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Big Brother Season 26 (2024) / Survivor Season 47 (2024)

Makensy is such an idiot. She should want to have a final 2 with Cam, since nobody respects him.
 
After episode 2 The Summit has lost me completely.

It looked like a show about trying to scale a difficult mountain while happening to vote people out now and then.

In ep 2 they did this thing that was stupidly manipulative even by reality show standard. They built a shaky plank bridge and had them cross it one at a time, and then made it so the first person to cross it was forced to cut the bridge with an axe while the last person tried to cross it (He was harnessed in of course). They basically arbitrarily added an elimination and contrived a stupid melodramatic moment where the eliminated person was notified of this by his friends literally having to cut the rope with an axe. It was just so dumb.
 
After episode 2 The Summit has lost me completely.

It looked like a show about trying to scale a difficult mountain while happening to vote people out now and then.

In ep 2 they did this thing that was stupidly manipulative even by reality show standard. They built a shaky plank bridge and had them cross it one at a time, and then made it so the first person to cross it was forced to cut the bridge with an axe while the last person tried to cross it (He was harnessed in of course). They basically arbitrarily added an elimination and contrived a stupid melodramatic moment where the eliminated person was notified of this by his friends literally having to cut the rope with an axe. It was just so dumb.
I take it that there's no need to add it to the thread title?
 
I saw the Friday episode.

Makes me wish more that Cedric lasted longer, and makes me glad Brooklyn didn't last longer.

Angela's imitation of Jennifer Coolidge was a bit too uncanny as she's equally rational as her character in White Lotus.
 
I just now finished watching it.

Brooklyn is the sort of person who makes me want to scream in rage against whatever inferior, incredibly STUPID educational system she went through. What an absolute MORON.

At least I hope she was joking about the hamsters. But there are far too many people who insist that nobody went to the Moon, and there are even people who insist that no astronauts ever went anywhere, that the International Space Station doesn't exist, even though you can see it with the naked eye when it passes overhead, if you know when and where to look.

She'd get along great with this twit from my gaming forum who insists that space aliens from Nibiru gave telescopes to the ancient Babylonians thousands of years ago so they could see Neptune, yet he accused me of making up the entire Oort Cloud when I mentioned the long-range comets I saw back in the 1990s (Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp) when they swung by Earth.

There are several FB groups that are supposedly about astronomy, but are choked with conspiracy bullshit and AI slop pictures purporting to be "the clearest picture ever" of whatever, taken with the James Webb telescope, when it's clearly just crap.

I wonder if Neil deGrasse Tyson knows his name is on one of those groups. He's not the brightest one, but he's smarter than the garbage being peddled there.


I have no idea who Jennifer Coolidge is.

Cute song they made up.
 
I just now finished watching it.

Brooklyn is the sort of person who makes me want to scream in rage against whatever inferior, incredibly STUPID educational system she went through. What an absolute MORON.

At least I hope she was joking about the hamsters. But there are far too many people who insist that nobody went to the Moon, and there are even people who insist that no astronauts ever went anywhere, that the International Space Station doesn't exist, even though you can see it with the naked eye when it passes overhead, if you know when and where to look.

She'd get along great with this twit from my gaming forum who insists that space aliens from Nibiru gave telescopes to the ancient Babylonians thousands of years ago so they could see Neptune, yet he accused me of making up the entire Oort Cloud when I mentioned the long-range comets I saw back in the 1990s (Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp) when they swung by Earth.

There are several FB groups that are supposedly about astronomy, but are choked with conspiracy bullshit and AI slop pictures purporting to be "the clearest picture ever" of whatever, taken with the James Webb telescope, when it's clearly just crap.

I wonder if Neil deGrasse Tyson knows his name is on one of those groups. He's not the brightest one, but he's smarter than the garbage being peddled there.


I have no idea who Jennifer Coolidge is.

Cute song they made up.

She was the very first MILF.
 
Who - Jennifer Coolidge? That actually tells me nothing. And I know I could look her up, but it's 3 am here and I'm so tired I'm nearly asleep in front of the computer.

During the last moments of 20th century, in the movie American Pie, the children in that movie, used that term, "MILF" to describe a character portrayed by Jennifer Coolidge, which was close to the first time that that world had been used in a movie.

I'm just being silly.

Sorry.
 
Who - Jennifer Coolidge? That actually tells me nothing. And I know I could look her up, but it's 3 am here and I'm so tired I'm nearly asleep in front of the computer.

Have you seen White Lotus? She plays Tanya. Who is actually a character very similar to Angela.

I hadn't thought about Brooklyn for months but when they did the montage of her conspiracy theory beliefs, god she's even worse than Angela.

Can't be unhappy about the outcome. It's the second year in a row where the winner of the last head of household made their choice out of loyalty and it cost them the victory.
 
Yeah, Brooklyn is a bread factory short of a picnic. At least she's going to replace the food she stole from Angela.

As for the winner... I just watched the finale.

MAKENSY, WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING?????

I just don't get it. Why don't they understand that so much of the 'friendship' and 'loyalty' are just long-term game moves? Makensy should have taken Cam, because so help me, I don't remember even one thing he did to earn a win.

And Tucker, as the favorite? Ick. At least Quinn was shortlisted. And I'm glad Angela didn't win.

Had to chuckle at the jury discussion, when Taylor said, "Angela, this isn't about you anymore."


I will say this: The BB house wasn't too bad this time, decor-wise, though some of those beds looked just plain weird.
 
Well, the latest Survivor boot was a surprise. I'm fine with it, though, because I didn't like Anika. And hooboy, they are so lucky that she didn't make the jury. Talk about bitter.

But seriously, Andy is hopeless at challenges. He's the one they should have booted.

Now, about those 18 eggs... they have no way to cook them, and the next challenge when they could possibly win their flint back is 3 days away? And they have no way to refrigerate them, so I guess either raw eggs are on the menu, they're going to go to waste, or maybe somebody could figure out another way to make fire (they should be allowed to do that).
 
So... what did they end up doing with the 18 eggs? I guess we'll never know. What a waste.

I'm totally happy with Rome being booted. Talk about clueless. But he did do well in his "let me pretend to be Jeff Probst for a few minutes" speech. I wonder if this will have any influence on what production does in future seasons regarding amulets and advantages.
 
Rome reminded me of Rodger from season 6. And went out first vote after the merge just like Rodger did.

Right now the person I'm rooting for the most is probably Sol but I also like Genevieve's game. I'm surprised they didn't take the chance to boot out Gabe but I think Caroline's argument was strong that he acts as a lightning rod for them. Sue's game is also interesting, she's got Gabler energy so I wouldn't count her out to win.
 
I'll be honest though, The Challenge season 40 is making me want to go back and watch previous seasons. Even though they're made up of real world people. I just watched an episode of season 10. 15 years ago but CJ and Rachel are there. And Bananas hasn't even started yet but according to season 40 he's won 7 times.

I really wish they'd keep going with Challenge seasons based on Survivor and Big Brother players I know.
 
Rome reminded me of Rodger from season 6. And went out first vote after the merge just like Rodger did.

Right now the person I'm rooting for the most is probably Sol but I also like Genevieve's game. I'm surprised they didn't take the chance to boot out Gabe but I think Caroline's argument was strong that he acts as a lightning rod for them. Sue's game is also interesting, she's got Gabler energy so I wouldn't count her out to win.
At this point, the fact that I can match faces and names and have followed their gameplay means they've made an impression on me. It doesn't mean I like all of them, but they have made an impression.

I'd enjoy seeing Genevieve win. I don't know yet whether or not I like Gabe and would want him in the top 3.

I haven't liked Sol up to this point, but that was an excellent use of the advantage he found.


Hm. I just checked to see when TAR will be on next, and current plan is for February 2025.
 
They must have already filmed TAR by now. They're just on a once per year schedule.

So what do you think the odds are Tucker/Rubina appear in the 2026 season? 90%?
 
They must have already filmed TAR by now. They're just on a once per year schedule.

So what do you think the odds are Tucker/Rubina appear in the 2026 season? 90%?
That they'd be recruited for TAR?

I guess they might draw in the viewers. And just because Tucker was a jackass on Big Brother, it doesn't mean he'd be a jackass on every show.

Claire and Derek worked well on TAR, though, because they had an excellent slate of skills (though yodeling isn't one of them) and they were genuinely nice people who didn't deserve eviction for having the wrong color skin.
 
That they'd be recruited for TAR?

I guess they might draw in the viewers. And just because Tucker was a jackass on Big Brother, it doesn't mean he'd be a jackass on every show.

Claire and Derek worked well on TAR, though, because they had an excellent slate of skills (though yodeling isn't one of them) and they were genuinely nice people who didn't deserve eviction for having the wrong color skin.

At least they won a bigger prize than the Big Brother prize. Yeah, they did get bad luck being on the wrong season, but they also legit got beat.
 
Okay, is Andy just off in another reality most of the time? He claimed to have good eyesight, so how the hell did he miss finding EVERY SINGLE ONE of the auction money tubes?

And speaking of Andy, he'd best tone down those smirks, or his former allies are going to figure out that he flipped.

Sol is growing on me a bit.

I am not unhappy with who got voted out. At least they all make the jury now.
 
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