Talk:Survivor Tiki Tours Inc./@comment-9949103-20190618000704

First of all, lemme just say that I am utterly in LOVE with this new cast! You've really outdone yourself with this one, Wafflez, so many interesting and rootable characters off the bat.

I'll start off by saying that I was unsure about the whole "quick read" format as I tend to enjoy the more dialogue-heavy portions in fanons, but this was actually really good! It still felt fresh, interesting, easy to follow along with, and most of all it felt like your writing still. It actually reminded me a lot of Maldives with the shorter episodes, which I am totally here for.

As for the boot, I found Tim's arrogance and cockiness to be enjoyable for this little one episode stunt. I think that if he had lasted any longer it would have gotten old but to have his unnecessary scrambling come back to blindside him so early definitely made for a satisfying first boot.

From the rest of Pamona, I think that Betty, Halle, and Elvis are my standout favorites so far, though I am liking Ashley and Ivan quite a fair bit too! Everything about Betty being the clueless granny walking ass backwards onto the show is giving me life and I hope that she can survive this right to stay so we can have a season-long spree of her cluelessness!<3

From Diadem, I can't even believe I am saying this but I LOVE Olivia!<3<3<3 From her appearance and her bio, I thought she would just be some boring Brittany 2.0 but she's honestly so much better in every single way. Chewing bubblegum in her confessionals<3 Calling January THAT BITCH<3 Her roundabout insults at Alejandro's age<3 I just love her already, she's such comedy gold and I will be rioting if this stupid penalty vote gets her voted out pre-merge.

I also ironically love Walker for being the bumbling idiot that he is. I knew from that first confessional of his that he would be a slow-moving trainwreck that you cannot bear to look away from and he more than met that expectation. Though I don't agree with his views about Dakoda, I am quite convinced he will not be sticking around for long so I'm going to enjoy his delusional self for the short time he'll be around.

Speaking of Dakoda, they are another person who I am absolutely living for after this premiere. With how many LGBT characters you've in the recent seasons had that have wanted to be role models and use Survivor as their "platform" (Brandon, Jonnie, Katie, etc.), it's really refreshing to see someone who so desperately just wants to play the game. I think that's what really makes them so rootable as they literally just want to come out and play Survivor as they've always dreamed of so to immediately be singled out, be put on borrowed time basically, and then have Walker constantly pick on them, you can't help but root for Dakoda. I was mixed about them going into the season, but I'm fully on #TeamDakoda at this point.

For the rest of Diadem, I like Talk's insufferable talking. She's a whole rabbit hole by herself and I love it. BG also seems really cool and likable as well as Alejandro and January. Peter's story is very heartbreaking and I really appreciated him explaining his mentality to Dakoda and Maci about why no one was reacting to Walker's bullying. He's someone I see making it VERY far in the game.

As for people I don't like, there is no one that I absolutely can't stand yet, but Derek and Maci are certainly not in my good graces. Derek is just really fucking annoying already. "Day 1 idol already! Now I can really start playing!" Yeah, your closest ally just got his ass booted first. Nice playing, moron. I hate the person looking for idols the minute the game starts and his high energy nature is just really grating. He's so tryhard and I would like to see him go sooner rather than later. Maci, on the other hand, was someone who I thought I would love from her bio and appearance. She reminded me of Charlotte from my season Laos so I was excited to see what she brought to the table. However, all I got was a pouty girl who believes that everyone on the tribe should publically fight with Walker over a comment that may or may not have been bigoted and anyone who doesn't is just pure and privileged evil, how dare they not have the audacity to assume homophobia during every other conversation, right? I have no sympathy for players who can't keep their mouths shut in situations like this and, as I said earlier, Peter put it perfectly why Maci was tanking her own game by arguing with Walker. If she turns into Courtney 2.0, I will not be pleased.

Keep up the good work, Wafflez! I am in LOVE with this season so far and cannot wait to find out what happens next.

Go Betty, Halle, Elvis, Olivia, Peter, Dakoda, BG, Halle, and Talk!<3