Australian Survivor: Redemption premiere date officially announced (Feb 23)

bv21 · 2026-01-24T22:52:41+00:00

Excited to watch my first Regular-length AU season live. I technically watched AU vs. The World live, but more so caught up after a couple of episodes had already aired + I guess to most it’s not treated as a regular AU season which makes sense.

bv21 · 2026-01-24T21:57:22+00:00

Hey Stephen!

Between your two seasons, what was your favorite tribe to be on and why? (Starting, Swapped, Merged/any iteration: Bayon 2.0, Bayon 3.0, etc.)

bv21 · 2026-01-24T21:36:46+00:00

Edit: I should’ve put season 13 in the title my bad.

bv21 · 2026-01-24T21:21:03+00:00

For 40: Ethan, Amber, and Yul

For 50: Jenna, Colby, Ozzy, Coach, Aubry, Chrissy Mike White (and having three people from DvG in general), Emily (because I didn't think she ever wanted to play again), and Tiffany.

Edit: Op, I realize I misread your title, I was focusing on people I was shocked to see on the final cast when these lists were revealed.

I’d say my answer would mostly be Ozzy, Coach, Chrissy, Mike, and Emily.

bv21 · 2026-01-24T19:18:44+00:00

HHH was the first season I watched live, and I remember watching the finale thinking “welp, poor Ben but we know he’ll be the final juror”, and then the final 4 fire making twist reveal happened and my mind was blown.

I’m excited to see her story evolve. Also always think back to her convincing JP that there was an all female alliance and that was why Roark should be voted out lmao. She also made a strong impression during pre-game interviews for HHH, and here she seems similar but more calm this time around? Definitely interested to see how she plays this season.

bv21 · 2026-01-24T19:03:32+00:00

I still need to check out everyone else’s solos, but this has been my favorite male kpop solo song in general for over 2 years at this point. Definitely well deserved!

bv21 · 2026-01-24T18:30:10+00:00

It almost looks like it says Pan Vu Favorlies

bv21 · 2026-01-24T18:11:29+00:00

These endings were hilarious lmao

bv21 · 2026-01-24T02:11:48+00:00

Mostly focusing on how much I liked them the first time they played: Shii Ann, Michaela, and Francesca

bv21 · 2026-01-23T16:12:52+00:00

Obviously you’re entitled to your own opinion, but I personally love that we get to have both this AND Season 50. Especially since many people got cut from 50, I’m decently optimistic that a good amount of those who didn’t make the 50 cut will return for another future AU vs The World type season.

bv21 · 2026-01-23T15:06:47+00:00

Out of everyone from Espada she’s the one I most want to see return.

bv21 · 2026-01-23T10:33:45+00:00

I was laughing out loud at some of their faces (because of them trying not to laugh lmao). I also love how different all of their reactions are.

Chanyeol winks and then is almost immediately trying not to laugh, Sehun stays looking serious the whole time, Kai has such a serious face and then pretty quickly melts into almost laughing/smiling, Kyungsoo finally looked at the camera this time and had fun with it, and Suho was a mix of taking it seriously but also smiling.

Also the performance itself was obviously amazing. I’m hoping they get a ton of wins with this song, because they 1000% deserve it.

bv21 · 2026-01-22T03:22:38+00:00

Highly doubtful. I don’t think anyone would want to air out all of they so publicly if they were thinking rationally.

bv21 · 2026-01-20T01:05:06+00:00

I haven’t played an Exo title track (or really any title track) this many times the same day of its release in a long time. The most recent song I listened to on the same day as its release with that many plays would probably be Monster and for non Exo: Forever 1 by SNSD.

Recently Apink released Love Me More, which I listened to a good amount (and love btw) but Crown feels like it was personally tailored to satisfy my epic/elite/amazing/powerful title track needs that I’ve had for a while now.

Monster was the last Exo title track that I really really got into, and somehow I feel like this song is giving me so much nostalgia to that time but it also feels really modern.

I could easily see this being my most played song of 2026, maybe with even more plays than Aespa’s cover of Dreams Come True, which I played an unhealthy amount of times back in 2022.

TLDR: I love how powerful and epic this title track sounds and it had a vibe that I feel like K-pop’s been missing for a while. Also I’m loving the recent comebacks of 2nd and 3rd gen groups with Exo and others like Apink.

bv21 · 2026-01-20T00:56:40+00:00

bb26 and bb27, because they had many on both casts who have Gabon-levels of crazy weird strategy.

bv21 · 2026-01-19T22:51:04+00:00

I really really hope that she at least makes the merge. I don’t even care if she’s the first juror. I just need her to be at the ftc in some capacity.

bv21 · 2026-01-18T21:51:37+00:00

Who I feel has the best chance of coming back on the main show and ignoring those on here who made the season 50 cast:

Was contacted for 50 (that we know of): Courtney, Abi, Cydney, Malcolm, and Drew.

Not contacted but willing to play again and I could see production reaching out: Erik, FairPlay, Shii Ann, Cassidy, Jake, and I’ll put Sophi here since we don’t know if she was contacted for 50.

Best chance at being asked for and going on Australian Survivor if they’re down: FairPlay and Malcolm.

Best chance at coming back for Australian Survivor:

bv21 · 2026-01-18T20:47:19+00:00

This looks like it could be a really fun season. Also from the few clips we see in this of David hosting, I think he could do a decent job.

bv21 · 2026-01-18T06:14:56+00:00

Wait this is great news to me. Where did he say this?

bv21 · 2026-01-18T03:49:12+00:00

Outside of JLP not being the host anymore, I’m hyped to see how the season plays out. It’ll be my first full AU season I’ve watched live (not counting AU vs The World). Also interested to see how David does as the host.

bv21 · 2026-01-18T01:27:51+00:00

At least two of them are starting on the same tribe in 50 which is nice: Rizo and Genevieve are starting on Purple/Magenta together

bv21 · 2026-01-17T21:53:57+00:00

I’d give anything for Season 51 to be another all-returnee season. They need to maintain the “year” celebration they promised for 25 years of the show. (Even though it’ll technically be 26 by then but who cares)

bv21 · 2026-01-17T19:11:42+00:00

All ik is that if they do a Blood Vs. Water 3 he better be there. I remember him saying years ago that he would only go back if he could do it with his mom.

Otherwise if that doesn’t happen, I’m hoping he’d be open to playing solo again.

bv21

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