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Yeah, it's not as overt and artificial as if was with Redemption Island and Jeff asking the loved one to sacrifice themselves in front of everyone, but it's still having a really substantial affect on the game. Rocker is basically gone because the loved ones of the people he eliminated pushed revenge, Julie is really lost because of her toxic loved one, Dale first got his daughter eliminated, and Baylor has basically been bailed out by her mom (although I'm not sure the "riding coat tails" thing is fair since she did seem to be trying to make things work before, they just weren't). Oddly my favorite Blood vs Water aspect is the Drew/Alec non interaction. Just something about the way the blue tribe voted out Drew and then withing five minutes of meeting Alec were all "whelp, he's just like Drew so just gotta deal" cracks me up. Especially coupled with Alec's over the top inferiority complex towards his brother. And hey, it's still early so we can still get the serious drama we got in the first one. We didn't get Ciera selling out her mom until post merge.
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Tremendous Taste posted:Hello TVIV friends, I'm going to a casting call later this month and would love some advice Bring a hat.  Non-jokey answer: http://www.amazon.com/How-To-Get-On-Reality/dp/0615718272/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414914277&sr=8-1&keywords=dan+gheesling
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The Baylor poo poo talk isn't grounded in reality. Bailed out by her mom? That pair definitely centers around advancing Baylor's game, but you've all thrown out the fact that Baylor did immense amount of early game work to survive. Coat-tail riding (if that's even what she's doing) isn't a bad move when you're a primary target and a stronger player wants you to go forward. She should be lauded for working with multiple people who have voted for her, one of which still accuses her of stuff that isn't true (Jaclyn putting the blame on her, when there were only 4 girls). Having her mom around is a huge benefit to her, but she uses it pretty well. But she was just as involved in courting Jon and Jac. She had actually been working with Jaclyn for a few weeks which made it pretty obvious who the pair would go with. Baylor hasn't contributed as much to challenges as Wes, but she has had to play harder than him everywhere else. She has done more fighting to stay in the game than Alec, Julie, Jaclyn (who owes her continued survival to Josh and Baylor), Missy, Jon (who may have been on the block before the swap and then got set into a good position) and maybe others. She has been more level headed than Jeremy and less haughty. She isn't my favorite but she has received more votes than anyone else still in the game and is now in good standing which is commendable. To put that entirely on her mom is mind boggling and just not factual. As for her attitude, has there really been anything to show her as a brat? There were some interactions with Alec and Dale, but they were also kinda antagonistic from the scenes we saw. I could be forgetting something, though!
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Tremendous Taste posted:Hello TVIV friends, I'm going to a casting call later this month and would love some advice Also, if you make it on the show you have to drop references to Eelbarf or Lamprey or "stairs" in your confessionals so we know it's you. Between SA's Cochran winning Survivor and 4chan's Ian winning Big Brother the nerd sites are becoming a hip commodity on reality teevee. Haha, take that Fark and Slashdot! (As if any of these sites, including this one are even culturally relevant anymore)
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Robnoxious posted:Watch Baylor's OFFICIAL country music video. "Muffin" is Stephen Fishbach's nickname for Missy from the Know-It-Alls podcast, in case anyone is wondering.
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I really can't get into the headspace of someone who would dislike Baylor based on that video. It rules.Tremendous Taste posted:Hello TVIV friends, I'm going to a casting call later this month and would love some advice Definitely mention how you're an internet weirdo who played a forum version of Survivor. They love the young superfan mastermind/awkward nerd archetype.
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If Baylor being a country music youtube non-entity is making people think she's entitled then you guys must also hate the other 3/4 of this show's casting which consists of models, sports stars, and actors/actresses. There used to be a time when we could literally google any young woman cast on this show and find her Playboy spread on the first page.
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Robnoxious posted:Start a thread in GBS posting pictures of your nose complete with dangling sinew and gross poo poo like that. It worked for Cochran and it can work for you too. I spent 20 mins looking for this thread only to discover none of the pictures still worked. I am disappointed.
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The Lord Bude posted:I spent 20 mins looking for this thread only to discover none of the pictures still worked. I am disappointed. Seriously does anybody still have those? I've been meaning to ask in here. poo poo was gross.
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The Baylor dislike is getting intentionally blown out of proportion a lot in the last couple pages in some weird defence of her. She's mildly dislikeable on a season chock full of people who get no reaction whatsoever, not the second coming of Colton. Muffin and Baylor are mildly annoying. Josh and Reed sorta maybe have potential if they don't go quickly after the merge. The only reason any of them are even worth talking about is because the entire rest of the cast is worthless cannon fodder. It's on track to be One World without a Kim Spradlin unless someone emerges from the pack real soon.
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BGrifter posted:It's on track to be One World without a Kim Spradlin unless someone emerges from the pack real soon. Ya, what he said. I hope Keith turns out to be the mastermind this season. And has to vote out Wes to get there. Sort of the yang to Ciera/Luara's yin.
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BGrifter posted:It's on track to be One World without a Kim Spradlin What in the world does this even mean
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Lone Goat posted:What in the world does this even mean Imagine a Russell Hantz without the douchiness, smarminess, arrogance, and self-unaware monologues, make him a hot female good at challenges, and, oh yeah, make her a winner (with a big assist from Colton being unable to tolerate an annoying guy and instigating the stupidest Survivor move ever). Basically they're nothing alike except for the implications of what you quoted: they both dominated their seasons which were otherwise full of unmemorable characters. eta: gently caress I just continued ressellchat
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Lone Goat posted:What in the world does this even mean
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Lone Goat posted:What in the world does this even mean Boring without any clear non idiot to trample everyone else
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paperchaseguy posted:Imagine a Russell Hantz without the douchiness, smarminess, arrogance, and self-unaware monologues, make him a hot female good at challenges, and, oh yeah, make her a winner (with a big assist from Colton being unable to tolerate an annoying guy and instigating the stupidest Survivor move ever). I know who Kim is, he just made a nonsense statement. Professor Shark posted:Boring without any clear non idiot to trample everyone else So, Nicaragua.
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Bravo. Lone Goat posted:So, Nicaragua. No, Nicaragua at least had Fabio's triumph against adversity. One World had nothing (after Colton's BS went out with a whimper). Have you seen One World? Big Taint fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Nov 3, 2014 |
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Poque posted:Anyone else feel like Natalie is getting a positive edit? They were very deliberate in showing her interaction with Baylor on Exile Island only from her perspective and I couldn't help but think it was meaningful for her game but not as much for Baylor or Missy's. I was thinking the same thing. She has a bit of a Sandra vibe. Volunteering for Exile Island to chat with Baylor was actually a pretty decent move, as it laid the groundwork for what looks to be a natural post-merge alliance of Jeremy/Natalie/Julie + Missy/Baylor/Jon/Jaclyn. Keith knows he's on the outs after that vote, though he probably would have just gone with Wes and his Young Dude crew anyway. The Josh+Baylor connection could be a wildcard, but Josh and Reed are just too strong to keep around long-term. My guess is they go the way of Aras and Vytas in the original BvW.
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Professor Shark posted:Boring without any clear non idiot to trample everyone else Yeah, without Kim playing what in hindsight was an outstanding game, One World was probably worse than Nicaragua. It's like they cast a bunch of bowling pins for Boston Rob or somebody to knock down but forgot to bring back the player they were gifting the win to.
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I've mentioned it before, but 'One World' has one of the best* Survivor narratives I've seen on the show. Kim, a recently divorced owner of a wedding store, has to convince a bunch of women to constantly act against their own best interest in keeping her around. Outside the game, her literal real-world profession is to convince women to buy tons of unnecessary poo poo to in order to fulfil their "dreams", while she already is a hollow husk after her own marriage went to poo poo. People clamour over other 'mastermind' players of this game (many who had to return several times before they ever won), but Kim is seriously one of the most cold-blooded awesome masterminds the show has had. *The best narrative was the back-to-back rise of Russell in Samoa followed by Sandra burning his iconic hat and then destroying him (and every other winner) at the end of HvV.
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Anonymous Zebra posted:I've mentioned it before, but 'One World' has one of the best* Survivor narratives I've seen on the show. Kim, a recently divorced owner of a wedding store, has to convince a bunch of women to constantly act against their own best interest in keeping her around. Outside the game, her literal real-world profession is to convince women to buy tons of unnecessary poo poo to in order to fulfil their "dreams", while she already is a hollow husk after her own marriage went to poo poo. People clamour over other 'mastermind' players of this game (many who had to return several times before they ever won), but Kim is seriously one of the most cold-blooded awesome masterminds the show has had. Yeah that sounds good in theory, but the show never gave us that side of Kim. All we saw of her was her being a one sided gamebot who would only give confessionals about "I hope that Play X does this because it aligns with my strategy blah blah blah." If we delved a bit deeper and saw her explanation as to how she manipulated all these other people that could have been great, but we never really saw it.
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Kim's narrative wasn't lost on me. What lost me was watching the parade of idiots she put into a barrell and blasted with a shotgun. Kim's win was a well deserved win but she didn't have much in the form of adversity. It's not her fault she was handed a cast full of noodleheads. Unfortunately, that doesn't equate to interesting viewing. KKKolton really killed any other momentum that season could have had and it was stretched pretty thin regardless.
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Nexal posted:http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/30/survivor-jeff-probst-san-juan-del-sur-episode-6/ I think Jeremy was just frustrated in general. He ended up on a tribe of people, some of whom didn’t regard the game in the same way he did. Jeremy is very disciplined. He could have made do on much less and if he had been in charge of that rice from day one they probably wouldn’t be in that situation. But no, I do not see any way they could have survived without making a trade. Zero. Yeah Jeff, zero chance they could have survived eating kabobs one night and merging the next day.
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Tremendous Taste posted:Hello TVIV friends, I'm going to a casting call later this month and would love some advice Good luck dude! You'd make for great tv I think. 
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Binary Logic posted:"Muffin" is Stephen Fishbach's nickname for Missy from the Know-It-Alls podcast, in case anyone is wondering. Also, I think a lot of the Missy and Baylor dislike comes from Dale and Kelley, both of whom have been cool people post-boot and neither of whom were fans of those two. Otherwise there's not yet much to draw from concerning Missy and Baylor. Oh, also, the reason that Dale and Kelley got booted it seems like wasn't really because Dale contradicted Missy on the rice portions, it was because Kelley had been lobbying to boot Jon instead of Drew back on the original tribe, and Missy had leaked that to Jon even before the tribe swap for whatever reason. So while Dale's relationships with Missy and Baylor weren't good, Kelley brought her own baggage in terms of the Jon and Jaclyn vote. I'm not sure why that didn't make the edit. I'm not really a fan of Missy but in her way she seems to have become the #1 powerbroker in the game right now. She's got Baylor attached at the hip, she's feeding Jon big heaping portions of rice, she's close with Natalie and Jeremy, and Keith has so far been just following her around, we'll see if being the potential HII sacrifice changes that at all. Even if Keith did leave her orbit, Baylor still has a connection to Josh or just staying aligned with Jon and Jaclyn and pulling in the singles also works.
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If you're not enjoying this season, you can always watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uZFrcptqZs
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Fast Luck posted:
I agree with your overall point but its funny to me that you're giving her credit for having a connection with Baylor.
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Haha I don't know if I meant it like that but she definitely seems like she'll be calling the shots between those two. I don't think Baylor is going to go independent like Ciera under any circumstances.
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Robnoxious posted:Kim's narrative wasn't lost on me. 
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Fast Luck posted:Jeremy seemed upset about the trade, saying that they could have made do with what they had food-wise, but shish kebob reward or not, that doesn’t seem possible. They didn’t really have any choice but to make that trade, did they? The alternate reality where they refused the trade and Jeff is reporting that they just had to let them die because they wouldn't give up their tarp is slightly amusing to imagine.
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I thought One World had such promise and I wish they would do it again, but this time keep the gimmick the entire series. I thought the show got really bad when they went to seperate beaches (which defeated the idea of One World)
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bbf2 posted:I agree with your overall point but its funny to me that you're giving her credit for having a connection with Baylor. Well she does get all the credit for her connection with Baylor...
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I just found out a casual acquaintance is an actual cousin to Parvati. I'm filled equally with amazement and shame that you are the only people who will care. And even that's not a certainty.
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