Behind the Screen: Survivor 49

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Jeff being so aroused to exploit these moments is wild. He is so desperate to be Oprah...

— OS Kajun

something isnt connecting with me this season. Usually I would feel sad that one group is being decimated but I was like ehh...

— Challenge 17

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Discussion thread about Survivor 49 with 30 replies from the Vevmo community.

Survivor 49

OS Kajun ·

Jeff being so aroused to exploit these moments is wild. He is so desperate to be Oprah.

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OS Kajun#62

Jeff being so aroused to exploit these moments is wild. He is so desperate to be Oprah.

Challenge 17#63

something isnt connecting with me this season. Usually I would feel sad that one group is being decimated but I was like ehh... The only people I like are sophi b, and savannah from the entire cast. It's a very lackluster cast for me personality wise.

This is me basically just Sophi & Savannah, although MC is growing on me

Challenge 17#64

They need to start getting physical again, imagine THIS CAST doing a survivor sumo or water slaughter. It would be hilarious 

OS Kajun#65

They need to start getting physical again, imagine THIS CAST doing a survivor sumo or water slaughter. It would be hilarious 

this show is too soft, jeff said those were too dangerous now. It also ruins jeff making this show inspirational and uplifting if theres head to head combat

KChallenge10#66

Savanah reminds me of Venus but a better player. I'd like to see her on the challenge I can see her getting activated. 

OS Kajun#67

Savanah reminds me of Venus but a better player. I'd like to see her on the challenge I can see her getting activated. 

She definitely seems firey! I like her a lot.

Sportsman180#68

Savanah reminds me of Venus but a better player. I'd like to see her on the challenge I can see her getting activated. 

Did you see her size? She makes Dee look big. She's not cracking 5 foot. Probably weighs like 95 pounds.

OS Kajun#69

Savanah reminds me of Venus but a better player. I'd like to see her on the challenge I can see her getting activated. 

Did you see her size? She makes Dee look big. She's not cracking 5 foot. Probably weighs like 95 pounds.

Haven't you been begging for Venus who is also small? Aviv is tiny. Isn't Cara small? She'll do good in dailies. If she gets voted in, she can win 90% of these toss up games or puzzles. Stop trying to turn this into the Olympics. We just need attractive and entertaining people.

Sportsman180#70

Savanah reminds me of Venus but a better player. I'd like to see her on the challenge I can see her getting activated. 

Did you see her size? She makes Dee look big. She's not cracking 5 foot. Probably weighs like 95 pounds.

Haven't you been begging for Venus who is also small? Aviv is tiny. Isn't Cara small? She'll do good in dailies. If she gets voted in, she can win 90% of these toss up games or puzzles. Stop trying to turn this into the Olympics. We just need attractive and entertaining people.

Venus is "small" as in skinny but still like 5'6". She's basically average on this cast.

Like sure put Savannah on here but she would be the smallest girl in Challenge history. She would be Aviv without the life of personal training.

Sure, put her on here but unless she has a FLAWLESS social game, she's an early boot. She makes Dee, Blue, and America look formidable physically. She's almost a full head smaller than the average woman.

Challenge 17#71

She cant be shorter than Natalie who was decent... at least at first 

OS Kajun#72

She cant be shorter than Natalie who was decent... at least at first 

There have been plenty of tiny girls on the show who do fine. People like to pretend every elimination is hall brawl when the realitythe overwhelming majority size doesn't matter. They are crapshoots, endurance/stamina based. Plus every season is basically partners so it depends who she would be with too. It's just a dumb narrative. The 32-36 most entertaining people should be cast. Put on Mama June or a microwrestler, I don't care. Just entertain me!

Flopnanas#73

savannah body looks stacked like dee's you can tell she works out while venus looks like a string bean 

OS Kajun#74

Why does every challenge end in a puzzle? Are they that uncreative? What happened to the one where they'd carry the heavy snake and tag the other team? Hold up the most coconuts? Eating challenges? Australia has some cool ones even if they don't want to do physical. US Survivor has become so lazy and uncreative. They don't change the right things and just add stupid advantages that confuse things. They truly are dumb.

Flopnanas#75

who's yall WINNER pick this season?!

Challenge 17#76

The premerge always drags to me. The stupid taking flint away leads to a disaster tribe since the tribe that can't eat tends to lose. Its boring, at this point just scrap the whole premerge and do a season where its everyone on one beach, thats a fun shake up

Challenge 17#77

No puzzles and actual conflict at tribal? This was a decent episode. I do wish the super boring man left instead of the chaotic weird guy who had potential. 

OS Kajun#78

I was so bored I couldn't finish. I'm kind of over Survivor sadly. Jeff's killed it.

Cosmic Castaway#79

If Rizo wins, then I lost my betting pool on Dramatic Static and I definitely should stop waging my fares on unfunny Cochran wannabes.  I should have gone for Savannah who always reminds me of Parvati in terms of attractiveness and I do wonder whether maybe the producers planted that snake towards Jake in order to further mess with Kele's dwindling numbers.

Sportsman180#80

Survivor has completely run its course. It's thematically and creatively dead, there's no incentive for the players to do anything interesting for the first 60% of the game. Just stay in your pre-conceived tribes, vote out the minority, and pray you have the numbers at the merge. There's always a terrible disaster tribe. There's always the second strongest tribe that is filled with underedited NPC's because they always go home in 11th through 7th.

The game has gone completely stagnant and boring. The strategy is played out. The setting has become weirdly dull. The challenges are horrible to watch and everything ends in a puzzle. The casts remain annoyingly nerdy and precocious.

So uninspired in every way.

OS Kajun#81

How would you fix Survivor?

OS Kajun#82

How would you fix Survivor?

New locations. More attractive recruits who are given Australian Survivor seasons to watch. Embrace villains again and stop the sob story, and trying to make it the Oprah show. It's a competiton. Stop with the meta nerding out over being on Survivor. Jeff needs to be an butt again. Less analogies. Better challenges and a variety of challenges. Less advantages. I can probably think of 50 more later.

Challenge 17#83

I have some ideas but they'd basically have to change everything about it tbh. So some realistic changes would be to give them rice again, yeah yeah I know its a shorter game and blah blah but honestly ive never cared about the survival aspect and everyone is so lethargic from the not eating and flint being taken away, I don't think giving thrm a tiny bag of plain rice will ruin anything. And two tribes instead of three, then swap into 3 later on. This gives people more of a chance to mix and for us to get to know people instead of them having to split screen time between three tribes. 

Challenge 17#84

And journeys suck but they can spice them up a bit. Tell them instead of risking their vote they risk their position, that they can swap tribes if they win whatever little challenge they do, this will actually shake up the dynamics. I kinda hate this idea but its messy

Flopnanas#85

Im tired of the same premerge challenges with the puzzle at the end as well as the same stacking/balancing comps when the individual immunity comes to play after merge... the show used to have so much creativity but seems like after covid they downsized everything to save money

Sportsman180#86

How would you fix Survivor?

The cast should vary! Some casts should look like the Goliath tribe and some casts the Davids tribe. Have some variance in the themes! Try a One World twist again! Stop with putting everyone in their tribe colors so they subconsciously want to stick with those people. Stop taking their flints. Give them more food. Expand the game to at least 30 days so there's a few extra days for the game to breathe around the merge. Incentivize people to flip. Mix in some Final 2's so that people don't make so many damn Final 4 alliances so early.

Fix the damn challenges. You have 50 seasons of challenges. Bring back the maze and the nighttime torch challenges!

TwoStrikes#87

Less analogies being on that list is so funny to me 

OS Kajun#88

Less analogies being on that list is so funny to me 

Do you disagree lol? It's truly ridiculous. And now that it's all these super fans playing they know that Jeff gets to êřêçț over it that they plan them at home and they are so tryhard.

TwoStrikes#89

I mean there's a lot but it has no effect on th show/gameplay really. Whether they say that at tribal or confessional or not, the confessional/tribal is still going to happen 

OS Kajun#90

I mean there's a lot but it has no effect on th show/gameplay really. Whether they say that at tribal or confessional or not, the confessional/tribal is still going to happen 

It's annoying, tryhard, and not authentic and rarely actually makes sense. It's stupid.

Peacekeeper22#91

I have not really enjoyed this season so far. I am happy that I found The Traitors: Ireland season 1 online.

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