[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Survivor Season 47 Episode 10.]
Jeff Probst is aware of he represents “authority” in Survivor. That comes with being the host and showrunner of the long-running sequence. In his 47 seasons as host, he’s realized methods to roll with the punches when contestants categorical disappointment, anger, the works after the seasons air, actually because they don’t really feel their scenes that made it into the ultimate edit present a good image of how they performed the sport. Nonetheless, Probst admits he’s had his “emotions harm” when he sees gamers “speaking trash” about him throughout and after the seasons air. He opened up about this within the November 20 episode of the On Fireplace podcast, the official Survivor aftershow.
This matter got here up when Probst and cohosts Charlie Davis and Jay Wolff mentioned Teeny and Genevieve’s lengthy, arduous speak on the seashore in Season 47 Episode 10 proper after Sol’s blindside within the earlier episode’s tribal council. They weren’t speaking about Probst on this tense dialog, but it surely did spur tearful solo confessional interviews with each of the gamers as they struggled with how the social side of the sport was personally impacting them. As Davis mentioned in On Fireplace, “it’s so, a lot harder to play the sport than you would ever think about” as a result of “these kinds of deep, intense, concentrated human interactions will change you. They’ll change the way you see your self, the way you see the world.”
Probst shared how seeing participant reactions to the present’s edits and their interviews afterwards have modified him.
“I typically really feel like there’s an influence dynamic at play on Survivor involving me, and issues can get slightly complicated for the gamers as a result of I characterize the authority of the sport,” Probst mentioned. “I do know that at instances gamers can get pissed off with me in the course of the sport or when a season is over in the event that they’re not pleased with how they did, or they’re not pleased with the variety of interviews they received, or we didn’t present all their humorous moments, all of which could be true. I do know that I’m typically the individual they wish to blame and I perceive that. And I’ve heard quite a lot of former gamers speaking quite a lot of trash about me after they play. Like Teeny and Genevieve, I get my emotions harm as effectively.”
He trusts that in time, former contestants will ultimately notice that he wasn’t all that dangerous.
“Through the years I’ve began taking consolation at evening by believing, or selecting to imagine, that in years to come back, gamers will see me not as an adversary, however simply as any individual who was doing their finest to create an journey for them and I used to be merely taking part in my half,” Probst shared. “That’s what I hope.”
Regardless of what some gamers might imagine, Probst said that the Survivor creators spend quite a lot of time meticulously assuring that the sport is honest. The Season 47 Episode 10 problem, for instance, required the gamers to have their fingers and ft tied as they inched their means throughout a sand dune whereas pushing a ball. The sand dunes have been similar in dimension. That didn’t simply occur by likelihood; the present’s creators labored arduous to create a degree taking part in discipline.
“This dedication of equity goes again to Season 1,” Probst mentioned. “In the event you got here to location and also you watched a problem being constructed, I’m fairly certain you’d be shocked to see how a lot time is spent on little issues like measuring the space from the beginning mats to the primary impediment. We do it right down to the inch, the tightness of the knots checked by three totally different folks to ensure they’re correct and equal.”
He is aware of that that is one thing the viewers could by no means notice, and that’s okay.
“We take that a part of this present as significantly as we take something. For this specific problem, relating to the sand mounds, the artwork division runs these string traces and so they do three of them per lane alongside the size of the course from begin to end. In order that they’ll have one on the outer fringe of the left, one on the outer fringe of the best, after which one straight down the middle,” Probst defined. “So when the mounds are fashioned, every mound can be touching a kind of string traces. That’s how they realize it’s correct. After which they may double-check it with a measuring tape, after which they may triple-check it with one thing like possibly a one-by-one piece of timber to be sure that every little thing is strictly equal between the strings. And if there are any variations, they’re superb at including or taking away sand as they should after which smoothing it out. It’s a reasonably spectacular course of and I take quite a lot of delight and pleasure to be part of a present that cares this a lot though the viewers by no means sees that.”
Get extra perception into Episode 10 within the full On Fireplace installment, beneath.
Survivor, Wednesdays, 8/7c, CBS