Let's talk about the fake teams, shall we? Several groups of wanna be survivors have grouped together despite the fact that they should be murdering each other. Among them is the mess that is Shawn Morrison and Ben Whatshisface.
After a while of Ben being completely stupid with his weapon (an entire bag of bandannas), he figured out how to use it to his advantage, and is now lying to Shawn and saying that they're on the same team. Shawn has no reason not to believe this, despite the fact that his mentor pretty much told him not to trust Ben. In fairness though, that mentor talks in the most complicated ways. Stupid, really. If Shawn was on Jarred's team, then Ben would be dead. However, this already fragile alliance got even more fragile after Shawn murdered Jaszmine Johnson with a snake.
Actually, that reminds me! The Most Amusing Kill Thusfar Award goes to Shawn for that display! Snake death. Who woulda thought?
What was I saying? Oh, yeah. Basically, if Shawn doesn't figure out by morning that Ben- who now has a gun- isn't on his team, then it's because Ben finally did something smart and murdered him.
Or because Shawn is a stoner and most of his braincells are really quite dead.
Moving on!
Up next is the weird mini-team of Jhamel Thomson, Jeanette Beunindia or however you spell it, April Stone, and Brenda Hernandez.
...Oh, and also that Eloise chick, but she doesn't really count because she's not very interesting.
Man, if these four (I'm sorry, five) weren't as terrible at this game as they are, they would almost be kind of fun to watch! I mean, between the group hug, getting a wrench thrown at them, Jeanette deciding to be a player and only telling April, Brenda being a really terrible Team Mom, Eloise wandering off to die, and brilliant product placement of Cliff Bars, there's something for everyone!
Except intelligent people, who would tell you that forming a supergroup based on two separate teams is stupid, especially when one of those teams (*coughBROWNcough*) has no good weapons, while the other has a gun, a wrench, and a knife between two people. Seriously, Jeanette, Jhamel, I get that you're trying to be nice, but get your shit together and start killing before I get my shit together and change the channel.
There's also the downright bizarre team of Marcus Walker and Anna Higgins. I don't even know where to begin on that one. Just...what? I mean, seriously, what. I really want Marcus to start killing people. If he gets rid of the annoying white girl first, well then...I wouldn't be complaining. Just saying.
Other than that, these team-ups have been pretty dreadful. I mean, it's not that they aren't amusing, it's just that so far really only Karen Ruiz has figured out that teams or not, it's kill or be killed. Why hasn't any full team joined up to start killing? That's what I would do. And hey, think of it this way, you're actually saving lives! More people on your team decide to kill, the more people on your team survive. It's win win!
Seriously folks, get your game on.
Right, well, I've got to go find a way to make Max let me back into our apartment. Until then, follow me on twitter @KittyMcHugh, and stay tuned! I promise more fake awards and wonderful drinking games will abound! Cheers!
Actually, that reminds me! The Most Amusing Kill Thusfar Award goes to Shawn for that display! Snake death. Who woulda thought?
What was I saying? Oh, yeah. Basically, if Shawn doesn't figure out by morning that Ben- who now has a gun- isn't on his team, then it's because Ben finally did something smart and murdered him.
Or because Shawn is a stoner and most of his braincells are really quite dead.
Moving on!
Up next is the weird mini-team of Jhamel Thomson, Jeanette Beunindia or however you spell it, April Stone, and Brenda Hernandez.
...Oh, and also that Eloise chick, but she doesn't really count because she's not very interesting.
Man, if these four (I'm sorry, five) weren't as terrible at this game as they are, they would almost be kind of fun to watch! I mean, between the group hug, getting a wrench thrown at them, Jeanette deciding to be a player and only telling April, Brenda being a really terrible Team Mom, Eloise wandering off to die, and brilliant product placement of Cliff Bars, there's something for everyone!
Except intelligent people, who would tell you that forming a supergroup based on two separate teams is stupid, especially when one of those teams (*coughBROWNcough*) has no good weapons, while the other has a gun, a wrench, and a knife between two people. Seriously, Jeanette, Jhamel, I get that you're trying to be nice, but get your shit together and start killing before I get my shit together and change the channel.
There's also the downright bizarre team of Marcus Walker and Anna Higgins. I don't even know where to begin on that one. Just...what? I mean, seriously, what. I really want Marcus to start killing people. If he gets rid of the annoying white girl first, well then...I wouldn't be complaining. Just saying.
Other than that, these team-ups have been pretty dreadful. I mean, it's not that they aren't amusing, it's just that so far really only Karen Ruiz has figured out that teams or not, it's kill or be killed. Why hasn't any full team joined up to start killing? That's what I would do. And hey, think of it this way, you're actually saving lives! More people on your team decide to kill, the more people on your team survive. It's win win!
Seriously folks, get your game on.
Right, well, I've got to go find a way to make Max let me back into our apartment. Until then, follow me on twitter @KittyMcHugh, and stay tuned! I promise more fake awards and wonderful drinking games will abound! Cheers!
Interesting analysis here. I am curious: do you believe that the teams are actually fake? If not, do you think any team has a chance of making it to the end intact at all? Right now, only Purple Team is still running at full strength (and a tip of the hat to Jared for that one), and even they may take some casualties soon, given the predicament with Odile and the whole mess at the hotel.
ReplyDeleteI think purple team has a great mentor and luck on their side to be the only group realistically able to have a majority of them reach the end.
ReplyDelete"Why hasn't any full team joined up to start killing? "
I think Orange team (from what Vincent/Tiffany planned) had plans to do exactly that, if it weren't for the incredibly bad luck that team has been having, before they can even work it out.
Dunno if some of the kids got it in them to start killing anyways, yet, joined or not.
ReplyDeleteUsing Orange Team as an example, Sullivan and Dexter had the motivation. But the Tam kid's messing around with White Team at the moment, and somehow I don't think that the other two are gonna be much help, if ya know what I mean.
I suspect rather strongly that, counterintuitive though it may seem, the influence of having grown up watching SOTF-TV has actually resulted, at least in part, in the low number of killers this season. If you examine the contestants, you will notice that most of them are showboating to at least some degree. Note how often most of the killers have let people go for no real reason (Vincent is a prime example of this). This is because they have seen this done in the past. Now, in early seasons, such a thing would probably be put down to nerves. Here, though, I feel it is theatrics, as the students ape popular scenes and modes of behavior from past seasons.
ReplyDeleteAnother good example of this is Zach. Note that he has managed to consistently put himself in great danger during his kills, all in what seems to be an effort to portray himself as some sort of badass. I cannot speak to whether he is truly sadistic or not, but if he is, he is doing a poor job of suppressing it while trying to act the hero, and, if he is not, he is doing a poor job of trying to feign it while attempting to act the villain. In the end, it does not matter which is true; hero or villain, he will be dead if he keeps taking chances like he has been. We know from the online profiles that he is a large fan of SOTF-TV. I wonder whether he would be in much better shape right now if he was not. I suspect that if he had never seen the show, he would be much more cautious, and that he is modeling on behaviors he thinks will be successful without really considering their root causes, and whether or not they are at all applicable to the situation.
Perhaps I should write a whole article on this phenomenon.
Do it Yellow. I want to read that!
ReplyDeleteI think the teams are also at a bit of a disadvantage because the producers don't put them together at the start. Who knows, maybe it makes good television to have your whole team on one end and your whole team on the other. Think about Jake Langston for instance (no one else does), he's such a homebody that he's been immediately bonding to people that he knows from home, except that none of those people are on his team. Why would he even think about helping people on his team when he doesn't even know who they are? However, that does stand to change if he can get out of that cruise ship without Odile or Amber killing him after what happened to Cesar. We'll see if Odile is above team killing at this point.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like the producers are far more interested in what makes a good story (like putting the Shawn/Mae/Zach love triangle in the same forest at the opening) than actually having a team effort, but that's just my opinion.