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Oowatanite		#41	[-]
Posts: 9171 (10/29/09 10:32 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Because a TRIPLE boot would have really screwed up their scheduling.
JT4ever		#42	[-]
Posts: 304 (10/29/09 10:44 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Oowatanite wrote: Because a TRIPLE boot would have really screwed up their scheduling. The same schedule they have to adjust all the time for things like Mike's and Russell S's evacs, and other evacs that could still have come later on in the season? That schedule?
Oowatanite		#43	[-]
Posts: 9173 (10/29/09 10:49 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	No, the schedule that says "a scheduled double boot was turned into a single evacuation, so let's switch the next episode from a single boot to the still-required double boot".
JT4ever		#44	[-]
Posts: 305 (10/29/09 10:58 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Oowatanite wrote: No, the schedule that says "a scheduled double boot was turned into a single evacuation, so let's switch the next episode from a single boot to the still-required double boot". "Thereby winding up with 11 players at merge instead of the 12 we were counting on in order to have a 9-member jury starting on day 19 leading to a Final 3 just like in Fiji." No wonder that schedule didn't exist.
Oowatanite		#45	[-]
Posts: 9175 (10/29/09 10:58 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Who says there is a nine member jury ?
JT4ever		#46	[-]
Posts: 306 (10/29/09 11:02 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	They certainly did in Fiji.
GeckoIsGod		#47	[-]
Posts: 1259 (10/29/09 11:42 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	smellofawoman wrote: When is this season supposed to end? There has to be another double boot somewhere... Someone will probably stub their toe and be medivaced.
beatles20147		#48	[-]
Posts: 12568 (10/30/09 1:07 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Definitely had to be a last-minute thing. The two challenges tonight were clearly designed as tribal challenges so no way they had planned for a 12-person merge--maybe 11 though. I'm looking forward to it, but I think I'd be more excited in a season where I actually liked and/or cared about the cast. But either way, this season is in dire need of some variety so hopefully this does the job.
Gestalt		#49	[-]
Posts: 325 (10/30/09 2:52 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Yay first time we merge early!
diRkdARyL.survivorphilipp...		#50	[-]
Posts: 1233 (10/30/09 2:58 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Gestalt wrote: Yay first time we merge early! .."in the history of this game.." [/probst]
JT4ever		#51	[-]
Posts: 308 (10/30/09 6:52 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	beatles20147 wrote: Definitely had to be a last-minute thing. The two challenges tonight were clearly designed as tribal challenges so no way they had planned for a 12-person merge--maybe 11 though. Remember this 5 vs. 5 Foa Foa vs. Galu challenge? No? Well it was one of the challenges featured in the TV Guide season preview. And guess what? It didn't make the pre-merge. My point? These people have more challenges ready than they wind up using. And they can throw challenges together at the last minute, such as the bocce balls, which required only some purple and yellow paint, and tonight's concentration challenge, which didn't even require paint. So the fact that they had tribal challenges ready for this episode? Fails to prove there was any last minute plan shuffling designed strictly to save Russell H.
SuperJude		#52	[-]
Posts: 14839 (10/30/09 7:08 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Yeah just like they "planned" the first ever tribal shuffle...and Africa is STILL considered one of the worst seasons. They can pull different challenges out when they need them, sometimes, yes, to giev a certain tribe an edge. Foa Foa just sucks so it hardly mattered save the fact Production got their little Russell to merge. -SJ™
JT4ever		#53	[-]
Posts: 310 (10/30/09 7:11 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	SuperJude wrote: Production got their little Russell to merge. Yeah, and we all know Russell was in imminent danger of being voted off by his tribe of zombies. Last Edited By: JT4ever 10/30/09 7:15 AM. Edited 2 times.
SuperJude		#54	[-]
Posts: 14841 (10/30/09 7:14 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	No, Russell was in danger of having nobody else to vote off. Please tell me you're actually watching this show and understand they have a PRODUCT to sell. -SJ™
JT4ever		#55	[-]
Posts: 311 (10/30/09 7:16 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	And when Russell gets over to the merged tribe, NO WAY he'll be the obvious first boot. In fact, he'll suddenly be at the bottom of everyone's target list. He'll be even safer than he was on Foa Foa. Last Edited By: JT4ever 10/30/09 7:18 AM. Edited 1 times.
QualityBobby		#56	[-]
Posts: 7243 (10/30/09 8:00 AM) O.o Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Olmec Donald wrote: WylDawg wrote: Thanks for clearing that up Claude..... How did this get posted before Claude's? He's Canookian.... that whole metric time thing is magical.
JT4ever		#57	[-]
Posts: 320 (10/30/09 10:15 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I'm going to reverse myself a bit. I still don't think any of this has anything to do with Russell H, but I now believe that without Russell S' evac, the merge probably would have been with the usual 10 castaways. But I have to go into spoiler mode to discuss my reasoning. Spoiler [+] The Fiji jury started at 12, with a merge at 10, and then 9 jurors voting on a Final 3. The S20 has been spoiled to start its jury at 12, merge at 10, with 9 jurors voting on a Final 3. I'm guessing that was the original plan for this season. Without Russell's evac, we would have had 12 people coming into this week. The challenges would have still been tribal, and the next two boots would have started the jury. This week might or might not have seen an additional double boot episode. Then next week or the week after would have been the merge episode, with 10 castaways. But when Russell left, the show couldn't do the scheduled double boot, which would have left them with 11 cast aways. They couldn't do it the episode Russell left, and they couldn't do it this week. Not as long as they wanted to avoid having one castaway go home and one start the jury at the same TC. The unused TV Guide challenge also supports the idea that they merged earlier than they had been planning. They've done a 15-episode season before. It's not as if post-production costs are so huge that CBS would turn down an additional episode or so of their highest rated reality show. Even with the longer season, the critical merge episode still ends up on the first Thursday of Sweeps. Except instead of being with the usual 10 people, for the first time ever it's with 12. Blame the 12 people merge on Russell. Swan.
spanellers1		#58	[-]
Posts: 910 (10/30/09 10:21 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Only problem that I see is this is going to be the longest fucking merge ever. At least seven more boots until the finale, and then that episode, more merge episodes than ever before. Especially if the power doesn't shift up regularly (with Russell, it probably won't) this might become boring as fuck. Did anyone consider that the TVGuide challenge, instead of being an un-used challenge, might happen in another episode or two if they pull a Fiji-two-teams-one-tribe-one-goes-to-TC or if they actually split into tribes again at F10 for a round or two.
PrettyGoodYear1988		#59	[-]
Posts: 2818 (10/30/09 10:23 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	They play around with production all the time. Whether it's making a F2 in Micronesia due to James' evacuation, or delaying the merge in Gabon (which I totally do not believe was planned, and was merely done to keep the Kota tribe from Pagonging Fang, which they were likely to do).
PrettyGoodYear1988		#60	[-]
Posts: 2819 (10/30/09 10:24 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	spanellers1 wrote: Did anyone consider that the TVGuide challenge, instead of being an un-used challenge, might happen in another episode or two if they pull a Fiji-two-teams-one-tribe-one-goes-to-TC or if they actually split into tribes again at F10 for a round or two. Or it could simply be a post-merge RC in teams, which they do all the time, and which usually use the pre-merge color scheme.

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