TV: Survivor

[Simple Torture]

Heard today that there was a twist edited out of the premiere:

During Sept. 28’s episode of On Fire: The Official Survivor Podcast, longtime host and showrunner Jeff Probst revealed that with their victory, Belo earned a big advantage. They had the opportunity to send one player to Lulu’s beach to live with them while they prepared for Tribal Council. In doing so, the player would learn the dynamics of their tribe’s opponent while also potentially creating new bonds and alliances.

“There’s one scene that you actually need to know about,” Jeff said.

Jeff revealed that Belo sent Kendra McQuarrie, the 31-year-old bartender from Steamboat Springs, CO, to Lulu. “Kendra goes over and she literally just hangs out there watching all of them scramble, but they now realize Kendra’s here,” the host said. “So, they’re trying to figure out who they’re going to vote for. But, they’re also aware that somebody is eavesdropping.”

Jeff said that none of the Lulu contestants were privy to another element of the twist. Kendra was also tasked with casting a vote against one of the six of them. Before Lulu made the journey to Tribal Council, Kendra went to Tree Mail and secretly wrote Brandon’s name down, he revealed.

Brandon was highly dismayed for large portions of episode 1. He was the big reason why Lulu didn’t capture supplies in the opening challenge, and his Immunity Challenge performance was not much better. Back at camp before Tribal, Brandon said he was planning on leaning into the Shot in the Dark game mechanic where he could wager his vote for a one-in-six chance of receiving safety from the vote.

“So, we get to Tribal Council, in theory, Brandon already has one vote cast against him,” he said.

However, Kendra’s surprise vote had no impact on the game because Hannah chose to quit Survivor 45. Instead of each player taking a trip to the voting urn to write Hannah’s name down, they all verbally agreed to honor Hannah’s wish, and she was sent packing. The host also gave Hannah the honor of snuffing her torch.

“So, when it came time to have to trim the episode down, as much as we loved this scene, because it didn’t really play out the way we intended with the vote and everything, we had to cut it,” Jeff said.

[wease]

She played that totally wrong, too. They could’ve used her to vote out Irritating Psycho and after that she could’ve quit. Yeah that would cut them by a third in one fell swoop but she obviously didn’t care about that since she was quitting anyway.

[daft twat]

Jesus. What a bunch of millennial pussies this season

My 13 year old plopped on the couch during tribal and after one minute said, “Are all of them autistic this year?” He watched it play out, got up, and as he walked away said, “Definitely a special needs league though.”

[E.H. Ruddock]

[Monkey_Driven]

90 minute episodes will take some time to adjust to. Looking forward to more time with the tribes and hearing from the players that normally don't have much screen time, but the uneventful episodes are going to draaaaaaaag.

[blueviper]

They should just eliminate the yellow team by default and just go with the red and blue teams.


Yellow is a trainwreck.

[Monkey_Driven]

They should just eliminate the yellow team by default and just go with the red and blue teams.


Yellow is a trainwreck.

One of them will probably win the whole game. Just watch.

[blueviper]

Heh, probably.

if they keep losing they won't have enough numbers to survive a merge. Unless they bond with others that don't have strong alliances and need to shake things up.

I could see one of those three yellows make a deep run if they play their cards right.

[Simple Torture]

Caleb seems like the most savvy of the group, him bringing in Emily when everyone else ostracized her was a smooth move. I know the preview for next week seemed like they were gunning for him, but that could be a misdirect.

[blueviper]

dear casting:

next season, pick people that can hack it. Thanks.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Seriously. “Boo hoo i mitts my boyfriend”. They know how fucking long this is. It’s annoying. My wife would kill me if i gave up a chance to win survivor because i wanted to come home due to missing her

[wease]

That look Probst gave him when he said that… You can almost see his thoughts. “What the fuck is going on with all these crybaby quitters?”

I now hope Emily wins.

[blueviper]

I like the new twist on that one immunity idol. The longer you go without a vote, the further in the game it can be used. Even though it backfired on Sabiyah.

re: quitters

they probably don't realize a lot of the show is just sitting around the beach doing nothing waiting to tape certain segments. And you have to do it with no A/C or internet. Egads!

[Monkey_Driven]

I'm not really sure what he was trying to accomplish by quitting at that point in the game. It's not like they go straight home. He'll now be stuck at the non-jury Ponderosa for two weeks. This seems like a classic, "You can't fire me, I quit!" situation.

[wease]

I was REALLY, REALLY hoping they would all vote for Sifu and give Sean a big fuck you.

[wease]

Probst didn’t fall for his bullshit. And I think he now regrets his decision.

https://ew.com/tv/survivor-45-sean-edwa ... interview/

And I want either Emily or Kaleb to win. I forgot him earlier.

[E.H. Ruddock]

That guy that was on last season for 12 hours is really annoying

[wease]

That guy that was on last season for 12 hours is really annoying

Absolutely. It would take about 12 minutes of convincing to get me to vote his ass out.

[Simple Torture]

I was convinced that Sean’s request to go home was a feint up until the votes were read—like maybe he had told the girls, “No matter WHAT I say, vote for Sifu,” and he just went way over the top to keep Sifu from playing an idol, and advantage, or his Shot in the Dark. When he got back from the last tribal and had to make nice with the tribe, his voice and demeanor totally changed, and his big emotional speech started with the same tone, so I turned to my wife and said, “He’s only talking about his husband to force himself to sound emotional, to mask his acting,” which could’ve been an all-time fake-out (but, of course, unnecessary, since Sifu isn’t an idol-hoarding mastermind, just some doofus who likes air guitar).

The interview that wease posted above gestures to what I think is the most mind-boggling part of this season so far—apparently, neither Jeff nor the producers had any idea that Sean was considering quitting. At least with the woman who quit during week one, there were all kinds of hints that she was moving in that direction. I like to be surprised sometimes with the tribal votes, but it’s always more satisfying afterwards when you can look at it and say “Ok, that makes sense.” With this tribal, I don’t even understand why the women voted the way they did. Considering that Sean did not vote for himself, I’m still not sure of his intentions! Couple that with 3 of the first 4 players eliminated not being able to cut it (2 quits and 1 of the worst players ever, sorry, Brandon), all bunched together on the same tribe, and it’s not very compelling. At least Sean whispered to Sifu that he didn’t vote for him, so we’ve got a bit of drama.

On a lighter note, I turned to my wife 5 minutes into the episode and said, “Before Jake leaves, he’s going to say, ‘How do you like them apples?’” Sure enough, when they won flint and Jeff handed it to Kaleb, you can hear Jake say in the background, “How do you like that? How do you like that? How do you like them apples?” Maybe this season is great after all.

[wease]

You know he was just waiting for the moment to throw that out there.