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Hey we’re doing it on time this year! It’s (almost) time for everyone’s favorite people conspiring against others while they’re giving confessionals show, Survivor Season 44! Drop the 4 and add a 4 then carry the 4, and four for the 4. Fore! Survivor airs Wednesday, March 1st on CBS or whatever your country’s equivalent is! Check your local listings, or whatever people do in 2023 to watch tv. PAY ATTENTION TO THIS: Some basic rules, which should be no-brainers for pre-taped reality TV:
Now for all of the boiler plate poo poo for new viewers in case you've been living under a rock for the past 23 years. What is Survivor? Survivor is a reality show where a group of 16 to 20 or so contestants, from all walks of life, are stuck on a remote paradise and forced to live together for A typical Survivor season has three phases. Pre-Merge, Post-Merge, and Endgame.
This Season's Gimmick The past 3 seasons have been 26 days, down from the former 39 (and AUS Survivor's FIFTY) and per Lord Jeff, this is the new standard (because it’s cheaper and despite the show always winning its time slot and making gobs of money and the prize pot not increasing with inflation, they still are shaving off costs because capitalism). They are starting with no food/rice/supplies so the game is intended to be harder from the start to compensate for a shorter season. Old school players say this is bullshit, new school players say it’s way harder…who knows, either way it prob sucks. Jeff said that these seasons are back to basics which we all assumed meant less twists and by golly wouldn't you know it but all 3 that we’ve had were chock full of twists and stupid advantages galore and it was worse than usual but at least the people were cool. Some of the twists we saw in 41/42 (hourglass, do or die) are gone which is great but there will still be stuff like shot in the dark still in the game. One major note is that casting has been far better than the dark ages of recruits & mactors (see below). Supplemental Material
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Time for the cast! Going to split this up into two posts because this season I actually put in some modicum of effort! If you for some reason want to see last season’s thread it lives here. Otherwise dig in for another hopefully good season!
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Time to meet the latest slag for the meat grinder. Beware, I’ve gone down an AI art rabbit hole so some of the images here are what an artificial intelligence has determined represents these people/things. Their factual accuracy is 100% perfect. BOW DOWN BEFORE THE KING OF SURVIVOR JEFF PROBST Here is an early season preview from the end of s43! and here is a detailed breakdown of every cast member & their answers to the classic pregame questions! Tika Tribe This tribe has more fingers than any other tribe and also has a guy who is part gun. Carolyn Wiger Former drug addict who is in recovery and is now counseling others in their own recovery, which is awesome. Claims she is a lot like Noura (s39) so we’re definitely in for a treat here. She’s the nutcup in the above ^^ video with the insane confessional, so she’s got big Coach energy. Helen Li Speaking of AI generation, I think she used an AI to generate all of her pregame answers because they read like the most boring possible version of every answer. Sarah Wade Notes that she is most like Natalie, but doesn’t specify if it’s Natalie Anderson, Natalie Bolton, Natalie Tenerelli, Natalie White, or Natalie Cole so I’m not sure how to take this. For maximum hilarity I hope it’s Natalie Cole & would vastly prefer that it is. Bruce Perreault Made the big move from his hometown Warwick, R.I. over to his current residence of West Warwick. R.I. gently caress regular Warwick am I right folks? Also, I think from the above video this may be the person who super dies in what appears to be the first challenge, so maybe analyze that video and adjust your fantasy Survivor accordingly Carson Garrett Holy poo poo this guy. Might have the most verbose and in-depth-pat-self-on-the-back bio of anyone we’ve seen this side of Swathi, and appears to have spent his entire childhood preparing for this, so I’m looking forward to his spectacular flare-out and extremely early boot. Also, apparently has set up a merch site for himself already that he’s promoting (survivorcarson.com) so this bozo is definitely first out. YAM YAM This guy is the poo poo, he’s been the poo poo, and he’ll probably remain the poo poo. You can’t be named YAM YAM and not crush it. Our first introduction to him is “Poop in the ocean? BRING IT!” My prediction is obviously the Tika tribe is the good TV tribe. This group looks nuts, and despite having a couple who look like boring duds I think the top tier characters in here will carry the day pretty well,. Ratu Tribe From the mean streets of Fiji, this karate gang with white-ish-black-ish belts is going to either kick some rear end or maybe learn their first kick I dunno. Brandon Cottom Said “lol” in his answer and I like to believe that this was spoken, not written. Kane Fritzler Don’t see much of this guy in the pre-game materials they’ve put out, but he named his dog “Survivor” which is unhinged so I’m here for it. I named my dogs “NYPD Blue” and “Murder in Small Town X” so this feels totally normal. Matthew Grinstead-Mayle This is the guy that beefs it on that cliff so he may be dead right now who knows. His bio makes him seem like a very affable person and I can’t even make fun of him because he seems very nice. Not just saying that because he may be dead. Jaime Lynne Ruiz Started reading her bio and decided this woman is going to be A LOT, then she compared herself to Angelina, so I’m back in and here for the bus fire. She wrote “Relationship building is EVERYTHING” twice in her bio so definitely has big cult energy. Lauren Harpe Purposefully beats her kids in Mario Kart. Respect. Maddy Pomilla Is one of 5 daughters so quick prayer for her dad right here. She is one of the few to mention Cirie (oddly, since she’s usually in every bio) so maybe she’ll be good. At least she doesn’t reference Erika like half of this cast Soka Tribe So I guess this tribe is mostly centaurs and/or horse riders but they are pretty ripped so they probably will win. Water challenges going to be interesting. I like them for winning the murderball challenge. Claire Rafson A 25 year old with the job title “Tech Investor” leads me to believe she probably hasn’t faced much adversity and is going to buckle pretty hard here. Frannie Marin Her two inspirations are Sophie and the Scarlet Witch. Looking forward to some epic eye rolls and her creating an entire fictional dimension for everyone to live in. Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt Aims to be half as good as Sandra, AND SHE CAN GET LOUD TOO WHAT THE gently caress Danny Massa This dude actually kinda feels like he is pretty grounded, from his bio. Might be seen as too big of a threat in the end, or he also has the potential for Big Rodney Energy. Joshua Wilder This dude referenced Survivor NZ in his bio and nobody blinked an eye or identified who that person is. Does CBS even read these? Matthew Blankinship Doesn’t like peanut butter so we won’t be seeing him topless. Okay that’s it! Remember THE SHOW STARTS WEDNESDAY MARCH 1st so go watch Australian or South African Survivor, or I guess New Zealand if you want to learn who Avi is. Pick your ponies and poisons, cast looks pretty awesome this season! Fantasy Survivor link will live below once it’s created. Someone tag me and I’ll up date OP. Sighence posted:I mean if we just need someone to hit the button fine. SweetJahasus fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Feb 20, 2023 |
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I can't wait for 44's Tribal Councils to have even more meaningless analogies about "being in the driver's Seat" vs "riding in the back of the bus"
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Drama Alert Carson, NASA Engineering
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I think that's already in the OP
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SweetJahasus posted:Time to meet the latest slag for the meat grinder. Beware, I’ve gone down an AI art rabbit hole so some of the images here are what an artificial intelligence has determined represents these people/things. Their factual accuracy is 100% perfect. That's every one of the cast from at minimum 41 onward tbh
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 03:08 |
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i get big "millionaire at 20" vibes from that person
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 03:45 |
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Studio posted:Drama Alert The thing that strikes me most about this insane decision is not the site or the things he's selling...it's the ridiculous 13 year old girl texting her BFF spelling he does, for allegedly being some genius.
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 04:14 |
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Carolyn is from here so I am legally obligated to pick her as my Pony Carson seems like too obvious of a poison so I'm going to pick Joshua because his head looks weird
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 04:54 |
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Studio posted:Drama Alert My home town continues to stay loving classy.
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 05:08 |
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Maybe season 44 will have more than 2 memorable people.
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SweetJahasus posted:The thing that strikes me most about this insane decision is not the site or the things he's selling...it's the ridiculous 13 year old girl texting her BFF spelling he does, for allegedly being some genius. it has real crypto guy vibes with the spelling and emoji and stuff, certainly
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 18:57 |
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Pony: Frannie Poison: Carson Wow this might be the least likable cast for me in the new era, at least off bios. Poison was an eight-way tie before I saw that storefront.
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Sighence posted:Pony: Frannie What makes them unlikable? I only skimmed them, but it seemed like they're still going with the angle of giving everyone a sob story, and downplay any interpersonal conflict amongst the cast like they've been doing in the new era.
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Sighence posted:Pony: Frannie Excuse me but Yam Yam
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# ? Feb 7, 2023 22:38 |
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Can't decide between Danny or Matthew, but I'm gonna risk it and say Pony: Danny Poison: Carson
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# ? Feb 8, 2023 02:37 |
So the novelty twist of this season is still the budget cuts right? Bah humbug¡!!!!!!!!!!!
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# ? Feb 8, 2023 13:22 |
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Lampsacus posted:So the novelty twist of this season is still the budget cuts right? Bah humbug¡!!!!!!!!!!!
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# ? Feb 8, 2023 13:54 |
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Nihonniboku posted:What makes them unlikable? I only skimmed them, but it seemed like they're still going with the angle of giving everyone a sob story, and downplay any interpersonal conflict amongst the cast like they've been doing in the new era. Just going off the bios given the ones I disliked they all shared a lack of depth to them. I've not yet watched the videos so for example Yam Yam (not that he was necessarily on my poison list) I haven't gotten to hear about him wanting to poo poo in the ocean yet.
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# ? Feb 8, 2023 21:45 |
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Pony: gotta be Yam Yam come on Poison: Carson’s merch lmao
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# ? Feb 13, 2023 03:59 |
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Pony: Yam Yam Poison: I remember a clip where... Bruce? Looked super hosed up. Bruce
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# ? Feb 13, 2023 04:18 |
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I know we’re on the drop the 4, carry the 4 hype but the tribal council in episode 7 of Australian Heroes vs. Villains might quite possibly be the best tribal council of the franchise. This season has been really great so far in spite of some question production choices.
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Dugong posted:I know we’re on the drop the 4, carry the 4 hype but the tribal council in episode 7 of Australian Heroes vs. Villains might quite possibly be the best tribal council of the franchise. This season has been really great so far in spite of some question production choices.
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Lampsacus posted:oo thanks for the heads up. do i need to see x/any number of Australian survivor first to 'get it'?? as the heroes v villains seems to imply returneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees Do yourself a favor and watch all the Aus survivor you can stomach. It's good.
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Lampsacus posted:oo thanks for the heads up. do i need to see x/any number of Australian survivor first to 'get it'?? as the heroes v villains seems to imply returneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees Probably not, Australian Survivor at least takes the time to let you know who the survivors are. You might miss the big picture, but they cover who has grudges and who got voted out by who... (And the get to know this Survivor segments isn't just, my "X" relative died whoa is me)
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Probably not, Australian Survivor at least takes the time to let you know who the survivors are. You might miss the big picture, but they cover who has grudges and who got voted out by who... I feel like that particular tribal council would benefit from you having seen Brains V Brawn Speaking of tribal council, is the fantasy league running this year? Just got the email
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# ? Feb 13, 2023 16:32 |
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I'm only 12/18 through the RHAP interviews for this cast and it's really dragging. I usually eat these up but I'm kind of bored, honestly. At least with my expectations low it'll be hard to be disappointed.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Probably not, Australian Survivor at least takes the time to let you know who the survivors are. You might miss the big picture, but they cover who has grudges and who got voted out by who... This season of Aus rampantly spoils other seasons though, even if the winner of the season isn't on this cast, so be prepared for that in case you wanted to watch the others.
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# ? Feb 14, 2023 12:59 |
Ok, im starting Australian Survivor starting with s8 brain vs brawn. It's grand! Lots the cast is actually trying really hard, so far, as of e2.
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Lampsacus posted:Ok, im starting Australian Survivor starting with s8 brain vs brawn. It's grand! Lots the cast is actually trying really hard, so far, as of e2. That's where I started. Gooooood poo poo. I went 8 -> 9, then heard 10 was somewhat of an all-stars and went back and binged the rest (well not 1 and 2 cause they're from 2006 and unrelated to the current show) The actual all-stars season (7) was fantastic. They did an incredible job picking the cast.
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Yeah it seems the actual best way to watch Australian would be 3 onward but egh i want to see the more current stuff! And with the length of content per season it's just great 😊
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101 posted:Speaking of tribal council, is the fantasy league running this year? Just got the email Also interested if anyone has made a league
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i need to redeem myself
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# ? Feb 19, 2023 20:16 |
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I mean if we just need someone to hit the button fine. Join code: 6c9186af-5948-4c91-bb87-fa44292e1ab1
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Sighence posted:I mean if we just need someone to hit the button fine. Thanks for pushing the button. Joined
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Shemp the Stooge posted:Thanks for pushing the button. Joined
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Sighence posted:I mean if we just need someone to hit the button fine. OP updated with this info
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I am excite for new season of Survivor!
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Brief UK Survivor news, host has been announced as shouty youth type Joel Domett. Not convinced at all he's the right choice but at least I could believe he's watched an episode of Survivor before. Stephen Fry is apparently being set up to host a 5th attempt at making Jeopardy work in the UK too so we're all about new attempts at US shows we massively hosed up 20 years ago right now.
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njsykora posted:Brief UK Survivor news, host has been announced as shouty youth type Joel Domett. Not convinced at all he's the right choice but at least I could believe he's watched an episode of Survivor before. We'll loan you our spare Jeopardy host if you send Alex Horne back over for another go at US Taskmaster. Rereading these cast bios for my drafts and oh man does everyone have recent winner syndrome. I wanted to dislike the firefighter for wanting to play like Jeremy because 🚒 but wow having five Erikas won't go like how any of you expect.
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