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  1. You would think so. And yet, most seasons on Survivor, there are people who have no frigging clue how to start a fire with flint, no clue how to build a shelter with the materials that are available every season, self-proclaimed super fans who seem to not have digested such Survivor Strategy 101 as "Don't be bossing everyone around, or you'll be making yourself a target," "Don't tell obvious lies that can easily be caught like telling multiple people that they're your No. 1," "Don't tell everyone about your immunity idol or advantage," "Don't fall for the fake idol play -- real idols are more sophisticated than anything that can be put together with materials available to players," "if you can't swim, maybe take some lessons," etc etc.
  2. I hope it was. I hope that down the road, Bhanu takes off his mask and is like "A-ha! My game was to play the role of a pathetic sad sack so that people would feel sorry for me and let me goat my ass all the way to the FTC and you fell for it!" Finding out that Bhanu was merely ACTING would make however many more unseemly displays of weepy, OTT, paranoid Bhanu worth. As it is, if this is his genuine set of emotions, I'm sort of scared for him and sad for the screening mechanisms of the show.
  3. There was a lot going on in the episode, so it could easily be missed. But Randen had complained about his right hand not working earlier, and was sitting around the camp with it looking (to me, anyway once it was raised) noticeably rather limp. He had a confessional about how he was going to likely have to skip the challenge and how much it sucked to not be able to contribute. If what we are left with was he pinched a nerve by sleeping in an awkward position, it seems like something that could have had such a quick onset. But it felt like to me we got as much backstory as there was/could be. Someone should explain to Bhanu that a mermaid with a dragon tail would be a half-woman with a dragon tail and not much mermaid at all. Unless we are envisioning 1/3 human, 1/3 fish and 1/3 dragon. He should have gone for a fantasy creature whose top half might seem pretty and harmless like a unicorn or fairy.
  4. It is a little unseemly for Bhanu to basically be high-fiving about someone having a serious medical condition and for him to be crediting to God. I think the Big Guy has more important stuff to do than saving Bhanu's sorry ass. Then again, I recently watched a bunch of the Blues Brothers, and maybe Bhanu's quest to win a million hearts is part of a mission from God. '
  5. 100 percent agree that Chelsea was shitty to break the confidence, and that Jimmy would be right to take that as a dealbreaker (although I think that the deal was broken for him from the moment he saw she didn't look like Megan Fox.) While not condoning Chelsea's action, I understand where it comes from. She knows that Jimmy slept with FWB. She knows that Jimmy texts and hangs out with FWB a lot. She knows Jimmy has googly eyes for Jess. She certainly has a lot of insecurity, but that's not helped by Jimmy's demeanor. Looking at Jimmy in the best possible light, he is someone who is at least somewhat disappointed with how Chelsea looks and is struggling to maintain the connection that they made in the pods. Alternatively, he's known for most of the real world time that he has no intention of marrying Chelsea and is playing out the string for air time or to not seem like a superficial jerk. I think that all this creates a feedback loop where even someone who is more secure than Chelsea would be questioning whether Jimmy is trustworthy. I have some sympathy for the friend. But even if Chelsea had not said anything, the issue would likely still have come up. By appearing on the show, they agreed to a situation where strangers would be speculating on whether Barbara and/or Maddie had done it with Jimmy anyway. At the time of their appearance, people on Reddit and elsewhere were wondering if Barbara had slept with Jimmy based on body language and some of the questions and things she said. Now maybe that thought might not have been put in their minds if there hadn't been a preview of the "YOU FUCKED HER!" outburst. But I think even what, nearly 40 years after "When Harry Met Sally," there is still the widespread notion that women and men can't truly be friends without some level of sex getting in the way. I have some sympathy for the other friend. Assuming for discussion's sake that Barbara was the one who slept with Jimmy and Maddie didn't, people are still going to nose around in Maddie's business. But then I come back to that there's nothing wrong or embarrassing with either of them (or both of them) having slept with Jimmy and their consenting to being on LIB in the first place, so...
  6. Don't remember Jimmy saying that, but assuming he did, that strikes me as a weak reason to ask for confidentiality. If Jimmy's friend hasn't told her new partner/doesn't tell her new partners that she and Jimmy slept together, it's on Jimmy's friend especially if Jimmy is going to be as prominent a part of her life as he seems to be. It isn't something in general that needs to be hush-hushed that she's not a virgin or that she specifically slept with Jimmy. Again, not condoning that Chelsea betrayed Jimmy's trust. She shouldn't have done that.
  7. Let me articulate a little more why I feel it is ridiculous. And in retrospect, maybe ridiculous is the wrong word. The friend in question hasn't been directly identified by the show. Now that might just be editing by LIB. Maybe Chelsea 100 percent outed the woman. We viewers can jump to the conclusion that it's probably one of Jimmy's female friends who met Chelsea, Barbara and Maddie, but it isn't for sure. If it is Barbara or Maddie, they both agreed to appear on the show. She put themselves in the narrative, knowing that she and Jimmy fucked and knowing that she and Jimmy text and talk constantly. If you know anything about reality or reality shows, you should expect that would come out that you slept together. Yes, she could have suspected that she'd only be portrayed as a good friend who happens to be a girl. But that seems a little naive to me. But the main reason I think it ridiculous is that we aren't expecting Jimmy's friend to wear a scarlet A for having fucked him in the past. It's not something that is going to have the septa from Game of Thrones walking behind her with a bell and saying "Shame!" while she's driven through the streets naked. Assuming the truth is as presented -- they slept together once, decided they don't work as a couple and remain close friends -- who really cares in 2024? Most members of the public probably won't. Admittedly, the internet contains gossips and people are speculating about which one it was and digging into the social media history of them. But at least some of that is driven by the mystery of it. If Jimmy had simply said "Barbara/Maddie/whoever and I had a fling but now it's over," I don't think there'd be nearly the same level of attention. Yes, it probably isn't a great feeling having thousands of people speculate about you. But in the long term, not a big deal that you had consensual sex with a guy once. Most people who know them probably either already knew they'd fucked or suspected it. This is a different issue from Chelsea betraying Jimmy's confidence -- of course she shouldn't have done that. In other words, I don't think it is wrong for Barbara/Maddie/whoever to want their privacy. A little naive, and if it's Barbara or Maddie, they volunteered to at least somewhat give up their privacy. However, I tend to doubt that is Jimmy's true motive in wanting to keep it confidential that he'd slept with a friend the one time. I think it is suspicious that he asked her to have it be confidential in the first place. I wouldn't be surprised if Jimmy -- who has been either lying about his true intentions and feelings or been very confused about things from the moment he saw Chelsea -- asked her to keep it confidential because he and the friend have an ongoing thing or did it more than the once. So the large part of my thinking it is ridiculous is the notion that Jimmy was all Sir Galahad protecting the honor of his fair former bedmate when a) it's not a dishonor and b) I suspect ulterior motives.
  8. I don't think they explicitly said. But some folks are traditionalists: it's Dad or nothing. I don't remember if the show established that AD's dad has passed, was not approving of the possible marriage, wasn't available or what. Also, some people don't get "given away." As to Jimmy/girl friend with benefit(s), I dunno. I find it plausible that they just had a fling that they moved past. The notion of him trying to preserve her "honor" strikes me as ridiculous. I think Jimmy has almost certainly tried to hook up with Jess since the show wrapped filming, and almost certainly succeeded.
  9. I am addicted to this show despite how it often irks me. I do not want another participant to claim someone is their "person" or their "best friend," after a few weeks of dating at most. Unless someone has been living under a rock for their entire lives, it shouldn't be possible for someone to be a best friend to a 20+ year old in that time. Anyway, I feel like this episode revealed a lot about Clay that put some of what he said and did more in context. He is not merely athletic, but he was an All-American track stud. That makes his thing about if AD ever got out of shape he would make her get her ass back to the gym more understandable (if not condonable). It seemed clear for most of the season that Clay had issues with his dad's infidelity running through his head. But seeing his dad -- even though he's obviously a cheating scumbag, he just had a ton of riz, as the kids say. I could see even more how that would mess up Clay's mindset (as well as where Clay gets his from). Even if there had been a chance for him to say yes, it was utterly torpedoed when the dad showed up. Clay brought up concerns about AD's finances as being a stumbling block too, but I don't remember them ever discussing that. We saw that Clay has been successful and has a nice house and a lot of stuff, but I don't know if we saw or heard much about AD's money or lack thereof. I feel really bad for AD, and a little sympathetic for Clay. Most of the "I don't" couples have had (IMO) a clear villain, and I feel it's less so with them. I want someone great for AD, and I do wonder if she thought Clay was truly that, or if she just was happy to be picked. Going back to the pods, I think that she was open to dating Matthew when he was such a weirdo suggests it was less about finding the right one, and more about finding anyone. Which again, is a shame, because AD seems a genuinely sweet person. I hate to sound old-fashioned, but maybe she should not have taken Clay for all those test-drives. I know there are contracts and all that, but I don't know how you could ever be like "I love you, you're my person, but I'm not going to marry you in a public humiliating way. Oh, and I want to continue to date you while I work on myself." Good on AD for calling it quits...I hope. I guess we'll see in the reunion show. I will give Jimmy a little credit for not making Chelsea go through the charade of a wedding to say no since it was clear that was where he was at from the jump. The whiplash of him, though, when he goes "I've no doubt you're my person (grr)" and then seemingly in about a minute "I'm set on not going." is bizarre. As is his reasoning (at least as he articulated it): she said multiple times that Amy and Johnny were the strongest couple (which is apparently objectively true, and even if it were not, why should that matter that she thinks another couple is stronger than them?) and she complained about him being close to a woman friend he slept with still and said something on camera about it when he had asked her not to. I'm with Chelsea: Jimmy was making excuses since he didn't want to get married to a non-Megan Fox lookalike. I would have much more respect for him if he had been honest enough to say "Look, I tried, but it's clear this isn't working" without the continued talk of how he loved her, and how finding her was the greatest thing he had done, and she's his person. He doesn't love her because if he did, he wouldn't do her like that. He obviously did greater things in his life. And you don't walk away from your person like that over a few arguments and relatively minor issues. Congrats to Amy and Johnny. It's funny: I think individually they seem cool, but as a couple they are boring and charisma-free.
  10. I am pretty sure both Q and J came to the challenge with shirts on and took them off at some point because it was hot work. They definitely could have used shirts to slow the leaking or, if need be, pulled a Richard Hatch and gone nude to do it. Another possibility: Use the two buckets together, lined up so that the holes from each are covered. I think that everyone had to look to determine if they had the torch. Even if you could get away with not looking, I'm not sure it would be optimal. Who would seem more convincing in a vacuum: the guy who says, "I definitely looked and I have the vote" or the guy who says, "I didn't look, so I may or may not have the vote, and that other guy is probably lying?" I think most people would choose the guy who looked over the one who didn't in such a scenario in a vacuum. It was an interesting little challenge, undermined by J being so bad at it. Getting to assess how good someone is at lying about something basic is an interesting skill. I don't think you needed to be Phil Hellmuth to catch that J was bluffing, though.
  11. You know, for previous episodes, I had blamed Jimmy for Chelsea's insecurities. And he still does IMO hold a lot of the responsibility. He should have been honest and been like, "Um, you're no Megan Fox...so I'm out." But this latest couple, Chelsea went beyond the normal sort of insecurity that I think one could/should be able to deal with. And despite getting multiple off-ramps, Jimmy still is sticking around. Which makes me wonder: is it a sign that we are actually dealing with true love, or fear of LIB's legal team if he tries to bounce before the altar, or is he afraid of looking like a heel on TV or what? Especially when it is obvious that he wants nothing more than to hook up with Jessica.
  12. I was concerned that Jelinsky was somehow going to be a long-term contestant given that he got the last-name treatment of such Peachy pets as Cochran and Penner. Thankfully, his subpar performance got him the dishonor of being the first boot. On the water challenge, I would have lined the bucket with my shirt and rung it out at each stop. So far, no one has super-annoyed me. The one guy who was like "Let's go after a woman!" seems a little paranoid. It continues to seems strange to me that alliances along gender lines happen almost immediately but almost never on racial, sexual orientation or other lines.
  13. The ex had one drink with friends and that was all she wrote. :)
  14. I don't know how you could possibly overlook that your potential spouse tried lying to you about his whereabouts and activities when a) there was an app that said exactly where he was, and it wasn't where he claimed to be b) there was (presumably) a camera crew and other cast members that presumably had some knowledge of where he was c) common sense would have to tell you that no one stays out till 5 a.m. just innocently talking with an old flame in a parking lot. If he can brazenly lie like that when it's easy to catch him, that's got to leave you wondering what he might do when there aren't obvious checks in place. Even if you were for some reason willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that it was just innocent and nothing happened and the reason he lied about his whereabouts was for some non-nefarious reason, that is still a couple of huge red flags that can't/shouldn't be easily talked through. But with him being revealed as a gaslighter when he claimed to have never left the parking lot when in reality he ended up in the part of town where Sarah lives...well, bye boy is the only reaction I think the typical person could have and retain any shred of self-respect.
  15. He was/is the full-fledged principal. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/24/26-year-old-got-middle-school-principal-job-by-using-these-soft-skills.html#:~:text=When Gorham ultimately landed the,National Center for Education Statistics. FWIW, both he and Brittany gave their takes on the breakup below, which still seems incomplete: https://people.com/love-is-blind-kenneth-gorham-why-he-brittany-mills-split-exclusive-8597657
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