Talking About Stuff, with Mike and Christiana

I want to start this post by encouraging any of you out there who are not Survivor fans already to give the show a chance. Commit yourself to five episodes. Just watch the first five episodes and then participate in the discussions (here or elsewhere,) afterwards.

If you do that and still don't enjoy the show, fair enough. At least you gave it a fair shot. However, I suspect that if you do watch those first five, you'll find yourself watching the rest of them too. By the time the finale comes around, you'll be a full-fledged convert.

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Okay, now for some predictions.

Christiana’s Prediction #1:

Although Stephanie and Bobby Jon will be showing up, I do not think that they will be just playing the game like all of the new castaways. I think they will be involved in some other, perhaps only subtly different, capacity. Team captains of some sort, for example. Also, look for reactions from the other playels to vary from nonplussed to outright pissed.

Christiana’s Prediction #2:

The strife and chaos will start early. The first few episodes are usually fairly sedate, since everybody’s still trying to be nice to each other and they’re still well-fed and psychologically sound. But this bunch is skewed much younger, with more than half of them in their early-to-mid-twenties, and none of the young ones particularly strike me as much of a leader. Furthermore, some of the older ones might be more inclined to take charge, but I suspect that they will come across as bossy, and the young, know-it-all castaways will resent it. So I predict at least two heated arguments before the episode is over.

Christiana’s Prediction #3

Amy will be the first to go, for exactly the reasons I mentioned above. She’s a corrections officer, and used to taking control of things. She’s also used to people having to do what she tells them under threat of force. This would not necessarily be a problem, except that, from her intro video, she doesn’t seem to realize the distinction between her job and working with people who she can’t smack around. This will not go well and they will boot her for it.

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