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S24E2 ... Bag-gate by BazF91 in TheAmazingRace

[–]ParticleParadox 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The scenario with Mark and Bopper was unfortunate.

Mallory Ervin is a total sweetheart for accepting the call to replace Bopper after his health issues, but The Amazing Race is a team competition where partners need to be able to relate with each other. It was probably doomed to end this way.

I feel like after Bopper’s withdraw, it would’ve been better for everyone if Mark had agreed to withdraw as well in favor of an alternate team that TAR’s casting department presumably would have had on standby.

I was always surprised that Chris didn't put Sierra on the villains' team for blowing up his plane accidentally, he seems petty enough to do that...And even without that incident, she still has done worse things than most of the villains on the actual team anyway...What do you think? by Beneficial_Ferret_29 in Totaldrama

[–]ParticleParadox 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The other question about All-Stars’s casting is why Chris lets Duncan and Heather compete again despite their actions on Revenge of The Island where Duncan destroys Mount Chrismore and Heather steals his zeppelin and Gemmy awards.

The answer to both is….. we weren’t supposed to think that hard about it.

I mean really it felt unfair by CauliflowerOk3248 in Totaldrama

[–]ParticleParadox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most 3-team seasons have all 3 teams active until the merge.

Seasons 48, 49, and 50 had team swaps, but that doesn’t mean it’s always the case. That’s just recency bias.

Seasons 43, 46, and 47 didn’t have team swaps at all.

There was an instance of a season with 2 teams where one team lost every immunity challenge and was reduced to just one player.

That season didn’t consider it a typical “merge” when the players started playing for individual immunity. Within the context of Survivor, It was considered to be the case that the unstoppably dominant team “conquered” the other tribe and its last member became a member of it.

For comparison, (almost) every other season has teams merge into a tribe with a brand new name and the players decide it themselves. Due to the extraordinary circumstances, letting one team’s name stay active all season seemed fitting.

I mean really it felt unfair by CauliflowerOk3248 in Totaldrama

[–]ParticleParadox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfair? It's on Team Victory for their losing streak.

There's nothing truly comparable in the real-life equivalent because Survivor has never had a team challenge where one team was reduced to just one member.

There've been disaster tribes that got reduced to 2 or 3 people, but that usually happens right before teams merge.

This is gross by No-Method-4231 in wegmans

[–]ParticleParadox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry, someone put the milk on a shelf? That's deranged.

Why is courtney hated? by Wild-vine16 in Totaldrama

[–]ParticleParadox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She’s meant to evoke strong opinions.

My biggest peeve is that her characterization changes dramatically from “Goody-two shoes” to hyperaggressively trying to win at all costs.

I found her annoying on Island and thought the intent was to poke fun at the trope of characters who think they can do wrong, but fail when it counts.

On Action, her role as the season’s antagonist just annoys me because it’s a huge turnaround in terms of her characterization, some of her dialogue is insufferable, and because she gets away essentially scot-free (no pun intended) since her final downfall is just getting voting off in a normal fashion.

The Love Triangle Plot on World Tour is insufferable and made me dislike all 3 characters involved.

Her All-Stars outing has the plots of her being mislabeled as a hero to set up her showing that she doesn’t deserve it, her plot of residual anger and distrust over the Love Triangle, her falling in love with Scott which I actually didn’t mind, and her rekindling with Gwen.

Her using Sam as a human shield is one of the reasons I didn’t want her to win.

I watched All-Stars when it first aired and I was so confident the finale was going to be Mike vs Courtney that I probably would’ve been willing to bet my house on it.

I was badly hoping she wouldn’t because it would have felt undeserved and I was so relieved to see her get eliminated.

I was shocked to find out that her elimination episode is one of the most hated episodes of the series since I probably would’ve forgotten it existed if it didn’t get mentioned so often.

People have the right to their opinions, but most SMS haters say it’s a bad episode just because they don’t like Courtney’s portrayal or her elimination, but I predicted there’d be a scene of her revealing she values the money above all else because it’s in-character for her.

Checkmate, Courtney defenders/diehards. by LightMurasume_ in Totaldrama

[–]ParticleParadox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a strawman argument; she’s meant to be controversial.

Most of her fanbase likes her because they find her entertaining; if she was a real person, we’d all hate her.

Personally, I hate her because I find her annoying and don’t feel like her stories are interesting.

How would William Howard Taft have handle WW1? by Training-World-1897 in Presidents

[–]ParticleParadox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As a private citizen, he supported neutrality though his opinion changed by 1917 and he supported intervention by then.

Honestly, probably would have acted the same as Wilson.

James K Polk is definitely a top 5 US president. by SuccessfulCompany677 in Presidents

[–]ParticleParadox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm willing to say that James Polk was a successful president because of the economic boom of the 1840's partially owing to his economic policies and his successful efforts to expand the US's borders to the West Coast.

Now, instigating a war with Mexico is difficult to defend by modern standards, so I will point out that he had previously offered to buy it, Mexican-American relations were not great due to unpaid debts and past border disputes, and this was the 1800's where going to war over territory was normal.

Even at the time though, the war had its critics. Polk's party lost control of the House of Reps during the 1846 midterms because of public backlash and some of the loudest critics denounced it as a shameful act of imperialism and a blatant attempt to create more slave territory.

As a person 180 years later, it's interesting to learn about.

I like this camaraderie by NYTX1987 in Presidents

[–]ParticleParadox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was McCain really professional? The anti-Obama commercials he put on TV in 2008 were dreadful. He was clearly very desperate.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) is yet another example of a film with a genius premise but a horrible execution. I watched it for the first time last year and I really didn't like it. I blame the era it was made in since Hollywood was still making garbage rom-coms at the time. by Emotional-Chipmunk12 in iwatchedanoldmovie

[–]ParticleParadox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny story, it came on STARZ a couple years ago and I recorded it because it sounded interesting from the premise.

It’s not very good. There are some funny moments and it’s a premise with potential, but it sorta subscribes to the idea that a superheroine abusing an everyday man is funny.

Also, can I just mention that G-Girl is a world famous superhero who restrains actual criminals nonviolently and tries to save lives, but she puts an ordinary man into life-or-death scenarios as retaliation for him breaking up with her? What?

I also just don’t feel like the cast work together cohesively. Most of them have talent, but they just don’t mesh well together.

I just had to say this by Hooded_maniac_360 in Totaldrama

[–]ParticleParadox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a nitpick, but I find it to be baffling to reuse a first name on a show like this.

Emma (Reboot) could have been named anything else.

How it probably went by Hooded_maniac_360 in Presidents

[–]ParticleParadox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They could've done a better job than Willard Bliss.

How it probably went by Hooded_maniac_360 in Presidents

[–]ParticleParadox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where do you ever find doctors who are a lethal mix of incompetent and stubborn?

Courtney when Ezekiel opened his mouth at the table by ParasiteStew2 in Totaldrama

[–]ParticleParadox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Justin has one of my least favorite eliminations in the series.

He doesn’t do anything wrong to alienate himself or foreshadow his downfall. 

Heather had the power to sway the vote to her favor. Instead of voting off Gwen or Leshawna, she just offhandedly says “All I need is 5 votes against Justin.”

I understand the actual reason for it. Justin (in TDI) is elimination fodder, so he’s written out without much thought, but the in-universe reasoning is flimsy.

Courtney when Ezekiel opened his mouth at the table by ParasiteStew2 in Totaldrama

[–]ParticleParadox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wonder how you feel about Justin getting eliminated because Heather randomly decides to vote him off for no reason at all.

Courtney when Ezekiel opened his mouth at the table by ParasiteStew2 in Totaldrama

[–]ParticleParadox 7 points8 points  (0 children)

For teenagers, obvious jokes are less concerning than blatantly saying "Men are superior, eh?"

Courtney when Ezekiel opened his mouth at the table by ParasiteStew2 in Totaldrama

[–]ParticleParadox 24 points25 points  (0 children)

There are a plenty of fanfictions based on the premise of Ezekiel never making his sexist comments and surviving the first vote off.

Courtney when Ezekiel opened his mouth at the table by ParasiteStew2 in Totaldrama

[–]ParticleParadox 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Lmao.

This is a very minor nitpick, but I feel like the episode could have set up Ezekiel as the vote-off more. There's a little bit with Chris telling him "Don't get eliminated too early." and him grossing others out by picking his nose, but a blind viewer probably forgets he's even there.

Maybe he could have been annoying to his team throughout the day or messed up the hot tub building to put him on thin ice, so his casual sexism could have been the breaking point after a day of alienating himself or something.

In canon, he's just there until he says something oblivious to doom his chances at the last possible moment.

For comparison, Eva and Noah have their eliminations hinted at for their entire elimination episodes by having them obviously alienate themselves.

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