In The Mole, the sabotages were revealed in the final and were often very subtle, plus the blame could sneakily be shifted onto innocent players. Any errors were pounced upon as evidence so there was enormous pressure not to accidentally mess up.
The final-episode "what was done" is what Netflix fails at. My fave from Ch5 was a rope-bridge task where everyone had to keep their heartrate down.. but The Mole had been topping up everyone's coffee all morning at breakfast.
Depends. On the gunpowder task, it was a case of "Did X answer that question wrong on purpose, or just didn't know?" etc. It's not that much different to "Person Y didn't tie up a boat properly"
Sorry, perhaps I've misunderstood where you both are coming from - but I think the immunity reward in the challenges has upped the jeopardy, leading to a good amount of "evidence" (as we saw with Freddie not being able to row and his petty reaction causing suspicion).
Arousing too much suspicion (too much "evidence" 😀) makes the game too easy for the faithfuls. That's all I mean. I think the challenges and the way they've been designed have so far have got that right.
Oh I love the show and am really enjoying it, but I do agree that it would be interesting if we didn’t know who the traitors were and could play along with the Faithfuls. It’s so easy to sit at home shouting “it’s Linda, you fools!” when we’ve seen her sneaking around the turret!
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That coffee plot sounds excellent! 😂👏👏👏