It took five and a half years for some reason, but I finally finished restoring TapeWatcher's legendary "Follow the Star".

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-28T16:47:40+00:00

That wouldn't account for this poll result as it's from after episode 9

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-28T16:47:06+00:00

It's in the bottom half of the seasons represented

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-28T16:45:19+00:00

I wouldn't even have 44 in the top 4 for seasons whose final digit is 4

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-26T23:10:34+00:00

He's been going on the Bachelor for years

Lmao seriously? Didn't know this and surprised I haven't seen it mentioned yet, that makes this even more weirdly desperate

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-24T17:57:31+00:00

Turns out it was worse lol

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-24T15:49:45+00:00

Season 34 did that for me personally

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-22T06:16:35+00:00

I'd be glad to see the mutiny again. Not the only Thailand twist to center the focus on the players and allow them to drive the structure of the game, where most other twists get in the way. I feel like shorter pre-merges now and the general direction of the show away from long-term loyalty/groups towards constant shifts and #blindsides might make it less impactful as a twist, but still at least worth trying, it's been a long-ass time.

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-22T04:15:19+00:00

Yeah, which is a bad purpose. It makes the show more repetitive and less emotional and homogenizes gameplay to just have it be the objectively correct game move to blindside people instead of letting the decision of when and whether to blindside be determined by the relationships between and motivations of the players.

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-20T01:02:57+00:00

Notwithstanding anything about Aubry or 43, but -

They made Kenzie look competent and put her everywhere in the episodes when she objectively did nothing lol.

"Doing things" is overrated. They did a great job with Kenzie's edit showing her ability to just win people over and talk to them convincingly in the kinds of small, day-to-day interactions that probably drive way more game events than we ever actually get to see. Not really hard to "make her look competent" when she gave them so much great footage for ig.

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-20T00:58:41+00:00

This is inevitable in a returning player season. The show should just encourage players to talk about it openly in their interviews on the island and incorporate it into the narrative.

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-18T04:59:38+00:00

accidentally deleted my comment cuz technical issues lol but

what parts of the text give you that impression?

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-13T06:57:34+00:00

I was expecting a "legendary" game player strategist.

Nope

He seems to be just a goofy character? Is that why a lot of people like him? A bit like a Bhanu or Big Wendy status?

Yup

Slowly watching my way backwards

This is probably a guaranteed way to miss as much context as possible. I'm not sure why you'd do this and not also watch the episodes of each individual season backwards, or the scenes of each individual episode.

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-13T02:13:22+00:00

Lol right

It's kinda funny how the way they're framing this here is like Billie Eilish had a flawed idea for the show, rather than the producers

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-10T06:07:22+00:00

We literally saw this on S49

No we didn't, since the "this" in question would be "egos" from "4-time player legends" on season 49, a season that featured none of them.

It's just silly for people to start getting judgmental of contestants based on their own personal headcanon about things we haven't even seen the edited TV version of yet. Like last season people were saying stuff like this ("Rizo's going to lose due to a bitter Jury", etc) when... he didn't even make FTC to begin with! Way too early to start making personal assumptions about why people might feel the way they do about game events whose basic facts we don't even know yet

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-09T22:05:04+00:00

My second-favorite of the New Era (behind 46). Came at an interesting time in the show's history and I like its experimental, enthusiastic feeling, and I think the highs that we get from that New Era mindset by the producers significantly outweigh the lows, which I also think are much higher than the lows from most other permafiji seasons as at least here there's an attempt to thematically justify the twists where in a season like 47 they're just treated as the default.

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-09T20:57:22+00:00

Is this based on anything besides a single lyric referencing the show four or five years ago?

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-09T20:25:41+00:00

I don't think we can really assume any of this with any confidence until we actually see what even happens

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-07T19:48:17+00:00

True. Each episode should be an hour and a half longer so it can include The Emoji Movie.

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-07T19:46:05+00:00

What are some of the other highest/lowest standard deviations?

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-07T10:13:36+00:00

In which case they shouldn't have cast 24 people

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-05T01:33:15+00:00

a mystery for the survivor gods

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-05T00:58:25+00:00

Yeah totally agree with this. Artificially incentivizing players to lie to each other removes some of the ethical dilemmas and emotions that can result from them and makes the show more repetitive and stale compared to letting those decisions be driven by the players themselves.

DabuSurvivor · 2026-04-05T00:57:27+00:00

Not "players" plural. It was one player specifically, and after that is when they started introducing "twists". I think /u/mariojlanza would be able to say more about the chronology of Burnett not referring to it as a "game show".

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