Traitors '25 Starts 1/1/25 8pm

[scifisam]

Didn't Kas himself say the exact same thing to Claudia when he was pitching to be a traitor?

Are the auditions online?

If he said he was planning to be Harold Shipman mark 2 then the producers are really going for a Squid Game crossover

 

[May Kasahara]

I think we need a list of things that qualify as TRAITOR BEHAVIOUR.

I'll start.

1. Being nice
2. Being a doctor
3. Having a sister
4. Having one arm
5. Putting yourself in a queue in a manner that slightly annoys somebody prior to any Traitors even being selected

...

Looking around.
Having a gleam in your eye.
Moving funny.

Being friendly.
Being standoffish.
Having too many opinions at the round table.
Having too few opinions at the round table.

 

[May Kasahara]

It's taken three episodes but at last "yourself" has made an appearance. "X, really sorry but I have voted for yourself." Not sure anyone this year will beat Harry's record, but we'll see.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Only got to watch 10 minutes last night so just caught up.

Enjoyed the mission; they’re definitely making it harder for the traitors. But as much as I think Jake is far too arrogant in his not very clever opinions, I do have sympathy for the perspective that there needs to be collaboration as well as competition. I’d have been pissed off too, and I don’t think that would have happened in S1 or S2. Also they did NOT need two people calling on the boat! One of those could have got off.

I have all the feels for poor Kas. And frankly want to punch that smug bandwagonny English teacher in the face. I hope that he gets to face that level of pressure soon and realises that “outbursts” are an understandable reaction to being piled on nonsensical reasons. I don’t want him murdered, I want him to be torn apart.

Talking off the cut away scenes, the “Learn Welsh” book. Charlotte has gone up in my estimation for having the nearest thing to a sense of humour in those scenes.

Maia’s got to be the next one to go surely? No point keeping her around now - blates not a traitor, all the other’s have suspicion on them.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

No, I mean the way he was getting really worked up. That's always a bad idea. Though tbf if someone thought I was Harold Shipman, I'd get mad. And Lisa is a vicar and they're pillars of the community too, by that logic, she's like the vicar in Space's Neighbourhood.

I don’t think anyone can really comment on how they’d respond in that situation until they’re in it. We’ve seen people in prior series picking apart others for not coming across well at the round table, and then falling apart under pressure later themselves. I would probably make more of a pigs ear of defending myself as an innocent than as a traitor.

I think we need a list of things that qualify as TRAITOR BEHAVIOUR.

I'll start.

1. Being nice
2. Being a doctor
3. Having a sister
4. Having one arm
5. Putting yourself in a queue in a manner that slightly annoys somebody prior to any Traitors even being selected

...

Being slightly socially awkward
Being considered in any way part of the “out” group

 

[danny la rouge]

I don’t think anyone can really comment on how they’d respond in that situation until they’re in it. We’ve seen people in prior series picking apart others for not coming across well at the round table, and then falling apart under pressure later themselves. I would probably make more of a pigs ear of defending myself as an innocent than as a traitor.

Being slightly socially awkward
Being considered in any way part of the “out” group

Being too likeable. Being too friendly.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Being too likeable. Being too friendly.

Not having the “right”, unspoken charisma basically

E2A: bit like school was if you’re not neurotypical <shudder>

 

[smmudge]

Are the auditions online?

If he said he was planning to be Harold Shipman mark 2 then the producers are really going for a Squid Game crossover

I'm thinking now maybe I made that up because I watched those bits back from ep 1 (where Claudia is asking them individually if they want to be a traitor) but it's not there. I swear Kasim said the "saves lives by day, murders by night" first but maybe not!

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I’ve just had a thought - if no one was murdered the previous episode and Maia looks a likely choice for the most recent one, does that mean that the unveiling clip on Uncloaked will be a sister’s reunion?

 

[Lotte]

Only got to watch 10 minutes last night so just caught up.

Enjoyed the mission; they’re definitely making it harder for the traitors. But as much as I think Jake is far too arrogant in his not very clever opinions, I do have sympathy for the perspective that there needs to be collaboration as well as competition. I’d have been pissed off too, and I don’t think that would have happened in S1 or S2. Also they did NOT need two people calling on the boat! One of those could have got off.

I have all the feels for poor Kas. And frankly want to punch that smug bandwagonny English teacher in the face. I hope that he gets to face that level of pressure soon and realises that “outbursts” are an understandable reaction to being piled on nonsensical reasons. I don’t want him murdered, I want him to be torn apart.

Talking off the cut away scenes, the “Learn Welsh” book. Charlotte has gone up in my estimation for having the nearest thing to a sense of humour in those scenes.

Maia’s got to be the next one to go surely? No point keeping her around now - blates not a traitor, all the other’s have suspicion on them.

I also feel sorry for Kasim and hope they all feel really, really stupid when they inevitably vote him off and he goes 'lol I'm a Faithful, suck it'. I've been reading the Tattle thread and revised my opinion of Jake somewhat - he is obnoxious and aggressive, but he's right that they should have got the money and the money goes towards the prize pot, it's in their interests. Maybe they felt they had to ignore it because of time constraints, IDK, but they wasted a lot of time arguing. The teamwork was so much better on the last series.

I know I'd be awful on The Traitors. I have fibromyalgia so a lot of the tasks would be difficult or impossible - I'd be in fucking agony after all that rowing and have to lie down, and there's no way I could do the abseiling task on the last series.

Re the Round Table, you have to balance things so carefully. If you're too quiet, people will be suspicious (like with Meg on the last series), but if you talk or protest too much, they'll be suspicious. Anna and Leon are so quiet I forget they're there half the time!

 

[Voley]

I also feel sorry for Kasim and hope they all feel really, really stupid when they inevitably vote him off and he goes 'lol I'm a Faithful, suck it'.

The fallout from that could be pretty epic. Probably end up with more faithful going, too, I'd imagine.

 

[moomoo]

Kasim is my favourite

 

[Saffy]

I can't believe we have to wait until Wednesday.

 

[Spymaster]

Kasim saying he did the toast because Elen's first language isn't English was so kind.

Doing that toast was dumb as fuck though. He might as well have stuck a target on his forehead.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

I've just watched Armani on Traitors Uncloaked - she's hone right up in my estimation. She laughed at herself and was very funny and engaging.

 

[Saffy]

Doing that toast was dumb as fuck though. He might as well have stuck a target on his forehead.

Yes definitely but his heart was in the right place.

 

[Spymaster]

I've just watched Armani on Traitors Uncloaked - she's hone right up in my estimation. She laughed at herself and was very funny and engaging.

I went the other way and found her even more gobby and irritating!

 

[Voley]

I went the other way and found her even more gobby and irritating!

Same here. I turned it off.

 

[Voley]

Doing that toast was dumb as fuck though. He might as well have stuck a target on his forehead.

One of the few things that I thought Armani did well was when she confided in him saying that he might want to dial it back a bit after the toast. That did genuinely look like the sort of thing a faithful would do. But unfortunately only Kasim saw it.

 

[danny la rouge]

Same here. I turned it off.

I didn’t turn it off because Mrs LR was still watching, but I did suddenly find my phone much more interesting. She had more main character energy than my evening was ready for.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I definitely liked Armani more after Uncloaked but I don’t think I’d be ready to have a drink with her.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I can't believe we have to wait until Wednesday.

Ikr? I’ve now watched all the Uncloakeds and even listened to the bonus extensions on BBC sounds and now I’m bereft!

E2A: Ooo, is the (inferior but similar enough) US series out yet?

 

[Spymaster]

I didn’t turn it off because Mrs LR was still watching, but I did suddenly find my phone much more interesting. She had more main character energy than my evening was ready for.

She has very similar mannerisms to a friend of Kris. She’s lovely but completely exhausting to be around.

 

[PR1Berske]

Ikr? I’ve now watched all the Uncloakeds and even listened to the bonus extensions on BBC sounds and now I’m bereft!

E2A: Ooo, is the (inferior but similar enough) US series out yet?

9th I think.

 

[Saffy]

Not sure when it starts but the Irish Traitors is happening in 2025 too.

 

[Jennaonthebeach]

I went the other way and found her even more gobby and irritating!

People like her should be used to teach non-autistic people what its like to be autistic - ie, being exhausted by any kind of social interaction.

 

[Saffy]

Not sure when it starts but the Irish Traitors is happening in 2025 too.

With Siobhán McSweeney (Sister Michael from Derry Girls) as host.

 

[Hollis]

I've just watched Armani on Traitors Uncloaked - she's hone right up in my estimation. She laughed at herself and was very funny and engaging.

yes, she was. But 10 minutes was enough (for me).

 

[Numbers]

I went the other way and found her even more gobby and irritating!

Same here, for both of us. We have a similar friend and as you say below (the post I’m quoting) she’s exhausting after a short while.

 

[Plumdaff]

4th Jan and I'm not sure any telly this year will top that cutaway to Charlotte reading the 'Learn Welsh' book. (I'm watching a day late 'cos of darts)