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Posts posted by idigTexas
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I would have preferred the other whiny women go home, but can live with it.
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27 minutes ago, HRSchenker said:
I honestly don't see the purpose of the edge of extinction being in play so late in the game. Do we really expect the winner to be someone who spent several days out of the game (I almost said weeks but I forgot this game happens over the course of 30-40 days) but came back towards the end? Maybe I'm too much of an old school survivor fan but that would kill my viewing experience.
I want either Devens or Lauren to win. Devens for the gameplay, Lauren for that ass.
I completely agree regarding the extinction part. I was pulling for Aurora. Now I don't know who I want to win. I guess Gavin, but I find myself not caring due to how much manipulation of the game happens these days.
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18 minutes ago, JimmyHoffa said:
Agreed, similar to Top Chef and how they have last chance kitchen. You have to keep winning every "week" to continue to have a chance to get back in the game.
I tolerate the Top Chef model because the players are eliminated via somewhat subjective criteria, but it still bothers me that some chefs can still be Top Chef after being the worst chef in a given week, and others do not get a second chance.
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18 minutes ago, JimmyHoffa said:
At this point I think it's Devens, Lauren, and Gavin that make the final 3
I don't see that happening. Neither Devens nor Gavin is going to take the other to final 3, and Lauren should be smart enough to not take both of them. I suppose it could happen if the final 4 is those three and Ron, but that is unlikely. I think Julie is a lock for the final 3. I think either Devens or Gavin will be there and will be the eventual winner. The third person is a crap shoot, depending on how immunity challenges, idols, and random production shenanigans shake out.
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5 hours ago, SpiralOut said:
One of the best nights of my life started on some weed and three different research chemicals and ended with eating out of a literal jar of shrooms. It was fucking magical.
Avatar checks out.
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I watched the first episode last night, and enjoyed it. I tend to like BBC period series.
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I'll eat it if it is sitting there oozing in front of me, but I'm generally not a fan of cheese in sausage.
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7 hours ago, Go Pokes said:
Who’s the poster who isn’t team Devins just because he earned his way back into the game? Show yourself! And explain yourself too. I don’t get it.That would be me. Regardless of how entertaining he is, or how good his game play has been since his return, the fact remains that Devens has already been voted out. In any other season, he would have been done. He clearly is working harder than the others, and he is certainly enjoying himself, so good for him. It is obvious that the production team wants him to win, so I fully expect it to happen. That doesn't mean I have to like it.
I recognize that the game has had to evolve to keep an audience, but in most cases, I've never been a fan of allowing eliminated contestants a chance to return. You lost already, get the fuck out.
My main problem with the returning loser format is that it is unfair to those who get eliminated late, and thus don't get a second chance. Devens and the survivor returning next week have to be eliminated twice, wile the people who get voted out after that only get one shot. How is that fair?
It's like having a double elimination tournament, where the winner and the loser both end up with one loss, because television decided the "if necessary" game wasn't necessary. Any Longhorn baseball fans in the house?
Also, I was enjoying the sparseness of idols this season, but that seems to have ended. They should just go ahead and change the name of the show to "Idol Hunters."
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2 hours ago, South Austin said:
You know what, Napoleon? You can leave!
Maybe after I finish this trough of Creamy Creations.
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Someone should start a "shit I buy at HEB that isn't made by them" thread.
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32 minutes ago, deech said:
Do we just assume it was Sansa who told tyrion? It wasn't on screen. Could have been Bran or somoene else. I mean they heavily implied it was her.
I'm pretty sure it was Stannis. We didn't actually see him die, so he's probably still alive and is roaming around the North spreading gossip.
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Moose out front shoulda told ya.
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1 hour ago, Jerry Callo said:
I think Big Worm took off two out of three of the slaveholder's heads at one such meeting.
Big Worm, No Worm, whatever it takes.
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1 minute ago, deech said:
I don't think bran gives a shit to help either side. He knows the consequences of Jon telling Sansa and says it's up to you when it could mean he's fucked the minute he told her and Bran knows it.
He should have warged into the dragon when Jon fell off. That was a missed opportunity. Him helping now doesn't make any sense.
The big plot writing so far has been sub par. I feel confident that if a lot of people in this thread and a lot of fans of the show were to sit down and write key plot points over these last episodes that they would have made this ending much more interesting. I mean Dany jumps in boats after getting her ass handed to her last season.
I'm not suggesting Bran should be helping now, just that they went to all that trouble to develop a character with a very unique skill set, and then do nothing with him. Why have him in the series at all? He may as well have died from the fall. They could have easily come up with other ways for the Night King to get south of the wall and for the truth about Jon to be known. I think he was destined for bigger things, but is a casualty of the rush to finish, along with so many others.
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5 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:
What the fuck is going on with Ghost? Do they just not know what to do with him?
I don't know why they didn't just lit him get killed by the undead. The bigger disappoint for me is Bran...such a wasted character.
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I wonder how much Starbucks paid for that product placement? I'm surprised we didn't see Jon munching on a bag of Doritos.
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2 hours ago, Goo Punch said:
and thats only halfway through the episode. point being, i understand that the current writers are up against it, i just completely reject the asinine notion that this show hasn't clearly fallen off in its later seasons, and the whole "stop watching if you hate it so much" crowd needs to accept that.
Say it again....oh wait, you already have, twice.
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31 minutes ago, Machinator said:
Do you even Surly, bro?
Too much lately.
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What does all of this shit have to do with firing Shaka Smart? I keep seeing this thread bumped, and it gets my hopes up.
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14 minutes ago, Llano Estacado said:
That realism post should have been in Hank Scorpio font. Tongue was firmly in check.
It’s an epic TV drama set in a fantasy world. A wide audience tunes in. Some for dragons and magic. Some for character development and drama. Some for flaming swords and head crushing. But at the end it’s all a story we’re watching for entertainment. I like some of all of it.
I fully expect some angry tweets and posts after these last episodes about main characters “teleporting” across Westeros. There’s not enough time left to have more character development dialogue on boats and marches. Hence, Theon saying “alright you’re free now sister and a supporting character needs a redemption arc in winterfell.” Wormhole opens. Theons in the North some unknown days later “Okay I’m ready to die for the Starks and mankind now at the same location I was a turncoat”.
D&D lose 2 minutes of run time, but they gave the audience closer.You forgot naked wimmens, but they don't show those so often anymore.
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1 minute ago, JimmyHoffa said:
If I had to vote and they are in the final 3 I would vote for Gavin or Lauren. As I said above Gavin has been a part of if not behind the biggest moves of the season. And Lauren has played a great social game when she should have been the next logical person to get voted out for the last several weeks.
I think Gavin has been playing very well, and would be fine with him winning. I'm still pulling for Aurora because I like an underdog, and no one seems to like her.
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On 4/19/2019 at 8:11 PM, idigTexas said:
I'm going to assume that Norwich is safely through. It won't happen, but I'd like to see the other two spots go to Bristol City and Leeds. Bristol last played top flight football in 1980, twelve years before the Premier League existed. All other contenders have played in the Premier League at one time or another, but Leeds has had the longest absence (2004). I would also be okay with Sheffield United.
Villa is a blue blood, and absolutely belongs in the Premier League from a historical relevance point of view, but I won't shed any tears if they miss out again, especially if it means that some clubs who haven't been promoted in over a decade get a shot.
After all the shit Leeds has been doing, fuck them. They can stay down.
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11 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:
I’ll take “Realism” fans over “Fast & Furious” frontrunners who gush over mindless action and story development. Great characters and dialogue distinguished this series in the beginning.
HBO’s business decisions to widen the audience were necessary evils to expand production value, properly depict scale, manage schedules and talent contracts. Doesn’t mean “Realism” fans have to like the aspects of the show that dumb it down.
Stick to “Ooh, my balls!” - a reference to the movie Idiocracy which did not depict the dildo monster truck scene as a cool action sequence.I'm assuming you meant "I’ll take 'Realism' and story development fans over 'Fast & Furious' frontrunners who gush over mindless action." If not, then I'm not sure what you are trying to say because it reads as though you are contradicting yourself. Going back to 'batin now.
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The stats differ slightly form your summary (Rick has twice voted with the majority since the merge), but I don't think it really changes anything. This is the number of times the remaining 6 have been to tribal, voted for the person eliminated, and voted for the person eliminated since the merge. I only counted the first vote for the week Lauren and Wendy split the votes and Wendy was ousted with the re-vote.
Also, note that this is votes cast for the person eliminated, not necessarily a majority vote. Last week, for example, the majority voted for Rick, but Ron was eliminated. That is the only time that the majority vote winner did not get eliminated, so it isn't a huge factor.
Tribals Elim Merge
Aurora 7 4 4
Gavin 10 7 6
Julie 7 4 4
Lauren 12 9 5
Rick 11 5 2
Victoria 10 7 6My assessment of Victoria's game play is considerably different, but that's okay. She is at least playing, and has indeed voted to send a lot of people home. I would not be upset if she ended up winning. The only two that I would not want to see win would be Julie and Rick. Julie because she has not done enough to control her own fate, and Rick because he has been eliminated. I also would not be pleased to see the other person who returns from exile win.
Survivor: Edge of Extinction
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Many of those blindsides that Devens has been on the wrong side of were engineered by Gavin. I made this point weeks ago that Gavin's biggest problem is his personality. In short, he isn't Devens. That does not mean that he has not been playing and making things happen. He's simply not as flashy or entertaining when doing so, which makes him less camera and fan firendly.
The production staff have done a great job this season of selling Devens, as evidenced by most of you buying it.
I find myself more in an "anyone but Devens" camp than cheering for a particular survivor at this point. I fully expect to be disappointed with the outcome, but at least all of you assholes will be happy.