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djlynch

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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.
  16. Discovery did themselves a disservice by trying to tie it in too closely to Naked and Afraid, unless more of the N&A audience than I realize is watching it for the nudity aspect and not the survival aspect. The hardcore survival part isn't sexy even if the people are, so they watered it down, but "let's use these palm fronds that just happen to be next to the pre-made frame for a shelter as our roof" isn't survival. I've seen clips of the foreign versions (which have names that translate more or less into "Adam Seeks Eve"), and those are all set on similar tropical beaches without a lot of creature comforts but with no survival aspect at all, and I think they tried to find somewhere in between that and regular Naked and Afraid and it doesn't work.
  17. I'm American but my father grew up in Scotland, about 30 miles from where Jamie's social media gives as his current hometown, and I'm always torn in moments like this between 'I've heard way worse" and "I've been hearing this accent my whole life and sometimes it still give me trouble so I don't blame other people for not being used to it."
  18. Based on the rainy, windy, cold weather an episode or two back, I'm thinking it's early November. Hurricane Zeta made landfall southwest of New Orleans on October 28th. The track fits what Matt said about the wind being from the north during the storm and there was a pretty sharp temperature drop immediately behind it according to the data from Baton Rouge, which matches the talk of how cold it was the next morning.
  19. I'm just glad they didn't go out of their way to make the spot they were in Texas seem super remote and inhospitable. They were in the northern Hill Country, about 80 miles north of Austin. I grew up doing all of my camping near there and it's not desert hot or jungle wet, but it's still the most pleasant place to be if the weather's bad. Actually, I think they got lucky with the weather - what they showed matched up to early September, which was unseasonably cool this year and, although there was rain and thunder, it wasn't the usual intensity of early fall thunderstorms.
  20. For some reason, Bruno really reminds me of John Barrowman. And I'm pretty sure it goes beyond the "gay and hyperactive" thing they both have going on. My little nitpick is that I don't like that the dancers were introduced with only their first names. Some of them are as famous as the stars at this point.
  21. I think that’s it for me. Folks like Grant, Jake Murray, and Neil Craver are, at most, exaggerating the goofy Or unusual aspects of their personalities. Even when they made a bigger deal of Jamie Rahn being “Captain G4” or “Captain NBC,” he was a regular guy in a costume and not a full character.
  22. In German, Ä is pronounced like a long A in English. A without the umlaut is an "ah" sound. The German words for "bear" and "bar" are pronounced pretty much the same as English, and are spelled "bär" and "bar." But there are also umlauts in some Scandinavian languages, so we can't go by German alone.
  23. Saw an ad on Fox tonight saying it's Season 17 again. I guess Fox is holding Season 19 back in case some other shows can't film and they need to fill time.
  24. Also two people from the episode that started as two men and two women before they became a tribe of four, and they didn't get along with each other, either. It seemed very heavy on people who were on the season that's just wrapping up, and maybe it's just because this was a very long season (Wikipedia says it's actually two but the first episode of season 11 aired before the last episode of season 10) and it was shown in two hour blocks, but there weren't many people who I recognized without the help of seeing footage from their original challenge.
  25. I think that they had a “no negative critiques” policy. If it had been a regular Snatch Game, Nico would have gotten some criticism for not having better improv skills. They nailed the physicality and the bits that seemed to have been prepared in advance, but everything else failed to land.
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