A little late for the cast announcement, it seems, with the show barely three weeks away from starting. Nonetheless it looks interesting with no returnees but a retired athlete and a pair borrowed from another reality show. No idea if the athlete tries to go incognito, but no problem, if he does, another contestant is sure to be his remedial math teacher in High School or his Grandma’s next door neighbor who will out him before episode three.
Lots of youthful hardbodies, with is fine with me, as they are fun to look at and usually much better players than the older ones or the token nerds. Remember last year’s psychotic Nuclear Engineer who was too crazy and unpredictable even for a strong group of players to drag her along to the finale as cannon fodder?
One thing is for certain - if there is a more hateable couple than the athlete and his tanning girlfriend or a more annoying one than the reality show veterans, it will make for a long season.
I saw the name of one new contestant and thought “hasn’t she been on the show before?” and after sifting through the returns for “Kelly Wentwoth Survivor” finally found Kelly Wigglesworth. The 23 year old river rafter and Season 1 finalist is now approaching 40! I’m feeling old.
Exile Island - ok. If they’d gone with the original idea of Redemption Island, I would have hunted down Probst and dealt with him appropriately. Probably involving ants and honey. But I predict that athlete and accessory are gone by the end of the month - 4 episodes max.
Burnett’s in-house sound mixers are going to do so much overtime work with the Twinnies on tape. I need to invest in earplugs to get through this season…
Survivor 29? Did they do 2 seasons in a few of the years because I remember season 1, and it was in 2000. And I never thought the damned show was all that after in the first season equipped with a sauce pan, fire and rice on a sea shore on a tropical island they complained of having nothing to eat but bland rice. Christ on a crutch, spend some time evaporating water out of the sauce pan to get salt, cook the rice in salt water and fucking LOOK in the damned tide pools for shellfish and other aquatic life to put in the damned pot. Shitfire, I know they want conflict and whinging for ‘interesting TV’ but fuck a duck, use your brains people.
Yes, they started doing 2 seasons a year (one in the fall, one in the spring) some time back. And even though I agree with your other points, I still manage to get sucked into the show every season. I’ve seen them all. Deep shame… :o
This season is the second season of “Blood vs. Water” where loved ones are broken up onto separate tribes. That means the awful Twinnies will be on two teams, to spread their annoyingness to everybody.
I’m a bit confused by your question - there are no returning players this season.
If you are asking in general about the results for returning players, I’d say that they have done extremely well. Far better than I would have imagined. Off the top of my head, Boston Rob, Parvati, and Rob’s wife have all won it, although Amber’s season was all return players. (On review, Sandra Diaz Twine {all returnees}, John Cochran, and Tyler Apostal all won it too.) There were an equal number of second place finishers. Rob, Parvati, and Sandra basically ran their winning seasons and fully deserved their wins. The others didn’t play nearly as well, but got the breaks when needed. Amber did nothing to deserve her win except look nice.
There have been two seasons where all the players were on their second or third chance, (All-Stars and Heroes vs. Villians) a few with half new and half old and several with two or three returnees only.