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I'm glad others saw the judges' same misguided allowances for Juergen. (We'll overlook his dropping baked items on the ground and then serving them with a shrug, because the show apparently did.) It's outlandish that he wasn't even part of the conversation for being on the bottom after failing the baked portion of the signature round and coming in second to last in the technical. But then to talk about him as being under consideration for star baker after serving up a brown, lopsided "celebration" cake was especially galling.
Lizzie was robbed. And Paul's contention on Extra Slice that the bakers are judged solely by their performance in each episode is an outright lie.
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On 5/14/2020 at 11:12 AM, CrazyInAlabama said:
Chocolate milk, did this need to be reinvented? However, coming to the tank with only prototypes, and pre-sales and with a $4 million valuation was ridiculous. I don't care about the calories, and sugar, but if it tastes as bad as the sharks indicated, they can forget it. I suspect they came on for the publicity, and not getting a deal shouldn't have surprised the sellers.
Exactly. Every episode, there seems to be at least one pitch for a product that seems to exist just to find investors, not to sell to consumers. They're usually the ones with a big ask for a tiny stake, and they always have previous investors. But they don't really have a viable product or profits.
This was that pitch for this episode. The skin product Proven was the one a few episodes ago.
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On 4/30/2020 at 8:53 PM, ChitChat said:
I liked Dale at first. They really turned him into a jerk! I'm not a fan of Connie and Dr. Sturgis though.
Did they turn Dale into a jerk, or was that what he already was and we saw it slowly revealed?
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12 hours ago, LadyChatts said:
On the subject of the family visit, I wonder if they knew their whole families were coming out.
The production had to alert the contestants at some point before filming that all of their immediate family members needed passports for international travel. So it had to at least be a possibility that they suspected something like the full family visit might happen.
2 hours ago, JudyObscure said:Imagine being a child on a a 14 hour fight. Then imagine being a grown-up, regular person on the flight that brought all those Survivor families. The show should at least pay for their tickets.
The families were all flown out free by Fiji Airways, which has a relationship with the show. Survivor apparently has been a big boon to the Fiji economy, thanks to other filming it has attracted, a boost in tourism and training that the show has provided to locals.
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19 hours ago, LadyChatts said:
I was thinking the same thing about Probst. You could literally see the light bulb go off over his head. Adam likely gave them the idea to hide something there. For that Probst should have lied and played along.
Probst in an interview with EW: "To be very clear, we have never hidden an idol or any advantage at Tribal because we don’t want players destroying the set. I don’t see that changing. If there was ever anything to be found at Tribal, it would be very obvious to the players."
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Rob: Shhhh. See, I have this secret plan. It's called the Buddy System.
Rest of Tribe: Rob is obviously using his Buddy System.
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It was way past due for Kim to go home, considering that she had been at or near the bottom so many times. In the follow-up with her, it wasn't really a surprise that she ended up splitting from her husband and -- considering the challenges she faces because of her metabolism at her age -- that she didn't look that different from when she left the show.
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9 minutes ago, Harvey said:
I did not like how condescending Bob was at the dinner table when Abishola invited him to church, and it also felt a little out of character. He seems to read social clues better on other occasions but he just said too many of the wrong things there for no reason.
Exactly. The writers completely changed Bob's character to justify the plot's machinations. He was so uncharacteristically tone-deaf about the religion situation that the discussion became unbelievable. I also find it hard to believe that a serious discussion about religion hadn't come up before now, especially since it's such a big part of Abishola's family's life.
Still, the reactions of Abishola's son to Bob's (ridiculously uncharacteristic) predicament were hilarious.
Which brings up: Shouldn't Bob be more involved with her son at this point of their relationship?-
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4 hours ago, Bali said:
Delia's girl crush on the doctor didn't do it for me.
And why was she inviting her friend/colleague to someone else's party?
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12 hours ago, PaperTree said:
"Be the ball" Damn. I wanted Lauren out.
Did anyone else notice that Lauren's ball had what looked to be a crease on it? It was on the side that was against the wooden frame, so it would have slightly flattened the ball -- making it less likely to roll off. Not implying producer shenanigans here, but I just thought that was weird.
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On 11/6/2019 at 1:54 PM, psychoticstate said:
Surprised the Pilli (sp?) guy didn't get a deal since everyone seemed to love his product. Easy fix for the multiple skus - figure out the top 3 or 4 products and shelf everything else.
The Sharks seemed to lose interest when he noted that there was a cap on how much he could make (and it didn't seem that high) due to the limited amount of product to harvest. He also mentioned that some of the trees were "old growth," which doesn't bode well for expanding the supply -- if mature trees are needed. So scalability was a huge concern.
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1 hour ago, Katy M said:
That, and not only did Georgie have it set up that they couldn't watch the cable he paid for, they also couldn't watch the free TV (which I never in my whole life got) they were already watching. I get why Georgie wouldn't want to pay for cable for the whole family, but he should have also bought a TV and had set up in his own room.
The parental controls are for the cable box, not the TV. So George could have still watched the TV the way he always had before -- using the existing antenna, not the box.
But I'm pretty sure that parental controls were not available on set-top cable boxes during the time period the show is set, even though the producers did a good job of making them look "old school." -
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Two things I learned in this episode:
1) If a judge likes an ethnic design, it's cultural inspiration. If she doesn't, it's cultural appropriation.2) The theme doesn't matter, because almost everyone ignores it.
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17 minutes ago, hoodooznoodooz said:
That boy actually annoyed me. Am I a horrible person?
No, you aren't. It was cute at first, but then it got way out of hand. The kids shouldn't have been there for the whole presentation to begin with.
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Sorry, but this show felt completely contrived. It was especially convenient for Buddy to stalk off angrily and then argue with the executive producer so that he'd be perfectly framed in the background as Sherry and the host so bravely tried to save face. Oh, please. If this isn't a scripted reality show, I don't know what is. Any takers on whether they end up in a tie after 12 rounds of competition?
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This show is just a hot mess. I love the concept -- kind of a mix between British Bake Off (with all of the lingering exterior shots of the tent) and the old Challenge show -- but the bakers simply don't have the resources and time to do their work. And the initial noncake challenge to create a "cake topper" just rings false.
Each week's "winner" is basically the team that was the least worst.
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12 hours ago, Bastet said:
Sometimes in these "make a dish inspired by" challenges, someone just makes a dish they want to show off and makes up a story to go with it, but here it sounded like everyone did have a good music memory they wanted to cook to
Eddie's was the lamest: My wife and I like Cake. They have a love song. I made a dish she likes.
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Half of the dishes made weren't canapes. Not following the theme happens way too much on this show.
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8 hours ago, millennium said:
I was gratified to see Angelina received all the votes she deserved.
The flash of realization on her face when she realized that she wasn't going to win as Jeff read the final votes was priceless.
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2 hours ago, Nashville said:
Production starts out every season with something like three “follow-cam” crews (a SteadiCam camera operator and any necessary support crew) per contestant, whose sole job is to follow around their assigned contestant every second of an 8-hour shift. So it doesn’t matter if a contestant is idol-hunting, or taking a stroll on the beach, or simply trying to take a shit in the ocean - EVERY contestant will have a follow-cam crew stuck on their ass regardless. Under such circumstances, a follow-cam crew trailing a contestant down the beach would be a totally unremarkable occurrence; on the contrary, the lack of such a crew would be noteworthy.
Each contestant does not get a camera crew. There would be crew people in every shot if so. There are several crews, and they follow whatever activity seems relevant for coverage, which led to my original post. This comment from a camera operator in a Reddit forum supports this:
Quoteyou always want to have the best scenes on any given day, it is healthy competition between the crews. you sometimes wish you had chosen to follow that one person out of camp that ends up having a big strategy converation, instead you stay with 2 others at the shelter and they nevtably start talking about the first thing they are going to make when they get back to the USA. yawn
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12 hours ago, dizzyd said:
Well, Davie for episode MVP for the reward, his "Nick, you're smart but I'm smarter" read of the fake HII, the getting of the advantage and the divine intervention on the HII!
Davie is playing a great game, but I'm always skeptical when players figure things like that out -- mostly because there's a layer to playing Survivor that many viewers don't seem to consider:
Davie: "I think Nick might be up to something!"
Reality: "There was a lot of camera activity around Nick!"
Random Survivor: "I think he's gone down the beach to look for an idol!"
Reality: "A camera operator just suddenly followed him down the beach!"
Random Survivor: "I found an idol!"
Reality: "I looked where the camera operator was pointing!"
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On 10/16/2018 at 8:13 PM, Athena said:
I can see why they sent Manon home because she seemed to miss the brief on the Showstopper and the Signature by not actually being Danish enough. She didn't really make a true rye bread and her Danishes were plain. As much as I like Manon, I think she played it too French and safe.
Which made it even weirder when Paul chided Manon for using Danish butter, instead of "French" butter, in her Danishes.
On 10/17/2018 at 12:05 AM, Corgi-ears said:I could hear the editors congratulating themselves on their restraint, somehow able to resist the temptation of putting bow-chicka-bow-wow music over all the times Ruby proclaimed that she had no idea which hole everyone was talking about.
Wait until Extra Slice, when they surely must have some fun with Manon saying, "I'm so hot" and "I'm so sticky." :-D
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23 hours ago, WhineandCheez said:
Insert any other name into this and they would also go home. That was so very unfair. And Nigel has to pipe in that he cannot wait to see Evan dance with gabby. OF COURSE, because a tapper needs to dance with a tapper. It's not equatable to a krumper doing ballroom, it equates with a krumper doing pointe work. When Chelsea gets kicked off, they need to nullify it and say they tried something new and it failed. But no, they only have like 1/2 an episode until the finale. Stupid show, This show used to be a high point of my summer.
While watching Evan and Chelsea in the tap routine, it looked to me that she was getting worse as it went along, that she started to bail on many of the tap steps. She was shown doing steps in rehearsal (or trying to) that she did not do at the same points in the live performance. If she had previously performed those moves in rehearsals and dress rehearsals -- moves that were already simplified -- that would explain better why the judges were so critical of her.
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20 hours ago, piequinn35 said:
The "I love you" team said depending on the outcome of the race their wedding could be an amazing or awkward wedding lol
I believe they implied that if their relationship did not survive the race, their planned wedding would just be an awkward party. :-D
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S43.E13: Snap Some Necks and Cash Some Checks
in Survivor
If Jesse would have won the final immunity challenge (which we know is impossible because he was horrible at every single challenge), he would have never given up that immunity to make fire at the end just to prove himself. So for him, and then the jury afterward, to imply that Cassidy was somehow lesser for not doing that very thing is a crock of crap. Even convincingly winning the final challenge is not enough for a woman to prove herself; she always has to do something more.