[JerseyWins]

Just skimmed through the recap episode of Australia and plan to watch some more of this season soon.

I'm liking the season (probably not as much as Borneo but I prefer the cast & I still have 5 or so episodes left and I like what I saw in the preview for next episode ).

It's another season where I completely prefer one side over the other though. I just realized I like the entire Kucha tribe to some extent.

Jeff/Elisabeth/Rodger/Alicia are/were my favorites and I actually even liked Kimmi now too. On the other hand, Ogakor sucks almost as a whole. I don't really like Keith most of the time, Amber is just kinda whatever, and I really don't like Colby and especially Jerri (and Mitchell sucked too fwiw). However, Tina is fine / pretty likable. Kel was the best one on this tribe lol.

[TomC]

Originally Posted by JerseyWins

Just skimmed through the recap episode of Australia and plan to watch some more of this season soon.

I'm liking the season (probably not as much as Borneo but I prefer the cast & I still have 5 or so episodes left and I like what I saw in the preview for next episode ).

It's another season where I completely prefer one side over the other though. I just realized I like the entire Kucha tribe to some extent.

Jeff/Elisabeth/Rodger/Alicia are/were my favorites and I actually even liked Kimmi now too. On the other hand, Ogakor sucks almost as a whole. I don't really like Keith most of the time, Amber is just kinda whatever, and I really don't like Colby and especially Jerri (and Mitchell sucked too fwiw). However, Tina is fine / pretty likable. Kel was the best one on this tribe lol.

Yeah going into the merge I really preferred Kucha - in particular I loved Alicia, liked Nick and Elisabeth had been growing on me a lot, whereas Amber is dull and Keith and Colby aren't great.

I really don't remember much of the postmerge of AO - I think it was deffo uneventful but I took it for what it was because it was my second season.

There are a few TC shocks along the way, what episode aer you up to?

[JerseyWins]

Originally Posted by TomC

There are a few TC shocks along the way, what episode aer you up to?

I think episode 11 (which I'll probably be watching in a minute). Jerri just went and hopefully Colby is next (or Keith/Amber would be fine). Elisabeth/Rodger & Nick

I'm curious about which way Tina is going to go from here (I'm guessing on Keith/Colby/Amber's side). Again this is a season where I already know the winner but literally nothing else so I'm wondering who ends up in the F2 with her. I guess she could beat anyone right now so it could be anyone.

[Macie Lightfoot]

Jerri Manthey is a national treasure how dare you (then again, so is Sue Hawk, so maybe it is tough to recognize greatness......x)

Also, Alicia kinda sucks?

[TomC]

Originally Posted by Macie Lightfoot

Jerri Manthey is a national treasure how dare you (then again, so is Sue Hawk, so maybe it is tough to recognize greatness......x)

Also, Alicia kinda sucks?

Alicia was actually my favourite in AO, but she just took her whole persona waaay too far in her return

[JerseyWins]

Jerri suuuuux... she has a smugness to her that is very annoying. I can't find it funny or anything either, she's just not very amusing. And it's as if she likes to piss people off (I mean I guess she literally does and she has a high success rate at doing so based on both seasons I've seen of her ).

Sue Hawk is fine and I can see the praise there but she just got kinda entitled and what not towards the end and it showed in a very weird/arrogant way during the finale. She's definitely not awful though, very funny/entertaining at times, more so early on.

[JerseyWins]

Oh nvm Colby wins immunity. I figured Nick would be the next to go.

I definitely feel like this season is coming to a dull finish.

[VanessaFeltz.]

There were 6 members of jury, but Junko Matsuo refused to vote for either Daisuke or Eri because she did not believe that either castaway was worthy of being the Sole Survivor.

Imagine you could do that in survivor us.. LMAOOO season 8 would have like 3 jury votes

[Macie Lightfoot]

Spontaneously starting a South Pacific rewatch NOW! I know the season gets a bad rap but it has Sophie and Albert and Edna and Christine and Stacey (all on one tribe!) and, depending on who else floats your boat, Dawn, Cochran, Ozzy, Coach, and even Brandon???? IDK, I definitely get the criticisms but I think the season shines in spite of them :3 plus the winner might be my fave non-Sandra one of them all?

[Macie Lightfoot]

"Like when Billie Jean said it was Mike's son."

Episode 1 was fun! I know I go on and on about Upolu being great but Savaii was actually more entertaining tonight, which makes sense since they went to TC and had more focus. Cochran is actually kinda endearing to start off, which I was half-expecting but it's still surprising to me, but we'll see how long it lasts. Dawn's Day 2 Breakdown was okay but the true highlight was her pulling on a vine with all of her weight and then collapsing to the ground when the vine broke the real star though was SEMHAR. Her spoken word poetry her one-episode feud with Jim (who is so awful already) her argument for staying at Tribal Council being that she provides to the tribe by finding good sticks to use as toothbrushes and alol, Ozzy trying to keep her literally only because she's hot Ozzy's confessional about how she's beautiful and smart was hilarious because it sounded like there was a fluffer off-screen giving him a blowjob and he was doing his best not to climax right there. I know Redemption Island is an objectively terrible twist, but thank **** it gives us three episodes of Semhar. She might be the first bootiest first boot of them all, but at least we 3x the exposure to her that we normally would. Could you even imagine if she was put on Upolu??? Like, I can't even imagine what her interactions with anyone would be like. Coach? Brandon? Stacey? Christine? Edna? SOPHIE?!?!?!

[JerseyWins]

I remember the very beginning being the only somewhat good part about South Pacific.

I agree with most of that but South Pacific is just not a good season at all (it can get a pass pre-merge since Upolu is messy enough to keep it relatively entertaining but it just gets more and more boring and R.I. is just such a bad twist). Also, the winner is one of my least favorite winners ever lol.

[Macie Lightfoot]

I'm already furiously typing my metal keyboard @ all of those LIES but I'll wait to address them when I finish this season since my thoughts will be even more fresh and my feelings more profound.

[reece(:]

Semharsus

[Macie Lightfoot]

Christine: What were they talking about?
Edna: ...........I don't know, I'm just packing my **** just in case O_O
Christine: But what were they saying?
Edna: ....I think that they were talking maybe... about Sophie to begin with?
Christine: No, Sophie was over there too :gurl:
Edna: O_O oh...

[JerseyWins]

LOL @ Colby taking Tina to the F2. Once again I'm shocked at how the final 2 played out. I really thought Tina was going to win that final immunity and take Keith to the final.

Funny how the first two seasons started with bad decisions on who to take to the final 2.

[Macie Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by JerseyWins

Funny how the first two seasons started with bad decisions on who to take to the final 2.

Kelly didn't really lose because of who she took to the end. She didn't have a chance against either one of them because she lost more and more of the jury's respect each week.

[JerseyWins]

Originally Posted by TomC

True I guess.

I really liked Africa when I was watching it. The premerge is pretty great, and enjoy Lindsey, Kelly, Linda and Ethan they were my favourites

I liked Lindsey a lot the first episode. Kelly & Linda weren't included that much so idk about them yet and Ethan seems pretty good.

Also idk if my take on the first episode sounded negative or not but so far I enjoyed watching the chaos.. it was just kind of a strange first episode and not the best editing.

Originally Posted by Macie Lightfoot

Kelly didn't really lose because of who she took to the end. She didn't have a chance against either one of them because she lost more and more of the jury's respect each week.

I doubt she would have lost to Rudy. I think the other side respected her game enough to give her the win.

It was close against Richard, who dominated the game, but I guess that might be partly due to Susan's jury speech.

[Macie Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by JerseyWins

I doubt she would have lost to Rudy. I think the other side respected her game enough to give her the win.

It was close against Richard, who dominated the game, but I guess that might be partly due to Susan's jury speech.

Pagong didn't even respect her game in the first place. Kelly flip-flopped in the most weak-willed way and it was transparent for everyone to see. Just look at Greg's confessional before the FTC or Colleen's voting confessional or anything else from the post-merge. Kelly wanted out of the alliance because it conflicted with her morals, but she realized how much she benefitted from it so instead of outright flipping to Pagong she just threw stray votes that didn't matter. It was hardly a protest and it just made her look terrible. People hated Richard's ego but they respected him; everyone just kinda rolled their eyes and muttered under their breath about Kelly.

and besides, nobody voted based on the game. There wasn't even a game, it was the first season. Pretty much every person's vote came down to who they liked more and people LOVED Rudy. Just remember the whole F3 scenario -- Rich threw the final IC and told Kelly that there was no way she couldn't take him to the end bc she'd be a moron to bring Rudy. and then she did exactly that. Everyone knew Rudy was a lock to win in the end.

[JerseyWins]

I feel like both of them are answering these questions pretty horribly and in their opening speeches it's like they wanted the other one to win (I think Colby literally said that lmao)...

EDIT: Wow Colby even passed on having any last words...

[JerseyWins]

Haha I'm pretty sure I saw young Katie in the crowd with Tina's family. That's kinda funny because I completely forgot about her.

Tina is waaaay more deserving than Colby so I'm glad he botched that entirely on the finale.

Australia definitely turned out to be a very basic season though that was actually hard to get through after the merge. Borneo died out a bit towards the end too but not like this and Borneo had a much better peak than Australia. Australia is pretty solid pre-merge and the merge episode.

Final cast ranking:

1. Jeff
2. Elisabeth
3. Rodger
4. Alicia
5. Tina
6. Kimmi
7. Skupin (definitely got some creepy vibes though which makes the news on him not as surprising)
8. Kel
9. Nick
10. Debb
11. Amber
12. Maralyn
13. Keith
14. Mitchell
15. Colby
16. Jerri

[JerseyWins]

People I know from the All Stars cast so far:

(although in Rob's case I still haven't seen his first season... I almost want to go right to Rob's first season next but I'll stay patient and go with Africa)

Boston Rob
Jenna L
Alicia
Tina
Richard Hatch
Susan
Amber
Rudy
Rupert
Colby
Jerri

Ehhh not looking amazing but I don't mind it. There's still some people I like a lot and there's a lot of big time players/characters in there already with 7 more that I don't know yet.

[TomC]

That's funny because I think that the AS lineup looks way better than the HvV one in paper. You've still yet to meet some stars though...

Spoiler:

Don't read this JW...

Spoiler:

Kathy, Shii Ann, Rob C and Ethan <3

[JerseyWins]

Originally Posted by TomC

That's funny because I think that the AS lineup looks way better than the HvV one in paper. You've still yet to meet some stars though...

Spoiler:

Don't read this JW...

Spoiler:

Kathy, Shii Ann, Rob C and Ethan <3

I've looked up the whole All Stars cast so I read this too. I don't mind knowing who's in the All Stars cast, just don't want to know any results.

I just got started on Ethan's season who I kinda like already.

[JerseyWins]

Whoa... Diane has to be possibly THE least featured first boot I've ever seen. I don't think she had a confessional before her vote. Literally have no clue who she is but she seemed wacky at the end so I'm surprised she got no edit aside from being involved in the Clarence drama.

Also, it's a little bit weird that both Diane & Clarence were saying that the other is lying about how the beans incident went down but then they don't even show the moment it happened so it's not even clear to the audience who is lying. Messy first episode.

[TomC]

I mean I found Diane quite memorable cos of her collapsing at the end of the challenge and the Clarence drama was a major part of the episode

The first boots from the next three seasons are even less noticeable IMO