My understanding (and I could be wrong) is that, because of COVID restrictions, several of the contestants that were voted off pre-jury were still on the island and in Ponderosa.
She did say in the exit interview that she was fighting for her life by arguing that truth matters over writing someone’s name down. I agree that she should have not called him a misogynist.
Jenny was one of the contestants that must have been on Ponderosa with the jury. The all speak so highly of her. I wouldn’t be surprised if they bring her back.
Bumping again. It appears “Come on in, guys” is dropped worldwide. Survivor South Africa: Return of the Outcasts started last week. Nico Panagio, the SA host, now calls the contestants in with “Come on over.” Again, no discussion of the change.
I’ve become spoiled with closed captioning on American shows. No subtitles are available for South Africa, and some contestants have more pronounced accents which takes some getting used to.
I love Amazing Race. If you like traveling and competition I can’t see how someone would NOT like it! It’s more rated “G” than a lot of reality shows these days!!
I think there are some incredible stories. I won’t remember names for awhile, but especially struck by the guy who was in a gang, now POLI SCI PHD and the guy who was born with CP. The women with the prosthetic also.
Grueling first challenge -
They were caked with mud and sand beyond recognition!
Jesse is the former gang member and current PhD candidate at Duke. There is an article about him on the Duke website.
Ryan is the one who was born with CP.
Sami is the young kid. I want to root for him but I don’t feel like he will make it far.
I liked Karla, the first gen Berkeley grad, who thought she would be seen as the weakest link and was surprised when people approached her to be in an alliance.
Speaking of alliances, I don’t understand how any of them take alliances made on the first day seriously.
I haven’t watched last night’s episode yet but wanted to bump this back up for any watchers.
Last week…I sort of like with the couple of longer episodes that they have been able to feature some contestants “story” a bit more. I don’t need that forever but at the beginning it can be nice for people to stand out.
A couple of the challenges have been BRUTAL so far. That 400 lb snake!!!?
Not overly disappointed in anyone who has been voted off so far - as of last week anyway.
I didn’t watch last night’s episode yet either. My pick for who I’d like to win is Ryan. His backstory was inspiring, but more importantly he just seems like a genuinely kind person. With him I don’t see anything but genuineness at this point. Not exactly a trait that will win you a million dollars, but I’m in his corner.
I love that these contestants have amazing back stories rather than just large social media followings. Nneka is inspiring. She wasn’t great at challenges but I was sad to see her go.
I liked that they showed us Karla hesitating about the hidden idol. Glad it worked out for her.
Edit: I also liked receiving more insight into Jesse’s backstory when he spoke about Nneka reminding him of his mom. I thought the trek to the top of the mountain was anti-climatic. I wonder if there was an idol hidden under the sit-out seat and he didn’t find it or why they showed us that clip.
They seem to be doing a lot of never-seen-before scenes at the beginning of episodes this season. I can’t imagine otherwise why they would have showed the looking under the bench if it’s not foreshadowing.
I saw him looking under the bench and then kind of forgot about it. Wonder if he found something, there was nothing to find, or if he missed it.
The correct decision was made for the elimination. Unfortunately, Nneka again wanted to do the puzzle and lost the challenge (along with Jesse who is better at the physical challenges). So impressed with Noelle. While I like the amazing back stories, hope they keep having contestants from all backgrounds.
The elevator salesman who won’t tell others he’s a salesman, but badmouths another contestant for being a salesman (because salesman are supposedly liars, as he is demonstrating!!) is just a bit to smarmy for me. Reminds me of Tony the lying cop who won a few years back.
