The circle - final week

[jay55]

New thread, if we can stay awake to find out what happens...

Hunter claimed he was forced by the producers to go see Manrika instead of another player, so if true that might happen to Natalya too. I doubt the producers would miss the chance for that top drama.

Besides, I think Natalya might feel like she owes it to Manrika, she's been struggling with the morality of what she's doing for awhile now anyway.

@Bluntness100

I would be very surprised if Natalya went to see manrika if she was evicted, very surprised indeed, I think she’d bottle it totally and hope to never have to meet manrika given the chance, 😂

Agreed, but she might not be given a choice - she may be heavily directed by the producers.

Her visiting Manrika will give the best drama, with visiting Syed a close second !

They have had an anonymous super influencer In a previous series of The Circle (iirc it was Sian in S1?) and I’m pretty sure they had to block the player by going to their flat to deliver the news. I wonder if they will have to do that again?

Also just a thought, whenever one of them drops another one in the shit or just generally stirs it up (e.g. "Alice" yesterday to Manrika) they always seem to be the first to react with an Oh my God, how shocking! Who could possibly say that type comment. Lesson learnt for me - he or she who reacts first and is most shocked is the perpetrator 🤔

@HeronLanyon

follow yes there was no feel at all that anyone knew the answer ! I am not 85 but remember watching the sinking of The Belgrano as older teen on our old wind up horse drawn moving picture box. I could only come up with after 81 and before 85 ish.

I'm 43 and remember clearly standing on Southsea front, waving the fleet out of Portsmouth. It was the most random question to ask because you have such a big age range that would know it was early 80s at the very least.

That and the Manrika worship are Hashu's only faults though, otherwise be is pure and lovely #mumcrush

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Regarding an OG blocking another OG in anonymous super influencer mode, I've considered this. OGs don't like last minute newbies. Partly because they must surely think "Fuck you! I've dont nearly a month in here mate" and partly because they realise they are prevoous players / catfish flung in for last minute shit stirring. (Same reason most of us don't have an allegiance to the last minute fodder either.

So... on that rationale, if I was an OG, I would still vote out a newbie, because if I took out one of my Circle Fam, I'd be handing an opportunity for 2 newbies to be in the final and one to possibly win. Nah. No way, would stick in my throat as a viewer. Would totally boil my piss as a player when you've done a month of blood, sweat and tears. Alice has done what? 5 days. Fuck that!
#BloodThickerThanWater #CircleFam

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(Reads green’s post at a shout at my iPhone screen)

Private (aloud) hmmmm so green is saying sh was 14 - I’d better take a bit of that. And look she’s opening up about Portsmouth aw that’s lovely I believe her 100% now)

Message -
Aw lovely to think of you on the dock - amazing we’ve lived through what feels old fashioned waving the fleet off to an actual war. Smiley emoji

It's a real balance between voting out a rival, and voting out a no hoper who will vote unpredictability in the final.

I can see Andy, Felix and Syed sticking by their CircleFam pact and voting out a newbie, if any of them are the super-influencer. Though Syed might momentarily waver and think about blocking Felix.
I think Manrika would have no hesitation in blocking an OG / whoever she thinks her biggest competition is - she simply has her eyes on the prize.

Who I’d ideally like to win:
1= Andy / Hashu - like both of them equally
2 Felix
3 Manrika - totally went off her when she went for Andy.
Not including the newbies. They haven’t been in it long enough to win.

@HeronLanyon

ALERT (Reads green’s post at a shout at my iPhone screen)

Private (aloud) hmmmm so green is saying sh was 14 - I’d better take a bit of that. And look she’s opening up about Portsmouth aw that’s lovely I believe her 100% now)

Message -
Aw lovely to think of you on the dock - amazing we’ve lived through what feels old fashioned waving the fleet off to an actual war. Smiley emoji

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Miscalculation though as I was 4 in1982.

I was also terrified of the Isle of Wight hovercraft and have been scarred by the experiences.

I feel £100k would help me recover from the trauma #sobstory

OMG what a cracking episode last night! This series was a slow burner but my goodness it's turning out to be a corker. I really liked Scott/Dot so much and wanted him to win so I'm gutted, but his meeting with Natalya/Felix was lovely. He seems like such a laugh and a genuinely lovely person. I'd like to see more of him on TV.

I don't like the way Natalya seems so conflicted about the way she's leading on Manrika yet she is always so full on in their chats. She doesn't need to be quite so intense, it's annoying me now. She's playing a blinder though.

The secret influencer (Sian S1/Woody S2/Joey USA) usually goes and blocks the player face to face, as I recall. Out of the OGs, Manrika is the only one I can imagine tactically taking out another OG - Andy. I think Alice would be the choice for any of the other OGs if they get to be secret influencer and they'll be surprised when it's not Femi and Pippa.

Didn't anyone else notice when Nataliya told Scott " dot" who felix was she said something like just an army guy. Not her friend which she said felix actually was? Strange

Yes but I didn’t think anything of it, I think she’s using her friend’s pictures but she’s not actually being him. He’s a made up character.

I noticed. It was a bit odd.

But her relationship with truth is ... well ...

I though her words were 'I am in the army, I'm just playing as a guy'

Hmm so now green says she was 4 - checks back in notebook.
Well clearly a catfish and I will ignore that I like her and she’s playing a good game because I have turned into a doodler (is that what they are called?) and am o j’y interested in catfish (a word I really don’t like although it’s a great description) no it is ‘Noodler’. Ok so I’m going all out to get green blocked now

@Maves

Didn't anyone else notice when Nataliya told Scott " dot" who felix was she said something like just an army guy. Not her friend which she said felix actually was? Strange

I though she was talking as though she didn't know him too. She didn't say the photo was of her friend.

Derailing but I hate people in the forces being out and about in uniform. That photo would have put me off.

My husbands in the military (not army) and not once in 16 years has he gone home / gone out in his uniform.

So I clearly have way to much time on my hands but I just watched Scott and Natalya meeting again, Scott asked if Felix was Natalya's boyfriend and she said "no, so I'm in the army and I'm just pretending to be an army dude". I then watched when she first went in and she says "I'm entering as my friend Felix" but then she goes on the say "he's going to look all big and rugged but inside he's got this soft gooey side that I'm going to play as myself... His looks and my brain."

I did notice that but she isn't pretending to be her friend. She's using his photos and then being a random army dude.

But, bitheby - what about the quote in the post above yours? It doesn't appear to be ambiguous.

(I don't have the energy to re-watch it myself.)

Not keen on Natalya - haven't been since she entered and declared herself so incredible that everyone would think her a catfish if she played as herself. I think she's being pretty cruel with Manrika.

Syed for the win 100%, he has kept his integrity all the way through.

I think this is semantics really. She is just pretending to be an army dude and she’s using felixs pictures, who is her friend. I think folks are getting tied up over something that is not there. She is not playing her friend or using his real life story. She’s just using his images and playing a made up character.

I think Natalya’s just using her friends photos but isn’t actually pretending to be him, compared to say Dot who is pretending to be his Nan right down to her hobbies etc. That’s probably why she didn’t say she’s playing as him, because she isn’t playing her friend in the way Scott was playing Dot. I’m not even sure the friend whose photos she’s using is actually called Felix?

haven't been since she entered and declared herself so incredible that everyone would think her a catfish if she played as herself

Stop it 😂😂😂 she didn’t declare her self “incredible”. She said becayse of what she looked like and what she did peoole would immediately think she was a catfish and she’s very probably right, they would have.

She’s gorgeous and she’s in the army, everyone’s going to think she’s a catfish.

Natalya is absolutely beautiful and thank god she isn't standard issue in the army or I'd have serious insecurity about my DH deploying months at a time it might sound arrogant but she isn't wrong that there aren't many like her around!

P.s. anyone found out who Felix really is, asking for a friend