Board 8 > CBS Reality Topic 3.5: Purge-free through BB24, Survivor SA9, and Challenge USA

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Underleveled posted...

Yeah, Ryan with the Drew Christy right there.

I'm a little behind but I literally just thought this (ahead of that point now). Ryan and Geo are so cocky, that it's going to be SO satisfying for this edit to just clown them. It's funnier to make this not a #blindside to the viewers, just to Geo and Ryan.

Not every vote needs to be a surprise to the viewing public. This is an example of why it's better to just edit it as two arrogant guys getting what's coming to them.

Ah hell.

Mewtwo59 posted...

The fact that his fake story was actually true but he didn't know that would make it even better.

This whole thing is hilarious. Geo and Ryan are so clueless! This is Funny115 material.

And the edit could've done better with making the order less predictable.

The Coco tribe is so bad at Survivor

This isn't like Lindsay - this is HEALTHY paranoia, not OTTN paranoia!

Yeah, Lindsay freaked the fuck out about her own allies. Cassidy is saying "If this move goes south, I'm going home, so let's stick to the safer original plan" and they aren't hearing it.

Unrelated to tribal, but I HATE Sami. He's so smug and arrogant, and it pisses me off to no end.

So we could very realistically end up with a 4-4-4 merge WITHOUT the hourglass!

Hahaha :O faces

Underleveled posted...

Yeah, Lindsay freaked the fuck out about her own allies. Cassidy is saying "If this move goes south, I'm going home, so let's stick to the safer original plan" and they aren't hearing it.

I hope that was included just to "create doubt" about who was going home because US Survivor loves to confuse viewers for no reason, which in turn softened the hilarity that had been building up. James suggesting Cassidy's name does indeed prove that he's bad at Survivor. Karla should doubt him.

Inviso posted...

Unrelated to tribal, but I HATE Sami. He's so smug and arrogant, and it pisses me off to no end.

If he wins, I'm so done with this show, because he thinks he's the greatest 19 y/o to walk this earth. He's not even an entertaining meathead who you enjoy watching get owned, he's just flat.

And the Knowledge is Power advantage flops again

Underleveled posted...

So we could very realistically end up with a 4-4-4 merge WITHOUT the hourglass!

Welp, so much for that.

Mewtwo59 posted...

And the Knowledge is Power advantage flops again

I call it the "Do You Have an Idol, Xander?" advantage, just to mock it. And this time, people know about it, so they can play hot potato with their allies so nobody knows who has it any any given time.

Ugh, an early merge? Why 5-4-4? Just one more Baka TC and it would've been fantastic!

The past two episodes, primarily focused on Coco and their fun messiness, have been the best of the season thus far. Not great...but better than Vesi's boring bullshit, and Baka being THE WORST.

BlueCrystalTear posted...

I call it the "Do You Have an Idol, Xander?" advantage, just to mock it. And this time, people know about it, so they can play hot potato with their allies so nobody knows who has it any any given time.

For an advantage called "Knowledge is Power", the people who had it never realized that knowledge is power and the way to completely nullify the advantage. (Well, I'll give Liana some slack because she never meant for Tiffany to find out. Drea and Geo definitely misplayed it, though.)

How did Derek & Claire catch up?

So it's between the aggressively boring team that keeps outlasting better teams by a hair, and the team with one member who wants to quit.

Good.

This is a beautiful location, but holy shit this episode is boring as hell.

Did Phil move the pit stop closer to the stairs after Claire's fall?

Sorry, was doing something else.

Mewtwo59 posted...

For an advantage called "Knowledge is Power", the people who had it never realized that knowledge is power and the way to completely nullify the advantage. (Well, I'll give Liana some slack because she never meant for Tiffany to find out. Drea and Geo definitely misplayed it, though.)

Liana misplayed it by telling Shan the truth in front of Tiffany. Just say you got an extra vote or something inoffensive, then blast Shan later for running her mouth like that. Liana also made a mistake in betraying Yase for Shan, whose loose lips sunk Liana's ship.

Drea played it well until she suddenly told Omar. Omar then told Mike and then (thankfully) embarrassed Drea, thus ruining Probst's advantage boner and taking an awful human being out of the game. Win-win!

This time it flopped because Geo got cocky and they chose to boot him for having an advantage that they didn't want him having. I hope the Do You Have an Idol Xander advantage flops again in S44, at which point production decides to get rid of it since it's not working.

Inviso posted...

This is a beautiful location, but holy shit this episode is boring as hell.

Sounds like Amazing Race in general. It's gotten stale and redundant. The scenery porn is still great (I saw the ads promoing Petra) but that's about it. The show is hardly entertaining to me at this point.

I'm guessing Aubrey & David tested positive and that's why they got such a bland edit.

Mewtwo59 posted...

I'm guessing Aubrey & David tested positive and that's why they got such a bland edit.

That's my thought too.

I know they like saying "earn the merge" nowadays, but does anyone not consider Sydney and Lydia as not having made the merge?

I'm sad we're losing Jeanine tonight. This edit couldn't be any more obvious, what with her saying she's SO EXCITED to "have made merge" (when it turns out she hasn't) and then her mistaking which tribe she was on in this one-challenge "swap."

Mewtwo59 posted...

I know they like saying "earn the merge" nowadays, but does anyone not consider Sydney and Lydia as not having made the merge?

They both definitely made the merge. They both even got a merge buff for two days!

So I'm assuming this is still the last chance for Gabler to use his idol even though he's immune.

I'm happy Karla is safe, especially after injuring her hand during the challenge. And Jeanine and Noelle too.

I definitely consider Sydney and Lydia to have made the merge.

Looks like I was wrong, but I guess that means that ...Elie... is gone.

This buff looks like a pretty different color. I may have to get it, even though this season sucks. I already got the three starting tribes with the intent to sell at least one, probably two of them in a couple years. This one I'd keep.

I think it's gonna be Cassidy.

Sami is obnoxiously cocky but at least I have hope that he is being set up for an amazing downfall. Gabler on the other hand is just so unpleasant and is neither a good player nor an interestingly bad one and just sucks any entertainment out of every single scene he's in.

Kinda hoping it's Elie, because I feel like otherwise it's gonna be Coco, and I like Coco far more than the impending 9-person majority. Plus, Elie going here would at least give her a solid storyline.

Gabler is such a moron. Elie thinks "Baka strong" is a thing. Exploit that. Work in the shadows. Don't blab out your dirty laundry because then these people who are new to you will think you're a loose cannon. Keeping Baka numbers will also let Gabler have a foothold later, but this removes that safety net unnecessarily. Elie wasn't coming for him any time soon now that they merged!

Gabler is such a mess

Underleveled posted...

Sami is obnoxiously cocky but at least I have hope that he is being set up for an amazing downfall.

I am so hoping that Sami's story is headed in that direction too. It's been something that was seeded earlier, with him saying "I AM THE GREATEST 19 Y/O WHO EVER LIVED!" at the start.

Blaziken posted...

Kinda hoping it's Elie, because I feel like otherwise it's gonna be Coco, and I like Coco far more than the impending 9-person majority. Plus, Elie going here would at least give her a solid storyline.

That would, but Baka shouldn't cannibalize themselves. And Gabler keeps airing dirty laundry, and now literally everyone is going to be like "Don't tell Gabler anything. He runs his mouth." He'll either be an easy vote soon or the zero-vote getter at FTC. I hope it's the former.

This season is just so bad. Like I legit don't care about any of these people.

Yeah, I agree. I like Cody, but everyone else except Gabler is basically an interchangeable gamebot.

This vote is such a mess. With a better cast, I would be on the edge of my seat, enjoying the heck out of this disaster. But since all these people are so bland, I legit am "meh" on it.

Yes, editors. Votes get cast and torched get smuffed at Tribal Council.

"Now that we are into the individual portion of the game..."

Doesn't that mean a MERGE, Jeffrey?

Sami is just such a frustrating character. Whenever he speaks, it's just so flat and robotic and matter-of-fact that makes for boring television.

Lol one of the most obvious merge boot in history.

Get rid of this fucking half people are immune business. No drama whatsoever.

Blaziken posted...

Sami is just such a frustrating character. Whenever he speaks, it's just so flat and robotic and matter-of-fact that makes for boring television.

I agree. He reminds me of Michael from Ghost Island in that he keeps getting confessionals despite having no charisma whatsoever.

Pokewars posted...

Lol one of the most obvious merge boot in history.

And yes, I agree. It was obvious as soon as Elie said how awesome she was at Survivor before the challenge.

Blaziken posted...

Sami is just such a frustrating character. Whenever he speaks, it's just so flat and robotic and matter-of-fact that makes for boring television.

I like my arrogant douchebags like Drew Christy: The trainwrecks that fully lack self-awareness and thus end up being nothing but amusing. Sami is just as you said: He's an arrogant meathead that lacks any other kind of personality.

Honestly, since we lost Elie, we're losing one of the people with personality. And that's saying a lot given how little of it she has! She's the fifth woman to leave pre-jury here... which is a further reason this season sucks.

Cody, Gabler, Karla, Noelle, James, and Jeanine also have personality. Most of them don't have much but I am literally grasping at straws here. This season is shaping up to be bottom 5 for me, and possibly the last one I care to watch.

Mewtwo59 posted...

I agree. He reminds me of Michael from Ghost Island in that he keeps getting confessionals despite having no charisma whatsoever.

I hated Michael in GI, but the difference is that Michael never came across like a douchebag. He was just a photogenic white guy who got far too much screentime. Sami is more like Spencer, when Spencer is in a position of power.

Most of the women who've been voted out weren't that great either. Morriah had potential, but Justine wasn't very interesting, Nneka was a nice person but not the most interesting TV, and most of my enjoyment of Lindsay and Elie came from their downfall arcs.

Elie was a legit decent character don't @ me. She was like a diet Angelina Keeley and while the "diet" is still there we've had like 6 diet Tonys and a couple of them have been decent characters in their own right (think Angelina -> Elie as like Tony -> Joe Mena).

Underleveled posted...

Elie was a legit decent character don't @ me. She was like a diet Angelina Keeley and while the "diet" is still there we've had like 6 diet Tonys and a couple of them have been decent characters in their own right (think Angelina -> Elie as like Tony -> Joe Mena).

Elie's more like RC, with Gabler as her Abi-Maria.

Yeah, RC is a more apt comparison there.

I honestly don't see the RC comparison. Elie had that frantic control freak know-it-all vibe that Angelina had. RC spent most of her edit wondering why tf this crazy woman hated her (and yes that was PART of Elie's edit but not the main focus until tonight).