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  Survivor airs Wednesday, February 20th on CBS! Check your local listings.  If it hasn't aired in an episode, don't spoil it in this thread.  If you get a better thread title sometime in the run, post it!Someone bought  Thanks, Mysterious Poster! You rock!"I took the flint!" https://i.imgur.com/28YgW4D.mp4 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 39 days; gathering their own food, building their own shelter, and purifying their own water. The cast is split into opposing, equal teams, called tribes. The tribes must work together to form a community, in the hopes of one contestant becoming the Sole Survivor and winning one million dollars. At least one contestant is voted off every episode. A typical Survivor season has three phases. Pre-Merge, Post-Merge, and Endgame.
What's the theme this time? Get this poo poo. They brought back four players that audience members tend to like and then created the "Island of Extinction" where people who were voted out can rot for a little while with a chance to re-enter the game. That's right, they created a new Redemption Island for their returnees in a newbie season loving again. We never loving learn, do we? Supplemental Material
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This Season's Cast  .  “The jury doesn’t just reward whoever plays the best game. It determines who played the best game.”/ Zesty fucked around with this message at 10:42 on Apr 19, 2019 |
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Rob has a Podcast: Available on iTunes or their website. He does a few podcasts a week discussing the latest episodes events, interviewing the player who was voted out that episode, and provides theories about strategy. This podcast provides insight into the game that was not aired on the show. It is heavily referenced in this thread.
Twitter: Survivors poo poo on each other, shill for their crap, and every once in a while tweet something that's actually amusing. 
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Yay pumped for new Survivor!!
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Feb 13, 2019 23:18
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I was like 4 deep on "man, there's a lot of bartenders" before it clicked...
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Feb 13, 2019 23:22
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Looks like Joe's team got switched at the last moment. Pony: Kelley Poison: Joe
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Feb 13, 2019 23:24
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Pony: Wentworth  Poison: Aurora
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Feb 13, 2019 23:27
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SalTheBard posted:Yay pumped for new Survivor!! 
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Feb 14, 2019 00:17
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Pony: Dave Poison: Dan
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Feb 14, 2019 01:43
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pony: aubry poison: chris
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Feb 14, 2019 03:06
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Zesty posted:Pony: Kelley This. And for newbies: Pony: Gavin Poison: Victoria Also, Wentworth's bikini color against her skin tone is making my brain hurt.
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Feb 14, 2019 03:17
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Propaganda Machine, this link you shared was great, something about this ancient rear end website full of old drama is also just magical in its own right. I clicked a link and started to read someone's fan fiction of an all-stars season in Alaska haha. I do wonder if moves like that are called on the fly or if they set up what week they want to pull twists on ahead of time. Pony: the hot one Poison: Keith because all Keiths lose, v cursed name
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Feb 14, 2019 03:25
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Glad you enjoyed! It's fun to poke around on there sometimes and get nostalgic. The same guy (Mario Lanza) writes both the Funny 115 entries and the fan fiction. I think he kind of lost his way with the second version (really, REALLY needed an editor) but it's a great nostalgia trip. Also a great source for screencaps.
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Feb 14, 2019 04:05
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Pony: Gavin's delightful shoulder tattoo Poison: Joe
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Feb 14, 2019 04:45
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This would have been great to have handy as I was going through those seasons, the sass is great and it's got ~vintage~ net gossip about the show and production drama.
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Feb 14, 2019 05:02
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I read one of the Rob Cesternino ones and it was cringey how the writer found all the sexist jokes hilarious.
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Feb 14, 2019 05:05
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It depends on the context for me. Some sexist jokes are funny, but they have to be good-natured and actually funny. I recall that season being really petulant and mean though, especially early on. You're talking about Rodger? He's the one I remember being particularly gross.
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Feb 14, 2019 05:17
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Dave is gonna win. I can feel it Edit: anyone who doesn't take the shot to vote out Joe at the first possible opportunity is a total moron
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Feb 14, 2019 12:19
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Pony: Gavin because one of his pet peeves was people who vape Poison: Ron, because his profile basically sounds like he’s a life coach with a temper.
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Feb 14, 2019 12:47
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A reminder that players won't know EoE exists until the merge, so chances are pretty good Joe will stick around til probably the vote or two before the merge since challenge strength. Then 'better stop him before he goes on an immunity streak'.
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Feb 14, 2019 17:05
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I'm so over Joe and I think CBS cast him because he's popular in the tween girl demographic
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Feb 14, 2019 17:20
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ApplesandOranges posted:A reminder that players won't know EoE exists until the merge, so chances are pretty good Joe will stick around til probably the vote or two before the merge since challenge strength. Then 'better stop him before he goes on an immunity streak'.
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Feb 14, 2019 17:49
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precision posted:Dave is gonna win. I can feel it 100% agree
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Feb 14, 2019 19:08
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I bought a Valentine's Day message from Nick for my SO on cameo. Only 40 bucks! 
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Feb 14, 2019 19:20
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Fast Luck posted:It seems like the kind of twist Jeff might announce at the top of the show, during "mat talk" for instance. Has it been said it's gonna be a surprise? Yep quote:“You’re voted out, and what you don’t know, and what nobody knows, is that you’re going to turn a corner and see a torch,” Probst told ET Canada. [...] “And the signpost will say, ‘You have a decision to make. If you’re done playing and you want your adventure to end, keep walking. If, however, you want a chance to get back in the game, take the torch and get in the boat.’ That’s all you know.”
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Propaganda Machine posted:It depends on the context for me. Some sexist jokes are funny, but they have to be good-natured and actually funny. I recall that season being really petulant and mean though, especially early on. There was a lot of "girls can't win, they're only here to look good, which one's your favorite?, lets call dibs and fantasize about them doing naughty things to each other over footage of them bathing." And Rob was always in the middle of that stuff and the main narrator. I loved it at the time but I imagine it doesn't age very well.
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Feb 14, 2019 22:52
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It did not.
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Feb 14, 2019 23:00
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Pony: Wentworth Poison: the incel with a bad tat
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Feb 14, 2019 23:57
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Pony: Aubry (I'm willing it into existence) Poison: the annoying as gently caress dude talking about Monica in the RHAP interviews
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Feb 15, 2019 01:41
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Poison: Gavin Virgin pony: Eric Returnee pony: Wentworth
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Feb 15, 2019 02:07
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Pony: Dave Poison: Lauren
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Feb 15, 2019 18:10
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If your poison isn’t Joe I don’t know what to say
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Feb 15, 2019 18:56
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It's actually kind of odd having 2 returnees on each tribe to start. Like those 2 are most likely going to be working together to get as many newbies on board with them as they can. Would be quite possible for a pair of returnees to try to make their tribe a cult like Rob did... Either that or the newbies will just get together and get rid of the returnee power pair.
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Feb 15, 2019 22:00
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My Pony is the bartender
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Feb 15, 2019 22:26
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"John Carroll started Marquesas as an anonymous male nurse on Tribe Rotu. And he ended it (seven episodes later) with the most spectacular downfall the show has ever seen. He became the first alliance leader to give away his numerical advantage, he became the first victim of the now-famous "coconut chop" strategy trap, and he had one of the most epic storylines I have ever seen on Survivor." From that ancient survivor site, I just want to know what "coconut chop" strategy means.
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Feb 15, 2019 23:50
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It's that type of challenge where everyone has like an idol or something else that represents their life in the challenge, and which can withstand three whacks. You suffer three whacks and your thing falls or gets smashed or whatever and you're out of the challenge. In this instance it was a "coconut chop." (I don't remember what that was exactly, but imagine maybe like a net holding a bunch of coconuts, supported by three ropes. The coconuts fall to the ground when you have all three support ropes chopped, and you're out of the challenge.) Probst does different rounds of questions, and each player that gets it right gets to chop one of someone else's rope. So when they get the questions right, the majority alliance quickly knocks all the outsiders out of the challenge, of course. Then they all go in order systemically chopping down their own alliance members' ropes -- transparently in the order of the internal hierarchy! The people on the bottom got a wake up call and went on to join up with the people outside the alliance to take power. Basically the people running the show (the Rotu 4 led by John the nurse) betrayed themselves with their hubris, and it was the first time on Survivor ever people really "flipped" on their alliance. Fast Luck fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Feb 16, 2019 |
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Yeah. As I remember it John had a tight alliance of 4 and then a bunch of hanger ons and then some obvious targets. The basic setup we see all the time. Boston Rob was trying to do the now classic tribe overthrow but couldn't get everyone on the same page so he got taken out. Then the very next challenge was the "coconut chop" where John and his crew clearly laid out the pecking order and what order everyone was going to be eliminated in. That basically confirmed everything Boston Rob had been telling them and they all got on the same page and overthrew John and Co. It was one of those things we kind of see all the time now but back then people still had a hard time reading "alliances" and planning a few moves ahead. Boston Rob was arguably ahead of the curve a lot like Rob C was but he fell victim to another now classic - the unfortunate tribal swap. The mechanics of the "coconut chop" is basically that the 4 people ended up working together to eliminate everyone else one by one in a clear order. So think of it like Players 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 working together to eliminate Players 7, 8, and 9. But then once its down to those six Players 1, 2, 3, and 4 just knock 6 off immediately and then 5. It becomes completely clear that 5 and 6 were only there to be necessary numbers and would be tossed aside when they were no longer needed. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Feb 16, 2019 |
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Feb 16, 2019 01:07
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Ahh, okay, totally know what you mean. I guess I would've just called it by a pecking-order challenge. Those are always fun, that's a really good shake-up trick from the production side. I definitely like it more than the anonymous-questionnaire where they gang up on some chick to call her a lsut or whatever, those are usually just mean and mostly ends up singling out one person more than the peckin order.
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Feb 16, 2019 03:56
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In One World everyone ganged up to praise Kim.
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Feb 16, 2019 07:41
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The coconut chop challenge is like the loved ones visit where sometimes the best move is not to win. It's a bit of a shame that the challenges have become a lot more streamlined so we don't get the goofy fun challenges anymore like the mixer and 'answer a bunch of questions about the spooky story Probst made up'.
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Feb 16, 2019 09:00
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ApplesandOranges posted:'answer a bunch of questions about the spooky story Probst made up'. "And his grave, the one from the story...has been the island in the view of your beach this whole time!!!!!!!!!!!!" IIRC Probst even makes them take the Spirit Stone over there.
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Just give me one night challenge this season Jeff.
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