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I've been avoiding the casting spoilers (not sure why; I just have been) but I'll be watching S50. Because even a bad season of Survivor is better than any season of Big Brother.

TBF: It wasn't all the teachers/admins; it was just the one, Mr. Feeney. But he was the main one from the start of the series. He was also a new student at first. It was only after getting into a verbal altercation with a college teacher/admin/Dean? that he got hired as an instructor at the college. He also started dating said t/a/D (bonus point since she was played by the actor's rl wife.)

To make it look like they're listening to the audience.

That's part of it. It also fed into the lie they were telling. If Shauhin actually had an idol to play and did so, and everyone else had voted for him, then his vote (for Eva) would be the only one to count. So throwing a vote at Mitch would "force a tie". Basically, it was a Plan Fake Voodoo. (Foodoo?) I did vote No Idols... but I'm absolutely sure there will be idols anyway. The only things I think the voting audience actually decided on were: the tribe colors, the Immunity Necklace design, and what the F4 challenge will be. Because those don't really matter. Anything that would actually impact the flow of the game; idols, advantages, twists, swaps, etc., will all still be decided by TPTB. And we'll never know if the poll results really indicated that the voters wanted things that way or not. True, but I give props to the editors for what they did in that scene. It was unique in the history of Survivor. This episode might be a backup Emmy submission (the earlier episode with Eva's reveal in front of everyone is for sure their primary). The closest thing like this before was the slo-mo and audio drop in the first episode of S44 right after Bruce slammed his head into an obstacle in the Marooning challenge. That was meant to bring us into what Bruce was experiencing, and I think that's what they were going for here with Joe. Didn't quite work the same, but I get it. I noted that the audio drops in both cases were triggered on forms of the word "paranoia". Helpful that both Kyle and Shauhin said those words for the equal triggers.

Well, bye-bye-bye-bye, Mitchell.

That she was using her actual voice instead of the affectation she used on BBT?

This is one reason why they rotate camp locations between seasons. Gives the environments a chance to recover. Plus, the later tribes don't always choose the same locations for their trenches as the prior ones. Notably, when the Green tribe on S46 was digging for an idol in the roots of a banyan tree (based on a clue planted by the person who had already found said idol elsewhere), one of the cast of S43 said that that banyan was where their Blue tribe first dug their trench. I recall a scene one season where a contestant describes one of the benefits of an aquadump as "the evidence just floating away". However, that is also one of the immediate drawbacks. The tides tend to take everything away though, so the ground is relatively solid. I doo apologize.

I've noticed more this season than ever before the number of Band-Aids on all of the contestants' bodies. Obviously they're getting regular medical attention. Long gone are the days of seeing open wounds and hundreds of bug bites that I remember from the early seasons. I'm assuming that along with the medical, they're also given at least basic hygiene care as well. There has always been a basic first-aid kit at every camp in every season of Survivor. The contestants are instructed not to mention it during the show, but many have talked about it in post-show interviews. The band-aids and any feminine hygiene products would be in that, along with simple OTC medications like aspirin (or equivalent). They also include condoms, just in case. And if a contestant has a disclosed condition that does not disqualify them from competing and requires a non-controlled medication (asthma inhaler, daily heart medication, etc.) then those medications are kept in the first-aid kit. Proper latrines, toilet paper, and oral hygiene products used to be tribal rewards, but those particular rewards have gone by the wayside. At present, tribes tend to have both a designated "hole area" and a location in the water for "aqua-dumps".

Fair. But really, that's just the interim steps between the two contrasting points. Meaning, I think we're on the same side of this argument and were just looking at different scopes.

Jury is forbidden to speak to the active contestants until FTC, and I don't think David is dumb enough to break that rule. (Other rules, maybe; but not that one.) So he'd say it was honoring Mary. But like his mean-mugging while on the bench, it's more "spotlight hogging" than anything else. Though the "honoring Mary" part goes against all the slagging off of her he did in all his post-game interviews.

Oh, I do not disagree with you. I was just speculating what Mitch and Kamilla may have been thinking at the time. "As long as it ain't me" can be a winning strategy, but it is hard to pull off. And I don't think Mitch could. Kamilla at least has the additional argument of her deliberately concealing her alliance with Kyle as a long-term strategic move. Also true. However, in order to have a (🤮) resume, you need to still be in the game. Survive tonight; Make moves tomorrow. Sometimes that's the only option you have. (Not that this was the case here, but I think you all get what I mean.)

TBF, that's a version of "as long as it ain't me". And the Queen has proven that can be a winning strategy.

Given one of the revelations about Paul that came up because of this doc...that's very appropriate.

As was noted, Phil quipped that the pizzas were for the band at the Pit Stop. And since there were 5 pizzas eventually delivered, that does feel like enough for everyone to get a slice. Plus all the non-Roadblockers except Holden got to eat some of the failed attempts, so those weren't a total loss either. And while I'm not sure, I'd wager that the remaining failed attempts that didn't get eaten by Mark and the 3 Js were grabbed by the crew. So very little waste. That particular task fit well with an interest of his (stringed instruments) and then-undiagnosed autism. It was a task he could hyper-focus on his portion of, without having to think about anything relating to Ana, other than not doing her part of the task too. From the Live Thread: That was one possibility for the twist of the leg. When they'd hit the Roadblock and the announcement of the Pit Stop without encountering the twist, it had to be either KOR or NEL. And I thought of them in that order. I've personally dealt with one of those, and it was tangentially TAR-related. One year, when returning home from a TARCon, I had to change flights at O'Hare. At the time, there was one of those workplace reality shows that dealt with airport personnel (specifically with one airline) and "misbehaving customers". There was one of these signs at one of the gates near where I had to be (not my exact gate) saying that passing beyond the sign gave permission for them to use any footage of you they recorded for that specific show. However, said gate appeared to be not in use at the time I was there. Nevertheless, I still didn't cross past the sign.

Because everyone knows she has the HII, and Kyle told Kamilla about Eva's Safety without Power. So the people actually thinking of counter-plans are taking those into account. Who knew the shot for COVID also worked on BMF? Incorrect. TAR has a special 2-Night season finale on the 14th and 15th. Survivor should still be 90 minutes until the 3 hour finale on the 21st.