Pistols at dawn sir! No one besmirches the name of Amber!
This was a pretty good first episode. Fat Russell is a tool and will be voted out very soon. I mean, dumping out all the water, how does that help anyone? (Side note to those who are describing Fat Russell as “eye candy”, please see your optometrist soon, they can treat glaucoma).
I’m not sure who can go all the way, but I think Shambo and Leader Russell have as good a shot as any.
I don’t know if Russell is going to be voted out soon. After all, they’re hyping the hell out of him, which suggests to me he sticks around for quite a while.
Sadly.
I don’t find him interesting at all.
It helps him. He explained the theory in confession. The idea is that if everyone is miserable and irritated/irritating, they’re that much easier to manipulate. Seems to be working okay so far for him. Things like the water/socks trickery accomplish that goal without him having to be the source of the irritation (ala that poker player dude from China).
But, as someone said upthread, his plan’s best case scenario is that he makes his tribe ill-prepared for challenges and they lose constantly. He may make it to the merge, but it would be 8 or 9 purple tribemembers to 1 or 2 yellow tribemembers. And then he’s done for sure.
His real goal seems to be to get a lot of screentime.
I agree that may be his goal, but I wouldn’t be so sure about him being done. In nearly every recent season of Survivor, there has been a tribal shakeup of some sort. If they shuffle the tribes again this season like they have in past seasons, then it is a sound strategy to oust members of your own tribe who do not like you.
Also, you may not like Russell, but he is a ratings draw and therefore highly desireable to the producers. That may help him in subtle ways.
p.s. Sugar fans can see her in Angel, the episode with the young lady in the tight leather outfit with lightning superpowers, Sugar played the female “Alfred”-like butler.
I think the poster meant that both were cast to be hated by the audience.
I actually rather liked Coach. Genuinely deluded people like him are somewhat endearing for some reason.
I’m surprised destroying the socks aren’t against the rules of the game. Pouring the water out is different, they can always get more, but I thought they were only allowed the clothes they were wearing at the time of arrival. What’s to stop him from messing with someone’s shoes next? Or glasses if anyone wears them? Is there a backup supply of certain items that the contestants are allowed to use?
In the first episode Pearl Islands, Rupert Boneham stole a pair of shoes from the other tribe and sold them to a local merchant, apparently without consequences. So, no, it doesn’t appear to be against the rules.
There are no backup items that can be used.
A few seasons back (can’t remember which one exactly), there was a contestant whose underwear was chaffing him really bad, to the point where his skin was actually being rubbed off and I think it even started bleeding.
He had no extra pair of underwear or any backup set of clothes. So if I remember correctly, a female contestant let him use a ripped off portion of her skirt. He was now essentially playing the game in a skirt and freeballing it.
As I said up thread, TPTB need to address the clothing issue. The clothes on their back is really getting old. The pixelation/blurriness is annoying and bothersome. I would rather see covered breasts than blurry/pixelated breasts.
And I won’t even address the TMI issue of skirts and freeballing.
Let them have a couple pairs of skivvies, proper support under garments, a couple pairs of socks, long and short sleeved shirts, bathing suit, shorts, khakis, shoes, and a belt. Let them all have it, no advantage for anyone.
Given the “clothes on your back” rule, I have to wonder why any contestant – assuming they’ve ever seen the show before – would show up for Survivor wearing high heels. That’s kind of like learning to build a fire, or drive a stickshift on Amazing Race.
And I’m no perv, really honestly, but I think I’d like to see an unedited version. 
I am a perv, really honestly, and I’d pay to see the raw footage.
They don’t show up to Survivor wearing high heels. They show up to dozens of promotional photo shoots wearing high heels, and something like the 30th one is “surprise, this isn’t a phot shoot; the game starts NOW!”
Showing up to the game in your regular clothes just adds to the entertainment value of being taken out of your urban, controlled environment and suddenly immersed into a non-controlled “survival” type of atmosphere. If everyone showed up wearing hiking boots, a wind breaker, and a beanie, that would detract from the whole survival aspect.
Unedited footage? pervy, and somewhat understandable. I wouldn’t mind seeing some of it myself.
Blurred or pixelated footage: Annoying.
Where do I apply to be the pixelator?
Given how many seasons there have been, you’d think they would know to NEVER wear anything unsuitable for survival, even in promotional photo shoots.
Alledgedly, these contestants don’t speak until the “game” begins. I know that you were exaggerated a little by saying it was the 30th photo opportunity but how long can a contestant be expected to remain silent through multiple photo shoots.
I really don’t think there are more than one or two photo ops before the game starts.
I figure the next season (that is not an All-Stars) will go Jerry Springer. We will get hookers, transvestites, etc.
Tell me that would not be the awesomest season ever. I would pay cash money to be a part of that crew.
Ok, we need 16 contestants to be the cast of Survivor: Jerry Springer
(1) Tranny
(2) Hooker
(3) Gigolo
(4) Dominatrix
(5) Gay porn model
who else?
Pregnant teen? Morbidly obese? I don’t realyl know, as my only exposure to those types of shows was back when John Henson hosted Talk Soup back in the 90s.
I actually rolled my eyes and muttered “bullshit” to myself when Jeff said that. However, I’m looking for promotional photos of this season’s cast, and the only ones I can find are of them already on the beach.
It’s possible they don’t do any actual pre-show photo shoots, so yeah, I have to admit that falling for the “photo shoot” trick is pretty stupid.