FTA-TV Survivor: Game Changers

[Boomerfan99]

You spend all day thinking of such a witty retort to write at midday when you're apparently at work?

and it took you half a day to come up with that shit comeback?

 

[Connoisseur]

I had the 9now website do the same thing to me.

When I clicked "Play" on the episode, it showed a screen of the final 5 tribal, including who won immunity.

What the ****, Channel 9?

Glad I didn't use Ch 9's website to watch the finale. It takes a while to watch the show through other means but it was worth it for the fact that I avoided crap like this.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

Sarah deserved to win. Culpepper got too cocky and vindictive voting Tai out. Would have swept the board with a Tai and Troyzan final three.

Yeah, I call BS that it would have even gone to a tie-break.

That little exercise fails to take into account the importance of the responses to the questions and accusations and the final pitch. It's easy to say you'd vote one way at the reunion, but when Tai has completely butchered every explanation for every move, he would have made it impossible for anyone to vote for him. If Culpepper didn't win unanimously, I would have been very surprised.

 

[Connoisseur]

I'm not sure he would have gone on to win, bu Tai really ****** up big time when he panicked and revealed he had 2 idols.

that was a huge ace up his sleeve.

he would have been better off 'conceeding' he was going home, drawing in everyone to vote for him, then playing his idol and his vote takes out someone else.

next TC rinse and repeat. no one would have ever expected it. he needed to split up Brad and troyzan.


Sarah definitely deserved to win though.

Tai is just too emotionally needy to play this game and end up as the winner. Like he said he constantly needs someone to confide and lean on every minute he's out there playing the game, he can't for 1 minute let alone 1 or 2 days be a free agent and just wait and see how things play out before he does anything.

And that pathetic neediness is what led him to reveal those 2 aces up his sleeve in search of being emotionally comforted by someone who he should have had the emotionally intelligence to realise would never in a million years have his best interest in mind.

 

[Michaels]

Tai is just too emotionally needy to play this game and end up as the winner. Like he said he constantly needs someone to confide and lean on every minute he's out there playing the game, he can't for 1 minute let alone 1 or 2 days be a free agent and just wait and see how things play out before he does anything.

And that pathetic neediness is what led him to reveal those 2 aces up his sleeve in search of being emotionally comforted by someone who he should have had the emotionally intelligence to realise would never in a million years have his best interest in mind.

Yeah spot on.

Was the absolute worst person to tell.

And given it was 34+ days in his mind wouldn't have been fully switched on which doesn't help.

It was just frustrating to see him play it that way. There was no need to panic with 2 idols. He should have just trolled them at TC

 

[Hamingja]

Yeah, I call BS that it would have even gone to a tie-break.

That little exercise fails to take into account the importance of the responses to the questions and accusations and the final pitch. It's easy to say you'd vote one way at the reunion, but when Tai has completely butchered every explanation for every move, he would have made it impossible for anyone to vote for him. If Culpepper didn't win unanimously, I would have been very surprised.

A couple of other points on this.

I wonder how much of an effect Tai getting voted out and going back to Ponderosa and telling the other jury members how much of an arse Culpepper was to him effected the juries view of Culpepper at the time. Tai was awful to play with but I think he was well respected as a person by the others. He was obviously really hurt by Culpepper and I wonder how much of that reached the jury before they voted.

Certainly by the time the reunion came around they would have all seen the show themselves and they would have had a lot more sympathy for Tai, whereas at Ponderosa some could still have put down his stories about Culpepper as bitterness, so there is a fair bit of hindsighting going on to now say they would have voted for a guy who outside of finding idols had zero respect as a player from the others at the time.

 

[Call_Me_Floss]

I have never heard the word microcosm used in conversations before, and Ozzy used it 3 times in one sentence.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

This was the first full season that I've watched (Kaoh Rong, Gen X v Millenials, Australian) and I think it was overall the strongest. I think Brad and Sarah deserved to be the top two as they played the strongest all-round games. So overall, a great series.

I would like to see them cut out the post-bombshell mini conferences breaking out during tribal council though (especially when it ends up being two minutes of footage of people whispering to each other without us knowing what's going on) and just let people make their own decisions, which would result in just as much chaos with far less wasted/boring screen time.

 

[nobbyiscool]

I'm confused about what Jeff said about the tie breaker.

If the third finalist not involved in a tie-breaker gets the deciding vote, when does that vote happen?

Does it happen back in Fiji, thus spoiling the result for everyone involved (cos they know it's a tie, and they know who Troyzan would vote for) - or does it happen at the live final, thus potentially contaminating any deciding votes in future series' because they've seen the series by then?

 

[Ochre]

I'm confused about what Jeff said about the tie breaker.

If the third finalist not involved in a tie-breaker gets the deciding vote, when does that vote happen?

Does it happen back in Fiji, thus spoiling the result for everyone involved (cos they know it's a tie, and they know who Troyzan would vote for) - or does it happen at the live final, thus potentially contaminating any deciding votes in future series' because they've seen the series by then?

Itd happen back in Fiji. Everyone knows the result then anyway.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Somebody checks and orders the votes (for #drama) before he reads them out.

 

[akkaps]

Ochre
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGistxMvJzW-HP1cYUwk5aQ

 

[Visions]

Just got around to watching the final few episodes.

Tai is really a bad player. Always all over the shop, with really no strategy apart from being chaotic. The playing of both idols like that was just ludicrous, it wasn't going to benefit him in anyway.

In saying Tai was bad, Brad stuffed up royally in the last vote. He let emotion and his hate for Tai get the better of him. If he thought things through clearly surely he would have seen that Sarah was the big threat, and consequently should have voted her out and left Tai in the final three. Basically that cost him the win and the million dollars.

I can't believe that Troyzan thought he was a winning chance. It was only at final tribal council where he came to the realisation that he was no chance when he wasn't getting any love from the jury, and that's when I must say he handled it with grace.

Sarah was a worthy winner. She was always there making moves and at the centre of voting out threats without putting a target on her back.

All in all, I enjoyed the season.

 

[royboy2]

Took the missus to see Baywatch and spotted Brenda from Nicaragua and Caramoan in the opening scene. I dont think it was a deliberate cameo though; maybe she is looking at an acting career?

 

[drd23]

A fair percentage of Survivor players are actors who are recruited more for their telegenicity than anything else. It wouldn't surprise me if Brenda was one of those (I say this not knowing anything about her besides what was shown on her seasons)

 

[Underarm]

She was a surfing instructor from memory. Might just be in the right place when they were filming? Good pickup though.

 

[JackNah_8]

A fair percentage of Survivor players are actors who are recruited more for their telegenicity than anything else. It wouldn't surprise me if Brenda was one of those (I say this not knowing anything about her besides what was shown on her seasons)

I remember reading somewhere that in some previous seasons that Survivor had recruited pro actors and models to be on the show.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

I remember reading somewhere that in some previous seasons that Survivor had recruited pro actors and models to be on the show.

They buy the players clothes too.

 

[Kirby]

They did a great job prizing Cochrane away from his modelling career.

 

[juss]

Glad Sarah won, she played the best game of the final 3 this season, and probably of the whole cast too.
Not always the case in Survivor.

 

[trueblue_91]

Glad Sarah won, she played the best game of the final 3 this season, and probably of the whole cast too.
Not always the case in Survivor.

Especially in Returning player seasons

 

[Sippa]

Just got around to watching the final few episodes.

Tai is really a bad player. Always all over the shop, with really no strategy apart from being chaotic. The playing of both idols like that was just ludicrous, it wasn't going to benefit him in anyway.

In saying Tai was bad, Brad stuffed up royally in the last vote. He let emotion and his hate for Tai get the better of him. If he thought things through clearly surely he would have seen that Sarah was the big threat, and consequently should have voted her out and left Tai in the final three. Basically that cost him the win and the million dollars.

I can't believe that Troyzan thought he was a winning chance. It was only at final tribal council where he came to the realisation that he was no chance when he wasn't getting any love from the jury, and that's when I must say he handled it with grace.

Sarah was a worthy winner. She was always there making moves and at the centre of voting out threats without putting a target on her back.

All in all, I enjoyed the season.

Can't agree with tai playing both idols being a bad move... he was being bullied by brad and the only way to beat him was to take down his group of 3.. if Sarah never had the legacy advantage it would have been a stroke of genius and would have won cirie or Aubrey the game.. tai was never going to win but that way he'd have had a say in how it went

 

[Sippa]

Also JT has really butchered his legacy the last 2 times he's played .. unfortunate after his first game was as well as you can play

 

[juss]

Also JT has really butchered his legacy the last 2 times he's played .. unfortunate after his first game was as well as you can play

Wasn't his last season the one where he gave Russel his idol and Russel used it to vote him out?
I agree he has looked like a bumbling fool in his last 2 seasons.

 

[Visions]

They did a great job prizing Cochrane away from his modelling career.

It's a wonder how they did the same with Debbie to convince her to do this season. I was sure her modelling and countless other jobs she claims to have would surely have rendered her unavailable.