The Traitorz #5 - with a cursive Z

[witchycat2]

Continued discussion for series 3 of The Traitors UK.

Bouledeneige no, it's not. It annoys me greatly, but in my opinion, people use it to make themselves sound more intelligent. When in reality, it has the opposite effect

With The Mole we viewers don't know who the mole is though (also it's nowhere near as good as The Traitors imo). I still think it would be a good idea for The Traitors to add some jeopardy to the missions and potentially give faithfuls something to go on (eg Frankie going for the wrong grave).

I agree with your theory, that's exactly what it is.

They don’t seem as obsessed with the money compared to previous years.

I agree there should be more jeopardy to the missions, if only to create some suspense for the viewer that they might not succeed. If there was a bit of brainwork involved which was more taxing than “count to 8 and convert it to Roman numerals” it might also make the Faithfuls less likely to eliminate anyone with an above-average IQ.

The missions are definitely more straightforward this time around.

I hope they have a mission as in previous years where players have to vote for who is least trustworthy etc. I think players were strapped to a giant wheel last year for this one? That shakes things up and it's quite revealing.

Great potential for Leanne to get utterly pissed off as well!

When I hear it on the programme I think it's just the way people talk from different parts of the country.

I hadn't thought of that, but it strikes me that it's infectious - once it starts, eventually (almost) everyone is at it - which makes me think it's nothing to do with regional variations. It seems the more players use "yourself", the more brutal "you" feels.

I think the easiest sabotage to add tthe tasks is, every task has a potential sheild or shields (most do anyway) but in all task there is some way a traitor can 'deactivate" the sheild. Either traitirs can do something which prevents physical access to the sheilds or they have to complete small extra task which makes any won sheild defunct (which is discovers after main task is complete).

Oh wow, I'd forgotten about that buried in coffins task from Series 1!

Agree that all the tasks have been really mediocre this year. Wasn't there a particularly nasty one last year where they were all in a haunted house and part it involved crawling through tunnels half filled with water? That was actually tense.

The "Stag's Forest" and "Idle Lake" of last night sounded like a treasure hunt for the nursery class.

Agree with all the pp about Anna - where has this "the Traitors have been gunning for me from day 1" bolleaux come from? No they haven't love.

It is, and I warn anyone who it winds up, if you're planning on watching the Irish Traitors, "yourself" has common usage.

See also anyone has conniption over "haitch". Though you might get away with not hearing that unless there's a spelling or an alphabet task 😄

That sounds good. I'm thinking if something like this were to happen, maybe it would neutralise the flaw in the format that gets the interesting people banished first leaving us with dim dullards to watch? Also as a pp suggested, make the missions more difficult - an incentive to keep the clever players in.

When she encounters senior male officers at work, she can hardly go off on a major strop and accuse them of being patronising, can she? No. She has to do as she's told.

She's probably been bottling up all that resentment for years and Alexander took the brunt of it. He's a 'commanding officer' type, she instinctively recognised that, and it's got her hackles right up.

You will love S2 then as a great bunch of personalities there with lots of humour I felt. Nothing will beat that series in my opinion ☺️

lol at polite werewolf and yes, he does!

I may or may not know someone who may or may not have said that about him too.
<also taps side of nose>

I know someone who works with Alexander. He currently works with the NHS and is apparently lovely and polite in real life too.

Don't think he is MI6.

Yes a common phrase in Ireland. Mick walks into a pub "ah it's yourself Mick" as a sort of greeting. Tbh I was quite surprised to see it used as a phrase in UK

Does anyone really care about the fake accent? It seems utterly pointless

Ah sure you know yourself.

It won't be long until we're on to thread 6. Any suggestions for the next title?

I agree with the pp who said that if Charlotte spoke in her real (posh English) accent she may have been targeted sooner.

If I was Welsh I would find it offensive