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OK, this season was a MESS but we all pretty much expected it to be, right? I suppose TPTB could have done something really cool like, recast Kate + keep Javicia as Ryan but have Ryan be Nightwing. Let Kate angst over being so rich and out of touch with the common people while Ryan gets to be the gritty, woman of the streets, saving lives and opening minds to the oppression all around all of us. That actually might've worked but instead we got what we got. I'm really torn because I freeking LOVE Ryan's Batwoman and love what SHE represents and I love the "found family" aspect but hell, I admit it kind of didnt really work. I mean, Mary was, as always, perfect and I could see Mary meeting and being best friends with Ryan. Luke though...I found it interesting that he character got so muddled when he's not related to Kate at all. I'm still puzzled by Luke's storyline this season. Sophie, sadly, got the stupidest storyline. I agree with whomever said Sophie shoulda just hopped n the back of Kate's bike and ridden on out of town with her gal. What the hell is she going to do moving forward? Alice's story was bonkers bannanapants and whew boy, psycho-lesbian drama alert! All of that just was such a gobblygook mess...I'd like to see Alice get her shit together and somehow become an anti-hero that helps our heroes and I'd like to see FAR LESS of her moving forward (a little of a good thing goes a long way and she is damn good). Bye Jacob, I hope Dugray Scott earned some nice pay checks and found it fitting his final scene was him LITERALLY phoning it in, bless him. Whatever, I love the new Batwoman. She is beautiful and fun and funny and passionate and interesting and actually looks like she has some muscles, like she actually kick a little ass unlike Ruby who always looked like an underdeveloped 12 year old boy flailing about. Was all the social commentary too much? I dont know, I feel like the show was trying to draw attention to things we as a society desperately NEED to pay attention to and do the work required to make things better for EVERYBODY so I didn't find it to be "too much", just a little hokey from time to time. Last thing I'm going to say is this: this show will fail due to racism. Actually, no, that'snot right. I should have said it like this: Racism will destroy this show.

Fowler also was walking the equivalent of up an 8 story building several times per day in order to build his shelter so no, he wasn't lugging heavy timber or giant rocks, but still, his shelter was elaborate and beautiful. Crafty people tend to last the longest, the greater the creativity one has, the greater the likelihood one can think one's way out of a bear filled problem. Boring, fat slug men also tend to last a long time, moldering in their "shelters" being boring. Give me Callie in Patagonia or Fowler or Roland or anyone who goes out there and shows ingenuity, shows creativity, opens their hearts to the experience and then lets us, undeserving as we may be, see that vulnerability. That's what I watch the show for anyway, not the starvation, not the boring fat dudes in boring "shelters", not the boring fat dudes that tap on day 1 due to spotting a wolf/bear/wolverine/a bunch a trees. The Patagonia season was the best specifically due to the high level of creativity shown by multiple contestants that season.

Fowler in season 3 (?) had a beautiful woven shelter that was incredible, he won. Roland expended a buttload of calories building rockhouse, he won.

He wasn't drunk, he was full. was very full.

Sara is Sara, Mick said as much. Y'all are acting like this big, dumb, lovable show is suddenly NOT dumb? Like it suddenly has well thought out, intricate plot line that make sense? Come ON, this is THE LEGENDS and it is dumb and Beebo be praised for it! Sara is Sara, just love her and move on with the story.

Looks to me the only way any of them would get saved from a grizzly attack would be if a mountain lion happened to also be nearby and the mountain lion pounced on the participant first. Another way a participant would be saved from the grizzly attack would be if another grizzly happened along at the same time and it decided to attack the first grizzly. Another way a participant would be saved from a grizzly attack would be if a sudden avalanche happened and it swept either the bear or the participant out into the water. Finally, I think the producers of the show would be able to save a participant if they happened to be visiting the participant at the same time as the grizzly. Now everybody would be fucked if the producers visited at the same time as both grizzlies AND the mountain lion and the avalanche but damn, if anyone managed to keep filming through all of that, it would be amazing. At the beginning of the episode, I thought Jorden would win. Now I have no idea (but secretly think Rose might go very far)

They are not letting him or anyone else do that. All contestants are required to wear the provided emergency flotation device (life vest when they do things like go out on a weird boat like that. The only one I can remember not doing that was Mitch back in season 1, but that was season 1 and many lessons were learned) and carry the emergency phone (at all times). https://elementbushcraft.com/alone-survival-gear-list-and-prohibited-items/

People like to believe being obese will help them survive longer on this show but that's not really how human bodies work. A person would do far better if they chose to survive for a year as if they were on Alone BEFORE they ever even audition for the show (and maintain that lifestyle in the lead up to the actual filming). That way, your body would be used to draining every bit of nutrition from every morsel of food you ate. You would be much less likely to starve and more importantly, if you had conditioned yourself for such a harsh existence, when you were actually on the show and things did get very, very hard, with conditioning you would be far less likely to experience the intense cravings starvation brings as well as the attendant psychological effects. It would be a very fine line though. I mean, you'd have to be completely used to subsisting on very little but it does you no good to go on that show already scrawny. Lean and mean and conditioned to subsist on marginal food sources is the smarter way to go (I think) (and Im a fat couch potato)

Foxes. They were not allowed to kill foxes while at Great Slave lake.

Bilko even said he was "filtering all the grit" with his teeth! AND he mentioned wiggly things! Dude must believe his stomach can conquer all. Good luck Bilko, may the heavy metal gods protect you!

Well to be fair, Biko was not piercing his nose, he already had a nose piercing, he was just shoving the bone through an already established piercing. I was far more disturbed by his drinking that nasty rain water. It wasn't the first time we've seen a contestant do that but it is such a stupid thing to do. ALWAYS boil your water!

My god, I laughed and laughed! That was something no one under a certain age would get at all. Well, they might get the idea of someone's back going out like that but if you really know, that was just amazing. Also, do none of the people currently on the Waver rider know Mick is an accomplished novelist? A romance novelist at that, why wouldn't he have a strong vocabulary? Nate at least should've remembered that. Anyway, Im pretty sure Mick is thinking he's met his real life Garima (too bad she's probably Gary's wife)

Agree to all this and want to add, seems like everyone would be on board with the idea of eating horses once they were no longer useful as a conveyance or as a pack animal. That's a lot of meat is what Im saying. Plus, the hide is extremely useful. Really all parts of the animal would be super useful. Whatever, these people live in a magical world where 20 years into the ZA there are still brightly colored clothes available in everyone's sizes down at the never looted mall. Also sturdy, machine made hiking boots. Even make up. Clothes on raggedy, decaying zombies stay intact forever, it's the magical land of abundance! Gasoline that never goes bad. People with just basic first aid training + a few hours watching "M.A.S.H" back in the day are all you need in order to successfully complete gut surgery after a point black shot from a sawed off shot-gun!

Actually, I think the article was pretty clear as to why he left. #1 he remarked that he was "not a kid anymore", that clearly indicates he's less interested in such physically demanding work. #2 he remarked he was feeling antsy in the role, that clearly indicates he felt his creativity was not getting the type of workout it needs to stay fresh and vital. He was not willing to just keep getting that steady paycheck (unlike Melissa McCarthy and Norman Reedus or Lennie James). So basically, he was bored and feeling physically worn out. Good for him for valuing his creativity and physical well being over this show.

All I got from this episode was both Negan and his wife were dirtbags who both apparently thought a guy enjoying himself at a BAR, talking over some old ass, overplayed, sappy love song "had it coming" and deserved to be beaten up. Other people might complain that in this episode we did not get to see how Negan actually formed the saviors but I say, why would anyone need to see that? We had already seen everything we needed to see with regards to Negan and this episode did not change anything at all about what anyone might've ever thought about him. There was no grand reversal like there was with Rick. Negan was ALWAYS a piece of shit, he was married to a woman who was also a piece of shit and had she lived, SHE would have been queen of the saviors and this whole show is just so awful I have no idea why I keep torturing myself watching it. It used to be an awesome show. Then it was a pretty good show. Then kinda meh. Now though....

Announced where? The announcement I saw was a renewal for season 3. nuBatwoman is amazing and the new actress can act circles around the old one.

Well, at first I thought, "that episode was pointless!" and then I realized no, somebody needed a paycheck. It was still pointless....there were 2 things I really enjoyed about this pointless, slow, dumb episode. #1 I really liked Carol's meltdown. I know many people here do not like her and I know they will soon enough be on this thread braying their hatred for Carol to the moon as usual but I still like her and I still identify with her and I still "get" her (except when the writing makes her an idiot dipped in moron sauce which was most of this season). Inside, I have many times wanted to destroy a wall like that so when she did that, yeah I got it. But that one scene did not justify this entire pointless, slow, dumb episode so that brings me to the second thing I enjoyed about this ep... SNUGGLY DOG IS SNUGGLY! Aw that was so sweet seeing that big ol' dog be all cuddly and sweet to Carol, what a good boy! Was THAT enough to make this episode worth my time? No.

I thought this was a really great episode right up until the Kate reveal.

Remember last week I said it was nice not having Rick screaming and clearly in need of an anti-psychotic pill? ☠️ I really, seriously did not like this episode, there may not be enough anti-psychotic medications in the world for this show. No way in hell she could survive that long with that amount of psychosis. That wasn't "active imagination". I wish I had just skipped this episode.

Me too! So far, these "bonus episodes" have valiantly attempted to cover up the fact that they were filmed (in Georgia, during the summer/height of covid) under (not as strict as they could have been) covid restrictions. Mostly outside, mostly socially distanced, one episode with folks wearing (non-surgical) masks. I applaud all of this. I am enjoying the MUCH lower stakes of these episodes, as it's a weird thing, wanting to watch this show but NOT wanting my anxiety CRANKED up. To be perfectly honest with you all, since we've all been here together for all these years, I'm actually enjoying the show right now, so much more than I have the last several seasons. No stupid fucking whisperers! No more cruel for the sake of cruelty Negan's group (whatever they were called, I forget). No more Rick SCREAMING ABOUT HIS FUCKING PLAN that wont work anyway and could someone PLEASE find that man an anti-psychotic pill? No more Michonne leaving her children behind. Mainly though, Im enjoying these small stakes, small scale stories. The entire universe is NOT hinging on some stupid plan to bring down the ultimate sadistic torture man and WHEW! Yes! Just chill the fuck out for once. Something I am missing though, the scenes of hordes of zombies and all those amazing, glorious makeup effects. I really REALLY get off on seeing those, not just one, not just a clump of them in the distance, just HORDES of them, all different, all beautiful (in the creepy, macabre way of it, whatever, I love special effects and still miss syfy's face off). Anyway, yes I am here for it, give me these small potatoes stories right now TWD and thank you, I feel like a long time friend (TWD) has finally stopped smoking meth and come to their senses again and we can just hang out. Welcome back buddy!

Better question: after all this time, how has Dog not succumbed to heart worms, seeing as how the series is still set more or less "down south"-ish.

So, Im betting the entire point of this episode was to introduce Leah so that it can be revealed she was kidnapped by the reapers and has now become queen of the reapers and she wants her damn Dog back.

What the actual shit? They FINALLY kill of all the Wells but they DONT HAVE CISCO THERE?!?!?!?!?!? Travesty.

That sword Ben made, the Sutton Hoo, was the most beautiful sword Ive ever seen. That was incredible.

I really did think that monster was the real Kelpian just all mutated due to 125 years of radiation. Doug Jones also played 2 characters in Pan's Labyrinth, the one with eyes in his palms and Pan himself.