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For completeness:
Julia was evicted (3-0)
Vanessa won HoH.
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From Kass' Gordon Holmes' interview, the "Align or Malign," section:
McQuillen: Savage…definitely align with him. I don’t think he’s going to be able to deal. He has the Jeff Probst link everyone is bitter about. He’s a millionaire already. No one is going to give him the money. He’s probably going to find an idol being best friends with you-know-who.Italics mine. The tinfoil hat part of my lizard brain says, "signed and sealed."
ETA: hyperlink
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So, which Wild Cards did they reveal? (Kacy, I'm willing to guess. But who else?)
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One of the reasons I annually give up on Big Brother is that, I too, am cord free. (And of the networks, CBS has far and away the worst signal in the Chicago area.) But CBS.com reliably has Survivor and Amazing Race episodes up the next morning. [They have BB up also, I just can't make the time to watch the eps.]
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I remember Greg saying much the same thing. When Mr Rat and I first tuned in, that's what we thought it was going to be also - probably most people did. In a lot of ways it was presented as kind of shock TV - "who will survive, and what will be left of them?"
Yes, and I can't say this for the players necessarily, as a viewer, I was expecting more small-s survival, because I knew of Mark Burnett from Eco-Challenge. (Tangent, my one beef with Survivor is that its success killed off Eco-Challenge.)
Boston Rob's track record has been hit or miss though. He went out before jury twice and made the finals twice. I am not sure he would be someone that would go deep into the game every time he plays. Especially after he won the last time.
I forget, were Rob and Russell's RI tribe assignments random, easily manipulated "random," or assigned? Because if they had been on opposite tribes, I believe they both would have been performing Redemption Island Carnival Games before the merge. Russell's original tribe was anti-returnee in the mold of Jeff Kent, and the Hantzhole isn't charismatic enough (in the right way,) to have formed his equivalent of "Rob's Zombies."
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Okay feed watchers, I give it 24 hours, (from the end of the HoH competition,) for the DR to say to someone, "So how would your plans change if you thought there was another double eviction this season?" Any chance of that happening before nominations at this point? (I've already - mercifully - forgotten the production schedule.)
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I find myself more excited for this season than I have for any season since Australia. As someone who dislikes "returning players seasons," this means I am very disappointed with myself. I guess there is an "all-stars only," exemption in play.
This will be my preseason thread, as I am consuming RHAP podcasts and Josh Wigler's PARADE columns, and will probably hit up Dalton Ross and Gordon Holmes' stuff as well.
There is a great embedded video at RHAP, taken before the S31 folk left Los Angeles, where some of the players talk frankly about pre-game alliances. Some don't, and the juxtaposition is hilarious.
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Also known as, the skippable episode.
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Disclaimer: I don't watch the feeds, and by now I'm only watching every other Thursday if the chips fall my way.
I do not wish this on you, the diligent feed watchers who keep me up to date on this annual train wreck, but frankly at this point the 'other' houseguests deserve to have alternating Austin / Twin HoH's the rest of the way out. I think they have the skill sets to pull it off, and if the "house" was too dumb to break up a power triplet consisting of two power couples ..., like I said, future seasons need the cautionary tale.
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This house is big on mob mentality. We've seen it all season. We see it every season.
Fixed that for you.
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And maybe for me it's the order thing. We may see contestants we like or thought were strong but unless you're watching them in the second hour, they're not going to finish. That also removes the suspense.
I'm meh on these suggestions. Putting it indoors makes it uncomfortably American Gladiators-y to me. Having it outdoors in cityscapes is actually an improvement over the Japanese version, which is competed in a dusty field in the middle of nowhere. It brings to mind side scroller video games, which makes it seem like a bigger, grander event. I wish they wouldn't only film at night though. It makes me feel that competitors can't be at their best if they're running at 1am or something.
The one aspect of the Japanese version I'm finding I'm missing is this: Every competitor has a number pinned on his or her clothes, like track and field runners, their order number in the competition. The higher the number, the farther you're expected to go. The #100 is a place of honor and pressure. Having the numbers gives the competition an overall shape. For one, it forces the editors to display the competitors in the order that they run (even though they'll undoubtedly still skip runs). You see dry spells and runs. Momentum and despair. There's also this sequence you see all the time in the Japanese version where a competitor preparing for a run reacts to the previous competitor succeeding or, more likely, failing. It's such a humanizing moment and it tells the story of the entire group of people trying to will each other to the end. In this case I'm certain the editors are just mixing the runs as they please.
I really think ordered numbering would be an improvement. The only thing I don't know is what that would do to the "ten days waiting in line" crowd. Obviously, they'd be given lower numbers, (which would be very dramatic when some finish, followed by a bunch of experienced runners flaming out,) but I don't know what the process is for being accepted, and how the would affect the "seeding."
[Also, would the experienced crowd try to shop around for the city final that would give them the "best" number?]
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I'm not sure what it is,but I'm not as interested in the show anymore.I'm kinda bored. I hope Vegas is interesting at least.. .
We've discussed the (high) difficulty factor of the City Finals courses ad naseum at this point. And really, when 1-3 people are finishing the course, (and maybe 1-2 others make the "ladder climb,") every week, it starts to feel, "same ol', same ol'." There is no feel of urgency when the late runners only have to finish the Salmon Ladder to make the Vegas Final - and heck, three competitors who washed out on the Salmon Ladder this week are advancing - as opposed to previous seasons where they at least had to make the penultimate obstacle by a certain time.
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I think at one point, Austin was there and he chimed in with "I miss Liz when she's in the diary room". Like...dude...
I seriously hope that Austin was sarcastically throwing shade at Vanessa with that comment. Because, if not, yeah ... like, dude.
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Up until the point AG decides she wants to save someone and gives us the "Reset Button" takeover.
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I don't hate Drew, but I do feel that he comes off both as a show-off, and entitled. He is, admittedly, very good at this - and frankly, having just watched and read about his run at Sasuke 31 - I find myself rooting for him to do well at the Vegas final.
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That (Sasuke 31,) was awesome to watch. However, I was disappointed to discover that production screwed Drew D. over. (And I don't particularly even like Drew...)
In Sasuke 30, Drew was eliminated in the third stage, on the Crazy Cliffhanger. In 31 he asked if he could try the obstacle differently, and (allegedly) was told he could. After completing CC, (different?) production folk told him he was disqualified. Apparently he argued his way into a do-over, and he fell on the end jump with (mandatory) mid air turn.
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It wasn't noms, just Have Not choosing. Meg, James, and Jackie are the lucky HN trio.
Liz to Julia, ragging on Austin for sucking in the sliding comp: "You're so big and have all those muscles. Use them, motherfucker. He's such an idiot."
So the ADC now have two rooms, (HOH with Becky, and the HN room,) where they can go and plot against "the other side?" Please tell me that this was actually planned out - 'cause that reeks of str-te-gery. [And Grodner - this is an unintended consequence of the Battle of the Block, by eliminating Have Not competitions, you don't get mixed groups in the Have Not room.]
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I just finished watching Sasuke 30 (2014) on YouTube. A lot of fun to watch, and with only about half the number of "get to know the contestant," bits. (Which is good, 'cause it's in Japanese. Play MST3K with it though: Be Matt Eiserman!)
I'd love to see the "swim against the current," obstacle ported to ANW - much as it caught the competitors in Japan off guard, I can only imagine the reaction if it were to be used in the States. (Plus you know there'd be at least one competitor who couldn't swim. Heh heh.)
It's in eleven parts, so it is easy to watch in batches. Sasuke 31 (2015) may be available also, but that looks to be in two (much longer) parts.
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I believe the age cut off for competitors is 21. (Seems arbitrary - was an early sponsor a beer company?) There have got to be a ton of legal adults (18-20) who would sign an NDA for the experience of running course testing for free.
But hiring interns (as I said) could work. I wouldn't worry about them not competing in following years since the courses do change annually; what they test in one year is no better or worse than the home made courses a lot of the Ninjas build anyway.
How does filming usually go for a city stage? I believe someone mentioned it's only 2-3 days per city?
Day 1, they show up and set up the first half of the course.
Night 1, they film stage 1, going as long as they need.
Day 2 they set up the back half, probably while recording their local intern running the first stage for the "Demonstrate the obstacles" demo reel.
Night 2, they film the City Finals, and wrap up with the Intern filming for the Finals "Demonstrate the obstacle" demo reel.
I've always assumed that (Day 1) they show up, and set up the whole course. They just use camera angles to not show us the back half of the course.
(There is probably ample video evidence that I'm wrong. Doesn't mean that it would be more efficient use of labor to do it my way, and they don't.)
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Keep in mind you're talking about Southerners.
We've enshrined peanut butter and banana sandwiches as a hallmark of royalty.
Can we deep fry that bad boy?
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For an invert-able bot, like Tombstone or Sweet Revenge, that part of their design *is* their self-righting mechanism. A low wedge bot, with an "upside-down" wedge on its rear, would also work - to cite a non-spinner example.
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There is a 250 pound, Battlebot shaped hole in my schedule tonight...
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I am so tempted to get my "free week" of CBS stuff...
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Off-topic: Noooooo!
"I'm here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
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Season 17 Live Feed Discussion: Watch People Sleep All Day!
in Past Seasons
I've seen this complaint mentioned, particularly against Vanessa, a ton this season, and while it may very well be true, there are two points to be made.
First, the above, and second - that reality show hobgoblin: editing. We have no proof that Vanessa isn't detailing her plans to the Diary Room, and that they are ignoring it in order to show more Johnny Mac clips. Or to present Van in TPTB's preferred narrative. Or, institutional sexism. Or, etc.
Occam's Razor thought experiment: Given how much talk there has been over M&M / Skittles Candy Crush Counting by the live feed watchers, is it really possible that the DR isn't asking Vanessa about her strategy? So either she isn't giving them anything, (case one,) or she is, and they aren't showing us (case two.)
Really, how many minutes, (and I was tempted to write seconds there,) of DR clips do we get an episode versus how many minutes (hours?,) of interviewing the hamsters do in-between episode?