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  1. Bhanu’s whole “million hearts” shtick had already gotten old to me by about his third repetition.
  2. Nashville

    Fix The Show

    IMHO Production really needs to re-evaluate its IC loser protocol. While I understand their guiding principle is increased stress -> increased drama, the current protocol leans way too heavily towards kicking someone when they’re already down: In the current paradigm of combined Reward and Immunity challenges, the losing team is already immediately penalized by missing out on any degree of reward, while their opponent teams receive immediate advantage in the form of increased comfort and/or food gathering capabilities. The losers are also disadvantaged much more impactfully by the loss of a tribal teammate at the subsequent TC. The long-term consequences of this particular disadvantage are significantly deleterious; it gifts the losers’ opponents with creation of a “bench” in future challenges, while simultaneously denying the same to the losers. The advantage of having flexibility to sit out injured or underperforming players cannot be overstated - especially when you consider all members of the tribe on the bottom must perform at 100% at every challenge, simply to maintain their (already-disadvantaged) status quo. Against this backdrop, Jiffy’s withholding of the firestarter flint does little more than exacerbate the current balance of advantage and disadvantage; the non-losers have enhanced opportunities for food preparation and simple resting comfort which are denied the losers - kicking them when they’re down, in effect, then putting a boot on their neck to KEEP them down. IMHO any two of these factors are severely detrimental and all three are overkill, so Production should at least consider dropping one of the three - if for no other reason than to keep the game interesting. Personally I’d recommend dropping #3 (withholding of the flint) simply because it is already the easiest for the losers to overcome - assuming, of course, any of these chucklenuts actually went to the effort before boarding their Fiji flight to learn how to make fire without matches or flint. When did preemptively learning such basic survival skills stop being Survivor 101, anyway - when firestarter flints ceased to be a reward to be earned, and instead became part of a season’s “standard option” package? Discuss.
  3. Judging from the interior shots of Hunter’s house, I think we could safely mark that as Confirmed. Don’t know about anyone else, but Bhanu’s bipolar flip-flops from shocking naïveté to uber-paranoia bother (and irritate) me more than a little; reminds me too much of some of the girls I dated back in college.
  4. My dog has bigger balls than Bhanu, and we had him fixed when he was a pup. (The dog, not Bhanu)
  5. I swear - if I’d been on Yanu I think I would’ve had to suggest putting a gag on Bhanu, if it weren’t for the fact that the next time he kicked on the waterworks he would’ve essentially waterboarded himself.
  6. Well - Erik is the series’s resident expert on misplaced trust, so…. 😆
  7. Glad to know I’m not the only one who felt that way. There was absolutely zero thought going on in how that tribe was approaching the puzzle; both Jess and Kenzie (the shortest two) SHOULD have been on the extreme lowest ends of the arch, while the taller players worked the arch keystone (the second ‘S’) and its immediately surrounding blocks. 🙄 So, Bhanu: if you really want to vent on someone who was handicapping the tribe’s solution attempts, go scream at a fucking mirror.
  8. Can’t remember if from a published interview or maybe a post-vote discussion at one of the FTCs, but I seem to remember Peachy saying something a while back to the effect each challenge was specifically designed and tested out beforehand to ensure there was at least one way it could be completed within the specified time constraints while still abiding by the rules as laid out. IIRC though, Jiffy also allowed successful completion may have been dependent upon a trick or gimmick to the challenge which contestants had to figure out on-the-fly - so while futility might not have been 100% assured, their odds of success may have been pretty damn low.
  9. Tattooing the unconscious is generally frowned-upon…. The mud actually provides a very simple and practical service which is reason enough not to immediately wash it off - insect repellent - until it dries and cracks off, at least.
  10. Notice the look of shocked surprise which totally failed to cross my face…. 🙄
  11. A few thoughts: Did Production just set a new record for most IT people cast in a single season? I was down for Jellyroll to go the moment he sat down in the bucket challenge; I can’t abide someone who expends more energy coming up with reasons why they should quit a task than they ever put into it in the first place. A significant part of it was editing, to be sure - but outside of the first few laps in the challenge, virtually every shot of Jellboy was of him sitting on his ass. And if toting a leaky bucket of water is the hardest physical labor you’ve ever done in your life, then geddafuckouttahere. I started out wanting to like Jessica, honestly, but I suspect her near-absolute lack of self-awareness in how she comes across to people does not bode well for her future. Jess’s TC came across like a one-woman show of See What A Shitty Ally I Would Be. Likewise Kenzie; I wanted to like her as well - but anybody declaring themselves “Queen Of The Tribe” on Day One is already ringing the dinner bell. Bhanu’s energy is both engaging and exhausting at the same time. Wonder which side will win out. If Venus is going to reference her progenitor for game metaphors, then she needs to bone up on her Roman mythology first. Mars was the god of war (not “wrath”), and Venus was never married to him - she was married to Vulcan, and screwed around with Mars on the side. IMHO that might be a possibility, for one reason: I was surprised at the unanimity of the vote. I was fully expecting a 3-2 vote, with Bhangra being the swing. Shortly after the start, Q was plugging the holes with his fingers; I don’t think Jellylicious did, for the simple reason he hardly carried any water to begin with. THAT was what made me feel bad for Jess initially; just like Q and the bucket challenge, Jello quit on Jess early and left her no option except to work the puzzle solo. Did JelFoam do ANYTHING other than simply hand Jess puzzle pieces…?
  12. Swear to GAWD that TC was frustrating to watch: I really wanted Jelly gone - I can’t abide a quitter, especially when they try to spin it into something (ANYTHING) else - but given our long and illustrious history of not being able to have nice things, I fully expected the tribe to vote off Jess over him to maintain physicality in challenges. After Jelboy got moderately savaged by Jiffy for trying his hardest not to own his quittiness, though, I thought, “You done dug your own grave, boy” and leaned back in quiet satisfaction… …until Jess decided to jump into the conversation by repeatedly demonstrating her inability to compose so much as a single coherent sentence. I actually turned to my wife and asked, “wtf is she trying to do - snatch defeat from the jaws of victory???” So yeah, I was glad to see Jelly head down the Path of Shame without so much as a goodbye to his teammates - but damned if I wasn’t exhausted as hell by that point.
  13. Depends on how old the parents were in the 80s. 😉
  14. It was the Eighties, mon. 😆
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