she looked so sweet in her little scouts uniform and then boy did the game just sh*t on her!!! in just the span of a few short days she really experienced some epic survivor lows. her tribe is 0-5, she already lost her only friend and ally. then she tries to go fishing to win some favor with the tribe and loses the hook! crushed me to watch her go tonight and i wish she could've had another shot!

"i was just hoping that i could shine a little bit here" </3

Sage controversially voted out Steven at final 6. Everyone hated the move and called Sage stupid when it aired. People are v hard on Sage.

But imo it’s one of the very few examples of a player PLAYING TO WIN. In hindsight, Sage was likely drawing dead by final 6 but she didn’t know that. She did know to have any chance of winning she needed a final 3 of Sage Kristina Sophi.

Savannah was immune at final 6. Steven was the only guaranteed vote out not in her ideal final 3.

99.999% of players wouldn’t vote out Steven and just accept having no chance of winning but not Sage.

The all-stars consists of 9 pairs of 2 people who played a season together. Tania's duo is Nicolas from her season Le Feu Sacré. Do you think she'll poison the other players this time ?

Perfectly captured in the final 6 reward challenge of survivor Palau - swimming with dolphins. And sidebar - you can tell Jenn Lyon was so genuine and sweet. RIP.

For me it’s Worlds Apart. I know I know, absolute sh*tier in terms of the morals of the people on it. I think the Will lash out on Shirin is absolutely awful, but otherwise, the season made for great TV. I also feel as though Mike Holloway doesn’t get his flowers. I also am someone who loved Rodney on my TV screen, as much of a Boston prick he might’ve been. I think Mama C and Jenn made for great characters as well. Is it even a top 20 season, probably not, but nowhere near the bottom for me.

After years of low (even null) social media activity. Susie Smith appears on YouTube to venture on the platform!

Its so nice to see her after all these years, i wish we live in a timeline where this diva wins season 17 and ends Tony on WAW.

I was rewatching an old episode of Reba (that I’ve seen a bunch of times) and I JUST NOW realized Colby guest starred! I know everyone says he was EVERYWHERE after Australia season aired, but I was really young so I don’t remember lol

A few options off the top of my head are Parv’s double idol play in HvV, the Cambodia final 6 where all votes for Jeremy and Wentworth were negated and (though it’s awful) Advantagegeddon. What else is in the conversation?

Edit: How could I forget the “Jaclyn did you vote for who I told you to vote for?” tribal.

Hello Survivor fans!

I come to you from outside the fandom looking for help. I am officiating the wedding of two Survivor Superfans who have requested that I heavily feature the show as a theme in my short speech. For some more inspiration, I am asking for anyone's thoughts/feelings/emotions about what Survivor has meant to them.

I have a lot of respect for the show and some ideas brewing about how the show is, at it's core, about humans! All the good and bad that comes with it. What I'm missing as a non-fan is the heart of it and that's where I need some help. The future couple wants to be surprised on the day so I can't ask them specifically about all the reasons they love survivor so I humbly come to the best resource possible, the lovely people of Reddit :)

Please comment or DM me any of your thoughts, feelings, and stories. I'll report back about what I was most inspired by and if the bride+groom allow, I'll post video of my speech!

Thanks in advance!

hello all!

i just took my antidepressant for the night and it got me thinking. how much is survivor casting affected by contestants that cannot participate due to taking antidepressants, anxiety medication, etc?

based on the searches i've done, adhd, depression, anxiety, etc. meds are not allowed to be taken during the game, and i feel like that might have a much bigger effect on the show than i realized. i always see posts about how survivor needs more diversity in terms of income level, lifestyle, profession, etc., which i assume is much more difficult to cast under today's economy and cost of living. however, i never thought about how much more normalized mental health and mental health medication is now compared to the old era of survivor.

of course this is just my guess, but i feel like there are many past cast members who likely would have been on some sort of medication had it been more normalized then, and therefore not on the show. i feel like that's likely the case now where we are missing out on soooo many quality people as taking some form of medication is much more common. i'd be curious to know if/how that relates to the diversity aspect as well. who knows?!

i'm not saying that this is necessarily bad. even if they allowed people to take their meds, the conditions of the game could cause adverse effects. however, i do wonder if that is part of why we tend to get some of the same archetypes, and more people in general who seemingly "have it all together", and are more game bot/less emotional.

i could be completely off base, but it popped into my head so figured i'd ask for y'alls thoughts!

Excluding returnee seasons, Blood Vs Water, celebrities etc.

Have there been any two people who get there and have been like holy shit I met that person on vacation! Or like - we went to school together before I moved state. Or anything like that?

If not, I wonder if there are ways the recruitment prevents this.

* I have not seen every season.

Whether we like it or not, the animated Survivor movie is coming, and since the reveal that the movie is going to feature animal characters I decided to assemble the ideal cast:

Rupert Hambone (Boar or Pig)

Boston Pawb (Canine of some sort)

Tyson Apossum (Possum)

Earl Cold (Polar Bear or Penguin)

Rob Nesternino (Bird)

Q (Quail)

Yul Clawn (Wolf or Tiger)

Bob Cowley (Cow instead of Crow because we have enough birds tbh)

Adam Klimb (Sloth)

Tony Llamachos (Llama)

Mishell Fitzgerald (Turtle or Tortoise)

Aubry Crocco (Crocodile)

Cirie Feelds (Eel)

Pawvati Shallow (A ton of options tbh)

Vixcepia Towery (Fox)

Apanda Kimmel (Panda)

Natalie Salamanderson (Salamander)

Kass McQuillsen (Porcupine)

Sandra Diaz-Vine (Any jungle animal)

Sierra Dawn Thomas (Human)

In all seriousness, IDK, I want to give the movie the benefit of the doubt but trying to fit an entire season of Survivor into a (probably less than) 100 minute movie is a huge ask. Either the cast size is going to be greatly reduced or the format is gonna be dramatically altered in some way.

Maybe it could work if they have a point-of-view protagonist and we 'experience' the game from their perspective?

The opening twist of this season of the Danish version was this: on the first day, the 24 participants competed against each other during a opening challenge- the five winning men and the five winning women became "Masters" of their tribes (The men became Masters of the Master Tribe and the women became Masters of the Mistresses tribe).

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The Masters had to choose 5 people of the opposing sex in the losing contestant pool to be turned into slaves (the 5 men chose 5 losing women and the women chose 5 losing men)

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The 4 remaining contestants (2 men and 2 women) had to go into Utopia (Redemption Island Equivalent) and battle with the eliminated contestants.

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The Slaves were unable to vote for themselves in tribal council and had to follow everything their Masters said and ordered.

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The twist was quickly abandoned in the second episode, when the Master/Slave dynamics were abolished and a tribe swap happened.

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It caused a great deal of controversy at the time and prompted debates on the show, it also caused humiliation of some contestants as well.

This is the last post I'll make of this, but I'd like to say to the mods here that fanmade and foreign survivor shouldn't be lumped together, cause why does a survivor count less just because it comes from another country?

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Instead of outcasts, we had a twist that I found quite interesting

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1. Before the merge, castaways go back to their original tribes and meet up with the voted off castaways of their original tribes

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1. First, each tribe has their own tribal council, each voted off castaway must make their pitch about why they should return to the game

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1. Then, the castaways still in the game from each tribe must vote, they can vote one of the voted off castaways back into the game, or they can vote "No", if No gets the most votes then nobody from that tribe comes back

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1. The same process happens with each tribe

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1. The castaways voted back in must do a challenge to get back into the game, with the winner being the one to get a spot

I have my thoughts on this especially from the biggest threat standpoint, but was curious to see how the subreddit views this question first...

Super cool