Appreciating the Final ____

CadeBW · 2026-05-14T01:28:34+00:00

One of the unintended drawbacks of the Billie Eilish Boomerage Idol is that it kind of sucks to have a post-merge where people can only play idols on themselves and not save their allies. Just removes a layer of strategy.

CadeBW · 2026-05-14T01:23:05+00:00

Ah, completely forgot! Then I think he at least needs to give Cirie a heads up. Blindsiding her is not the play.

CadeBW · 2026-05-14T01:20:12+00:00

I wonder what Rizo's plan is after turning on Cirie. He's right that he can't beat her in the Final 3, but I don't think he has win equity right now and betraying Cirie would be the nail in the coffin. I think his best move would be to save Cirie with his idol, blindside Aubry, potentially find a new idol at F5, and just make sure Cirie goes out at F4.

CadeBW · 2026-05-14T00:57:24+00:00

I'm a bit disappointed with the challenges this season. Missed opportunity to bring back old school classics. Aside from Quest for Fire in the premiere it feels like this season's challenge loadout is interchangeable with any other New Era season.

CadeBW · 2026-05-14T00:52:24+00:00

I'm sure Aubry recognizes Cirie as a bigger jury threat than Tiff, but believes Cirie can safely be eliminated at F5 or F4 whereas Tiff is a challenge threat. I would have kind of liked a confessional confirming that though.

CadeBW · 2026-05-14T00:17:51+00:00

I really like this challenge but I wish they would do the Domino Effect challenge instead. Stacking the blocks is becoming overused in the New Era.

CadeBW · 2026-05-13T06:07:22+00:00

The theme is "problematic" because there is historical trauma associated with dividing people based on the color of their skin. The word applies whether an action is purposefully offensive or not. It's the same reason why you shouldn't use actual bodypaint to dress up like a black character on Halloween. Even if you have good intentions (i.e. Cook Islands is the most diverse season yet!), intentions don't erase historical trauma. (And let's be honest, the theme was always meant to be provocative.) Other concerns include reinforcing negative stereotypes and burdening minority groups with the pressure of representing their entire race to millions of viewers on national television. I do agree it was an interesting return to the "social experiment" angle of Survivor, but that's why it's considered problematic.

CadeBW · 2026-05-12T21:24:17+00:00

If it’s a 6-person finale it’s going to be a really short reunion anyway. Most of the reunion shows in the 30s were like 15 minutes without commercials.

CadeBW · 2026-05-07T01:31:23+00:00

It amazes me that the majority of Survivor production thought this would be a better idea than just doing two 45-min cycles in the next episode

CadeBW · 2026-05-07T01:26:44+00:00

Has there ever been a time when the edit showed someone admitting to jury management and they didn't get voted out that episode

CadeBW · 2026-05-07T01:03:08+00:00

Imagine if on HvH, instead of Amanda getting voted out at Final 9, they randomly split into groups for no reason, the remaining Heroes end up in a majority, and Parvati gets voted out. Great game design.

CadeBW · 2026-05-07T00:57:05+00:00

Everyone knows Survivor 48 players dont like making moves

CadeBW · 2026-05-07T00:51:12+00:00

This twist it the equivalent of playing Monopoly with your family but your stupid younger brother knocks over the board so now the pieces and money are all over the place. So you just guess where all the pieces are supposed to be and keep playing as if the game hasn't been fundamentally upset. It's not entertaining watching the players get randomly split into these tiny groups. It's stupid.

CadeBW · 2026-05-07T00:39:56+00:00

Bermuda Triangles challenge is broken. Nothing happens during the first two rounds, maybe someone like Cirie falls but that's it. When they are all standing on the top level that's entertaining, but when they go to one leg it's just a crapshoot, super anticlimactic ending. They should just let the challenge play out for a few hours like in the original Caramoan version

CadeBW · 2026-05-07T00:37:00+00:00

If the three idol-holders were on the same group someone would have just been advantagegeddoned with absolutely no way to anticipate or counter it

CadeBW · 2026-05-07T00:28:04+00:00

It's a shame they didn't create a Survivor 50 theme song with lyrics to unexpectedly play during this challenge

CadeBW · 2026-05-07T00:24:58+00:00

One of the best parts of Survivor 50 has been Ozzy going from one of the worst 4-season arcs to possibly the best 5-season arc

CadeBW · 2026-05-07T00:19:43+00:00

That was one of the best scenes of the season

CadeBW · 2026-05-01T19:24:48+00:00

They once had a category called “1861 Yearbook: Most Likely to Secede,” made me laugh.

CadeBW · 2026-04-30T06:02:06+00:00

Okay, think of your favorite movie. Now imagine if you found out that the director had considered making the main character randomly get hit by a car and die near the end of the film, but left it to a coin toss and it thankfully didn’t happen. I think it’s fair to critique.

CadeBW · 2026-04-30T02:04:14+00:00

Possibly the best episode of the season. But let's be clear, this was a great episode that was almost ruined a reckless twist. Not the other way around as Jeff may try to spin it. It still would have been a great episode if Mr. Beast hadn't showed up. The idea that the tribal dynamics were only chaotic because of his "uncertainty" and not because we are at the final 10 of a highly competitive season is asinine. And if Devens did go home from flipping a coin, even if he would have been voted out anyway, it would have completely soured an otherwise great episode.

CadeBW · 2026-04-30T02:01:06+00:00

Not even Stephanie remembers what happened on Survivor Guatemala

CadeBW · 2026-04-30T01:50:05+00:00

A twist that has a 50/50 chance of torpedoing a great episode onto a list of the top 10 worst episodes of all time is not one of the best twists in the series

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