My wife thinks the production crew planted the idol for Jake to find, just to make things interesting. She thought it was a bit too easy for him to find it so quickly, when neither he nor anyone else spotted it earlier.
Anyone else think that?
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I think Jake has been given the âdumbâ edit - I mean did we need to hear that he had a 2.6 GPA in high school even knowing he must have passed the bar! So, with that, youâre right 4 days to play hard - he doesnât have to win but even making it to final 3 and having a leg to stand on would be a victory.
TBH, ALL the Reba players (Dee, Austin, Julie and Drew) have a certain amount of over confidence. Austin and Dee especially. Anything can happen in the waining days.
Who knows about the edits and the amount of time he spent. Also that idol was only placed after Julie used Austinâs, so it was less than a day.
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Oh! I didnât know idols were hidden at different points in time (I havenât been a regular survivor viewer). I assumed they were all placed at the start before the contestants arrived.
Idols often are recycled when they are used. Thatâs why they were all looking.
This Drew Gets Moody deleted scene paints a bit of his personality.
In Drewâs exit interviews, he said that he had a conversation just before tribal that made him realize that his name was on the chopping block. I wouldnât say that he was humiliated and mortified. I think he was upset that his game was over (similar to Kellie) and that is how he responded. He also said that he didnât talk to fellow cast members until late summer. He needed that time to decompress.
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Drew himself said he was humiliated and mortified in exit interviews. Primarily because he was so confident and didnât see it coming.
You are right. In this Parade/Mike Bloom interview, he does say that he wasnât mad and that he was humiliated and mortified.
This makes me wonder what order the interviews are in. I think EW and Parade must have been first. In the Parade interview, he hadnât seen the deleted scene yet, while in others, he knew about it.
In RHAP he shared that the cast were all super fans and they wanted it to be a good season. He said that Reba had an agreement to turn on each other at the final six, and that it would be fun to go to rocks. He said that Austin and he had talked about, if they were to win the challenge, who they would (strategically) take on the reward. It was disheartening for him to see that his edit was one of over confidence and lack of substance.
He mentioned that, at 23 years old, he is the youngest cast member this season. That surprised me so I looked up the ages of the others. Brando was also 23. Austin, Dee, and Jake are all 26. Julie is 49 . What surprised me is that Katurah is 35. I thought she was younger. That must be why she called Jake a âbaby lawyer.â
I really miss the Ponderosa videos. I thought Drew had developed a lot of relationships, but in his interviews, he keeps mentioning that the jury hated him.
DId we ever hear why they donât do Ponderosa anymore???
I didnât realize Drew was only 23. Pretty young. I might have also pegged Jake as older than 26.
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I could be wrong, but I thought originally it had something to do with the pandemic.
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Originally it was covid. Now itâs money.
Only the extreme fans watched Ponderosa. Itâs expensive to film and they didnât have the viewership.
I feel like part of the reason they didnât have the viewership is because they never promoted it - at least as a latecomer to Survivor (I donât know, 10 years ago) I didnât know about it for quite some time. With YouTube ad income, seems they could make up some $$$ by posting/hosting it there.
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I agree. They continue to release deleted scenes and I think that brings in viewers/revenues.
Great ending. Except for the excessive number of commercials! Interesting that the winner pointed out that luck played a large part in their win.
I havenât watched the afterparty yet but am ok to be âspoiledâ on any comments there.
My watching started out a little shaky as my DVR didnât have it pegged to record for some reason! So I didnât start watching till 25 mins in and missed how Jake got the advantage. Watched that this morning. Also missed due to tv issues (whats up with that??!) the fire making challenge - will watch that tonight.
But I did see the final jury questions and the result. Dee deserved the win but honestly once she won that last challenge I felt the ending was pretty clear. And it was with Austin getting some votes but Dee comes out on top. I felt the season fell a little flat that the sho-mance makes it to the end. And one of them pretty much assured a win. I wonder if they are still together.
Jake is such an interesting person and player. I would like to know more about him in real life. I would also like to see him cleaned up! I actually think he might be a player from this season (in addition to Caleb) that they ask back.
Ready for 46!! And I was thinking âŠwhat big things do you think they have planned for â50â?! Itâs got to be BIG.
Edited to say, I WISH we would see more jury questions and the players responses. I find that very interesting.
Some takes from the finale last night
although I like having the after party right away - I miss seeing the other contestants who didnât make the jury and finding out how things are today (then we would know if Dee and Austin are still together)
I liked when they used to let the final three make a final speech (not part of an answer to a question from the jury)
Great how Jeff said âall the lawyers liedâ
Not sure why Emily disliked Austin so much
Love Drew being such a book nerd - saying in real life he reads in his spare time
Jake was such an underdog - you ended up rooting for him (he should have never told anybody he had the idol - gotten all the votes and blindsided Dee by himself - that might have gotten him the million)
What a mistake Katurah made not voting to Dee
Austin took it very well when he finally learned Dee had told Julie about the vote - but I think it was a pretty big blow to his game
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Big mistake was not breaking up the power coupleâcouples are of one mind, but have 2 votes, so they are very dangerous.
We saw that first with Rob and Amber, and in the season that had couples competing, when both spouses/partners were still in the game, those who were playing without their partner made sure to break the couples up.
Also like the honest opinions from having the post-show on-site, but miss seeing people cleaned upâsome look exactly the same (Rupert) and some are not recognizable.
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It was also interesting that all 3 lawyers lied about their backgrounds during the game: Katura and Julie not admitting they were lawyers and Jake claiming to be a public defender vs a prosecutor. I guess lawyers are ranking socially with used car dealers!
IMO, Dee edged Austin with the reveal that she was the one who informed Julie and kept the info away from Austin on the Drew blindside when he expressed certainty that Dee had kept the secret. He was pretty cool about that in the after show. Iâm pretty sure he was not so focused on the $1mm at that point. As a U Chicago MBA candidate, heâll make a $1mm pretty quickly if that is what he wants to do. For kicks I looked him up on Linkedin, a 3.96 BS in Economics and Management from Purdue. Definitely not a surfer dude. No wonder he did so well on the puzzles and the math challenges.
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Austin is no dummy and I saw in a profile of Dee that she walked at graduation but had failed a class her last semester so she never earned her degree.
Here is the link to her company
If anything she is the surfer dude not him.
Based on her comments on the recent On Fire: The Official Survivor Podcast, yes, albeit long distance