Wait, Josie is latinx? I thought she was Chief Spinning Bull.
That's how you keep the riffraff out. Only posh and independently wealthy NEETS are welcome at this rodeo. Only the highest quality viewers with the fine discernment to groom the retarded autistic Injun girl with no personality.
Her family lives in Arizona. There was probably some mixing at some point in the family tree.
Like I was saying, it doesn't matter and even might be better if we all know who the plant is, as long as the contestants don't know and they keep a lid on TTSes giving it away. I don't think they were trying hard at all to keep Damiel a secret from anyone except the contestants, considering Damiel was actively posting in the live chat on his phone. The fact they only cared about keeping the contestants in the dark is why Damiel got pulled as soon as Jon called out that he recognized him from a photo with Sam Hyde (he claimed to have seen it before the show but he probably saw it on his phone).
For me it's a terrible time for Fishtank fun.
Josie earned it!
Half-n-half
That's a classic live viewing highlight moment but in the grand scheme it's unremarkable. It sucks but unfortunately they're going to gloss over a lot of great moments like that, I just hope they do a good job with what they decide to focus on.
I also really hope they do their due diligence in making sure none of the new contestants know who Sam Hyde is. It was pretty disappointing when it came to light that ~50% of the fish were familiar with him beforehand. It's way more fun if they're totally out of their element and have no idea what to expect.
And to this I would add that I hope they are far more stringent with the rules they choose to establish at the start. Once they started saying "fuck it" or "oh well, never mind" with key aspects of the premise, it devalues everything and there are no more stakes, making it less interesting.
Damiels freakouts always came off to me as him desperately attempting to be interesting. Like you pointed out he spent 90% of the show sleeping and laying in bed like Mauro and he probably realized he was going to get called boring so he "flipped out" for the camera. In my opinion the only 100% genuine freakouts were Chris melting down at Letty, Jon locking himself in the upstairs bathroom and Sylvia being bullied by Frank to the point of snapping mentally.
Damiel's freak out targeted at Letty over those shoes seems authentic when you watch him freak out over his ex that @Punitive Castration posted a while back. He's a sensitive loser trying to put on a tough chigger facade.
Definitely, he brought it up on Hong Kong 2 and essentially said that he may have not really been mad at Letty but he was taking out his genuine frustration on her.
I definitely agree but also don't. In my mind there's two equally good Fishtank concepts- Sam and Jet torturing captive randoms who have never heard of them, and the psychological marathon of terminally online alt-comedy fans trying against physics to be entertaining for 42 days. The former gets you good moments like Jon learning Pencak Silat and interrogating Kominos, the latter gets you moments like schizo Vance and Letty Hassle. Unfortunately they're completely incompatible with one another and can't run simultaneously without the MDE fans eating the randoms alive like they did in S1.
I thought about this a good bit during Season 1 and I also think its a win-win scenario.
Yeah that's a good point, now is the time if by some (don't rate me optimistic I would not bet on this) turn of fate they become very well known this season.
I always thought the ideal Fishtank was similar to total drama island. Both equal in parts of torture and friend simulator with plenty of drama in between. Of course Fishtank is far “edgier” though. I feel there’s equal amounts of enjoyment to be had between the fish having to navigate competitions made to test one’s own will to carry on such as cage 2, and the fish enjoying themselves in competitions that are less about torture and more about the ridiculous nature of the competition. Some examples being the skit challenge and the gay pride play.
This is what I was hoping for, ultimately they went REALLY easy on the contestants the majority of the time. airsoftfatty did more to torture the opponents unscripted than the hosts or frank hassle. It's not just that though but it's how it seems they very poorly planned shit out, like they lost steam when it came to contests and challenges after a week and just started winging it. Jet should be happy he got so lucky with the success because it certainly wasn't due to his brilliant planning and quick thinking
The eliminations allowed them more structure to fill the 6 weeks. If it was purely a sanity endurance thing they may have been down to 1 person left two and a half weeks in. Then what? There isn't really a show after that.
I think it was deliberately confusing, the point was to send them off running towards a final point total at the end of a week of pretending to be disabled or pretending to be camping only to watch one person wipe out and run screaming before they ever need to be graded.
I am hopeful as well but given how the first season went and how quickly they dropped or disregarded not only key aspects but things they marketed the show as having I am less than optimistic. I really wasn't expecting Jet, the sharks, Ben, Tacxin, Chris and whoever else on the production team to be going in and out of the house so often and so frequently. I thought Sam and a few members of production might've been going in to the house every other day/every couple of days MAX, not in and out several times a day. That's why I've said that it really felt like Jet was trying to place himself more so in the spotlight than the actual contestants, sometimes he'd go in there just to talk to the fish and more often than not just felt like he didn't need to be in the house.
Yep, agreed. I don't know if they massively overestimated how entertaining or funny Damiel was going to be or if Jet and the wiggers ever even considered that at all. Meanwhile they found Jon on a Craiglist ad and he provided some of the most entertaining moments just by merit of him being pretty fucking retarded for lack of better words. I don't want to say Jon was the only reason to watch or that he made the show or anything but Jet and Sam lucked out majorly with Jon and he definitely made those initial weeks fairly entertaining and interacted well with most of the other contestants