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Thursday, April 12, 2012
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Previously the girls were up by one and somehow convinced their guy alliance mates to vote another dude out. Can they do it again this week?
I don’t even wanna know. I’m so depressed.
Poor Jeff. You know how he loves the men on this show. In fact, he’s soooooo depressed about losing two guys in a row that he totally needs some time off. So we’re getting another DIY reward challenge. Poor wittle Jeffie.
The castaways pick rocks to see how they’ll be divided up for the challenge. We get Troyzan, Abitchia, Tarzan, Jay, and Kat vs. Kim, Chelsea, Christina, Sabrina, and Leif. The challenge involves a clotheshorse-like target, with levels of points on each “arm” ranging from 1 to 5. They have to throw a balls and rope contraption at the target, and where their balls land determines their points. Is it just me or having I been typing the word BALLS a lot this season?
WHY?????????????
I don’t get it; we KNOW he has pants or swimtrunks or whatever the hell else he was wearing last week, can’t SOMEONE make him put those back on?
They have poop on them.
I shoulda known. Maybe one of these upcoming reward challenges will involve a case of depends. Anyway, Kat and Tarzan turn out to be the stars of this challenge while everyone else (except Chrstina) sucks (balls). The reward for their team? Another fucking barbeque. I totally agree with you Gasmi that have they miss the days when people lost major weight on this show instead of eating like fools.
Snakes and Rats! Make ‘em eat snakes and rats!
Calm down, Sue. It’s a known fact that starving for 39 days can cause an irreversible case of brain mush.
At the immunity challenge (another recycled one), Jeff uses food to tempt people into throwing away immunity. There were a couple of people that I was shocked to see give up for food. The immunity winner turns out to be a smarter cookie than I was thinking they were last week, convincing their opponent to give up so that they look like less of a threat when it comes time for voting. Bravo.
Jay’s still nervous about the girls and touches base with them a bunch of times to make sure they’re all on the same page. Troyzan’s also getting squirrely about the girls, but seems to be less soothed by words of reassurance. Kat tells us that she has GOT to stop thinking with her heart. That explains so much, doesn’t it? In other news, Kat also flosses her butt and brushes her toes.
Wow. There’s so much air in her head, it’s INFLATING her hoodie!!!
Will Jeff cry himself to sleep yet again after this week’s tribal? Come back in a couple of days and we’ll discuss Jeff’s possible mental breakdown, Tarzan’s salivation, and Abitchia’s bitchiness. See you then!
SWAK, PottyMouth
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Kat’s private interview caught me completely by surprise — she sounded entirely coherent and even – gasp – reasonable. I know they record several takes of these things, so it’s possible she’d already repeated the same lines a dozen times, and that’s why she sounded so convincing. But wouldn’t it be sweet if she pulled out a PhD at the end and said “suck this, morons” and won?
I know, I know. A guy can dream.
I think Kim’s going to trip herself up. Troy’s already onto her. Chelsea’s the craftier one.
But they ought to fast-forward the next couple of episodes. It’s pretty clear the men will be voted out one by one, so can we just get it over with already, please?
Also, weird how everyone seems to despise Christina. She must be really awful to be around.
Food. I would pick food. I will always choose food, unless the other option is sleep, in which case I’d have to flip a coin.
Good thing I read these recaps when I’m by myself, or people would be wondering why I’m laughing like at idiot.
and apparently typing like AN idiot.
Since COLON left — this season of SURVIVOR has become too CIVILIZED. I’m sure there are some prissy types that think it’s just FAB now. (Well, if they’re still watching.) It’s turned into a big yawnfest for me, though. What would really spice up this season is if LEIF started walking around NAKED. That’s something I could get behind; midget nudity!
Most…boring…season…ever. z z z z z z z z z
I agree. If I wanted to watch the female sex discuss “issues” I would watch THE VIEW. I wanna see some vicious, uncalled for NAME CALLING. B*tch is a perfectly good name to call someone you don’t like. Especially, when they’re within earshot. A little backstabbing that HURTS (that produces torment and tears) couldn’t hurt this season either & certainly some MALE nudity (as long as it’s not Tarzan) could go a long way to renew my interest in this season. I’m also not adverse to some physical violence. (Just a TAD! Just enough to bring my pulse back to beating while I’m watching this show.) Some hair pulling would be fun!
I just noticed that our avatars look like they come from the same family, Mr. D.
But I’m enjoying the way this season is shaking out, bikini-wise.
Hi Itchy.
Yes, it’s like we’re from the same alien family. I hope everything is fine in France.
I’m tired of all the food rewards – there are homeless people that don’t eat as often as these people. Maybe the million bucks should go to feeding the homeless instead.
OMG – it must be because it is 3:30 am, but “Wow. There’s so much air in her head, it’s INFLATING her hoodie!!!’ made me laugh like crazy! I hope that the final three contains worthy adversaries and not a goat (ie Tarzan or Christina). I am looking forward to your full recap!
For a million dollars I would pick immunity every time!! These people are going to be at Ponderosa seeing how much weight they’ve gained. I was soo mad at Jay telling Kim what was up! Dumbass!
This is baffling me, why do they get so much food? My favorite part of the season were the finale when everyone is extra chubby. Its esp good when you see the anorexic girls slightly overweight. These people are so well fed they don’t even get sick from over eating or get sugar/caffeine rushes.
Exactly! I wonder if something happened behind the scenes in the last couple of seasons which prompted them to have a lot of food this season. Have they had a single reward challenge this season that was not centered around food? Fishing gear counts as food.
Why fish when you can feast on barbeeque? There has not been the “roughing “it of seasons past.
I hate to say it, but everyone this season is just too balanced and sportsmanlike about the game. After Colton left, the only crazy people left were Alicia and Tarzan, and even Alicia has quieted down a bit. It’s a tough lesson to learn, but a good and well-played game on “Survivor” is actually boring to watch. The best example would be Boston Rob’s relentless domination in Redemption Island, but at least he had the Boston Rob “character” to fall back on. Kim, as much as I respect her level-headed strategy, is just a normal person. She doesn’t play up to the cameras (which I respect), but she also doesn’t have a wacky or charismatic personality otherwise, either.
It’s actually kind of typical. Go back and watch Borneo, the first season. They were actually given way more supplies that season than in any other season since, although the rewards were, admittedly, meager. (I think they did an individual reward challenge just for a slice of pizza.) Still, the feast rewards have been typical since Palau, and that was years ago.
Besides, they only hold reward challenges every three days. A nice meal once every three days isn’t exactly a great diet.
What else would the rewards be? Once they hit the merge, the rewards are almost always feasts, since by that point they’ve already won all the tarps, blankets, pillows and camp supplies. This isn’t new. It’s been this way since Palau, at least, and that was Season 10.
Before then, rewards were, admittedly, pretty meager. I remember a challenge in Borneo where they fought for a single slice of pizza. But large feasts have become the staple post-merge reward for the past fourteen seasons. I haven’t noticed anything different about this season. Maybe it just seems a little more opulent because they’re already in a tropical paradise?
I once met Jill from “Survivor: Nicaragua” at a charity event near Baltimore. She mentioned that every time they got a food reward, everyone got extremely sick. They just don’t show it on camera like they did in the early seasons.
This is such a dull season. And the contestants are sooo stupid – especially the men. It’s as if they’ve never watched Survivor before.
LOL, Mister Dangerous!
Well, I suppose that all depends on which Survivor you want to watch. Personally, I prefer the fantasy of a bunch of ordinary people thrown together into a condition where they are forced to survive, and the ways in which the people cope. I think that’s why the Africa season is still one of my favorites. The Australia season too.
What Survivor has become is a freakshow of extreme personalities riding out a more or less established strategy (the alliance of 5) on the same well-stocked beach year after year.
I had hoped this season would shake that up a bit, if only by placing them on the same beach. But obviously that didn’t work, and it lasted for what, 3 weeks?
This is one of those occasions when itchy and I are in complete agreement. The drama from the early seasons came from watching the players struggle to balance HAVING to work together with playing the game. Now the only consideration for elimnation is “is this person in my alliance.”
I don’t like the evolution of this game. It’s become a cheap echo of the innovation it once was.
Part of the problem, too, aside from nicer conditions and horriblee casting, is the predictability. Knowing there will be idols…knowing there will be a merge and approximately when it will be…knowing the basic conditions (especially since they go to the same place over and over.)
It would be great for the audience to see the players caught totally off guard. Send them to the islands of the coast of Canada…or back to Africa. Don’t have an immunity idol AT ALL. And don’t merge. Whatever team dwindles, let it stand. Yes, it takes more creativity, but it will also yield more viewers…and, in turn, higher advertising rates.
And STOP RECRUITING. No more wannabe actors and models who know nothing about the show. Or hangers-on who already know past participants.
“What Survivor has become is a freakshow of extreme personalities riding out a more or less established strategy (the alliance of 5) on the same well-stocked beach year after year.”
It’s become too much like Big Brother. The same well-stocked beach is like the Big Brother set/house. About the only thing missing is the 24-hour live feeds and rebukes of “You are not allowed to talk about production.”
Preach it, sister!!!
It was better when they actually NEEDED the clues to find the Hidden Immunity Idol, rather than just looking under the nearest tree root, and there it is. Make them figure out where to dig or whatever, by deciphering cryptic clues. Good luck with that, Kat.
HOLLA! My friend and I were talking about this last night. We were thinking that because they cast the “pretty people” that just want to be on TV and didn’t make the cut for Big Brother, that’s why they give all the food.
I remember the beginning of the influx of food rewards, but (and this may just be the voices in my head talking) I’m remembering it was mainly dessert type things, not full 8 course meat-stravaganzas. Plus the locales they’ve been at recently have an abundance of fish and coconuts and chickens.
I didn’t watch the first season and never got to it when I had Netflix DVDs, but I’m thinking that was the true Survivor and everything now is just about being on TV and cavorting around in as little clothing as possible or poop stained banana hammocks.
What ever happened to individual immunities where the winner gets to pick one or two people to share the reward? This leads to feelings getting hurt, screaming I haven’t eaten in 24 days, pick me, pick me! And alliances shifting.
If they do keep the “hidden” immunity idol, they should all come with rules. I did like how the HI Colon found told him he had to give it to someone else. That added some game play to the game. All, HIs should come with these type of conditions. Also, they should hide some fake ones just to mess with people. They could even hide an idol which doesn’t give immunity but allows the player to skip the reward challenge and automatically get the reward. They could also say that the HI has to be played at the next vote (aka it was only good for three days once found). That would add some game play and drama.
I DISAGREE with with ITCHY, CATTYFAN AND CRANKYGUY completely. When I’m at work, when I’m driving down the freeway, when I’m on the subway, when I’m at the post office and when I’m at the Department of Motor Vehicles I don’t want to be around freak show personalities. When I’m watching SURVIVOR or BIG BROTHER — I don’t mind the freaks.
The only consolation I have for the dreariness of the past few seasons, is knowing how happy you’ve been, Mr. D. !
PREACH.
Kim’s rather dull domination of this season is largely due to the fact that she’s a hardcore fan and a longtime applicant. The rest of the women (with the exception of Christina) are recruits. Troyzan, I believe, is the only male applicant still left in the game.
What can really be done about that, though? The reason those first few seasons worked on that level is because reality television as a whole was a new concept. Granted, there were still recruits who wanted to use the experience to gain fame (Jerri from Australia is the best example), but overall nobody really knew what they were getting into. Now the show is in its 24th season and has millions of hardcore fans who would love a shot to play. Even the models they recruit have an idea about what they’re getting into, or they at least have tons of DVDs to watch to get an idea of how to play the game. Nothing can really be “innovative” in its 24th season.
I agree they shouldn’t keep going to the same locations, though the only reason they have been in Samoa for the last two cycles is because negotiations with the Tongan government fell through at the last minute, and Samoa (where they had already filmed Seasons 19 and 20) was their backup. The Samoan government also gave them a tax break, since they were hurting for revenue after a series of earthquakes and tsunamis.
The reason they film two seasons back-to-back now (a tradition they started in Season 19) is due strictly to budget cuts. It’s sad, but what can you do? I’d like to see them back in Africa or even Australia, but there are a lot of logistics issues involved.
Last season, Albert won a shower and a massage, but instead gave it to Cochran and Coach. Brandon won pizza, and shared it with Rick. Ozzy won a duel and picked Coach, Albert and Brandon to see their families.
Similar scenarios happened in Redemption Island, too. Ashley won a feast and shared it with Natalie, which put Boston Rob on a crusade to eliminate her, since he felt the two girls were getting too close. Nicaragua also had some interesting scenarios. Chase picked Holly and Sash to join him on the family reward, which infuriated both Jane and Dan… I mean, honestly, people say this stuff has been missing, but it’s been a part of the last few seasons, just like always. Perhaps people are just over the show’s format? Because it honestly hasn’t changed that much.
I have an idea about the rewards.
Since the budget went down on Survivor (yes you saw when it happened too) .. the same old same challenges, the same puzzles, Last year they tried to recreate a previous challenge that took place in the water. This time they didnt have water so, Heh,,they just dug a ditch and put water in it! It was a hilarious challenge with folks peeing in the water and everything ! I digress.
I think they are so comfortable and so well fed this season is because of branding, branding…..branding.
In the begining, they have branding to give the tribe blankets, tarps, Chairs! <homeade chairs are so lame in survivor. Knives machetes…
So it is only reasonable to assume they got food people to jump on the brandwagon, too.
If I was looking at this head on, I would think; how hard would it be for Survivor to feed and clothe the survivors? I remember when they didn't have anything. No extra shoes, no food…NOW THATS THE WAY TO DO IT More to the point , Thats The Way they used to do it. It cant cost too much to starve folks!
The starving, filthy, bugbit, folks now have a saviour called Branding.
Robn
Go back and watch the first two seasons. There was more overt product placement in Borneo and Australia than there has been recently. The buffs even had “Reebok” printed largely across them. They also all had several changes of clothes, tarps, nets, nails, hammers, sunglasses, fish traps, crates, barrels and a host of other supplies, right from the start. Remember how they all had several minutes to grab everything they could from a boat and then paddle to shore?
I feel like people are imagining some version of “Survivor” that has never existed when they say that the contestants get more now than they used to. Go back and watch the early seasons. They actually used to get more.
The post-merge is the most interesting part of the game, usually. I found Palau — the only season where there was no merge — dreadfully boring because the first eight episodes were just one tribe (Koror) winning challenges against another tribe (Ulong) until there was only one player (Stephenie) left. Then she was absorbed into Koror and quickly disposed of (though a girl named Janu gave her a one-round reprieve by quitting). I like things to be chaotic. When one player, alliance or tribe dominates too much, the show gets stale.
I don’t have to go back and watch the first two seasons to know that there was product placement. I remember a hook and fishingline branded. But the cool thing about that, was that the folks back then had to fish with it! Regardless of the name of the hook or crook.
Seems like nowadays food just seems to fall on thier plates as long as it has branding..
I mean, Ozzy was spear-fishing every single episode last season, and Chelsea and Monica were spear-fishing earlier this season, too. It’s not like the barbecue fish they won this episode was from a particular brand.
If something on a television show is branded, they knock you over the head with it (like the 7UP challenge, for instance, or the Outback Steakhouse reward from Heroes vs. Villains). If somebody wins a burger and fries in a challenge, that doesn’t mean it’s branded. So far this season, none of the food rewards (except for the cooler of 7UP they won) have been branded.
Or Sears, remember the season they got a crate full of tools and lumber?
Thank you Itchy. You’re very kind.
I wouldn’t mind if everything was branded if that would mean better challenges and better locations. If each reward was sponsored by a company, I think viewers wouldn’t care as long as they knew the challenges were going to be fresh and exciting. Plus, when food is branded on survivor, it doesn’t really want to make you go out and get it. These people are eating snails and burnt rice, I am sure any food would taste good to them. After the 7UP challenge, all I could think was ‘damn, these people are going to go into sugar shock’. Not ‘oh, I really want a 7UP now’.