Rodgerwilco
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- Feb 6, 2014
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Meant to start this thread before the premiere last night.
Season 47 started out like all recent seasons. 3 Separate tribes of 6 players each. The episode opened with a marooning, as usual, and Jeff immediately took them to their first challenge.
At first glance the tribes appear to be relatively equal in terms of strength and mental acuity. As many of us have discussed in the general discussion thread, the cast continues to be mostly a bunch of white collar folks. It seems they're getting more people who are somewhat public. I really am very much against the fact that they cast a host of Rob Has a Podcast, but I guess we'll see how that transpires. This Link has a list of character bios.
As far as Episode 1 goes, I'm glad they went with a shocker right out of the gate. Makes me wonder what they weren't showing us that went down to lead to that vote. It really blows me away that Andy wasn't voted out. I tend to think that people saw through John's "I'm just a podcast host" shtick and were intimidated by his silver tongue and obvious intelligence, also the fact that he was not really gelling with the rest of the tribe due to him being a bit older. Kinda wild that someone who is only 41 could be considered "the old guy" on the tribe. .
I kind of like the twist that they did with the boxes inside the boxes. It's a good test of temptation to see how far someone is willing to go to see how much power they're going to try to get. Almost bit them a couple times already. I always find it comical that people get judgmental of others for doing what everyone should be doing... which is looking for advantages or idols.
All in all, it's obviously too early to tell how this season will be. I hope Andy doesn't go full on Brandon or Bhanu mode, as I don't really like when they focus too much on the 'crazy guy'.
Season 47 started out like all recent seasons. 3 Separate tribes of 6 players each. The episode opened with a marooning, as usual, and Jeff immediately took them to their first challenge.
At first glance the tribes appear to be relatively equal in terms of strength and mental acuity. As many of us have discussed in the general discussion thread, the cast continues to be mostly a bunch of white collar folks. It seems they're getting more people who are somewhat public. I really am very much against the fact that they cast a host of Rob Has a Podcast, but I guess we'll see how that transpires. This Link has a list of character bios.
As far as Episode 1 goes, I'm glad they went with a shocker right out of the gate. Makes me wonder what they weren't showing us that went down to lead to that vote. It really blows me away that Andy wasn't voted out. I tend to think that people saw through John's "I'm just a podcast host" shtick and were intimidated by his silver tongue and obvious intelligence, also the fact that he was not really gelling with the rest of the tribe due to him being a bit older. Kinda wild that someone who is only 41 could be considered "the old guy" on the tribe. .
I kind of like the twist that they did with the boxes inside the boxes. It's a good test of temptation to see how far someone is willing to go to see how much power they're going to try to get. Almost bit them a couple times already. I always find it comical that people get judgmental of others for doing what everyone should be doing... which is looking for advantages or idols.
All in all, it's obviously too early to tell how this season will be. I hope Andy doesn't go full on Brandon or Bhanu mode, as I don't really like when they focus too much on the 'crazy guy'.
