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  1. I've accepted the fact that 95% of any reality show player, competitive or even just a general reality TV show, are looking for some degree of fame or attention. So there's going to be plenty who do anchor for a reality tv career. Some are in it for the experience, sure, and some will likely be a one and done player, but most are doing these shows in hopes that they can appear elsewhere. Some are just more obvious about it than others. Bhanu is one of those people who's just outright admitting he's there for the fame and attention, not about the experience or winning.
  2. It does feel like this plot of Athena hiding from Bobby because of her insecurities about the stability of their relationship without danger or drama is coming two seasons too late. This feels like a plot that should have been earlier on in their marriage, not four years in. Especially given the fact that it's not like every day is non-stop danger and drama. They have days off. I presume they have days where they can just hang out and chill. I get they both have very stressful jobs and, in hindsight, I get what they mean (take away the days of their jobs, have them on vacation for a couple of weeks and now it's just them being themselves), but it still didn't quite work because of the extremes Athena went to. Plus, Athena was being very obvious so of course Bobby would figure it out. And they also completely undermined Athena's issue BY introducing the maximum amount of drama and danger. So what, is Athena going to come to the conclusion that their lives are filled with danger and drama and that's all good for them? I did like the Buck/Eddie/Christopher stuff. Christopher being a player is really great and the reasoning for it makes so much sense. I didn't even hate the Shannon cameo because clearly, Christopher has unresolved issues with his mother. I really like how Eddie handled that. Also, yay to Buck and Natalia breaking up! Boo to Eddie and Marisol being together still. I did like the Chimney/Maddie plot. I think they did a good job at establishing the true problem and solving it, for the most part. The cruise stuff was decent, I enjoyed seeing Lola and Norman again, but I think the kidnapper stuff was a bit too much. But will I enjoy it? For sure, yes. It'll be fun mindless drama.
  3. It does suck to see Nick leaving. He had such a great rapport with all of the interns and was probably one of the only truly competent doctors in that hospital to lead them. Bailey's changed a lot since the early years where she'd lead interns. I hope she can recapture that early series Bailey. Hopefully, this Director role does her better than the Chief role. It looks like they're just completely embracing a villainous Catherine. They really went all out with her this episode, so I suspect it will get much worse with her. I also assume, at some point, Catherine's cancer will be her karmatic downfall. The premiere was overall just fine. Good to see Winston leading in a way that works. I'm glad he outright kicked out the people who weren't supposed to be in the room and focused on the medical aspect of his job. Mika standing up to Jo was great to see. She wasn't wrong; this is why interns have gotten away with so much in the past. They have incompetent residents and attendings who choose their romcom drama over teaching the interns. I mean, the interns also choose the romcom drama too but they're not leading themselves. Self driving car case was annoying to watch but hey, it's no operating on a deer kind of stupid. So, Blue and Jules basically call things off because Jules can't get past what Blue did. And Simone/Lucas are already arguing about their romance drama. I mean, this does feel very early Greys still, so they are attempting to recapture those early years. I did like all the references they made, such as with Derek and the LVAD wire, so that's nice.
  4. I don't think he will. Yam Yam could be a lot but he seemed extremely well liked and he was good at the game. Everyone seems annoyed with Bhanu. He cannot win, even if he does get (dragged) to the end.
  5. I felt so bad for Randen. I was very up and down on him in these few episodes, but he seems like a great guy and I think him and Venus would have provided some great opposition against Tevin/Hunter. Alas, we not only get minimal Randen, we get 300% more Bhanu, which is not a good thing. Bhanu's a good character, he seems nice enough but he's definitely a terrible Survivor player. For all that Jelinsky and Jess did wrong, they at least tried (somewhat). Bhanu spent the entire episode not just crying (I can handle the crying) but whining about his position while expecting someone else to solve his problem for him. I was ok with him breaking down to Liz/Ben, but that scene went on forever and he just showed how weak of a player he was. He had Ben and Liz spend the entire time comforting him and then he just gave them the entire tribe info. The other issue is how performative Bhanu feels. A lot of them are doing this with the analogies, and it's no different than the mermaid/dragon analogy Bhanu made about Kenzie. So when he does that and then spends the entire journey whining to Ben and Liz about how bad his position was on his tribe, it did feel a bit manipulative. Bhanu seems to wear his heart on his sleeve so it was likely genuine, but part of it felt like he did that with them for a reason. But it's not going to help when Bhanu is voted out at some point, either pre-merge or right at merge. He can't be trusted as an ally. He's too reactive. The cast is a complete trainwreck. Siga may be the only competent tribe, but that may be because they all seem to get along. I like Ben and Maria and will just enjoy the downfall of everyone else. I hope Ben/Maria make it far.
  6. I think next week it's supposed to be Bhanu, at least according to spoilers that Yanu loses again. But I think the week after it's Soda and then merge starts? If I'm doing the math correctly. Or there will be someone else after Soda and then merge.
  7. So, some things I've read on the subreddit: A very reliable source on there does confirm that a woman does win and it's not of the F3 hinted at from the boot list in this thread. It is nice to finally see so many female winners in this new era, especially after the dude-geddon of the 30s, where only two women out of 10 won. And the pool is narrowed to: Kenzie, Liz, Maria, Moriah, Sodasia, or Tiffany. Kenzie has gotten a weird edit even this early on so I don't think she wins. She's gotten the "played too hard, too fast and now is suspicious" edit. Tiffany also has a weird edit but unsure about her chances since it's better than Kenzie's. Liz is not winning with the way she's been bragging about her wealth. Soda also hasn't gotten a good edit. So, for me, it leaves it to either Maria or Moriah who win with a chance that Tiffany could win. For me, Maria has the best shot to win because she's gotten a fantastic edit AND I feel like I read pre-season at some point that Maria was a contender to win. Moriah had a decent edit episode 1 and nothing in episode 2, but we'll have to see on her.
  8. Well, that would line up with the speculation that Bhanu goes pre-merge. Q and Tiffany probably go back and forth between Bhanu vs Kenzie but if Bhanu behaves like he did in the last Tribal, it's very clear why they'd vote Bhanu out despite not trusting Kenzie. I think the speculation on a tribe swap was based off of a couple of players in previews seemingly wearing different coloured buffs (Kenzie wearing a green buff, for example). Still unclear, but possible. It would need to be after Randen's boot, unsure if it could be right after that or if it would be after Bhanu's potential boot.
  9. Apparently, Randen sits out during the third episode's Immunity Challenge so unless there's a Reward thrown in to episode 4, with the "sit out" rule, it's very likely Randen. Which makes sense, given they've set up the fact that Randen and Venus have been the odd ones out, and Randen will not have a vote during the next Tribal Council without that idol. I have a feeling, unlike with Tiffany, that he won't solve it before Tribal. Oh, why am I reading spoilers? I told myself I wasn't going to. But it does look like the spoilers that have been out there are somewhat false.
  10. It's hard, because I do think Jess made some blunders but it really does seem like her ADHD just made it harder for her to concentrate. She even said at one point that she wasn't getting any sleep. Factor all that in and I don't think it's being dumb, it's being sleep deprived and being unable to concentrate. Would she have been able to adjust with a couple more days? That part is unclear, but she was trying. I think the issue was that the tribe basically gave up on her day 1 or day 2. Kenzie even said she tried on the first day, got nowhere and then gave up and tried getting her out from there on. Everyone but Q was ready to vote her out on day 3 but it was Q's insistence that Jelinsky had to go. I don't think Jess was dumb; she clearly was smart enough to recognize what Kenzie was doing and she was smart enough to clock the fake idol (I assume she still played it in a 'just in case it was real' scenario) and she seemed to try to turn the tides on Kenzie, but there really wasn't anything she could do once she was seen as the weakest link for the challenge and perceptions from the first day were already set in stone against her.
  11. Honestly, it made me sad to see how Jess was treated. Sure, not all of it was to her face, and maybe part of it was strategic for the tribe, but the way they talked about Jess all episode, the way they played with her just because her ADHD was causing her to be more spaced out than what I assume she usually is, the way they mocked her for not daring to find the fake idol planted in the fake location, the way they compared her and Bhanu to clown school or whatever, all of it felt more mean spirited than it should have been. I may understand that Jess didn't fit in, I understand that she wasn't doing well socially and someone had to go. I may understand that the fake idol play was to prevent a SITD play. But it felt so unnecessary and extra, all for more camera time, at the expense of another player being humiliated, or an attempt at being humiliated. I'm trying to separate feelings from objectivity but I still come out of the episode, feeling like Kenzie, Tiff and Q blamed the challenge loss on Jess (it was all of their faults equally), blamed Jess for being too stupid at Survivor "but she's SUCH A NICE PERSON!", and then laughed at the idea that she didn't buy the ugly fake idol Q handed her. There was just a lot there that made me uneasy. And now Bhanu will be the next scapegoat for that tribe because he had a full on meltdown. Not that I'm happy with Bhanu, either. His "passion" was really just angry screaming and being frustrated. Don't mistake passion for outright anger, Bhanu. Similar to Venus, who has been consistently talking about being on the outs, being ostracized, and we're actively seeing that in small clips (not just Soda, but Tevin was rolling his eyes at Venus at one point). I know that she got way too obsessed with the challenge and the cart running over her foot and she absolutely should not have brought that up back at camp the way she did, but she's expressed feeling on the outs (as has Randen), and it's clear that it's gotten to her. Though, can she be more on the outs as Liz, who is almost guaranteed to either be an early boot or a goat dragged to the end? Bragging about her wealth, then nonstop cheering loudly during the challenge? I like Venus but she's definitely a sloppy player. She's going to talk herself off the island if she keeps it up, but at the same time, I don't think she's done anything horrible to warrant not just the ostracization, but Soda trying to rip the immunity idol out of her hands twice. It makes me not like Soda at all. Venus may also want the attention, but Soda's definitely gravitating toward it as well. I think the only tribe I marginally like is the green tribe. I really like Maria, and I love Ben. I'm on the outs on everyone else but at least their tribe seems to like each other. I don't know, I'm all for villains and catty and sneaky behaviour but I think the episode was sloppily edited, so something made it very awkward to watch.
  12. It's interesting because when they first started doing Sweat vs Savvy, none of the tribes actually failed. It's only, I believe, 45 where we've started to see tribes fail and that's due to the changes in how the tasks work. 45 had the tribes fail the challenges for the first time because they changed things up. In 45, both tribes had to do BOTH tasks in a specific amount of time. Both tribes were so tired from Sweat that they had no time left to even attempt to finish Savvy, if I remember correctly. They seem to have increased the difficulty on Sweat. Obviously, it's possible to complete it, but with the holes in the bucket, I think it made it very, very difficult and the closest to impossible that you could have gotten it, especially filling up both large urns. Even just one hole might have made it a bit easier, but multiple holes and 4 hours and two extremely large urns meant Q and Jelinsky had to basically not stop at all in order to finish. We saw that, at the 1 hour 15 mark, they weren't even a quarter of the way done (or maybe they had just hit that). Knowing that they'd grow more and more tired, AND having holes in their buckets, I do think that they would have depleted all of their energy by the time they finished, even if they had kept going. I think it would have been wiser to keep going a little bit longer but the ultimate decision to quit was the correct one. They'd need to go 4 straight hours with very few breaks to complete the task, and it was clear at least Jelinsky knew that was never going to happen. On the topic of Savvy, I am surprised because the challenge didn't seem too hard, no harder than Tiffany's visual puzzle, yet Ben and Charlie weren't able to figure it out. But depending on how much time they had, they just didn't see the word scramble within the word puzzle.
  13. Honestly, after thought about it, I got Jelinsky's decision and I agree that it's better to recognize if a task is outright impossible (which it seemed like it was with the holes in the bucket; it would have been just as challenging without the holes). I don't blame him for deciding to opt out. But the edit didn't do him any favours, and him smashing the hourglass (unless production told him to) was annoying. Like, buddy, someone has to now clean that glass up and it's not going to be you. Jelinsky annoyed me in other areas but I did like him personally. I just think he wasn't a very good player, overall. I still think his worse blunder was telling his tribe about what happened on the journey.
  14. Honestly, I wanted to like the premiere more than I did. I thought it was a step down from last season's. I'm not sure whether it's the cast or the editing choices or what, but although it wasn't terrible, I felt like the episode dragged on and on. Jelinsky was the right call to get out. He made bad choice after bad choice. He first decided to quit the Sweat challenge just over an hour into it (he said there were 4 hours to complete the challenge and I believe Q said they quit with 2 hours 45 minutes left). He basically gave up 1/4 of the way in. He forced Q to quit with him, because why would Q take on the brunt of the work and not complete it? I get that he believed they couldn't succeed, and maybe they couldn't. Those holes in the bucket made it harder and I think they would have had to both go nonstop to get close to finishing. But still, he makes the decision to quit because they definitely can't do it, and then he breaks the hourglass. Ok, that sucks but hey, could just be a moment where he realized conserving energy was better than using it all up and still not finishing. Maybe he thought he was too weak to do it and wanted to save the inevitable from happening. But then he volunteers immediately to go on the journey. He joins up with Tevin/Maria and he gets the skull. So now he has to lie to Maria about not having the skull. Maria does a smart thing in giving him and Tevin a chance to be truthful by threatening trust. Jelinsky folds IMMEDIATELY. Ok, fine, he realizes he can't lie his way out and would rather leverage a relationship with these two than anything. But, first off, he should have realized lying off the bat was never going to get him anywhere good. Even if he had made it to merge, Maria and Tevin weren't going to trust him. But then he stupidly runs to tell his tribe the entire truth, INCLUDING his plan to earn Maria and Tevin's trust long-term, give them extra votes, and because he couldn't lie to them or whatever. So now he's lost the trust in his tribe. But then, during the immunity challenge, he not only decides to do the puzzle when they're super far behind, he decides to just....not do the puzzle at all. He starts stacking the pieces and then has Jess doing the entire thing on her own. No wonder they didn't get close to finishing; Jess was solo'ing the puzzle! He made mistake after mistake, but I think how he handled it at Tribal is why he got unanimously voted out. With how he blamed Q for both of them quitting (no, Jelinsky quit and Q had to follow) and how he handled the discussion on the journey, there was no way he could have recovered. And it's not like Jess was good at Tribal either; she was also floundering her answers. I felt bad for Jess. Being neurodivergent on a show like Survivor is tough. It makes you a target almost immediately because of how much you stand out. I hope Jess can recover from this, once she kind of gets a more normal sleeping pattern. I'm sure the first few days were rough for her, but she has a chance to recover from this because her issues stem from being too overwhelmed in a new environment and her ADHD causing some issues. My overall impressions other than the above? Maria's fantastic and I can see her doing very, very well. She's likeable, she's athletically capable of doing well in challenges, and she's strategic. I really like Tiffany and loved her beasting through the clue to the immunity idol. She solved that likely within minutes. I really liked Tevin and I liked his alliance with Hunter. Hunter felt very much like how I'd be on the island, and I loved the Andy Griffith connection. Kenzie's great but her edit basically screams her getting taken out before the finale. She's getting too good of an edit too early on. She's likely hitting merge and could get a bit farther in but I don't see her in F3. I liked Q a lot and appreciate him fighting to get Jelinsky out over Jess. I liked Jem, Moriah and Maria's alliance. I get why Tim clocked the women's alliance BUT I hate how fast he clocked it and the way he spoke about it. I mean, who says "I have a wife and grandmother, I know what THEY are like"? It really bothers me when men clock women grouping together within hours, but men grouping just fly under the radar for weeks with no mention of needing them out. Even though Tim is right, it's super frustrating the way he voiced his concerns. Venus is already clocked as a threat. I didn't love the way Randen went about it but I do think he could be correct on Venus being a threat. Or maybe not, she was a bit sloppy already and she seems close to Soda but nobody else yet. Charlie was fine but could become annoying down the road, Ben was a lot more likeable than I initially thought he'd be, and Liz being allergic to everything is going to be an issue where she's likely to be taken out early. Challenge was boring, yawn, next. Overall, rooting for Maria, Kenzie, Tevin, Q and Tiffany, am lukewarm on most others and am on the fence on Randen, Liz, Tim and Charlie.
  15. It's interesting because back when Emily was giving confessionals such as "Drew and Austin brought me in to this vote. This means they must want to work with me!", I thought she was an idiot for trusting them as they would never actually choose her over the Reba 4 and they were only using her as a number like literally everyone else (even Kaleb initially used her as a number before they got close). But I think Drew/Austin really DID like Emily, Drew in particular, and really did consider her a number for them and also liked working with her at the same time. Now, Dee/Julie obviously did not feel the same way so Emily was always a number for the men there, but at the time for Emily, it DID make sense to work with them. Nobody else really wanted to work with Emily while Drew/Austin did, which is a testament to the relationship they took the time to build with her. I don't blame Emily for working with the people who gave her an actual shot. I think, had Kaleb actually stayed, she would have turned on Reba 4 sooner, though. Emily's no idiot; she worked with Reba 4 because, let's face it, Belo was a mess even early on. I'd gamble my life on the tribe that isn't falling apart, even for a bit. But I think Emily had leverage to break up the Reba 4 by the time she WAS voted out. She had Drew who would have voted with her and they would have likely gotten Katurah/Jake since Emily ALSO put in the time with them. I think the only mistake Emily possibly made WAS not taking out Julie the Tribal Kellie went home. I think that would have been the only shot to make a move. But, again, at that point, Belo was a mess. Bruce/Katurah were still at each other's throats, Kellie was in an extremely strong position, Kendra was all over the place, and Jake was showing how bad he was at the game. I think, had Emily turned, Reba would have turned on her sooner since they were able to control Belo's votes still, at that time. So the next best time to turn was probably the Tribal that Bruce went. Had Emily found a way to convince Katurah to stick with Bruce a little bit longer, they would have had the majority. But, again, the issue is Katurah hated Bruce and never wanted to really work with him. So had she jumped on that bandwagon, that was a sinking ship. Emily was in no real good position with a strong Reba 4 and a messy Belo tribe. Kellie was the only good player on Belo but at the time of Kellie's departure, had she taken out Julie instead, Emily was 100% next on the chopping block. Katurah, on the other hand, had actual chances to work with Belo and chose not to. That's on her. Katurah literally said that she'd rather work with Reba to get out her Belo tribe, but she had to know she formed a relationship with Reba way too late for it to matter. She didn't have the relationship with even one Reba member the way Emily did. I think that's the difference.
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