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are they going to let david and emily win?

posted 7 years ago by whosaysnightsareforsleep
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all of their contacts so far have only been at most one degree of separation from them, yet they are evading more successfully than any other team. it all feels super suspicious to me, like they needed to have a team succeed so they went easier on some of the later teams. i know there are game show rules against rigging competitions where people compete against each other, but if the network just wanted to give david and emily money, i would doubt their is a rule against that. since none of these teams are in direct competition i'm wondering if some of the rules are more lax.

[–] toakberg 7 years ago

I would be pretty surprised if David and Emiley don't end up winning. They were featured quite heavily on the first episode, and I think the producers would want to follow at least one team of winners throughout the season instead of introducing them in Episode 2 or 3. Unless I'm forgetting someone, all of the other teams shown on Episode 1 have now been captured. I don't think it's necessarily rigged or that the producers are letting them win - David in particular seems to be smart about how to avoid capture and makes good decisions under pressure. For example, when he knew they were under surveillance in the first episode he had them stay in the house and escape in the trunk of a car a day later. Completely the opposite of what the captured outdoor couple did, running out the back door and trying to hide in a field while the hunters are driving around the area when they could have just stayed in the house and thought about a better plan or some way to throw off the hunters.

I would be interested to know the time frame this show was filmed over, and how much overlap there was between the multiple teams being on the run. Did they film them one after the other, or did all the teams go on the run at approximately the same time? It certainly seems like they weren't all on the run at the same time, since one team last night gets caught up in a tropical storm right away that none of the other teams appear to have had to deal with yet. The editing makes it appear as though all the teams are running simultaneously and the hunters have to decide which resources to dedicate to each team, but it's a lot easier for the hunters if they were really only going after one or two teams at a time before the editing of the show and filming of the headquarters scenes after the fact.

[–] whosaysnightsareforsleep 7 years ago

i've wondered about the time frame as well. i think they definitely staggered the departures since some groups were outdoors for weeks and we saw no sign of bad weather. and maybe david and emily are just better at the evasion, and i'm just being skeptical. it just really makes me scratch my head when we see things like the party boys being tracked to a stranger's boat in the middle of a canal, the hunters finding a friend of a friend of a friend's farm for the guys currently in the rv or knocking on the door of an acquaintance and insisting to come in for the taco bell girls, but they can't track david and emily to family friends in her home town or be bothered to knock on his best friends door. it feels like they aren't trying as hard or something.

[–] babz12 7 years ago

I hope not. I hate David. He's a smug MF. That said, I feel like they might win. Whether it's because David thinks outside the box (traveling in trunk of car) or the hunters just aren't trying as hard, I don't know.

[–] bing-57 7 years ago

> it all feels super suspicious to me, like they needed to have a team succeed so they went easier on some of the later teams.

Oh, I am sure that is part of the guidelines of the show. The producers want one or maybe two teams to get the money. If the eliminations aren't coming faster, the Hunters get to try more stuff. If the players are getting captured too quickly, the hunters are told to just sit back for a while.

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