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Lone Goat posted:Solitary had something like this, it was "stay in this cramped box that you can barely sit comfortably in, step outside after precisely 3 hours". One guy said that he just recited the entire movie Titanic but ended up leaving a few minutes early because he forgot to count the credits. That was such a great moment. It was a good strategy and it actually would have worked.
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Solitary was a crazy show because the concept was literally "how much can we torture people if we give them a chance for $50,000" and the answer is "an incredible amount".
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Mar 16, 2015 16:41
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That describes every Asian game show.Professor Shark posted:People who respond to Mom Insults with DONTCHU SAY poo poo ABOWMY MOTHA!, especially in a game where the winner gets to be a millionaire, are idiots. There are a lot of players who aren't going to win. Really there are currently only 2 on each tribe who could potentially win.
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Mar 16, 2015 18:43
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Someone mentioned Solitary last year in a survivor thread and I'm really glad they did because that show is so good. If you're reading this and haven't watched Solitary, you need to do it.
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Mar 16, 2015 18:55
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GuavaMoment posted:Someone mentioned Solitary last year in a survivor thread and I'm really glad they did because that show is so good. If you're reading this and haven't watched Solitary, you need to do it. Solitary owns! I've always thought if I went on that show I would start to grow legitimately paranoid that it wasn't an actual game show and wouldn't end when I pressed the button.
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Mar 16, 2015 19:10
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The only thing I didn't like about solitary was that they eventually told you to stop if you were the last one standing in a challenge. They should have just let them keep going until it was time for the next challenge.
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cock hero flux posted:The only thing I didn't like about solitary was that they eventually told you to stop if you were the last one standing in a challenge. They should have just let them keep going until it was time for the next challenge. Yeah, but some of the challenges would be crossing the line from "good entertainment" to "people literally dying". Most of the time they were good at letting them fail eventually, but it really makes sense why Val told them to stop on others.
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Mar 16, 2015 21:26
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Binary Logic posted:That describes every Asian game show. Who knows, I'm pretty sure that for most of Cagayan we described Tony as someone who had no potential to win, and last season we would have said the same thing about Natalie too after three episodes (what with the loud screaming at John Rocker)
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Professor Shark posted:That was an awesome challenge, but hard to watch. The dutch survivor last year had a challenge directly after the merge where everyone started in a dug pit together. The only way out was to work together with someone and hope they didn't run to the next part of the challenge after they got out. They ended up doing a boring plan where they waited till they got everyone out of the pit and then start again. Would love to see it in the US Survivor.
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Mar 16, 2015 21:59
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I always really like the endurance challenges where you can sit out and eat food the whole time if you want. Those are always very fun to see who the crazy selfish people who think they are on top of the game are.
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Asiina posted:I always really like the endurance challenges where you can sit out and eat food the whole time if you want. Those are always very fun to see who the crazy selfish people who think they are on top of the game are.
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The best one of those was the Micronesia one where James laughs at everyone because they keep dropping out before making the deal with Jeff and then he's laughing so hard he ends up eliminating himself. "Oh bitch!" I feel like those challenge snever have the payoff that like the "Eliminate people but don't be stupid enough to do it in the boot order or else" challenges do where they sometimes open eyes and change the game. That's obviously what it's designed for but I feel like every time you have a bunch of people from the majority alliance sitting it out and one or two people competing so that plans don't get messed up but it never seems to change anything. Or maybe I'm just forgetting cool moments.
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Binary Logic posted:That describes every Asian game show. Tyler, Max, Carolyn, Mike, Kelly, Joe, Hali I know Kelly's a weird pick given she was almost invisible until now. But if we're picking at least two from each tribe, she's the distant #2 behind Mike. Could get to the end, but will not win: Shirin, Dan, Sierra
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Spatula City posted:Which ones? I have three from White Collar, but that really can't be right. Why Sierra and Dan? We don't really know much about Sierra yet, and Dan is unlikable but at least has some self-awareness, while Mike has none. I think Lindsay definitely won't win based on what we've seen of her personality so far. Everything about Max seems good on paper but I get the feeling that he doesn't really have the social game to actually win, the million clips of him talking about being a Scholar of Survivor seem like he's being set up to fail.
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Lone Goat posted:The survivor auction is actually really boring since they just sit on their cash until Jeff says there's AN ADVANTAGE THAT WILL HELP YOU IN THE GAME and then it's a race to see who can say "$500" fastest. I want an auction where Jeff does his usual deal about the auction ending without notice and there is no challenge advantage. And it's the first food reward for a couple episodes and no food rewards for another episode. Just to shake it up and let future castaways know that the house always wins.
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So what is the rumour mill saying on other sites about what the "secret" is this year. I'm referring to Jeff's comments around "we do something this year that we have wanted to do for a long time but never had. It works out really well"
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GuavaMoment posted:Someone mentioned Solitary last year in a survivor thread and I'm really glad they did because that show is so good. If you're reading this and haven't watched Solitary, you need to do it. Holy poo poo. I had never even heard of this show until just a few posts ago in this thread. I'm marathoning it on Hulu now and am almost done with the first season. It's awesome so far. It reminds me of Portal.
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:Holy poo poo. I had never even heard of this show until just a few posts ago in this thread. I'm marathoning it on Hulu now and am almost done with the first season. It's awesome so far. Yeah. I have a combination "thanks" and "G.F.Y" for the people that mentioned it. I didn't have time to binge another show! I also really like the premise.
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xcore posted:So what is the rumour mill saying on other sites about what the "secret" is this year. This is just speculation but I'm spoiler tagging it anyway just in case no one wants any preconceived notions The general consensus, based on speculation among other Survivor sites and the fan community, seems to be that it's most likely some sort of "vote doubler" where a contestant can find it and make their vote for a person count for two votes. The internet community has figured that this is probably the most likely twist based on what Jeff has said about the new twist, and the fact that he has responded directly to questions about this specific possibility in years past. Although it definitely could be way off.
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mancalamania posted:In fact, all of the exciting challenges of the past few seasons that I can think of have stuck very closely to this format. Like at the Cagayan Final 4 when Chaos Kass casually strolled onto the beach 20 minutes behind everyone else and smugly put together the puzzle the other three were struggling with that whole time. Kass  This made me go watch some of Cagayan's challenges on YouTube; what a great all-around cast that was.
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Mar 17, 2015 06:24
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I've been trying to find Solitary after everyone's been talking about it, and it looks like seasons 2, 3 and 4 are all on youtube, but ive been unable to find season 1. Is there any reason i would need to watch season 1 first?
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uranus posted:I've been trying to find Solitary after everyone's been talking about it, and it looks like seasons 2, 3 and 4 are all on youtube, but ive been unable to find season 1. Is there any reason i would need to watch season 1 first? It's the best one. I had trouble finding it myself. Found it on Hulu eventually but I have no idea if it's still up there.
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I hadn't watched Solitary before, but I watched Solitary season 4 on Youtube yesterday. Great stuff. It does spoil who one of the finalists of season 2 is, in case you want to watch in order. It really is awesome seeing a show where the challenges were actually punishing. Everything else is so lightweight compared to Solitary.
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Anyone hear the story that there is gonna be an all-stars season coming up? S32 maybe.
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Fast Luck posted:Anyone hear the story that there is gonna be an all-stars season coming up? S32 maybe. I want that all-winners season that's been teased. So badly.
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Fast Luck posted:Anyone hear the story that there is gonna be an all-stars season coming up? S32 maybe. Yeah, I believe it. It makes sense. They wanted to build up enough of a potential lineup before doing another one, but I think now that's probably been accomplished, even if nobody from season 31 sticks out. Hell, it seems entirely probable there might be four returnees from Cagayan. Really hoping there's nobody there who's played more than once before, so the playing field is somewhat more even.
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Poque posted:I want that all-winners season that's been teased. So badly. That'd be awesome. It's really help sort out whether some of the winners really deserved it, like Vecepia, Natalie, Amber, and Bob who all more or less coasted to the finale. Looking at the list, I doubt that they'd get Todd back due to his crippling alcoholism, which is unfortunate. I keep forgetting that Tyson won. I've watched every season except for Guatemala, and I just can't picture his win in my head at all. I'd love to see Parvati again, but I am so tired of Rob Mariano. I doubt that they'd get Yul. And I really don't remember Kim Spradlin, Danni Boatwright, or Denise Stapley. But, I guess that's what happens after thirty seasons, and 442 contestants. Even some of the winners are bound to be lost to history.
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Nihonniboku posted:And I really don't remember Kim Spradlin, Danni Boatwright, or Denise Stapley. But, I guess that's what happens after thirty seasons, and 442 contestants. Even some of the winners are bound to be lost to history. Don't know who Danni is, but Kim Spradlin is the Wedding Dress shop owner who was easily the best player on a season full of absolute airheads (One World). Denise was the awesome buff sex therapist chick from Phillipines. A pretty savvy player and deserved winner who buddied up with Malcolm to run the game.
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xcore posted:Don't know who Danni is, but Kim Spradlin is the Wedding Dress shop owner who was easily the best player on a season full of absolute airheads (One World). Danni Boatwright won Survivor: Guatamala. I haven't watched that one recently but all I really remember her doing is calling out Gary Hogeboom (a former NFL player) who was trying to keep his identity a secret. I actually got to meet her a few years back (she came to the eye doctor that I worked for) and I had a minor nerd out and really wanted to talk Survivor. I ended up pretending I didn't know who she was. I thought Danni played a great game and she destroyed Stephanie in the final tribal council 6 - 1
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Poque posted:I want that all-winners season that's been teased. So badly. If they don't vote out Sandra immediately then I'm going to stop watching Survivor entirely.
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Juanito posted:It really is awesome seeing a show where the challenges were actually punishing. Everything else is so lightweight compared to Solitary. It somehow manages to make Survivor seem like a fun camping trip in comparison. Can't even get mad at the people who lose it and have to quit. edit: ^^^ Sandra would win.
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I think an all-winners season is still a ways off, but will happen if they can coordinate it with everyone's schedules. It'd be fascinating, but it might be deeply influenced by everyone's prior interactions. Predicted lineup: Boston Rob Tony Yul JT Tom Cochran if they can get him/Aras Earl Hatch if they can get him/Tyson/male winner of 30/31/32 Denise Kim Sandra Natalie A. Parvati Danni Jenna Sophie/Natalie W./a female winner of 30/31/32? will not be in it: Fabio, Vecepia, Bob, Tina, Brian, Amber, Todd, Chris a couple years ago would have been too early for it, but it's almost doable now. I'm hoping for at least one more great female winner before, though.
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I think I would rather see another Heroes vs. Villains than All-Winners at this point, although that might just be me wanting to find a way to see human beings forced to live with both Abi Maria and Kass at the same time
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Winners versus Snakes would be fun. All-star seasons run the risk of being dominated by existing friendships and it's good to have people like Chaos Kass rather than dead weight.
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Mar 18, 2015 02:19
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I'm holding out for Survivor: Kass vs Baylor.
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Mar 18, 2015 02:32
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Sandra would win a third time and it would be hilarious.
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The greatest picture in all of survivor.
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xbilkis posted:I think I would rather see another Heroes vs. Villains than All-Winners at this point, although that might just be me wanting to find a way to see human beings forced to live with both Abi Maria and Kass at the same time I'm not sure why I still listen to RHAP, but I was truly surprised by how much I liked Kass. She could easily be a funnygoat who somehow doesn't suck the second time.
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Asiina posted:The greatest picture in all of survivor. This guy knows what's up.
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