IMO I don’t view it as lame. If you’re going to be competing to try and win a million dollars why would you not try to be the best at what’s coming. I’m in sales and former athlete. If I don’t know my product and can do a better job than my competitor, I’m going to lose. Same with practicing in sports. You want to work on weaknesses so you can get better and win. My hat is off to him for figuring out to do that to gain an advantage. Now what I wouldn’t have done is told people I did it.
Agree here. The nasa kid is playing it much smarter. He knows all the puzzles but isn’t drawing attention to himself as the guy who studied hard and is about to destroy the curve.
I wonder how long in advance you know that you've been selected for the show. Seems obvious that you should spend some time practicing puzzles. Surely everyone that's somewhat serious at least watches some videos on sliding puzzels and what not.
I think they get quite a bit of advance warning so they can gain enough weight to not die on the island.
Yea it's fake but how do you not play it? She thought it was real. She even said earlier in the episode that she would play it if Josh played his.
The coin was fake for one tribe and real for another tribe? I think it's just as likely Carolyn got them mixed up because she's insane and gave away the real one
I just pulled up the clip where she found it and I'm convinced she has the fake idol and gave Sarah the real one. It sucks she didn't play it because it would have been hilarious.
There is a clip out there that shows all 3 tribes have different real one and fake one that is real for a different tribe. So at merge no one is going to know what they have.
IMO her fake idol ploy would have gone a LOT better if the X had led someone to the key which then opened the cage. But hey it all worked out.
Yeah in episode 4 last night we had 3 people with idols or fake idols at a 4 person tribal. That's dumb. I do like the birdcage because it's created some good drama but it's too easy to just take the idol and put the bag back. I'd like it better if it was just gone one day and the tribe got panicked about who had it.
They have gone too far to try and manufacture drama with all the advantages and idols. It takes away the gameplay component for mine as it’s almost down to luck whether you stay in the game.
I don’t mind the idols. I just don’t like advantages. I really hate the random switching tribes. It just ends up luck/non luck scenarios all the time.
Nah, there’s a reason they added them; just having the possibility makes people have to hedge against them and makes the game not boring/straightforward.
Agreed on the need for idols. Idols and advantages guard against the one alliance dominating circumstance where we get 3+ weeks in a row where the final result is certain from the open of the episode.
The latest Australian season finished last night and there were 0 advantages, just idols. It was one of the better seasons in recent memory as it let the gameplay control the game.
Carson needs to learn how to Hollywood a bit. They are gonna figure out he knows all the puzzles if he keeps dominating like he just did.
I dont blame Carson one bit. Good on him. But it’s lame as hell. Its even more lame that the show/producers seem to think it’s a good thing a highlight it. Having the exact same puzzles is a joke. They need to switch it up. Don’t even need a different puzzle, just change the pieces. Other stuff - My dark horse is still Caroline. She’s sharp, observant. No one sees her as a threat. No one bothered to tell her to keep the vote on Josh. She’s the only one that voted for Kane. I can see her kind of floating to the end while making some moves no one realizes until the final tribal. Kind of like Maryanne
I don't blame him either. I'm simply saying he needs to tone it down a bit. Pretend to be a bit confused so these aren't blowout wins. They are going to catch on sooner rather than later that he has memorized all the puzzles and that will immediately make him target #1. I agree. I'm sure these puzzles aren't that cheap but they also aren't so outrageously expensive that the prop department can't alter them a bit between seasons to prevent people from memorizing EVERY puzzle. I disagree on the Maryanne comp. Maryanne was the perfect floater in the sense that she was playing the game hard when nobody really suspected it AND everyone loved her. If you are a floater who wants to actually win, you need to be liked by everyone. Pretty sure nobody likes Caroline on the island. She's gonna be the person who gets to the end and even when she explains her game, get's zero votes because her social game was shit.
Maryanne annoyed the shit out of everyone at first. I could see Caroline turning it around w a smaller group. She’s a long shot. Which is why I said dark horse. Not favorite.
Could not disagree more. She seems annoying as hell to be in the same room with for more than 10 minutes. But she played an amazing game. She played up her awkwardness to seem like less a threat then struck when everyone over looked her.
Maryanne won by default because of how bad Mikes final tribal was and fuckin Romeo was the other option.
Knew the second Frannie won that challenge that Matt was screwed. She should have dropped to ensure both their safety. Either way, not really a fan of that twist.
They need to keep random chance out of the game as much as possible. It's a disservice to the players and is unneeded.
Agree with everyone in here. Not a fan of the half immunity where your alliance is randomly drawn or the advantage gained.
Slightly disagree on this statement. The players are way too smart anymore to let most things play out naturally, at least from a TV viewing perspective. Without the randomness you could have a majority alliance run the entire season, which wouldn’t be much fun to watch.
Random thought. They’ve gotten the casting right ever since they started loading the casts with nerds over jock types.
Never missed an episode for 40 seasons. Now I haven't seen one of the last two and a half. Am I missing anything?