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Eolivet

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  1. Did people catch the way Ramsay said "getting a little too mate-y, a little too friendly?" Neither Cody nor Mary Lou is going to win. I'm not sure the showmance is the only thing to sink them, but it certainly isn't helping. Though it's interesting Mary Lou wanted Kori with her on the reward, not Cody. And it's Kori she was hanging on after elimination, not Cody. Maybe she's just not that into him. Amber going home was the only option.
  2. Nany pulled a Lil on Survivor, who famously voted out the obnoxious Johnny Fairplay over Sandra, who she lost to. But the feeling at the time was Lil knew she wasn't going to win, and she would rather lose to someone she respected over someone she couldn't stand. Basically, "if I can't win, you're not going to win either." I sort of feel like that's what Nany did with Kyle. She'd rather have CT beat them all than Kyle strut to the final, unopposed and gloating. After tonight's episode, I can kind of see it. Kyle is such a half-assed agent of chaos who's more of an annoyance than a true reality show villain. It's like he wants to shake things up, but it's easier to complain to the camera that he can't. And I cannot take him seriously with his Ross Geller uber-white teeth.
  3. I have no personal interest in the Mad Rabbit tattoo product, but when one of those guys said he had no visible tattoos? Yowza.
  4. I went from hating him to really liking him to hating him again. And yeah, he's interested in cooking up a little something below the waist with Mary Lou. His edit seems to have shifted to this year's Jason* (ironically the blue team's sous chef): arrogant guy whose entire final storyline involved chasing Holli (the actual winner, I believe). (I was wondering why I couldn't remember Jason, but the Hell's Kitchen wiki said he went by "Jay" as a contestant, which he certainly does not do this year. I remember him slightly more as Jay, and the most as "that guy with blue hair.")
  5. Welcome to Kaycee's entire game. That's how she played Big Brother, and won $500,000. She's brilliant at winning competitions and keeping coalitions of people together. Leroy is an upgrade from Tyler, and the partner competition complicates things, but she's following the same blueprint: surround herself with numbers, pick one ride-or-die and stay loyal to them. The Challenge suits Kaycee's skillset (winning comps and not pissing people off) even more than Big Brother. Even if she didn't come into the game with numbers, I have no doubt she'd amass them, because that's what she does. And then she keeps winning, so you can't get rid of her, and she's intimidating to face in elimination, so nobody wants to throw her in even if they should. She's fascinating if you like psychology, because she's pretty much a low-key cult leader. Not so much if you like drama.
  6. Theresa sends her regards. (even though I thought her move was stupid at the time). This season has played out much like a newschool season of Big Brother. There's an unspoken hierarchy, and you don't go against the hierarchy. If you don't fight your place in the hierarchy, you're quietly led to your doom when your time comes. If you fight the hierarchy, you're gaslit into thinking you betrayed an alliance you were never a part of. Although Kyle is one to talk about "strategy," Kyle who is STILL holding on to the fact that Aneesa blindsided him when he got his gold skull, like nine days into the competition. He hung onto that through the entire show.
  7. Again, the show doing nothing to prove to me the final isn't going to be every single elimination set on fire. This is the third time they've used this elimination? (Natalie vs Ashley, Leroy vs Jay). Can we predict what the next one is going to be? "Throw balls through the wall, but the wall is twenty feet high and you have to swing on ropes?" And the daily challenge was "Mission Spy Dive" (blech) when "Spyfall" was right there?! I actually wasn't surprised Big T stayed with CT, which is why it kind of cracks me up watching Nany have such buyer's remorse over Fessy. Nany discovered too late what Big T already knew: that "talent" has nothing on team chemistry.
  8. And another thing: what's with the recycled eliminations this season? "Yes, it's the same elimination from three weeks ago, but look! Now the poles are taller/there are more of them/you hit this cool button instead." I half-expect the final to be all the eliminations set up in a field in the Icelandic countryside a mile apart: first, throw balls through a wall. Then swing from a rope and collect puzzle pieces. Then you'll be tethered together and have to put rings on a pole and hit a button. Then it'll just be a hall brawl, except the ball will be on fire. Either they were on a shoestring budget, or I'm seriously underestimating how much prior eliminations were comprised of "producer has a random idea, sends PAs running to the local home improvement store, challenge built that night," which the pandemic made impossible.
  9. Fessy is such an ass. All brawn, no brains, walking around like he owns the place after two seasons. Team chemistry is becoming a more interesting variable in these challenges as the season progresses.
  10. Increasingly negative edit for Scott, reinforcing my suspicions he's definitely not the Murph of this season. And his teeth are distractingly white. I hope he didn't get veneers for Tough As Nails. I was wondering what would happen if "Knuckles" or Celli attached the wrong keg? Would the producers have told them? Would the beer not have flowed out of the tap? Would we have gotten the signature Amazing Race "cymbal of doom?" Solid episode, interesting challenges all around, even if Overtime was a bit anti-climactic.
  11. With the caveat that I missed the last 15 minutes because the DVR didn't tape it, I kind of ship Cody and Amber now. I'll see myself out.
  12. Yeah, I watched the gross food through my fingers and on mute, so I didn't even see what happened except who won. Did the rest of them just quit? I feel like there's a tug of war between TJ and the producers as to what this show actually is. TJ seems to want competitors, people who will lay it on the line and never give up, while the producers want good TV. So, TJ needs to stop pretending to be shocked when the famewhores want no part of the more trying challenges.
  13. If Michele Fitzgerald gets on The Challenge, she will get in an alliance that gets decimated, save herself with timely comp wins and then whine that it's everyone else's fault they don't want to work with her because she's such a threat, because that's literally the only reality show strategy she knows. Now Wendell would be interesting, considering he was edited two entirely different ways on his two seasons: quiet, hard-working sociable powerhouse on his winning season, and hot-headed, arrogant jock on Survivor 40. It'll be curious to see which Wendell comes to The Challenge.
  14. All I could think of with the salad in a jar was all the lettuce recalls for E. coli. And having the lettuce touching all the other ingredients in a confined space. So, E. coli in a jar.
  15. Fun fact: Michele dated both Jay and Wendell. The latter was made uncomfortably clear during the last season of Survivor. I continue to find it interesting that Michele was rumored to be on Challenge 33, and then she and Jay were dropped days before departure. And I'm sure they won't bring up how Michele's buddies (including Wendell) conspired to get Natalie to lose Survivor 40. But I hope Natalie remembers that and smokes all of them. Michele was also defying COVID protocols in the early days of the pandemic, so she'd fit right in with Josh and Kaycee.
  16. He's felt very Danny-like to me, but I can see this. I did not appreciate him making the moment after Angel and "Freight Train" lost the individual competition all about him. He disadvantaged them, and he needs to own that. When they're commiserating about their kids and their families, chiming in, "well, now I feel bad" is just disingenuous. His strategy worked. He doesn't get to feel bad about it now.
  17. CT destroyed any remaining shred of likability he had when he told Big T, "what do I tell my son about why we don't have a million dollars," like it was some kind of excuse. That is a top pet peeve of mine, especially on reality TV is parents >>>>>>>> non-parents. The idea that being a parent is inherently more deserving, and even a reason for them to win. I hated the "taking food out of my daughter's mouth" crap when Derrick pulled it on Big Brother, and I hated CT pulling it here. You know what, CT? You teach your son the value of loyalty. For sticking by someone who stuck by you, who got you through a bad time when you didn't have anyone else. You show your son the value of someone who has your back is priceless, even compared to a theoretical shot at a million dollars. I knew CT was going to dump Big T for Kam, I could see that editing and foreshadowing coming from a mile away. MTV isn't subtle. But yikes. I didn't think he would be this obnoxious about it. And the fact he pulled that "assassinate my character" garbage and the taking food out of my son's mouth argument meant he wasn't interested in apologizing to Big T at all. He only wanted to rehabilitate his image, and keep himself out of the line of fire. I hope CT (or CT's child's mother) shows this footage to his son and says, "This is not how you treat someone who's been nice to you."
  18. Was it my imagination or were James' questions way easier than Chaser questions usually are? I thought they were supposed to be more difficult. "Better Call Saul" is a spin-off of what belongs in Jimmy's category, not James'. Same as what juice is used to flavor a mojito?! I don't drink and even I knew that one. Usually, I can get maybe 2-3 of the Chaser questions, and I got at least half tonight. So irritating, because Jimmy seemed like a good match-up for James, if the questions had actually been tougher.
  19. My favorite part of the episode (other than seeing all those delicious steaks) was when Amber ran back into the dorm. Cody jumped up from the table like, "Yeah!" and she yelled at him, "Don't ever do that to me again" and he just deflated, like, "Heard." It was like the moment halfway through the rom-com where the couple has the big fight. All that was missing was a cheesy soundtrack.
  20. Lolo: So, I'm going to do what years of training have taught me to do-- Me: Quit?
  21. I couldn't get over when contestants were yelling out the answers to a taste test challenge without tasting the food! In many cases overruling the contestants who did, in fact, taste the food. I know these aren't the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree, but this was a taste test challenge, right? Not an "identify food by sight" (which Ramsay already said he disguised) challenge.
  22. I still can't get over they kept the same team names from last season and carried them over, which leads me to believe they were fed to last year's contestants by producers. Why shouldn't contestants be trusted to come up with team names? They did it on a certain reality show hosted by an ex-president. This would be like every Survivor season since 2016 being Vanua versus Takali, because those were the two tribes on the season they returned to Fiji.
  23. CT's entire "I don't think this is what the Challenge gods had in mind when they designed Hall Brawl" confessional had me dying laughing, as did Amber's perfectly timed look at Cory: "I'm not going with you." Actual best comedy series Challenge 36. Although the editors almost ruined it with that big honking shot of Devin and Gabby's names at the top of the computerized board in the background while Lolo and Nam were having their catered breakfast tete-a-tete. Completely spoiled who won the daily challenge.
  24. My husband compared the metal band to a personification of OTEV from Big Brother, and now I can't unsee it. (OTEV is a non-human character who sings/gives clues to contestants to go find things during a competition, much like the metal band sang Italian dishes.) The restaurant the blue team ate at for the reward looked like they would be renowned for "doing so much for the community," and not so much for "their food being really good."
  25. That was my other favorite part of the episode (after Aneesa's hilarious Cory one-liner): TJ: Free whoppers for life! Amber B: ::eager-to-please rookie:: Oh wow, thank you Burger King! Darrell: ::jaded veteran:: ......................................
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