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I agree with that. Who would take Rachel's star? She's been out of the game all this time and it's like she's still the untouchable popular girl. I assume people aren't gonna let Cara and Rachel keep their stars, and only trade the third one around.

1) Ayanna looks like she has lost a lot of weight since her last All Stars season. Those Greek Salads are working for her. 2) The winners are pretty powerless as they don’t choose who goes into elimination. That’s interesting. 3) The elimination winner gets to steal a star from someone that has a star. This is how I imagined the Skulls would work on the flagship show if two people without skulls were to go into elimination. They would get to steal one from someone who has one. That’s a much more interesting concept to me than someone with a Star having to go into elimination to defend their Star.

Air date: April 10, 2024 on Paramount+

Air date: April 10, 2024 on Paramount+

They get information. The Walgreens execs get information and Theranos gets non-disclosure.

From the way I read it, she was verbally noncommittal. She never said "I agree with the plan" or anything similar. However, from what we saw*** she gave the impression that she was okay with the plan without actually saying "I agree." She did not give any impression that she wouldn't follow along with the plan. Alyssa said something like "everyone has to be in on the plan" and Stephanie said "ok" in a manner that would suggest she's onboard with the plan. She didn't express or show any discomfort with the plan or any sense of unease. She was smiling and cackling with Claudia as Claudia was giddy at the plan to get Kim out. Claudia also got the impression that Stephanie was in agreement of the plan. My guess is that she didn't want become the target if she disagreed, which is fair. However, in addition to that, Stephanie still acted like she didn't know the plan when the time came to execute. She knew what people expected of her. Stephanie was put on the spot because she knew she was informed of the plan and she knew they expected something from her. To me, she knew that she gave them an implicit agreement because she didn't want the "steal", and her getting the 'steal' meant she would have had to show that she was a part of the plan. She wanted to hide her allegiance by getting any of the dollar amounts. Once she got the 'steal', she had to either play dumb or pick a side. I just don't quite understand how Stephanie's mad at and/or disgusted with Alyssa for that, and what made Alyssa a "snake" from Stephanie's POV. ETA: I forgot that Miranda dropped a bomb on her way out that Aron was targeting Stephanie. I nearly forgot Miranda was on the show. That may have fueled the fire Aron and Alyssa were super close.

There’s something between Stephanie and Alyssa that we didn’t see. There has to be more because this animosity between them makes no sense. Stephanie is seemingly still pretending like she wasn’t told about the plan about getting out Kim, and then lied about it when she was called out in front of everyone? And she thinks she has the moral high ground? Alyssa is somehow the snake and the one that lacks integrity?

The first 7 minutes of The Challenge: All Stars 4 premiere

The first 7 minutes of The Challenge: All Stars 4 premiere

A New Challenge Spinoff or USA 3 in the Works

A New Challenge Spinoff or USA 3 in the Works

So... the Banker Bonus wasn't really a bonus...

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Was there a reunion? 🤔

I don't think I've ever laughed so hard while watching Survivor than watching Q shoot the sandbag at the final target in slow-mo. The producers are so dramatic.

I'm not so excited about this cast as I was for season 1. I like that New York is coming back. I welcome Camilla from Bad Girls Girls, I remember her. Wes is going to be this season's Johnny Bananas. There's not a challenge you can put in front of him that he probably hasn't done on The Challenge. Wes was just on The Challenge complaining about how it would be his last Challenge because he's having a baby. Now, he's showing up for HoV? I don't really have any opinions on the others. We'll see...

I think Aaron should have just added that although he trusts Alyssa in the alliance, he didn't trust Alyssa with that much power to decide who goes home if she wins Deal or No Deal so that's why he'd put Rob up over Alyssa. He'd basically use Rob's own reasoning for not wanting Miranda in the bottom two, not trusting that Miranda would do what the alliance wanted.

This is pretty much the Boston Rob Game Show: The People v Rob

I had to pause. I was like "that can't be true. I do recall her being on Cutthroat, Exes 1, and Battle of the Seasons, and Rivals 2."

I don't disagree that those are bad decisions but I kind of consider that in the abstract (if that makes sense) because it wasn't a given that those particular choices would lead to this particular outcome. Her children could have been born with Targaryen blonde heir and resembling her. She almost fucked her uncle, but that decision didn't necessarily meant war. She fucked someone who was not her husband and gave birth to bastard sons but that decision didn't necessarily mean the outcome would be war. Marrying Laenor instead of someone who would father her children didn't necessarily mean the realm world come to war. She coerced her bodyguard into sex but that decision didn't necessarily mean the outcome would be war. I guess we should throw Viserys' stupid decision in there too. He made a mistake by marrying Alicent and having two shitheads for sons. He made a bad decision by never naming his first born son as heir. I think that if we are putting Rhaenyra's decisions in the same "basket of blame" for tearing the realm apart then there are a lot of others that are equally deserving of being in that basket. I put the decision to usurp in a different basket because the outcome of that decision was clear. It was clear that decision meant war. I hope I'm making sense and not sounding like a ranting idiot. 😂 I agree with that but I don't blame that on Rhaenyra. If that is the thing that is tearing the realm apart, I don't think that blame lies at Rhaenyra's feet. She's playing the hand she was dealt. She was named heir. It seems unreasonable to me to not insist on a right that was given to her. I also agree here. I think Rhaenyra should have remained in King's Landing. I've said on (probably) a few of these episode threads that Rhaenyra should have remained in King's Landing to build her own influence as future-Queen. She should have worked to keep the favor of the Houses, and the Lords and Lady-Lords, of the ones that swore to recognize her place in the line of succession and her position as Heir Apparent. However, I don't think that being absent should prevent her from insisting simply because she was given the title and right. The title and right was hers in every way. Why would she not insist, even if she had been (stupidly) absent? I'll say again, it's not like the Greens didn't know Rhaenyra held the title and claim. They still chose to install Aegon as King and they knew implications of that decision. They knew that decision would definitely tear the realm apart.

I don't know how to approach this thought. I think Rhaenyra has shown herself to be a reasonably good person. She made some bad decisions but those had more personal effect IMO rather than broad effect to the realm. Installing Aegon as King is seemingly a far worse decision than anything Rhaenyra has done. What would have been the amicable solution, have Rhaenyra's babies be squires and/or cup bearers? I don't really know the answer to that question.

Me and Aemond are beefing so I’m on the opposite side of the one he’s on.

I agree! 😭😭😭 The Deal or No Deal game at the end just seems so out of place.