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also i am baffled by the fact that there are multiple heidi haters (?) from this board but then i remember that most of you suck and are horrible people

season 44 had the best cast of the new era with the worst editing

there was just too much talking about how great people and their stories were without context. even carolyn (who had plenty of incredible moments) also had some insufferable infantilizing of her life and story in this finale. but lauren basically getting a dramatic sendoff of how great she was without the show having ever let us see that in the prior 12 episodes - was the worst. and that's not on her, of course, that's the show just never giving us literally anything from her after, like, the goddamn premiere.

anyway, yam yam deserved the win, good for him, but i wish it felt more satisfying for some reason i haven't quite figured out. editing and production will benefit from the 90 minutes but they're gonna need them put to better use than the 60 they've been working with.

i think carson and yam yam made the correct move - at least the way the edit is selling us (with what the players are saying), all the tikas are big threats to win and would have ended up getting eaten by the numbers if they turn on each other here

that said, the edit is telling me over and over that carolyn wins and i am finding it hard to believe that (correct or not) yam yam's "prophecy" will not be proven true

carolyn has shown the power to make "new era" tribal councils actually interesting and entertaining, which should make her the automatic winner in my book

the worst-kept secret is official: 90 minute episodes for survivor (and amazing race) starting in the fall

https://twitter.com/DaltonRoss/status/1656313249447440386

this SHOULD be a good thing, given that there's no sign the advantages and twists are going to be going away - this will give us more time for character development and camp stories to fill the gaps in that we lose from all the extra twists. but...we'll see how the time ends up being spent.

Carolyn or bust.

and also not to be such a downer but like
there have been MULTIPLE episodes of survivor with literal sexual misconduct. i can't fathom thinking of those incidents and looking at them next to a dumb twist and thinking "yeah this season is so much worse"

tbqh while i hated the stupid twist of last week's episode i did not find it particularly bad. the emotional stakes of the people involved were legitimately compelling, even if the overly-convoluted nature of the current game gets in the way of that happening much more organically. either way, it's a dumb twist but like...so was the bullshit they did back in season 14 fiji. i think there are a lot of legitimate complaints of the new era stuff and the way its handled but i also think the level of fearmongering online is just absurdly overblown

also rip keith, i saw his name in my trending pop up and i was hoping it wasn't for that reason. gone far too soon.

Ricard posted a brutal twitter post about Nick's egregious sociopathy that really hit home. These pricks will pretend to be friends to our faces and then vote to strip us of everything behind our backs. Hoping Nick finds a brick through his windows many days in his future.

https://twitter.com/Brian_Scally/status/1636772021651611650

all i can say about today's nonsense is i hate admitting that anyone else is right

but y'all were very very right

fuck nick wilson, absolute buffoon and loser

I think I hate all the people on orange but especially Jamie who is completely and utterly useless. We're going to have to hear her endless mindfulness bullshit all damn season while she gets 0 votes at the end, won't we?

wg64Z posted...

Karla's stock for me absolutely nose dived in these past 2-3 episodes. No doubt she poisoned the Jury against Cass in pure butthurt.

Nope. Try again

also owen didn't do anything wrong - imho, he just needed to win f4 immunity and put himself into and winning fire to make the win happen. he was drawing dead at the final tc because he just hadn't been in the know enough. but good for him to even get there - he seemed more than screwed at quite a few points.

this is genuinely the most shocked i've been in at least 10+ seasons watching survivor. i don't know whether that's a good or bad thing.

i will say, i am pleased the cassidy truthers were foiled, mostly because it would have pissed me off if they edited yet another female winner like crap. but now i'm just left wondering what the hell happened.