Which Survivor are you?

She was crazy expressive. Cameras had to stick to her cos she was always pulling faces. Fun season

45 is three episodes in and fantastic so far. the 90-minute time slot seems to be a game-changer in terms of telling a coherent story with developed characterization. they've also got a better handle on the gimmicks and advantages... there's still too many of 'em, but they stage comprehensible risk-reward dilemmas, and therefore at least tell you something about the person tackling them. super promising start.

last episode was great, and 90 minutes are a huge improvement. so what happens when one tribe is wiped out early like this?

idk if you saw the teaser for the next episode but they’re reorganizing the tribes which i think is their typical move when one tribe gets decimated pre-merge

agree entirely about the 90 min episodes btw. the arc with the losing tribe this season has been really well done, a classically great tribal in this episode. i was watching thru my fingers

J0rdan is right about the preview, so it looks like we won't get down to 2 this time. But FYI they've played the wiped-out tribe a few different ways. No spoilers for specific seasons but:

* one time (wayyyy back in the day), they once let it just. play. out. got to two people left, they did a fire-making challenge and the last one standing merged with the dominant tribe after one spooky night alone.
* one time (in the middle years), they've let it play out down to 2, and then those two then each joined one of the other two tribes for a couple rounds.
* one time (very recently) they've let it play out down to 2, and then they just went to the merge

More typically, there's a swap before the numbers get that lopsided, but it's hard to say whether those swaps were just pre-ordained, or if there was a line in their flowchart that said "if any tribe gets down to 3, activate the swap contingency."

did anyone watch the season that just ended? i really enjoyed it

great season. kinda weird final episode!

i'm not sure i really understand why charlie didn't win, it just seems like they wanted to give it to kenzie. he seemed really mad and i understand why. maria in particular just seemed to want to spite him

i wish they had asked maria and Q about trying to take charlie out by working w/ liz, kenzie etc instead of letting the votes be put on Q and playing his idol to take out charlie. i'm still stunned that didn't happen. the energy between charlie and maria still seemed very strained

he was pisssssed. which is kinda awesome cos usually after the winner is announced everyone is gracious and loving, so it was nice to see some real emotion. i thought they bombed the reunion by not pressing her more and digging at that. her reasoning was so bad, "i saw the fire in her eye when she made fire"????? after promising C a vote??? straight to villain status.

also not much talking from Q and zero from Venus. they whiffed on not doing a quick poll to see if anyone wouldve voted for Liz who for some reason thought she was the main character and a real threat in the game.

i thought there were so many dumb players this season. like 4-5 in a row sent home with an idol is crazy.

Liz's freakout is one of the all time top 10 survivor moments for me O__o

Charlie and Maria had real Avon and Stringer energy

lot of big egos on that jury, which is maybe why the vote was so weird.

Tiff was mad for no reason. that pointless 30 second timer lmaooooo

obsessed w/ this drama...

Let's stay on the Maria train. What was the secret sauce that led you two to work so well together for so long in the game? And did you always have the intention of taking her out before the end?

I mean, we did work well together. I would say we had a lot of trust. It was really interesting. We did trust each other a lot in the game. By the same token, I think we did see the game very differently, at least [in] who to work with, who to trust, and what was a good strategy to get to the end. Which is ultimately, I think, why I started to put things into place to diverge from her. Just for an example of the difference, when she got into the Six, and was telling me about the Six. I was invited into this glorious alliance; she was all hyped about it. And I was like, "This kind of sounds like it sucks. What are we talking about here?" Also, I'm like the substitute, so that's lower than the bottom of this alliance. And they just voted out someone. So I just saw it a little bit differently.

And I think that's sort of where I started to at least put my brain to work of, not necessarily putting words into action, but [thinking], "Maybe I need to play a little bit differently than her." Because I felt like I was having to sway her a lot into what I wanted to do. And I think when you do that enough, it's going to diverge naturally. That's to say, we obviously had a great relationship out there all the way to when she left the game. So, very strong strategic relationship, despite all of that.

Now let's go from strategic to personal. Because we saw that ominous scene on the boat where you talked about being friends long after the game and meeting each other's families. But I would imagine her not voting for you may have complicated things. Where do the two of you stand less than a year after playing?

It's really interesting. Honestly, I think up until the last couple of days, I would say we had a pretty good friendship. You know, as good as you can get. It never would be the same as it would have been. It's a pretty heavy thing. We've obviously talked about it quite a bit. But yeah, literally, in just the past couple of days, she sent me a text about what she was going to say in her exit press. And it was totally inconsistent with everything we've talked about for a year and everything I heard from Pondy and everything she said in the aftershow. And that definitely stung a lot.

There's been a lot of switching up in terms of her reasoning. And I've given her a lot of grace, including her telling me that she regretted voting for Kenzie weeks after the game, and then telling me after that that she couldn't have any regrets. So she didn't regret that anymore. So I did my best to understand and be a good friend. But, just the last couple days, I think it's just a little too deep. [I'm] not going to put the effort into into that relationship just the same. So no ill will towards her at all. I don't want any internet ill will towards her. But in terms of our relationship, we don't have to be friends. I don't dislike her. But it definitely won't be what it could have been.

https://parade.com/tv/charlie-davis-survivor-46-runner-up-finale-interview

agreed that this was a great season with a slightly "off" finale. Charlie was an excellent player IMHO and him winning would certainly have been cleaner, narratively. but i'd had Kenzie as a possible winner since the first couple episodes... granted she kinda lost the strategic plot a bit post-merge, but it was clear she really did make strong connections with almost everybody out there, which is probably the most important thing at the Final 3, and yet the thing that the show consistently has the hardest time conveying.

Yah Kenzie was great and in a not so normal way.

which is probably the most important thing at the Final 3, and yet the thing that the show consistently has the hardest time conveying.

― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, May 28, 2024 8:38 PM (two days ago)

for sure, and if you read the rest of that charlie interview he talks about how he actually felt closest to ben on the island, and had a whole deep bonding arc w/ him, playing a similar role to kenzie w/ his panic attacks. but they chose to play his storyline as maria based for obvious reasons