Dumb, weak, and lazy is no way to play Survivor, son.
Chet is the worst player ever. I’d love to see him in one of those mud wrestling challenges against Courtney from China. I’ll bet she’d make him cry.
They’ve been getting along on the circuit. I think they actually like each other. Penner is a hard competitor that makes the show interesting. Jeff just hated to see him go down that way, methinks.
Would someone please be kind enough to answer the question I posed upthread? I really would like to know. Thank you.
I don’t think anyone knows how this will affect the merge.
Thank you, twickster. I haven’t watched enough past seasons to know if something like this has happened before and affected the merge.
Spoilers from TV Guide that spoil surprises from next week’s episode – though no names are given – but if you don’t want to spoil yourself with spoilers spoiling next week, don’t read this spoiler:
[spoiler]The same thing happens next week, with somebody leaving due to injury and another tribal council anyway, so the game ends up losing 4 players in 2 shows. Jeff Probst comments that it’s a good thing they started with 20 players this time.
The implication of that last bit seems to mean that nothing will get accelerated. Instead, the slowed-down pace they anticipated with the larger tribes will now end up being a normal pace.[/spoiler]
Showmance (locationship?) spoiler regarding how the two couples are doing outside the game:
That article also said that Amanda and Ozzy’s relationship is still going strong now, months after the season ended filming in December. James and Parvati not so much. Probst says he thinks that both were using each other, both were aware of that from the start, and both were fine with it.
My guess would be that the producers have started budgeting for a player leaving (quitting or medical) in the middle of the game. In some previous seasons, there have been instances where two people would get voted off in the same episode, usually with each tribe being told they’re voting someone off. Perhaps this was done because nobody had dropped out unexpectedly and the producers had intentionally budgeted too many players just in case, so two people needed to leave once it was clear that extra(s) wouldn’t be needed.
Every Survivor season takes place over 39 days. The majority of the ICs and TCs occur every three days. That’s 13 ousters. In previous seasons, the Final 3 would have a final IC, at which the winner would kick someone and then the Final 2 would go to Final Tribal that night or the next day. That was 14 ousters.
Given an initial contestant group of 16, as it was for at least half of the seasons so far, that comes out perfectly. When they started beginning with a bigger contestant pool, they began the double eliminations, and then just the last few seasons, the actual, real Final 3 scheme. The initial pool has varied a bit, sometimes because of unforeseen circumstances (the contestant who quit before it began in Cook Islands) and sometimes because of what seemed very strange producer decisions (the second-day playground pick-up that eliminated Singing Wanda before she even got to play on her season).
I do think that the larger initial pool is in place to facilitate injuries/illness/family emergency. All the producers need to do is NOT give them the little bottle with the message that says to vote a second person out, or not have Probst announce it at TC if they don’t need to.
Personally, I find the guy to be an irritating prick. And his nasally, Alan Alda voice is like fingernails on a blackboard.
Speaking of…did anyone notice Parvati’s “InstaFlirt ™” terminator targeting mode click on with the native dude? That girl just instinctually plays men at a spooky level, she needs to be registered by the NRC as a dangerously unstable compound only to be handled at world-endangering risk :eek:
Seconded without reservation.
Thanks for all the answers.
Ellis Dee, interesting spoiler.
As soon as the native “Micronesians” showed up, I told my husband that they were on another season and said “If the grey haired guy’s name is Joe, he was on another season”
Does anyone remember which season it was? Or, am I psychic?
I think it was the one with Tom & Ian, but I’m not sure.
Interesting! I wonder if he’s actually part of the crew or something.
It’s likely. This season was also run on Palau.
Speaking of such things, did anyone else cringe just a little when Parvati made her comment about the “little guys” who were coming to visit them? Comments don’t generally get much more ignorant than that, ya think?
Jonathan having to exit the game just plain sucked. I liked him, now and before.
Ozzy can be dealt with later. Malakal needs to stick to the original plan and get rid of Cirie. They certainly have the numbers to accomplish that–I’m sure she’s as annoying to the Malakal favorites as she is to the fans.
Tell me that wasn’t her interpretation of what “micronesian” means? A very small person? :smack:
This is the first season of Survivor I’ve watched in years and years. I’m downloading it via Xbox Live marketplace on Fridays.
Penner does indeed have an annoying demeanor, but I kinda liked him in spite of it. That was a sucky way to go. I was actually very surprised that the puncture wound was not identified as a risk and treated immediately, instead of a few (how many?) days later. If they had flushed it out and stitched him up within an hour or two of the initial injury, his chances of avoiding infection would have been much better. I have a feeling that was his own fault. That is not the environment in which you let your testosterone think for you, even if it really didn’t hurt very much initially.
I completely agree that Chet could have and should have helped to ice Ozzy. That has got to be the stupidest thing I’ve seen on the show this season so far.
As for Jason…I really, really hope he reflected upon his initial hook-line-and-sinker buying of the fake idol, and that his statement at the IC was the fruit of some deductive and functioning braincells.
I don’t understand why everyone here (and at TWOP) keeps saying this. The final vote was Chet = 5, Erik = 2. Even if he had “done the noble thing”, he still would have been knocked out and it wouldn’t have mattered.
This whole “maybe we can get Ozzy” thing was the editors turnnig an offhand remark into a possibly big conspiracy. Chet was always the pick and nothing he did could have saved him.
And thank god, because he is perhaps the most useless Survivor ever. And maybe now it’ll make Tracy have to actually do something instead of using Chet as a shield.
I think the underlying assumption is that Chet “thought it over” as he said he would, then told the other ‘conspirators’ that he wouldn’t go for Ozzie and still wanted to be voted out. Then the other conpirators had no reason to vote for Ozzie – they wouldn’t succeed, and so there was no reason to put Ozzie on notice.
OTOH, I think one or two of them SHOULD have voted for Ozzie. With luck, you’d make him paranoid enough to use the HI the next time that tribe goes to TC. Let him waste it and then he’s vulnerable when you actually try to go after him.