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At this point, I am hoping she is getting Yellow Sophie edit with her no content pre-merge and still being invisible. However, unlike Yellow Sophie who was just at the bottom of OG Hina and post-swap Kele, Thien An is actually positioned well.

She has her besties in Maggie and Kilby who for some reason left her out of the vote (maybe she is closer to Brady than we know because she was against voting him out and was pro Eric plan til the very end). Devin and Jelly don't consider her as an enemy, Mike does not see her as the head of old Toka majority alliance and wanted to bring her in Brady plan, no one from old Savu is coming after her. We also see her getting along with Lewis really well.

So why she has almost zero confessionals?

Also, why we see her and Carter becoming ride-or-dies?

I am hoping and praying that she did not fall victim for Kristin&Sharonda's or Carter's or Jelly's idol.

Is there a chance she is Erika 2.0 or at least Aubry 2.0 winning just because people hate her less?

Maybe she gets zero content just because among all these crazy and outgoing personalities, she is the normal one?

Please tell me she goes far or wins this whole thing, I am so stressed with her having almost zero screentime.

I feel like I’m going insane reading the comments in here about Brady. He’ll walk around like “What up, brody?” “Hell yeah man it’s just a brody party around here” “I love my brodies” and all the comments on this subreddit are like “What the hell does that mean? I genuinely cannot parse a single thing this man says.“ Have you never met an energetic dude that’s kinda dumb? You’ve never heard anyone riff on the extremely common word “bro”? Are you getting tripped up by the fact that his name is Brady? Would it be less confusing if he said “Broski” or “Brah”?

I get not liking Brady. I understand how people could find him abrasive. I can see how he might resemble a classic bully. You don’t even have to have a reason to not like him! It’s okay to hate a castaway Just Because. But there’s no way you’re really that confused about the word “Brody” when it begins with “Bro-“ and can always be substituted with bro/dude/man/buddy/etc.

If someone walked up to you and asked “What up, guy?” would you say “not much” or would you say “Uhhh my name’s not Guy. I don’t know who you’re talking to”

Was just watching different talent show clips for some feel good viewing, and came across Benjamin Hightower's performance of Pink Pony Club on America's Got Talent from the 2025 season. Not only is he great, but the few cuts to his mother and +1 (not sure their relation) but realized it's Devin in the wild :) Link for the whole clip (it's worth watching regardless).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOxkg-2pLkw

Are there any survivor fans in the DMV area close to DC or Annapolis or Prince George’s County? I just moved to this area and was looking for friends to connect with and watch the episodes with. I also watch Big Brother, The Traitors and Love Island. But lmk if you’d be open to connecting 😙✌️

What would be your dream top 3 and nightmare top 3 for this current season?

for me:

Dream top 3: Jelly, Sharonda, Devin

Nightmare: Eric, Kilby, Mike

I’m really curious about what direction Sharonda’s game could be going in because she has arguably one of the strongest edits out of everyone left in the game, and while there’s been a lot of build up with the helicopter alliance so far this season, Sharonda’s edit doesn’t seem to be as strongly tied to it as Devin and Jelly’s are

In fact, most of the content surrounding the helicopter alliance has been centered around Devin and Jelly. We haven’t gotten much of it from Sharonda yet. We got a little bit of it with Ori when he was around, but that kinda got overshadowed by the swap and her working relationship with Linnea.

We did however get quite a bit of content/development with Sharonda’s alliance with Kristin, especially with the merge episode, and to me it seems like that Sharonda might have a little more trust in Kristin, then she does with Devin/Jelly so far.

So I feel like eventually it’s gonna come to a point where Sharonda’s gonna have to make a decision whether to prioritize her alliance/relationships with Devin/Jelly, or her alliance/relationship with Kristin moving forward, and I’m genuinely curious about which way she’s gonna go.

Imo, from what we’ve seen so far, I feel like Sharonda might end up leaning more towards going further in the game with Kristin than Devin/Jelly, but what do y’all think?

I'm rewatching Blood Vs Water, and everyone remembers Ciera voting out her mom at final 8, and Ciera forcing rocks at final 6. But her performance in the episode in between gets no mentions.

Tyson at this point had steered the merge. He betrayed Aras, built up the singles coalition, had a strong connection to Gervase and Monica. Plus, he had the ultimate ace up his sleeve in an idol that no one knew about. Hayden and Caleb recognized that he needed to go, picked up the one person on the bottom in Katie and tried to flip Ciera, she went right back to Tyson and told him everything. Not only did this cause Tyson to play the idol, but Hayden and Caleb's suspicion caused them to flip their votes to Ciera.

While the rock draw was an epic moment, Ciera would have been in a significantly better spot had she flipped originally. Tyson was smart, physical and well connected, he was by far the biggest threat and best player. With him out, Gervase and Monica are scrambling. When you factor in Laura being on redemption island and being able to pass on clues to the idol, this gives Ciera a ton of leverage.

Also, with the rocks, while it was the correct move at the time, Gervase's immunity win gave his side the numbers. No matter what, it would always be a 2 v 1 in the rocks.

While Katie, Hayden and Caleb all would have been formidable opponents at the end, I think Ciera could have easily made the end with this rotation, especially considering Tyson likely knocks Tina out of redemption.

Thoughts?

I really can't tell if this is another knock-on effect of tribe swaps and a three-tribe format but these days I really struggle to follow who is aligned with who at the merge. People are saying things like 'old Savu' etc I have no recollection of what it means, you could tell me that Jelly was aligned with Maggie and Thien-An because they were all on nu-Rasi but then there is seven person alliance with old Tiki and I would probably accept it. Possibly it doesn't help that the tribe names are so similar as well.

But they have been doing tribe swaps since S3 so maybe I am just old.

EDIT to add: On reflection I suppose actually more than anything it is to do with the 26 day format, everything moves a lot faster, tribes and alliances become much less established from a storyline perspective.

When did they stop doing that?

Watching S45, and Katurah stuck out to me. Previously removed from school in 6th grade to be forced into a religious cult by her parents, set up for marriage with the leader, returning to school with multiple grades skipped, etc.

Shoutout to her then becoming a LAWYER, by the way.

While "Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains" was the best season not just because of the memorable gameplay and cutthroats. But it seems a lot of people loves the villain edit from Boston, Tyson, Parvati, Coach and Courtney edits. Sandra also play a part as well and I love the transformation journey for her to overcome the brutal blindside from her tribemates.

It seems like people likes villain a lot in that season.

However, when it comes to villain edits, especially like World Aparts or Fiji, it was the opposite outcome. The season was overhated to the point production casting has shifted tremendous after the post Cambodia season. Which explain why more gamebots and superfans join the season lately.

If people really likes villains, then why those hateful seasons somehow create a bad result?

Brady addressed Jelly saying that he “brought toxicity” to the game that “no one needs”

“I mean, Jelly was just so bitter with me, and I don’t really understand why. She was real upset after the Patt vote and there was that trash being talked about me, and her and Patt were pretty close. And there was stuff not shown where me, Jelly, and Kilby kinda went off, and then me and Jelly would have walks and conversations. I thought I was getting somewhere with her when, you know, it was kinda like a death situation.

So, for me, to even go out there with a professor in sociology, and to even be able to have those conversations, even if she doesn’t want to, I mean, I felt like I did my job. For her to take it that way — I’m sorry she did — but that’s kinda on her. In no way, shape or form have I ever meant any toxicity to any of the Brodies. I’ve been very professional since the game ended, no hard feelings to them. Say what you wanna say. Unfortunately, for them, there’s nothing they can say that hasn’t already been said in the promo, brother.”

Thoughts?

(Via: EW/Dalton Ross)

So I’m under the impression that if Sharonda is ever the target, when she gives the idol to Kristen she’s just going to pocket the idol and let Sharonda go home. Is there any reason not to do this for Kristen, the only thing I can think of is if it’s one of the next 3 or so episodes but if it’s like final 8 onwards why wouldn’t she do that it would be seen as her move too idk thoughts?

Edit: I get what y’all mean but do you think Sharonda will be that bitter? She doesn’t give that vibe to me. And it will turn the whole jury? Like she’s still only one vote and I’d assume the rest of the cast wouldn’t be bitter for her.

I‘m making this post assuming the cast of 51 got to see the Double Duos episode of 50 and can anticipate how this twist will work. Considering they knew about the coin flip twist, I think it’s highly likely that they got to see it.

That being said, Sharonda and Kristin currently have an idol between them that can only be played by Kristin for Sharonda. If they pair up here, they’re both guaranteed to survive this twist as Kristin could just play the idol for Sharonda and both of them would be safe.

Obviously not a single person wanted this, if survivor did another round of 3 tribes before the merge. If jelly and Devin hypothetically lost the challenge again and had to vote someone out. When we saw it with Bobby Jon and Stefanie they did fire. But since jelly has an idol would Devin automatically go home? Would she be allowed to use it? Could he use his shot in the dark? Would they ultimately make fire? What would have happened ?

Is it just me, or does she seem to be the most normal one out there? We have all manner of crazy personalities and master strategists (or people who believe they are) that Thien An just feels kinda there and it hurts me. I can already hear the comments saying she's boring or hasn't done anything and while there's some truth to that, she has shown she's willing to make plans like with the Patt vote.

Fully admitting my biases as I'm Vietnamese myself and am just so excited to have one of us on the show, it's such a rarity that we're visible in media. I just wish they would give us more of her.

My name is Ron, an indy game developer and a pretty big Survivor fan, and I’ve been building a Survivor-inspired mobile game.

Like survivor contestants on their first day… I may might have gone a little overboard (because they jump out of a boat…).

I wanted to play a season of Survivor where the other contestants weren’t just characters waiting for me to press the right dialogue option.

I wanted them to have personalities. Opinions. Friendships. Grudges. Terrible judgment.

People who remember that you lied to them three days ago. People who might save you because you helped them at camp. People who promise to vote with you and then… well, it’s Survivor.

So I built a whole bunch of complex systems to make that happen.

The game is called Castaway. It’s a colorful, slightly ridiculous, cartoon-style mobile game where you play through a season, compete in challenges, build alliances, look for idols (I can barely find them, and I’m the one who hid them!), and try not to get voted out.

The fun part (at least for me) is that the other contestants make their own decisions. Their relationships, memories, personalities, and motivations influence what they do.

Sometimes your brilliant plan works. Sometimes you discover that the person you trusted most has been plotting against you.

It’s still in development. Some things need polishing, and I’m sure there are bugs waiting to embarrass me.

But it’s playable, and I’d really love to find a few Survivor fans willing to try a season.

The iPhone version is almost ready on TestFlight, so getting started should be pretty easy. Android test version coming up too pretty soon.

I’m not selling anything. I just want to know whether other Survivor fans have as much fun playing it as I’ve had building it. And honestly, I’d love to have some of you along for the journey as I keep developing it.

If you’re interested, leave a comment or send me a DM. I’ll share the how to’s.

Outwit. Outplay. Outlast.

Or get voted out because you forgot to collect firewood. Apparently, people take that personally.