It’s Survivor day again. Despite the previews, I will be amazed if they finally boot Philip. I very much hope they do, but they are playing it way too hard.
Also, the name of the episode has Michael written all over it. I’m guessing he says this in the show…
I missed the title reference. Did someone call Philip that?
Corinne calls Philip the Tubby Lunchbox in reference to his stomach.
That was a squeaker for Michael!! I was getting way too nervous. Thank goodness it’s a merge next week and a new game is afoot!
Double post… wha happened?
It was pretty evident that Julia was going and not Michael. Michael didn’t get any talking heads tonight.
Corrine had the perfect storm to blindside Philip tonight. Too bad she didn’t strike because I am sick of Delusional-R-Philip
“I threw the challenge” LMAO
Brenda is still invisible. So was Eddie and Erik and Sherrie.
Why was there three players left on the beach during the Immunity Challenge? They only needed one player to throw grappling hooks. Those two players should have been required to move the statue by themselves.
3 players in the boat to get statue.
2 players to move the statue.
1 player to throw the hooks to get keys.
She squealed once during the reward challenge.
As delusional as Philip is, his persona makes this season bearable for me. Without him (and to a lesser extent without Cochrane), my interest in this season would have already gone into the proverbial toilet.
I was just saying today before the show how much I dislike Philip. He is just not a likable person.
I am really happy Michael stayed around.
Next week a weird food challenge.
My husband I were noting that this time around Cochrane seems a lot more likeable. Don’t know if it’s just the editing - but he’s cracking us up quite a bit. The unfavorable comparison of Julia to vanilla was fun.
I will also be happy to see Philip go. One or two funny delusions in a season is OK… but at this point it’s tedious.
Worst season of Survivor, starting off with the harebrained notion to put all the veteran players together. Then they separated them into two tribes where the Fans were minorities, practically guaranteeing that the remaining Fans would get decimated.
Phillip is a buffoon. I don’t find him entertaining, I find him to be pathetic. His inability to run in the water, and refusal to yield, would have been much more dramatic before the merger because everyone in the Favorites tribe was on an equal footing (pardon the pun), and no one would have wanted to lose the challenge for fear of being voted off. But, Dawn, Cochran, etc knew that even if they lost this particular challenge, THEY were in no danger of being voted off. So any dramatic tension was severely lessened.
Phillip saying that he blew the grappling hook challenge was embarrassing. I can’t imagine how he felt watching that back, hearing Cochran’s voice-over and watching him try to suppress laughing right in his face.
On another note: In case you missed it, the entire season of the French Survivor was canceled after a contestant suffered a heart attack and died. I wonder if this will have any impact on the show. We’ve all noticed that the contestants are better fed in latter seasons. I’ve always wondered if hypothermia was ever a threat during those cold, rainy nights…
Speaking of which, whatever happened to all the rice that was dumped out by Hantz? Was that replaced?
Just to expand a bit - he was 25 years old, and died after a tug of war on day 1, so it really had nothing to do with the show conditions in terms of food, shelter, rest, etc.
Last week Jeff mentioned that when the newly shuffled tribes went back to their respective camps, they would each find an additional bag of rice. The players seemed quite relieved.
On the tribe mixup which was the day after Brandon got ‘voted’ out, both tribes got a rice replenishment.
Other Players: Let’s run! They’re catching us!
Phillip: No, the girls might get tired.
Phillip: I’m tired, I can’t run.
Man, talk about a delusional idiot. When your strategy in a footrace is to just go slow so the other team can easily catch you, that’s some secret agent shit right there.
I agree about Cochran coming off as a lot more witty and insightful than I remember him being
I didn’t hate Cochran his first season, so I’m not surprised to be enjoying his commentary this time. (Did anyone notice in that one confessional how oddly huge his head looked? He looked like a dwarf [correct medical term?], perhaps because part of his body was not visible due to the angle – but a huge, huge head, small body, short arms.)
Philip, on the other hand, needs to be taken out and shot. He was mildly amusing his first season, this time he’s just annoying as all fuck. And delusional. Corrine should have orchestrated a blindside just for everyone’s mental health, but I assume everyone’s replaying his original season: take him to the end and watch him get zero votes.
My wife and I thought Cochran was full of witty insights last night; she said that he might even make a decent host if Probst decides to hang up his khaki shirt for good.
I can’t disagree with that assessment; although Cochran doesn’t exude a terribly physical manly-man presence, I can’t really think of any other former castaways, male or female, who’d make a better host (not that Probst is leaving anytime soon, and not that his replacement necessarily needs to be a former castaway).
Penner would be a better host.
Hunter Ellis. I have a deep and abiding crush on him, so naturally I think he would make a good host.
Agreed, and as Mom would say, Cochran has a face for radio.