The Mole: Wie is de Mol 2014!

[mykonian]

oh wow, they translate pretty quick. The last one is last saturdays episode. There are some fun characters in it this time

[mykonian]

For the same reason as flameaxe disliked her a bit initially, I loved ellie. She and Taeke are the odd people out there, and she was the talkative one of the two. The rest of the candidates are all creative people, tv or otherwise. The dymanic between her and the group was amazing, I loved watching that. I'll miss her

[mykonian]

I'm sorry to say, you are all wrong. It's totally annemieke.

[mykonian]

Spoiler:

oh, that's a brave bet to take.

with this episode, I have to admit, I was wrong. It cannot be Annemieke. Last episode already made me spread, but with this one I really should let it go. It's for me time to get out of the tunnel and accept that while he's the nicest guy, it's just Klaas who's the mole here.

I'm 90% sure they try to obfuscate the way the game goes with the "suspicions" voiced during the test. They tend to cover the whole group. I think there's some selective quoting or something going on there, which obviously isn't malicious, I mean, all the viewers get to search for the mole then as well. But the fact that this elimination was on time, means probably the whole group already knows who the mole is, and tests are really on knowledge, not so much on guessing who the mole is. The most obvious choice for me has to be Klaas then.

For me, Rop was the candidate-mole. He's not spectacular ever, and that suits him fine. Taeke, can't shut off. He's competative, and as such a terrible candidate. He's done some odd things, but it feels so clunky and every other challenge that suits him he's done good things for the team again. And Tim, although hard to grasp, really only has that as a reason to suspect him. When it matters, when there's jokers in play or stuff, he's really focussed on that. Maybe he fooled the odd candidate, but it's just a way of life rather than him playing the game that way. Which leaves Klaas for me, who's just too often not quite accurate (like this episode, not recognising who's suitcase it was) and who in my minds eye is constantly shrugging when something has gone wrong again.

[mykonian]

ugh, you guys. Stop convincing me!

[mykonian]

I can top PEG.

Taeke is the one leaving next episode.

[mykonian]

Taeke is the one leaving next episode.

Tim leaves next episode.

I smell a bet.

[mykonian]

Spoiler:

good you didn't bite

[mykonian]

you obviously had the mole pegged since episode 1.

[mykonian]

eek! Just a couple more hours!

[mykonian]

Spoiler:

Not the winner I expected. The mole actions were somewhat possible to piece together when you got on the right track. Otherwise nice feelgood TV.

I don't know if the mole is to blame or the candidates that he was the most suspected player.

[mykonian]

Klaas has afterwards stated that he was a bit annoyed by the hint of episode 2. People caught onto that and it very soon made him "obvious" to the more serious watchers. It was possibly a bit too easy. And I'm tempted to agree with him, looking back at his actions throughout this episode, he did do a seemingly ok job of hiding himself initially. It was a bit of a disappointing season to me because idk, I"m not supposed to actually find the mole and agree with the majority Might be more on the producers than the mole here, some of the other moles that this happened to were actually quite bad.

[mykonian]

and Diederik was the one I had an eye on...

[mykonian]

otoh, he's also probably one of the worst actors...

[mykonian]

well I've found someone that really cannot be it.

[mykonian]

and oh god, they didn't vet this for Americans

[mykonian]

well I've found someone that really cannot be it.

Love Sanne this episode. She's amazing.

[mykonian]

This episode promised to be great and delivered.

[mykonian]

the money or the execution?

[mykonian]

Spoiler: today

Pffft

For episodes I've been wavering on Jochem now, he looks so good in challenge after challenge.

And here, it looks like Thomas is iffy again, and he's the blindspot scum all season long

I must admid that I don't know this time. It's not Sanne, I have to say I will be somewhat surprised by the result at the end of it. But I think it may actually be Thomas now.

And if Jochem is actually a candidate, he's been super awesome, endearing and funny.

[mykonian]

Spoiler:

Her handing in the original for the copying challenge in the paper mill. Ive seen her in some other quiz show where she was seriously competative (also got far), but where she also was a handfull for the quizmaster to handle. Was a lot of fun to watch, and this felt very similar. So I thought I saw the natural candidate Sanne there. And there's been more instances of that.

I thought thomas on the Oregon trail showed he was perhaps a bad liar, being all excited that he could finally do something secret. But by now, that must just have been some very good acting? It'd be nice.

[mykonian]

Not sure for how long spoilers are required still, but

Spoiler:

I loved how Thomas managed to transition his early episodes into becoming the by default trusted player. I assume that helped, if the other players keep nominating him for key positions, are you going to be the one stepping out of line suspecting him? Surely they have a reason. Getting to that point as a mole, that's an achievement.

In that, I got it totally wrong halfway as well. The way the group went about it, trusting different people, I thought they had all figured it out. Perhaps they thought the same. But Jochem, who I was on, idk, he was surprisingly helpful for a mole in a couple of challenges. He was too nice after all I would never have rethought it if it wasn't for that.