It seems that the Producers did a good job of keeping things under wraps as the cast is different than any of the spoilers that I had come across. (I don’t go to spoiler sites - the ones I had seen were on general entertainment sites.)
It will be hard to keep away from this information, but I’ll spoiler it just the same.
[spoiler]The hated gay racist Colton is back, with his fiancee. Three people who have won a million are back - Tina Wesson with her daughter and her aging fake boobs, useless Rupert and his wife, and Aras Baskauskas and his brother. The others are Gervais (Season 1) and his neice, Monica Culpepper (One World) and her NFL QB husband Brad, Kat (One World) Edorsson and her boyfriend who apparantly was a Big Brother contestant, Tyson Apostal and his girlfriend, Candace Woodcock and her husband, and Laura Morett (who?) and her daughter.
Redemption Island is back, but with new rules that might make it less awful than before. I’ll provide a link to the new rules rather than type them all out.
They are going to make the contestants believe that they are competing as teams with their loved ones, but they are quickly split up into returnees vs. family. [/spoiler]
Hard to say, it could be a good season or a trainwreck.
Survivor is DOA this time. I won’t even watch the first episode. I promised that if Colton had anything to do with any season I was done with the show forever. I intend to keep that promise.
I’ll watch just to hate. Why can’t they ever bring back any of the cool castaways? What’s the blood/water horseshit all about? Blood = family, I’m guessing?
ETA: maybe Colton will get a flesh-eating bacterial infection. I’d PAY to see that.
Fucking Rupert. Worst Survivor contestant in history, and possibly the worst candidate for Governor I’ve ever witnessed. I might tune in, depending on if he gets voted off early or not. I really like Gervais in season one - he was a good contestant on the wrong side of the Pagong.
I just don’t understand how they came away with the impression that Redemption Island was a cool feature that lots of people liked, so much so that they should bring it back and elaborate on it. The existence of RI, and the possibility that someone who got voted out twice could theoretically still win the game, made the game completely uninteresting to me. I’ve watched every season since this show started, but Colton + Redemption Island + Gameplay increasingly centered around the use of immunity idols = I’m finally out. Oh, well.
Yep, the Colton plus RI factors will make me finally part ways with “Survivor”. I dumped “Big Brother” this year with no ill effects, so I think I’ll be okay.
No, I don’t want to see Coulton again. Unless seeing himself on TV has triggered a 180 turnaround, I’ll likely fast forward through him whenever possible.
But I like the family team idea, and they way they’re shaking it up. I actually like the idea of Redemption Island, (call me crazy). And especially, all the potential swapping that looks like it can happen at the duels. It will be interesting to see which of the loved ones become worthy competitors on their own and which just act as “extra lives” for their returning player.
And any season I can watch Tyson snark is a good season.
I’m going to end up watching despite my misgivings, because my spouse asked me nicely to watch it with her, something we’ve done together since the Outback season. But I’m sooo not excited about this one.
I personally am excited to see how Survivor, which has always been about how individuals work together to form groups and make decisions, will work when pairs have to do the same. I would have preferred that this season have been a non all-star, non Redemption Island season to avoid having the game become too convoluted (although there have been several other seasons with similarly convoluted rules), but I can understand why it is this way from a casting perspective.
In the pre-merge situation, who one tribe votes out in one tribal council will also have an impact on who the other tribe would vote out at the next tribal council–do you (A) vote out the remaining member of the pair or (B) keep them around as a spare vote and break up another pair instead?
I also await the situation (post-tribe-swap or post-merge) where the decision that is in the best interests of one member of a pair due to gameplay up to that point will differ from that of the other and how this gets resolved.
Anybody know how they’re getting around the “you can’t share the prize with another contestant” rule?
I’ll watch a few episodes to see if Rupert, the troubled-teens counselor with serious anger management issues, draws down on some Ken or Barbie with the Hawaiian sling that’s destined to be his pride & joy.
If anyone is interested in Boston Rob, he is playing a $1500 buy-in poker tournament at the Imperial Palace in Biloxi MS and as of 3:50 ct, he is the chip leader in the final 5. 302 entrants.
No word on Ambuh. It lists his hometown as Pensacola, FL.
I predict that everyone who says they aren’t going to watch will be secretly glued to their TV’s tonight. A few will claim that they are only “hate watching” and will post in minute detail about the episode. See the “Under the Dome” thread as an example.
You know, I don’t like pumpkin or other gourds, but I don’t buy them at the grocery store in order to eat them so I can describe in great detail exactly what it is I don’t like about them.
