The editors really tipped their hand during the build-up to the challenge, where Jeff goes from explaining the game to the contestants (a tarp: "High stakes!") to saying something like, "With such small tribes, you REALLY don't want to fall back in the numbers game" that was clearly a post-production voiceover. Are we…

The editors really tipped their hand during the build-up to the challenge, where Jeff goes from explaining the game to the contestants (a tarp: "High stakes!") to saying something like, "With such small tribes, you REALLY don't want to fall back in the numbers game" that was clearly a post-production voiceover. Are we…

Also, did anyone else get the sense that Angie's "umm… cookies!" answer was a defense mechanism to break the tension? It looked like she expected a laugh — as if it's a social tool she's used before — and only now realized (amid her embarrassment) that these people are pretty humorless.

Also, did anyone else get the sense that Angie's "umm… cookies!" answer was a defense mechanism to break the tension? It looked like she expected a laugh — as if it's a social tool she's used before — and only now realized (amid her embarrassment) that these people are pretty humorless.

I'm having some serious cognitive dissonance here between how much I love ogling R.C. and how outright aggravating she is.

I'm having some serious cognitive dissonance here between how much I love ogling R.C. and how outright aggravating she is.

So the cameras are on a live feed to the truck? It's not a tape they sift through later? That makes sense.

So the cameras are on a live feed to the truck? It's not a tape they sift through later? That makes sense.

Dana's non-reaction made me think for just a second that they accidentally got a P.A. in the shot.

Dana's non-reaction made me think for just a second that they accidentally got a P.A. in the shot.

You might be interested in Eliot's essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent," then, which is the first thing I read in college that I called bullshit on.

You might be interested in Eliot's essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent," then, which is the first thing I read in college that I called bullshit on.

Maybe they could have alternating sets of consecutive challenges, like so:

Maybe they could have alternating sets of consecutive challenges, like so:

Yeah, that's pretty clear.

Yeah, that's pretty clear.

From what I've gathered, the contestants go through about three rounds of auditions: once in groups in front of associate producers, who then cull the best (or most interestingly bad) ones to audition individually in front of a producer, who then chooses the select handful that gets to see the judges. By the time…

From what I've gathered, the contestants go through about three rounds of auditions: once in groups in front of associate producers, who then cull the best (or most interestingly bad) ones to audition individually in front of a producer, who then chooses the select handful that gets to see the judges. By the time…

Yeah, but DDL is supposedly recreating Lincoln's actual voice, which was nasally with a heavy country drawl.

Yeah, but DDL is supposedly recreating Lincoln's actual voice, which was nasally with a heavy country drawl.