re: Survivor season 37 David vs Goliath

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I knew when they showed Kara making fire after fire that she would lose that challenge

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the okie-doke on the editing here is pretty transparent. Mike basically saying he gives up. Kara making fire with pure ease while Mike lays around in the hammock.


I don't think they intentionally mess with the outcome, but my wife brought up that that they gave Kara a faulty piece as someone else mentioned here. Tough to fully deny with Jeff specifically telling them which seats to go to the way he did. However, I'm not buying it.

At the very beginning with the live shot of the castaways, I saw the way Nick was grinning ear-to-ear and excited movements, I told the family, he's in the final 3. His poker face was bad.

How often do you think Probst says "first things first" in real life?

I want them to do a season with all survival experts. Minimal rice but tools to hunt and forage.

That reminded me of some improvements they made this year in the final show:

They didn't make that silly "memorial walk" with the final 3 walking around the island and gathering up torches (or whatever). AND

They spent less time talking to people (usually a celeb) in the audience.

I still would like more interviews with the contestants from Jeff at the finale.

I have been binging all the older seasons lately that I never saw, and the memorial walk is just boring TV. Although when binging seasons everyone is still more familiar than watching weekly.

They definitely focused a lot more on survival early on. I just finished Cook Islands and Ozzy was going to be voted off except he kept catching fish. Current seasons he would be gone quickly as a threat.

Season 1 Richard's main asset was catching fish. Providing kept him in to the end.

Tom lost 80 pounds in 39 days in Africa!

Yeah, its the personalities that make the show. I know that is an obvious statement, but its true. That would exclude me from ever being chosen. I even bore myself. I'm excellent one on one, but the speech at the end...never. And I'm a loner. But, we remember the true odd balls on the show. I know a few people that would be good on survivor for their personalities, and I have told them they need to send in a tape. At one time I thought they should go back and make it a true survivor show....but you would end up seeing a lot of people laying around complaining about hunger, tiredness, etc.....like naked and afraid. I think they may have struck a good compromise with what they do.

The cast definitely makes the show, but I do enjoy a mix of survival and competition and gameplay.

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i mean the first 2 seasons were the best IMO. they had good players and they actually had to survive.

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Yep, now they just lay around all day or look for immunity idols. Lame