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"you're right, its NOT Love Cruise.........its even more ridiculous!"
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IceCat |
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Bebo |
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Naked |
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VampKira |
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11-08-01 |
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The double twist! |
AyaK |
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red |
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RE: The double twist! |
TechNoir |
11-09-01 |
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VampKira |
11-09-01 |
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true |
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PagongRatEater |
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SurvivorGuy |
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Whining |
Sanchman |
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TODDLJ |
11-09-01 |
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Vamp Rant |
VampKira |
11-09-01 |
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TaurusII |
11-09-01 |
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VampKira |
11-09-01 |
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Lurking |
11-10-01 |
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Dalton |
11-09-01 |
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Mumbo Jumbo |
11-10-01 |
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Dalton |
11-10-01 |
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Drive My Car |
11-10-01 |
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It's a game of luck and strategy |
Outfrontgirl |
11-12-01 |
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Perfect |
MC_Hampster |
11-12-01 |
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MDSkinner 716 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Reality Show Commentator"
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11-08-01, 09:03 PM (EST)
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you will get no arguments about that from me.
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zzz 703 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Reality Show Commentator"
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11-08-01, 09:04 PM (EST)
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2. "RE: you're right, its NOT Love Cruise.........its even more ridiculous!" |
LAST EDITED ON 11-08-01 AT 09:41 PM (EST)shakes-- Where have you been? People have missed you. Everyone-- OK--I was WRONG. I admit it. I was right that if it was not three tribes it would be a swap--but by today just about everyone knew that. I also thought 3for3 was more likely than 1for1 but--so what--I made my pick and it was WRONG WRONG WRONG. MB got me and got me good. As far as the twist--I think it ended up being kind of lame. I don't think an FCC action is warranted, but for me this did not really add that much excitement. Everyone should have known that Silas was in big trouble when Ethan said he liked Frank. There was no real suspense. Delaying the merge may shake things up a little bit, but not that much. Overall, they delivered on the promise to break up alliances and friendships, but so far I have seen nothing to conclude that this "twist" has made things any more interesting. Edited to add: My sincere congratulations to the ten people who officially voted correctly that there would be a 3for3 swap. Your spoiling powers overwhelm me. I bow to your greatness.
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MDSkinner 716 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Reality Show Commentator"
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11-08-01, 09:18 PM (EST)
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9. "RE: you're right, its NOT Love Cruise.........its even more ridiculous!" |
I don't think anyone picked this thing perfectly. I sure did not even come close.
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Bebo 21083 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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11-08-01, 09:08 PM (EST)
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5. "RE: you're right, its NOT Love Cruise.........its even more ridiculous!" |
But since it succeeded in bringing our own media whore back here, then it couldn't be all bad.
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Naked 887 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Fitness Correspondent"
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11-08-01, 09:15 PM (EST)
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7. "RE: you're right, its NOT Love Cruise.........its even more ridiculous!" |
I was Wrong, Wrong, Wrong !!! When I thought that I heard the boot on Lindsey's pretty butt, it was actually Tom's hand. I didn't count on Boran throwing IC. Great spoiling guys, and better luck to us next week. Naked
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Lightmage81 225 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Network TV Show Guest Star"
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11-08-01, 09:13 PM (EST)
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6. "RE: you're right, its NOT Love Cruise.........its even more ridiculous!" |
YOU"RE BACK!!!!!!!!!!
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VampKira 4433 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Jerry Springer Show Guest"
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11-08-01, 09:15 PM (EST)
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8. "RE: you're right, its NOT Love Cruise.........its even more ridiculous!" |
LAST EDITED ON 11-08-01 AT 09:17 PM (EST)ROFL!!!!I've missed you.... fuggin clown! But aren't you violating your own rules there Mr. Dumb Ass Sheriff? By posting this on Spoilers? Huh?? HUH?! *smack* Vamps- Who can't WAIT to read Supe's Summary!!!! Edited because the typo bug is still biting my ass... *sigh* "Just die, Frank..." - Lindsey, S3
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AyaK 10426 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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11-08-01, 11:45 PM (EST)
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11. "The double twist!" |
Hey, shakes, I agree. It's great to see you back. And let's make this a spoiler thread by discussing the SECOND twist pulled out of MB's butt today: Jiffy's comment at the end of TC that Boran was "assuming" the merge would take place at the end of E6.The difference is HUGE to Boran! Right now they are definitely the physically weaker tribe, thanks to Teresa and Mama Kim. Let's say Boran loses the TC in E6 as well. If the merge takes place immediately thereafter, Ethan's best strategy is to dump Clarence and expect that T and Frank would vote with Boran to wipe out the GXA, then dump T and Frank, leaving the "Boran 5": Lex, Tom, Ethan, Kelly and Mama Kim. If the merge doesn't take place until after E7, Ethan CANNOT afford to lose Clarence, due to the risk that ETHAN will be booted if Boran is back at TC in E7. He needs to boot Teresa in E6, despite the risk of Clarence's defection or Frank's animosity. What a load of manure! Well, MB is getting his wish -- we can't spoil a show with no rules.
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red 140 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Blistex Spokesperson"
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11-09-01, 00:30 AM (EST)
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12. "RE: The double twist!" |
And furthermore, who even wants to spoil a show with no rules?
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VampKira 4433 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Jerry Springer Show Guest"
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11-09-01, 00:49 AM (EST)
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14. "RE: you're right, its NOT Love Cruise.........its even more ridiculous!" |
LAST EDITED ON 11-09-01 AT 01:00 AM (EST)*tiptoes back into this thresd* Just thought I'd throw in a heads up. Superman's Episode Summary is posted...
"*****OFFICIAL SUMMARY EPISODE 5***Mark Burnett, Chubby Checker You Ain't*******" "Just die, Frank..." - Lindsey, S3
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true 9689 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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11-09-01, 10:28 AM (EST)
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15. "Not Exactly..." |
LOL shakes! Now, if MB decides to bring back Diane for the final jury vote, well, that would put it right up there with Love Cruise, as one of the dumbest rule changes of all time! And if the "twist" inspired you to post, I love it! true
ps. really shakes, we miss you around here!
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PagongRatEater 12996 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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11-09-01, 10:57 AM (EST)
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16. "RE: you're right, its NOT Love Cruise.........its even more ridiculous!" |
Does this mean that in another stunning twist they will bring back Diane for the final tribal council? Perhaps the next immunity challenge will involve sqeezing oranges with your buttocks to see who can get the most juice.
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SurvivorGuy 24 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Got Milk? Spokesperson"
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11-09-01, 11:23 AM (EST)
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17. "RE: you're right, its NOT Love Cruise.........its even more ridiculous!" |
I agree with TechNoir. I think Jiffy's comment about the merge was just a pathetic whine. He and MB are upset that Boran has the game so solidly in hand. They're just trying to throw them off. Don't forget, in Ep 4 at the TC, Jeff talked about Samburu into the merge at 5 and 5, but really being 4 + 1. I'll be surprised if they move the merge. (But, then again, I was surprised at the swap last night...)
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VampKira 4433 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Jerry Springer Show Guest"
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11-09-01, 12:53 PM (EST)
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All I can say is this....This is a bunch of CRAP! This isn't reality TV any more.. Not that it ever really was, but... You know what MB?? So friggin what if things weren't going the way of your great plan. You didn't like the way the game was being played out, so you changed the rules.. I have no beef with that.. Not exactly.. MY beef is that you need to stop calling it REALITY TV from now on.. Reality would be letting the cards fall where they may. All you are doing is manipulating the outcome so WHAT IS THE POINT??!!!!! HELLO!!!!!!!!! Here's a thought.. Why don't you start using your creativity to make REALITY interesting, instead of screwing with the public and then still shoving the "Reality TV" label down our throats. Cuz it's BULLSHIT! If "reality" would have had the chance to happen.. Silas wouldn't have been voted off.. I don't give a rat's ass that he was, I'm just saying. You SUCK MB! "Just die, Frank..." - Lindsey, S3
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TaurusII 53 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Hollywood Squares Square"
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11-09-01, 02:36 PM (EST)
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VampKira,I totally agree -- any attempt to call Survivor "Reality TV" should result in a lawsuit -- for truth in advertising violations! Survivor has always seemed awfully contrived to me (you haven't eaten well or bathed for days, but there's a well-fed camera crew following you around all hours of the night and day?), but now the only rule is "there are no rules". Just makes it all seem kinda pointless to me... )O_II
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VampKira 4433 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Jerry Springer Show Guest"
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11-09-01, 03:08 PM (EST)
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LAST EDITED ON 11-09-01 AT 03:12 PM (EST)*nods* And you know what?? What burns me up even more, is that this shit gets me fired up enough for me to rant about it on the Spoiler Board! Grrrrrrrr! You echo my thoughts. You simply CANNOT call it a game without RULES!! Hey there, Taurus... you wanna play a game of Monopoly?? Ok! Well here's the rules... BUT.. If you have Boardwalk, Park Place, and any other property that makes me think that I won't end up the big WIENER in this game... I'm gonna change them there rules.. I reserve the right to trade my Baltic Avenue for your Boardwalk.. and you will EAT IT and LIKE IT, buddy! And there ain't a GAWD DAMN thing you can do about it!" Any thoughts I have EVER had of trying out for this "Reality TV" show.. have now been forever squashed. **** that! I feel ILL.............. "Just die, MARK BURNETT!!!!!..." - VampKira
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Lurking 156 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Blistex Spokesperson"
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11-10-01, 06:59 AM (EST)
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24. "RE: Vamp Rant" |
But MB himself has often hesitated to use the "reality TV" term since S1. I can't fault him for inconsistency.
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Dalton 1271 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Beef Jerky Spokesperson"
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11-09-01, 01:57 PM (EST)
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21. "RE: you're right, its NOT Love Cruise.........its even more ridiculous!" |
Welcome back you pointy-head, red-nose, floppy-shoe Clown!!!I LIKED the 3-person swap!! Which I agrued all week would NOT happen...hehehe...a one-person swap sure; but half the tribe, no way!! Sigh...that is what comes from underestimating the "evilness" that is Burn-it. This has probably been in the rules since S-1; he just didn't need to use it until now. And it's terrific that the tree mail said select 3 of your BEST members to go off on a "quest"; heck they thought they were going to "WIN" something!! LOL. Particularly SAMBURU...the lazy-ass Brandy/Kimmie/Lindy ORDERED Frank & Teresa to go and felt "safe" sending Silas along to keep control of things!! (Holy Cow, I'm still laughing about that!!). Tom/Lex/Kelly showing up at Samburu and immediately realized that they had somehow gotten "stuck with the kindergarden kids" was priceless TV!! Even Kelly can't believe what idiots the "Beady Babies" have been. It's like stumbling upon "three lost toddlers in the middle of Africa" and now they are your Tribe!! ROFL. As for Jiffy Probe's "comment" at TC about the Merge --- it sounded phony and petty to me. I think MB was ticked off when he realized BORAN deliberately "threw the IC" so they could vote Silas the Stoopid out of the game and just wanted to maybe "scare" the Borans into NOT doing that stunt again. It seemed more like "code" for "don't think you can afford to lose anymore IC's on purpose".
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Mumbo Jumbo 270 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Network TV Show Guest Star"
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11-10-01, 08:33 AM (EST)
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25. "RE: you're right, its NOT Love Cruise.........its even more ridiculous!" |
Glad to have you back,Shakes.Dalton, I liked the three person swap too. I also like the fact that MB is willing to tinker with this game and shake up the players. It's still early enough in the game that the better players can scramble around, form new game plans and a modified strategy. We've already seen changes in the playing with Boran throwing the IC to dump Silas. Silas was just way too secure that he was going to ride the do-nothing alliance into the merger. The first time a forward pass was thrown in a football game, everyone thought it was illegal. But it was just a reinterpretation of the rules and had never been tried. MB must have written a very elastic set of game rules so that he could legally pull this off. Silas looks like a sewer to me, oops suer, so I'm sure the legal ramifications were considered and the bases covered. You don't wait until season six or seven when the ratings have tanked for a show before you bring in "cousin Oliver".
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Drive My Car 20045 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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11-10-01, 05:32 PM (EST)
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27. "RE: you're right, its NOT Love Cruise.........its even more ridiculous!" |
I liked the swap, everything about it. I believe MB refers to the show as Dramality TV, and this was dramatically real. I think the show would have been boring and predictable without shaking up the personalities a bit. I think MB used the switch to repair a mistake he made in the way he split up the tribes in the first place. He cast entertaining people, but mixed them up badly. He screwed up, he fixed it. I don't think Probst has had this much fun since he took away Colby's flag. He was so straight faced, but obviously enjoying it when he informed the unfortunates about their new tribal assignments. Survival is about adapting to your environment, I think it's completely apropriate to change the environment. Those who can't evolve, perish.OH, and I was right about something, The Clown couldn't stay away forever. Nice to see ya Stupid Clown. some wives fake orgasms, I fake housework - ESR
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Outfrontgirl 6830 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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11-12-01, 02:37 AM (EST)
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28. "It's a game of luck and strategy" |
Here's a big difference from Love Cruise: Silas, the one who got screwed, on his way to Boran, said: "what a great game; what a great twist." (loosely quoted) Did the finalists on LC think it was a cool twist to bring back a Loser couple? No, and they were right. It was lame, because it gave people who'd been poor players a real shot at winning. This twist, on the other hand, gave good players the chance to recover after a downturn in their fortunes. Like playing Monopoly and you can't get a set of anything and you finally draw Park Place and magically it all turns around. Great games can be played over and over with different results--generally because an element of luck/chance combines with skill and strategy to determine the outcome. Games incorporate dice throws and drawing cards (and letters in Scrabble) to bring chance into play and to force players to make the best of the hand they've drawn. Some board games make people move backwards or go back to square one. Sorry, you picked the wrong card, landed on the wrong square. Do not Pass Go, do not collect $200. Well, that's similar to what happened in Survivor this week. I didn't watch S1 from the beginning because I wasn't very interested in the idea of Reality TV. The voyeuristic aspect of 24/7 cameras didn't appeal to me. Then my dad got me to watch it during a visit, and got me intrigued in the show as a complex and very difficult game. He's pretty much a strategy game addict--chess, bridge, blackjack, maze and word puzzles, and very good at them. (Bridge Life Master, mathematician.) So, thanks to him, I got hooked on Survivor. I couldn't wait to discuss S2 with him. This was before I found SB and had no one to talk to... I was so bummed when he lost interest in S2 at the merge. He said to me then, "if they're going to repeat this game they need to come up with a change in the format to prevent these alliances forming that lead to the majority team voting off the minority." A lot of people felt this, but my point is--he's a student of games and he saw Survivor as a great one-time game, but not a game that would bear repeating without tweaking the rules. New cast and new setting were not enough. Now Burnett has produced a game where elements are subject to change, where players cannot afford to alienate others with impunity because their alliance has a majority. By adding a surprise swap, he's made room for good players to negotiate new positions for themselves after being on the short end for awhile. I'd compare it to the Amazing Race rather than Love Cruise. In TAR, the teams know that each leg of the race will bring challenges, but they don't know what until they open that envelope. They have to pick who does the Road Block without knowing what it entails. They pick a Detour with very little to go by. They get a twelve hour lead and then end up on the same plane... No one can get complacent at any point. Burnett's quest was similar to a Roadblock. The teams picked who would go on an unknown challenge. They were too complacent about the predictability of Survivor. Silas went alone without an ally. He ventured into the unknown without a friend to watch his back, which isn't ever a great idea, and he lost the game. Silas may be a dim bulb but at least he went out as a great sport. As for spoiling it--we've never been able to spoil this game accurately just from watching and analyzing the game, because each challenge outcome gets somewhat decided by luck and chance. Without a source that gives us info on the outcome, picking who wins immunity is like handicapping a horse race--no certainty. Maybe we were like the players and getting to think we knew the game so well we had it all figured out. I definitely think it's fair for a game to incorporate surprises as part of its format, as long as the rules state that's a possibility. Surviving in real life requires adapting to surprises and sudden twists, and so should this game.
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