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| Topic | CBS Reality Show topic: Two years late is better than never |
| BlueCrystalTear 07/15/21 11:46:30 AM #494 | bwburke94 posted... IIRC, Phil's already said they'll ban answer sharing. Teams have done that occasionally since the early days, so it's probably just a reaction to TAR32. Not totally sure how they're going to go about doing that. "You shared the Roadblock's answer with another team. This is a 30 minute penalty." An alliance can still collectively take the penalty to stack the deck to U-Turn whatever team is beating them because of that penalty. Early on, 30 minutes isn't much, and the weak teams will just get themselves eliminated. As for Big Brother... I don't think I've seen someone have HOHitis this severe week one. Earliest before was Devin in week 2. Like Devin, Frenchie's been highly effective at turning the entire house against him, probably including his own team. I hope that this clusterfuck continues after Frenchie is gone, unlike BB16 dying a week after Devin's departure (save for the "Amber's gone because of you" episode). This is the most engaged I've been in Big Brother in quite a while. But both BB19 and BB20 shot out of a cannon the same way, and one of them became bland and predictable after a few weeks and the other screeched to a halt because of a dumb twist, so... --- BlueCrystalTear | GNT BB4 Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner [For lease] | (((FREE HUGS))) | You're living your own life. You're you. |
| Topic | CBS Reality Show topic: Two years late is better than never |
| BlueCrystalTear 07/13/21 8:48:27 PM #492 | Mewtwo59 posted... TAR got nominated for another Emmy, so hopefully that helps keep the show alive. Doubtful. Given how TAR32 took two years after filming to air because of how bad it was (not TAR24 bad, but still bad) and how a pandemic shut the whole world down... I don't see how TAR can resurge. COVID might force them to do a domestic route and we all know how well that went over with the Family Edition. Maybe they'll reboot in a few years once the world is safer again, with a few new rules to prevent TAR32's collusion from recurring. They don't want a predictable product, after all. --- BlueCrystalTear | GNT BB4 Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner [For lease] | (((FREE HUGS))) | You're living your own life. You're you. |
| Topic | CBS Reality Show topic: Two years late is better than never |
| BlueCrystalTear 07/12/21 11:24:57 PM #489 | That "offer that's too good for someone to refuse" was... very easy to refuse. Like do Grodner and Meehan not know what such an offer is? If he bet the farm, Frenchie had two possible outcomes: Winning his team safety for a second week when he could manipulate the fuck out of people instead and get that anyway OR losing and being the first one evicted because he's the easy target for having won the comp. Turning it down was the correct decision. Cue Grodner's shocked Pikachu face. Did they not think to offer a THIRD week of safety? Then we're talking. Overall, the premiere was... the premiere. I'm curious if there's going to be a showmance this season since these people know what they're doing. Showmances are bad gameplay because it gives you someone you can trust 100% in the complete public eye, ergo making it way too easy to nominate you both alongside each other. More covert pairs are a smarter tactic - just don't spend so much time with that person that people catch on. I hate people like Frenchie who label people instantly. I really do. So many people these days judge books by their covers and label them accordingly. It's highly bigoted, and I often get the short end of the stick given my grotesque appearance. I like how Brent just broke down the barriers and was like "I look like this but I'm not all macho." I like Brent accordingly. (Yes, I'm aware that Underleveled posted... Maybe we'll break two curses here - Big Brother being shit, and Season 23s being shit. I hope so, since most of this cast seems to know what they got themselves into, and we might have the first season in ages to not have any semblance of a showmance. Based on this first week, though, it's already better than South Pacific (I haven't seen TAR23). --- BlueCrystalTear | GNT BB4 Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner [For lease] | (((FREE HUGS))) | You're living your own life. You're you. |
| Topic | CBS Reality Show topic: Two years late is better than never |
| BlueCrystalTear 07/12/21 2:00:42 PM #487 | so CBS confirmed what we already knew that Survivor was returning on September 22nd: https://twitter.com/survivorcbs/status/1414643965274456069 I'm also about to catch up on Big Brother because I've heard the feeds have been a beautiful mess. --- BlueCrystalTear | GNT BB4 Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner [For lease] | (((FREE HUGS))) | You're living your own life. You're you. |
| Topic | CBS Reality Show topic: Two years late is better than never |
| BlueCrystalTear 07/05/21 4:54:20 PM #457 | Underleveled posted... She tested positive for COVID (she says she's fully vaxed, had been following guidelines and has no symptoms) Sounds like what happened with Josh last year. It's probably a false positive but they don't wanna take any chances. --- BlueCrystalTear | GNT BB4 Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner [For lease] | (((FREE HUGS))) | You're living your own life. You're you. |
| Topic | CBS Reality Show topic: Two years late is better than never |
| BlueCrystalTear 07/02/21 10:56:59 PM #453 | I lost any interest in continuing to care about Big Brother last year. BB22 was the worst season in the show's history - it had the soullessness of BB9, the predictability of BB19, and the unlikable cast of BB21 all rolled into one steaming hunk of shit. I still have a couple friends who give a shit about it but I'm not going to torture myself for them. I'm a good enough friend to give it a try, but if this season doesn't change my mind in a week or two, then nothing will. Worth noting that I didn't even bother with BBCAN9 because I've become so disillusioned with Big Brother in general. --- BlueCrystalTear | GNT BB4 Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner [For lease] | (((FREE HUGS))) | You're living your own life. You're you. |
| Topic | CBS Reality Show topic: Two years late is better than never |
| BlueCrystalTear 06/17/21 7:14:00 PM #448 | I'm really not feeling this season. It feels like an expounded version of US Survivor's current soullessness, but exacerbated by an omnipresent twist that's befuddling and numerous interchangeable characters (I seriously can't tell the difference between two groups of three after three episodes). While I am impressed with the editing, as usual, the characterization is lacking, which means memorability suffers for it. Am I the only one feeling this way? --- BlueCrystalTear | GNT BB4 Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner [For lease] | (((FREE HUGS))) | You're living your own life. You're you. |
| Topic | CBS Reality Show topic: Two years late is better than never |
| BlueCrystalTear 06/15/21 9:28:49 PM #442 | I don't have Kaoh Rong THAT low, but... 1. The jocks' bullying makes me uncomfortable 2. The MedEvacs are too numerous and stifle the excitement 3. Production dropped the ball in so many ways, including with safety measures, evacuating Joe del Campo when Dr. Joe had him treated in like 20 minutes (per the Ponderosa video), having the juror removal twist on Day 38, and... the list goes on 4. The bullies getting the last laugh has never sat right with me since they were big babies and closed their minds to voting Aubry (some troll called me a "misogynist" over that lately, to which I replied that they were a bully who gets off to name-calling and blocked them). I'm not saying Michele didn't deserve to win (because she DID deserve it) - just that Aubry deserved a fairer shake than those two idiots were willing to give her. 5. It made Jeff Probst ruin the show. 6. I just enjoy other seasons more. I find its placement appropriate on that list. --- BlueCrystalTear | GNT BB4 Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner [For lease] | (((FREE HUGS))) | You're living your own life. You're you. |
| Topic | CBS Reality Show topic: Two years late is better than never |
| BlueCrystalTear 06/01/21 9:41:49 PM #432 | Odd. In my eyes, the loss of the old school legends proved detrimental to the season, and the storytelling fell into the modern predictability with the excess advantages clouding the actual goings-on of the game. Also Edge of Extinction was too much of an edit hog. Pre-merge... you had those great personalities and epic stuff like the Robfather's mass bag-emptying scene, Yul's story about Penner's wife (RIP), and Parvati wanting to know if she was being Punk'd. I will say that the jury mobbing Probst after the loved ones visit was pretty awesome though. Aside from that and Tony's entire CPM6 episode, I don't remember much else between merge and finale. --- BlueCrystalTear | GNT BB4 Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner [For lease] | (((FREE HUGS))) | You're living your own life. You're you. |
| Topic | CBS Reality Show topic: Two years late is better than never |
| BlueCrystalTear 06/01/21 8:56:00 PM #430 | It's been a while, hasn't it? WAW was pretty great until the merge btw --- BlueCrystalTear | GNT BB4 Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner [For lease] | (((FREE HUGS))) | You're living your own life. You're you. |
| Topic | CBS Reality Show topic: Two years late is better than never |
| BlueCrystalTear 06/01/21 8:52:30 PM #428 | There's also Survivor SA starting this week. Also hi. --- BlueCrystalTear | GNT BB4 Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner [For lease] | (((FREE HUGS))) | You're living your own life. You're you. |
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