwe? But then by episode 3 it seems like it's Angie/Grant/Lisa vs. Irshaad/Viwe with Mandla and Lorette as swings in the middle? I don't know, I just don't like heading into a tribe swap and not really understanding..... anything about that tribe's dynamics.

Bajau though... :flutter::flutter::flutter: holy **** let's just take in the following events:

-Hein and Dyke immediately proclaim themselves as Bush Experts and make a bunch of promises to bring in food and shelter and fire like nothing
-Elsie struggles to swim in the first Challenge and Dyke openly bitches at camp about how they have two black girls who can't swim, prompting Elsie to yell at him and read him for filth
-Hein and Dyke don't actually provide on any of the promises of food and fire and shelter that they promised and then are ignoring suggestions that people like Amanda and Elsie make about things like preparing to eat the fish (they end up being correct)
-After losing an Immunity Challenge, Elsie holds a tribe meeting bc there's no teamwork in the tribe but Hein says that she's lazy, leading to a fight between Dyke/Hein and Amanda/Elsie
-This leads to an even bigger fight between Hein and Elsie, leading to this top tier confessional: "My mother didn't raise me to be STUPID and whatever I say that comes out of my mouth should never be stupid to anybody. So as far as [Hein]'s concerned he can flips middle fingers at the camera go SUCK ON THIS cause I'm not done with him wipes hands clean for an extended period of time I'll be done with him when I'm out of this place, I'm not done with him"

like...... :flutter: this was also immediately followed up by her saying if she was allowed to fight on the island she'd **** somebody up alol.

(I also had a fun image but it's on Discord and this forum is dumb and has the word banned in URLs?!)

-Amanda/Angela/Elsie team up with Nichal and Rijesh to take out Nicola (who is a Dyke/Hein lackey) but not before a TC where Angela calls out Dyke and Hein for not following through on any of their promises around camp, Amanda calls Dyke obnoxious and dismissive and bossy to his face, Elsie explicitly accuses Dyke of saying racist **** against black people, and Nichal saying that if this was the real world Dyke would've been bashed by now :joker::joker::joker:
-Dyke calls everyone wankers and Elsie obnoxiously celebrates that she's not going anywhere and she'll go when she's ready as they're leaving Tribal
-Dyke tries to clear the air with everybody the next day but Angela shuts him down and says that actions speak louder than words and he and Hein haven't acted on anything they promised
-On Day 7, Hein finally starts fire for the tribe but is mainly motivated because Nichal offered to pay him R500 if he did it, leading to a ****ing hilarious scene where Angela is parading up and down the beach trying to get each person to contribute R100 to give to Hein when he finally makes fire :joker:

Legitimately one of my favorite tribes across all of Survivor I've seen. These people largely hated each other for personal reasons and were SO petty about it, and whenever they tried to patch things up it never worked because these people have the worst conflict resolution skills ever :joker: I'm so sad that they're getting broken up by a tribe swap because these people are all insane and could've carried the show on their own. They basically were already?

So yeah, I'm enjoying this season a lot which is a fun surprise. HOWEVER, it's only been three episodes so who knows?

Macie Lightfoot

08-06-2020, 02:37 AM

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Got through the swap phase of SA: Malaysia and am still enjoying the season a lot more than I expected to! There's absolutely minimal strategy and it's entirely character-driven and a bunch of these people can't stand each other so it's been fun! I will say that the swap went on for a little bit too long but I wish they could've been in their original tribes for longer, but oh well!

I thought it was unique how they did the swap right before the IC and it was potentially problematic that they were going to send the new losing tribe immediately from IC to TC, but then Elsie almost got murdered in the challenge and nearly lost her finger so they had to stall TC for a while :joker: It was still done in the daylight though which was neat, but there was no time to strategize so it almost guaranteed that someone would've been swap****ed.

Nu Bajau as a tribe is kind of boring. Lorette and Mandla literally only talk about Survival and Work Ethics :rolleyes: I don't think Hein is engaging enough to be the figurehead of the tribe BUT I at least appreciate how he isn't in the majority but he has them all terrified of voting him out because he's so experienced at all the survival elements on the game, and how Angela shamelessly inserted herself as his first lady much to the ire of the rest of the tribe :joker: Grant is a witty narrator but not all that exciting, and ultimately the spirit of the tribe was fully in LISA. Her story really is inspiring: someone who actively does less than the minimum amount of work on Iban because she's miserable, and then she gets swapped to Bajau and gets a second wind and realizes that she actually likes doing work when she's in an environment she's happy to be part of :love: sadly this only led to her, like, doing exactly the bare minimum required and Lorette still had it out for her. I did love her boot story about getting frustrated at her tribe for continually sitting her out in Challenges, and I can't believe that she somehow almost achieved MORM overall when she's soooooo effortlessly MORN.

Nu Iban, on the other hand, carried the torch as the tribe full of people who hate each other and it was a great viewing experience :love: the Amanda/Rijesh feud was starting to boil out of nowhere on Bajau, but it fully blew up on Nu Iban in the best way possible. Rijesh is kind of an annoying gay who is clearly a product of 2007 where he thinks it's okay for him to call girls bitches and fat pigs because he's gay, but he got thoroughly owned by Miss Clam 2007 herself so it was worth it :love: Rijesh would try to be like "it's CLAHM not CLAAAM, with your fake ass accent just because you spent a few years in the States!" and Amanda would just be like ":o :o :o" and laugh in his face about how the entire tribe sees he's two-faced and so bad at Survivor that he's about to be voted out unanimously :flutter:

The other big feud on Nu Iban was Angie vs. Irshaad and I feel like this would be unpopular if more people actually watched the show buuuut I kind of sided with Irshaad? I could see why it'd be grating to live with him but he's ultimately harmless and Angie (and later Amanda too) were kind of relentlessly mean both about him and to him. Like yes he's dumb and yes he did have a habit of interrupting people but he wasn't malicious or anything, just kind of annoying sometimes. I think I also have a soft spot for Irshaad because for being labeled The Strong Guy of his tribe he was sooooooo bad at Challenges and single-handedly lost like three of them. He and Viwe got wrecked in the water wrestling challenge pre-swap, the canoe challenge pre-swap where he was paddling the canoe in circles was ****ing hysterical, and then there was the tug-o-war challenge after the swap where he randomly broke rank and tackled Hein and got his entire tribe DQed :joker::joker::joker: He was kind of an angel too with all his confessionals being like "Angie and Amanda are being mean to me BUT I'm not going to say anything because #strategy," only for him to call Amanda condescending at TC when he knew he was going home and leaving both her and Angie stunned :joker:

Also, maybe the weirdest morph of them all is Dyke going from "ignorant and very quite possibly racist" to "happy-go-lucky tribe provider and challenge beast" and I'm kind of here for it?

I'm ready for the merge! Kind of stunned that it's only going to be four episodes plus the finale but I'm curious to see how it goes.

caprimint

09-06-2020, 03:50 PM

S28EP11:
- Tony: "you are always in my thoughts Kass" and Kass telling him to play his idol :joker: Their whole argument was hilarious
- Spencer not liking kids :flutter:
- Kass: "Woo is usually quiet, it's the most he's spoken in 31 days" :joker:
- Spencer's impression of Woo :skull:
- Spencer winning another immunity, amazing :clap1:
- Mess @ Tasha calling Tony a bully :facepalm:

Ahhh another GREAT episode :clap1: I enjoyed Tony v Kass but was more #TeamKass which I was surprised by. She literally slays any argument she has because she's sooo chill/cool about it and adds amusing comments to it. :fan: Definitely another turnaround on her this ep, she was great

SOOOOO disappointed it wasn't Trish out :yuk: Would have been nice to see Tasha stay too </3

1. Spencer
2. Kass
3. Tony
4. Tasha
5. Woo
6. Trish

caprimint

15-06-2020, 12:42 AM

S28EP12:
- Kass calling Tony the "mafia boss" :skull:
- Spencer asking Woo if he has any thoughts :skull:
- Spencer is the immunity KING, what a win :clap1:
- Trish calling herself a "non passive aggressive person" after going off @ Kass :unsure: And I guess she forget about Lindsey???
- Kass remaining unbothered about everything :love:
- Kass DRAGGING Trish all throughout TC :laugh2:

Finally Trish is voted out :clap1: She's total trash and one of the most annoying people I've seen on this show even though she's also so boring.

Kass & Spencer slayed the episode. The final 4 is actually great overall though :clap2:

1. Spencer
2. Kass
3. Tony
4. Woo
5. Trish

JerseyWins

15-06-2020, 08:26 AM

NOT rooting for Spencer & Kass over Tony & Woo :omgno:

And lmaooo @ the Trish hate. :joker: I kinda liked Malnutrisha :unsure: Like I remember I didn't like her as much on rewatch but still a pretty great messy type of entertainment

(it's at least partly from Tony association :fan:)

caprimint

15-06-2020, 09:52 AM

Ahhh I can't @ you being on the other side :fan:

After watching up till now Spencer is either my #2 or #3, after Adam but idk if Spencer or Kelley are #2 yet... I'd probs have to see Kelley's seasons again to remember properly

JerseyWins

15-06-2020, 04:57 PM

Kelley YES, no no no no no @ Adam & Spencer :omgno:

caprimint

15-06-2020, 05:20 PM

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caprimint

16-06-2020, 01:17 PM

S28EP13:
- Kass: "pretty sure almost everybody dislikes Trish" :joker: STILL dragging her ahhhh
- Incredible immunity win from Kass wow :clap1:
- Jeff saying Woo didn't do anything :skull:

NOOOOOOOOOO @ Spencer being eliminated :bawling: He literally deserved that top 3 placing SO much after his whole game.

- Kass' impressions of Woo :laugh2:
- Literally shocked @ Woo taking Tony over Kass though. Kind of summed himself up "dumbest Survivor player ever"
- Spencer's reactions in TC @ Woo DJSKDJD :joker: :joker:
- Spencer calling Woo a DOG :joker: :joker: :skull:
- Trish's overreactions... goddamn this woman is annoying
- Spencer's speech to the jury about why they should vote for Tony... so cute :love:

I literally can't @ Woo though... "I want to go up against somebody who is as good as me or better" :facepalm:

What a finale :clap1: It was actually really good even though I would've preferred the other 2 to be the final 2. Tony did kind of get lucky throughout despite playing crazy well too & he def deserved the win overall :clap1:

caprimint

16-06-2020, 01:23 PM

Overall rankings:
1. Spencer
2. Kass
3. Tony
4. Garrett
5. Tash
6. Lindsey
7. Jefra
8. Woo
9. Jeremiah
10. LJ
11. Alexis
12. David
13. Sarah
14. Cliff
15. Brice
16. Morgan
17. J'Tia
18. Trish

Macie Lightfoot

20-06-2020, 09:27 PM

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Finished SA: Malaysia! Going to start by talking about the merge since my last post was right at the end of the pre-merge. I enjoyed it! The format was a little bizarre with a merge at F8 and only five episodes (and five jurors!) but it wasn't bad at all. The F8 round was an intense 4-4 split and I appreciated Bajau's reasoning for switching the target from Mandla to Lorette, but it ended up being all for nothing when Hein lost THE SKULL because he either threw it or fell asleep :joker: It seemed like it was going to be a Pagonging of Bajau but then at F6 Angie got bored and decided to betray Iban because she couldn't stand Lorette, only for everyone to flip on Angie bc Lorette caught her stealing tapioca. Then Angie won Immunity :joker: but then she flipped back to her alliance and the episode was kind of pointless?

But as much as the F6 episode was hyped up for me, I actually enjoyed the F5 episode a lot more? Amanda was a dead man walking in a 4-1 vote but then Lorette decided that she had ENOUGH for Angie because...... she, Grant, and Mandla went searching for food? :joker: It basically ended in Lorette yelling at Angie and then Grant and Lorette yelling at each other, only for Lorette to be left sobbing in a confessional about how awful Angie is :joker: and then she and Mandla actually did flip and take out Angie!

And then the finale was fine! The F4 elimination twist is interesting and I don't mind that it took out Mandla, who apparently was a fan favorite for some reason? It was sad for Amanda to just miss out on winning the final IC, and the end result is even more confusing. Grant definitely misunderstood Angie's question about whether or not their relationship was real, but somehow that led to her being the deciding vote for Lorette to win, someone whom she grew to hate?!?! I don't know, I can't make sense of it.

Very fun season! I was nervous because Clubs seems to not be fond of this one and r/survivorsa actually seems to be, but I think this is actually my second favorite season besides Philippines :o There was minimal strategy but a lot of the characters were fun and they were all soooooo petty. Just about every episode involved people giving scathing bitchy confessionals about each other or actually getting in verbal arguments with each other, and so many of the votes were driven by emotions and people disliking each other rather than strategy :love: Very refreshing given the current state of Survivor and this season's in very good quality on YouTube so I would recommend it to anyone!

Will be watching Panama at some point soon but so far for my season ranking I'd say 6>2>5>7>4>3.

1. Amanda (Miss Clam 2007 herself :love: she's bubbly and fun and engaging but everyone found her soooooooooo annoying because she was an incessant chatterbox who was lazy and wouldn't shut up about food. Rijesh *HATED* her because she spoke in a quasi-American accent and said clam incorrectly. Amanda also never hesitated to call people out and stick up for herself, from Dyke and Hein to Rijesh to Irshaad and then to Angie even. I also wouldn't exactly call her a good gameplayer, but I think she has potential and a decent enough skill set to succeed more often than not? Also, she's randomly really active in the Survivor SA community so she's the most likely person to come back and play again if anyone from Malaysia is ever asked to return :love: She was just a lot of fun and provided a lot of good moments and was the highlight of the season for me!)
2. Lisa (I'm shocked because I did NOT like her after the premiere because she was very basic in her "lol I'm lazy and don't need to do any work bc I'm protected by my alliance" shtick but then I started to love her?! Every TC she would barely survive and she'd be all "WOW my neck is on the line... I better do a little bit of work around camp for like two days and then that should fix things :)" and then she got swapped onto Nu Bajau and had an epiphany that she actually can enjoy doing work around camp when she enjoys her tribe's company :joker: it was hilarious to watch someone so clearly MORN nearly pull off an MORM overall edit, and I loved her frustration at her tribe for continually sitting her out of each challenge)
3. Angela (I love how she went from a righteous anti-Dyke/Hein crusader to getting swap****ed and nesting under Hein's protection purely for survival :love: Nu Bajau was soooooooooo mad at her for being untouchable as Hein's right-hand man even though they could've easily taken her out and that's just hilarious to me :joker: I was sad to see her go at F6 after all the potential flipping, and I was SHOCKED to find out at the reunion that she was apparently pregnant during her time on Survivor? :joker::joker::joker:)
4. Elsie (alol she's so irritating and the perfect embodiment of mid 2000s RTV with profanity-laced confessionals filled with physical threats towards people like Dyke, but it was breath-taking watching someone explicitly accuse Dyke of having problems with black people ESPECIALLY considering the current political climate :love: She also works because she was a tragic early boot since she almost got killed in a challenge :joker:)
5. Dyke (I'm SHOCKED because he was easily my least favorite going into the tribe swap because he was obnoxious and said multiple things that are explicitly racist buuuuut if the rest of Bajau is able to forgive him then I guess I am too? His arc from OTTN racist tribe provider to MORP expert fisherman and challenge threat was unexpected but really cute)
6. Irshaad (attractive and "athletic" angel who ****ed up sooooooo many challenges :love: he and Viwe really ****ed up the water wrestling challenge but then I SCREAMED at his poor attempts to paddle a canoe and again when they were doing the tug-o-war challenge and he randomly broke rank and tackled Hein for no reason and got his tribe DQed :joker::joker::joker: I definitely get that he would be annoying to live with but I appreciate how he took soooooo much **** from Angie and Amanda and never bit back until his boot TC because ~strategy~)
7. Grant (a boring Kim Spradlin CP bot *but* he's actually witty and funny and gives better confessionals than one would expect. Kind of a Sophie Clarke but without the scathing snark? I kinda wanted him to win but not enough for me to be upset when he lost)
8. Angie (this pains me because I sooooo wanted to love her and I'm sure that she would be a forum favorite if more people watch the season. HOWEVER, despite her bringing It a lot of the time, she's kind of stank and unpleasant and awful? She was actually really mean to Irshaad and it got to a point to where I stopped enjoying her bitching about/to him, I didn't think it was cute how she went from BFFs with Amanda on Nu Iban to bitching about how she never stops talking once the tribes merged, and while I did appreciate her flipping at F6 because she got bored........ it basically amounted to nothing because she flipped back and that's kinda lame to me? I don't know, she kinda falls in that Ciera Eastin/Kelley Wentworth category where she tries really hard but ultimately doesn't amount to much for me and ends up being all hype. Also, her jury question to Grant was B I Z A R R E and it still makes no sense why she gave Lorette a million rand)
9. Lorette (I am *SHOCKED* because I think she was my least fave entering the merge but her last two episodes really elevated her as a character for me. Having a weepy meltdown over how EVIL Angie is bc Angie like flipped for a hot second and then flipped back, screaming at Angie and Grant bc they went to go collect food with Mandla, and then having an OTTP finale where she's referred to as Robocop and ~Lorette Mostert~ like seven times bc she's apparently some superhero woman... it all kinda clicked for me and I'm totally at peace with her as a winner now alol)
10. Hein (for being so omnipresent and basically South Africa's Rupert, I don't really have much of an opinion on him at all? I appreciate the strangehold he had on Nu Bajau but I don't really care that much about him)
11. Nichal (got a **** ton of N-SPV for being a lazy do-nothing but I screamed at the one challenge where he kept tackling Grant and got DQed and lost the entire challenge for his tribe :joker:)
12. Mandla (he... was nice? And his niece is some legitimately famous South African socialite? That's all I got)
13. Nicola (she was a cute and tough provider to the tribe but she got taken out in her tribe's first TC bc she was up Hein and Dyke's asses so oh well)
14. Viwe (he was lazy and really messed up a challenge once or something? Easily the most forgettable)
15. Nomfundo (she was booted first for being physically the weakest despite never partaking in a challenge lmao poor thing)
16. Rijesh (annoying gay who thinks he's much smarter and wittier than he actually is. He thinks it's okay to call Amanda a fat cow and say other mean **** just because he's gay AND he was an annoying CPN "look at me, I'm playing both sides and nobody knows :smug:" CP bot despite everybody knowing. He got owned though :love:)

Macie Lightfoot

05-07-2020, 02:59 AM

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I've been watching SA: Panama and realized that I haven't made a post so here we are! tbh I was kinda expecting more from the premerge and found it kinda uneventful and slow. It was still watchable, but nothing too exciting. Rana seem like nice people as a whole tribe but they were kinda boring because each TC besides the Don boot was just like "UGH we all like each other so much :bawling: this is so tough!" and yawn, no thanks.

Aguila was much more fun as a tribe mainly because of ~Surfer Boy and Brigitte Bardot~ alol. The Mzi/Sam feud didn't really do much for me tbh because it literally only lasted for one episode and their fight while trying to start fire was so unintelligible that I can't even make out what they were saying, but I did appreciate just how bad Sam was at scrambling when he realized he was on the bottom. His entire pitch was like "guys if you split me and Brigitte, whoever stays will be MAD... do you guys not care about strength and power and who's been working hard and been happy and smiling and made fun jokes and had good times?!?!" and everyone was immediately like "um no we don't" :joker:

However, the highlight was the Nico/Brigitte feud :love: I will admit it did take me a while to get there because for most of the premerge we just got like one bitchy side confessional from each of them or a random "hehe I hid Nico's cigarettes to piss him off" that was literally never spoken about again (how the hell did he even have cigarettes out there to begin with???), but then it all EXPLODED in the last premerge episode, where Nico was like talking to dead fish and he and Brigitte could literally barely stand each other's presences, to the point where they just started throwing jabs at each other nonstop for the entire TC :joker: and then somehow Nico got the last laugh bc he knew he was on the way out so he stole the flint with him? :joker: I love how that's randomly a commonly petty action to take in Survivor SA, like when Zan basically turned Utara's flit into a makeshift Idol in SA: Champions to keep Buhle safe :love:

I've been enjoying the merge a lot so far! This season's pretty quaint with only 14 people and then a merge at 7 but Aguila serve as cute underdogs. Even Vanessa, someone who I did not care about *at all* during the premerge, has been a fun MORP presence in the merge, to the point where she asked Mark at TC if she could quit to spare Mzi and Mark had to talk her out of it by saying that there'd be a vote regardless :joker::joker::joker: but I'm enjoying the gender divide in Rana! I can always handle a steamroll or a Pagonging when there's a lot of in-alliance fighting and tension and that's exactly what is happening so it's enough to keep me interested. Zayn is all about ~honesty~ and ~playing with his heart~ despite being in an alliance that he just calls an agreement to make himself feel better, and Lezel and Jacinda are NOT having it and it's glorious so far :love:

ALSO, I have no ****ing clue if my edgic ratings are correct for episode 9 because the first 10-15 minutes of the episode are randomly missing :( so I'm certain that I missed some important stuff like the Reward Challenge and probably Brigitte's arrival at Dead Man's Island. This irritates me!!!

Macie Lightfoot

09-07-2020, 09:17 AM

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Finished SA1 and it was pretty okay! The merge was so-so with a slowish Pagonging, but then Dead Man's Island twist somehow worked out well? The F5 boot is sooooo bizarre, like Gareth/Jacinda/Zayn were a clear F3 and Mzi/Vanessa reenter the game. Mzi wins Immunity so Vanessa should be the easy target but she somehow becomes untouchable? Zayn tells Mzi he'll vote Jacinda out, Mzi and Vanessa decide to recruit Jacinda to take out Gareth, and somehow a 3-2 Vanessa vote becomes a 3-1-1 Gareth vote :shrug:

And then the F4 gameplay just becomes all about winning Challenges. Zayn fell and was eliminated and then Mzi, Vanessa, and Jacinda battled for Immunity. Mzi was randomly trying to get Jacinda and Vanessa to both agree to drop because... reasons? It sounds like he thought he was entitled to win because of some deal they made thinking it was going to be a normal F4 round? He was whispering to Jacinda about how Vanessa was fine getting third place in front of Vanessa, and then Jacinda and Vanessa wouldn't agree to drop until the other one did. And then Mzi tried to turn around and speak to Vanessa and he fell off the beam :joker:

FTC was fine. Everyone voted among tribal lines with the exception of Zayn, and while I definitely think Jacinda probably is more deserving considering she actually didn't get voted out ever, Vanessa's closing statement was a really good moment that captured why people would want to vote for her. I must say that Zayn's vote was suuuuuch bull**** though. He was mad at Jacinda for betraying him and Gareth even though he betrayed her first and she was just trying to act out of self-preservation. Oh well, I don't care enough about Jacinda or Vanessa to get REALLY mad about it, but it's dumb and hypocritical.

1. Brigitte (MORN grumpy model who overstayed her welcome soooooo much <3 on Survivor US she would've been the second boot in a "let's boot Brigitte to weaken Sam" bull**** move but in Survivor SA she ingratiated herself after the Sam boot, made it to the merge, and then was able to thrive on Dead Man's Island. Definitely my fave for the season but I wish her edit was a liiiiitle more N tbh)
2. Mzi (a fun CPP underdog? I would've been CONVINCED that he was winning if I wasn't spoiled. I thought he was a fun character who gave good confessionals and honestly Survivor SA doesn't do CPP too often but I think I always end up liking the CPP edits so even though his strip looks a little obnoxious it really wasn't at all)
3. Nico (okay so I don't think he's QUITE as good as he was hyped up to be because his strip was closer to toneless than I was expecting, but he was a fun narrator who cockroached his way through the second half of the premerge well. I'm still baffled at how he managed to sneak cigarettes, coffee beans, and lighters onto the island :joker:)
4. Ncumisa (she randomly was a CPP underdog warrior who seemed like she was going to have an AMAZING journey to be like a finale fallen angel or something... and then she got booted the next episode :joker:)
5. Lezel (I was digging her more premerge when she was like obnoxiously CP, and then out of NOWHERE it turned into a CPN edit postmerge but honestly it didn't really do much for me? I did alol at the one scene where she was like "the tribe has misrepresentations of me after the last TC, I'm going to do damage control today and mend those relationships" and then it immediately cut to her and Zayn screaming at each other in an argument and Zayn literally running away from her :joker::joker::joker: I feel like we should've gotten more though because Aguila HAAAAATED her when she got to Dead Man's Island)
6. Danielle (initial tribe outcast whom was HATED for bringing the mood and the energy down who turns her public opinion around by being a workhorse around camp is an EXCELLENT premiere storyline but then it kinda went nowhere :( she seemed like a lot of fun but after the premiere she just kinda turned into a MORfun narrator. Like, I was happy that she worked her way into her tribe's good graces but it kinda killed her storyline tbh)
7. Jacinda (I think she really could've been something without a MORboring edit. Respected tribe leader who was kinda brashly arrogant while giving TC answers about how everyone on her tribe LOVES her so she feels like she's doing them a service by being the leader. I kinda didn't like how stank she was but then she became such background noise during the merge that it just made no sense. It guess it worked in that I was kinda disappointed that she lost? She's solely this high for reading Zayn for filth when he was being a contradictory hypocrite about wanting to keep Mzi for being a threat but booting Vanessa for being a threat)
8. Vanessa (she was completely nonexistent in the premerge and then she was kind of a cute underdog post-merge? But not in any sort of remarkable way alol her being the very first winner of the franchise is hilariously absurd and ridiculous but I'm not exactly mad about it)
9. Sanele (was cute and nice and almost drowned during the marooning and then hurt his shoulder badly enough where he had to get medevaced so it was sad but then I didn't care)
10. Gareth (I feel like he could've been better if his edit wasn't just MORboring. He was a golden boy who didn't really get much focus outside of narration once the merge started so it was bizarre)
11. Sam (he was fine? A random BIG PRESENCE in the premiere who seemed like he could've been a fun narrator but then just turned into a bizarre OTTN alpha douche)
12. Jude (her quit was kinda sad and cute but then she left and I didn't care)
13. Don (I loled when he got voted out for doing nothing around camp and just sitting there picking at his nails)
14. Zayn (annoying waste of space who refused to play the game and called of his alliances "agreements" so he's basically a dumb hypocrite)

Definitely a watchable season but I was a little disappointed tbh! I went in expecting to love this season and find Malaysia a drag but if anything I found the opposite to be true :3 like that cast rnaking was kinda hard honestly and even my people in green I didn't feel THAT passionately about oops. My season ranking is probably something like...

6 > 2 > 5 > 7 > 1 > 4 > 3

I think? On another given day I could switch 5&7 and/or 1&4 but I'm dead set on my top two and my bottom one. Not at all how I was expecting to have the franchise ranked when I finished but I guess that's why you watch shows for yourself and form your own opinions!

Spoiler tagging my winners compilation edgic chart in case people want to remain unspoiled, as well as my every player ever compilation edgic chart just bc it's ****ing huge

Winners:
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Overalls:
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