Not on cable tv so you will be fine.

Third episode was another good one. The host is getting better at tribal councils. I think Brooke is my early pick to win. She seems to have a good head and unlike some other players she isn't forcing the votes to go how she wants.

The episodes are extremely long. By the time we get to the tribal council I've almost checked out. The show has a feel from the very early survivor seasons back in 2000. Players look like regular people instead of reality tv contestants and they're also way more focused in the surviving against the elements aspect instead of building alliances and playing the game.

By the way after watching multiple Australian shows (Big Brother, Bachelor now Survivor) it sounds to me like a lot of Australians end every single sentence in a question. Is this a thing there?

yup, it is. and end sentences in connectives "i have no idea what she was doing though"

yup, a lot more basic survivor but still enjoying it. Lee might be gone. That tribe is **** though.

Evan should of just took the clue and found it for himself and not worried about other stuff.

I'm finding it's the complete opposite for me. To me everyone is playing the game really hard. All three tribes chose 'deceit' rather than honesty on Day 5. Don't know how much harder you can play. You're probably getting more footage of the cast surviving the elements because the episodes are longer. Episode 3 clocked in a 1hr 15mins.

I'm very much enjoying the longer episodes. One thing that really irritates me in the US version is that everything is crammed breakneck speed into 40mins, so screen time is extremely valuable. Therefore whenever we see footage for example of someone looking for an idol you just know they're going to find it. When we see Michelle getting screen time last year, we know something was sketchy so it was a possible "winner's edit" because it made no sense why'd they'd be showing her. She was completely irrelevant to the game. We even had esad every year wasting his/her time tracking all the confessionals and coming up with his/her cockamania algorithms for spotting the winner LMAO.

I much prefer it this way where we can just watch and enjoy the show rather than try to see if we can outsmart the producers. The show needs to be more free flowing and this is what we're getting. Works for me.

Super bummed that Evan got ousted, he was hilarious. Kat needs to go!

Yeah, he played that horribly. So strange to keep going on about how you've got a five person alliance and then desperately trying to get the people in that alliance to turn on each other. There are quite a few ways to play that situation and he chose possibly the worst.

Lots of terrible players already so far. Des wtf? lol. Peter is a quitter. Bianca might be the world's worst private investigator. Evan was funny but his face was just too untrustworthy. He was in a fantastic situation in a majority alliance and had found the idol clue that he could've kept for himself. Could've easily coasted real far by not playing the game too fast too soon. Played it as poorly as humanly possible.

Can't figure out why that tribe is clinging to Kat. She seems like the woat and a major reason why they're losing challenges.

The host is growing on me a bit. Did a good job of narrating the blocks challenge, and asking the right questions at tribal. Basically following the Probst blueprint, but then it's a pretty good one to follow.

I also like the longer edit. I'd rather see more of what's going on rather than being force-fed a narrative where key elements are left out, like the American version does at times.

The show's been really good so far and the truth/deceit event played out amazingly, as opposed to what happened in the lolcollar season.

I disagree game play is similar to early 00s US Survivor, a lot of people are playing hard.

And the host is even pronouncing buoy correctly.

Brooke is the early front-runner. Gonna watch e4 now.

Did I say Brooke? I mean Phoebe.

After reading your first sentence, I was gonna say: Are you sure you're a Survivor fan?

But after reading your following sentences about them not playing hard, I'll go with: Are you sure you're watching the right show?

This.

I will admit to generally leaning towards rooting for men, but I find myself rooting for and appreciating Phoebe's gameplay a lot. Kylie also seems super cool, albeit she is on the outs. Those two seem like the main characters of the show for me thus far.

Out of the 24 people there's only a handful who have any concept of what an alliance is and most of them have been voted out because they overplayed already. The show mainly consists of people who have probably never watched the show before and think they are on an adventure. We've already had one quitter. The gameplay has been straightforward abc so far. If you haven't integrated with the tribe or you are some superfan weirdo with no social skills you get voted out. I don't know where you guys see people playing hard so far...

It feels like they are playing too hard because they aren't as experienced. Have a 5 person alliance and then get voted out with 7 left because you are trying to get into a top 3 inside your 5. Play down to 5 and do it gradually, don't over play.

Love the guy who says he isn't going to be in alliances. Lol wtf. Almost like the guy who voted alphabetically.

There's some very basic errors but there is still some good elements.

Thoughts on the twist? I think I like it. Interesting to see how it plays out.

I think the twist is amazing. It immediately creates such a compelling story arc. I'm glad Aganoa won immunity because it would have been so tedious if Kat got yet another life in the game. Nick, Conner and Flick are all compelling characters so I'm happy to see them survive.

I'm trying to think of a US Survivor parallel for Conner. He is pretty good socially and strategically but he breaks down so quickly under pressure. I think he made a good choice in choosing Sam to come with him. He deprives Saanapu of their best challenge player and the person that was sort of the glue for that tribe.

LOL @ the twist. BB producers have made their way over to Australia. That said, I'm glad the twist happened because it would've sucked to lose Nick and possibly Flick (Conner is a dry fish). At least we're getting some compelling TV and will be interesting how this plays out the following days. I don't mind this twist 'that much', seems like it's a mini tribal switch that we get in the US version.

I'm totally expecting a jury buyback at some point in this season.

So much fail in this post. You can say the exact same thing about every US season so far. Only a handful of people in ANY season has the right grasp on how to play survivor. There's only one person that's playing the game like an early Survivor season and that's Barry (the guy who is picking names out of a hat to vote). Other than that everyone is playing the game hard. They might be terrible (ie Kylie wearing the II to tribal) but that doesn't mean they're not playing.

I should add that this is the first Survivor season that I can remember that I know so many names through the first 5 episodes. In the US version sometimes I can get all the way to the end of the season and still can't make out a few names. Usually only a few key people are spotlighted because their story is relevant to that particular episode.

We're getting to know the cast a lot better on a personal level in the AU version and I'm enjoying the show lot more. As long as they don't overdo the twistos twisty twists, I'm good. Any real survivor fan should be loving these longer episodes and having it 3 nights a week. Couldn't be happier.

Nothing wrong if you're into old school survivor. You have to be the exception though in remembering these people's names. I couldn't remember 5 of them and we're like 7 hours in. There's too many people and too many episodes at least acknowledge that. Sometimes less is more.

I just looked at the cast bios and I now believe that I have to either start a charity, be in a horrible accident or have a family member die to have a chance at getting on the show. Interestingly both Andrew and Conner mention playing poker.

That's because you've probably checked out like you said because you find the episodes too long. There's enough interesting characters on the show that you should be able to name at least 5 by now with all the extra time given to them to tell their stories.
Less is more (sometimes) but I subscribe to the theory that you can never have enough of a good thing. Rob said on RHAP that Survivor US is back in a few weeks so it'll be running concurrently with Au. We'll be getting Survivor 4 nights (!) a week LMAO. Works for me since I'm a fan of the show.

Loving this so far.

I know Rob and Stephen complained on KIA about no tribal and 2 many episodes but I personally like 3 episodes a week and the longer time frame.