Traitors '25 Starts 1/1/25 8pm

[Lotte]

Watching this is showing me just how much many allistics are pretty much unable to think or act independently from the group. It really does explain everything in my life.

Fistbump from another autistic Traitors fan. I was talking to a friend earlier about the raft thing and I honestly think if I was on the show, I'd go 'fuck it, getting on the raft' because I'd be sick of everyone wasting time.

 

[souljacker]

This traitors uncloaked show is awful. Even Aisling Bea and the mullet can't save it.

 

[Voley]

Enjoyed that, good episode.

Pity Mulletman didn't get in. He was a good laugh on the Uncloaked bit after.

 

[Voley]

The two arguing blokes will be interesting next episode. Joe and Dan is it? Both dicks and at loggerheads - traitor accusations next, I think.

 

[Santino]

Who even is Joe? Is he the same person as Jake?

 

[souljacker]

Who even is Joe? Is he the same person as Jake?

No, that's Dan isn't it?

 

[PR1Berske]

Joe, English teacher, looks a bit like someone has tried to draw Josh Widdecombe from memory
Jake, project manager, has the look of a porn site scally
Dan, bank risk manager, lots of forehead

 

[Lotte]

Jake's very northern, Dan's Scouse and Joe's from Cambridge, I think? Alexander has mad eyes.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Desperately not checking the last two pages of posts (will catch up Friday) but just coming here to post this article declaring how bourgeois the Traitors is, written by that not at all bourgeois publication The Guardian.

Also I’m middle class and whilst there’s been a degree of social mobility in that, I can’t row for shit. Who can?

 

[wtfftw]

Desperately not checking the last two pages of posts (will catch up Friday) but just coming here to post this article declaring how bourgeois the Traitors is, written by that not at all bourgeois publication The Guardian.

Also I’m middle class and whilst there’s been a degree of social mobility in that, I can’t row for shit. Who can?

Maybe rowing associates should be a class indicator like which professions you hang out with.

 

[Spymaster]

Desperately not checking the last two pages of posts (will catch up Friday) but just coming here to post this article declaring how bourgeois the Traitors is, written by that not at all bourgeois publication The Guardian.

Also I’m middle class and whilst there’s been a degree of social mobility in that, I can’t row for shit. Who can?

He makes a good point about the breakfasts.

Not a slice of bacon in sight!

 

[Santino]

That breakfast probably sits there for five hours while they film reaction shots.

 

[Voley]

Which one was it that had a shit breakfast? The Australian or NZ one?

In what was memorably described as "a Travelodge conference room" upthread.

 

[souljacker]

I'm sure I read somewhere that they all have breakfast in their actual hotel so the one at the house is just for show and the pastries are all cold and crappy.

 

[Lotte]

Not everyone on that show is posh tbf. It's a mix of people.

 

[Numbers]

Minah is brilliant. Easy to hide tho’ in plain sight with so many left. Thus far she looks like she could win it so it’ll be interesting to see how she is if and when the squeeze is on.

 

[Looby]

I'm sure I read somewhere that they all have breakfast in their actual hotel so the one at the house is just for show and the pastries are all cold and crappy.

My friend did Come Dine With Me and she said filming went on for so long the food was cold and gross and they barely ate anything. Sometimes they didn’t finish dinner til 1am.

 

[Lotte]

I'd never want to go on that show and one of the reasons is because the filming takes so long and the meal goes on for hours.

 

[PR1Berske]

My friend did Come Dine With Me and she said filming went on for so long the food was cold and gross and they barely ate anything. Sometimes they didn’t finish dinner til 1am.

Friend of a friend did a MasterChef a while ago. Food is mostly tasted during the cooking process and at plating, so the judging is mostly for show. Watch it slow enough and you'll spot the occasional empty fork and clean spoon.

 

[Silas Loom]

Caught up with you all now, even after mistakenly watching the first episode of series one, which I spent eagerly waiting for the woman who was pretending to be Welsh to drop her accent, as per the spoilers I’d read, which of course she didn’t, because she was Welsh.

It’s all quite watchable. Goth Davina says her absurd lines with conviction. The contestants are no more horrible than anyone else on reality TV. I admire Minah greatly.

I am confused about how the hotels work. Are they all in the same one? If so, how do the traitors scurry back unnoticed, even assuming that bedtime isn’t really at midnight? Do the producer try to outlaw unmonitored interactions?

 

[danny la rouge]

I am confused about how the hotels work. Are they all in the same one?

It’s assumed they’re split across the Inverness Premier Inns. Four minivans are seen leaving.

The filming of the conclaves and murders won’t really be after the clock strikes.

 

[Silas Loom]

It’s assumed they’re split across the Inverness Premier Inns. Four minivans are seen leaving.

The filming of the conclaves and murders won’t really be after the clock strikes.

But the conclaves need to be filmed at some point when faithfuls are unable to mingle. How is that orchestrated?

I will leave the question of how Inverness can possibly support more than one Premier Inn to the grouse stalking thread.

 

[Spymaster]

My friend did Come Dine With Me and she said filming went on for so long the food was cold and gross and they barely ate anything. Sometimes they didn’t finish dinner til 1am.

I met a producer of CDWM and had a good chat about the show, and it's thoroughly contrived. You expect there to be some license taken but this was completely unexpected. It's pretty much scripted, with contestants told what to say, countless re-shoots, and filming often done out of order, which confuses people and takes many hours. If the contestants don't vote the way the production people want, they're told to do it again. Mrs Spy was a big fan but I don't think she's watched it since.

 

[Santino]

I met a producer of CDWM and had a good chat about the show, and it's thoroughly contrived. You expect there to be some license taken but this was completely unexpected. It's pretty much scripted, with contestants told what to say, countless re-shoots, and filming often done out of order, which confuses people. If the contestants don't vote the way the production people want, they're told to do it again. Mrs Spy was a big fan but I don't think she's watched it since.

What about Four In A Bed?

 

[danny la rouge]

But the conclaves need to be filmed at some point when faithfuls are unable to mingle. How is that orchestrated?

Many private interviews to camera are filmed regarding all the breakfasts, round tables and tasks. These are then cut into the breakfasts, round table and task scenes, but clearly aren’t filmed during them. It would be a matter of passing off conclaves etc as the filming of one of those.

 

[danny la rouge]

* My guess. I don’t work on Traitors.

 

[starfish]

Wish Linda would do more that just say "exactly" or "absolutely" to everything Minah says in Traitor Tower.

 

[PR1Berske]

Reality show contestants and sports people all use the weird tense when talking to camera, past and present combined.

 

[danny la rouge]

Wish Linda would do more that just say "exactly" or "absolutely" to everything Minah says in Traitor Tower.

Exactly.

 

[danny la rouge]

Reality show contestants and sports people all use the weird tense when talking to camera, past and present combined.

I’m thinking they are told to.