Survivor 37: David vs Goliath

[Nige]

Because it's never too early!



There will be spoilers in here, so maybe only check this thread after you watch the episode unless you're okay with knowing what happens before you watch.

[Nige]

My first three thoughts on this season:

- The logo is god damn beautiful
- I'm okay with the 'theme' at the moment. I feel like someone from the David tribe has to surely win to keep in line with the narrative
- Super excited to see John Hennigan aka John Morrison/Johnny Mundo/Johnny Nitro. I imagine he'll last until the merge and then get chopped early or mid post merge, depends how much strategic game he has.

[Nige]

I totally forgot to mention this in the previous post, but Ned Schneebly is also on this season.

[Jukes]

Posting with alleged season 38 spoilers below

so there’s apparently going to be four “captains” of returning players among new players:
Joe Anglim
David Wright
Kelly Wentworth
Aubrey Bracco <3

Should be pretty interesting with four well known and liked players amongst the newbies - will they go like Rob at RI or be shot out straight away?

[Nige]

That was amazing season premiere!

The ending was absolutely tragic and flower Probst for shoehorning the theme into the situation, but otherwise a super solid episode.

I loved the fact that we saw so much camp life, all these interactions and alliances forming. The weather and the medevac obviously contributed to the overall editing but that's what made it so good.

Also, everyone got a confessional which was refreshing and great to see. The way they edited Dan's idol find in the flashback was cool and different, and the timelapse of Christian's post-reward confessional was hilarious.

Early favourites after episode are John, Christian, Gabby, Mike, Elizabeth, Nick and Dan I feel like I want to and am eventually gonna like Alison and Jeremy too.

I think we've got a really good cast on our hands though, which usually helps heaps.

[Jukes]

I thought it was very good too, plenty of interesting characters - one of the best premiers since Cagayan. Was looking forward to the tribal council (guy who does nothing vs guy who tanked challenge vs annoying guy at camp) so SPOILER getting badly hurt in something that was a freak accident and not really under his or anybody's control was very unfortunate and sad. Luckily he turned out alright and healthy enough to go on the pre-jury vacation with the rest of them.

Forgot what it's like to have a full 20 characters get some airtime rather than just having Dom do 29 out of 30 confessionals an episode!

Undetermined who to root for as of yet.

[RaisyDaisy]

Hah, as soon as the episode started I said "that's John Morrison!"

Really athletic wrestler who should do well in challenges

Solid episode

[Nige]

We're only 2 episodes in, but god damn has basically everything been great so far.

I'm actually amazed with how well edited the season has been and the cast looks super solid.

They changed up the vote read order which was sick, kept it interesting.

Also Natalie is awful and I've loved the conversation Jeremy had with her.

Christian's such a top notch casting and character, I hope he goes far and does well.

[Jukes]

I don’t want to jinx things because ghost island started well too, but...the first four eps of the season have been really really good. Like historically good. Hopefully it keeps this pace up. I liked Natalia but it was a good boot and I liked the mini-sook.

[jvalles69]

I don’t want to jinx things because ghost island started well too, but...the first four eps of the season have been really really good. Like historically good. Hopefully it keeps this pace up. I liked Natalia but it was a good boot and I liked the mini-sook.

Think the cast is great, but also see a lot of terrible game play for the sake of it.  Davey looks pretty sharp, so I hope he does well.  I think I'll feel more invested when the numbers go down.

[Nige]

Yeah, this season is shaping up really well thanks to a great cast and great edit. Even when players don't get confessionals, I feel like we're still seeing enough of them to know who they are and where they stand. The only person you could maybe argue hasn't been too relevant thus far is Alison who hasn't done a lot since the opening challenge with John on the boat.

[Nige]

Another really high quality episode.

Kinda reminded of the famous Banana Etiquette episode from HvV.

[Jukes]

First ever unanimous merge vote, largest vote margin in survivor history (11), and most votes cast against one player in a single vote (12) - the last two breaking records held by (among others) the great Chris Noble. Poor Elizabeth.

Gabby the only female David left so I’m kind of rooting for her, alongside the Brochachos of course.

[kilbluff1985]

what do you think of Dan

t's his 2 lose with 2 idols but i'm not that confident in him gets to emotional

[crowls]

dan is not going to win,  to many insecurities still holding him back.    gets paranoid easily.
love christian.   greatest nerd on tv.