That’s odd. During the ‘reward’, the boat they kept showing was a different boat from the one the survivors were on. Or so it looked to me.
How anybody, whose ears aren’t stuffed up by testosterone, could stand Courtney is beyond my comprehension.
I don’t know how I do it, but every time she talks I do something with my ears that makes some kind of sound that drowns her out.
God, she’s so shrill, silly, skeletal and stupid I just can’t stand it.
I’m concerned about Hot Amanda. Her butt seems to have developed a terminal case of the fuzzies.
Yeah, that’s really strange. I’m absolutely positive that no evil skin was showing, so it’s got to be something else. But what?
NBC brand jeans?
Anyone else notice that Courtney voted for her new love Frosti?
That’ll kill any budding romance.
My new guess is that she somehow ripped her pants and her butt is showing through.
What is it with jerk voids that people feel like they must be filled? Take it easy, James.
I feel bad for Frosti. He made himself an outcast. Most people really liked him and if he had spent some little time reminding people how much they liked him, maybe they wouldn’t have voted them out. Lack of self confidence strikes again.
And now Erik is the hot guy in town?! I gotta get on Survivor. It seems that not being an out and out psycho is all it takes.
I get a real laugh from Todd’s faces at everything. He really shows through.
OK, maybe I’m getting jaded, but was this episode boring? I mean, there were monkeys, but otherwise … meh. Erik still is “teh hottness,” as I believe the kids are saying, but still and all, he doesn’t ruffle me nearly as much as Dolphin Boy used to. Have I gone jaded?
Nah, I’d say it was meh, too. But it seemed especially meh after last week’s classic.
Somehow last week’s ep and storyteller0910’s hilarious recap got me really keyed up for last night’s show, so a blowout RC and an IC with half the people sitting out just didn’t cut it for me.
That reminds me: when I saw James eating a cheeseburger with french fries shoved into it, I was reminded of the one and only time I ever visited Pittsburgh. Loved the town, still not sure how I feel about that sandwich.
It’s because we now have The Amazing Race to compare it to again. Survivor just can’t hold up. 
It seems like Probst has hosted this show long enough that he shouldn’t get so disappointed in contestants when they do something he doesn’t like. Either he has reserves of hope for the human race that would bewilder a saint, or he is putting on an extremely stupid act for the sake of the cameras. If the latter, I really wish he would stop. Most times he gets worked up over things that don’t even make most viewers blink and completely ignores the things that make me throw things at my TV.
Also, if it wasn’t clear to Frosti that he was on the chopping block before TC, Probst’s questions that said “HI, YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE VOTED OFF, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THAT” might have given it up.
I’ve always thought Erik was hot. I was hoping he would win, atfirst because he’s local, and later because he’s a sweety, but it’s not looking favorable for him.
I wasn’t bored by this episode at all. Oh, the action was lame, the RC was dull, and the contestant I find most annoying in the history of Survivor won immunity.
But watching Todd’s gradual descent into complete madness is incredibly entertaining. He’s about one week from grabbing a conch shell and putting a pig’s head on a stick. If, in the next episode, he killed, cooked, and ate Jeff Probst, I wouldn’t be even a little surprised, is what I’m saying.
Also, I think your winner is going to be either Amanda or Erik.
For me, it was Todd’s lack of lunacy this week that was the biggest disappointment! Not to say he wasn’t fun when he was on camera, but he seemed to have it together this week, as opposed to last. Plus, losing Frosti would, I imagine, unfortunately simplify a lot of the scenarios percolating in Todd’s ferret-mind.
I was also irritated by James’s jerkishness–not that he wasn’t provoked, but still.
And irked by Jeff when he talked about the people competing for immunity being really in the game (or whatever stupid thing he said). If I’d been there, I think I would have looked at the food, looked at the number of people I was competing with for immunity, and gone for the food. Not if I were in imminent danger of being voted off–although I’d probably be worse than most at determining that. But I would have hated being the first person to fail the memory challenge and get to watch folk compete–and other folk eat.
And the drum challenge was kind of a new twist on the whole team obstacle course thing.
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This is where the game gets interesting. Seven left, the point where alliances start to fall apart as the weakest three try to win over the weakest of the remaining four, and there is no doubt who that is. At least that’s the way it should work, unless you have a complete paranoid (Todd) who makes his alliance mates more nervous than the competition does.
So what is the state of the competition now? James is bulletproof. It would take the most brilliant, lucky, and coordinated sheme in the history of Survivor to knock him out now. There is no one left with the organizational and social skills to pull off another blindside. Add to that James is not only the strongest physical player in Survivor history, he is 3.14159 times stronger than the next strongest remaining contestant, plus he is smart and rational. Amanda hasn’t received a vote against her - she hasn’t even had a negative word spoken of her all game. What she needs to do is to lead some sort of a coup, probably against Todd, to earn her some “Outplay” points, or else she is the designated coattail rider in the final three.
That leaves five for one spot. P-G is annoying and not in the inner circle - she is toast. Todd’s paranoia has sealed his fate - out. Lunch lady - no chance. That leaves Eric and Courtney. Eric is in the position that Dani was on Guatemala - the last of the Mohicans, but at this point in the game that can be an asset if you play your cards correctly, and he seems to be doing that so far. Courtney seems like a real wildcard, but she gained points for offing Frosti last night. Maybe it was JR that turned her into a bitch after all, and she is a better person than she appeared?
In my mind, it comes down to these four, and the only one who can beat James in the final endurance challenge is Courtney. Anyone who wins final immunity shouldn’t have a hard time getting two others to vote out James (am I correct that he can’t use his II at final four?). If James makes the final three he wins, but that final challenge must be won. I think Courtney’s got too many enemies on the jury. I don’t see any difference between Erik and Amanda at this point.
My odds:
James 2-1
Amanda 4-1
Erik 4-1
Courtney 7-1
Todd 10-1
PG - 25-1
Lunch Lady 50-1
That was all off the top of my head.
re: Courtney
I don’t think so. She was incredibly nasty during the first episode about hating everyone and being a waitress from NYC. JR may have contributed to her unhappiness later on, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near the whole story.
I’m not sure whether they’ve stated whether an immunity idol can be played at Final Four or not–but I suspect it can. Certainly on an earlier season, Dreamz’s choice not to hand over immunity to Yau-Man gave the game to Earl. But, even aside from frequent tweaking of rules, I think that was a standard immunity necklace, not an immunity idol in question.
Yeah, not a memorable episode.
Most memorable was the utter cluelessness of the yellow team during the reward challenge: if you’re trying to pass & dribble a ball off a drum head, try to avoid using the drum with the smallest freakin’ diameter. But noooo…PG, with a drum the size of a teacup, had to get involved in all ball-handling…and they wonder why it went so badly.