They’re doing this so often, I’m starting to wonder if there’s another reason; perhaps Amanda has a big unwanted brand name on her shorts that the producers don’t want to show for legal reasons.
All this pixelization is really really really out of annoying, I wish they’d stop. Not because I want to see Amanda’s behind (I do), but because it’s distracting and pulls me out of the episode.
And glow-in-the-dark bugs. Several varieties of those. Some of them only had glow-in-the-dark bits, and they were in odd places.
Or maybe her butt has been pixelated since birth. A tragic deformity.
Just what I came here to say. I think they just missed their last chance to get James.
Yeah, you seldom see pixillated butt. Brand name masking was a good guess.
Todd was ricocheting off so many plans that I wondered if he was double-crossing or triple-crossing James. Turned out he was just wobbly.
Screw objectivity, that was an excellent recap. Except for you failure to capitalize Hot Amanda.
Nobody miss the full length parting words of JR at the CBS website. We can have a drinking game with every time he says “bigger threat”. I can only imagine what it will be like for him watching the show, watching himself being the idiot he was and how everybody danced circles around him.
I wonder if the show is under stronger censorship/mosiac-ing rules since it’s being shot in China? The pixel sensor seems awfully Miss Grundy this season.
I loved the way the reward challenge was structured. The winning team was only four to the losers’ five. The one left out was obviously the lowest person on the winning 5’s totem pole. Making her ripe for the flipping. I’m surprised Todd didn’t sniff this out, and make sure he was protected better by picking someone low on his pecking order (like Frosti) to boost their confidence and leave someone like Amanda to protect his interests at camp.
It didn’t actually turn out this way, because both Frosti and Denise think they are in the final 4 (separately) and therefore wouldn’t be flipped.
I think this show gets more interesting once PG and Erik are gone. Everyone will start backstabbing to get into position for the final 4.
Great summary! I love the description of Todd. I really liked him early on, but man, he is spinning out of control with the scheming.
About Frosti, I had been thinking that he was squeaked out Jean Robert’s name because he had known about Todd’s plan to get rid of James, and then suddenly there is James sitting with Todd at the camp, and the plan seems to have flipped 180 degrees. I had thought he was suffering Todd-scheming whiplash and was trying to figure out what the heck was going on.
Yes they were! Prior to this show the only glow in the dark bugs I’d ever seen had glowing dots on their heads, it was iluminating to see a new kind.
It’s worse than that, even. If Todd had let JR run with the “vote James” plan, then guess who gets the blame for it? JR! Todd can still get credit for trying to save James, which leads to a vote for a million from James at the final.
Horrible, horrible play. If someone who can’t shut up wants to backstab a player that you want gone, let him!
Yeah, you could see him thinking “Um, is this a new actual plan, or a fake plan?”
** weeps uncontrollably **
Oh my God, you guys! I missed EVERYTHING! I am telling you, I am very disgruntled with my veryownself right now!
** more weeping and blubbering and drinking of cheap vodka **
That Immunity Necklace isn’t exactly “One Size Fits All”, is it?
My DirecTivo missed it this week. Did that happen to anyone else on the west coast?
Courtney won the immunity challenge by being able to stay still. Most of these balance challenges are decided by this ability. Once you start to move around, you are done. It is much easier to maintain your balance than it is to regain it.
I was totally confused by the pixilation. The top band of the bottom of her suit was visible, so the only possibility was that one side had ridden up and exposed her darling delectable derriere.
But how in the hell could Hot Amanda not have known this? I mean it seems this would be uncomfortable as hell.
I watched the show late last night and immediately whipped over to the Dope to read the survivor thread………and there wasn’t any! Sadness, melancholy and gloom washed over me— Rockle.
what are you waiting for?
Early on in the show, I was actually hoping for J-R to win the whole thing, if only to stick it to the people who’ve treated him like crap the whole season.
That all changed when he decided to pull that idiot strategy on Erik. The look on his face was priceless when Erik told him about James and the HII’s. Talk about a Twix moment! I could actually hear gears grinding as J-R tried to process that information!
So then he goes to James and tries to strong-arm him. Jeez, why don’t you just challenge him to an arm-wrestling match? What a tool!
Now, let me get this straight: Todd gives James the first HII, and tells him where to find the second one, and he’s pissed that James won’t give him one back? Why didn’t he just keep the first one and tell James where to find the second one? Oh yeah, I forgot–because Todd is batshit crazy! I seriously think he’s the next to go.
James, meet Karma. Karma, James. He almost busted a gut last week when Jamie played the fake II, and this week he was thisclose to getting blindsided with two idols in his pocket! I swear, I thought he was going to cry or crap himself when the third vote came out!
MHO: Right now, the FF is shaping up to be James, Erik, Pei-Ghee, and Amanda.
Todd is this close to pulling a Lex-style “I am the leader and as the leader we will do what I say, there will be no questioning of the leader” meltdown.
And he is going to be equally shocked when people turn on him.
I still think Amanda (the silent leader) will win it all, which means she won’t. But I’d be equally pleased by a James or Frosti win.