Behind the Screen: Survivor 48: Spoiler-Free Thread

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i can't believe sai didn't make jury...

— Flopnanas

The lack of Cedric love frustrates me. Y'all hate to see black fathers exist...

— timster3

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Survivor 48: Spoiler-Free Thread

Flopnanas ·

i can't believe sai didn't make jury. This is awful. All the annoying men including eva are going to make this one of the worst seasons bc i know they are gonna steamroll 

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Flopnanas#212

i can't believe sai didn't make jury. This is awful. All the annoying men including eva are going to make this one of the worst seasons bc i know they are gonna steamroll 

timster3#213

The lack of Cedric love frustrates me. Y'all hate to see black fathers exist. Y'all hated Bruno or whatever his name was for doing too much but y'all hate Cedric for being a quiet king. 

Sportsman180#214

Double boot victims of the new era:

And note: Drea was going to get blindsided instead of Tori if she didn't see Rocksroy on the jury.

killakashhh#215

Double boot victims of the new era:

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And note: Drea was going to get blindsided instead of Tori if she didn't see Rocksroy on the jury.

also Aaron and missy from island of the idols :/ (not new era but still)

Sportsman180#216

Double boot victims of the new era:

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And note: Drea was going to get blindsided instead of Tori if she didn't see Rocksroy on the jury.

also Aaron and missy from island of the idols :/ (not new era but still)

Oooh good point!

timster3#217

When in doubt #VoteTheBlacksOut #CantLetTooManyMakeJury

FromTheNorth#218

The lack of Cedric love frustrates me. Y'all hate to see black fathers exist. Y'all hated Bruno or whatever his name was for doing too much but y'all hate Cedric for being a quiet king. 

Who the hell is Bruno lmao

Sportsman180#219

Someone said Cedrek did very well for someone who wandered away from their Fiji family vacation and accidentally ended up on a reality show. LOL.

timster3#220

The lack of Cedric love frustrates me. Y'all hate to see black fathers exist. Y'all hated Bruno or whatever his name was for doing too much but y'all hate Cedric for being a quiet king. 

Who the hell is Bruno lmao

That guy who injured his bald head, returned and was massively hated for being charismatic and fun. 

KChallenge10#221

Bruce? Lmao I liked Bruce he was entertaining 

Sportsman180#222

The double boot post-merge episode continues to suck and sap all momentum out of every season it's on.

Sai is a massive loss to the entertainment of the season.

This cast is way too old and their gameplay is boring as shit.

This milquetoast season can quickly enter the "SHIT" category in the next couple of episodes.

Cosmic Castaway#223

All praise to Mother Mary for lasting the longest out of a tribe that wanted to vote her out.  Now if she wins, she can send out Joliet Jake Blues and Elwood Blues to pay the five thousand dollar assessment on the children's orphanage.

AshtonMartin#224

I understand they need a double elimination episode to stay on schedule for filming but I think having 2 tribes go to tribal and 1 being immune the last cycle before merge would flow better. 

Only new era seasons that had 2 of the 3 tribes go to tribal was 41 (pretty sure it would have been 42 if that one guy wasn't medevac)

OS Kajun#225

The split tribal right after merge is one of my least favorite new era twist. Well I hate them all but you finally merge just to split again, and it's all luck based which makes it not fun and unfair. Just do a double tribal when it's 3 tribes. That makes way more sense. But nothing Jeff does makes sense. We just need to tell him it's racist and he'll stop just to be performative.

Challenge 17#226

 An alliance of boring men who want to play with "integrity" and "honesty" is not exciting. 

Flopnanas#227

The men and eva have made this the worst season ever. The season is a little more than halfway over and its already competiting with 43 and 44 as the worst of the new era

OS Kajun#228

 An alliance of boring men who want to play with "integrity" and "honesty" is not exciting. 

Like who cast this group? And yall hyped this season up for what? Zzz

Challenge 17#229

The men and eva have made this the worst season ever. The season is a little more than halfway over and its already competiting with 43 and 44 as the worst of the new era

The only hope is Kyle cuts them loose to save kamilla but until that happens the next few episodes will be rough

OS Kajun#230

I don't blame these men for playing an honest game of integrity. If they backstabbed and lied everyone would try to cancel them and call the ableist cause yall ruin reality tv with your fake outrage.

Sportsman180#231

The men and eva have made this the worst season ever. The season is a little more than halfway over and its already competiting with 43 and 44 as the worst of the new era

47 > 46 > 45 >>>> 48 right now > 42 > 43 >>> 41 >>>> 44

OS Kajun#232

You would have 48 that high, a bunch of boring righteous gameplaying. Right up your alley <3

Sportsman180#233

You would have 48 that high, a bunch of boring righteous gameplaying. Right up your alley <3

The other 4 suck. It hasn't completely fallen off yet. So...yeah.

Challenge 17#234

I disagree, 41 and 43 are the worst and its not close. This season has the potential to be worse but it depends how the next few episodes goes. 

killakashhh#235

The cast of 48 were all the boring rejects that applied for 47

Sportsman180#236

I disagree, 41 and 43 are the worst and its not close. This season has the potential to be worse but it depends how the next few episodes goes. 

44 is dogshit.

Challenge 17#237

I disagree, 41 and 43 are the worst and its not close. This season has the potential to be worse but it depends how the next few episodes goes. 

44 is dogshit.

44 was just more bland than bad to me. So forgettable.

Flopnanas#238

If this ends up being a boring predictable steamroll and all this integrity bullshit it will be the worst when the season ends and even worse a few years later when we had time to soak it up even more. But so far its not the worst but heading there.

Flopnanas#239

I didn't mind 41 it gets so much flack. 43 and 44 are worse to me than 41 on any day. Also 44 at least had yam yam... 43 has no redeeming qualities about it besides maybe cassidy.

Cosmic Castaway#240

 An alliance of boring men who want to play with "integrity" and "honesty" is not exciting. 

Ugh.  Playing that way has always cost Colby and Rupert every chance at a win.  Donaldson honestly could have won if he stuck to the safe bet being Keith "I don't know how to make rice" Famie.

Challenge 17#241

If this ends up being a boring predictable steamroll and all this integrity bullshit it will be the worst when the season ends and even worse a few years later when we had time to soak it up even more. But so far its not the worst but heading there.

One of David Joe or eva needs to go next or at most in 2 episodes for this season to have a chance.

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