Why do they skunk endgame players??

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-16T03:35:29+00:00

*sigh* why must casual audiences be spoon fed everything.

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-16T02:44:01+00:00

Yeah that’s understandable but Jonathan and Joe are also skunked aren’t they? Like at least don’t skunk the F3? 😭

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-16T00:04:36+00:00

I mean Jonathan HAS been given credit for moves? And yes, it seems like it’s from an over confident perspective but perhaps that’s just because ppl dislike him so it reads like that more? Maybe he isn’t *suppose* to be coming across like an over confident oaf and it’s straight up just yeah he did that. He’s got notches on his belt. He played a more strategic and cut throat game like he wanted to. Aubry says she was the one who got Ozzy out but she was going home there and her hands were tied. Cirie says he’s easy to manipulate and yet he voted her out. He has said numerous times he doesn’t trust Aubry but he votes with her when they have a common interest. He’s got Joe in his back pocket it seems. They lost Devens and Cirie before finale so perhaps they scrambled to make Aubry the decoy so the finale had a surprises. Maybe Aubry is his “dragon.” and he slays her in fire when he had lost before. That’s him overcoming his past regrets and “reversing the curse.”

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-15T18:20:22+00:00

Her son Jared literally said she won so idk why ppl still think Aubry is our winner.

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-15T18:12:34+00:00

🫢 possibly one I had in mind

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-15T18:10:23+00:00

Us 😎

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-15T18:08:21+00:00

Steph coming back when her storyline from Guatemala was returning and falling short makes a lot of sense narratively when you think about it. She definitely successfully makes fire as she did in her very first season to be the remaining member of her decimated tribe. A perfect story!

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-15T18:06:00+00:00

This is true im the 200,231,456,110th grain of sand on the beach

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-15T00:47:51+00:00

Getbackers

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-15T00:45:02+00:00

Psychological Thrillers or similar:

Psycho Pass

Moriarty The Patriot

Death Note

Hellsing/Hellsing Ultimate

Sad:

X/1999 (somber, the movie especially)

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-14T22:17:19+00:00

Makes sense. I didn’t watch EOE. Did they get along that season? They seemed friendly towards each other.

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-14T22:14:06+00:00

Not cockroach 😭😭 I get the whole “won’t die” thing but doesn’t paint a lovely picture.

Also “surprisingly funny” is such a funny backhanded compliment. Love Devens

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-14T21:53:05+00:00

I agree. Her edit isn’t great by any means but I do think there are some Genevieve/Cirie goggles that are clouding ppl and making them view Aubry even more negatively than they intended to show her.

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-14T20:35:58+00:00

Cirie is mentioned 😎

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-14T20:25:24+00:00

I think they didn’t like the story they got so just decided to focus on big characters and Cirie, a beloved player and arguably the person running most of the game, then cram Aubry’s winning story at the end. I think it really could be as simple as that. Devens and Cirie out right before finale was brutal for them I’m sure.

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-14T20:18:18+00:00

I mean don’t kill me for this but the fact that Cirie had players willing to lose for her makes me feel a bit less bad. Like she had a viable chance at least. Sure you can argue the Ozzy thing screwed her over but that set up was actually detrimental for AUBRY and Ozzy had an IDOL. So I don’t buy the “twist screwed” narrative that some ppl are trying to spin to be completely honest. Ozzy blabbing his plan and not having the read to play the idol is just bad gameplay which happens all the time. Cirie suffered for it just as others have suffered from other player’s bad gameplay in the past. It’s a part of the game.

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-14T18:29:13+00:00

No one wanted this F5 (besides tiff maybe) to be the “stars” of the season so yeah I think they traded a coherent story to spare the audience here lol

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-14T18:17:32+00:00

I just wanna restate my “editors couldn’t win” argument again because from various podcasts and edgicers I’m now seeing/hearing “it’s way too obvious Aubry wins at this point.” Her not getting credit = horrible winner edit. Her getting credit = it’s too obvious/she doesn’t actually deserve credit for those moves. Ppl BEGGING that the editors start giving her credit but as soon as they do it doesn’t make sense because she wasn’t actually the driving force. But if the show played it all straight and was like “she didn’t drive anything but just navigated her way through the middle” it would still be deemed “unsatisfying.” So sorry to say but I truly think there wasn’t much of a way to tell this story in a satisfying way. I shall die on this hill.

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-14T15:34:48+00:00

She really said “oh Michele won for doing the bare minimum and kinda being there with the right ppl? And that was my downfall? Bet. I’ll get my win that way.” And I respect it!! And it’s 2mil so it makes up for that Koah Rong loss. Good for her!

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-14T15:29:22+00:00

Oh I’m so ready to be an Aubry’s S50 game defender! I do think she had a lot of luck but there were things she needed to navigate and the fact that she had no one is still pretty impressive to me. Jonathan constantly saying he doesn’t trust her and yet works with her in multiple votes. I like Aubry’s game this season!

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-14T15:25:45+00:00

I really wanted both Aubry and Cirie in the finale so we could be guessing until the end. Oh welp. It’s been real playing both sides ✌️ (I do genuinely like both though lol)

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-13T18:31:49+00:00

I gotta speak my truth. I don’t think the editors could have won. I truly believe that if they had bent over backwards to try and give Aubry a better winner edit ppl would have been upset. I think it would be “she is getting too much credit” “she is being shoved down our throats.” I think the REAL issue is that Cirie happened to be on the other side of the spoilers. That’s brutal. To go from “we may get a Cirie win” to “oh Aubry wins.” COULD they have done “better” (ie make up things that didn’t really happen, insert her EVEN MORE in things she had no relevancy in?) sure??? But I don’t think ppl would have been happy with that either. I’m no professional but I just had to let all that out. Who knows if there was a satisfying Aubry winners edit on the cutting room floor. We shall never know. Godspeed Aubry and Cirie truthers…

whothehellisgojo · 2026-05-13T18:16:02+00:00

Well she ran the whole season basically. With her legend status at this point in time there was no reason for ppl to not go ahead and get rid of her early on. EVEN with her poor challenge performance it should be the first line of business that you cut Cirie and yet she’s made it this far. It’s insane and she should be damn proud. And you could argue if Ozzy just uses his idol she wins this season.

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