It’s on now. Is this “hero challenge” going to be a regular thing?
If you are recording it, it’s a 90 minute premiere.
So far, so good. I don’t hate anyone yet, even Coach isn’t really annoying.
And mini-Hantz is pretty stupid for trying to hide his tattoos. You really think you’ll never take off your shirt in a TROPICAL island? How hard is it to go "Yeah, my last name is Hantz. I’m not related to Russell, it’s a total coincidence. "
I bet he confides in Coach, who blabs it.
Ozzy and Coach were absolutely clueless on that first puzzle.
I don’t know neither Ozzy nor Coach, so based on this one episode, I like both of them.
I don’t automatically dislike anyone. That’s a first. Methinks the producers planned it that way.
Nevertheless, I think this is going to be a very interesting season.
Baby Hantz creeping on that girl, while proclaiming his righteousness, was funny.
I felt kind of sorry for Coach and the way his team shunned him. It would’ve been hilarious in his previous seasons, but He seems more grounded and normal now.
OTOH, Ozzy is once again letting Little Ozzy do all his thinking. I keep thinking that he will be awesome and amazing like he was his first season.
I gotta give credit to the red team (I still don’t know the names) on that challenges. 99% of the time that a team tries to help on an individual puzzle it turns into a total clusterfuck, just like on the blue team. (Move that one over here, no that one!)
That whole speech was just bizarre (seriously dude, just because a girl wears a tanktop and shorts does not mean she wants to jump you), but I loved the final shot of just his eyes looking through the slats of the shelter.
Good decision dumping Poetry-Boobs. Total waste of space.
Didn’t the Redemption Island player have a lamp? That means fire if they have any smarts at all.
I can’t believe neither Ozzy nor Coach has apparently ever seen a Towers of Hanoi puzzle before. Especially given their Survivor experiences.
One request, Mark Burnett: Lots more Albert shirtless. In Speedos. Please.
Regardless, that was a really smart move. It united Ozzy’s tribe and I saw that they worked well as a team. Not so much Coach’s tribe. That may be indicative of the season’s outcome.
I would have tried to steal that machete from the challenge as well even if I wasn’t going to redemption.
I will say I’ve done the Towers of Hanoi tons of times. I’ve done it in the minimum amount of moves possible. But in a high pressure situation like that, I have no idea how I would perform.
Also, unless they just edited out them fixing it, it looked like when Coach got yelled for not following the rules, it looked like he didn’t put the pieces back where he got them. I wonder if he ended up screw up the puzzle to where he couldn’t win (is that possible?)
I posted that not so much because they had trouble solving it as because it looked like they didn’t even RECOGNIZE it. I’m pretty sure that my tons of experience solving virtual ToH puzzles in the scads of casual games I play might not necessarily allow me to solve quickly under pressure, but it would definitely cause me to know that you can’t move more than one level at a time, and you can’t put bigger on top of smaller. Those are core rules for any variation on ToH.
I was mostly reminded that it was a plot point as an intelligence indicator in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which I just saw a couple of weeks ago.
Looks like it might be an interesting season. Ozzy knows he needs to add a social element to his game to win – let’s see if he’s capable of doing that.
Wouldn’t it be funny if Coach was voted out next, and he had a duel with Poetry Boobs (PB), and lost? Or how about marijuana salesman? and he goes up against PB, and loses?
I’m a casual fan of the show and am only vaguely aware of Coach. He’s kind of the original Special Agent? Philip?
That would be some serious “poetic justice” that I would love to see. My wife and I have added a side bet this season: can Coach make it to the merge?
Yes, but not creepy crazy. He just is very idealistic and tells stories of adventures, like being kidnapped by cannibals and having a military airlift save him.
He went to exile island one year and to cover up his inability to make fire, he claimed he is choosing to not eat or make fire and meditate instead.
He’s a hoot and, I think, quite genuine in his attempts to be honorable.
I had never heard of TOH before, so I just wasted an hour playing. Once you know what you are doing, it’s not too bad. I would have been scared and probably very confused if given that game in a high-pressure situation never seeing it before.
Coach was not too annoying last night, but he will get on my nerves quickly.