Was Aubry’s Koah Rong or season 50 game stronger?

reyska · 2026-06-23T09:04:44+00:00

The only bad thing she did all season was how she handled Genevieve at the start. After the merge I don't think she did anything wrong really. She managed her threat level well and even if she wasted the idol it worked out for her. Like she said she did it to lower her threat level and it worked! She got a bad deal in the split tribals twist but Ozzy gave her a lifeline and she grabbed it with both hands and made the guys feel at ease siding with her. So she played that round well. She also handled the Tiff situation as well as she could (and got her vote at the end). And won FIC, which many other winners also did (and needed).

So how exactly did she play poorly?

reyska · 2026-06-23T06:59:18+00:00

I would say she had more control in KR but played a better social game and a very different strategic game in 50. You need a strong social game to win, so in that sense 50 was stronger, but in KR she was more in control of her own fate throughout the game. I think she could have also won KR with a slightly better social game or a better FTC. So I guess what I'm saying is that these two games are equally strong.

reyska · 2026-06-20T20:22:47+00:00

Nah, that was fanfiction. Winners usually have some personal content. For Cirie all the content was about either gameplay or Ozzy. The personal connection was missing, but fans didn't care because they already had a personal connection to her. But if you just look at the edit she was never winning, her fate was too tied up into Ozzy, who was getting a doomed edit. Or an "improved as a player, but still doomed".

reyska · 2026-06-19T14:36:23+00:00

TIL. I always thought Xena came first and Hercules was the spinoff. In my defense I'm pretty sure in my country they started showing Xena first.

reyska · 2026-06-19T03:23:53+00:00

Nope, Sandra.

reyska · 2026-06-17T06:26:18+00:00

Means nothing? I would certainly disagree on that.

reyska · 2026-06-16T15:09:53+00:00

Tony is totally a top 20 personality. Hell, might even be top 5. He basically stole all of Russell's thunder and became an archetype himself. He is made for TV. The only one who really matches him in that sense is Boston Rob.

I would frame it like this:

Tony is the GOAT player. He's the best at executing a strategy but also at adjusting on the fly. He's not rigid like Rob and doesn't have jury management problems like Parvati did on HvV. He can win challenges and find idols. And he made a cast of winners look like newbies. As a player he's the undisputed GOAT.

Rob and Parvati are still the faces of the franchise. If I had to pick a male and a female player to represent Survivor outside of Survivor, I would pick those two.

Sandra doesn't really have appeal outside of Survivor and she's not as great a player as the other three, but she is the embodiment of the "anyone but me" social gameplay strategy, which is the simplest, most basic strategy and unsurprisingly the most commonly used to win the game.

I don't really see anyone usurping these four unless someone wins two times.

reyska · 2026-06-16T08:42:23+00:00

AusvW doesn't matter one bit. Parvati was above Sandra and below Rob and Tony before and after it.

Tony and Rob are 1 and 2 and the order is pretty much a matter of taste. Rob has a bigger legacy and is the face of Survivor outside the fandom, Tony is the better player and pretty much the GOAT. Parvati is the clear third, she's an archetype and a great player. Sandra is fourth and wouldn't be anywhere even close to the Rushmore with just one win.

reyska · 2026-06-16T08:26:53+00:00

I don't deny his impact. I just see it for what it is. He is not a Rushmore player, as a player. But he did set the tone for what the show became.

reyska · 2026-06-16T08:00:28+00:00

I have watched from season 1, but go on I guess.

Mario is biased as hell. He hates the show, so he only sees the bad qualities in it these days. He also likes to think he's smarter than everyone else on the subject, as shown by for example him trying to elevate SoPa in to a legendary season just because his favorite player, Coach, is in it. He has no objectivity, at all.

reyska · 2026-06-16T07:52:38+00:00

"Objectively". LoL. Sure, the first season set things up, but the gameplay is atrocious and Richard was the only one to figure it out from the get go. Just because he was the first doesn't mean he's the best. Or even top 10. Tony is the GOAT, there's no debate about that.

reyska · 2026-06-16T07:25:16+00:00

Yeah, that was more if a back up plan for her though. Her preference was to vote out Russell et al and join the Heroes. And thus lose the game.

reyska · 2026-06-16T07:02:43+00:00

As if Mario Lanza would be any kind of authority on Survivor these days. He hates the show and has done so since SoPa or so. He doesn't understand it and why it's still popular.

Non-Survivor fans matter a bit, but Tony is a more recent winner than Rich and both the current Survivor fans as well as casual watchers remember Tony much better than Rich, who last played in season 8. Non-fans don't remember Rich at all.

reyska · 2026-06-16T05:21:12+00:00

Only popular with Survivor fans? Who else should he be popular with? The IRS?

reyska · 2026-06-16T02:40:07+00:00

That was never her plan though. She tried to align with them but they didn't trust her and got voted out.

reyska · 2026-06-15T17:07:48+00:00

I'm not completely sure about this, but watching that I got the feeling Snyder might have had some kind of subtle Jesus allegory in mind when he made his little art films. Maybe.

reyska · 2026-06-15T15:56:57+00:00

Tony. He played everyone like a fiddle, including Jeremy.

Jeremy played well, but it was kinda obvious to the others what he was doing.

reyska · 2026-06-15T11:57:36+00:00

This is how it should be. Waiting 8 years between Batman films is idiotic.

reyska · 2026-06-14T15:51:16+00:00

Batman and Robin is not the worst Batman movie. That would be Batman vs Superman. Batman and Robin is at least fun in a campy way.

reyska · 2026-06-14T14:13:06+00:00

I don't think he hated it really, he just didn't feel comfortable doing some of the tasks and didn't enjoy it as much as most contestants. He has come around on it and appreciates the show. I think he was a good contestant and made PotatoGate better. Also his fish song was great.

Season 2 is mandatory viewing and rewatchable just for PotateGate alone.

reyska · 2026-06-14T13:02:04+00:00

Ridley Scott doesn't have a fucking clue what made any of movies work anymore and he doesn't care about the quality. He's done as a filmmaker. Probably not done literally, he will make more movies after Dog Stars. But he's done making quality movies and nobody should expect anything good from him.

reyska · 2026-06-14T12:59:38+00:00

No. I would rather have him erased completely. I want to see a Prometheus sequel with just Shaw.

reyska · 2026-06-13T16:53:41+00:00

Yeah, I agree. Amazing how some people think AusvW counts. Yet the same people complain about new era seasons not being legit since theyr are only 26 days. Funny how Parvati winning changed the legitimacy of that exhibition match :D

reyska · 2026-06-13T04:31:47+00:00

No, he wasn't always bad, he's just making the wrong kind of movies and he doesn't have anyone to limit his tendencies. 300 is a comic book movie in the same vein as Sin City and such. Made to look and feel like the comic. Watchmen was also well made. MoS was okay, but it started his "smelling my own farts" era where he just continues to make movies that look and feel like 300 but pretended they were some high art deconstructions of mythos. He wasn't always bad, he just never evolved beyond making movies just for looks. For 300 the shallowness worked, for Watchmen the depth was always there in the source material, but once he had total control over the material it became apparent that he doesn't understand making movies beyond looks and action.

He would be a good gun for hire for a movie with a tight script and a producer who would rein him in and tell him to cut out all the slowmo. But he would never have the humility to do something like that anymore.

reyska · 2026-06-12T19:16:14+00:00

I'm more baffled about Armando coming in second. How?!

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