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Yay-No Redemption Island and no returning players this year. Suck it Russhole.

Yay no returning characters! That also means no redemption island!

Hey, there's a midget there too.

And it's filmed in Samoa again? That's, what, the 4th season in Samoa?

Premiers Feb. 15.

Dayum. I'm trying to decide who has more breast implants...the men or the women.

Mark my words...we may be Russhole-less this season but don't plan on the good luck lasting too long.

ETA: When I saw the midget, I thought it was Russhole for a quick second but then realized there was no food baby/ beer gut.

I was reading that the one in the green shit is supposed to be one of the villians this season and that the tribes will be men against women.

They all live together on the same beach. They will always be broken up into men versus women for immunity challenges and hosted reward challenges. Some of the reward challenges will not be hosted by Jeff. The contestants will wake up to a challenge set-up with instructions and have to figure out how to win for themselves. It's DIY Survivor and it sounds like a total disaster.

Wtf? Poobst isn't hosting some of the challenges? That plus the fact that they are in the same location (for the FOURTH time) and there is no Hantz family member makes me think they filmed this concurrently with last season. Cheap-ass assholes.

Wow, what a horrible twist.

Between this and American Idol, I think the reality TV genre is starting to die.

Seasons 1, 3, and 4 all had a challenge where they had to make distress signals. I picture it being like that. Or maybe they have a huge puzzle they have to build that takes hours. It could be interesting.

The subtitle One World reminds me of this shitty Saturday morning Saved by the Bell clone that was about these two white people who adopted children of all different races.

Maybe that's where Brad and Angelina got the idea from.

Well, there's no way we're winning the pool this year. Here's the pick we got:

Greg Smith

Plastic Surgeon

Houston, Texas; Age: 64

Hope he remembers to pack his steroids...

I watched the One World preview on the TV Guide channel the other day. The girls all seem a lot more interesting than in seasons past. The key word is "seem" We'll see how they are when the actual show is on. There's a lot of cool, older women, who will most likely be the first ones eliminated.

Almost all the guys seem like major douches.

My DVR is set for the season.

Alicia and Christina FTW!!!

Apart from that, not much to comment on. Matt's a douchebag, but oh well. I love how there are two idiots named Tarzan and Troyzan.

And this season seems to be a direct rip-off of the Vanuatu season. List of similarities:

Men vs. Women

First challenge is on a balance beam (Vanuatu balance beam challenge)

And the preview for next week showed them on another balance beam, and it looked like they were switching places with their tribemates (Here's the similar challenge from Vanuatu)

Nice going, folks from Survivor, you're as stale as Madonna now!

I miss the endurance challenges from the early seasons that used to last 10h or more. I heard they stopped doing them because Jeffrey didn't want to sit there for that long.

Yeah, cuz his job is SO hard.

I just realized that Troyzan is the lovechild of Coach and Terry Dietz

ETA: Apparently the image I used for Troyzan was taken down. Oh well.

Good eye, Ivette. I saw some of this last night while AI was on commercial breaks. The parts I managed to see were one woman breaking her wrist while jumping from a 25 ft tower into a net (good challenge planning there), the gay guy who apparently the other men think is going to rape them in their sleep so they have to get rid of him for no other reason, and several IBWs who tried to get some fire by walking to the guys' camp in their underwear (like the guys would be so bonerfied that they couldn't do anything to stop the women).

Too bad for Nina, at least she fought to stay in the game, unlike many Survivor players.

Someone needs to throw Tarzan's speedo in the fire like Sandra threw Russhole's douche hat in HvV's fire. Anyone as fugly as Tarzan should not be allowed to wear a speedo on camera.