As far as gimmick casting goes, this idea doesn’t seem like a bad one.
It seems like there’s an honest-to-God evacuation of the entire cast for the first time due to a storm (not a spoiler, it was in a commercial) It’ll be interesting how long they keep the tribes together before switching them up. I’d hope for a while.
No favorites yet, the first few episodes are so chaotic anything can happen.
For those expecting The Amazing Race (they often debut together, at least in the same week), it isn’t on the fall schedule. It’s a winter replacement series sitting on the shelf. Good chance it will be the last season unless some cable outlet picks it up.
Yay! I haven’t even looked at the cast members or any of the previews for this season yet, but I’ve never missed an episode of Survivor and I don’t plan to start missing them now.
My favorite part is always the message board discussions the next day, anyway, so I’m all in.
I don’t have favorites yet but I have un-favorites
The high school kid. Maybe it’s because I’m gen X but as soon as he started talking I said “nope.”
whiny purple skinny guy who covered his ears. I think he’s David. Trying waaaay too hard, nervous, and needs to STFU already. He’s decided by day 3 that he’s on his way out. Then why did you sign up, David? Why did you sign up?
Since when does Jeff wield all the power? The survivors referred to what Jeff had done to set them up with what they needed for camp, then the tree-mail came from Jeff… What happened to just leaving the powers that be nameless?
As I said in the other thread, the gimmick is dumb simply because of the labels and obvious stereotype casting. You can find plenty of 32+ year old unemployed surfers just like you can find under-30 lawyers and office drones. I’ll be happy when they inevitably shuffle the tribes by episode 3 or 4 and we can stop hearing (as much) of the whole generation generalization stuff.
I find it interesting that there’s two black women and three asian women, but not a single minority male as far as I can tell. Unless you want to count Zeke.
He’s literally a high school kid, what did you expect? I find the two dudebros far more annoying so far. Anyone who un-ironically uses the word “brah” needs to be shot.
It is weird to think that the high school kid was 3 years old when Richard Hatch won.
Agree on David, I was hoping he’d be the first one gone. He’s a bundle of neuroses and not much else.
I fear that David – who I find incredibly unlikable – is being given the Cochran underdog hero edit. Yuck. On the plus side, if he wasn’t going to be voted out first, at least Rachel was. Super abrasive.
Looks like the move to Fridays may have actually been the death knell.
The GenX tribe seems to be mostly forgettable, except neurotic David. There’s the off the grid Hawaii guy, nobody else really stands out as a force IMHO.
Colorful Zeke banging that flintless fire right out was probably the most impressive 1st time fire starting demonstration in the history of the show. Good on ya, Zeke.
I’ve found that now I don’t even pay attention to the tribes for the first few episodes. The producer-enforced trash talk between the groups will hopefully fade away soon.
I really liked the challenge setup - take an advantage in the first half that affects the second half. I hope they continue that.
And that clue that one of the Gen-Xers found, probably an extra vote at the penultimate TC?
It wasn’t fake. The packages containing the buffs were labeled with their names, and Jeff specifically said “take your name.”
That may indeed be the first time a treemail has specifically come from Jeff. However, any emergency intervention always comes via Probst. That started with Season 2 in 2001, when he appeared in camp to bargain with the players for the food that they desperately needed. So it makes sense that the tarp came “from” Jeff.
I think Eyebrows was referring to the conceit that they didn’t already know what tribe they’d be on, considering the clothes they had been given/told to wear matched the buffs they were given in the scene.
I know he’s always showed up as the on-camera production representative, but something last night gave me a sense of “Jeff is running the show” vs. “Jeff is our host.”
The contestants have to know who’s on which team way in advance if they are all wearing either purple or orange all along. It’s a sham, even if they didn’t re-edit the buff grab.
They haven’t been wearing those clothes all along. Previous contestants have said that they were told to dress for a “photo session” before abruptly being taken to the game site (that’s why sometimes players appear to have dressed inappropriately for the game). The contestants don’t hang out together and are forbidden to talk to each other before the game starts. The producers don’t want people scheming and making alliances in advance (and off-camera).
It’s quite possible that they were told about the tribal theme in advance and knew (or had an idea) which side they’d be on. But you can’t infer that from what they were wearing.
Based on the colors they actually ended up wearing, I bet they told the Young Tribe something like “wear warm colors like red, orange or yellow” and the Old Tribe “wear cool colors like blue or purple.”