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For the record, Rachel is amazing and she carried the season long enough to take out most of the trash before we turned to Morgan to finish her work.
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Im getting first boot vibes from blue tribe Sophi
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After all three tribes have gotten screentime, I could see Sophi B. as the first boot, yeah. But Uli strikes me as the trainwreck tribe of the season. They come off like they're going to flounder, physically.
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Underleveled posted...
Im getting first boot vibes from blue tribe Sophi
i think it's nicole

the 'makes funny comments but is shown to be bumbling' edit is less than ideal for her. they didn't have to show her falling on her ass
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The final post of the last topic was supposed to be "Vince sucks" darkx.

Yeah... Sophi B is either gonna be a winner contender or the first one out. Depends on how openly she quadruple dips. I could see either Kele or Uli losing the immunity challenge. Rizo at this supplies challenge was... something else.
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i kinda like rizo

i do not like rizgod
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<DeathChicken> you are my hero for being the first person to cite National Geographic in Mercs
Project M reference lmao
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<DeathChicken> you are my hero for being the first person to cite National Geographic in Mercs
Ha, I knew Jason was gonna say Smash, and it was great hearing them go in depth with it.

Good on Matt for resisting being an overbearing know it all and letting them ask for his help. He avoided a mistake that many outdoor-savvy older guys make.
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Underleveled posted...
Ha, I knew Jason was gonna say Smash, and it was great hearing them go in depth with it.
Keep in mind the Survivor editors are major nerds, too, and would fit right in on this board.

Good on Matt for resisting being an overbearing know it all and letting them ask for his help. He avoided a mistake that many outdoor-savvy older guys make.
This too. Steve also recognized what was happening - Matt didn't want to "become the leader" - and urged him on.

Shoe banditry is a Rupert trademark... and that was smart. This shoe bandit is a dumbass.
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I definitely think blue is going to TC but I could see the boot being like, anybody but Jake or Jeremiah.
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I think Savannah is probably my favorite so far.
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"Morale at Hina is very high"

Hope you enjoy Tribal!
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Man...why does the first Steven on Survivor have to be another Andy?
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first boot guesses per tribe

blue - nicole
red - sage
yellow - steven
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<DeathChicken> you are my hero for being the first person to cite National Geographic in Mercs
I'm confused as to how Savannah saw that as a red flag. He just needed to collect himself. He didn't blow up at anyone or anything. He just got frustrated.
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Lmfao Nicole
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well that challenge was definitely annie's fault but annie is going to blame nicole i bet

hina is shockingly capable
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<DeathChicken> you are my hero for being the first person to cite National Geographic in Mercs
I feel like Annie SHOULD be the obvious first boot...but it's going to be Nicole instead.
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Inviso posted...
I feel like Annie SHOULD be the obvious first boot...but it's going to be Nicole instead.
jeremiah will push for annie to go and alex will push for nicole to go so i guess it depends on where jake and sophi end up
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<DeathChicken> you are my hero for being the first person to cite National Geographic in Mercs
It's gonna be so poetic if we get a Pearl Islands reference (multiple Pearl Islands references if you count "Shoe Bandit"), and we finish the episode with the second ever Nicole in Survivor US history...also being the first boot of her season.
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i hope annie goes

the odds aren't great nicole gets a karishma style rebound but i'd love to see it
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<DeathChicken> you are my hero for being the first person to cite National Geographic in Mercs
I think Nicole is playing her Shit in the Dark...
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Well then, she SHOULD have played it.

Inviso posted...
It's gonna be so poetic if we get a Pearl Islands reference (multiple Pearl Islands references if you count "Shoe Bandit"), and we finish the episode with the second ever Nicole in Survivor US history...also being the first boot of her season.
This is also pretty funny the more you think about it.
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that was a very average premiere. a handful of people i like, and the rest are kind of neutral. i'm not sure there's anyone i actively dislike yet, but rizo could be on that trajectory if he keeps using slang obnoxiously. R I Z G O D BAYBEE was my least favorite part of the episode.
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<DeathChicken> you are my hero for being the first person to cite National Geographic in Mercs
I just came out of that episode not really feeling like I'd gotten to know much about anyone. Two hours and nothing felt especially exciting.
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kind of a boring premier tbh
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Inviso posted...
I just came out of that episode not really feeling like I'd gotten to know much about anyone. Two hours and nothing felt especially exciting.
i just want more kristina
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<DeathChicken> you are my hero for being the first person to cite National Geographic in Mercs
Chaeix posted...
i just want more kristina
who
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i think theres a lot of generally compelling people but nothing really...important or noteworthy felt like it happened tonight. we have some vague alliances, some people who are competing for main character status, but nothing really significant still
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BlueCrystalTear posted...
who
loud funny self-admittedly useless lady on yellow
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<DeathChicken> you are my hero for being the first person to cite National Geographic in Mercs
Chaeix posted...
loud funny self-admittedly useless lady on yellow
I don't remember her at all.

Hell, who else is on the yellow tribe? Matt, Steven, and... four other people, right...?

Which tribe was Uli again? Oh, right, red.

It was a premiere. It wasn't much of anything more.
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Vague spoilers regarding the two people from 49 who are on 50 (no names, just how I feel about them based on last night)

I like one right now, but they could still very much go either way.

I hate the other.
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Underleveled posted...
Vague spoilers regarding the two people from 49 who are on 50 (no names, just how I feel about them based on last night)

I like one right now, but they could still very much go either way.

I hate the other.
I really like (presumably the same) one, in part since this was one of the only people who did anything actively entertaining, but yes, that one could go either way. I too think the other is probably my least favorite after the premiere.

First impression of this cast is that it's a dull bunch. I hope that changes, but given the last two seasons I'm not expecting it to. At least there were some interesting dynamics on the last two seasons, but I remember 46 far better than either 4Several or 48.
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The name Nicole is cursed to last place on Survivor lol
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I have no idea why I'm on this site still.
If only that were true on Big Brother as well.
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Underleveled posted...
If only that were true on Big Brother as well.
eh, you gotta remember that Nicole Franzel was pretty awesome on BB16, but became worse with every subsequent appearance on any show (save for Reindeer Games). Her distortion stems from her winning BB18. And then there was BB21 Nicole, who was one of the only bright spots in an otherwise miserable season.

BB16 is not a good season and it would've been even worse if Nicole had gone out first tbh. She was one of the only ones who came close to figuring Derrick out, which is why she had to go. But the trade-off is that BB18 and BB22 don't happen the way they did, and those two seasons are probably considerably better (instead of average and awful, respectively), so... maybe...
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so i think it's been long enough that i can spoil the winners of the amazing race canada in here because like 3 people watch it

MY FRIENDS WON IT YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

anyways i went to their celebration party tonight and we had canadian reality tv royalty there. TARCAN11 winners jessie and jonathan, a top chef canada winner, a drag race canada winner, and lots of other contestants and runners up.

but the coolest part was that it was like, a proper community event. nobody seemed like a celebrity of any kind, it was just like, people you knew who were on things.
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<DeathChicken> you are my hero for being the first person to cite National Geographic in Mercs
wooooow. congrats! that's insane.
I just got caught up on survivor and i may have never hated someone more in my life than Rizo
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I just came out of that episode not really feeling like I'd gotten to know much about anyone. Two hours and nothing felt especially exciting.

Everyone every single fuckin person had a sob story and as a result they all blend together and Im actively cheering for well-adjusted normal guy Nate.
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Chaeix posted...
but the coolest part was that it was like, a proper community event. nobody seemed like a celebrity of any kind, it was just like, people you knew who were on things.
This sounds like how it should be. I'd love to hang out with Survivor contestants and just act like we're old friends. But most of them aren't like that... they want to increase their Instagram followers and act like they're some kind of "Survivor expert" from having been on the show.

Eddv posted...
I just got caught up on survivor and i may have never hated someone more in my life than Rizo
It's RizGod I despise. He shouldn't have brought that side of him, because he's an arrogant tryhard who is cringe, not entertaining. He should've just been Rizo, who doesn't suck but isn't memorable.

Eddv posted...
Every single fuckin person had a sob story and as a result they all blend together and Im actively cheering for well-adjusted normal guy Nate.
Yeah, this is why nobody stands out. They're too redundant of each other - a common trope in the "New Era" that I am quite sick of. I want to see conflict, not kumbayah. At least we had Savannah saying they can't stay like that forever. They're gonna have to slit some throats later.

They really need to find the right balance between casting cutthroat superfans and clueless recruits. It's much more amusing when the cutthroat players short-circuit because of someone else having no clue what they're doing. And it's funny when the gamebots overdo it and get voted out because some recruit doesn't like it.
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So that one kid that announced on-air that he was the alternate for 49? Evidently, two people got ejected in the hours leading up to the game for blatantly pre-gaming and continuing to do so after a formal warning to cut it out. So they probably included that scene on-air as middle finger to those two people.
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Big Brother Feeds Update:

HoH Part 1 Winner: .................Morgan.................
HoH Part 2 Winner: .................Ashley...................

Losing part 1 sent Vince into a whining spiral about how much better at things Morgan is than him (and complaining about her winning vetoes she didn't need to win when he was HoH and wasn't going to target her). But losing part 2 to Ashley REALLY sent him spiraling, throwing the world's biggest pity party about how much of a loser he is in the house and in real life. This man is fucking EXHAUSTING, and it's so upsetting that there is still a chance he wins the game if Ashley somehow beats Morgan and takes him to the finals.
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Eddv posted...
I just got caught up on survivor and i may have never hated someone more in my life than Rizo
R I Z G O D BAYBEEEEE

at least he has the self-awareness not to bring that side of him to the other players. i think it was mike bloom who was talking about the first few days on the island and how rizo had said he was going to keep it to confessionals.

but that begs the question why someone who's self-aware about being obnoxious decides to still be obnoxious
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Just caught up. Don't really have anything to say about the Survivor premiere that hasn't already been said.

TAR premiere was the same level of mid. Maybe it would've been better if I actually knew any of these people, but the only team that really made an impression on me was Jack & Enzo, mostly from how much of a joke they were. But 13 teams is too much for an episode, and I'm glad the first boots at least got an episode dedicated to how much they suck at TAR rather than ending up like Mark & Larry where we don't even get to know them in order to keep some suspense about the result.
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Losing part 1 sent Vince into a whining spiral about how much better at things Morgan is than him (and complaining about her winning vetoes she didn't need to win when he was HoH and wasn't going to target her). But losing part 2 to Ashley REALLY sent him spiraling, throwing the world's biggest pity party about how much of a loser he is in the house and in real life. This man is fucking EXHAUSTING, and it's so upsetting that there is still a chance he wins the game if Ashley somehow beats Morgan and takes him to the finals.
I think Ashley actually beats Loser simply because she evicted Morgan. That may be enough to get votes from Rachel, Will, and Keanu. Kelley won't vote for Vince since he forgot about their F2 deal and Ava also won't vote for him. The only one other than Morgan who votes Loser over Ashley is Lauren, who... really shouldn't tbh. He went overboard taking advantage of her naivete. Calling him a "piece of work" is putting it mildly - he's so much of a pity party, an emotional mess, a degenerate at all phases of life that I think Kelsey was probably thinking about giving him an ultimatum even before he started boning Morgan, that ultimatum being "get a job - any job - or we're through." A seasonal part-time retail job even! He needed to take the first steps to getting his life back together and... wasn't willing to. And then he openly cheated on her and thought it was fine. Moron.

I am referring to him as "Loser" because the Beck song by that name perfectly describes him. I don't know why that didn't occur to me until last night. I also saw his Instagram and he and Kelsey seemed to have a pretty great life until about two years ago, when he suddenly went inactive... guessing he lost his job and, as is obvious by his personality, that destroyed him.

Chaeix posted...
but that begs the question why someone who's self-aware about being obnoxious decides to still be obnoxious
He probably thinks being obnoxious = increased airtime = increased social media following.
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Mewtwo59 posted...
Just caught up. Don't really have anything to say about the Survivor premiere that hasn't already been said.

TAR premiere was the same level of mid. Maybe it would've been better if I actually knew any of these people, but the only team that really made an impression on me was Jack & Enzo, mostly from how much of a joke they were. But 13 teams is too much for an episode, and I'm glad the first boots at least got an episode dedicated to how much they suck at TAR rather than ending up like Mark & Larry where we don't even get to know them in order to keep some suspense about the result.

I was happy to see Enzo get fucked over. It's karma for the bullshit he pulled on Desi in the Challenge USA 1 finale.
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I was happy to see Enzo get fucked over. It's karma for the bullshit he pulled on Desi in the Challenge USA 1 finale.
The producers pulled that bullshit. Enzo just couldn't swim.

Him failing at TAR is thus the least surprising thing. I'm honestly surprised they invited him, but... maybe they expected his failure to be amusing. Sounds like it was!
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