Since we’re commenting on looks, I’ll just say that if production wants to keep using the same pose and camera angle on a certain someone’s confessional shots, that would be great!
He’s made some really unusual comments. In the first episode, he described his relationship with Chris as two friends in a gummy shop picking out each others gummies. Then in yesterdays episode, he said something about being as happy as taffy… BANANA flavor. Or something like that. I wouldn’t mind if he and his gummy picking friend, Chris, were both gone soon.
I didn’t recall seeing about three-quarters of the cast in first episode. I swear some of those people weren’t shown at all last week.
They really need to use subtitles every time Donathan speaks, he’s very difficult to understand.
I do not get how some of these people charm their way onto these shows. He seems like a terrible choice for contestant. Someone in the casting department must be disappointed that he has not lived up to what they hoped for.
I’m not sure (agreed on the too early swap) but I think all three of the other members of Angela’s tribe voted for her, while she was the only vote cast for the other tribe. Apparently because Chris wasn’t around to backstab directly.
Can’t imagine she’ll be feeling very loyal to her original tribe from here on, and Chris was already gunning for Dominick…
You are correct about the distribution of votes.
I predict that Chris will be angry at Dominick for screwing up the blindside. He, Angela, and the other 4 will split votes between Dom and Wendell (had to look up his name), Dom will play his idol and Wendell will be out, having made zero impression on anybody.
Yeah, it was confusing, but Angela thought her tribe was voting for Libby in the other faction, while her mates from her former tribe reached out to the other faction and offered up Angela. The other faction (smartly, IMHO) decided to instead cast all four of their votes for someone else in Angela’s old tribe. In one vote, they blew up any cohesion among the old tribe mates and now can divide and conquer them.
He’s a character. TV loves characters. I’m sure the producers were thrilled during the whole “give up and then make the dive” sequence.
Also, he was pretty quiet this episode, but he killed it during the challenge.
My favorite as well. One of the truely great Survivor utterances.
I gotta say though, watching that clip of James makes me want to rewatch the China season.
I can’t imagine there’s any real tribe loyalty, at least none that’s going to last a week. There’s far too much time left. Anyone with a brain will realize that there are better options than trying to keep together a weak, small tribe and form/join a new one.The new one will be forgotten in two weeks anyway.
The Richard Hatch strategy of putting together an alliance on day one only works once, unless the teams are so unbalanced one starts to run the table. Even if that happens, it all changes post-merge.
Russell and Boston Rob might disagree with you.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if they brought back that stick but made it an actual immunity idol this time?
I don’t know what show y’all have been watching but Donathan is Survivor gold. We’re loving him at my house. Totally endearing. He’s like the Tai of Kentucky. Get that man a chicken to adopt.
Anyone else think that Jacob might actually have been Seth Rogen, though?
What a comeback in the IC.
I like Michael’s plan. It could be the rare TC that is actually “live”.
Is that future lawyer (the guy leading the majority faction) an incredible douchebro or what? He’s like a villain from an ‘80s John Hughes movie.
A valiant effort. But I’m not sure the strategy was quite right. No one was put in a position of a kind of prisoner’s dilemma, where flipping might save their own skin.
They announced that Bradley was the target, meaning Bradley himself couldn’t flip and save himself. That also meant that no one else had an incentive to flip, since they were all safe regardless.
Maybe they could have said they put two votes on each of the people they were targeting, thus incentivizing them to vote for each other? The other point they could have and should have made is that if no one flipped, and they chose the right target for their idol, it would go to rocks next time and no one would be safe. Better instead to flip and be safe for a few rounds (if there’s no swap or merge, obv.).
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The problem with #1 (not saying who they’re going to vote for) means it becomes more difficult to flip someone though, because instead of someone flipping a 5-4 vote into 4-5 it can become 4-4-1. And the problem with the second is that you now have a 5-2-2 vote and even if someone flips you no longer have a majority. Either avenue means you’re putting all your eggs in the basket of playing the idol on the correct person, but if that’s happening you don’t need the flipper anyways.
I really thought Bradley was going home after his “and that’s why I’ll make a great lawyer” comment. Instead it turned out to be the coach-dad figure, who was always an easy prediction to be out by episode 3 or 4 or so. Going old school!
It’s a good point. But at least they could have said something about the prospect of going to rocks next time.
Is there any way they could have scared someone into flipping this time, though? It feels like there must be a way but I’m just not thinking of it.
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I was totally surprised by which tribe won IC. After all the time spent in the other tribe, discussing strategy and the fall out from the previous ouster and almost no time with Malodo(?).
18 yr old Michael sure did not talk like an 18 yr old in tribal council. I almost believed him when he said the James’ idol could be played on two players, and I knew that it didn’t. Real Estate is a good field for him.
TC would have been a lot more interesting if one of the tribe members had been at Ghost Island, like the prior tribals. Tribal lines would have either been 4-4 or 5-3. At 4-4, would they have gone to rocks, or would someone panicked at switched. At 5-3, Michael had a 1 in 3 chance off playing it one right alliance mate.
I guess it was specified that you couldn’t get on someones shoulder to shoot the balls on the ledge in the Immunity Challenge.
Bradley is getting a terrible edit from the producers. I don’t think he is long for this game.
Only thing I can’t seem to understand is what made Michael think that Steph was the target of the vote - had he played his idol for Brandon instead of her, then Bradley Douche Lawyer would’ve been sent packing.
It looked like Michael was trying to gauge the reaction to his feint, and misunderstood it. That is pretty hard to do in real time.
Great point. Why did they change it this time, I wonder?
I didn’t realize Michael was 18. Pretty amazing.
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Last night I said to my wife that he was the guy in the movie that Molly Ringwald dated before the leading man shows up.