No Survivor 4/1!

Cafe Society
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:: dancing around singing “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead” ::

Any episode that relieves us of Jerri is a good episode. What a whiner!

But I agree, Rob needs to go. It’s interesting seeing how the *fear * of Rob is affecting the other team.

And Jeff hasn’t said anything about a jury, has he? Maybe there won’t be one. No merge - no jury. Maybe they’ll find another way to crown “the ultimate survivor”. Chess? Poker? Steel cage match? Call in voting *a la * American Idol? Or rather than the last 10 people voted out, use the first 10 people voted out. That’d be interesting.

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What a stupid, stupid move. Lex has no reason to trust Rob and every reason to trust Jerri. Why would he get rid of her to keep him happy?

Not only that, instead of taking out the person most loyal to Rob, you’ve taken out the person most loyal to you. And you’ve made it so your team is essentially outnumbered 6-3 instead of 5-4.

I wonder if Rob had planned to throw the immunity challenge to protect Amber, but given the nature of the challenge, wasn’t able to do it?

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Seems clear they are trying to protect the idiot tribe, especially Lex last night. They didn’t even bother having any sort of challenge, as the knew the band of fools would lose it. Even when they massively dumbed down the IC to a frickin’ quiz show, they still lose.

Anyway, it was clear to Burnett that Lex was gone as soon as the merge happened, followed by the other idiots in rapid order. They earned it though. But fearing bad tv, they went back to the same tired cheesy tricks to cover for a crappy team. Player swaps and a super easy non-physical IC, to protect the team that stupidly voted out all their strong players. So Survivor is over, and Island Quiz Show starts. They even load them down with tons of free food- TWICE! so that the starving morons can try and catch up.

So after giving away a bunch of food (without even a pretense of a challenge, as the producers knew Lex’s Losers would screw it up), they again take no chances that Mogo’s Morons will mess up a player swap invovling any sort of skill (seeing they are down 6-4 and losing everything), and do a no challenge, no skill team rebalance that can only help one team.

This was solely to try and avoid 3 weeks of predictible tv, and destroys any illusion that the game isn’t heavyly manipulated from day to day by the producers to get a desired result. This was the worst screw up the producers made since the idiotic purple rock of death.

:mad:

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By the look on Rob’s face, I’d say he was definitely planning to throw the challenge, but the challenge itself just made it impossible. Which I found somewhat hilarious. Sure, he still got his way in the end, but I enjoyed watching him squirm. And I can’t wait to watch him squirm more next week, not knowing if she’s gone or not.

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Dear sweet heaven, but these people are SO FREAKING STUPID!

Lex, Kathy, and Shii Ann should all be removed from the game, immediately, for total freaking idiocy, and never allowed to associate themselves with SURVIVOR again for as long as any of them are alive. What in the world were any of them thinking?

The former Mogo Mogos have seen again and again and AGAIN how tight the former Chapera is as a group. They’ve also seen - and heard - that Rob and Amber are tight as a pair. They are already outnumbered six to four. This was a golden opportunity to narrow the gap, reduce Rob’s power on the island, and possibly stay alive. I can’t believe that any of those three idiots actually believe that next week, when they inevitably merge, that Rob and Amber will say, “gee, guys, thanks for the assist, now we’ll join with you and pick off our original tribemates, with whom we are basically in romantic love.” When they merge, Amber will cheerfully rejoin with Rupert, Jenna, Rob, Alicia, and Tom, and vote of Lex, Kathy, and Shi Ann one by one.

Meanwhile, Jerri had NO power on that island. None. She had no friends. No one liked her. She was in an alliance with no one. Her vote could have been used as a tool pretty much indefinitely and she could have been booted without a whimper once her vote was no longer useful.

So why do our resident strategists, Freaky, Creaky, and Dumb, vote off a powerless ally in favor of keeping a hostile voting faction intact? Because they are afraid of Rob. People: Rob isn’t going to hurt you. He’s not going to hit you, or if he does, he’ll be kicked out of the game. He might be mad. He might yell. He might try to vote you off. Guess what: he’s going to do that anyway! That’s the whole point of the freaking game.

Morons!

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The Robfather and Amber deserve to be 1 and 2. Rob seems to genuinely care about her and that Bahston accent gets me every time.

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Actually, they can’t have a jury of 9, unless everyone’s on the jury. Then there’d by no one to vote for. The current 9 players will probably form a jury of 7. But typically, the first person voted out after the merge doesn’t make the jury, so there’s no telling.

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Rob is great. Rob is good.
Lex has thanked him as he should.
By Rob’s hand, all are fed.
Put him back in Amber’s bed.

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And when did this become the BOSTON ROB SHOW? Talk about the tail wagging the dog. . . .

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Bravo!

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As you can imagine, I was less than thrilled with the outcome of last night’s episode. :rolleyes:

To me, Amber is the worst kind of player – the kind that isn’t there to play the game. She brings absolutely nothing to the table strategy or personality-wise. She simply exists to write the name of whomever her Puppeteer Of The Season deigns needs a vote.

Finally, a chance! Lex, Kathy and Shii-Ann have a shot at turning the tables on The Rawbfather and his little toady, and they blow it. And not just by a little, either. They blew it big time. Now the merge is going to happen, and the Little Voter That Could is back in her man’s loving arms again. Bleh. :mad:

Apparently starving for 24 days makes your brain do stupid things.

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I disagree. Amber gets absolutely zero screentime and I believe it’s entirely deliberate. What we saw on the behind-the-scenes episode is that Amber is funny, she’s engaging, and she’s involved in the tribe. Her strategy last night was solid - she picked the one person she knew had the worst chance of surviving, let everyone around her know what her vote was, and it happened.

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What really gets me is, they’re acting as though it is a foregone conclusion that Rob is going to make it to the Final Four. Why? I just don’t get it. There are 15 days left, and any number of things could happen. I can’t believe the Mogo Mogo Three are playing this game like it’s somebody else’s to win, instead of heirs. Might as well just quit, then, if they’re going to play like that.

Agreed: Morons!

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Oops. Figured out VB coding, and now I’ve forgotten how to spell. Should be “theirs,” obviously.

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Does anyone else think the re-buff thing was rigged?

I’m not entirely sure of my math (actually I’m entirely sure it’s at least slightly wrong, but fairly certain it’s mostly right ) but the way I figure, there was less than a 2% chance 9 out of 10 people would end up on the “same” tribe, with only one different (1024 possible outcomes, 10 outcomes with 9 people on the same tribe, 10 outcomes with 9 people switching tribes)

And then qualitatively thinking, you add in the probability that is was just that particular combination that split up Rob and Amber, and it seems way more than unlikely.

I’ll jump on the Rob is an idiot bandwagon. Although, he seems to be a little smarter than his first run. But I agree, that if his team was actually losing challenges, things would be so smooth for the Godfather.

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No, I don’t. It was incredibly highly improbable (someone who know’s what they’re doing will come by with math later, I’m sure). But I also believe it was the very last thing that Burnett would have wanted to happen.

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Lost in the discussion of the stupid strategy of the week is the stupid game play of the week.

Here’s the situation: the question is, “In what country was Survivor: Africa set”? Both teams have a rep from Survivor: Africa. Tom’s team writes down “Nairobi”.

It doesn’t matter if Tom was there or not, though. Of any 5 random people on the street, at least one would probably point out that Nairobi is not a country. (It happens to be the capital of the country.) Or did all 5 of these brainiacs not understand the freakin’ question?

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I see it as a balls and bins problem. Six red balls (Chaperas) and four green balls (Mogo Mogos) being sorted into two bins (tribes) of 5 balls each. There are 252 ways to pick 5 objects out of 10. Of those 252, 6 will be all red. So the probability of five Chaperas sticking together is 6/252 = 2.4%. There are two ways out of those six that Rob and Amber could be separated, so the probability of everyone but either Rob or Amber staying together is 2/252 = 0.8%. And the probability of everyone but Amber staying together is 1/252 = 0.4%. I don’t see that as incredibly unlikely; more unlikely things happen in a broadcast of the World Series of Poker. Actually, I thought Jeff seemed kind of irritated about it. A bigger shakeup would’ve been more dramatic.

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I can’t believe you actually think there is some kind of real connection there. It’s just a couple of young people hooking up. Rob is acting like some lame high schooler with a crush.

Rob needs to go. His main asset if physical challenges, and the new Mogo Mogo has that pretty sewn up at the moment. And if there is a merge, he’s likely to win any individual physical challenges, and then he’ll be hard to get rid of.

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But the problem is, Rob will never go, for the above mentioned reasons: these people have him worked up in their mind as a huge power player, invincible - that you have to work around him somehow rather than just voting his ass off the island the first chance you get. It’s actually utterly unlike anything the game has ever seen, and it’s really bizarre that it should be happening on All-Stars, when every single one of the players left made it as far as or farther than Rob the first time he played. Why should any of them be so in awe of him now?