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  1. If I remember correctly, didn't he say in the first episode that he'd been a camp counselor in the past, and the thing he always hated camp songs? Anyway, love watching him at the challenges!
  2. I believe it was the puzzle from the first episode this season where the two tribes tried to win their camp tools but failed. Unlike recent seasons where they had to choose between brains and brawn, this season they had to do both (in this case, moving a large pile of rocks followed by that rope & hoop puzzle). Both tribes completed the rocks but didn't have enough time to get far on the puzzle. There were 2 members from each tribe who competed on the challenge, hence the warning this episode about "4 people have already tried."
  3. The LuLu-heavy focus of the early episodes is definitely a factor, though I also blame that initial "OMG we're all September babies!" moment in the premier for the original Belo girls. It kind of blended the three women, until it became "the one who's so over Bruce" and "the other two." I believe Kendra is the one who talks the most about astrology, and Kellie is the one who was debating in an earlier episode whether she would swing with the Belo boys or the Belo girls had they gone to tribal before the swap. Brando's been very quiet since the first episode. I would say the editing for Reba favored the guys, but that's more because Drew and Austin were finding all those advantages/idols, which necessarily showcased them more. Drew also seems to love talking for the camera. Julie & Dee were almost always shown together pre-swap, so it's been hard to distinguish them other than being a duo. J's only notable moment before tonight was the segment highlighting her long big toes.
  4. If I remember correctly, Lochte had competitions coming up in the near future, so it was more important for him to keep in shape, whereas Matt clearly has been able to take 100 days off. I believe the backyard layout was different for Celebrity BB as well, where a small segment was dedicated to a seating area and the above-ground hot tub/swim spa. The rest of the backyard was used for the competitions, which were held more frequently during the 3 weeks. So, it was easier for that season to have a swim spa that didn't need to move around constantly compared with how a regular season uses the full backyard for both functions (comps and relaxation).
  5. He seemed to remember events leading up to it, but presumably not the actual final moments. We know he uploaded his memories into B4 shortly before his death, and those were likely the memories that were then included into the new android body. The showrunner answered this in tweets and other media as noting that the Jurati-Queen was not integrated into the main Borg collective and apparently spent her time apart from them until she could emerge for the events seen at the beginning & end of Season 2. (She apparently was very observant of the Temporal Prime Directive!) Her small collective is distinct from the Borg encountered by Picard & Janeway. Picard & Crusher were only shown as married-then-divorced in the future Q showed Picard for "All Good Things..." The movies never really touched on their relationship status since the finale and instead favored reuniting Troi & Riker in the last 2 movies.
  6. Same. Even a few days ago, I was thinking about how some of the previous themes were fairly dumb, but overall they did more often than not help differentiate the seasons. But tonight, I realized that I don't have as much excitement watching the "Next Season" promo since it's now just a bunch of random new people briefly talking rather than seeing some new theme or especially the old thrill of a new location. I definitely miss when the locations played a bigger role in the set up for season. I also wonder how much casting has dipped in recent years. This season in particular had quite a few "Apply to be on Survivor!" bits each week, and then Jeff repeatedly said it throughout tonight's episode. I'd be okay with Matt & Frannie popping up on Amazing Race sometime in the future. But congrats to Yam Yam, and way to go to Carolyn for carrying the entire season.
  7. If I remember correctly, Danny playing his cage idol for Frannie did save her and result in Brandon going home instead. Yeah, I can't see her winning after getting so few confessionals from the editors all season. (Especially not after the surprise Gabler win last season.) She has 2 immunity wins so far, but other than that, she hasn't been pivotal. She didn't vote in Ratu's first tribal council, and her extra vote was wasted by Jamie when they tried to thwart a potential "Knowledge is Power" advantage. Heidi controlled her vote for the first vote after the tribes joined. The only storyline that really stood out post merge was Danny targeting her early on but then voluntarily pairing with her for the immunity challenge with the twisted net.
  8. I don't see how Schmidt is still just a fourth year resident, unless he really did stay away from the hospital for several months after his "Weber method" debacle and therefore is completely off-schedule in his training. I hate when the GA writers do large time jumps (like when Meredith had Ellis and the end of the covid season) and forget to apply that time to the residents' training years. I agree 100%. Meredith's felt so anticlimactic in comparison. There is some irony when you consider that Mer's goodbye cake was switched with a Bar Mitzvah cake, and then Maggie's final goodbyes occur during a Bar Mitzvah! I third this! After the dumb plot of the other interns thinking Amelia was his paramour rather than his aunt that went on for far too long in the first chunk of the season, it'd be nice to see the two characters have more bonding time. Especially now that Amelia feels so disconnected from her "sisters."
  9. She's an OB resident now (an inferior position which shows that they really don't know what to do with the character) but she was involved in the surgery on Tia, Addison's resident who was hit by the car. I guess that's why she's in bed now, it was so traumatic? (How long has Jo been a doctor again?) Jo did a full residency plus a chief resident year as a surgeon. (I maintain that the writers forgot to count the year Meredith went away after Derek's death toward the education of Jo's class, so I believe she actually ended up doing 6 years as a resident.) She briefly flirted with the idea of ortho, but that seemed to go out the door even before Torres left. Following residency, she did a year as a research fellow. Afterward, she only worked a few months as a full attending surgeon in general surgery before the pandemic made her consider OB/GYN, but given yet another time jump at the end of that season, she more or less worked 1+ year as an attending before asking Bailey to switch fields. As others have noted, Bailey last season convinced Jo to moonlight as a general surgeon since the department was understaffed. Visually, when they want to show Jo as an OBGYN resident she's in pink scrubs, and when she's working as a general surgery attending, she's in dark blue scrubs. I've noticed that they've gotten a bit sloppy with that this season, however, and they seem to keep her in the dark blue scrubs even when she's doing OBGYN activities like the abortion a couple episodes back. She should've been in pink and also had an OB attending nearby during that scene, as she's still only a second year OBGYN resident. But anyway, I do think it's become harder to keep track of her career trajectory as she keeps wearing the dark scrubs more often and almost never is shown actually learning from attendings in her new field.
  10. I doubt it. From its introduction, the SITD has always been something that a player can only use once. Had Matt played someone else's, survived, and not "returned the favor" by giving his own back to the other person after tribal, he could've theoretically then kept his own to then use again. Plus in general, it would've been a dumb decision for the other person to offer up their own SITD given that there's a 5/6 chance that Matt would still not be safe and that he'd leave the game without the opportunity to complete the trade later.
  11. Do we know how long the Protostar was missing from Starfleet's perspective (that is, when exactly it went missing)? The show is set around 2383/2384. Chakotay likely would've first gone through lengthy debriefings and pardoning for his Maquis actions after Voyager's return, so I imagine it would've taken some time before he'd be promoted to captain and then given a prototype vessel. Not to mention the time needed for Starfleet to develop the major engineering advances necessary to create both the Protostar and Dauntless starship classes with their protodrives and transwarp drives, respectively. Chakotay & Janeway both looked several years older in her holo-reenactment of her last encounter with him. So, I imagine the ship had been missing probably more on the scale of months to a year or two at most. (Not that it changes your point, more just general wondering about piecing together all the timey-whimey business!)
  12. Even worse... They're typically good until F5, so there could theoretically be the situation in which 3 people still have the HII and a fourth has the necklace, leaving the fifth player outta luck as the only viable option (not unlike the Cirie boot from Game Changers).
  13. I'm confused about the locations for this season. Tars Lamora is in the Delta Quadrant, where the show started (and where the Dauntless began this half of the season to find the Diviner). But now they're already presumably in the Beta Quadrant, given the previous episode having the crashed Galileo shuttle (I doubt that would've made it to the DQ) and this episode having characters like Okona and a Klingon at the spaceport. I get that both the Dauntless and the Protostar are super fast, but man... getting from wherever Tars Lamora is to the edge of the Romulan Neutral Zone seems like quite a jump within a short span of time, especially for tech advancements after only 7 years following Voyager's return to Earth.
  14. They still do some separate reward challenges pre/post merge, though with the reduced time spent on the island (26 days) and accelerated pace, the reward challenges have been more often combined with the immunity challenges in this 'new era' of Survivor. I imagine it's also harder for them to do some of the standard pre-Covid rewards that involved interacting with more people, like visiting to a luxury campsite/spa or the loved ones visit. They probably could do more reward challenges pre-merge if they dropped the "contestants go on a journey and make a choice" segments.
  15. I believe Harriet is a year younger than Ellis. Ellis was born toward the end of Season 11 (following the year-long gap after Derek's death where Meredith moved and April spent much of her time as a military physician to avoid grieving over her son). April's pregnancy with Harriett was a significant plot line for Season 12. As for Ellis's age, that's harder to pinpoint thanks to Grey's ever fluctuating timeline, but if one assumes a year for each season, then she should be 7-8 years old. Another way to figure it would be to go by the resident classes... she was born shortly before DeLuca's arrival as an intern, so she should've been 5 going on 6 when DeLuca finished residency and was an attending at the start of the Covid season. Add two more years for her today. I believe Bailey is 2-3 years older than Ellis. Last I can recall, I believe it took damage during the wind storm where Schmidt and Nico hooked up in an ambulance while waiting for the storm to die down. I do remember that Alex worked there for a few episodes while sorting through the legal/professional fallout from when he beat up DeLuca. So it still was functioning up until a few seasons ago, and then it dropped shortly before Covid. For a lot of those complaining about Jo's actions in the ER, I actually thought it wasn't too off base. She noted that she was basically taking a five-minute break, which can be needed for mental sanity when working a long shift. I'm sure if a new emergency case was wheeled in, she'd have immediately rushed over, but otherwise ER shifts can often have periods of downtime where the physician is awaiting labs or nursing procedures on their current cases. And she was right to remind Schmidt that she's an attending whereas he is still a resident (heck, she could've even reminded him that she had once been his chief resident earlier in his training!), so it was not his place to boss her around on which new consults were next on the list to be seen.
  16. The Admiral Janeway parts should be more or less contemporaneous with the Protostar events. The Dauntless set out for the Delta Quadrant after the events of the previous episode. Presumably whatever transwarp they use still took them a few weeks to cross quadrants. While en route, Janeway did the holodeck simulation of the last time she'd seen Captain Chakotay, just before they reached the planet.
  17. I believe she scraped it during one of the first immunity challenges where she had to dig into a sand pit to pull herself under a big log. From what I recall, she was the slowest of the three teams for that segment and really had to squeeze through.
  18. Star Trek: Enterprise has an episode ("Carbon Creek") where T'Pol recounts a time when Vulcans crashed onto earth in the 20th century. So, we have seen Vulcans pre-First Contact, at least as much as anyone remembers ENT.
  19. I just figured Kai said "You must be Scout's father" since that was an easier, less-loaded statement than "You must be Amelia's ex." But Linc took it to another level. Agreed with others that it was absurd for both Hamilton and Kai to show up to evaluate Richard (let alone listen to Schmidt talk about him). Especially when one is a research-oriented PhD. I never really get Meredith's affection for Bailey. Bailey was judgmental of her early relationship with Derek; she was extremely disappointed in Meredith's tampering with Derek's Alzheimer's study; she suspended Meredith during the Minnick wars; she fired Meredith for the insurance fraud... I get that they trained together and work in the same specialty, but they've had a lot of head-butting where Bailey has been fairly quick to shut Meredith out or try to guilt-trip M on any decisions Bailey dislikes. I roll my eyes these days with Bailey's "I trained you" comments. When the show started, I thought she was more like a chief resident with the power they gave her, but they later made her (and Torres) a fourth resident in the first few seasons before eventually becoming a chief resident. By that token, Helm and Schmidt should've been "taking ownership" of the various interns' training all during this year. (Of course, the show even reversed itself by having M/A/I/C give the same Bailey speech to interns when they were just second-years, so the show has always been wishy-washy over how much the older residents help in training their younger peers.) I liked Jo's comment about not putting down OB as a lesser field compared with surgery, but I still think the overall specialty switch was a dumb move for the character (rivaled only by Ben's jumps from anesthesia attending to surgery resident to fireman).
  20. I haven't looked up her CV (although I remember someone posting early on where she trained), but I do remember her saying that she was around 24. That would almost certainly make her a very recent graduate from any masters-level grad program for counselors and therapists, so I would agree that she will certainly benefit from more experience as she grows into her field.
  21. Yeah, that kinda bothered me with the rest of the tribe complaining. Snorkeling at the surface wouldn't require too much arm/shoulder movements, nor would the fishing unless he tried spearing some shark that started putting up a fight. Swimming in a challenge would require full shoulder rotations, which would be dangerous just 10 days out from a dislocation. I think the better determination would be seeing how he swims whenever they had to get to the water platforms before Jeff gives instructions and/or swimming back to shore at the challenge's end (i.e. was he swimming then with full arm motions or just some dog-paddling to protect the shoulder?). Speaking of challenges, I've noticed that Jeff always seems to look down at the sand with his revised "Come on in!" He must really miss adding the 'guys' at the end... I can't remember the last time (if ever) that we've had a 3-tribe season go to the "merge" with equal numbers. Although Omar still has a missing vote that he risked, so there should be an odd number of votes next week unless Drea or Maryanne use their extra votes already. It will be interesting to see if/how they decide to do an hourglass twist. Jackson's early departure left them with an even number at the "Merge," whereas last season they had 13, leading to Erika as the exile. With an even 12, there's no clearcut way to single one person out.
  22. I'd already forgotten his existence, and it's only been like three episodes ago. 🤣 I do miss "dark & stormy" Meredith.
  23. Yeah, it's really odd that they chose to air that particular clip in the first episode, especially knowing how often the player would be at risk during TC. I don't see why they couldn't have shown Mike reading the advantage since he found it in week 2 or Maryanne. Or better yet, completely throw us off by airing Daniel reading the rules when he was 'looking for the fine print.' 🤣 I've definitely appreciated that this season has given a good amount of focus to each tribe, helped by the fact that all three tribes have already had at least one tribal council, compared with last season.
  24. She was knocked out after the crash landing, which in some ways could've allowed her to regenerate while "offline." Certainly her brief link with Agnes gave her a boost. We also didn't see whether the BQ was still awake or back to regenerating while JL & Agnes were strolling through Chateau Picard. Plus, presumably everything since the landing has been over the course of hours, so none of the characters are looking super sleep-deprived, even though the events leading up to their slingshot around the sun were already occurring in a SF eveningtime. (Though on that note, ICE in 2024 must be super fast at processing based on Rios's super long, no good, very bad day!)
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