I was creeped out by Savage’s man crush on Joe.
Yup, reading some comments and articles on reddit, it seems that the pre-game alliances were in full force. Vytas talked about how he’s pretty close with Spencer and thought Spencer would be part of his alliance, but then realized (too late) that Spencer was indeed not with him.
Apparently there was a rather important scene cut out of the televised TC - right before it was time to vote, Jeff Varner turned to Peih-Gee and Kelley Wentworth and said “are you still voting how you said (in the water?)” and they said yes. Terry asked him what he was doing and Varner didn’t respond… and ended up voting against Vytas. Guess the producers kept it out to keep the suspense, but would’ve made for an interesting scene.
It may come across as scripted thanks to (a) editing, and (b) I am under the impression that they will “re-enact” a challenge so that it looks better on TV. For example, I remember one where the object was to find a certain number of objects, and one contestant had found them all but dropped one - and the camera showed a close-up of the dropped item right after the contestant had dropped it. I seriously doubt that was done during the actual challenge, as it’s highly unlikely that the cameraman would have noticed the item being dropped and the contestant not notice that the cameraman was taping something on the ground.
Well, I did, and you could of, but I sure as hell didnt vote for any of the assholes like Vytas, Abi or Chaos. Vytas had that typical ex-heroin-addict slimy con-man thing going.
More or less, I voted like Rick Kitchen. I tried not to vote in assholes, but I had to vote for some 'who *the fuck *is that?" returnees.
Serious lack of eye candy, but oh well. My early favorites are Ciera, Joe and Spencer.
I don’t know about Kelly and plastic surgery. She sure does look different and not because she’s older. But I don’t know what to make of that.
But, given that she didn’t win that season, how do you figure she could have ever gotten the money it would have cost her for plastic surgery?
I’m guessing the kind of surgery she would have had to get would have cost her close to a million bucks. Don’t you think?
Uh, no?
Plastic surgery generally costs around $10 grand or less for any given procedure.
I was also curious about Probst saying “We’re going right to Tribal Council” (daytime scene) and then cut to TC - nighttime scene.
Anyway, Joe remains a beast, just as he was in the previous season.
I found that jarring as well, but I remember many years ago someone saying in an interview, or possibly during a live finale night, that the trek to tribal council is brutal, and takes hours.
It really can be. I believe that is one reason people dread going there. It’s also why people who are confidant don’t bring their stuff.
It’s a huge pain.
One more thing I forgot to mention - I love the idea of hiding the hidden immunity idols in the challenges, and I hope they continue to do so throughout the season. Great tension too with Kelley continuing to look back at the corner and trying to decide if she could grab it.
I, too, thought that Vytas was seriously creepy. He’s got a weird combination of insecurity and confidence, a hostility barely concealed by his Zen act. I mean, maybe he can woo the girls he runs with with those moves, but they were really off-putting. And he thought that he was voted off because they considered him a threat? No, they voted him off because he was a major creeper.
At least his hostility is concealed, though, unlike Abi who actually believes she’s successfully suppressing her crazy. Who brings a gold bracelet with them on a deserted island anyway, and why would she spend so much time trying to locate it? It’d be different if it was something that she couldn’t live without.
I, too, noticed the difference in Kelly’s W’s face. I thought it’s clear that she’s had a lot of Botox because there are no wrinkles in her forehead. And her lips seem puffy. She actually gave me Kaitlin Jenner vibes a few times. But she seems healthy other than that. She was swimming faster than the rafts for much of the time, though her timing (starting so early) was a real strategic mistake. I think it was also a mistake for her to go head-to-head against a man trying to tie that stick together.
Savage was one of the few players that I remembered, and I was also amused by his man-crush of Joe. I appreciate the fact that he wore a suit again (wink,wink) but it shows that he’s not playing the game very hard, either.
Joe is awesome at Survivor but I keep waiting for him to attempt to be humble.
I used to like Spencer but he’s kind of a snake in the grass, isn’t he?
Kelley finding the clue to the HII was funny. I wonder if it would have been kosher (by the rules) for her to look for, and take, the other tribe’s HII, which would have conceivably been hidden in the same spot.
I read that there was no HII hidden for the other tribe, because nobody had found the hidden clue like Kelley did.
I liked that they hid THE CLUE for the idol near the camp instead of the idol itself, but I’m getting really damn tired of somebody always finding whatever’s there before even the first Tribal Council. If you’re going to hide stuff, HIDE STUFF! I liked a couple of seasons ago when the idols turned out to be the decorations on the rice barrel. That’s lateral-thinking. I want more of that.
If I were on the island, and looking for a HII, I would really be worried about sticking my hand in every nook and cranny where spiders and snakes might be hiding.
I don’t remember Vytas coming across as such a creep in his first season. In fact, he seemed pretty likeable as the recovering heroin addict trying to turn his life around. This season, my wife summed it up: “put some pants on you weirdo!”
I loved watching Kelley try to figure out how to snag the clue in the middle of the challenge. I thought that maybe someone from the other tribe was going to catch her.
I liked that Vytas wasn’t beating the “recovering addict” drum at all this time around, and I was looking forward to seeing what he’d replaced it without. Turns out, it’s “creepy yoga dude.”
Bad call.
And Abi & The Bracelet… good god, woman. They were given nearly identical bags, and some people didn’t even realize they had name tags. They got mixed up on the boat and they EACH grabbed somebody else’s bag without realizing it. Abi put her bracelet in what she thought was her bag, and it wasn’t.
Or…
After waiting years to get back on Survivor, after succeeding in the fan pick, after arranging a month or more off from work, after travelling clear to the other side of the planet and finding herself in Survivor again, trying to lay the groundwork for whatever strategy she’s going to use to win the game, Peih Gee’s first thought was “Hey, a crappy leather bracelet with fakey gold shit on it! I’ll just steal that!”
:dubious:
Abi’s batshit.
I simply do not understand the logic of voting out your strongest players BEFORE the merge. Your first goal should be survival, and that means keeping your tribe strong so that you can win Immunity challenges. Voting off the strongest and smartest players early just means that your team now has a better chance of returning to tribal the following week.
Voting for Spencer and Shirin over Abi? Ridiculous strategic move.