Last season most of the survivor threads after the first week only managed a handful of posts. Do we want to convert this thread into a season-long omnibus thread?
I vote for an omnibus. Then I don’t have to search for the new thread each week.
I’m down with that.
Yes, let’s convert this one. And I’d mark it “spoilers as it airs” so we can discuss openly.
I’m fine with changing this one’s title to whatever. Or just starting a new thread even.
Whatever’s right.
Maybe just drop the “is it too soon to care” part?
Well, if we have our choice, maybe go full hog on the official name:
Survivor Season 32 (Kaoh Rong) Brains vs Brawn vs Beauty II
Darnell did a podcast on “Robhasawebsite-com” and he said Medical was tending to Bug-lady.
Glad to see I was right. I know the contestants aren’t always the brightest bunch, but to think that they didn’t even consider seeing medical…
Let this be an important lesson that what we see is what the editors want us to see.
My wife and I are acquaintances of Neal, the ice cream guy (not what I would call friends, but we’ve met a few times socially and have a large number of mutual friends), so we’re watching Survivor for the first time in years. I think we have a good enough sense of Neal’s personality that it will be interesting to see if and how the editing and production of the show create a “character” for him (to be fair, he’s kind of a character in his own right - might not take much work).
The other fun part is seeing him talk and tweet about things as they happen on the broadcast, with some behind-the-scenes goodies. For example, he apparently lost the Brains tribe’s mask when he dove into the water in the immunity challenge, but they were able to recover quickly.
I was really surprised that Blondie lasted through Tribal Council. I always thought that this early in the game you would want to keep your strongest members around and get rid of the chaff right away. Yeah, Darnell screwed up, but he owned it and seemed like someone who would throw himself into making up for the mistake. I don’t get the sense that Blondie brings anything of note to the tribe.
And, I agree that Jeff’s repetitive phrases create a sense of familiarity. Like I said, we haven’t watched the show in a long time (maybe a decade) and we got right back in.
Jeff has tweeted for years, answering countless questions about Survivor.
You’d be surprised how much he’s shared. You know how he says, “Previously on…Survivor!” to start the show? They actually had to persuade CBS in 2000 to allow him to pause for 1 second or so because they believed that little beat added to the show.
He’s known as “One Take Probst” and it is really what secured the job for him. He really does get a huge percentage of what you see right on the first try, partly from the repetitive phrases. Mainly, though, he studies a lot. He memorizes their faces and names early, studies the lines he has to say when he explains challenges, and works really hard to make sure things go smoothly.
However, they do re-film things when he messes up, which does happen. They try to avoid ADR, but that is their last ditch option when they realize his explanations were inadequate for the TV audience. My wife and I can always tell when his voice is laid over and it is rare, especially after the first couple seasons.
The teams also get to ask questions about the rules of the challenges. This part is never shown, but it would be bad if teams were unclear about what to do.
Follow Probst on Twitter, especially when seasons are airing. He’s a blast and he live tweets as many episodes as he can.
Pay attention to Debbie’s occupation (talkative late 40’s woman on Brains) in her confessionals. The editors her gave at least three different ones in the first episode.
A nice piece of trivia is that when they were casting the host, they ended up with two candidates that were head and shoulders above the rest: Jeff Probst, and Phil Keoghan. So they gave the job to both of them.
I saw an interview with Probst and he said “medical was aware” but they couldn’t do anything because the bug was so deep. It doesn’t look like they did much of anything.
I was wondering if there was truly a bug in her ear or if she was just having a psychotic breakdown. Serious case of the oooogies when the bug crawled out.
Trivia: When Speke and Burton were searching for the source of the Nile, Speke got a bug in his ear that led to a punctured ear drum.
I developed an instant aversion to Ice Cream Guy, after his ageist targeting of the 2 senior members of the team (being a geezer, myself). I hope they kick his ass.
This thread is the first I’ve heard of a new Survivor. For me, that’s just good news all around.
I can handle BB, in fact, even look forward to it. But Survivor with Jeff and his ridiculous narration of the events drove me off long ago. I’m assuming he’s still there.
–SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 2–
Man, that’s gotta be one of the all-time tribal council implosions. Go from absolutely no chance on the chopping block to talking your way into getting voted out. I wonder if she actually misremembered how her conversation with Alecia went or was just covering her ass.
Interesting how the HIIs seem to be easy to find but difficult to reach… seems to me it might make it far too obvious when someone grabs it, though. I really liked what they did last season with the “hidden in the challenges” bit.
I admit I’m surprised at how well Brains is doing so far. The two older people on that tribe drive me nuts though, especially Debbie. And what was up with the talk about the water? FBI dude was talking about pathogens like they were made-up or something. Would the water there really be safe to drink without boiling?
She was deep into the flop sweats. I think she was just trying desperately to backpedal away from her stupid slip of the tongue once she realized what had happened and hoping that throwing the bottom person under the bus would save her.
Don’t the producers supply the water that the tribes use? It’s been that way for the past several seasons IIRC - they go to some clearly manufactured tank, collect water in whatever containers they’ve been provided and bring it back to camp. I’d guess the producers tell them “It won’t kill you, but it might give you the runs for a month.”
Yeah, that was something. When she was scheming before tribal, I said to my wife that it looked like she had a little game and it wouldn’t be a bad thing to keep a goat like Alicia around then when they got to tribal, she blew up her own plan. I loved how Alicia was just openly celebrating that it wasn’t her.
Fun episode.
I’m enjoying the Beauty tribe…always like those little moments when people are getting along and enjoying the experience. Brains is interesting, too…Debbie is still entertaining to me in a trainwrecky kind of way, but I can foresee that she’s going to get really annoying in another episode or two. Reminds me of Coach. Think NoBama is smart to want to keep her as a goat…you can live with annoying for a month for a million dollars, right? I’m sure she shuts up occasionally…like when she’s sleeping, or…or…or…okay, maybe that’s the only time. But still.
And, oh, Jenny. Darn it, I really liked you. But that implosion at Tribal was magnificent to watch. Open mouth, insert foot. And was impressed by Alecia…she, despite appearances, was smart enough to just sit back and let Jenny dig her own grave.
Little tidbit…read elsewhere that the Brawn tribe is on the beach that the doomed Angkor had to endure last season, and that Beauty is on the original Bayon luxury beach. That probably plays a lot into how Beauty is prospering and Brawn is floundering.