I couldn’t find a Survivor thread for this week. Did I miss it or did nobody care enough to start one? I don’t even care enough to start one, but I’m a creature of habit, goshdarnit!
So, this was some episode, huh? The thrills, the chills, the…eh. I got nuthin’
Somebody please wake me at the merge. Thanks.
Posted without a clever tagline, here are:
The imitation RICH RANKINGS:
FORGOT TO FILE A 1040- I guess you couldn’t outwit everyone!
Jessica: Nobody’s friend Flicka
EATING BEEF JERKY- You’re still playing, but you’re praying for a tribe scramble!
Brad: You wussed out at a challenge and argued about starches. You’re pissing people off.
Adam: I sense your arrogance is about to boil over.
Jenny: Another person who annoys other players.
WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT A MERGE?- Middle of the pack players, the lotta ya!
Nate: A strong player and a nice guy. You’re going to be seen as an indivdual threat.
Ozzy: Another strong player but not as sociable. You can’t win this game by yourself.
HEY! LOOK AT HIS MOHAWK-You might make the merge, but you’re grimacing from the jury row!
Rebecca: Played terribly. But you fell out of your bikini top.
Parvati: Another quiet week of laying low.
Jonathan: The alliance is holding but people are already talking about voting you out.
LOOKING FOR A BIG TOM TO ENGLISH DICTIONARY- Big Tom has spent more combined days on the show than anyone. But he didn’t quite grab the brass ring.
Sundra: You seem definite to make at least top five at this point.
Becky: Still holding strong in a strong alliance. But you need to start projecting an image as being somebody other than Yul’s “me too”.
ARE YOU A RAT OR A SNAKE?- Reserved for a MAXIMUM of two players. You have to be in the driver’s seat for this spot.
Candice: In a good position but thinking about future options.
Yul: The King.
I don’t understand. This seems like one of the better Survivors to me. Of course I really enjoy the challenges, and, to me at least, they have been really superior this series. Actually, I’d be surprised if anyone didn’t think that at least this part of the show has been pretty good.
What’s up with all the puzzles? Don’t they usually save those towards the end when everybody is too fatigued to do physical challenges?
Man, this was a great ep! Ozzy has to be the best provider ever. Who the hell catches a brid with his bare hands. Before breakfast!! Still, Probst has it right-- can you be providing too much?
Yul is cool calm and collected as usual. Joanthan is clueless that his head is ont he block soon.
Buh-bye, Flicka. You turned out bettet than I thought you would the first day, when you let the chickens out.
I was delighted to be fooled by Burnett’s editors. I was smugly telling Mr. singular that Ozzy had to be going home, since the whole episode was so blatently focused on him. They finally figured out how to do an editing bait-and-switch! Right up to the voting I was absolutely sure my pretty little monky/dolphin was gonig to be chewing on fish biscuits tonight. Amazing - the tribe voted out the right person for all the right reasons!
I know it was on, but I can barely remember a damn thing that happened. That’s bad.
It’s an unexpected twist, favoring people who can do puzzles like the back of their hand!
Didn’t watch it last night.
First ep I missed in several seasons.
Correction - didn’t miss it at all.
This long time viewer may never come back.
The final nail was having 4 shows either I like or other family members like and I don’t mind watching all at 7 p.m. on the same night.
If Survivor (or 1 or 2 of the other shows) were on Tues or Wed, I’d probably still be a viewer.
I guess the tribe has spoken …
I didn’t even watch it. Frankly, there aren’t very many names I can even remember at this point, and I really don’t mind. I think that I may be done with this season.
I liked the challenges, but they were too alike for my tastes. This season is starting to blend into one big grey morass for me. Too bad, because I thought they got off to a great start. I’m beginning to wonder if I’m going to make it to the merge!
While taking a dump! :dubious:
I really liked Ozzy’s answer to that, which amounted to, “there are worse reasons for getting voted off of Survivor.” Like, say, mentioning food once and getting voted off for it.
I forget to mention the best line of the night. I don’t remember it exaclty, so I’ll paraphrase: The guys are trying to figure out which pole is longer. Said by Jeff during the RC when they had to erect a series of poles to make a staircase up to the platfrom. Classic!!
Mrs Gargoyle and I were puzzled as all hell about Flicka being voted out…she was neither a benefit or a detriment to the team, and she isn’t going to be a future individual-challenge threat. With a merge coming at the most 2 challenges away, now is when people should be aiming for the individual-challenge threats…
The only thing I could think of was that she wsa just so wishy-washy, that no one thought she would ever be an alliance asset.
Very true, she never commited to anything.
Parvati changed my mind about her last night. She was really working the challenge. I enjoyed last night and am enjoying the season. Any season without a fighter pilot is looking good right now.
I also agree that this season is a real snoozer, which is kind of funny because it started out with such controversy over dividing them by race. zzzzzzzzzzzz
Yul has the immunity idol, but he hasn’t needed it. Compare this to Terry from last season, who was hanging on by his toenails each time…no drama this time around.
Yul may be in a lot more danger after the merge when his strength in challenges starts really sticking out. Especially with his alliance-mates so ready to turn on at least some of their own members – not that I blame them for being distrustful of Jonathan. Does Yul really not see how Jonathan is always looking ahead several steps and thinking about the game every second? It struck me as being really naive of him. Which could be his downfall, if he’s not good at reading social cues.
That’s what did Flicka in, lack of reading of social cues. Apparently she really did think she was there for a survival vacation and not willing to do what was necessary to stay in the game. Plus it seemed that she was annoying. I know I’d find her that way; just her blank expression whenever anyone talked strategy was painful to watch. Especially since we see that identical expression on our golden retriever every day.
This is an okay season, but for me the best part thus far is the scenery. At least ten times an episode, they show a shot of the sky or water or islands that is so beautiful it takes my breath away. I’m enjoying watching the show more for that than anything else!
The thing that keeps it interesting to me is wondering what might happen when the tribes merge. It seems that the early bonds made in Survivor are the strongest, and that really could make for some interesting drama once the merge happens. Will the whities reform an alliance and team up with the Asians for a real racial throwdown?
Before last night, all five of the Whities were still there.
As it stands now, there are four of the original five whites, four of five Asians, two Hispanics and two Blacks.
I think the racial divisions in the early days were a brilliant setup, and the drama is about to begin.
Well, the alliance with Johnathan, Candice, Yul and Becky might have Adam. I say ‘might’ because he didn’t look too happy about having been sent to Exile Island. The other tribe doesn’t seem to have too much plotting and strategizing, but they keep winning immunity, so maybe it’s not needed so much. Team Beefcake just strikes me as a bunch of big beefy guys and some non-entity women; they’re all relying on strength, numbers, or innocuousness to stay in the game and that’s not going to be much help after a merge, because none of these guys is dominating the challenges like Tom did, or even Terry. They’re all pretty even, and if you don’t have strategy, an even fight is a crap shoot.
I predicted Flicka was going to go last night for what I thought were obvious reasons.
The racial issues are still a factor although temporarily they’re below the surface. Survivor has always had players sticking with the original tribal loyalties ahead of all other later alliances. This season’s ethnic division just reinforced that.
The Black tribe and the Spanish tribe lost members when they lost the early challenges. So the numbers were against them in the tribal shuffle. At that point you saw the members of both tribes form an alliance between the Asians and Whites and more Blacks and Spanish got voted out.
Everybody is thinking about the merge. At that point it’s supposedly individuals challenges but alliances will still be a major factor in determining who gets voted out. There’s no reason to assume that if the five original Asians and five original Whites had made it to the merge they wouldn’t have reformed their original tribes into two competing voting blocs.
Cao Boi was pointing this out when he tried to convince Yul and Becky to vote off Jonathan. Instead, they decided to stick with their current alliance and vote off Cao Boi. But to balance that out, they voted off Flicka next to ensure the Asians and Whites would still have equal numbers. Ozzy, who has no original tribe mates left, was not really considered as a danger. The only likely alternative to Flicka was Jonathan.
The Black players - Nate, Rebecca, and Sundra - are going to be the kingmakers. They’re being courted by both sides because their votes will decide whether the Asian bloc or the White bloc goes down.
Of course, there are still twelve players and most likely two more will be eliminated before the merge. A lot will depend on who goes. If the Asians and Whites continue to vote off the Spanish and Blacks, there will be a 4-4-2 merge with the kingmaker situation I described above. But if the Asians and Whites both lose another member (Jonathan and Brad?) then the merge will see a 3-3-3-1 split.