The "honest mistake" was putting this out where the public could actually see it, when they should have just kept it to a smaller circle of "industry insiders" who have already accepted the inherent racism of the system.

These people are the meningitis of viral marketing.

My plan to just wait right here until ironic "cool" finally lands on the thing I'm already doing is a success!

Well now we're getting somewhere. What did Spencer do to you, Jim? Can you show us on the doll where Spencer touched you?

Talk to me after you turn 40 and realize you were kind of a jackass at 35.

Littlefinger's greatest power is to set things in motion so that any way the chips fall, he wins.

If I thought this show was trying to create actual characters and not just Random Plot Generators, I'd be super pissed about Claire as a character. She is entirely worthless and yet shows up with this air of unearned self-importance that annoys the crap out of me. Lady, you were dead and that was fine. You were…

I totally see your point, but I think you're giving Kass-Tasha way more strategy credit than they seem to deserve so far. Maybe there's an outside chance that Kass has thought through the move in that much depth, but Tasha? That seems really unlikely based on how she's been playing up to now.

I think I found your problem! You stopped drinking and went to sleep.

Is it weird that getting likes/replies from you and JudgeReinhold kind of feels like I just scored a celebrity endorsement?

I'm not on board with the Tasha Train, either. She certainly wants to play hard, but she seems to have a really myopic perception of what that means. It's like she's got the "rules" of how to play Survivor mapped out in her head, and she can't see beyond that and understand that there are actually a LOT of ways to…

Downvoted (not really) for correct use of "you're".

"…the whole thing is a travesty, and you know it."

Nevertheless, I think Excel Saga is a pretty good comparison.

Maybe this was explained and I missed it, but why was the back of the train open at all? I confess I'm not current on my European railroad safety specifications, but it seems a little strange that there would be an open door behind the cafe car. Did the rest of the train get disconnected at some point?

I had the same thought in regards to the idiotic "super soldier" brainwashing situation over in the other plot line. So there's no advanced technology in the world, but they can reliably produce large quantities of high-grade brainwashing drugs? That doesn't make any sense at all.

That's kind of what I love about that story: It doesn't matter if it's true. He had a specific point to make about trust and he made it.

Does anybody else feel like watching Vytas is a little like witnessing the birth of a cult leader? I mean, I think he makes for great TV and all, and I'm glad he's staying, but yikes his mental manipulation game is terrifying.

This is a great idea! I would like to start by keeping you out, since your interests appear to fundamentally differ from my own. It's just common sense.

I think the problem is that Redemption plays out almost like a show-within-the-show.  There are no real stakes there for the "real" players beyond who eventually comes back, and they behave mostly as an audience themselves in Redemption challenges.