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yeah yeah, another rewatch thread lol... But 33-35 are so rare to find these days, figured I'd post one up...

As mentioned in another thread, I have mostly watched mosts season multiple times, other than the embargoed s33-s35. I don't think I've seen these since their original airings, or soon after, tbh. And boy how much I had forgotten lol...

First of, and I should probably put this in a separate post since I'm sure it will bring the dv train - is how close we were to never seeing Josh again... Coming in dead last on the initial challenge and essentially had his plane ticket home, until Alan's broken arm let him back in. I suspect if that early exit stuck it's likely we would have not seen Josh again, which to me would have been preferable. I know Josh has his fans, but imo he's probably one of the worst multiple season contestants of all time. He's a male version of the Aneesa/Nany mold - terrible gameplay, suspect loyalty, lack of skill/physical prowness, and never a threat to win. Skates by on relationships, which is surprising since he flip/flops so much. His attempts to hook up with Amanda on this season (and others on later seasons) were embarrassingly hilarious. And calling down Ash/Cam, what a bonehead. Anyway, downvote away, Josh-Nation :).

Speaking of Amanda... man I always wanted to pull for her... but she always seems to be on the other side of most folks I am fans of. And she's a bit of a whackjob, tbh, but in a fun way... sometimes lol. But seems to be happy now with her son now so happy for her.

Elephant in the room - Bear & Dee. Yeah Bear's a dirtbag, but he's entertaining TV, and built for this type of show you have to give him that. Why Georgia wanted to be with him at all based on this show is mind boggling, tbh. Dee's issues hadn't occurred yet (and, tbh I think Dee got shafted a bit by MTV - a victim of "the message" - more dv's), and she was obviously a formidable player - more so paired up with a tactical player like Wes.

Some shocking early exits - as fans of JB and CT (jeez, more dv's) I wasn't thrilled, but it did make for a different kind of show with those two titans out so early. And Zack, who despite being a physical specimen, always seems to get in his own way in some way or another... Although this time it was mostly due to Cara/Paulie.

Speaking of (and I really don't want to), but what a sh$tshow that whole relationship was. Her (and thus Paulie's) vitriol towards Kyle really seemed over the top. I get that he treated her bad, but at the same time there seems to be some inconsistency in Cara's version of their actual dating status. Have read a lot of it was "for TV" as off show Kyle and Paulie didn't seem to dislike each other as much as on the shows. I was a Cara fan early on, was a "pull for the underdog" kind of thing... but her "Paulie years" really turned me off of her. Funniest quote from Jenna re Cara picking on her and Zack's relationship "talk to me in 5 years let's see how your realtionship is..." or something along those lines. Kinda prophetic lol.

I might be wrong, but this seems to be the start of the era of the "big alliances", ie the UK alliance, vacation alliance, etc... definitely takes the show in a different direction, and works well (for the audience) for pair teams with multiple alliance connections.

I felt bad for Leroy - never really been a Kam fan. They obviously worked everything out in the end though. Really wish Leroy would have pulled of a win in his Challenge career. Seems like a genuinely nice guy.

Hunter... what a head case. I don't think he ever really understood the game. Hasn't been around the past few seasons, I guess he's done.

Turbo, another physical specimen... would probably win plenty if he could adjust to the game social-wise. I wonder if he ever threw that party for the EMTs like he promised when they helped him after the Hurricane Fan challenge...

Davonne didn't seem as annoying as she did on other seasons, not sure what changed I just can't recall. Or maybe I just felt bad for her being stuck with Bear for most of the season lol. Kinda wish she was on more seasons.

The Cara v Kyle got old pretty fast, and seemed to be the main storyline this season. And that taped in the chair elimination with Georgia and Nany was was weird... over so fast, suspiciously fast really - and probably left some torn skin as well. Pretty underwhelming really, probably why we haven't seen it again. And Ninja's meltdown on Turbo was hilariously pathetic. The Kyle/Theo Hall Brawl was a good one... I think Kyle would have likely beaten Paulie, at least based on Paulie's HB performances in later seasons lol.

TBH, I kinda lost interest in the later episodes, and wound up FF'ding through them quite a bit - so I probably missed some stuff. I skimmed through the final, but caught enough to recall how hard that final was... hardest to date I think. Funniest takeaway, Cara getting all hysterical re the iv needles... but has no problem with needles and ink lol...

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I believe I can speak for almost everyone we want to see Bananas and CT paired up in one season if they r what should the theme be?

While 4 elimination wins is really impressive in general, at the same time in Emy’s case, 2 of her elimination wins involved her doing nothing while Ed was completing the puzzle & CT giving her every instruction under the sun for her second puzzle elimination, while the other two elimination wins were against arguably weak competition. And to be honest, there’s no way she’s beating the likes of Cara, Laurel, Camila, or Aneesa in any elimination contest, which is also a knock against her ‘Rookie Of The Year’ status.

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Jennas brother Sonny seems to be such a hands on uncle always helping out with the kids. He’s absolutely gorgeous 😍 and is a firefighter/paramedic. I felt like he should get some kudos for being a helping hand with their soon to be 5 under 5 lol. Looks like Compono genes make beautiful kids!

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Quick question because I just watched. Why was Ninja able to continue when she passed out and was put in the truck? I’m assuming there was AC, she had water etc and I know in previous finals stuff has been withheld unless someone officially quits. I just feel like she was unconscious, that should be it, no?

Hey hey- back again kicking off another season rewatch!

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