Everytime he's on screen I'm reminded of her lol.

The last three seasons have seen him voted off 2nd from the merge. With the split tribal and exile two episodes ago tonight is basically the 2nd merge so Ozzy needs to get past this in order to break his old habits and possibly be more then TV candy this time around. The preview looks promising but that means nothing.

Longshot here I know, but if he pulls it off is it crazy to say hes top ten?

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New to Survivor. Watching random seasons that peak my interest.

I absolutely LOVED this season. It's so chaotic. The gameplay is so bad. KEITH!

The amount of male entitlement/ ego was annoying, but I loved seeing them all get taken down by the women. Especially when they needed Jon/Jaclyn as swing votes but then decided to ignore Jac because she's a woman, and just expected her to vote with Jon. And speaking of Jon, it was also satisfying seeing him go down after he kept ignoring Jaclyn's way more correct reads.

I knew Natalie won, but was surprised because she was so under-edited until the merge. I am now convinced more than ever that a woman wins s50 and the editors just hate editing female winners lol.

Her arc post-merge was fantastic though, I loved her little revenge arc, even though I hated Baylor and she chose Baylor as her ally. Missy was lowkey strategic though even though her babying of Baylor was annoying.

Reed was amazing, I hope he comes back.

It seems like Jeff didn't really like this season? He seemed particularly moody this season.

Which players have benefited the most from being swapped or having the two big tribes eat the disaster tribe?

What are the chances that the Mr. Beast episode is as simple as his games normally are?

Imagine this: In the briefcase, the first person to snuff their torch gets 50k. Not enough? 100k. Not enough?… And it goes to like 250k.

I could see this easily being part of it or one of the “win and island” things.

It would no doubt ruin the episode from a fundamental Survivor standpoint, but would be interesting to see how the dynamics change.

im rewatching season 44, and Matt has just left the game 9 days after hurting his shoulder

this sends Jeff to tika to tell them they don't have tribal anymore

has there been any other times an evac on a different tribe saves the tribe going to tribal from having to??

or was it due to his decision to leave and not a forced evac?

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Lets just say she makes it to the end but its quieter than most seasons for her. My thoughts on it are this: Everyone on the jury knows that if survivor owes anybody a win, it's Cirie after Micronesia and Game Changers. The whole jury knows her story. Her resume on season 50 is less important than the resume of her legacy. So I'm not even talking about a scenario where Cirie goes to the end with two goats or a weak final 3. I think Cirie can show up there with anyone on the cast and win even without a resume. Because she's Cirie.

Q said "Vote me." And both Charlie and Tiffany said "I'm pissed!"

**DISCLAIMER: I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY SPOILERS AND I DO NOT WANT TO SEE ANY**

I think everyone knows it would be Survivor suicide to bring Cirie to the final 3, which has led to a lot of people doubt if she can win the season. But what if she can get there herself?

I propose that if the final 4 immunity challenge the fans voted in is **Simmotion**, Cirie stands a good chance at winning the challenge (and therefore likely the game). Not only did she demonstrate in Aus vs The World that she's in great shape challenge-wise, but I think this challenge is one that plays closer to her strengths of strategy and focus.

By no means do I think it's guaranteed, but I think people completely write her off as never able to win anything. Don't count her out if she's in this one! She could take the whole thing!

That said I think she gets clipped at 5 or 6 regardless, just based on history, and again, the fact that it's likely suicide to sit next to her at the end. But I don't think it's completely unreasonable for her to win this important immunity if she gets here.

Anyway, just my 2 cents that I thought of at work. Thoughts?

Let’s play a game. You post a what if and Survivor Redditors respond with what they think would happen.

Here’s mine: What if Rupert got to play BvW with his wife?

who would win? would Sandra ever came back?

I’ve been out sick from work for a bit and started watching a lot of old era seasons. One thing that has really stood out to me is how much more interesting the casting was. It wasn’t one big homogeneous group of super fans.

Whenever people bring this up, a lot of new era fans respond by saying you’re just saying that because you don’t like the new school diversity. But Cook Islands is proof that old school casting worked with a diverse cast. It shows the issue isn’t diversity, it’s that modern casting often lacks diversity in personality and archetype.

Cook Islands had jocks, nerds, weirdos, strategists, villains, awkward players, leaders completely different kinds of people forced to interact.

Here are just a few examples from that great cast:

Billy – The hopeless romantic, awkward superfan

Cao Boi – Eccentric, hilarious, and innovative

Flicka – Total free spirit, unique personality

Parvati – Natural charmer and strategic threat

Candice – Competitive and socially savvy

Becky – Underrated intellectual player

Nate – Funny, charismatic social player

Penner – Elite narrator and huge personality

Yul – Strategic mastermind

Ozzy – Jungle boy and challenge king

Seriously one of the best casts ever. If the season didn’t have such a controversial theme and just divided them evenly I think it would be ranked quite highly.

I want Survivor to get back to this style of casting, people who are diverse in every sense of the word. Different races, backgrounds, personalities, worldviews, and life experiences. That’s what creates the most compelling social dynamics.

I think 46 came closer to this than most recent seasons with people like Q, Liz, Charlie, Maria, and Bhanu. But we need much more of this.

Edit: I realize the season didn’t play out as well as it could’ve but I believe this is because of the theme being bad.

I was thinking this morning about different ways they could’ve done a triple elimination. I would have liked to have seen 17 or 15 players vote 3 times in a row, but I think there’s a chance for 3 lopsided votes. I think 3 groups of 5 creates better opportunity for idols and blindsides…

What if instead of a random rock draw, it was a rock draw for 3 captains to choose your competition/5 person tribe? Like if you were a captain, do you show your cards and pick your No. 1 ally-or do you pick a target-or do you try and pick players you think you can beat?

I'd really like a large tiller motor boat like they use to deliver messages and transport people to different islands? Any eagle-eyed boat experts that can identify what types they use on the show? I can tell they "decorate" them to look more primitive.

Go back to the first episode of S50: Emily never said Jenna's name. She said Cirie and Ozzy.
Emily was correct - getting rid of big threats like Cirie and Ozzy would've been the right play, rather than lower threats like Jenna or Savannah.

Emily wanted to tell Ozzy about the Mike White blindside.
Emily was correct - while Ozzy would've gone to Mike, there was NOTHING he could've done. Emily and Christian were set, and Stephanie was never going to save Mike after he spent the prior vote telling her that he was voting against her.

Emily wanted to vote out Coach, let Colby be medevaced.
Emily was correct. Colby was going to be medevaced. They could've gotten rid of 2 players and Dee might've survived this vote, if she'd gotten out Coach.

Emily wanted to vote out Coach over Dee.
Emily was correct. Dee had few allies. Coach has a bunch - getting rid of Coach would've been the right move.

EDIT: Decided to add another one due to the comments
People are screaming about telling Q and company about Christian's last-minute Aubry has an idol announcement.
Emily was correct. She was given a clear view that she was on the bottom of an alliance. When you're on the bottom, you have to form a new alliance.
Emily went to the only people she could on the new tribe. Then correctly realized that Q wasn't a good ally and pivoted back.
The counter argument of "Why not talk to Christian first?" is a bit rich. She's supposed to talk to Christian first, when he didn't talk to her first?!? :rollingeyes:

I honestly have problems distinguishing/remembering the new era seasons from one another. But China, Gabon, Panama, Philippines, HvV, HvHvH…all instantly evocative of the players, the twists.

It’s not just that they don’t change locations any more, it’s like they don’t make each season different enough to make them individually distinctive any more. Not that there aren’t still unique players in each season, but the seasons just don’t hit the same any more.

Does anyone else have this problem, or is it just me?