Survivor 51 Trailer Breakdown

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[00:03:17] I've had some theories about the open era, and I do think after going back and watching this teaser that we saw at the end of Survivor 50's finale, that we have some hint of the direction that Survivor wants to go. And I have some interesting takeaways that I'd like to share with you here. So let's go back through it frame by frame, and I'll tell you what I think we might be in store for in the open era.

[00:03:47] And so let's take a look at where we start and we see a boat, a ship. And Jeff tells us a new crop of players is about to birth a new kind. We love to birth. We love to birth in the modern era of Survivor, combining the new era and the open era. We love to birth. We love mud. But interestingly, Jeff calls this a new crop of players.

[00:04:13] That's a very interesting word to call the cast of the season. Let's keep that in mind as we go forward. And so in this new crop of players, we see them. They're intense, very close ups on the players, and they're all ready to go. And there is raining and there's water and there's a fiery intensity.

[00:04:37] And we see a little bit of a glimpse of something being birthed, hatched even. And let's go ahead and we get our first look at the Survivor 51 logo. And taking a look at it, it looks like it's kind of it's bones.

[00:05:01] It's things tied together. It's giving Flintstones in terms of what the font is for Survivor 51 of these things tied together. And we hear from one of our new competitors. It's Brady. And he says, I haven't remembered a game start like this in eons. Now, a couple of interesting things here.

[00:05:27] He talks about the game, the start of the game, which some some something to think about in terms of how the game is going to start. He also describes that he hasn't seen something like this in eons. That's an interesting way to describe a period of time like geological time, like going way, way back. I haven't seen anything like this since eras.

[00:05:54] I mean, you got to kick it back, I think, almost to the single digis, which if I'm trying to think about how we might start the game, I do have a theory on maybe something that we haven't seen in a very long time. But then we get the logo and I'd love to show the full video of what this looks like, because we see this cracking hatching and it's the Survivor 51 logo.

[00:06:23] And it's getting birthed from an egg like a dinosaur. Jeff tells us. And this one has no boundaries. It's Survivor 51. And so to me, we're talking about going back very far in time to come up with something with no boundaries, something that's from an era gone by.

[00:06:51] And I am wondering because Survivor 51 and the open era is feeling to me like is sharing a lot of DNA with. Jurassic Park and that we are taking things and we are combining them in all sorts of ways. And what could go wrong? I don't know. Let's go back to the full trailer from Survivor 51.

[00:07:21] And so we have here are our ship. And here we're seeing Jeff ringing the bell. He looks so happy to see everybody here in this new open era. And just like the nice grandfatherly man that welcomed the participants to his fun new amusement park. That's like Jeff welcoming everybody in.

[00:07:49] And so here we have everybody who is going to be getting stuff off the boat. We have a full on marooning alert. We have not had this in some time. Certainly not in the new era. Maybe going back since was I wish I had this off the top of my head. It was the edge of extinction the last time that we did a marooning in Survivor. So we had times in the new era where we started on a boat.

[00:08:18] This is the first time that we are throwing people off of the boat. Jeff's giving them two minutes to get everything they can off of this boat. Excitement a fun way to start. I have noticed that the people who are jumping off of this boat do not seem to be having any buffs. And so here's everybody on the boat. I don't see buffs. We're going to see later on in the trailer that there are purple and yellow buffs for this season, but they do not appear to be wearing them.

[00:08:47] Going back to what Brady told us in the earlier slide that a game hasn't started this way since way back when. Yes, he could be referring to the marooning, but I also do wonder if there could be maybe a tribe pick pick them a draft perhaps to start this game where the players are going to be picking who's going to be on their tribes. And that's maybe why they don't have buffs yet to start off of the game.

[00:09:17] Just a theory. Nothing that confirms that here in the trailer, but we're going to see our players jumping off of the boat and jumping into the water, grabbing their stuff. All sorts of excitement and adventure to start off the season. And we hear from one of our contestants, Kilby. He says you immediately just see everyone descend into chaos.

[00:09:43] And that's going to be a theme here in the survivor 51 trailer of chaos. And Kilby is going to tell us again, and I'm the most chaotic man you'll ever meet. But you know who else really specialized in chaos? There was a man who was a person who was at the very first Jurassic Park. His name was Dr. Ian Malcolm, and he specialized in something known as the chaos theory.

[00:10:12] And he had a warning for people who would eventually go to Jurassic Park when he finally got there, when he got to see what it was all about. He said, oh, wait, you've created something that has so many unstable different elements of that are completely chaotic. Well, you know, the bad news about chaos is that you can't control for anything. That was the lesson from Dr. Ian Malcolm.

[00:10:39] But it does feel like that survivor 51 and the open era. We are going straight on into chaos and the chaos theory. And here is Kilby to tell us all about it. We're going to hear from Jeff for the first time ever. He tells us in our entire history. Every advantage, every idol, every twist we've ever done.

[00:11:08] 50 seasons of survivor is in play. So you're telling me we went back and we took things that were extinct. Things that were from way back when and we're just we're just bringing them all back willy nilly. That's what you're doing now, of course. There is excitement about some of this where we are going to have some things that we have clamored for to have come back.

[00:11:33] But maybe there's some things that we didn't want to have come back and maybe they will also be back, too. So it is interesting, certainly. And we can see what Jeff said or let's before I get to what jelly has to say that that sure on paper, lots of different things is interesting. But I don't know if I necessarily want to eat a meal that has every single ingredient you could ever imagine all in the same dish.

[00:12:03] It's, you know, a little bit of the Cheesecake Factory menu where we're just maybe going to be ordering. I'll have everything. And maybe that's not necessarily the experience that you want. But here's what jelly has to say. And jelly is in the water. And she talked about it as she says that I feel like I'm on one of those epic roller coasters. You know, the drop is about to hit your stomach in a certain way.

[00:12:34] And but you welcome the drop. You welcome it. And you know what else was a sold to people as a theme park that was going to be fun? You guessed it. Jurassic Park. OK, but the idea of Survivor as a ride. Is also an interesting one to keep in mind of. We're not really talking about Survivor as a game. That's that's boring. What if Survivor was a ride?

[00:13:02] What if you showed up and just the same way you go to a theme park and you're going to have a you're going to have a blast. You're going to have an amazing time. You're going to ride the rides. You're going to you get the drops going to hit. You're not going to know what's happening. And that's that's Survivor. I don't know if that's necessarily where we want Survivor to go, but does feel like that that's the direction that we're pushing and come for the attractions.

[00:13:31] They said when you go out to Survivor and we'll see here's people in the drop. Here's Jeff. And he tells us in voiceover along with dangerous new elements you've ever seen before. OK, so now we're we've we've played with the DNA of Survivor. Now we've created some new dangerous things you didn't even know about before. So watch out for that. And let's see people reacting to the danger. What's around the corner?

[00:14:00] Oh, and a helicopter landing on the island. OK, now this is like we're really reheating the Jurassic Park nachos now. But why is a helicopter landing on the island? Here is a woman theme who says, I think it's landing here. One of the things that we've seen about the cast is five to 51 is potentially 21 players. And it looks like we're going to see a shot coming up where we have perhaps only two tribes.

[00:14:29] And so is there a world where maybe does one player start on Exile Island and then is now joining one of the tribes? That's just one theory I have of why we could be seeing a helicopter landing here. It doesn't seem like in the past where we've had in the case of like a beast mode cowboy, a medical evacuation where the helicopter is landing because this woman seems confused about why the helicopter is landing. They don't appear to be participating in a challenge.

[00:14:58] So it does seem as though this is part of one of the twists that's happening in the season. And so we meet another person. We meet a person named Christian who tells us I am a serious competitor and Christian tells us. And if I'm not winning, I'm going to make sure somebody also loses. Wait, so we've got another nerd. I mean, middle person named Christian in survivor 51. Okay.

[00:15:28] Now this person here is the one person that's talking about that. They are a player. They're playing the game. They're going to make sure somebody else loses. I do think that it will be interesting to watch how this person fares in this environment that we're setting up here in survivor 51. And so we meet, uh, Linnae and Linnae tells us how I grew up in a loud boyish household. What is a boyish household?

[00:15:57] Are there, are there, it seems like that there's boys there or are there actually boys there, but either way she grew up in a boyish household and she says, I'm poop positive. Okay. Like seriously. And then she makes fart sounds. We love a young woman on survivor who talks about poop. We love scatological humor when it comes from a young woman on survivor. Get it. We're, we're having fun. Okay.

[00:16:25] And Linnae, she likes to talk about poop just like Sage and she's gonna do it. All right. Everybody. She's poop. She's not poop negative. Like some of these old fuddy duddies you might see on other shows. Linnae is poop positive. And you know who else was poop positive? That is one big pile of shit. We meet some other people and here's Anna and she's saying, wait, what's happening? Nobody knows. We don't know what's happening. All right.

[00:16:54] You're in the same boat that we are. And nobody knows. All right. Jeff tells us, okay. It's, it's now a shape shifting game. Oh my God. Changing without warning. Creating permanent uncertainty. Oh, I don't like the sound of that one bit. It sounds like to me, a permanently shape shifting game sounds really hard to figure out what's going to happen.

[00:17:21] It does seem to me, if I had to guess what that means. I do think that we are going to see more of a twist of the week type format that we saw back in survivor 50, especially in the post merge where, okay. Now you're in duos. Now there's a power broker. Now, now we're going to have a blood moon. So I think that they are going to be borrowing from things they've done before, but then also coming up with new things.

[00:17:48] And I think that if I had to guess, I would say if I had the over under of how many episodes of survivor in the post merge will have sort of a normal voting structure. If I had said the over under was three and a half, I take the under. I don't think we're going to see a lot of just your normal vanilla survivor in the post merge. If I, if I had to take a guess what that means, we do see here purple and yellow, two tribes.

[00:18:17] Now, again, I'm not going to be all doom and gloom because we said we don't want to see three tribes again. We have two tribes here, but for how long it's a shape shifting game. Could we have two tribes to start the season and then, and then go to three tribes and then go back to two tribes. So I do think that we will have two tribes, but I don't think it will necessarily be permanently two tribes throughout the whole pre merge of this season.

[00:18:43] So there's Brady again. Here's our competitors. We're doing an obstacle course, big explosion. It's not mud, but it's sawdust everywhere. So messy. And Devin says, wait, hold on. There's a Christian and the Devins. He's Devin says, this is what the people have been begging for. And to you, Devin, I ask since when, what, what, who is begging for this?

[00:19:13] What people are you talking to? Devin? He said, he's so happy. This is what the people are begging for. Okay. And I don't know necessarily what he is talking about, but the trailer does make it seem like yes, permanent chaos, a shape shifting game. This is what the people have been begging for. I don't know. Maybe we're not talking to the same people, Devin. And Jeff says, it's the open era of survivor. Welcome to Jurassic Park.

[00:19:41] It's the open era. And here we go. Jeff looks so happy to tell us about the open era. We're open for business in the open era. And there's the survivor helicopter and everybody's jumping in and they were struggling and going through it. Everybody is ready to go here. Here's Kilby. So he's ready for the chaos survivor 51.

[00:20:05] And so Jeff is going to then back in the survivor 50 finale. Jeff tells us after we see the trailer, he says, the open era is taking what you all the star 50 cast built, which is this massive uncertainty and making it permanent uncertainty. And I think the survivor cast is like, what did we do? Why are you putting this on us?

[00:20:33] He says, the idea is that anything that has ever happened at any time on the show can happen on any season at any time in any order without any warning. We've shot 51. It's very fun. It's called the open era. And so that is the closer for, for, for what the open era could be.

[00:20:58] So I don't know necessarily what the open era might end up being, but we do have a sense from Jeff that it could be everything, everywhere, all at once. But this idea of it being that you come to survivor Island and it's going to be chaos. You don't know what's going to hit you. You're just, just go for the ride.

[00:21:27] We've put all sorts of things in here and there's no real way to plan for the show. And there's no real way. If there's no way to plan for the show, I do worry that there's no real way to play the game. There was a clip where Jeff has talked recently about how the game is impossible. That's what you look for is I'm coming to play because it's impossible to win this game.

[00:21:55] It's, I mean, I know somebody wins, but very hard to win survivor because it can get you so many ways. And then the better you are and the faster people see that you're good and you might be better than they are, then they got to take you out. That's the game and that's how we design it. It's impossible to win. So when you do win, holy shit, you earned it because it's impossible. The game is impossible. I don't love to hear that as somebody who has been a lifelong fan of the program.

[00:22:23] I'd like to think that the game, that there is a possible way to have a plan and ultimately execute and do well at survivor. Instead of it being a game of permanent uncertainty by design. I understand from the production why they want to keep it fun. They don't want people to get too far ahead of themselves and to be able to predict what's going to happen next.

[00:22:48] But I do think that there is a balance that you need to have rather than we're going to throw the kitchen sink at everybody every single week. And the players and the viewers are going to have no idea what's going to happen next. And everybody is, their heads going to be spinning because nobody's going to know what's going on. And I understand it's probably more fun for the people who are making the show as it's happening.

[00:23:12] But they've designed something and they've been preoccupied with whether or not they could make this format as opposed to whether or not they should make this format. Now, I will, let me just give you the devil's advocate for maybe why it's not worth it to get worked up about this.

[00:23:37] Because I feel like that while this is a little bit of different packaging, is this actually that different from what survivor was doing in the new era? I do think that maybe there was a thought, maybe wishful thinking by some that survivor, okay, we got the new era out of our system. We're coming back in survivor 51. We're going completely back. It's going to feel like that it's survivor 31 and not 51. And everybody's going to be excited about that. That's not what they're doing.

[00:24:07] But when we take a look at some of the ways that Jeff has talked about survivor in the new era, as opposed to the open era, it's ultimately not that different. I thought the quote of Jeff from talking about survivor 41 and Jeff talked about smart 41. He said, sorry, 41 is like the monster in a horror movie. And if you're a player, it's coming for you. So either you devour the monster or the monster will devour you.

[00:24:34] And again, ultimately, whether you're talking about survivor 51, 41, I do feel like that the monsters are the T-Rexes that are chasing you in this game of permanent uncertainty. But even to talk about survivor 43, Jeff said in an interview, we're really leaning into uncertainty and using it to keep the players on balance. They don't know what to expect. And that's all we need to keep them guessing. Now they have to make assumptions and those assumptions will create the turning points.

[00:25:02] So uncertainty, the game is the monster. You don't know what's coming. So this is not necessarily anything that is new for survivor. So if you want the most optimistic approach for survivor 51, that the open era, it's very different coat of paint on the new era. It's exactly what they're going to do.

[00:25:26] The bright side is that they're not necessarily as locked in in survivor during the new era where Jeff would often talk about, hey, this is what the game is. This is what the game design is. We decided three tribes. They do seem open to changing up some of the things. So I do think that survivor for us is going to feel like a little bit more week to week. There's going to be weeks where they do something wacky and we're going to say, ah, you know what? They kind of cooked with that. And there's going to be weeks where we're going to say, what on earth just happened?

[00:25:56] Why did anybody think that that was a good idea? And so I think that we're going to probably have to just be along for the ride, strap in, because we're all going to be on the roller coaster waiting for the drop as the new era is going to, or the, I'm sorry, the open era is going to be kicking off this fall.

[00:26:22] Now, the other hope that we have is the players are going to be able to make something out of this and turn this into something that we will all find engaging and look back on one day as the start of a new positive chapter for survivor.

[00:26:42] And maybe the players will be able to take this chaos and turn it into something because as we all know that life finds a way. Thank you so much for coming on this ride with me and looking forward to much more fun over the summer. We're rewatching Survivor Co-Wrong kicking off next week on Rob Has a Podcast. Thank you so much for joining us. Take care, everyone. Bye.

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