I would love a season with 16-20 complete physical threats. Bring back Malcolm, Joe, Ozzy, Brad, Matt, James, Rob, and whoever else was a completely dominate physical threat. Because those players never get a fair shake because everyone just assumes they're going to win their way to the final.
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I'm kinda done with old Survivors for awhile. Sure, do 20 new people who are physical threats though. Different types, like team sport football and basketball players, climbers, surfers etc. Unique skill sets and see how they measure up.
Instead he let his massive ego cost him a million dollars because someone had the audacity to not realize that it was Brad's island.
This is something I've been wondering about. Watching Brad play was interesting. He often seemed to me to be playing like someone who didn't need or didn't care about the million. He was there to redeem himself and for Monica (or maybe to prove that he could do just as well or better than Monica...)
The rest usually play like they really NEED a million.
Maybe that's a future season concept: "Haves vs the Have Nots" or something like that.
Take 8 of the hardest death row prisoners, and 8 of the toughest prison guards from high security military prisons to supermaxes.
Put them on an Island.
If a guard wins, a million dollars
If the con wins, he wins his freedom.
Physical challenges involve no holds barred violence, where the only rule on the Island, would be no weapons that use chemical or electrical propellant.
Outwit, Outlast, Backstab, Play, Snitch
Survivor.
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Woo! My first Survivor pool win! And bonus points for picking the first out and the winner. I'm glad Sarah won, she played a good game. The Triple H season seems a little contrived but I'm looking forward to new players. Very done with lots of these returnees.
And thanks WhiteTiger for organizing again!
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If they got to have their gimmicks, especially the controversial ones like separating by races, I'd actually love to see a season of believers vs atheists. (I don't think it's been done before?). Get a bunch of hardcore believers together, preachers, monks, orthodox followers, devout believers who pray to Mecca daily, others who observe the Sabbath etc. I guess probably putting a bunch of hardcore religious people of different faiths on a tribe together is a recipe for disaster but it would be neat to see if they could come together at all and if any would be slimy to get that million. And of course on the otherside have a variety of different, but vocal, atheists who will now have to navigate the field when they merge.
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Watching the Aubrey one was kind of neat because you got a sense of a person who got everything she could out of the game and it had a profound effect on how she see's herself. You also get a sense that she won't be back for another game.
I'm also blown away by the difference in game Makalya and Ponderosa Makalya. She was so unlikable in the game, and in the reunion and in Ponderosa she incredibly likeable and insightful and she feels like someone who knows herself.
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Watched the Cirie one. I'm not sure that I agree with Debbie in that Cirie was poised to win this one. I think if she'd have ended up in the Final 3, that the votes would have went to Brad, not her. Could just be me, though.
I've also seen/heard a lot of blowback about "how many idols" were in play. I guess I'm one of the few who didn't have a problem with that, too. I consider that part of the "Outplay" aspect of the game. You know there are idols out there. You know (or by now, you ought to) that there are advantages that folks can earn. You need to get out and hustle for an idol of your own or an advantage of your own. Kind of like what Sarah was saying...eyes open all the time.
Does it suck to be the only person in the tribe without some kind of Immunity? I imagine that it sure does. But that's part of the game.
Watched the Cirie one. I'm not sure that I agree with Debbie in that Cirie was poised to win this one. I think if she'd have ended up in the Final 3, that the votes would have went to Brad, not her. Could just be me, though.
I've also seen/heard a lot of blowback about "how many idols" were in play. I guess I'm one of the few who didn't have a problem with that, too. I consider that part of the "Outplay" aspect of the game. You know there are idols out there. You know (or by now, you ought to) that there are advantages that folks can earn. You need to get out and hustle for an idol of your own or an advantage of your own. Kind of like what Sarah was saying...eyes open all the time.
Does it suck to be the only person in the tribe without some kind of Immunity? I imagine that it sure does. But that's part of the game.
I feel like they didn't do enough to snuff out idols this year and get people to use them.
I thought it was awesome when Tai used both of his and the others panicked and used theirs!
I'm also blown away by the difference in game Makalya and Ponderosa Makalya. She was so unlikable in the game, and in the reunion and in Ponderosa she incredibly likeable and insightful and she feels like someone who knows herself.
Not that hard to figure out... roof, soft bed, full belly.
I feel like they didn't do enough to snuff out idols this year and get people to use them.
I thought it was awesome when Tai used both of his and the others panicked and used theirs!
Yeah, that was a thing, too. No one did almost anything to try to flush/burn idols, it seems. They just toddled along not really seeming to care that there are likely idols to be played, and just let the chips fall where they may...which happened to be the Final 6.
Watched the Cirie one. I'm not sure that I agree with Debbie in that Cirie was poised to win this one. I think if she'd have ended up in the Final 3, that the votes would have went to Brad, not her. Could just be me, though.
I've also seen/heard a lot of blowback about "how many idols" were in play. I guess I'm one of the few who didn't have a problem with that, too. I consider that part of the "Outplay" aspect of the game. You know there are idols out there. You know (or by now, you ought to) that there are advantages that folks can earn. You need to get out and hustle for an idol of your own or an advantage of your own. Kind of like what Sarah was saying...eyes open all the time.
Does it suck to be the only person in the tribe without some kind of Immunity? I imagine that it sure does. But that's part of the game.
It's Cirie. Her against anyone in the final and she wins no question. Think of it as a lifetime achievement award.