Yeah, Alex was pretty well MIA this time around. Speculation is he’s the guy who gets injured next week, so this may be classic Survivor editing–downplay the person who gets booted the week before it happens. He’s got to be the early boot favorite for the guys, though Roger looks like he’s getting ready to make a go at Rob–not a smart move on Roger’s part, since Rob is probably more popular than Roger. Butch continues to be a non-entity, which I suspect means he’s F4 all the way.
On the women’s side, Shawna will certainly be the next one out. That leaves only Jenna and Heidi as the Boobie Twins, probably paired in a loose voting alliance with Deena and Christy. Jeanne’s plotting and scheming has all completely backfired on her, and she’s shown no ability to alter her strategy. She’s in trouble, though a merge could help save her for a while longer.
I can not believe that it took the men ten days to come up with the brilliant scheme that perhaps they would catch more fish if they used bait!
What the hell were they doing, throwing a naked hook in the water and hoping the fish would take pity on them? I thought one of these guys was a professional fisherman. Why were they eating the little fish instead of using them to catch bigger fish?
So far I think both these tribes are too stupid live. I’m hoping for a flood.
Assuming Alex and Shawna really are/were dating as various places have reported, it sure seems like the events and previews lead to these two spending a lot of time together at the Loser Lodge.
I dunno, Fiver. In my recollection, he stops reading when one person has enough votes for their ouster, and the remaining unread votes are for the same person. I cannot recall a situation where a person got a vote, and the tribe is not told.
Think of the implications. Christy does not know she got a vote. She might have pulled a Lex (however unlikely) and gone on a vendetta. Or others might have seen her as fair game to vote for, once she received her first vote. In past seasons, votes from past TCs were tiebreakers, but we don’t know if that is still the case (and I doubt it.) It also gives the tribe members valuable info as to the existence and strength of any alliances. Also, allows MB to add extra element to vote reading.
I would have expected Jeff to read votes for Joanna, Shawna, and Christy - saying 1 vote for each.
Then read votes for J and S - maybe say 2 votes for J, 2 for S, and one for C.
Then 3d for J, and last one (also for J) is a mystery. (Of course that way, the last vote would have had to be read - because if it were for S, it would be a 3-3 tie.)
Dinsdale, Jeff himself doesn’t even know what the remaining votes are when he reads them off at tribal council. He just stops when enough votes for an ouster are counted.
You may be right that the particular scenario of last night hasn’t yet occurred, but that is just coincidental.
I don’t think Jeff examines all the votes before he reads them, Dinsdale. He just pulls them out one by one.
And it has always, ALWAYS been the case that Jeff reads no more votes, no matter who they’re for, once enough votes have accumulated to force an ouster.
We, the audience always know who voted for whom, because we’re shown during the credits. But the players don’t know.
Kudos to the men for figuring out that bait would be a good idea. Although they didn’t exactly take Jeff’s scolding from last week too seriously: they catch one fish and knock off for the day. You’d think they were bringing a wooly mammoth back to camp. Men come! Bring fish! We eat!
Booting Joanna certainly looks like a Hunter-esque move. You think the Boob Alliance kicked Joanna because they resented the use of scripture to call them vain and stupid? Nah, they’re probably too dumb to realize Joanna was talking about them.
]Fiver, Algernon I can’t believe that you actually believes Jeff simply randomly pulls the votes out.
Is it just coincidental that it always builds up as long as any “tension” can be created? It is ALWAYS a 1-1 tie, then 2-2, etc. as long as they can. When Dan lost, they read Roger’s vote(s?) before the remaining Dan pile-on made the outcome clear.
And no one yet has identified a single situation similar to last night - where the team leaves the TC without knowing that a particular person has had any votes cast against them.
In my recollection, EVERY time Jeff leaves votes unread, the final votes are for the person being voted out. I may be mistaken, but no one has shown that yet. For that to happen so coincidentally over 6 series would really stretch the odds.
Dinsdale, I may have to eat crow. It is true that I’ve believed that he randomly pulls out the votes to be read. It may be a fact that he does arrange the order of the votes to be read.
I have to confess that it would account for the fact that rarely (if ever) has a contestant accumulated votes to be dismissed with only their name being read, if there were votes for other people.
In other words, a unanimous vote would of course result in the first 4 votes read be that person. But if the actual votes were 4-3 for example, I don’t believe the first 4 votes read were ever for the same person.
However, it would be statistically unusual (but not impossible of course) for the first 4 votes read of a 50-50 vote be for the same person.
Did that make sense?
I guess what I’m trying to say is that it’s still possible that the order truly is random, but it’s possible (perhaps even likely) that the order is pre-arranged.
Yes, Jeff does, in fact, look at all the votes off-screen before they’re read aloud to the teams. Note that he doesn’t say, “I’ll go grab the vote urn,” but instead says, “I’ll go tally the votes.” They’re all counted and organized before he comes back to read them and they’re ordered for maximum “suspense”.
That Heidi is a bitch. Makes me want to stick a giant pin in her titties and watch the horrified look on her face as they deflate.
Yes, Shayna, he looks a lot like Jeff! I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who’s noticed. Save Alex’s face, and you’d have to put a mark on one of them to tell them apart.
Speaking of shaving, Jaburu’s legs look awfully smooth for two weeks in the rough. Are they shaving them?
My mom thinks they probably all got waxed. OUCH. But I’d probably do that myself, if I were doing something like this.
I think their hair has looked WAY too good all along for them not to have access to at least a hairbrush, even before that particular challenge. I shudder to think what MY hair would look like after a week out in the jungle without a brush.
whiterabbit, the girls won a reward challenge for all kinds of toiletries – brushes, shampoo, soap, etc. That’s why they’re looking so good. I think there may have been razors amongst those supplies as well.
