Tonight's episode is titled "Did You Vote for a Swap?" It'll be
interesting to see if either Christian or Gen end up at the camp where
the third Billie Eilish idol has yet to be found. If one of them ends up with two BE idols going into the end game they could be unstoppable.
IIRC, we still have three more celebrities left to impact the game. That along with the usual powers could mean someone could literally "power"
their way to F3.
More later ...
On 3/11/2026 1:30 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
Tonight's episode is titled "Did You Vote for a Swap?" It'll be
interesting to see if either Christian or Gen end up at the camp where
the third Billie Eilish idol has yet to be found. If one of them ends
up with two BE idols going into the end game they could be
unstoppable. IIRC, we still have three more celebrities left to impact
the game. That along with the usual powers could mean someone could
literally "power" their way to F3.
More later ...
Another New Era player voted out. Goodbye Q. I liked tonight's episode
minus the cringe of Jeff rapping.
On 3/11/2026 7:36 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/11/2026 1:30 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
Tonight's episode is titled "Did You Vote for a Swap?" It'll be
interesting to see if either Christian or Gen end up at the camp
where the third Billie Eilish idol has yet to be found. If one of
them ends up with two BE idols going into the end game they could be
unstoppable. IIRC, we still have three more celebrities left to
impact the game. That along with the usual powers could mean someone
could literally "power" their way to F3.
More later ...
Another New Era player voted out. Goodbye Q. I liked tonight's episode
minus the cringe of Jeff rapping.
Some comments about the episode.
--For the second episode in a row they spend a ton of time giving us a multitude of reasons why certain people might be booted and about 15
seconds on the person who actually went home. Are we supposed to believe that Q's boot was totally orchestrated by Mike White?
--The long segment(s?) near the beginning with Emily's tribe had me
thinking I had missed the IC and that she was going to get booted. I was thinking to myself "Em, WTF are you doing?!" She made one mistake after another despite acknowledging that she was screwing up. She was smart to build a number of connections because I think that kept her off the hot seat.
--I like that they're not hiding pregame relationships. According to Angelina, she and Mike White are best buds. Mike White let us know that
he and Ozzy know each other. I can see Ozzy appearing in a future Mike
White project along with Emily.
--I'm tired of Christian's over acting with the same shocked expression
for everything. Devens isn't much better.
--Jeff once again demonstrated that he's not concerned about player
safety. Colby looked visibly hurt when he banged his head during the IC
and Jeff's reaction was to comment how hard Survivor is. Colby should
have been checked for a concussion.
--I loved how Gen threw Aubry UTB to every member on her tribe. I was surprised that Tiff is a Aubry stan. I hope those two don't take out Gen.
--The best part of the episode might have been Rizo asking Charlie when
was the last time he talked to Maria. I was kind of surprised at how
bitter Charlie still is and that voting for your number one is more important to him than voting for who played the best game. When he asked Rizo who his number one was in S49 and who he voted for to win, I was a
bit shocked when he told us that Rizo is basically his number one target now. I thought Rizo gave a great answer when he said he voted for
Savannah over Sophi Balerdi because she played a better game. Is Charlie essentially saying that he thinks Kenz played a better game than he did
in S46?
--Rizo's story about Cirie is true. He did meet her when he was 18.
Someone (him?) posted a photo a while ago of him meeting Cirie at a
Survivor event.
--So far I've been dead wrong about how fast people would get booted
this season. Q was booted on Night 8 and was just the fourth player to
go with one of them being an injury removal. The season's essentially at
the one-third mark and there's still 20 players left. How many people
are going to get paid-off by MrBeast to quit the game?
Next Episode
Sounds like Mike White thinks he's a mastermind and Zac Brown shows up
on the island with a guitar!
On 3/12/2026 1:30 AM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/11/2026 7:36 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/11/2026 1:30 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
Tonight's episode is titled "Did You Vote for a Swap?" It'll be
interesting to see if either Christian or Gen end up at the camp
where the third Billie Eilish idol has yet to be found. If one of
them ends up with two BE idols going into the end game they could be
unstoppable. IIRC, we still have three more celebrities left to
impact the game. That along with the usual powers could mean someone
could literally "power" their way to F3.
More later ...
Another New Era player voted out. Goodbye Q. I liked tonight's
episode minus the cringe of Jeff rapping.
Some comments about the episode.
--For the second episode in a row they spent a ton of time giving us a
multitude of reasons why certain people might be booted and about 15
seconds on the person who actually went home. Are we supposed to
believe that Q's boot was totally orchestrated by Mike White?
When you have a near-unanimous vote against someone as was the case here (Steph is the only one who seemingly didn't get the memo), I don't think Mike gets all the credit.-a He might have initiated the move, but Emily
and the others fell in line pretty quickly.-a In a way, Emily sort of set the stage by deviating from the party line early and bonding so quickly
with Angelina.-a What's not clear to me is why Steph was seemingly the
only person left out of the vote.-a If they were doing some kind of vote split in case Q had an idol or used the SITD, it didn't seem that way
from her reactions to the vote.
--The long segment(s?) near the beginning with Emily's tribe had me
thinking I had missed the IC and that she was going to get booted. I
was thinking to myself "Em, WTF are you doing?!" She made one mistake
after another despite acknowledging that she was screwing up. She was
smart to build a number of connections because I think that kept her
off the hot seat.
--I like that they're not hiding pregame relationships. According to
Angelina, she and Mike White are best buds. Mike White let us know
that he and Ozzy know each other. I can see Ozzy appearing in a future
Mike White project along with Emily.
The continuous gratuitous references by the show to White Lotus are annoying.-a I found it especially irritating the way the show catered to Angelina's bragging about her cameo in White Lotus by so blatantly
showing her scene from that show.-a Do we really need to keep kowtowing
to White with all this fawning and free advertising?
--I'm tired of Christian's over acting with the same shocked
expression for everything. Devens isn't much better.
They are both being hot dogs and performing excessively for the camera. Devens is at least staying somewhat in character with his past persona,
but the slapstick we are seeing from Christian is weird.-a He is over- acting like crazy, though I have to admit I laughed at the meta humor
when he did that fake fall after TC last week to enable Rick to hide the fake idol.-a After he got up, Christian deadpanned "I meant to do that", which it turned out was actually literally true.
--Jeff once again demonstrated that he's not concerned about player
safety. Colby looked visibly hurt when he banged his head during the
IC and Jeff's reaction was to comment how hard Survivor is. Colby
should have been checked for a concussion.
I agree.-a I actually wondered if they might have stopped the challenge
to have him checked out and then just didn't show it.-a Colby hitting his head was all on Chrissy who was looking right at him and should have
told him to duck.-a They've run that challenge many times and someone
almost always ends up getting hit or running into something.-a I know the show loves this sort of physical humor, but they seriously might have to start having the players wear helmets when they do this challenge.
--I loved how Gen threw Aubry UTB to every member on her tribe. I was
surprised that Tiff is a Aubry stan. I hope those two don't take out Gen.
--The best part of the episode might have been Rizo asking Charlie
when was the last time he talked to Maria. I was kind of surprised at
how bitter Charlie still is and that voting for your number one is
more important to him than voting for who played the best game. When
he asked Rizo who his number one was in S49 and who he voted for to
win, I was a bit shocked when he told us that Rizo is basically his
number one target now. I thought Rizo gave a great answer when he said
he voted for Savannah over Sophi Balerdi because she played a better
game. Is Charlie essentially saying that he thinks Kenz played a
better game than he did in S46?
No, he's just saying that when you are in an alliance with someone, you expect your alliance partner to vote for you if you make it to the
finals.-a Maria was Charlie's alliance partner and famously voted against him in the final vote, which is what gave the win to Kenzie (Ben has confirmed that he would have voted for Charlie had he been required to
vote in a tie).-a Obviously that's a sensitive topic to Charlie, and I
can understand his view, even while not necessarily agreeing with it.-a I also think that a smart player like Rizo should have known better in the
way he responded to Charlie.-a He should have lied and either said
Savannah was his number one or that he voted for Soph.
--Rizo's story about Cirie is true. He did meet her when he was 18.
Someone (him?) posted a photo a while ago of him meeting Cirie at a
Survivor event.
--So far I've been dead wrong about how fast people would get booted
this season. Q was booted on Night 8 and was just the fourth player to
go with one of them being an injury removal. The season's essentially
at the one-third mark and there's still 20 players left. How many
people are going to get paid-off by MrBeast to quit the game?
Amazingly, there are still more players in the game than have ever
started a US season.-a At this point, they would almost have to cut two people from each episode in order to fit the remaining number of episodes.
And if the plan is indeed to have Mr. Beast buy people off to leave the game, how could the show's producers have counted on this happening?
There is no way they could have anticipated how many if any players
would allow themselves to be bought out in such a manner?
One would hope the show will come up with a more elegant solution to
getting down to the normal number for the finale.
Next Episode
Sounds like Mike White thinks he's a mastermind and Zac Brown shows up
on the island with a guitar!
Are we getting a Zac Brown advantage next?
On 3/12/2026 5:54 PM, Rick wrote:
On 3/12/2026 1:30 AM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/11/2026 7:36 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/11/2026 1:30 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
Tonight's episode is titled "Did You Vote for a Swap?" It'll be
interesting to see if either Christian or Gen end up at the camp
where the third Billie Eilish idol has yet to be found. If one of
them ends up with two BE idols going into the end game they could
be unstoppable. IIRC, we still have three more celebrities left to
impact the game. That along with the usual powers could mean
someone could literally "power" their way to F3.
More later ...
Another New Era player voted out. Goodbye Q. I liked tonight's
episode minus the cringe of Jeff rapping.
Some comments about the episode.
--For the second episode in a row they spent a ton of time giving us
a multitude of reasons why certain people might be booted and about
15 seconds on the person who actually went home. Are we supposed to
believe that Q's boot was totally orchestrated by Mike White?
When you have a near-unanimous vote against someone as was the case
here (Steph is the only one who seemingly didn't get the memo), I
don't think Mike gets all the credit.-a He might have initiated the
move, but Emily and the others fell in line pretty quickly.-a In a way,
Emily sort of set the stage by deviating from the party line early and
bonding so quickly with Angelina.-a What's not clear to me is why Steph
was seemingly the only person left out of the vote.-a If they were
doing some kind of vote split in case Q had an idol or used the SITD,
it didn't seem that way from her reactions to the vote.
Mike White might not deserve all the credit but the edit only showed him mentioning Q's name. The edit seemed to imply Mike White did all the
work. Hopefully we'll find out next episode.
I think Steph was left out of the vote. Maybe they're setting her up to
be the next target.
--The long segment(s?) near the beginning with Emily's tribe had me
thinking I had missed the IC and that she was going to get booted. I
was thinking to myself "Em, WTF are you doing?!" She made one mistake
after another despite acknowledging that she was screwing up. She was
smart to build a number of connections because I think that kept her
off the hot seat.
--I like that they're not hiding pregame relationships. According to
Angelina, she and Mike White are best buds. Mike White let us know
that he and Ozzy know each other. I can see Ozzy appearing in a
future Mike White project along with Emily.
The continuous gratuitous references by the show to White Lotus are
annoying.-a I found it especially irritating the way the show catered
to Angelina's bragging about her cameo in White Lotus by so blatantly
showing her scene from that show.-a Do we really need to keep kowtowing
to White with all this fawning and free advertising?
Jeff loves when celebrities are Survivor fans. Some free advertising to
keep them talking Survivor is a small price to pay as far as Jeff's concerned.
--I'm tired of Christian's over acting with the same shocked
expression for everything. Devens isn't much better.
They are both being hot dogs and performing excessively for the
camera. Devens is at least staying somewhat in character with his past
persona, but the slapstick we are seeing from Christian is weird.-a He
is over- acting like crazy, though I have to admit I laughed at the
meta humor when he did that fake fall after TC last week to enable
Rick to hide the fake idol.-a After he got up, Christian deadpanned "I
meant to do that", which it turned out was actually literally true.
I'm totally confused about what happened at the last TC. What heist did
they pull off?
--Jeff once again demonstrated that he's not concerned about player
safety. Colby looked visibly hurt when he banged his head during the
IC and Jeff's reaction was to comment how hard Survivor is. Colby
should have been checked for a concussion.
I agree.-a I actually wondered if they might have stopped the challenge
to have him checked out and then just didn't show it.-a Colby hitting
his head was all on Chrissy who was looking right at him and should
have told him to duck.-a They've run that challenge many times and
someone almost always ends up getting hit or running into something.
I know the show loves this sort of physical humor, but they seriously
might have to start having the players wear helmets when they do this
challenge.
Chrissy was a horrible caller. I'm not a fan at all of that challenge. Someone is going to get seriously hurt.
--I loved how Gen threw Aubry UTB to every member on her tribe. I was
surprised that Tiff is a Aubry stan. I hope those two don't take out
Gen.
--The best part of the episode might have been Rizo asking Charlie
when was the last time he talked to Maria. I was kind of surprised at
how bitter Charlie still is and that voting for your number one is
more important to him than voting for who played the best game. When
he asked Rizo who his number one was in S49 and who he voted for to
win, I was a bit shocked when he told us that Rizo is basically his
number one target now. I thought Rizo gave a great answer when he
said he voted for Savannah over Sophi Balerdi because she played a
better game. Is Charlie essentially saying that he thinks Kenz played
a better game than he did in S46?
No, he's just saying that when you are in an alliance with someone,
you expect your alliance partner to vote for you if you make it to the
finals.-a Maria was Charlie's alliance partner and famously voted
against him in the final vote, which is what gave the win to Kenzie
(Ben has confirmed that he would have voted for Charlie had he been
required to vote in a tie).-a Obviously that's a sensitive topic to
Charlie, and I can understand his view, even while not necessarily
agreeing with it.-a I also think that a smart player like Rizo should
have known better in the way he responded to Charlie.-a He should have
lied and either said Savannah was his number one or that he voted for
Soph.
I saw it differently. I thought Rizo handled it perfectly. If I was
Charlie I'd be happy to hear that I have a great chance of getting
someone's vote even if I'm up against their number one. I wonder how bad Charlie felt when he got home and discovered that Rizo, Sophi, and
Savannah are super tight with each other?
--Rizo's story about Cirie is true. He did meet her when he was 18.
Someone (him?) posted a photo a while ago of him meeting Cirie at a
Survivor event.
--So far I've been dead wrong about how fast people would get booted
this season. Q was booted on Night 8 and was just the fourth player
to go with one of them being an injury removal. The season's
essentially at the one-third mark and there's still 20 players left.
How many people are going to get paid-off by MrBeast to quit the game?
Amazingly, there are still more players in the game than have ever
started a US season.-a At this point, they would almost have to cut two
people from each episode in order to fit the remaining number of
episodes.
And if the plan is indeed to have Mr. Beast buy people off to leave
the game, how could the show's producers have counted on this
happening? There is no way they could have anticipated how many if any
players would allow themselves to be bought out in such a manner?
One would hope the show will come up with a more elegant solution to
getting down to the normal number for the finale.
If they do a F3 they need to get rid of 17 people in 17 days. That would
be brutal on the players if they were to do a challenge every day. They
need to start doing some double TCs. MrBeast will offer enough money to ensure they get the required number of players to leave.
Next Episode
Sounds like Mike White thinks he's a mastermind and Zac Brown shows
up on the island with a guitar!
Are we getting a Zac Brown advantage next?
I don't recall them saying preseason what advantages he and Jimmy Fallon
are bringing to the game. Maybe Zac Brown's part of a reward? He'll
perform at The Sanctuary. lol
On 3/12/2026 9:58 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/12/2026 5:54 PM, Rick wrote:
On 3/12/2026 1:30 AM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/11/2026 7:36 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/11/2026 1:30 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
Tonight's episode is titled "Did You Vote for a Swap?" It'll be
interesting to see if either Christian or Gen end up at the camp
where the third Billie Eilish idol has yet to be found. If one of >>>>>> them ends up with two BE idols going into the end game they could >>>>>> be unstoppable. IIRC, we still have three more celebrities left to >>>>>> impact the game. That along with the usual powers could mean
someone could literally "power" their way to F3.
More later ...
Another New Era player voted out. Goodbye Q. I liked tonight's
episode minus the cringe of Jeff rapping.
Next Episode
Sounds like Mike White thinks he's a mastermind and Zac Brown shows
up on the island with a guitar!
Are we getting a Zac Brown advantage next?
I don't recall them saying preseason what advantages he and Jimmy
Fallon are bringing to the game. Maybe Zac Brown's part of a reward?
He'll perform at The Sanctuary. lol
Where good things happen....yuk, yuk.
On 3/12/2026 8:28 PM, Rick wrote:
On 3/12/2026 9:58 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/12/2026 5:54 PM, Rick wrote:
On 3/12/2026 1:30 AM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/11/2026 7:36 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/11/2026 1:30 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
Tonight's episode is titled "Did You Vote for a Swap?" It'll be >>>>>>> interesting to see if either Christian or Gen end up at the camp >>>>>>> where the third Billie Eilish idol has yet to be found. If one of >>>>>>> them ends up with two BE idols going into the end game they could >>>>>>> be unstoppable. IIRC, we still have three more celebrities left >>>>>>> to impact the game. That along with the usual powers could mean >>>>>>> someone could literally "power" their way to F3.
More later ...
Another New Era player voted out. Goodbye Q. I liked tonight's
episode minus the cringe of Jeff rapping.
Next Episode
Sounds like Mike White thinks he's a mastermind and Zac Brown shows >>>>> up on the island with a guitar!
Are we getting a Zac Brown advantage next?
I don't recall them saying preseason what advantages he and Jimmy
Fallon are bringing to the game. Maybe Zac Brown's part of a reward?
He'll perform at The Sanctuary. lol
Where good things happen....yuk, yuk.
I saw a promo for Ep 04 where Zac Brown comes out like we used to see
during the loved ones visits. There's a bunch of shocked looks but the
shot was too tight to confirm they were about to do a challenge. I
wonder how many of them had no idea who he was? I'm familiar with the
name but had no idea what he looks like until the S50 stuff. Anyway, I'm fearing another cringe segment this week.
On 3/16/2026 9:58 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/12/2026 8:28 PM, Rick wrote:
On 3/12/2026 9:58 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/12/2026 5:54 PM, Rick wrote:
On 3/12/2026 1:30 AM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/11/2026 7:36 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/11/2026 1:30 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
Tonight's episode is titled "Did You Vote for a Swap?" It'll be >>>>>>>> interesting to see if either Christian or Gen end up at the camp >>>>>>>> where the third Billie Eilish idol has yet to be found. If one >>>>>>>> of them ends up with two BE idols going into the end game they >>>>>>>> could be unstoppable. IIRC, we still have three more celebrities >>>>>>>> left to impact the game. That along with the usual powers could >>>>>>>> mean someone could literally "power" their way to F3.
More later ...
Another New Era player voted out. Goodbye Q. I liked tonight's
episode minus the cringe of Jeff rapping.
Next Episode
Sounds like Mike White thinks he's a mastermind and Zac Brown
shows up on the island with a guitar!
Are we getting a Zac Brown advantage next?
I don't recall them saying preseason what advantages he and Jimmy
Fallon are bringing to the game. Maybe Zac Brown's part of a reward?
He'll perform at The Sanctuary. lol
Where good things happen....yuk, yuk.
I saw a promo for Ep 04 where Zac Brown comes out like we used to see
during the loved ones visits. There's a bunch of shocked looks but the
shot was too tight to confirm they were about to do a challenge. I
wonder how many of them had no idea who he was? I'm familiar with the
name but had no idea what he looks like until the S50 stuff. Anyway,
I'm fearing another cringe segment this week.
I still really have no idea who he is.
This reminds me how on Hell's Kitchen they often bring out supposedly
famous or well-known chefs whom I have never heard of - and the
contestants often ooh and ahh like it's their long lost best friend, but I've always wondered if they really don't know who some of these chefs
are either.
Full disclosure:-a I've never really heard of MrBeast either and am only vaguely aware of Billie Eilish.-a At least I do know who Jimmy Fallon is.
On 3/17/2026 8:28 AM, Rick wrote:
On 3/16/2026 9:58 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/12/2026 8:28 PM, Rick wrote:
On 3/12/2026 9:58 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/12/2026 5:54 PM, Rick wrote:
On 3/12/2026 1:30 AM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/11/2026 7:36 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On 3/11/2026 1:30 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
Tonight's episode is titled "Did You Vote for a Swap?" It'll be >>>>>>>>> interesting to see if either Christian or Gen end up at the >>>>>>>>> camp where the third Billie Eilish idol has yet to be found. If >>>>>>>>> one of them ends up with two BE idols going into the end game >>>>>>>>> they could be unstoppable. IIRC, we still have three more
celebrities left to impact the game. That along with the usual >>>>>>>>> powers could mean someone could literally "power" their way to F3. >>>>>>>>>
More later ...
Another New Era player voted out. Goodbye Q. I liked tonight's >>>>>>>> episode minus the cringe of Jeff rapping.
Next Episode
Sounds like Mike White thinks he's a mastermind and Zac Brown
shows up on the island with a guitar!
Are we getting a Zac Brown advantage next?
I don't recall them saying preseason what advantages he and Jimmy
Fallon are bringing to the game. Maybe Zac Brown's part of a
reward? He'll perform at The Sanctuary. lol
Where good things happen....yuk, yuk.
I saw a promo for Ep 04 where Zac Brown comes out like we used to see
during the loved ones visits. There's a bunch of shocked looks but
the shot was too tight to confirm they were about to do a challenge.
I wonder how many of them had no idea who he was? I'm familiar with
the name but had no idea what he looks like until the S50 stuff.
Anyway, I'm fearing another cringe segment this week.
I still really have no idea who he is.
This reminds me how on Hell's Kitchen they often bring out supposedly
famous or well-known chefs whom I have never heard of - and the
contestants often ooh and ahh like it's their long lost best friend,
but I've always wondered if they really don't know who some of these
chefs are either.
They probably don't know who some of the chefs are. When the players on
BB25 first saw Cirie many of them had no idea who she was.
Full disclosure:-a I've never really heard of MrBeast either and am
only vaguely aware of Billie Eilish.-a At least I do know who Jimmy
Fallon is.
I know who MrBeast is thanks to tons of articles and videos on the top YouTubers. Also, there was a contestant (Matt Turner) on BB24 that used
to work for MrBeast. Did not part on good terms. The stories we were
allowed to hear on the live feeds were pretty crazy and made MrBeast
sound very bad/unethical.
Billie Eilish is a huge star. I've heard her music enough and have had people point out that it's her to now recognize her music. She and her brother are very talented.
I actually knew Jimmy Fallon is a Survivor fan before S50. I wonder if
he got a free trip to Fiji?
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