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Post by lexvandenberghe on Jun 3, 2015 8:07:34 GMT
42. Mike Skupin (Australia) - Aussie Skupin is the Heisenberg of Survivor, a swirling mass of potential encapsulated in 6 perfect episodes. We'll never know what might have happened if he never fell into the fire. He might have dominated the season and become a top 10 character, or he could have flamed out and been forgotten, another alpha male relegated to the early jury. Instead, he's like an insect encased in amber, perfectly preserved for our everlasting enjoyment.
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Post by Host Brian on Jun 3, 2015 16:08:17 GMT
42. Mike Skupin (Australia) - Aussie Skupin is the Heisenberg of Survivor, a swirling mass of potential encapsulated in 6 perfect episodes. We'll never know what might have happened if he never fell into the fire. He might have dominated the season and become a top 10 character, or he could have flamed out and been forgotten, another alpha male relegated to the early jury. Instead, he's like an insect encased in amber, perfectly preserved for our everlasting enjoyment. I'm sorry Lex, but I'm afraid I can't let you do that. Any man who appoints himself as the leader of his tribe and claims that it was God himself who bequeathed this title onto him deserves higher than 42. It's only fitting that a man appointed by god should have the god idol played on him. |
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Post by Host Brian on Jun 3, 2015 16:41:03 GMT
42. Eliza Orlins (Vanuatu): Eliza is great. She's the first cockroach character - someone who is extremely grating and annoying, yet they somehow last a lot longer than anyone expects. Eliza making it to 4th, despite getting into fights and have issues with half of the people post-merge, is pretty damn impressive. Early on, Eliza was initially a part of the short-lived younger girl's alliance, and then she jumped ship to join the older women, sparing amazing people like Scout, Twila, and Ami. From there, we see Eliza butt heads with a lot of different people as she works as a servant scared straight from Ice Queen Ami. At the merge, when Feminist Goddess Ami proceeded to slaughter all of these evil men who tried to oppress her, Eliza was just so damn annoying that the alliance shattered over whether or not they'd boot Chris before her. Instead, Eliza, Scout, Ami, and Chris team up in the pivotal power shift of the season, and Leann goes home. Eliza gets EVEN WORSE, and her fights with Twila get more frequent and intense.
Beyond all of that, Eliza's facial expressions are legendary enough and don't need much of an introduction. Her FTC was phenomenal, and I think would be more remembered if Julie hadn't started crying at Chris. Eliza's paranoia also inspired a lot of heavy sighs, eye rolls, and head shaking. Seriously, go watch every TC that she attends, and odds are she has her bag and mentions the fact that she's going home, and then someone else reacts accordingly. I think 41 is a little high, and it was between her or Ami as the next Vanuatu cut.
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Post by Jonny "FIGGA" Fairplay on Jun 3, 2015 19:11:19 GMT
Shouldn't Eliza be 42 now that you've idol'd Skupin?
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Post by Host Brian on Jun 3, 2015 19:31:00 GMT
Fixed
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Post by Jonny "FIGGA" Fairplay on Jun 4, 2015 0:00:16 GMT
41. Tyson Apostal (Tocantins): The man...the myth...the legend. There's just so much to love about Toca-Tyson. He's such a far cry from how he is in BvW, blatantly not caring about the game he's playing with his comment that "apparently either Brandon or Coach is the tribe leader, I dunno, I wasn't paying attention." Then there's him going naked on seperate occasions just for the hell of it. Tyson's just funny all around. Excitedly smashing ceramic pigs into the ground when Timbira wins a challenge is a personal favorite of mine. His boot episode is great because he's just blatantly calling Sierra stupid right to her face, then gets voted out by her. Outfoxed by an idiot, indeed. Sadly, I think it's time to let him go and have Coach take his rightful spot as the top Toca character.
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Post by lexvandenberghe on Jun 5, 2015 23:13:51 GMT
Pick up the pace
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Post by Jonny "FIGGA" Fairplay on Jun 7, 2015 4:19:42 GMT
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Post by Jonny "FIGGA" Fairplay on Jun 7, 2015 14:14:01 GMT
I'm taking this rankdown hostage. If no one makes a cut in 24 hours I will start systematically cutting faves. SEAN REKTOR WILL BE THE FIRST TO GO.
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Lol jk but seriously guys, we're almost done.
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Post by kass on Jun 7, 2015 15:23:59 GMT
40. Rob Mariano (Marquesas): OG BRob is pretty great. What with his friendship with Sean, slamming the Rotu 4 (Never 4get), and just being kinda fun and snarky, OG BRob is pretty great. That being said, John fucking rekt him. Still interesting that Sean was replaced by him (what were you thinking @ production) so because of that, we got Romber (<3). Aw well. I like Marquesas BRob a lot and 40 seems like a good spot for him
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Post by tbird on Jun 7, 2015 18:40:14 GMT
39. Deena Bennett (Amazon): I was waffling between a few different names here, but I settled on Deena because she's the least important "historically" and yes I think that counts for something when determining character impact.
Anyway, Deena was production's best decision when casting for their first Battle of the Sexes season. When you watch her, you can see the structure of other feminist icon characters like Ami and Twila that would make Vanuatu great. I'm shocked that I had to be the one to cut her because she's one of those people to whom I could listen for hours and not get bored. The thing about Deena is that she's a lawyer; she loves to argue, and she's particularly good at it. The thing that separates her from future feminist lawyer argument warrior Kass is that Deena argues because she's right pretty much 100% of the time. There are at least 7 or 8 times in Amazon where somebody starts to raise their voice at Deena, only for Deena to immediately shut them down with the cold hard truth that completely annhilates any hope they had at ever being right again (Afterward, Deena usually gives them the prototype of the Denise Stapley face that her and Denise were still developing in a lab in the Mojave. It would not be weaponized until 9 years later.) Deena only gets taken down when Rob gets scared because she's better than him in every way, so he decides to stab her in the back.
I'm cutting Deena here because she doesn't really have a centerpiece moment for me to point at. Holding Shawna hostage is pretty funny, but in kind of a subdued way that's only funny on rewatch. She's just one of those characters where if you're watching Amazon with somebody, you say "Shut the fuck up. Deena's getting screentime, and I wanna hear what she has to say." That's perfectly alright with me.
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Post by Host Brian on Jun 9, 2015 2:20:46 GMT
Seriously, we're so close to being done. FINISH. STRONG.
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Post by lexvandenberghe on Jun 9, 2015 10:46:35 GMT
Waiting on Grant.
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Post by Austin on Jun 9, 2015 16:23:50 GMT
SORRY ABOUT THE DELAY, I KEPT PUSHING IT BACK BECAUSE I'M DUMB.
38: Greg Buis (Borneo): As a massive Greg fan, I didn't think I'd be the one to cut him. And to an extent it's because I'm running out of people I can cut - having said that, this feels like a good spot for Greg.
Greg is one of those people who has natural charisma, and honestly every time the camera turned to him, I was pretty pumped. There was always something witty on the tip of his tongue. Greg ALSO gave little to no shits about the game of Survivor, as far as the edit's concerned anyway, and that's just a bundle of fun - having someone repeatedly troll the producers, even managing to actually get the creators cursing, is pretty damn impressive. There's the coconut phone, the flying fish, the fake crying - if you want a list of the things Greg did, read his Funny 115 entry. And the best part is, these weren't like, isolated incidents, something funny happening to or around Greg - it was more an extension of his personality, which is awesome.
The oddest thing about Greg was, he was actually pretty good at Survivor. Along with Gretchen, Greg was at the top of Pagong's hierarchy (granted, it was Pagong, so maybe not the greatest of achievements in retrospect) and if he made it to the end, I can see him beating just about anyone, except for possibly Gretchen. And when his number was coming up, we did see some of what Greg could've been - flirting with the leader of the counter-alliance, trying to throw Jenna under the bus to keep progressing. (Greg's hatred of Jenna, by the way, is one of the funniest and oddest sub-plots in Borneo.)
Honestly, I'm not entirely sure what Greg wanted out of Survivor. He wasn't there for the strategy, even if he had potential for that. He wasn't there for the "microcosm of society" angle, if the derision he treated it with is any indicator. And maybe the money was an incentive, but I don't think that was it either. I think Greg went on Survivor because he thought it would be a laugh and an experience, and I think that's why he's astounding.
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Post by lexvandenberghe on Jun 9, 2015 21:41:54 GMT
This may get idol'd, but the people who should be cut I can't because I tried already.
37. Scout Cloud Lee (Vanuatu) - The high priestess of chick power. It's hard to put the Scout experience into words. The lasting memory I have of her is the morning after Rory was voted out, when she sat by Sarge singing a little ditty while Sarge exercised every bit of self control he learned in the military to not choke her out like they were in a UFC cage. I'd put more but I'm on a phone and typing is a bitch.
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