Duke Silver
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I dislike Q as a Survivor personality....strongly. That said, he didn't owe Liz a fucking thing. Her thinking he did, after driving to vote him out at the previous TC, shows how delusional she is (a trait shared by way too many in this cast). I thought this was a "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" kind of show?
I'm a little surprised by the chatter that Q did something wrong by not picking her. It's not his job to look after someone who volunteered for a show she knowingly signed-up for while being allergic to everything under the sun (well, other than crappy microwaved fast food, that is).
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Jaylin was the best hip-hop person they could land this season? Kinda weak, IMO...YMMV most definitely.
Piling on here, but I dislike this new...whatever the hell this is. I miss partnerships, though admittedly, from a pure competition standpoint, those could be problematic based on the pairing. That said, the "unfairness of it all !!!" was part of the entertainment. Watching a superlative dancer overcome a bad pairing was energizing.
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What fresh hell was that bullshit? Hunter, my man....you are a dope. I mean, come on! Why in hell would you tell anyone about your idol. Play it at TC! Maybe have some damn control. You're nervous AF, teetering on paranoid; you have salvation literally in your pocket, and....you leave with it in said pocket. GTFOH...yikes.
Bunch of morons in this cast.
I also get that one has to be a a bit narcissistic to be on one of these shows, but the delusions of grandeur! My god! Venus and Liz think every move is their move; Q might literally be insane; Ben assumes he'll start winning challenges when Hunter is out; zero evidence of that to date.
Speaking of him....Q remains, and he is at Bhanu levels of yuck for me, so like some others, I will struggle to consume the rest of this season.
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This season proves to me that, much like the rest of American film and TV, the on-screen talent should be pulled from the U.K. and Australia.
Fuck...this cast suuuuuuucks. Well, tbf, I guess I don't hate a few of them, but man, the bad ones are so fugging bad. Bhanu vs. Q in the cage match of Survivor Suck. We'd all lose having to watch that.
I can't even bother to gather my thoughts beyond that. It's not worth the effort for this shit show.
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I think I'm a little in love.
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36 minutes ago, Lantern7 said:
I get why Venus would be unpopular. I'm also getting how people could root for her.
^^ Same. Venus comes across as a bit abrasive, but I can at times as well, and some of the best people in my life are assertive/abrasive.
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It sure feels like Maria is a good position going to the merge: she seems to have Charlie on side (who is tight with Ben); Tim thinks she is his #1 based on his manly man convo w/ the other alpha males during the journey, thus, maybe a tie-in w/ Q+Tiff and Hunter+Tevin. I'm glad I actually like her....
I still don't understand what Jem thought she was gaining with the beware advantage wild goose chase. Oh well, doesn't matter as she goes home with an idol in her pocket.
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If Bhanu wasn't gone after this ep, I seriously would've stopped watching.
I honestly think Hunter has made a mistake showing how much of a challenge monster he is; I think he should've sandbagged a bit. YMMV. But yeah...he's gone once the merge happens; too much of a "threat" I presume, in the eyes of the weaker players.
Curious to see if Jem's wild goose chase comes back to bite her. I wonder if at some point she's wondering "uhhh, maybe I shouldn't have done that. No real upside."
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So....they did 8 of these, and one of them was.....Big T??
TBC, I have zero issues with her. I just don't understand why she got one of the eight out of all the Challengers we've watched over the last 2+ decades.
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6 hours ago, JudyObscure said:
I wish I could find Bhanu funny, but he's got that hateful side that's a little bit scary. He's like a mean, selfish child in a man's body. Screaming in Jess's face one minute, sobbing over his poor little self the next, telling us about Kenzie's dragon tail like he really thought it was true and we just needed convincing? Now he thinks God gave someone a pinched nerve just to save Bhanu.
No thanks on the heart winning from me, even Princess Diana turned me off when she said she wanted to be the Queen of hearts, I think Bhanu's crying, lying and eagerness to throw others under the bus is disgusting.
YES! ^^this^^. It's not him being weepy/feeling sorry for himself/thinking he's god's chosen alone that bugs. In total context, it's his quick trigger to crazed fury that makes me dislike him, not merely sideye him. More Bhanu is the last thing I want.
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3 episodes in and I have had zero fun. No one for whom to root. Weepy Bhanu is already bugging the ever-living hell out of me.
Gonna go back to watching S11 of the Australian Survivor; a much better show than S45 & thus far, S46, of U.S.
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As a new show watcher (S45 was literally the first time I've ever watched even a single episode of Survivor): is it typically like this where one tribe is treated like a rented mule, losing all the time, and thus we don't get to see/evaluate members of the other tribes?
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OT: it's weird for me to say, again, as a new watcher, that, based on a couple comments I've seen about the AU Survivor show, over the last few days I have binged fifteen (15 !!!) episodes of season 11. YMMV and all that, but I soooooo much prefer the AU version.
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Yeah, I fully admit my bias in favor of Challengers, especially the mainstays like CT, and I am trying hard to have empathy, but I just can't get there and feel bad for MJ. She was a floater; she didn't do much of anything but hang with her fellow network friends; she contributed very little to the prize $$.
Upthread I probably wasn't sufficiently precise in my evaluation?, I guess, of how the final votes/stalemate played out. As far as how CT handled it: he did exactly as he was I indicating in his talking heads, I think. He made it pretty clear (to me) that Trishelle was the only person he fully trusted, and whether it made objective sense or not, it didn't matter who the third person was: he was gonna vote them out if he could.
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As an observer of CT for close to two decades, I can say that, ohhh, 10? years ago, I'd 100% agree that he played the end that way purely in order to take more $$$. However, the CT I've observed the second decade? I believe him when he says he wanted to vote MJ simply because Trischelle was sincerely the only player he fully trusted and just wasn't gonna take the chance on MJ.
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Liz (I think?) really loves herself some Liz, huh? Hubris runs especially high this season... between her and Jelinsky, lots of, uhhhhhh, confidence.
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Heh, the prize pot would be significantly smaller were it not for CT, so yeah, for me, based on that plus his ability to reason through things (something we Challenge fans have seen form him), he deserves the win. I just hope it's not a Bravo-lebrity.
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Jelinsky might be the sweetest guy in the world, with an awful edit. However, all I'm able to see is delusions of grandeur. What exactly is he good at other than convincing himself he's a legend in the making? I'm just glad I don't have to think about it going forward.
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I preface this by saying, yes, I know...sometimes I can be an asshole, but Soda is gonna get on my last nerve if she keeps up with the sing-along stuff. Seriously.
It's gonna take me a while to find someone to back in this, only my second season of watching this show.
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Jelinsky....LMFAO. That is all.
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I've been looking ahead to S40 for what seems to be an eternity. 39 is in my rearview, and I don't plan to ever think of it again. Just piling on, but Berna....please, do not come back. Talk about unenjoyable television...she is the epitome of that.
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^^^Huh, I just realized I'm more or less the same, hahaha. I'm kinda sorta rooting for Nurys, but only due to the competition; I range from dislike to utter lack of interest in the non-Nurys finalists. TBC: I'm not even, per se, a "fan" of Nurys. It's just that the others are soooooo unlikable/uninspiring/boring as fuck.
Man, what a heel turn for me. I started this season thinking "hey, it'll be good for some fresh blood; a new champion." Guess I veered way too hard into the "the OGs are getting long-in-the-tooth and very predictable" lane. I'm surprised I miss the old-time regulars as much as I do. I sincerely thought I was ready to move on....but if S39's crop of Challengers is the best alternatives, fuck that. Give me more of the old Challengers. The new ones suck ass for the most part.
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Cool....Jay is out; Corey was good for something.
Barring a miracle Nurys win, I just can't feel at all hyped any of the others.
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Reading this thread has given me enough about what happened. I might watch an (unofficial) Youtube recap vid, but no desire to watch any more episodes. I can't believe, what?, about a millennia ago, I was actually kinda-sorta excited about this season...or at least the idea of it. Now? I'm thinking ahead to S40. Jay's probably gonna win, and he is not a champion that I can celebrate.
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Admittedly, my reality tv bona fides are relatively lacking, but Dan is the most mehhh "legend" I've ever seen on a screen. YMMV obviously, but "underwhelmed" would be an understatement.
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S46 Ep. 10 "Run the Red Light"
in Survivor
^^ that is the final 3 this season deserves.