I thought I should post it here rather than making a whole new post. I HAVE A THEORY!

It was done in 43 and it looks like it was done again for 45. I took a quick look at 44 and it appears it wasn't done. In 44, it was focused on Yam Yam, Caroline, & Bruce.

In 43, during the opening credits where each player gives their introduction and just before Probst gives out his closing statement welcoming you to the new season of Survivor, you get Owen, then a quick succession of pics and/or video clips of Jesse, Karla, Cassidy, & Gabler. This was our F5 group.

In 45, same thing happened. It started with an introduction from Dee, followed by a quick succession of pics: Katurah, Austin, Kendra (I think it's her), & Bruce. Could our final 5 be Dee, Katurah, Austin, Kendra (I think), & Bruce?

cold brewer: sounds like as good a theory as any, imo! Great detective work! As in S43, where I just couldn't see Gabler winning, I feel the same way about Bruce. So who knows? Let's keep an eye on it!

Cool Theory Coldbrewer

I used super slow motion and here is who I saw:

S43: Owen, Jesse, Karla, Gabler, Ryan, Justine, Sami, Jeanine, Dwight, Noelle

S44: Bruce, Lauren, Yam Yam, Carolyn

S45: Dee, Katurah, Austin, Kendra(?), Bruce

I don't see Cassidy at all in the S43 flash photos. Where you have Cassidy it is Ryan and his white girlfriend Justine (Jayjay) Salais

Good one Cold Brewer

After all the credits did give the winner for Survivor 6, 7, 8 and 11

These people don't look prepared for this at all. One thing is for certain...Brandon is not long for this game.

Ugh.

Red comes first, all happy they won. Reba is stacked, we have the brawn, the brain, the morale. says an exotic looking girl...

J. A professional singer songwriter
Self, Tai chi, since I was 6
Julie, the older one, single mom, art teacher...but in reality I'm a late lawyer
Drew: 22, college student...drew is a moody introspective, writes poetry, and seal is at the bar he's outgoing wants to gbe friends with everybody, but between these two there is a well rounded person that will work to my advantage out on the beach

Blue gets to beach
Bruce, belo tribe

gets another chance, it's euphoric...crazy...I wanted to joke around but...
the other tribes are coming hard...Emily was trying her hardest to run that bus over me, Emily was the girl in yellow calling him out

I don't want to be the leader...he'll play crazy drunk uncle Bruce

biggest waste of time is getting palm fronds.

First thing Bruce says is he is not the dad of the tribe, but then gives advice....see him giving everyone advice and what to do, sounds like a Leo, great

We are all Virgos...says Kendra...

Kendra is a weird astrologer girl, from Salem mass

they are all vibing

the whole time we are getting supplies, they have nothing like a machete

Yellow...Emily is calling out the ones that volunteered....I'm somebody that is a pessimist...have to assume there is other game play, noting but suspicion now

Brandon: I am so disappointed in myself, I passed out in front of 18 people....thinking they have already planned my funeral... He's from Jersey, he's very shaken up about future challenge performance

full of anxiety

blond girl says should we do shelter stuff?

Sean says, principal, Brandon is out for the count, Hannah is sweeping the ground, come back with the materials that we need....pathetic is yellow tribe.

see the sweat vs savvy comp...compete head to head. move 40 very heavy logs 200 feet across the beach. then go to savvy part, untangle a rope from circle contraptions....

a race. see them go...Sabiyah is never going to do this all?
The logs are big says Jake the attorney...
Brando is a little guy...could be the nail in the coffin

Sab is scared, she's exhausted, what if I can't do this...sweat is going to take her out the game.

If teams are going head-to-head, why is there a timer?

Yeah, I was asking that too.

I guess so BOTH Tribes can FAIL! LOL!

Everyone Failing will be the theme of the season, I think.

These guys are going to take forever to move the logs.....these people are scary, they are definitely lowering the bar for challenge performers....ugh

Casting has really gone to the edge to get these people....or the outliers?

The girl is exhausted, can't give up, she starts talking to herself...her dad tells her you got more

Sabiyah, I'm so impressed with her

Brando, hardest thing I ever had to do in my life, on verge of passing out...

Yellow starts savvy first

then blue gets to the savvy part, got to get it unloved....he doesn't know how to do it

he's a computer engineer here....I'm a lawyer, I can't do it

clock is running down, yellow can 't do it either

they both fail.....losers

Back to the blue tribe, they don't have a machete says Kat, we are improvising....the two come back and tell them they failed, no one got it.

the lawyer looks like he's a bout to cry

Lulu, the yellow tribe, they didn't get it, we both failed.

Called and Sabiyah don't have either for us, the pessimist says they must have taken an advantage instead of helping us...she's awful!

The blonde says she is not survivorly

Hannah the therapist is the blonde. Brandon and Hannah are bonding...there is dirt and buys and hangry...these people are the pits...they are having meltdowns, and this is day 1.

you watch this at home...I had no idea...what a loser. Brandon and Hannah....oh GAWD....Hannah says she's crying because of the nicotine withdrawal. UGH!!!

So far Michel called it. 30 more minutes = serious COMPLAINING about how hard it is....ugh.

For the blue and yellow tribes. The pessimist says the ones that went to the sweat/saavy challenge chose an advantage over helping their tribe. That Be-yotch has to go imo

Blue: The three girls have boded and want to stick together says Kendra, all September birthdays, let's be in an alliance together....they want to keep Jake, he's a lawyer...The black girl saysd she told them she was an office manager but she's a lawyer....
How many lawyers are on this show? UGH

Jake is a baby lawyer he just passed the bar...s.ee her asking him what it's like to be a lawyer...

Lulu losers, the yellow tribe. Sabiyah is in work Horst mode, she has to make a shelter, we have to try, everyone is making an effort...she says everybody except for Emily has a good attitude...Emily says it's smaller and not level

Kaleb says Emily we cannot do this or that
they all think the tribe would be more cohesive without Emily

Emily: the world's worst survivor shelter...she feels like she has been isolated with crazy people....I'm not jibing with the mood of the tribe...

Reba, the red winning tribe...

See the tai chi guy, Sifu...he's looking for idols and advantages, and they don<'t notice that....but back at camp they all know he's looking[P>see him hiding from the others....he's going stealth mode....they call him out about playing a Tony game...the girls find him, you were spying on us

Dee: we look and he's right there, I was messing with you

Dee: back home my monm says I'm a fireball, if he's spying on us he cannot be trusted.

Austin: they only person caught searching is Sifu, but He's collecting firewood and finds the advantage, clue whatever...beware advantage, if you take it it's yours and you must do what it says...he thought about it and said screw it, let's do this.

Austin found the clue to location of HII, complete some tasks. Until you take possession of the idol you must do these tasks, decipher the coded message on the tribe flag, see the symbols. He won't get a vote at TC until the tasks are completed.

Come on in Guys....

First immunity challenge

one player at a time up and over ramp into mud pit, then drag heavy bag of coconuts, drag to throw in net, get keys, get people to top of tower, unlock and solve puzzle

Yellow is going to lose, I'm calling it right now....

2 tribes will get immunity, as a penalty for losing takes the flint.

I will be shocked if any of these teams can complete this challenge. Jiffy yells to bruce, keep your head down

Sofi is first for red....bruce next, yellow not through yet

Lulu is falling behind in the first task...lost a lot of time...Seann going next for yellow....Kendra did well for blue...kelly is last for blue over just the first task, Lulu yellow dead last....surprise surprise, last is Brandon, he gets into much, now he's moving....Blue is in first dragging bags over a distance and over logs...get to crate...bello is first, and red is there....they are unloading, get the coco nuts in the crate

blue has to toss the coconuts into a net

Austin for red and sift are doing it,

yellow cannot get it in the net

Kendra does it for blue, they have the keys, Red has the keys, they go to wall and they must all get up and over

Lulu finally going to the wall

Kaleb is is up

Now they are trying to get Brandon up and he's fallen off the wall...

Red is up, now unlocking puzzle

Bruce is up and now blue is in this

Yellow is last, they are all falling down

Brandon finally upon now Kaleb and sabiyah are down at he wall

Kaleb is up....

Blue and red are almost done their puzzles while yellow hasn't even started

Blue wins...

Red is second.

Yellow losers. Surprise!

Going to be the pessimist.

Camp supplies will be waiting for blue back at camp

Yellow, TC tonight, see Emily, he will take their flint

Brandon knows he wasn't contributing in this challenge, he will vote for somebody that performed better than me in this challenge, and I feel bad, as he cries. Ugh.

The yellow tribe is doomed, they are seriously questionable....

Lulu losers
Hannah says she hates to admit this but maybe they will vote me off so I can go home. exhausting like I have never experienced.

Hannah wants them to write her name, she wants her bed and wants food...OMG....she's begging to go home. Hanna? WTF

Brandon, the cry baby says he is a zero...stress induced, had worst chest pain he's ever had and it didn't go away, he has reflux, I am in physical pain, it hurts dude...he's crying....OMG, they all want to quit....why di they get people like this....he's playing his shot in the dark, he's a liability...

Sabiyah, Emily wası going to be the vote, but now Brandon is panicking, can he do this? he's threatening to play his shot in the dark....he can be plan a, and Emily can be plan b?

Emily then talks to Brandon and Hannah, we need to break up that strong duo...Emily says that tonights vote is about breaking up Sabiyah andKaleb...me trying to think 3 steps ahead. They want to vote out Kaleb. If I don't play this game right tonight...

Brandon tells Kaleb that Emily wants to vote him out tonight.
Now Kaleb talks Emily...it's either Brandon or Emily...

Lu lu losers...come back stronger for the next challenge and build the strongest coalition into the next part of the game says Kaleb.

Either Brandon or Emily

Have we ever had a tribe with two quitters at the same time? OK, there were Na'onka and Kelly but at least it wasn't episode one. Nicaragua is my most hated season so is 45 on its way to top it?

HOW did Hannah get past psych tests?

Maybe as a Therapist she fooled them!

WOW!

Dip their torches in fire

see Brandon, then Hannah, Emily....Kaleb then Sean

Jiffy wants to talk

how are you as a person when you are out of your element

Sean is a jungle rat sleeping on floor, blah
Emily is a more extreme version of herself...
Hanna says the identity that she came here with is not the identity she has now...
Sabiyah says there is still a lot of politics to discuss, we need the best possible team and I don't think that Hannah will quit
Emily says it easy for her total about strength, Sabiyah and Kaleb have already bonded and know their strength...
Sabiyah says me and Kaleb have not begged to be in the strength role, because you look at us that way you have isolated yourself

Brandon is the weakest, they all know

Brandon, you struggled in opening moments...I can't pretend that I can do all the strength, but I can comfort these people

Hannah says she would like to watch it unfold from the comfort of my own home...everything in my body says please don't make me go back to that camp, I don't need to be voted out to go back to my home. I'm not bringing heart to this...She's begging to quit.

OMG.....put people on here that WANT TO PLAY

They are so upset, Q is, iOS everyone here on the same page. Brandon says he's going to vote out Hanna tonight...Sean. is crying....they all agree to vote her out.

PATHETIC!!!!

No vote, she's out

What a loser. Now we have to suffer with Brandon and Emily one more week.

This is the most pathetic tribe people I have ever seen.....90 minutes for this....

LAST EDITED ON 09-27-23 AT 09:32 PM (EST)

I was going to make a post about Emily being the absolute worst player ever (from her initial useless confrontation with Bruce who wasn't even on her tribe to her direct attack on Caleb and the other woman of the tribe but then Hanna blows her out of the water by saying she'd rather watch than play.

WHAT ABOUT THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO APPLIED AND DIDN'T MAKE IT, YOU DUMB@SS?!?!

so we have the two worse players ever on the well-named Lullooser (and Brandon isn't far from the bottom either) In a strange way, I bet the winner comes from this tribe. Caleb for one doesn't deserve to be associated with these loser.

Hi Michel!!!!

Couldn't agree more. One word comes to mind: Pathetic. Yes, Kaleb, Sebiyah (Where do they get these NAMES???), Sean all decent, but they are seriously doomed with Brandon and Emily.

And, we had to listen and watch this poor excuse of a cast for 90 minutes.....ugh! And so many lawyers. Really? I am so disappointed in this group, tbh.

Yeah, I thought for sure from the awful edit Emily was getting that she was definitely going home!

Then Hannah begs her tribe to vote her out?!

Emily and Brandon both on the chopping block and Hannah save them!

Well I guess the single press photo of the Lulu tribe on Day 2 should have been a big clue!

And yeah there are THREE Attorneys; One on each Tribe!

No, there were 2 lawyers on the blue tribe...black girl Kat was an experienced one and she was goading on the one that just passed the bar.....ugh! I hate lawyers, no offense to all you lawyers out there #emydi

Next week.....

Female: Emily will just cut my throat in the night....

See Emily

Hear Brandon: Emily is desperate, She is now public enemy number one.

Jiffy: Next time on Survivor

Skinny guy: this is going to be the solid group, there are now explosions in my head. See skinny nerd guy shaking hands with blonde

See him jump off a tall platform in the water at a water challenge...

See Bruce goofing off, he's in a motor boat as if he went to another site for some kind of quest.

Girl: Bruce does a lot of stupid stuff,
Black girl attorney: Who is this guy?

Hate to go on the limb this early but next week I predict LuLu losers lose and Emily goes home.