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  1. Andrew has been on twice, but hasn't finished either time. I think his first episode was the one where they found the abandoned village on stilts, then he came back last season for the redemption episode that started as two teams of two men, and he left shortly after the merge.
  2. I interpreted that as Alexa saying that he was so big it was uncomfortable and it took a couple minutes to get all the way in, not that he only lasted a couple minutes. Gay folklore says that tall, thin men are more likely to be well endowed, particularly if they have big noses like Brennan, so that may be coloring my interpretation.
  3. If the order of events in the edit is correct and Sarah doesn't leave the hex puzzle until after Danny finishes and the other four quit, that seems to suggest a pretty consistent rule that puzzles only time out when you're the last person/team still competing and you get credit for not quitting as long as you make it to the finish line for that section of the course.
  4. The writing is on the wall that they're going to make Hulu part of Disney+ in the next few years, so this feels like a first step. Hulu originals are already on Disney+ outside the US. They have to keep it as a separate service until they buy out Comcast's share from the original deal between ABC, NBC, and Fox but Comcast has said they won't sell until 2024 at the earliest.
  5. I assume that anyone doing the first 40 days knew that staying for another 20 was a possibility. Even for people who can manage be away from home and family and completely* out of touch with the outside world for at least six weeks, I don't think most of them can just tack another three weeks onto it without advance planning. I also imagine that it had to be in the original contract, just because "the producers came to me and asked me to sign this extension to my contract while my judgement was impaired by being naked, starving, sleep-deprived, and eaten alive by mosquitoes" wouldn't be a good look if anyone wanted to make an issue out of it. * - or at least what little contact we have seen being messages passed through the production, like Manu's brother or the one other case I think I remember of a death or major medical emergency in someone's immediate family during the challenge
  6. There's a pretty clear allegory between Topa and intersex people, who are born with bodies that are neither entirely male nor entirely female. Their bodies are often surgically "corrected" soon after birth to create the appearance a non-ambiguous body, but my understanding is that they have a comparatively high rate of deciding later in life that the body they were assigned doesn't match the person inside. So it's kind of trans "body doesn't match the person" but also kind of "born this way, still this way, but altered to be something else."
  7. In concept, I like the idea of one character not getting along another without either one being a villain or having all of their differences resolved in a single episode because it's something that utopian sci-fi hasn't really shown us, but in practice, the writing is letting it down. The way Charly talks about Isaac and the Kaylons is kind of racist and the way she says out loud that she doesn't like him every time they're in the same room makes her seem whiny, to the point where I wonder why the rest of the bridge crew are still inviting her to socialize with them if she's going to just badmouth another friend when he arrives.
  8. As much as I hate to admit that Jeff was right about anything, I think he had it pegged when he said that Amber took the mentor thing too far. Whether it's sexism or experience or whatever, she saw herself as the stronger survivalist and knowing what had to be done turned into telling Trish and Jen what to do instead of more collaborative ways of making sure everything got done, and once the resentment started to build Trish in particular deliberately avoided doing what Amber wanted her to do. I was pretty much with Trish on Amber needing to tone down the bossiness until Jeff got there and then my attitude became "a pox on all your houses, but especially Jeff's." Matt has a big ego, but, to use a term that feels kind of awkward in the context of a show where everyone is naked, it's more like big dick energy. He's good. He knows it. He knows you know it too, so he doesn't feel the need to show off. He's happy to treat people as his equal, but he doesn't react well to people like Jeff who see themselves as the alpha male, as we saw in the previous XL.
  9. I've never really understood why they do all of the shooting at night. Back in the G4 days, at least some of the qualifiers (the LA ones on Venice Beach, in particular) were done in daylight outdoors, complete with the obvious reordering of contestants as the sun angle changed drastically from run to run.
  10. I looked things up on Wikipedia and worked it out. Before he got there, Jeff was at 181 days. Steven was on his 170th day when the others arrived, and had passed EJ (163), Matt (162), and Laura Zerra (156) while he was there to take second overall. Gary came in at 143 days, so he could have been in this conversation had he been smarter about not standing below trees with poison sap while cutting them.
  11. I don't know how many more days he has than Matt and Stephen, but I kind of hope that he taps early and one of them can pass him by making it to the end.
  12. Somewhere, if you go way back, I made a post complaining about how, for a while, the producers seemed to do a lot of pairings where one was like "I think the man should go out and hunt and trap and do the physically demanding stuff while the woman stays close to camp" and the other was like "we should split things equally" and the Molly and Nathan episode just reminded me of how much better it has gotten.
  13. The thing with Ru and Willow-as-Drew is the sort of thing that happens all the time in Snatch where she throws in something unexpected about a specific celebrity's life or career to see if the queen playing them is prepared and/or able to volley with her, but Willow teed it up for her so it felt meaner than it would have otherwise.
  14. My theory is that one of the non-eliminations was to make up for Kornbread dropping out, and the other is because Ru and the producers know who has the golden ticket (the way everything was neatly arranged and done in plain sight is probably to facilitate that) and decided that she's good enough to go ahead and guarantee her a spot in the finals no matter how badly she does in the remaining challenges. If there's a week where one of the frontrunners really stumbles but seems weirdly bulletproof, we'll know who it is.
  15. Before this episode, I'd never heard it pronounced with a stress on the middle syllable like that, but I had heard it with the stress on the first and last syllable. According to Google Translate's text-to-speech, stress on the first syllable is how it's pronounced Turkish and Arabic and stress on the last syllable is from Greek (I forget who exactly claims baklava, if anyone even knows the exact origin.) Yet another example of the American pronunciation(s) being closer to the original language, like "Mo-ka"/"Mock-a" from the other week.
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