'The Traitors Canada' Season 2: 'The worst Faithfuls in the history of Traitors' continue to banish their own
"You have a few really loud people and it's the wrong people," Aaron, the most recently banished Faithful, said
We're seven episodes into CTV's The Traitors Canada Season 2 and the Faithfuls still haven't been able to target any of the three Traitors. Aaron, a Faithful, banished in this week's episode, called the group "the worst Faithfuls in the history of Traitors," and it looks like he's right.
"I think emotional outrage is mainly the problem," Aaron, a security manager from Nova Scotia, told Yahoo Canada. "I think that you have a few really loud people and it's the wrong people, and what's happening is it's sort of snowballing into an effect where everybody's listening to...the loudest person, but then anyone else who kind of talks along the way, it's sort of like, Why would you say that? Why would you say this? You must be guilty of something."
"But ... there [are] a lot of Faithfuls, you can't share an $80,000, $100,000 pot with 12 Faithfuls, right? So they need to go. And as cold as that is, as a Faithful, you have to be aware that."
Earlier in the episode Mike, a true crime podcaster and author from Langley, B.C., was murdered by the Traitors, but he also isn't particularly confident in the Faithfuls' ability to pick out the Traitors, even though he was suspicious about Michael John in particular.
"I never have been one of the cool kids, so it was really hard for me to find my place there, even though I had Michael John pegged the whole time," he said. "Maybe considering what I do for a living, I was watching somebody be very disingenuous in their responses."
Evaluating the Traitors
While it seems like in every episode someone mentions Michael John as a possible Traitor, the support hasn't been there to actually reveal his true identity.
"I personally got in my own head almost a little bit too much with him, because the game I was playing was a little different. I didn't want to go after the Traitors all that much, because I'm thinking, if I go after the Traitors, they're going to kill me," Aaron explained.
"So you almost want everyone to sort of think you're a Traitor, but then also not be too Faithful, because if you're on the other side, they'll just kill you. ... I think there was a little too much of that where ... there were a few really strong players who were playing too much of that mental game and let the loose cannons just go crazy."
In terms of the other Traitors, they've proven their ability to fly under the radar a bit more for many, but there were still some clues.
"[Kyra and I] had that West Coast connection, ... we just started talking and my brain just was like, no, I just didn't consider her a Traitor," Mike said.
"Neda was a different story. I was watching how quiet she was and sometimes she did some strange things. ... Two days before I was murdered, I had a dream about Neda and she wouldn't let me go. And I kind of trust things that come to me in dreams, and I'm not saying I'm psychic or anything like that, I think it's my subconscious working things out. And so I started to suspect maybe I need to look a little closer at Neda. But I didn't have the chance to really get to do that, because here I am dead as a doornail."
Faithfuls have 'no control'
But if both Mike and Aaron had the opportunity to return to the show, they would want to be Traitors.
"I wasn't too keen on it to begin with, because I didn't know if I could play that kind of game," Mike said. "You're there to not tell the truth to people, so it's not like you're a bad person if you're lying. Whereas before, in my head, I was like, I don't know. And I do think going into it, had I been chosen as a Traitor ... I would have given myself away, very bad probably, exactly like Michael John did."
"Selfishly and probably sort of shamelessly egotistical, you want to be on camera more," Aaron said in a separate interview. "And you want to control the game."
"I did want to be a Traitor, I said that at the beginning of the show, because you just have more information. ... I believe, as a Faithful, ... you really have no control."
