[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Survivor Season 47 Episode 9.]
There’s a sure viciousness lacking within the new period of Survivor. Gamers nonetheless betray one another to win like they at all times have, however there’s additionally been a swell of help among the many castaways in latest seasons. They congratulate one another on particular person immunity wins as an alternative of feeling the competitors extra fiercely. It’s good sportsmanship that you simply’d see in the actual world, however there are followers of the competitors sequence who wish to see the cutthroat vitality return. That is meant to be a grueling struggle for $1 million, in any case. Jeff Probst addresses the subject of “well mannered” gamers within the new period in the latest episode of the On Hearth podcast, which you’ll be able to take heed to in full under.
The reward/particular person immunity problem in Survivor Season 47 Episode 9, which aired on Wednesday, November 13 on CBS, ended with the dropping gamers hugging the winners with massive smiles on their faces. Podcast cohost Jay Wolff requested Probst if he’s ever “shocked” to see adversaries play good like this. Probst revealed that followers may not agree along with his emotions about this, seeing because it’s his “dream” situation.
“Nicely, that is the place I really feel I at all times lose half the viewers as a result of I really like this a part of the brand new period,” Probst mentioned in On Hearth. “Actually, that is my dream for Survivor. However let me clarify why. Earlier than you begin throwing issues out onto the sector, we create a recreation that we design to push you additional than you most likely have ever gone or ever will go in your life. So we’re going to check you in methods you can not predict or replicate, and we’re going to do it when you’re residing in a jungle with no meals, no shelter, with strangers who’re conspiring in opposition to you. You’re going to study issues about your self you didn’t know. You’re definitely going to impress your self and in doing so, you’re going to encourage others.”
He continued: “You’re additionally going to disappoint your self, and also you’re going to do all of it when you’re enjoying probably the most improbable recreation of deceit the place it’s not solely OK to lie, it’s obligatory to lie. And the query is how good are you at it? After which hopefully when it’s over, you should have some new lifelong pals as a result of solely you all expertise this loopy factor collectively. You’re the one individuals. Your family members won’t ever know what it actually felt like. So yeah, when individuals can play exhausting and are nonetheless capable of have fun others, it lights me up.”
Probst clarified that this doesn’t imply he desires to see much less betrayals on the present. He desires the camaraderie, cutthroat technique, and heartbreak to coexist.
“That is what I need to be clear about: It doesn’t imply that one thing like a blindside at tribal just isn’t and shouldn’t be devastating like Anika’s. Devastation. Bear in mind, it was a full minute after I learn the vote earlier than she may even go get her torch. She was so out of her thoughts. In that second, I don’t count on and even want for a participant to easily say, oh, no drawback, and hug it out. That is situational and it will diminish the super stakes of the sport in case you didn’t reply, actually. Me, I’d be destroyed if anyone I really trusted lied to my face.”
The host then revealed that Anika’s elimination in Season 47 Episode 5 has produced extra in-person fan response than he’s encountered shortly. It made him curious in regards to the participant’s perspective on well mannered gamers, so he requested cohost Charlie Davis, who got here in second place in Season 46.
“It’s been a very long time since followers have commented to me on a blindside like they’ve with Anika’s,” Probst mentioned. “I used to be simply at a dinner the opposite evening and 20 individuals had been there they usually mentioned they beloved it they usually mentioned they beloved it as a result of it was an actual response. I mentioned, I don’t know that that implication that the opposite reactions are faux is true or not, however I’m going to ask on our podcast somebody who’s performed the sport. So Charlie, that’s my query. Is there a brand new expectation within the new period, a brand new worth system that you simply’re imagined to be well mannered or is that this simply each participant’s nonetheless particular person and also you reply the best way you reply?”
“I feel it’s the latter, however bear with me a second as a result of it’s extra advanced than that,” Davis replied. “As a result of if you get blindsided otherwise you lose Survivor, nonetheless you lose Survivor, there are such a lot of emotions {that a} participant is feeling. It’s due to the stakes. It’s since you’ve been pouring your total total being into enjoying the sport, enjoying as finest you possibly can, combating each single day. And so when that every one comes crashing down, your torch is snuffed, you’re feeling so many issues without delay and a part of that could be satisfaction or recognizing, oh, they obtained me, it was a menace, so I’m going to latch onto that. However a part of it could be latching onto an Anika-type response or no matter different response a participant may need. You’ll be able to’t convey 20 totally different emotions in 30 seconds a minute in case you’re Anika. Perhaps she may have gotten yet one more feeling in there, however she was feeling so strongly that feeling of betrayal. I’m certain she was additionally pondering, what? I performed exhausting out right here and someplace within me I’m pleased with what occurred, however what overwhelmed her within the second was simply the shock. It’s totally different for everybody.”
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