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Post by Jonny "FIGGA" Fairplay on May 3, 2015 6:22:33 GMT
129: Rubert Boneham (All Stars): I love Rupert, I know Jeremy doesn't, but I do. His showing in All Stars is like the best way to show how much of a non-hero he really is, and it makes the claims that he's this great hero that much funnier. He nearly kills his tribe pre-merge because he decides to make a fucking underground shelter next to the water. In the words of Rafa..."Oh no, oh no no no." Pre-merge Rupert is insanely fun, and his brief partnership with Rudy is the stuff Mario Lanza fanfiction is made of.
Dan Foley: HOWEVER...
Once the merge hits Rupert becomes way less fun, and even gets pretty nasty with Tom, and by the end when he gets voted out in fourth he looks happy that the whole thing is done for him. I like him pre merge, but yeah, he in no way aids it post merge,
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Post by kass on May 3, 2015 15:39:10 GMT
128. Osten Carty (Pearl Islands): THESE OLD MEN ARE REALLY HORNY SO JUST FLASH THEM. I love Osten now which is something I would not have said back in 03. Osten is one of the lulziest people ever because he set the precedent for quitting. From drowning in the water, to being scared of Pelican Pete, he had to be one of the most ill-equipped people for Survivor and yet, I relished every moment of him on screen in a weird schadenfreude-esque way. Osten is a great character on a bleh tribe so 128 is a good spot for him, definitely
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Post by Jonny "FIGGA" Fairplay on May 3, 2015 19:09:57 GMT
*Osten Taylor.
Also I'm seriously considering idoling this one. I just don't think it's his time yet. Also Morgan is not a bleh tribe in my eyes, but whatever.
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Post by tbird on May 4, 2015 14:28:51 GMT
127. Tracy Hughes-Wolf (Micronesia): And thus I eliminated the "We are actually kinda competent fans" trio. Tracy was the brains behind the Chet, Kathy, her threesome, and managed to keep the three of them safe longer than anyone could have predicted. Unfortunately, she didn't get much in the way of development outside of the game, so I'm eliminating her here. Also, she looked like she could have been Natalie Bolton's mom, and god I wish we lived in an alternate universe where Tracy survived and Natalie "Tryhard feminist warrior wannabe" Bolton got destroyed pre-jury, but that's a testament to how shitty Micronesia was.
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Post by Austin on May 4, 2015 21:36:01 GMT
126: Trish Hegarty: (Cagayan) Trish is interesting. I had very few expectations for her going in - she was "Brawn" because of her career, but still one of the weaker competitors physically as the game went on. But what I think is particularly interesting is, she impressed me and a bunch of other people, by having a social game that was on fucking point. If Trish gets to the end of the game, she most likely beats anyone not named Spencer or Tasha - and even then that's debatable. Granted, she had no shot of getting there, not even an immunity run since that was improbably, but I'm not debating Trish's gameplay (which was pretty great besides her endgame) here.
Trish had a lot of great moments. Have some pretty entertaining fights with Lindsey and Kass, flipping Kass, "papayas," her brilliant FTC speech, which was legitimately awesome. All of these are fun. However, and I just double checked this, she got FORTY-NINE in the original rankdown. Now, call me weird, delusional, whatever, but that seems incredibly high for Trish. The thing is, when she's on screen, she's fun, and she has some cool behind the scenes stuff to talk about too (that tweet, my God.) But the thing is - and this is why I couldn't ever see Trish as a winner - she was barely shown. It wasn't to the levels of Jefra/Jeremiah, because she had pivotal scenes that needed to make the cut, but I feel like they chipped away at her edit for more Tony/Spencer scenes.
Additionally, we're hitting the point where the players need to not only be consistently entertaining, but they need to have a good story. And I guess you could call Tony backstabbing her, after all she did for him, a good story - but I just don't really see it that way, because the edit didn't really show me that. Trish had good moments, but they weren't shown consistently, and they didn't really add up to much. Trish is good, but she's overhyped, and she's not in the top 100 characters, at least in my opinion.
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Post by tbird on May 4, 2015 21:45:35 GMT
Grant idk why you have to be such a cheapo deapo.
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Post by Host Brian on May 4, 2015 22:05:49 GMT
126: Trish Hegarty: (Cagayan) Trish is interesting. I had very few expectations for her going in - she was "Brawn" because of her career, but still one of the weaker competitors physically as the game went on. But what I think is particularly interesting is, she impressed me and a bunch of other people, by having a social game that was on fucking point. If Trish gets to the end of the game, she most likely beats anyone not named Spencer or Tasha - and even then that's debatable. Granted, she had no shot of getting there, not even an immunity run since that was improbably, but I'm not debating Trish's gameplay (which was pretty great besides her endgame) here. Trish had a lot of great moments. Have some pretty entertaining fights with Lindsey and Kass, flipping Kass, "papayas," her brilliant FTC speech, which was legitimately awesome. All of these are fun. However, and I just double checked this, she got FORTY-NINE in the original rankdown. Now, call me weird, delusional, whatever, but that seems incredibly high for Trish. The thing is, when she's on screen, she's fun, and she has some cool behind the scenes stuff to talk about too (that tweet, my God.) But the thing is - and this is why I couldn't ever see Trish as a winner - she was barely shown. It wasn't to the levels of Jefra/Jeremiah, because she had pivotal scenes that needed to make the cut, but I feel like they chipped away at her edit for more Tony/Spencer scenes. Additionally, we're hitting the point where the players need to not only be consistently entertaining, but they need to have a good story. And I guess you could call Tony backstabbing her, after all she did for him, a good story - but I just don't really see it that way, because the edit didn't really show me that. Trish had good moments, but they weren't shown consistently, and they didn't really add up to much. Trish is good, but she's overhyped, and she's not in the top 100 characters, at least in my opinion. I think you really discounted a lot of Trish's fun moments, because there were a lot more than you brought up. Fooooooooood, the Horse Whisperer, her laugh, and a lot of her facial expressions also were all pretty good, and she consistently made every scene she was in better, which is really hard to do. She's so dynamic, because she's a character with a lot of M and when she isn't UTR (only 3/4 episodes), she was a pretty key character in almost every episode she isn't UTR in. Finding a character who can be OTTP/M/N and CP consistently is really hard to find. She's great as the naive older woman who places all her faith in the most untrustworthy person in the cast as she continually helps bail him out when he over thinks things, and then she ultimately gets taken out by the person she continually saved. Her boot doesn't only make her story, it really drives Tony's character home. She also isn't overwhelming the same way Tony and Spencer are, because of how much screen time they each get. Cool down, even if it's minimal, is normally needed so you can appreciate the character more. I only have one idol left, and I really considered using it, but I'm hoping instead you can appreciate Trish for how great she was. She's easily top 100 in my eyes.
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Post by lexvandenberghe on May 5, 2015 0:52:02 GMT
125. Rory Freeman (Vanuatu) - Loves me some Rory. He was a great commentator, and his little crack comment is legend. This is just a matter of me liking the rest of the people on the list more.
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Post by Host Brian on May 5, 2015 5:12:00 GMT
124. Parvati Shallow (Micronesia) Parvati was a less flirtatious, bitchier person than she was in Cook Islands. Her character in Micro is surprisingly dull, with her role being that of a dull narrator. She survived elimination multiple times due to a ton of quits and medevacs, and ended in a surprise F2 where Cirie, the almost obvious lock to win, got sent packing and finished 3rd. In the end she was more interesting and actually could answer questions, even if poorly, better than Amanda could.
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Post by Jonny "FIGGA" Fairplay on May 5, 2015 5:49:27 GMT
123: Alicia Callaway (Australia): Write up coming soon.
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Post by kass on May 5, 2015 13:51:10 GMT
122. Tammy Leitner (Marquesas): One of my favorite early season "villains" if you can call her that. After John, was definitely running things in the Rotu 4 and she would've been a helluva presence had she lasted longer and not been a part of the most dramatic power shift to that point. She gets this high out of respect (seriously, she'd kick my ass) and for being a badass, on top of that, just being a fun character.
"Zoe. I'm voting for you tonight because, well, I just don't like you."
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Post by tbird on May 6, 2015 1:13:22 GMT
Stephen I'm crying.
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Post by tbird on May 6, 2015 1:18:09 GMT
121. Brandon Bellinger (Guatemala): This one sincerely hurts me. Brandon is a great guy and one of the most enjoyable to watch in Guatemala. He's a country boy who's a little bit awkward who always has a snappy one liner. Everybody loves him, and as such he's the first member from his tribe to get picked off after the merge because everyone can see how big a threat he is. The problem is just that we didn't get enough of him, and we didn't quite get enough deep stuff from Brandon. He brings a lot to the season. He might be my favorite "eliminated at the merge because they're a threat" character, but I recognize that he's at the bottom of this totem pole. Love you BranBell. <3
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Post by Host Brian on May 6, 2015 1:19:36 GMT
121. Brandon Bellinger (Guatemala): This one sincerely hurts me. Brandon is a great guy and one of the most enjoyable to watch in Guatemala. He's a country boy who's a little bit awkward who always has a snappy one liner. Everybody loves him, and as such he's the first member from his tribe to get picked off after the merge because everyone can see how big a threat he is. The problem is just that we didn't get enough of him, and we didn't quite get enough deep stuff from Brandon. He brings a lot to the season. He might be my favorite "eliminated at the merge because they're a threat" character, but I recognize that he's at the bottom of this totem pole. Love you BranBell. <3 It hurts
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Post by Austin on May 6, 2015 2:31:12 GMT
120. Dawn Meehan (Caramoan): Dawn's interesting in Caramoan. I feel like she's one of the better examples of "mother figure tries to balance game with emotions," probably because she was INSANELY cutthroat and took all of the heat for her and Cochran's moves, while he got all of the credit. And I do think that's interesting - but ultimately, much like a lot of the editing in Caramoan, I feel like they downplayed her cuthroatness and gave us emotional scenes, a la Lisa Welchel, albeit not to the (extremely irritating) extent that she did. Also, even if Dawn is objectively in the right regarding tooth-gate (and I'm not getting further into that, because its bee debated to death - people siding with Brenda are morons, end of story) that whole mess just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Dawn is perhaps the nicest human being to ever play Survivor up there with the Gillian's of the world, but ultimately her character emotionally exhausted me, and I don't want that on my screen. I just think the editors could've handled it better, and even if a story's there, that doesn't mean I have to thin its a good one.
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