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Saturday, April 14, 2012
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Yaaaawwwn. Sorry, I was just thinking about the way this season is turning out. As much as I’m glad Colon is no longer stinking up the joint with the stench of his rotten soul, I have to admit, things are MUCH quieter (and boring) without him.
See? I knew y’all loved me!
Ahhhhh…..it must be nice to be so delusional. Anyway, let’s get to this week’s episode, shall we?
It’s the morning of day 23, and at Camp Titty-Caca, Jay is telling the rest of the tribe that he dreamed he got shot. Who was shooting him? Mike? Mayhap he was, Jay concedes. Elsewhere in camp, Tarzan is warning Troyzan that their days might be numbered. Ya know, because the girls are up by two. He thinks the girls are gonna keep on voting out the guys.
That Chelsea might hate photographers too ya know! Maybe she had a bad picture of her boobs once. I’m jus sayin…..watch her.
Dude, you smell so funky I can’t concentrate on anything you’re saying.
Troyzan is happy that Michael’s gone since he was gunning for Troyzan from the beginning. Hahaha! Kim did a good job convincing him of that! He does admit that since the girls are now up in the numbers they could decide it’s time for him and Jay to go, but I think he’s hoping the Salami foursome is solid enough to survive any girl power.
He reminds Tarzan that there’s a hidden immunity idol out there somewhere and they both know it would help them get control of the game. Tarzan is not so hopeful that the girls can be stopped; he thinks the guys have to keep winning immunity challenges. Not that it will help HIM given that he sucks monkey balls at any and all immunity challenges.
If only they had a boob job challenge. I’d be splendiferous at that!
Troyzan may be a little nervous about the girls, but he’s got that hidden immunity idol, so he can hopefully do something if he sees anything fishy going on.
Just yesterday I smelled something fishy over by Kim.
Damn! It must have been her hidden immunity idol!
Time for the reward challenge. Oh BULLSHITE!!!!!! Apparently Jeff is super upset that guys have been voted out in back to back tribals because he has taken the day off. That’s right Gasmi, we’ve got us another DIY challenge. What a load. Suck it up, Jeffrey!!
No.
What a fucking baby.
This challenge involves a clothes rack-like scoring target that numbers from one to five. The castaways will use a rope with balls on each end to throw at the target to earn points. That’s right. MORE balls. Perhaps we should call this “The Season of Boobs and Balls”. Whatta ya think?
I can’t hear you over the windstorm in my hoodie.
As usual, the reward for the winners will be a feast. A barbeque feast to be exact. Imagine that. Food. Shocking! Whatever happened to the days when they’d win a survivor toilet and toilet paper? I bet they wish they had that after some of these food rewards!
The castaways draw rocks to divide them into teams, and we end up with Troyzan, Tarzan, Abitchia, Jay, and Kat on one team and Kim, Sabrina, Chelsea, Christina, and Leif on the other. Troyzan appoints himself as the host of the game.
The poor man’s Jeff Probst
Jay’s up first and gets a goose egg. Kim steps up for her team and walks away with nothing as well. Next are Kat and she scores two points for her team. Leif answers that with a big fat nuttin. Troyzan and Chelsea both score no points and then it’s Tarzan’s turn.
I may gouge my eyes out before this season is over.
He gets four points for his team. Holy crap! I would have never pegged him as the high scorer of this game. Christina finally puts some points on the board for her team. Well, one point. As Sabrina steps up for her turn, the other team is up 6 to 1. They can only hope to tie it up at this point and that’s only if Sabrina can score a five.
Which she doesn’t do
Victory! We fight to win. Victory! Is ours again. We are the scourge of the land and the sea, beastly Survivors are we.
Tarzan is VERY excited to have won his first reward challenge. Too bad it wasn’t a washing machine. Something tells me that his pants will be adding a few more stains at the end of this reward!
The winners head out to their feast via boat, and they discover a bottle of rum onboard. Woo hoo! Troyzan adds it to some coconuts and now they’re ready to party hardy. When they arrive at the island everyone except Tarzan lies around on the beach continuing their happy hour. Meanwhile, Tarzan watches the locals prepare the food.
One of them accused me of moving their firewood. I bet he had a bad experience with his boob job.
Bad mobs or no, Tarzan is ready for the feast. In fact, he is salivating at the thought. Somehow the thought of Tarzan’s saliva has a nauseating effect on MY stomach.
Eventually everyone joins Tarzan to watch the cooking, except for Jay and Kat. No, they’re not staying behind to get a little summin summin, but to talk votes. Jay tells her he really wasn’t thrilled with Michael going out before Christina or Abitchia because now the girls outnumber the guys.
Wait. Six is more than four? Are you sure?!?
He tells us he wants to make sure Kat is on the same page as him because he’s starting to get a little paranoid. So naturally you’d want to point out the fact the girls outnumber the guys and could totally turn on them. I mean, that’s definitely the way I would handle it.
He tells Kat that they really need to stick to their plan to vote Manono out before turning on any Salami. She assures him she’s gonna do just that. Jay’s not totally buying it; he knows there’s gonna be some blindsides coming up; he’s just hoping it won’t be HIM.
The next morning Kim and Chelsea talk about how glad they are to have voted Michael out. Kim tells us she plans on keeping to her low-key leadership style; keeping out of danger while knowing that she’ll be able to point to all the moves she made when it gets to the end.
Kat and Abitchia join them to talk about the next vote. Kim thinks they should definitely get rid of Jay or Troyzan next; whichever one of them doesn’t win immunity will go. Kat and Abitchia are on board, but Chelsea feels uncomfortable about it. She says she’s looked Jay and Troyzan in the eyes and told them they could trust her; she really doesn’t want to go back on her word.
Kim reminds Chelsea that either or those guys cold go on an immunity challenge winning spree, so the second they lose they have GOT to go. Abitchia doesn’t get it; just vote the fuckers out! She tells Chelsea she has got to play with her brain not her heart.
Bitch, I will slap you
Kat’s also worried about Chelsea, so she goes off to talk to Sabrina about it. So now Sabrina’s concerned about Chelsea, saying they can’t afford to have any cracks in their alliance. “Going to the end requires some big girl decisions. You got to put on your big girl panties and make a big girl decision.” Uh oh. Sounds like Chelsea needs to shut up before she finds herself voted out!
Jay and Troyzan decide to take some time for themselves to talk and Jay says (again) how important it is that they stick to their original plan of booting Manono. Troyzan is on board with that. DUH. Jay thinks they need to get rid of Abitchia before Christina because she’s more two sided, therefore more of a threat.
She was also eyeing my cheesy poofs. The bitch has gots to go!
Troyzan points out that they each have a good chance of winning immunity again and again and again. Wouldn’t it be just great if they were in the finals together?
To Troyzan: Yup.
To us: HELL NO!
Jay knows it would be dangerous to sit next Troyzan at the end because he’s so well liked. Kim and Chelsea are his girls, so he’s gotta trust them. Well, to a point. He’s gonna keep them just as close as the enemy around here.
Later, Jay talks to Kat telling her he wants to vote out Abitchia, even though he KNOWS she’s friends with her. He tells Kat that he and Troyzan made sacrifices by voting out Jonas and Michael so now the girls have to make a sacrifice.
Do you know how hard it is to hear over the wind tunnel of my brain???? What? Did you say something?
Kat calls over Kim, Chelsea, and Sabrina to confirm the plan and Kim promises him that they will vote out Abitchia. Chelsea keeps her mouth shut, knowing that the ladies are planning on voting out him or Troyzan. She hates being this deceitful, she tells us.
The next day, Kim and Abitchia talk while washing dishes in the ocean. Kim tells Abitchia that the plan is to vote out Troyzan or Jay, but to tell THEM that Abitchia is the one going home. Kim feels like it’s time for the guys to really know where the women stand.
Of course Troyzan sees Kim and Abitchia talking and gets paranoid. He knows that if the girls were smart they’d use that majority and get rid of one of the strong guys. I guess he’s hoping that Kat is the one driving the bus.
A guy can hope, right?
He and Jay go off to get tree mail and he tells Jay just how worried he is. Jay assures Troyzan that Abitchia is getting the boot. Troyzan is not buying it; he feels like he really need to win this challenge.
Immunity challenge time!
It’s another recycled challenge; this time it’s the one where they all stand on a narrow perch with one arm up in the air. To this arm is tethered a bucket full of colored water. If their arm drops, they get soaked with water and are out of the running for the immunity necklace. Last person standing gets immunity and cannot be voted out of the game.
To make this challenge more difficult, Jeff will be tempting them to throw it all away for food. Good thing half of them just ate, right?!? I mean, there’s no need to throw away immunity after that feast.
Hungry eyes….one look at you and I can’t disguise…
Mere seconds after the challenge starts, Tarzan is out. LOLOLOLOL. He sucks so bad.
Jeff brings out the first food item and before he can even reveal it, Christina falls off her perch. No food for Christina. Boo hoo. Jeff takes the cover off the food and we see that it’s two cookies and a glass of milk. Boom. Sabrina drops out claiming the food.
Before Jeff can even bring out the next item, Abitchia is saying she wants it. Jay tells her if she takes the food he is voting her ass out. Jeff appears with four cupcakes and a glass of milk. Kim and Kat opt out and claim them. Abitchia tries a different strategy, telling Chelsea she will do her a favor and take the next food item so that she can stay in and beat Jay.
Grrrrl, please.
Chelsea is not buying it. Neither is Jeff. Doesn’t matter because Jeff brings out another food item and Abitchia claims it without even knowing what’s inside. Oh man; remember the days when they had crappy as food items as well as good stuff hidden? How awesome would it have been if the bowl of candy she just got had been cow brain or bugs or some such shit?
My nasty ass will put just about anything in my mouth!
We’re now 45 minutes into the challenge and Troyzan, Leif, Jay, and Chelsea are still in it. Troyzan loses his balance and is out. No food for you! The ladies are happy about this and don’t do such a great job of hiding that.
Next Jeff brings out chicken wings and beer. Boom. Jay is out. Wow. I’m pretty shocked he jumped off; I thought for sure he’d be in it for the immunity win.
Hope they taste good.
So now it’s down to Leif and Chelsea. Chelsea thinks that Leif should just drop because he’s totally safe in this vote. In fact, if he dropped out it would make him seem like less of a threat. Jeff comes along to help try to sway one of the; he’s got a plate with three burgers, chips and beer. Chelsea tells him to get the fuck away from her; she doesn’t even want to look at it.
Leif wants those burgers bad. He asks Chelsea if she was telling him the truth about not being in danger and she says she was. So he hops on down for the burgers, giving her the win.
Leif is a sweetheart, letting Chelsea have one of his burgers. Aww. That was nice.
Back at camp everyone congratulates Chelsea on her win. Kim is really excited about the outcome of the challenge, saying she got to eat cupcakes AND not put herself out there as any sort of threat. She’s happy to have Chelsea look like the strong one, keeping that kind of attention off herself. She is a smart cookie, this one. But can she keep this going til the end?
Chelsea is happy that won but still feels guilty about turning on Jay or Troyzan. “To turn that quick on them, I hate to be that person, but I love money. “ And……better now. Wow. That was quick.
Chelsea points out to us that Troyzan is a big threat saying he wants to win so badly, he didn’t even step down from the challenge for any of the food temptations. Yup. He’s most certainly thinking about the game more than Jay is. Kim tells Chelsea she’s thinking they should split the votes between Jay and Troyzan in case one of them has a hidden idol. She’s gonna have Christina, Abitchia, and Tarzan vote for Jay, and Leif, Chelsea, Sabrina, Kat, and herself vote for Troyzan. Was anyone else surprised that she was so certain Leif and Tarzan would vote the way she wants them to? I feel like we missed a conversation somewhere.
Jay’s back again to make sure that everyone is still on board with getting rid of Abitchia. Kim promises Jay that they are while Chelsea says nothing and avoids looking at him. He fails to notice.
The fact that I will not look at you at all should be no sort of warning sign whatsoever.
Troyzan is next to talk to Kim and he just wants to make sure it’s not him going tonight. Kim repeatedly tells him not to worry. This makes Troyzan worry. He thinks if he really was safe she’s just tell him not to worry ONE time rather than repeating it over and over and over. “If she wanted to get me out, she’d want to be extra sure that I felt like I was safe.”
So he does what any smart player would; he goes and digs up his immunity idol. He then finds Jay and tells him he’s got the idol and says he’s gonna play it tonight. Oh, and they should vote for Kim instead of Abitchia.
Didn’t I tell ya she was trying to steal mah pot pie as well? She’s a dildo!
Jay’s surprised to hear that Troyzan has the idol and he doesn’t seem all that thrilled to find out it’s been kept a secret from him. Troyzan says he’s gonna try and get Tarzan and Christina to vote for Kim as well, but Jay is not behind this plan. He tells us that he’s still voting for Abitchia because Kim is in his final three so obviously there’s no way he booting her out.
True to his word, Troyzan approaches Tarzan and Christina about voting for Kim. Meanwhile, Jay tells Kim that Troyzan has an idol and her name has come up as a possible vote tonight. As you can imagine, Kim is not happy to hear that. He tells her they should still vote for Abitchia, but also try to flush Troyzan’s idol out and maybe get him next time.
This whole exchange makes Kim very nervous because they are getting ready to head out to tribal and that leaves her with no time to confirm the plan with everyone. She hopes that she’s got enough people and they’re sticking with what she wants them to do.
And with that, it’s time to head out to tribal.
Is Tarzan’s wearing a ladies’ shirt??????
What. The hell????
Once they get to tribal, Jeff points out that the guys are dropping like flies.
Are you gonna let yourselves get best by a bunch of GIRLS?!?!?!?
He asks Troyzan if this means that it’s guys vs. girls again. Troyzan thought that it might have been coincidence at first glance, but now he’s beginning to wonder if the girls are gunning for the guys after all. Tarzan finds the ladies to be a lot smarter than the guys.
Jay talks about all the scrambling that happened at camp; it’s not making him feel so secure. Jeff wants a show of hands for those that are worried tonight. Troyzan, Jay and Kim raise their hands. Kim says there really were a lot of paranoid people at camp after the immunity challenge and Troyzan says he learned a lot about where people’s allegiance lies based on their reactions at the immunity challenge. He saw some people root against him that he thought were on his side.
Moving on to hidden immunity idols. Abitchia points out that certain people may be wearing different pants than they normally do.
They had POOP on them and Chelsea won’ let me wash them!
For example, Troyzan is wearing a pair of shorts tonight that have pockets. This leads her to suspect that he might have the immunity idol.
Time to vote. As always, before Jeff reads the votes he says someone can play the immunity idol if they have it. Pause, pause, pause……Troyzan is playing his. He says he’s seen WAY too many people get voted off with the thing sitting right there in their pocket, and that is NOT going to happen to him.
Turns out it wouldn’t have anyway. He gets two votes, Abitchia gets one and so does Kim, but the remaining four votes all go to Jay.
Screw you guys! I’m going home!
**sob** I’ll miss you!
And there you have it, Gasmi. Another guy bites the dust. As Itchy said in the minicap, this is about the time I wish they’d fast forward through the guys getting the axe and then maybe the girls will really go at it. Something’s gotta happen soon because this season has turned out to be boring as shit.
Stop talking about my pants!
What did you think, Gasmi? Were you surprised the girls voted Jay out? How about him stepping down for chicken wings instead of fighting for immunity? Any final three predictions? Can’t wait to hear what you think! Thanks for all the reminders of seasons past in the minicap. I too miss the good ole days. Like that one time when Lisi fell.
See ya soon!
SWAK, PottyMouth
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“Was anyone else surprised that she was so certain Leif and Tarzan would vote the way she wants them to? I feel like we missed a conversation somewhere.”
^Yes, PM, YES! In fact, I may have been so bored that I missed several conversations. Didn’t Tarzan vote for Mike last tribal council? And now he’s saying the girls want to vote all the guys out…hmmm. Somewhere I missed Tarzan aligning w/the women.
Great recap by the way, PM! You had me laughing out loud from the start. “Abitchia” aka Chakka – love it. Tarzan’s poop-stained banana hammock? And “one of them accused me of moving his firewood – maybe he had a bad boob job” HA!
I am divided about this season. I hate that there is yet another Pagonging. To be honest, though, the last season to avoid a Pagonging was Nicaragua, and most people here hated that season anyway, so I don’t know if fluctuating game-play would even help. Even the Villains in Heroes vs. Villains systematically destroyed the Heroes, only taking a break for one round to boot Danielle, so one tribe dominating the other after the merge isn’t exactly new.
Maybe it’s just that tensions don’t seem to be very high this season. Only a handful of people seem really invested in the game. Well, that, and the editors aren’t showing us a lot of folks (why have Christina and Leif been invisible?) I really like Kim from a strategic standpoint. There has rarely been a woman to take charge of the game so thoroughly. Even Parvati in Micronesia relied on Cirie and Amanda to do a lot of her work. Kim is a female Boston Rob, and the most impressive thing is that she’s doing it on her first try instead of her fourth. I wish more fans were giving her the respect she has earned.
Sadly, she just doesn’t have Boston Rob’s television charisma. She strikes me as very normal, balanced, stable and level-headed, and she has her eyes on the prize. I hope she gets it, but how difficult can it be for them to cast players who are both strategically competent and charismatic? (And who haven’t played multiple times before?)
The final 3 could go sooo many ways, but I’m going to base my guess on the assumption that the women won’t keep Tarzan. So, final 3: Kim, Abitchia & Kat. I think if Kim keeps on calling the shots, she’ll want to take people that she thinks she can win against.
I agree. I know that she says she wants to take Chelsea and Sabrina, but they are her biggest competition. Alicia and Kat (or Christina) would all be better choices, but if she stabs too many people in the back, then the Jury might hold it against her and give the votes to Kat. It wouldn’t be the first time a nice dumb blond with no strategy has won (re: Fabio).
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We’re definitely being kept in the dark about what’s going on with Tarzan. Why does he keep voting with the women? He has some sort of side deal going on and we’re not being allowed to see it. Which leads me to suspect whatever the deal is will be a major spoiler for the rest of the season.
I’m still hoping Kat’s only playing dumb. Both for the season’s sake and humanity’s. On the other hand, there’s Leif. So humanity is already screwed.
I personally really like Kim’s game play. She’s smart, has taken her time and built several alliances, has given herself different options in case one doesn’t work out, hasn’t made herself an obvious target (yet), hasn’t become overconfident, hasn’t over or underperformed at the challanges, and has established loyalty and trust with most of the players in the game. I really hope she makes it to the end. She’s had her eyes on the prize the entire time. I agree that she doesn’t have the charisma of some of the other dominant players, but i think that keeping her head down and flying under the radar while quietly dominating the game has served her well. And those charismatic personalities all too often win only because everybody else is too dumb or too scared to challange them. I really like that Troy survived this vote, because he’s a decent player, and now that Kim’s strategy is more out in the open it might be interesting to see the two of them fight it out. If they manage to vote the rest of the guys out, Kim needs to turn on Chelsea because she’s better in rewards than the other women and Kim might be able to win her way to the end in case her alliances don’t hold up.
Pottymouth, please tell me you’ll be doing ABDC recaps again this season!
Exactly my thoughts too, pretty good year, re: Chelsea & Sabrina AND the jury. It really is tricky deciding who to take…too bad this season isn’t more exciting. First, I was angry while watching due to Colon & Abitchia and now I’m just holding my eyes open with toothpicks. Perhaps we should all email Jeff Probst @ entertainment weekly’s site or comment on his blog. BOR-INGGGGG!!
I’ll second that snoring, ChaCha
I keep picturing Kat at tribal council looking terrified while people discussed appendicitis – she then remarked that she was worried & was trying to keep from catching this appendix ‘thing’.
I agree. I work in a library and work is a lot more interesting than the second half of this season.
Mister_Dangerous, I think I’d love to work at a library. Have you been there long?
Yeah, Survivor is so dull this time. It’s gotten so bad…too many recruits – the vacuous models that have no idea how to play the game. If they INSIST on recruiting, they should at least require them to watch 1 or 2 seasons of the show first. Personally, I think the show is better when they get people who apply & really want to play the game.
Another thing I was wondering – what the hell is up with the do-it-yourself challenges? They’re really lame. Is it to cut production costs? When Jeff gets a day off, does it save them beaucoup bucks?
Well..she (Kim) has much more charisma than the last Survivor winner. I think her name was Sophie? She wasn’t likeable, but she won it all (probably because she was up against Coach & the squirrelly guy).
I like Pottymouth’s idea about the DIY challenge: that Probst is pissed off that they keep voting off the guys and this is his way of getting back at them.
There were SO many different (good) ideas from the mini and the main ‘cap to change up this boring old formula I don’t know which would be best…perhaps using several at once.
The ONLY thing, IMO, that can get this show back on its feet is a, eh hem, “game changer”. I’ve watched every. Damn. SeasssssszzzzzzzzSNORE. I mean season. Yeah, yeah they’ve tried! Redemption Island, all-stars, heroes/villains, etc.
But they MUST do something drastic (and fucking stick with it – A-DOY-EY- and make sure it’s good to start with).
We’ve discussed this before but how about no more effing BEACHES? How about a desert where it’s broiling all day and cold at night. How about three/four/five tribes to start with, (like someone mentioned previously) how about just TOTALLY jacking the rules we’re used to…no merge, different or no reward challenges on different days…there 1,001 different ways things could be changed up, but they ALWAYS go back to the main formula. No more.
The only way this, one of my (fast falling) favorite shows, can go on is basically naming (and meaning it) next season: SURVIVOR [insert cray-cray local here]: EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED, or some shit.
Dudes and dudettes…just change it up! Okay, I shall climb down from my soapbox now. Thank you.
Since September 22, 1999. I need to look for another job but I’ll never find a better employer.
Itchy:
I think Jeff IS annoyed that all the guys are being voted off.
Is it me, or is Abitchia- GREAT name, BTW, gaining weight, instead of losing? Never have I seen a season with so much eating.
They do require them to watch one or two seasons of the show first. In fact, they give them the DVDs. Russell was a recruit, and he was given Survivor: Micronesia to watch before he went out to Samoa. He hadn’t watched any other season. That’s why he was so paranoid about the women getting together and voting him off, which is why he eliminated Marisa and Betsy first. There have always been recruits. Even Colleen from the first season, and Jerri from the second, were recruited.
Also, the seasons started filming back-to-back in Season 19. This means that production is in the same location for three-to-four straight months. However, Jeff still has things he has to go to. I read that he had to fly away from production for a few nights to attend the Emmy Awards, for instance, so perhaps the Do-It-Yourself challenges are a way to fix that.
I mean, Kim is an applicant and a hardcore fan. I love watching her behind-the-scenes videos on the CBS site, because you can tell she has studied this show for years. It’s just obvious that very few of the other players are operating at that same level. Troyzan, I think, is the only other true fan left in the game. Colton making the merge would have been interesting, because I think he’s the only other person who probably matched Kim’s knowledge of the show.
I do find it a little hypocritical that many fans loved Russell and Boston Rob, though, yet they are calling Kim cocky and not rooting for her. If anything, Boston Rob’s latest season (Redemption Island) was much more boring than this one.
They started with three tribes in All-Stars and four tribes in both Panama and Cook Islands. It really didn’t change the format that much. Eventually they have to merge. I mean, it could be a very late merge (like the final five or six), but at some point the game has to become individual, and even if they don’t merge early, at some point they all need to live at the same camp — otherwise, the Jury is pointless. It wouldn’t be fair for them to vote for players that they potentially haven’t interacted with at all.
As for no beaches, there aren’t that many places in the world that are good for the show. Foreign governments aren’t always easily accessible to American programs, especially ones that are operating on a tight budget. Jeff Probst said that the show had a nightmare dealing with the local government and the infrastructure in Gabon, so I don’t see them going back to that location any time soon. They’ve been to a desert once (Africa, Season 3) but that’s one of my least favorite seasons. Everyone just sat around and baked in the sun all day. They couldn’t really forage or fish. They just ate the rations of rice and grain they were given. It was painfully dull.
And while I’ve often wondered about a cold location, there’s a European version of Survivor — called “Expedition Robinson” — airing a season that was filmed on one of Norway’s tundras right now. Guess what? It’s boring. Everyone is just shivering and huddling together in their shelters all episode. While I agree that islands are old, the show needs to stick to warm tropical climates, simply because people shut down otherwise. I’d love for them to go to Madagascar, Belize, Vietnam, Cambodia or Indonesia. Foreign versions of the show have all been to those places, so it’s possible.
I agree with most of what you’ve said. Although in terms of the numbers, I prefer a larger merge, more than 5 or 6. The more personality the merrier! Especially towards the end.
And yes, a temperate, never changing climate leads to zzzzz. After all, the location and scenery is the star of the show, too.
One of my fav scenes and what truly is what Survivor is about, was Australia when the tribe made camp too close to the river, (I shouted no no at home, but they didnt hear me) because they figured this would be convienient.
When the invetable happened when it rained and the river started taking their stuff downstream Tina swam to save RICE!
Do you think if she just had a cheeseburger and fry’s she would have cared? I think Not!
I think the worst thing to do to these spoiled brats is to have a food challenge. And I mean ..Old school food challenge. They need a lesson. This season has been too much like a Holiday for them.
What I don’t understand about the HII is why it is not used more for game play, Colon did a little bit of this but his personality took over. This episode Troyzan could have done exactly what he did, going around telling everyone he was going to use it. They all knew he was going to play it so didn’t even waste the votes on him, yet he still played it. What if he had created a fake HII, and after telling Jeff he was going to play it, while walking past the fire pit, tossed it in. He then would have had to make everyone fully believe he had actually burned the real one. He wouldn’t have gone home and could have totally blindsided someone the next vote. It would have been some great drama.
I want to see a truly individual season — everyone for themselves, from the very start, no tribes. Except for the ones they’ll create for themselves, presumably, over time.
They could still have team challenges, mix them up between drawing stones and schoolhouse picks (and even the occasional producer-decided teams, to stir the pot).
I think this would come closest to recreating an actual shipwreck-style survivor experience.
This would require something akin to strategy and using the brain that Troyzan doesn’t appear to have much of.
I agree! The One World concept sounded great, until they decided to split them in tribes anyway. What was the point? Let’s see a season with no tribes at all.
Brilliant, itchy! I adore that idea. I was just spouting anything that came to mind above, but your idea could be a winner…an INTERESTING and do-able winner.
@pretty good year: You make some excellent points. I made a comment several episodes ago about no one liking Africa because of the locale/scenery, but that was one of my very favorite seasons because the PEOPLE were interesting. Maybe that’s really the key to it all: casting the right people.
And seriously, they really don’t have to have a 70% pretty people to 30% normal people ratio. Focus on the personalities, the location, and the challenges.
I’m sure this has been addressed previously, but if anyone can weigh in on this totally irrelevant departure…
Do these reality TV/game show contestants get some kind of industrial-strength teeth-bleaching as part of their contract? So many of them have these gigantic, painfully white looking teeth. When Kat is speaking, I can hardly pay attention to her blathering, her teeth are so distracting. There are several of these mouths on this show. I like a nice smile on anyone, but…
Remember how we laughed at Matt Dillon’s character’s teeth in There’s Something About Mary? When did it go from being done on accident to being done on purpose?
There is a distinctive lisp that comes with veneers. There is just something off about the voice. It is scary how many celebrities (or people that want to become celebrities through a reality tv show) get veneers to ‘help’ their smile.
capt_fangirl,
I wish I could tell you that, but unfortunately I’m not going to be able to cover ABDC this year. Right now I’m recapping two shows and there is just no way for me to handle another one. I know Flipit is looking for someone to take it on, so hopefully we’ll be seeing some recaps soon! I’ll certainly see you over there in the comments section because I’m watching as well!!
SWAK, PottyMouth
When I’m in need of a reality check, I watch vintage porn movies from the 70s and 80s. Pubic hair! Saggy tits! Hairy balls! Crooked yellow teeth!
Often all on the same person