The Traitors UK discussion thread *SPOILERS*

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

3 hours ago, TheBurningRed said:

Speaking of Hannah Fry, this is the first time I've seen on tv. Only ever see the photos of her posted here as she's a forum favourite. And I'm sorry lads, I don't see it.

TheBurningRed burning a redhead. This may be the second biggest form of blasphemy in the cult of the UKFF. If you now say something negative about AEW you have to turn in your pass. 

[TheBurningRed]

1 hour ago, Lion_of_the_Midlands said:

If you now say something negative about AEW you have to turn in your pass. 

Sometimes, they do to much. Slow it down, brothers. Sell more. I still love AEW though.

Hannah Fry though, you're all mad.

Edited Wednesday at 01:10 PM by TheBurningRed

[DavidB6937]

You don't deserve Hannah Fry.

[BomberPat]

1 hour ago, Chilly McFreeze said:

This was my read on what happened. if you watch it back it's exactly how he comes across. Completely clueless as to what the point of the game is or how it works.

It's also worth noting their reaction, where there's a slight feel of 'do we need to reshoot that?' 

while I can see the "green room" theory making sense, I'm not sure how much it holds up with Richard E Grant clearly being a super-fan of the show. If it was really a kayfabe-busting bit of business, you'd think they would have just not left it in - but then maybe it was just such good telly they left it.

I believe that it's what he said it is - he got over-excited, and he's slightly mental.

[TheBurningRed]

I'm okay with that @DavidB6937

Edited Wednesday at 01:10 PM by TheBurningRed

[wordsfromlee]

Fair play to the producers. In the build up to the round table they tried their best to edit the show to make it look like there was even the slightest chance that Richard wouldn’t get banished and create a bit more drama 
 

Obviously he was going to go. They’d all be mad not to vote for him. 

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

The traitors did the only thing they could do and voted for Richard. Myha'la then got herself into trouble without any real help from the traitors. Of the three people they've chosen to potentially murder I wouldn't kill Bella because there is enough feeling she might be a traitor because of Paranoid Kemp and the hat of doom. 

[DavidB6937]

More Hannah Fry in this episode which means the Traitors editors read this forum just as much as Tony Khan does.

[BomberPat]

55 minutes ago, wordsfromlee said:

Fair play to the producers. In the build up to the round table they tried their best to edit the show to make it look like there was even the slightest chance that Richard wouldn’t get banished and create a bit more drama 
 

Obviously he was going to go. They’d all be mad not to vote for him. 

I honestly thought he might somehow sneak his way out, and that they'd done a cliffhanger ending because he was going to manage it somehow! It is a fun thing about the format compared to other reality shows, though, and I think an underappreciated part of its success that while they have clear format points, they can play fast and loose with them in a way I've not really seen before - it's not like you're always getting breakfast, recruitment, roundtable, murder, turret, challenge, in the same order every episode, they can be chopped and changed around and a cliffhanger ending whacked wherever best suits the story.

The thing with The Traitors is that everything that would make it a better game would make it worse telly. As a game, there's no benefit to voting out a Traitor early. The Faithfuls get no reward for it, and the Traitors just get to recruit again, meaning the Faithful now know less than they did before they voted someone out. When you've got someone as bang to rights as Richard E Grant, the smart play would be to keep him in all the way to the end - that way you know you have one Traitor to vote out at the very end, and you've limited their ability to recruit on the way there. Of course, that assumes everyone else being on the same page and agreeing to a strategy, and the point of the game is to engender enough doubt and paranoia to basically stop that from ever happening.

[Arch Stanton]

I was so happy that Hannah was spared but I do feel that she's not long for this game. As a Faithful she was always going to be a prime candidate for murder, on account of her being far too smart for her own good. She ought to be safer as a Traitor, but she looks uneasy and Miranda is right onto her. Her not being murdered will only make the Faithful suspicious of her. I think she'll be gone soon.

[WyattSheepMask]

An absolute masterclass from Acaster and Maya in that second Roundtable. Let everyone else bicker & argue about things that they’re all completely wrong about, don’t draw attention to anything that involves you, and even have Acaster make a silly no consequences accusation just to lighten the mood.

[Dai]

Classic Traitors troupe already, and happens all the time. There was a decent amount of 'heat' on Leigh Ann at the first round table with the 'doing the make up before you left' theory. Next episode, its never brought up in the edit of the show, and its seemingly didnt get enough traction in the round table discussions to make the edit either. 

You'd think Hannah is in deep shit at some point very soon, but with the way people seemingly latch on to anything, she could still be there in a few weeks time.

[Jazzy G]

I hope they murder Bash because I like James Blunt and Bella. They'd be shooting themselves in the foot if they murdered James Blunt because of how he's been taking charge of the tasks and getting them the big money. If they murder Bash they can start to try and steer suspicion onto Bella. 

There's only so much "pretend to be a faithful" the three of them can get away with until more than one of them winds up in the firing line. Hannah looks like she's struggling, but it's all about the editing. 

[westlondonmist]

I never realised what a posh tart James Blunt was, and I never thought he could make me dislike him more. Fair play to him that he's managed to do it. 

[Fog Dude]

Loathe as we might be to praise Romesh on here, I think he got it spot on when he said the instruction to choose "the most trustworthy person" in the initial group before they even got to the castle, was an experiment to see how quickly most other contestants turned on them.