The Traitors (Australia) - Season 1

Lee said:
Has he been on anything else other than Survivor and Big Brother(which I don’t watch).
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No idea, but he's done Survivor twice, and once was more than enough.
 
I’m up to episode 8 of this now and what the fuck is the point of Paul?

They’ve had less than 0.1% of air time. Did Paul do a Sherry Pie?
 
I'm up to episode 3 and
Goodbye Ethan I will miss you filling out your tracksuits :(

So far Mark is shaping up to be a breakout fave of the season. I love an EFFICIENT GAY. Hunt out those traitors hun
 
I'm on ep 7. It's brilliant, though definitely a bit saggier than the UK version as it occasionally drags for me.

It's sweet that Rodger tries to be bantz, but he is simply not enough of a personality artist to pull it off. They really should have got a gay or a hun in to host it
 
Ill Advised said:
I’m up to episode 8 of this now and what the fuck is the point of Paul?

They’ve had less than 0.1% of air time. Did Paul do a Sherry Pie?
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This is genuinely hilarious. The way there's NOT A TRACE OF HIM until he clearly says something crucial to the edit, in which case they'll generally show him saying it in a wide shot with other players, or as a close up of his hands holding his voting slate. Earlier I saw what I think was the first close up of him so far, and I jumped out of my skin thinking he was an intruder

I googled to see what he'd done to get this treatment, but then I accidentally saw what I think was a spoiler as to the winner(s) (:() so I shut my tab quicksticks
 
Finn said:
This is genuinely hilarious. The way there's NOT A TRACE OF HIM until he clearly says something crucial to the edit, in which case they'll generally show him saying it in a wide shot with other players, or as a close up of his hands holding his voting slate. Earlier I saw what I think was the first close up of him so far, and I jumped out of my skin thinking he was an intruder

I googled to see what he'd done to get this treatment, but then I accidentally saw what I think was a spoiler as to the winner(s) (:() so I shut my tab quicksticks
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It drove me insane. It’s all I could think about

I resisted looking until it was over which was really difficult. I still don’t really know why either??
 
Oh my god episode 9 was BRILLIANT. Just beautifully plotted. Well done to all involved.

Also -
LOL at Dirk's ludicrous exit speech revealing that he's a PROFESSIONAL ACTOR and CABARET PERFORMER. Like... sure but how is that relevant here my love??? You may as well have said you're a keen stamp collector for all it mattered

From ep 8 onwards our Paul starts to get a few more shots. I guess the dwindling player numbers mean he's going to become more central to things soon, so the producers have to acknowledge him.
 
The Paul thing is completely inexplicable and there's hardly anything on the internet to explain it. So weird!
 
Oh wow I'm on ep 10 and he's just had a PIECE TO CAMERA :o

Quite an unappealing man tbh
 
Well I was told by somebody far better at sleuthing than me that he kept referring to production and the cameras so they couldn't include much footage of him. I mean the most credible theory is that he is unbelievably DULL
 
I think the Paul thing is a real issue on Australian TV. I don’t know if there’s some editor that works for this and Survivor, but it happens all the time on there as well. You’ll not really even see someone until Day 45 and then they’ll appear, have two confessionals and then be voted out. WEIRD.
 
That's proper mad if it's just something like that. And unfair on him, because basically anybody watching it here (and I'm sure lots of other countries) will just assume he's been accused of something MOLESTY
 
Lee said:
I think the Paul thing is a real issue on Australian TV. I don’t know if there’s some editor that works for this and Survivor, but it happens all the time on there as well. You’ll not really even see someone until Day 45 and then they’ll appear, have two confessionals and then be voted out. WEIRD.
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The worst example of this has to be Million Dollar Island, of course it suffers from a cast of 100 that’s whittled down, but still it’s nearing the end and I’m like ‘whoooooo are you?’
 
Lee said:
I think the Paul thing is a real issue on Australian TV. I don’t know if there’s some editor that works for this and Survivor, but it happens all the time on there as well. You’ll not really even see someone until Day 45 and then they’ll appear, have two confessionals and then be voted out. WEIRD.
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Yes, I've noticed that with Survivor as well. That season when they had three tribes initially was particularly ridiculous and allowed it to happen even more. And even the most recent (Heroes vs Villains - if that is still the most recent with you) was ridiculously skewed towards George that the result was always going to be anticlimactic. I was reading one fansite which said he had 40% of confessionals after merge.
 
Mind you, The Apprentice UK isn't great for it either, but they usually resolve it a little earlier. But I can almost guarantee that at some point in episode three or four, someone (usually a brunette woman) will pop up seemingly out of nowhere.
 
I've just finished the final ep and HOLY SHIT, WHAT GREAT TV

Never underestimate the lesbians :disco:

Alex absolutely played a BLINDER and even though I would have preferred a Kate (or Lewis tbh) win I was fully on board with it going her way instead. Watching poor sweet Craig realise his mistake in real time was just heartbreaking / cracking television.

Also I'd love to know what's in the rules and how they go about stopping expelled Traitors from revealing the other Traitors on exit. I know Kieran in the UK version sort of did that, but it really struck me here - when the likes of Marielle and Kate had been BETRAYED by fellow Traitors and must surely have wanted to get revenge on them by blurting their identities out right there and then - how the show really does depend on those people keeping quiet and remaining honourable at the very moment when they must want to do anything but that. How do the producers enforce it?
 
Can we talk openly without spoilers now? People have been earlier in this thread, and I really think anyone looking at this thread now before watching deserves what they get.
 
Alex had a dodgy edit as well, didn't she? Didn't she only have a first confessional the episode before she became a traitor? Prior to that I'm sure her edit was approaching Paul levels. I don't imagine she was talking about production (if that is true of Paul), because she's clearly far too shrewd. Did production just have a storyline and then just edit as they went?

I do like how the three versions I've seen have all had varying outcomes to stop it feeling stale.

But the tasks really are getting dull now - I'm happily doing something else for a few minutes while they are on. I really want them to incorporate some level of jeopardy to reveal the traitors or something. Watching everyone earn money when none of the joy of watching is derived from how much the winner ends up with seems a waste of time to me.
 
And I'm afraid I can't agree with @Finn about Rodge. I find him arse flutteringly charismatic. I much preferred him to Alan Cumming as host.
 
I didn't get very far with Traitors US, so I can't judge on Uncle Alan. I fancy Rodger a fair bit and would absolutely love a go on him, but I just don't buy any of his lines. He comes across too much like a standard issue boring straight man to be spouting half-arsed eccentricities convincingly.

I couldn't work out if I'd not seen Alex until her intro video after like 5/6 eps, or if I had but had just got her mixed up with with Marielle and Fi
 
Finn said:
I didn't get very far with Traitors US, so I can't judge on Uncle Alan. I fancy Rodger a fair bit and would absolutely love a go on him, but I just don't buy any of his lines. He comes across too much like a standard issue boring straight man to be spouting half-arsed eccentricities convincingly.
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Quite possibly true. I can just remember one scene where he walked into the breakfast room in a blazer, fiddling with his cuff, and I almost prolapsed.
 
I binge watched this over the past few days and thoroughly enjoyed it. I feared a third slab after the UK and US editions would be stale but not at all, in fact I think they got down to the action quickest in this one.

There were a few “why is nobody picking up on that” moments for sure, one in particular that I was certain would be mentioned at the table but not a word despite it having been reacted to in the car. The best way to be a faithful I’ve decided is to appear not that astute but still be heard having opinions.

The host was fine and I found him very dishy indeed.
 
BoysForSeles said:
There were a few “why is nobody picking up on that” moments for sure, one in particular that I was certain would be mentioned at the table but not a word despite it having been reacted to in the car.
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I know the one you mean and still can't work out why it was just forgotten.
 
What the FUCK was that endgame? If they’re not throwing things into a fire I don’t want it

Rodger is a babe though
 
Just binged this in anticipation of UK Season 2.

I know it's been widely discussed already but I too was so fixated on Paul's Sherry Pie edit. :D It seemed so rude, they wouldn't even show him entering the breakfast room. Imagine spending several weeks on a high profile reality TV show, getting down to the penultimate episode, excitedly telling all your friends and family and then that airs!

Loved Teresa and I wish she'd made the final as it would have been a lot more gripping than Lewis and Craig essentially being sacrificial lambs. The downfall of Marielle was utterly gripping, I love that she played so, so well and then got cocky and essentially blew herself up with that ridiculously transparent lie. :D

Kate and Alex played an excellent game, although they really signposted who was going to win with the amount of times Alex got to talk about how she needed the money for her IVF. I don't think anybody else got any camera time talking about how they'd spend it.
 
VoR said:
I know it's been widely discussed already but I too was so fixated on Paul's Sherry Pie edit. :D It seemed so rude, they wouldn't even show him entering the breakfast room. Imagine spending several weeks on a high profile reality TV show, getting down to the penultimate episode, excitedly telling all your friends and family and then that airs!
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Yeah the Paul Thing was FAR weirder than anything I’ve ever seen on Australian Survivor. They’d literally edit his face out of the show even when it made perfect sense to show it (e.g. when walking in for breakfast or when giving a vote). I’m not saying him not having confessionals was weird - it was an active attempt to keep him from ever being shown it seemed.
 
Is the thinking really that it wasn't for some legal reason, and the producers just didn't like him? :D
 
I remember seeing this theory on Reddit for the Sherry Pie edit and total radio silence about why;

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Oh now THAT would make a lot more sense for him getting Sherry Pied.

Mad that we don't know for sure. I bet we would if this were a UK show, with our press
 
Yeah, it makes more sense to me than the producers not liking him but still can’t believe nothing has been spilled over a year later 😂
 
So who knew but he actually guested on some traitors podcast (which I guess he wouldn’t appear on if there was anything untoward) and having listened to some of it (skip to 29 minutes for the question about why he wasn’t featured) I’m back to thinking he was just a really annoying guy and maybe they just did hate him! 😂

 
The rumour I found after lots of digging was that he had a massive fight with Teresa at an after party thing and they decided to pull him from the show as much as they could.

But that was Reddit too so who knows 😂
 
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