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I haven't watched survivor in at least 6 or 7 seasons but I'm sorely tempted to come back for this one. Really pissed off they didn't bring Cochran back though.
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JesusSinfulHands posted:Both spoiler sources and Probst have said that they asked Cochran and he declined, probably because he figured he'd be an early boot At least they asked I guess. Still disappointing but I half expected that would be the case. Hopefully he'll be on Rob has a podcast at least.
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Feb 10, 2020 13:20
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Sandra seems legit pissed about it. She's still going on about it in media interviews she's given since the show started airing.
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Feb 18, 2020 04:25
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I totally understand why Cochran didn’t want to come back but it’s still disappointing. His arc over his two seasons is the best thing that’s ever happened in survivor.
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Feb 19, 2020 08:27
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Everyone heaps poo poo on Rob’s win because of a supposed conspiracy to stack the deck with idiots and sheep. If he wins this season it will be indisputable. He really is that good at the psychological game.
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Feb 20, 2020 12:55
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nerox posted:I've watched a few Australian Survivor episodes this season, the challenges are so much better than American Survivor now, its just so drat hard to keep up with 90 minute episodes every night it seems. When we decide we like a reality show; we really go all in. Australian Masterchef was, in its early seasons the most watched show on television. It doesn’t any more due to budget cuts; but earlier seasons had 6 episodes a week, and some of those were 2 hour affairs. They rescheduled the main political debate for a federal election because they realised it would clash with the Masterchef finale. Australian Biggest loser had an episode every week night. (The season with parents and their kids competing together was extra crass) Australian Big Brother not only aired 6 nights a week; there was also a weekly late night adults only special that consisted entirely of uncensored clips of the contestants showering, and other sexual antics/conversation from the week that couldn’t be aired earlier.
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Feb 21, 2020 16:39
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e.martin posted:Any idea why Cochran isnt on this season? I would have thought he would have been a shoe-in. Former winner that is very popular. I wonder if he turned it down for some reason. All we know is that he was approached but turned it down. He has gone on record in the past to say that he would never play again because he already had a perfect win and he wants to preserve that since he'd only do worse if he went back. e.martin posted:I assume they are doing the Redemption Island thing again because they have all of the great Survivor personalities and want to keep them hanging around as long as they can even after they are voted out. I get the idea for the ratings but have never liked the Redemption Island thing. I hope no one ever wins by coming back on the show. Edge of extinction serves the same purpose as Redemption Island but it works much better in my opinion.
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Feb 24, 2020 06:32
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Spatula City posted:I have no idea how Fabio would have fared here, and I am kinda disappointed we missed that golden opportunity. imo production wants to pretend Nicaragua didn't happen. but also they wanted largely competent players and not people that bumbled their way to the end and won against assholes just by being likable. so I wasn't really surprised he wasn't cast. They should do a season consisting entirely of previous first Boots.
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Feb 24, 2020 14:07
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I love Cochran to bits; but I respect his reasoning. I do find myself wondering what he's doing these days though. His most recent writing credit on imdb is from 2016. Khanstant posted:Yeah, I'm curious how many are actually still millionaires, or ever got to be one. Gov't takes half, right? So they all win half a mil, but poo poo, a house in my dinky little town costs a quarter million. I know someone good at capitalism might be able to take that half a mil and turn it into more, but seems like most prize winners are not those sorts of people. It's always struck me as mean the way that the US government taxes prize money from gameshows and lotteries and poo poo. It's not something that happens here in Australia.
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Feb 24, 2020 17:32
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The Bloop posted:I mean, it's income. It gets taxed. If the show wants to claim the winner will get to keep 1 mil after taxes or whatever, they could easily do so. Prizes from games aren’t considered income in Australia. If you win the lotto, win a game show, win a contest, win big at the casino - not income, not taxed. (unless you do it for a living like a pro poker player, then it’s income). IIRC contestants on reality tv shows have to be paid for their time (I believe it’s gently caress all, minimum wage or some poo poo) and that would be taxed, but not the prize money. Pretty sure we don’t tax inheritances either.
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Feb 24, 2020 18:04
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Khanstant posted:Maybe that's Why Survivor AUS are competing for like 300 bucks in Outback giftcards? I mean, I’m sure we have measures in place to prevent abuse. The US tax system is considerably less fair than ours if you’re looking at things from the perspective of a lower income earner (we don’t pay any tax at all for the first 18k we earn each year, high income earners pay more tax (45%) at a lower income threshold (180k). We also have a free web app/phone app run by the government that lets most average people do their tax return in about 10 mins rather than have to pay for software or pay an accountant. A woman last June won the largest ever lotto jackpot here - she won $107 million. Pinterest Mom posted:He's writing for Star Trek: Lower Decks rn along with David. Oh wow. That's awesome. Hopefully the show will end up better than loving discovery.
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Feb 24, 2020 18:23
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If that’s the case then people might not have even known they were signing up for a special all winners season at first. People like Cochran for instance may have said yes if they’d known that.
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Feb 25, 2020 07:19
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SweetJahasus posted:Jeez man what's with the Cochran fixation? He was a fine winner but drat he's not a hill worth dying on. He had a really compelling storyline over his two seasons, and I'm sure many of us identified pretty strongly with him even before we found out he was a Goon.
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Feb 25, 2020 16:24
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Somebody remind me again how he managed to win a season?
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Feb 28, 2020 04:00
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I remember him doing astounding work building the shelter in all stars, and I'm pretty sure he had tools then as well; from a reward challenge.
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Mar 13, 2020 15:28
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Zesty posted:Is this a loving coffin? Foot and a half of clearance inside? It’s cozy; with a wonderful location. A renovator’s dream.
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Mar 16, 2020 09:32
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It just occurred to me they likely won't be able to do a live reunion show for this season.
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Mar 19, 2020 17:00
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After Rob/Sandra/Pavarti my next pick is Denise. And honestly even if what happened last ep wasn’t strictly the best move it reminded me why I like her and made me like her a whole lot more.
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Mar 23, 2020 16:49
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This is the second week in a row someone’s overreached by trying to do Nth dimensional chess bullshit with the fire tokens and gotten voted out because of it. I’m really starting to hate the sound of Adam’s voice. He really is a whiny little poo poo. I can’t stand Wendall. He seems like a nasty piece of work - you can see his real self shine through in his interactions with Michelle. I’m still hoping one of Rob/Pavarti/Tyson gets back in but barring that I’m cheering for Denise and Sophie.
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Mar 26, 2020 11:21
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sportsgenius86 posted:I can’t remember hating someone on this show as much as I hate Wendell right now. Yeah this. In this season at least, there have been more detestable people than Wendell in other seasons.
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Mar 26, 2020 15:22
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Pinterest Mom posted:Extremely harsh, given that her father-in-law's son played on Survivor. Who is her father in Law's son? So this guy's Son and Daughter in law both played survivor and he likes a random stranger the most? what a dick. That aside, I'd be a tad put off if I were Parvati and a dude basically walked up to me and effectively said 'oh hey FYI I used to jack off to pictures of you when I was a kid'
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Mar 28, 2020 05:22
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He said she was his crush in high school. What did you imagine that meant? He was a teenager. Teenagers jack off to stuff.
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Mar 28, 2020 12:19
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The editorial intention was clearly to dunk on Tyson, thus the juxtaposition of 'Rob is a portly fellow' with 'No big deal, I just zipped around and snapped up 3 tokens under everyone's noses.
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Mar 30, 2020 05:58
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Any word yet on what they're going to do for the finale?
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Mar 30, 2020 16:49
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Yeah that was brutal. Normally in that challenge people slowly slide down the pole over the course of the challenge but here because of the rain you had people basically slipping from the top and falling a considerable distance.
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Apr 2, 2020 13:00
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They should do a season of entirely batshit crazy/super annoying people. Coach, Phillip, Abi Maria, The entire Hantz family, that crazy superfan lady who couldn't stop talking about how she saw monkeys loving, etc
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Apr 9, 2020 05:55
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They should reach out to get Jeff to compete on Australian Survivor. It’s the perfect solution to the age of problem of how to get Jeff to compete given that he needs to be the host.
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Apr 9, 2020 13:21
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I thought the family season they did that one time was cool. Did they ever do that again?
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Apr 15, 2020 02:54
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It would obviously end up being Boston Rob.
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Apr 15, 2020 17:49
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I wonder if Phillip ever gets pissed because Tony is a better spy than he is.
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Apr 24, 2020 06:13
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They should do AUS vs US, but actually put Probst on the US team. Or maybe they could do a crossover season that is aired in both countries and counts as a season of each show and has Probst and Jonathan as co-host's.
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Apr 27, 2020 09:03
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The channel that airs Australian survivor was bought by CBS a year or two ago so I wouldn’t be surprised if Australian survivor finds its way to CBS all access in the US at some point. In the mean time I’m sure you could make it work with a VPN.
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Apr 30, 2020 09:01
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TheCenturion posted:gently caress, just give me a season of Survivor that's nothing but now-grown contestants from Kid Nation. The youngest of those kids is 21 now, the oldest 28ish. That was a cool show, I'd watch the gently caress out of a Survivor: Kid Nation Alumni
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May 5, 2020 06:01
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Raxivace posted:I want Coach to write an autobiography. I won't believe a loving word of it but I desperately want him to write it. Boy do I have a treat for you. https://www.amazon.com/Voyage-Beyond-Reason-Survival-Original/dp/1432712349 So, In 1996; then 24 year old Coach set out from Baja California on an insane solo sea kayak adventure along the coast of South America; battling hurricanes, wildlife, etc. He kept a journal during this time, but at some point along the way, after travelling about 6000 miles, he buried his journals on a sea cliff in Columbia. a couple of years later, they were discovered by an author, who set about novelising them (he was able to track down Coach by around 2003 I believe). The book was published shortly before Tocantins aired. Now this here is another book on the same subject, but this time written by Coach himself, complete with photographs and stuff; published in 2011: https://www.amazon.com/No-Turning-Back-American-Expedition-ebook/dp/B005JJW7S0
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May 21, 2020 04:43
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Obviously there’s no way to tell for sure but the author is a legit author, and the book was being written and researched well before Coach became a well known figure. I’ve read it and it’s really good. My personal thinking is that it’s mostly true; but even if it was bullshit it’s still a good read. The Lord Bude fucked around with this message at 05:52 on May 21, 2020 |
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May 21, 2020 05:48
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clown shoes posted:Once I finish Panama tomorrow, I'll have these 11 seasons left. You mentioned there might be stuff you missed from your list of watched seasons. Have you seen Caramoan? It's my favourite season; and South Pacific even though it's not the best season acts as a pretty good prologue to it, because of the several players from that season that returned in Caramoan.
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May 26, 2020 09:49
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They should get Rob C out there again. Bonus points if they can team him up with Fishbach.
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May 29, 2020 06:04
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Completely untrue! Cochran hasn't posted since right before he went on South Pacific - but his account isn't banned.
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May 30, 2020 17:46
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clown shoes posted:Is Michael Skupin the worst person to ever be on Survivor? He’s certainly the only convicted pedophile and fraudster thus far.
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Sand Monster posted:Skupin made the F3 in his return season. That definitely won't be happening again.
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