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I laffed when I saw the smooth pristine suede leather without a wrinkle of being washed upon the shore, they seemed to have found to make shoes with. Also the bolt of unwrinkled, non sandy or water stained blue material they had enough of to make a sail and some clothing with for the girls. Yeah, uh huh. I do think Patrick was being bulent like when Na’im asked for the tool to make the raft. He just didnt want to comply and made a bigger stink about it than necessary, then jumped up yelling in his face and practically chest bumping Na’im because he dared to say he really needed the axe for working on the more important raft. I am surprised that little episode didn’t come to blows, the way Patrick was asking for a fight. Sitting eating coconuts and withholding the most important tool, while Na’im was trying to build them all a raft. Also that was a pretty huge bon fire on the top of that cliff they just left there to burn (the whole island down with). That was pretty negligent of them. Though I am sure there were people left there behind the scenes to make sure that didn’t happen… it was a dumb thing to televise as really happening. Bring the good old N&A days back please. Without all this bullcrappery it’s become.

Me too. I think it is a combo of all of the above. I used to rewatch an episode if I became distracted or missed a part. Not anymore.

I see that after the “Hot Bench” episodes, Eboni Williams has herself a new show she is starring in as sitting judge in another one of those court shows like judge Judy. It’s called Equal Justice and she looks like she is loving being in a position of Authority.

The block of wood looks like he may have read what we all think of his acting. He looks like he’s trying to be a bit of a better actor. He had a bit of animation to his face and body movements in yesterdays episode and I thought I saw a hint of highlights added to his hair. Also these millions of google ads are making it impossible to read by the constant refreshing of the page and freeze ups. Maddening.

That had to be the worst episode of any Alone show, of any season or country version of it, ever. I am surprised anyone catches any fish/trout in that bog water which must be super acidic from all the rotting vegetation and trees with their tannins in the water. It was not good spot to plop them all down into, if they were to be expected to survive on outdoor terrain near a body of water. Maybe in the Amazon forest they would find species of fish that thrive in those conditions, but it doesn’t seem to be the case here. The couple of trout some have lucked out in catching, seem to actually be flukes. Fish who took a wrong turn and ended up in a bad neighborhood. That water certainly isn’t teaming with life forms. The PTSD scene and the puke retching seemed to be the focus for way too much of the filming in this episode. It looked like a Himalayan salt lamp, block of salt Gina brought as one of her items and looked smaller after she kept scraping and scraping more and more of it off, into her stick soup hoping to enrich its flavor. That was way too much salt added and all it did was make her end up vomiting out whatever nourishment she did derive from the stick twig broth. That lifeless bog may be an interesting looking spot they used, but I don’t think too much thought was put into whether or not people could actually find anything edible in that area. I feel bad for all of them, set up for failure. Theres no capable way to live off the land in that area. It’s just a starving contest.

I agree with Madmax and Libertys two above posts. The reason we all started watching this type of show was interest in true survival with minimal aid from a few tools in hand. Not because we wanted to see naked people. The now obvious and continued growth of production interference has taken away the very reason we want to watch this “reality” show, to begin with. Fans are falling by the wayside. Yes, Bulent is being a dick for no reason other than thinking people like to see him be mean to people. He has it wrong now. I think most only appreciated it when he was quick to call out others for being jerks when they were being jerks. Not just for no reason at all. It was just mean of him, unnecessarily, to Andrew to mouth off at him when Andrew wanted to show some comradery after he and Bulent set up the fan barbecue together.

I liked Ginas wall weaving method and apparatus she made for making the reed door she whipped together. Ingenious! You could make a whole shelter out of reeds that way if there was enough raw materials around, and string/cord to use for it. As long as it isn’t too windy, or some wolf comes by and huffs and puffs and blows her house down. One thing I am pretty sure of is, that Gina isn’t feasting on raw Tasmanian tiger. At first I thought it was a large bird of some sort, but I really have no clue.

Well Bulent got his porcine. Yay. Good for him. I hope the meat will stay good enough to eat if he meets up with the others. He said he does not miss having others around to talk to. I believe him. What he misses is having people around to talk AT. He was enjoying that. His communication has always been one way,, in this particular group setting this season. Wow! Rachel and her leg! It certainly did look swollen. Since it ended up that she had actually broken it, then no wonder! A fracture in the tibia IS a broken bone. She must have really been hurting. I hope she is doing a lot better now that she is out of the woods and taking care of that broken leg. I recently fractured my arm, the top ball part of the humerus (in 3 places!) and can vouch it hurts like hell. Especially the first days for a couple/few weeks. Crazy painful even sitting on a comfy couch while not moving. For her to be sitting and maneuvering around on rocky terrain in the woods with a fractured leg in the first days of her injury, is insane. She is a true and real trooper. Give that girl a Percocet! Heather was uncharacteristically tolerable to watch this episode and it looks like Patrick has come to his senses. Another Yay for them. I am glad we don’t get to see Patrick eaten by a crocodile 🐊.

Absolutely heartbreaking. I wept with her. I hope she wins and has something wonderful happen in her life.

I actually love the Bulent personality, mostly. I wrote (which follows) much more about Bulent, but the tangent I got on was too long for one post, lol. So I only posted the second half. I agree with your post. He was doing so well, kind of, with Kerra and Na’im in the beginning. Then he started being bully dictator controller of all actions the others weren’t allowed to partake of while in his presence. He minimalized their efforts to enjoy and try their own methods that they wanted to do and try while on the same exact survival experience, using the nasty side of his personality. It was their time to try their own ways of dealing with the natural environment, that they too, were stuck in. Just like Bulent was. He took their team and made it a dictatorship under his rule alone. Not because they were lazy and not doing helpful things, but only for the sake of being a controller, his way or the highway, dictatorship. These two people with him were great teammates and he could not give them an inch, or any feelings of contribution of their own accord, or the ability to enjoy the adventure without walking/sitting/lying down on the Bulent eggshells strewn all over the woods they shared together. He blew it if he wanted to be seen as reasonable for his decisions to treat badly the people he was with, who were perfectly fine survivalists in their own rights. They both were pulling their weight and trying to be good teammates. Nobody was being a Kate, or Seth, or a Makani. The first part of my unposted post: It was cool and funny when he said Suck it Kate, because she was a real pain in the ass. It was funny when he completely tossed right back in her face, to Makani (Broccoli as he nicknamed her) that her gaslighting attempt, using cutesy female wiles wasn’t going to work this time. Makani trying to make Bulent suddenly start thinking it was HIS idea to build a wind breaking firewall, and giving him tips on how to go about building it, when all along it was her idea and hopes that he would build it after he already said he had no interest in building one was SO manipulative! She was cold, he was not. He couldn’t give a crap about having a wall or not. I just loved the way he didn’t let her get away with that obvious manipulative ploy on her part and told her so with a disgusted look on his face. I would have done the same if I were him. She treated him like he was some mindless male who would actually be STUPID enough to actually suddenly start thinking it really WAS his idea all along to build a fire wall, because he would just be SO happy to do that task for the humble doe eyed, eyelash fluttering, damsel in distress with a great bod. LOLOL. That is my absolute favorite Bulent moment. That and his bone throne. It was funny and fitting how he calmly and cooly talked with starving Seth, asked to borrow the bow and arrows and was refused their use, by the great and prolific hunter. No.. Seth would not for one minute give someone else a try at possibly getting something for the both of them to eat if Bulent got lucky with a kill. So, cooking the turtles he had, in his little one man campsite downwind of Seth’s little hangout, where seth starts thinking he’s hallucinating the smells of barbecue, because he’s so hungry and its getting to his mind, was really funny. Seth didn’t deserve a piece of his pie. The way he handled Seth was pure gold. Plus he ended up with the bow and arrows in his possession, anyway. The rampaging women Sarah, Suzahhhn, and Gwen, with their bug-eyed rage that Bulent didn’t arise at a predetermined morning time for hunting in a blind while they sat at their place and waited for him to come back with a kill, was a bit much. Sure they were mad about him not keeping his word and sleeping through the morning (after walking for days in the African desert, while they had not. They were refining their laying around, saving energy techniques).. but they were practically frothing at the mouth to “BANISH” him because this particular XL season included banishment privileges for the groups. He had already told them it wasn’t going to work out and he was going to move on, but they had to wield that power and Banished him anyway. A lame attempt to have last word, while drunk with the new banishing power to control another persons fate and destiny in the jungle for daring to sleep instead of hunt and bring them food they can’t get themselves. Maybe that bow and arrow set Seth had before him had some kind of sleeping spell on it for anyone who had it in their possession. Seth was always snoring away in the blind he stayed in day after day, avoiding any other kind of survival chores. Bulent couldn’t even rouse himself out of bed. Twice if I recall. I loved that he just walked away, surthrived better than any of them, and surprised their sheepish asses at the end, when he strolled up to the big tree for extraction.

This Bulent in this Castaways show is a total ass and has fallen off his Bone Throne of Unique and interesting characters as far as I am concerned. What a jerk he is being. If I were a psychiatrist I’d say he has Oppositional Defiant disorder. I can get why he was a little peeved about being woken up hearing tree breaking sounds by Na’im close by. He could have tried to do it a little further than the sleeping beauties, but then he’d have further to haul it back. He also wanted to work while the sun was not beating down. Absolutely right and logical reasons to be gathering wood for the team while he had the energy and gumption to. I mean, they are stuck out in the woods naked, on a survival mission. Supposedly working as a team. Plopping a log on Na’ims feet while they were trying to fall asleep was so rude and aggressive, and if the tables were turned Bulent would have had a cow! Maybe even popped him one… and rightfully so. It was a malicious and intentional act. It probably was one of the logs Na’im woke him up harvesting that morning, and he used it vindictively to get back at him. Kerra, not siding with Na’im, and calling out Bulent’s rotten behavior shows she is just a coward, afraid to get on Bulents bad side. She’s kissing up to him way too much for someone who is witnessing all thats going on in front of her. Including turning Na’ims apology to her into a “poor me” situation that she has to sit and watch this abuse done to Na’im by Bulent while doing nothing to stand up for the actual victim of the abusive behavior. She completely avoids placing any blame on Bulent. It is best she chose to leave the gloomy forest offering one evasive pig with Bulent insisting only he alone has capable hunting skills that can EVENTUALLY capture it. She’s better off finding the shore line paradise that Heather, Patrick and Andrew have moved to and are living it up on, eating crab and fish. Until Patrick gets his stupid ass chewed up by a saltwater crocodile he thinks he can jump on and kill single handedly, that is. Has he never seen the power and explosive strength these masses of reptilian muscle possess? His bony butt must be some kind of new level of insane to even think it is a possibility. He just thinks its so exciting, and wants to be like like the fictional Crocodile Dundee. We also find out during this episode that Heather has been an alligator wrangler in her day. Just another thing to add to her resume. I wonder if Bulent really was happy his two teammates left him behind, abandoning him with his precious pig. He does manage to bring himself to where other naked people are congregating during these shows, so I think it’s more for bravado show he claims to prefer to do these as a nomadic single.

No, you are not the only one. I was thinking the exact same thing. Roast some of that fat out of it over the fire.

Bulent is showing the fact that he is not good at being a team player. I though Na’im’s idea of two snares close together was a good one. Plus I think the loop is a bit too small for a big boar head and neck to wander into, unnoticed by the boar. It seems like Bulent is a naysayer for the sake of being oppositional to anyones advice or input on any of their suggestions. The only thing he seemed agreeable to that was brought up by someone other than himself, was when Kerra suggested they set up camp in an area that she pointed out would be a good one. They are also saying he is tiresome in his constant unasked for teaching advice about survival tips and goes on and on like he is their mentor teacher on this shared adventure. The Grand Pubah of survival information. He does not play well with others, and it is showing. I’d be bumming out if I were in his group at this point. Who died and made him the boss of everything that goes on within the group of the three of them? He did, and you better not question him on that! 🫥 I do love Bulent when he is doing a solo adventure that he excels in, or if he is with jerks that need some talking down to…But he is being a pain in the ass here. Thank God Andrew, Patrick and Heathers team finally got fire so we don’t have to hear her toddler tantrums anymore. Well, for now, concerning fire at least. All it took was a planted container of gasoline and a spark maker. If that didn’t work, I bet they would have come across a fully intact dry book of matches the next time they combed the beach for survival treasures. Candice and her jaw/ear pain. Whoa, I kind of know what that feels like and think it has to do with a salivary gland infection of some sort. Very painful. I bet she is relieved they had to tap her because that pain would have been torture to deal with out there living in those ultra uncomfortable conditions, to begin with.

It’s pretty hard to write anything about this particular episode, this particular 3rd season in general. Its not good. I liked Marisol in the first season of Miami because she reminded/looked like a friend of mine and I loved her mother Elsa, and the relationship they had. Then it took SO long for a second season to come back, or was it the third.. I can’t remember. I just didn’t even watch it and had lost interest in it by then, waiting so long. Now when I see Marisol it just makes me sad that she drinks so much. Thats all i can say about this season. Except for maybe how Leah is a real pain in the butt and she sure got her ass handed to her in this episode by the others and rightfully so, since all she talks about is her bodily fluids and how shes bored with others conversations, sitting there with that puss on her face all the time. I think their honesty with her completely crumpled her confidence, any confidence she had in herself and her place in this group and thats what sent her to the hospital. The blow to her ego brought down any resistance she had, fighting off what was making her feel sick. I can’t blame her for wanting to escape the rest of the trip, and ride it out in the hospital after those women held that no-holds-barred pile on her, the night before. Does anyone know what she was so sick with? I guess I did have something to say about this episode.

Lol! I have been watching Finns face closely lately, after I wrote on here that I call him Zoolander because his go to look is ALWAYS to purse his lips. I think maybe someone reads this forum and mentioned it to him, and probably razz him backstage about it, because i see him trying not to purse his lips every time he finishes a sentence now. He was going through facial acrobatics during that scene with his father today, trying desperately to stop himself from pursing his lips, if anyone else noticed. 🤣😂 edited to add: I think Michael is Gorgeous! And doesn’t need to purse his beautiful lips for any scene, ever.

Congratulations to Alan! They certainly were all suffering greatly at the end there. I also do wish they tapped Mikey out (like it seemed they were very ready to do) before they kind of pushed him to do it himself. Wyatt looked like he had a huge weight loss in that last couple days. Was he eating stored fish filets that last time we saw him in his shelter? It looked like it was quite a nice portion. Maybe it was his last portion and thats why he decided to tap the next day. Starvation was bad enough without the small saved portions he had saved up. Mikey eating snow and belt leather? Thats pretty sad to see how far he pushed himself to try to be the last one. These last three went through a real hell that final week. The cold temperature was unrelenting. I think that maybe Alans choice of a round teepee style shelter held his shelter heat in better than the others. He didn't seem as if he was as cold as Wyatt and Mikey were those last few days.

AAK! The pelican crew is so puke worthy, I am so glad I wasn’t munching on anything when it came on. That trio is on a whole different level of surviving than the other 2 teams, and its like switching to the twilight zone when they show them. The disgustingness level of what they are doing with that pelican corpse is not calculable. I am just stunned with what they are doing with it. Bulent is Bulenting and he’s still real good at it. Once Ni’am reluctantly got a stick and then changed places with Bulent for the airplane wing carry down, it turned out to be a great idea to use as a rain roof cover. They have a cozy little nook there. He is not afraid to work hard and use what is available to make life out there, a little more comfortable. The last thing I, or anyone for that matter, wants to hear, is Heather boohooing and complaining like a child for sympathy for the predicament she signed up for.

If I were Alan, I could not have eaten that infested fish. Nope. No matter how hungry I was at the moment. There’s always more fish in the water. Then there’s that yummy lichen to fall back on. I would not be surprised if next episode shows Alan not feeling too well. Even if he cooked the heck out of it, and completely killed whatever that horror was that was lurking inside that fish, mentally, it’s got to affect him and just make him feel sick with the possibility he might not have gotten it all cooked out of it. It would give me nightmares. I have wanted it to be Wyatt who wins after watching the last few episodes now. I feel kind of bad for not rooting for Mikey the most because of his honorable intentions for his son. Actually, I am rooting for all of them, just that Wyatt’s my favorite. The preview looks like it starts really getting hairy for all of them next week, pushing them all to the limits edge. I thought this last episode was supposed to be the last one too. I really liked the Alone Australia episode that showed after this. The landscape was a nice change from what we normally see, and I liked how quickly they whipped through the introductions and dropping them all off at their spots. All ten in a row, without spacing that part over multiple episodes.

Yeah, that arm is pretty nasty when he tends to it in front of the camera. It’s production that put it in the final cut for us to see. Thanx for that, producers. 🙄

Aaah, nah… you aren’t making me feel bad. It is So wonderful that your husband makes your birthday “season” special! He sounds like a keeper! Ever since leaving the nuclear family, my birthday has been remembered, recognized and gifts from friends, are never the combo/christmas kind, anymore. I do have a lot to be grateful for, and I am. The childhood birthdays,,, ehhh, not so good, but hey… I live by the words that I must give up all hope of having a better past. It’s just not re-doable, and any dwelling does not do any good. e Connecticut. My home too. Brooklyn(ites) have a very strong New York accent. Great accents really. No other place on earth has such a unique accent. Lawn Guylinders too 😉

This has been the most non entertaining Ultimate girls trip of the bunch so far. The entire trip is this group just trying to yell over each other. No one has the ability to allow someone else to get a full sentence out before being interrupted, yelled over, and in ever increasing volume of screeching decibels. Poor Pepsi must be on migraine meds with this group. How awful it must be for him as host to this LOUD bunch of ego maniacs. I can’t stand being around loudmouths and wouldn’t subject myself to this deafening group under any circumstances, much less even one of the bull horn voiced attention seekers. I do appreciate Marisol not seeming to be dragged into the scream fest of each moment. So loud and rude anywhere they go. I can’t imagine what it would have been like if Rinna was also in that group. Poor Pepsi would be hiding in a closet slugging down the lost bottle of tequila. Giselle stomping around and wanting to search everyones room like the police is so off putting, treating everyone like a criminal. Maybe it was empty after the nights drinking, and the staff cleaners chucked the empty, or took the pretty empty bottle home as a decoration, since its the only bottle in Thailand, as Giselle claims. Marisol looks to be mainly a vodka drinker so maybe thats her saving grace from Giselles pointing finger and suspicious eyeing. Vodka and tequila do NOT mix very well unless you want to wake up poisoned and suffering an incredible hangover. At least that is my experience learned the hard way. I never watched Potomac, and now I know all I missed out on was a screech fest with massive egos vying to be louder and “righter” than all the rest. They are all exhausting. Heather is strange too. I never watched Salt Lake City either, but heard a lot about the black eye, like the whole rest of the world. Her coyness about it is not cute or charming. Shes a shady one and would be top on my list of tequila bottle disappearance suspects.

HATED the pelican scenes. Since everything looks producer influenced/placed, and lately, much more obviously so (re: Last one standing and now this castaways show), how the hell did that poor pelican with a broken wing end up sitting right there next to the happened upon boat which had a 9volt battery that still had charge in it, (obviously producer placed). It makes me wonder about how the wing was broken in the first place before it most likely was transported to the deserted debris of the boat in the woods area. Was it found with a broken wing? Or did someone break its wing, for this miraculous appearance in the middle of nowhere next to the boat, that held the means to able able to finally start a fire. We will never know I suppose. I do know it was extremely painful for that poor bird and the way Candace (who is reminding me Amber2.0) was stopping it from getting away by holding it by its outstretched tip of its broken wing must have been excruciating before they plopped that metal oven-like hood debris over it, so it could bake in the hot sun and suffer more so, before it eventually was gotten to, torn apart, and made into dinner. I feel, the show is slowly starting to cross huge boundaries now, and in my opinion trying to desensitize viewers to lessen empathy in themselves by this type of cruel crapfest put on screen for viewership. All in the name of the popular Survival TV shows and now, widely watched favorite… Naked and afraid as we have all loved for years. So many other shows are doing the same, creeping in slowly ( then slamming you) with some really nasty negative things and personalities in these reality shows, that I have been dropping a few from my TV viewing routine. I’d rather watch reruns of Doc Martin. Onto another part of the show.. lol, it didn’t take long for Heathers unbearable personality to shine through, and I am extremely happy that Andrew, at the end there told her to just go make the fire herself if she’s such an expert fire maker and thinks she can do it differently than the law of physics, since the beginnings of fire making by humans throughout history, then please, step right up and do so. That clamped those lips of hers shut, without an argumentative quick comeback for more than 5seconds and counting. I hope they pick up again next week, where they left off at the end of this episode, because I want to hear what she has to say. Actually I would like to SEE her sit her ass down and attempt to create fire instead of the constant complaints about how they need it and how everyone is doing it wrong. Put her money 💰 where her mouth 👄 is. Instead of haranguing constantly. I sure hope Bulent and Heather finally meet up during this adventure.

You are right. I admit I do get kind of bah humbuggy about Birthdays. Something I should put more effort into working on to make myself a better human being. Thank you for steering me in that direction. 👍

Thank you! It take a few weeks but definite healing is occurring. I am just grateful no surgery was necessary. I always remember one tidbit of advice Judge Judy gives for people who are getting up there in years, is “Don’t Fall “. Boy, is she right about that.

I really like Wyatts sweater too, for the exact same reasons. Plus it is a nice bit of color among the basic fall/winter drab colors everywhere else.