Talk:Beware the Walking Dead/@comment-9949103-20190829210058

And finished! Like always, this premiere was beautifully written, Wafflez, and it was jam-packed with a lot of twists, personalities, and drama, which made it quite entertaining on my part!

I'll start of by saying that, on the writing and theme standpoint, you completely had me hooked, line, and sinker just based off of that intro and the pictures of Hashima island. The whole island being set in some mysterious zombie apocalypse among all these abandoned buildings makes this one of the coolest and most unique settings I've ever seen in ANY season, canon or fanon! I absolutely love it, gives me such Fallout/Resident Evil vibes, and it honestly just makes me even sadder that most modern survivor seasons will probably never be leaving Fiji.

The cast, however......well, let's just say I'm not completely sold yet ;) I'll get to that a bit later though. Starting off with the two people eliminated this episode:

Eulogy to Will: Dude, it really sucks that Will got taken out of the game before we even got to learn anything about him. The minute that it became apparent that the loser of the Supply Run would be going home, I knew that Will was a goner. There was no way, from a story perspective, that Lynsie going first would have made any sense. Glad to see her still around, but I'm sad that Will was a casualty of it since the only thing he's going to be remotely memorable for now is looking like Jesus.

Eulogy to Kristine: Ugh, it really annoyed me that Kristine got voted off first, especially since she was one of the few girls who I actually liked during the premiere. I liked her flirting with Adrienne, her passion for adventure and living, and her OTP bitchiness after the challenge in dissing her fellow castaways in her confessionals. She was catty, but I liked it! Overall, she did play way too fast in trying to blindside Suzi of all people and it became her undoing, but I still liked her and wish she would have stuck around for longer over some of the other idiots on her tribe.

Speaking of Seizon-sha (Loving the tribe names too btw), I have to say that, unlike in Maldives, I like the people and the dynamics on the guys tribe SIGNIFICANTLY more than those on Seizon-sha right now. Aside from Lynsie and Adrienne, there's no other girls left in the game that I can genuinely say I am full-on rooting for.

Lakynn is utterly trash, basically a recycled Brittany from Anambas but about a thousand times more annoying with all her stupid "Hello, fellow Millenial!" banter that just had me cringing through the entire beginning portion of the episode. She really should have been the first one to go, seeing as she is completely useless to her tribe in all realms and, as a viewer, just makes me want to pull my hair out.

The other girl who I hate even more though is Farrah, who tried to be the next Kristin with her whole "I don't trust her, she's playing too hard" thing with Kristine, but ended up being WAY more boring and annoying. Seriously, her whole reasoning for not trusting Kristine and that she was playing too hard was because she agreed to Suzi's plan to vote out Lakynn and didn't shoot it down in front of a bunch of other people like a crazy person? Farrah is the definition of a dumbass and clearly doesn't understand basic strategy if that is what gets her all in a huff. It doesn't help that everything else she says just puts me to bed based on how much of a borewhore she is. I just find her to be a copy of Kristin (Both from South Africa and Nikumaroro), Jillian, Natalie, Whitney, and all the other sassy and spoiled females from the previous seasons. She's an unoriginal bitch, and her saying that she'd "settle things with her fists if she wasn't in the game" is about as funny as her oversized Dracula chin.

Most of the other girls are pretty meh, not super annoying but not enough content yet to be on my radar yet. Hopefully we'll get to see more of Gemini and Kendra soon.

Ambrielle...well, Ambrielle is complicated for me. I like her a lot, and gameplay-wise, I think she's put herself in an AMAZING spot. The scene of her talking about Suzi burning bridges by yelling at Auggie was definitely me when having to read through people like Carole, Courtney, and Maci, so I really appreciated that. However, I'm kind of questioning her whole reason for going out on the show because of Olay thing now. Like, I get it, Olay was nothing but a generic sassy stereotyper her whole season and Ambrielle wants to prove that not all POC are like that, but the way she phrased it in that confessional was REALLY weird. I mean, she contradicted herself by saying that there hasn't been enough "black excellence" on the show but then also namedropping Jasmine and Ebonie. The way that she phrased it, it sounds like Ambrielle sees a problem with all black girls not being portrayed as strong, strategic, and independent, which makes her delusional in my opinion. Of course, not every black girl sounds or acts like Nubia or Olay, but I can confidently claim that not all black girls who go on Survivor are going to be these perfect little angels either! Like, what does Ambrielle actually want? For all of the black women on the show to be portrayed as these super strong and smart powerhouses like Jasmine? To me, it's not that she seems to have a problem with Olay negatively portraying POC stereotypes, she seems to have a problem with ANY black girl on the show who wasn't "excellent" by her own dumbass standards. This rant has already been super long, but her reasoning just came off as so stupid. It'd be like me saying I'm mad at how white men get portrayed on these seasons by saying "For every Spencer and Matt, there's always an Allen or a Walker". It just sounds stupid and that she's mad that there are people under her race and gender label on the show who haven't met her "excellent" standards, as if they mattered in the first place :P

Rant over, aside from that one confessional though, I do like Ambrielle. I just want to see more of her personality develop before I decide on if I like her or not.

The return of Lynsie was amazing though, and Adrienne seems like a surprising "out of her element" type character whom I really felt for at the end of the episode. Even though I don't blame Kris for throwing her under the bus, I am glad that Adrienne survived the vote because I feel like she has a lot to offer as a character and I can't wait to see where she goes.

On the guys side, I'm surprised, but not so actually, at all the Auggie hate. Off the bat, he does seem like a total Derek and searching for not one, but TWO, idols in the first episode is definitely not a great sign, but he's someone who I find myself laughing at constantly because I just can't take him seriously. I love his interactions with a lot of the older members of his tribe and his "IDGAF" attitude about the game and the idols is something that I actually find myself excited for. It sounds like a nightmare to have to play with, being with someone who is almost like an Abi in a sense, but I am totally here for Auggie's mess of run xD

Marc is already a mess as well, calling out Sterling constantly for complaining about the rain but then spending the rest of the episode complaining himself<3 I smell a pre-merge trainwreck on wheels with him and, once again, here for it. I also really like Jack and Kevin as well, the latter for being a positive and quiet presence to balance Marc's idiocy and the former for surprising me with how complex of a character he seems to be after only two confessionals. I thought Jack was originally gonna be old man asshole of the season, but his genuine passion for unity among the tribe and comparing the game to the armed services definitely shows a softer side. I am hoping that he can last because he has me the most intrigued at the moment.

This comment has already gone on long enough so I won't go into every detail for any longer, but just know that I am also totally excited for the Infected Twist and Rianne finally entering the game<3

Rooting for Lynsie, Adrienne, Auggie, Jack, Kevin, Rianne, and Sterling the Rainman<3