I know they deny it, but I’ll believe to my grave that the producers got a call from Jenna’s family that her mother was fading fast, and they wrote the “I just feel I need to get home right away” scene for her.
Remember that she had been freaking out in early episodes, too, so we have seen more than what happened this week.
I agree that Ozzy needs to go before the merge. Are there only 3 guys left…? This may be an all-woman race very soon.
So here’s the burning question:
When Amanda took her top off in the shower and exposed the twins, who was more aroused, Ozzie or Amy?
Discuss.
Me.
Don’t forget that Osten spent the early portion of his season crowing about how big and tough he was. And with plenty of encouragement from the Robfather. And then one day he just snapped and started shouting “I’m going to die! I have [some weird disease]! I’m going to die!” That’s why Jeff savaged him, the hypocrisy of it all.
Kathy has been saying from day one that she’s not really cut out for Survivor and I think there was a bit of “I’ll surely get voted off soon” going through her head in the first week. And if it wasn’t for that damn Idol, she probably would have been.
But Jeff did say in Entertainment Weekly before the season started that he thought Kathy was a bit of a sad sack and “would be completely shocked if she wasn’t the first person gone.” I don’t know when the interview took place, so maybe it was meant to be misdirection, but she wasn’t completely spared.
Mariano? He wasn’t on Pearl Islands.
Sorry, I’m getting my meathead jocks confused. It was Andrew Savage who was sitting there going “Osten is the biggest, toughest guy out here!” And then he ran screaming from a girl from a pelican.
And that was also the season where Rupert singlehandedly pulled his tribe to victory in a rope-holding challenge.
This actually made me laught at loud; thanks (and I hear ya!)
I don’t understand this at all. Why do you and some others feel that Ozzy “needs” to go? Am I the only one who feels that Survivor suffers because the really good, strong players get voted out in the middle game, by sheer strength of numbers on the part of the mediocre players, and so we always end up with an end game that features boring, weak, and generally unworthy players?
Ozzy is one of the best, strongest, smartest players ever to be on Survivor. I would really like to see him win, he deserves it far more than anyone else in this season. I just don’t understand this attitude that he needs to go.
Amen!
I’m right there with you.
Not to speak for others, but the way I see this kind of talk is that it’s just analysis from a game-playing perspective. That is, nobody is saying Ozzy doesn’t deserve to win, but that the other players in the game need to get rid of him in order for them to have a chance at winning themselves. It’s simply a part of the Monday-morning quarterbacking and psychoanalysis that makes watching and discussing Survivor fun. And if one truly feels Ozzy deserves to win, then watching him overcome the machinations of the rest of the players becomes that much more fun.
As for having weak, unworthy players in the end game, I dunno, I think the last four winners deserved to be there (Todd in China, Earl in Fiji, Yul in Cook Islands, and Aras in Panama). The game is “Outwit, Outplay, Outlast”, and it’s fascinating (to me) to see how many people don’t incorporate all three of those facets into their gameplay.
Winners, yes, but what about the runner-ups? As I recall, most of the recent finals have been near-unanimous, though there may have been a recent exception.
I’d like to see more competitive final votes, but at some point I have to realize that I’m picking nits in a meaningless game. It’s not exactly arguing the DH, you know?
ETA: No show this week?
There doesn’t seem to be. I think the next new show is April 3. I’ve seen claims that there is no show this week, and that there is, but it’s a recap show. Doesn’t really matter…we’d be skipping it either way.
CBS schedule. Doesn’t look like it.
Well, there was a pretty general feel that the most recent Survivor between Todd and Amanda was only won by Todd in such a landslide because Amanda completely torpedoed herself during the final Tribal Council.
I disagree, but of course it’s just a question of taste. Ozzy is absolutely one of the strongest and most physically dominating players ever to play. I don’t agree that he’s one of the smartest. He’s been mostly absent from the strategic game (as he was in his own season, where a much more deserving, much smarter player utilized Ozzy’s physical strengths to supplement his own strategic play).
I don’t understand the folks who automatically root for the most physically dominating player. Those people bore me, unless - like Rob Mariano - they play the game effectively in other ways, too.
I root for the players who dominate challenges, although sometimes the obvious physical specimens do poorly, or vice versa. (i.e. Yau Man) The big, physical players are actually underdogs, due to perceived threat, so part of it is rooting for the underdog. It would be nice if the strong players banded together for their own safety, for once, instead of being picked off by weaklings like Chet.
Second this. Amanda was a very strong player who basically melted pathetically under jury questioning. It sure looked, even before the jury start in, that Amanda herself didn’t think she should win. I have no idea why that happened, when she arguably did outplay, outlast, etc, and did a credible enough job at it that she was very arguably the person who should have won the million.