# Survivor 5/12/13 Last Push - Season Finale **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 12, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-5-12-13-last-push-season-finale/658145 "2013-05-12T13:45:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-5-12-13-last-push-season-finale/658145/81 "2013-05-14T17:04:21Z")
Meanwhile Probst lamely and defensively talks about all the stuff everybody hated about the last episode and finale: [http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/05/14/survivor-caramoan-jeff-probst-finale-reunion/](http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/05/14/survivor-caramoan-jeff-probst-finale-reunion/) ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-5-12-13-last-push-season-finale/658145/82 "2013-05-14T20:45:48Z")
now I want to read Cochran’s thesis. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-5-12-13-last-push-season-finale/658145/83 "2013-05-14T23:12:03Z")
My buddy thinks Brenda wuz robbed due to Eric hanging one for just an hour more. He makes a good point. What say you? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2013, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-5-12-13-last-push-season-finale/658145/84 "2013-05-14T23:20:44Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > My buddy thinks Brenda wuz robbed due to Eric hanging one for just an hour more. He makes a good point. What say you? They still would have had the vote, and Erik didn’t vote for her, so it would have turned out the same. I was surprised earlier this season when a medevac didn’t take the place of the next tribal council–they still had to vote somebody off. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-5-12-13-last-push-season-finale/658145/85 "2013-05-15T00:58:47Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Okay, I just watched it again. Two different people said 100/70, and then they did a close up on the thingy and it said 100/50. > > How’s 100/50 for a BP, with a very slow pulse? They did say 100/70, which is still fine. The thing that said 100 and 50 wasn’t measuring blood pressure - Dr. Jen had done that with a sphygmomanometer. The 100 - 50 thing was attached to a clip on Erik’s finger - presumably the 100 was blood oxygen percentage, and the 50 was his pulse. 100 is obviously what you want for oxygen, and 50 is a little low, but still not a problem by itself. ---
**Author:** ![Molesworth\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Molesworth\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molesworth_2)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-5-12-13-last-push-season-finale/658145/86 "2013-05-15T13:41:32Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > Apparently the little girl that Probst interviewed at the reunion is the same one in this [youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpGnWiod6QM) video. > > Who was the dumbazz who thought interviewing this girl was a good idea? > > Who films their kid in full break-down and puts on you tube. > > I could not watch the entire thing and it is only 70 seconds long. I remember my older sister having a similar cry over the death of Elvis about 30 years ago. I had no sympathy then, and I have none now. He’d been dead for ten years, so I didn’t quite get why my older sister didn’t just grow up and accept it. Your fantasies don’t come true all the time. Boo friggin’ Hoo. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-5-12-13-last-push-season-finale/658145/87 "2013-05-15T14:02:34Z")
> [@randwill](#): > > Meanwhile Probst lamely and defensively talks about all the stuff everybody hated about the last episode and finale: > > [Dotdash Meredith - America's Largest Digital & Print Publisher](http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/05/14/survivor-caramoan-jeff-probst-finale-reunion/) Probst sounds like such a D-bag in that interview that it genuinely decreases my interest in watching the show. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-5-12-13-last-push-season-finale/658145/88 "2013-05-15T14:07:42Z")
There is a reason my most common refrain during the show (and by contestants, even) is “Shut Up, Probst”. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-5-12-13-last-push-season-finale/658145/89 "2013-05-15T14:58:16Z")
Allie, one of the early boots ranted about the the reunion show on her [facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/allie.pohevitz). And she makes many great points, IMO. She was told to bring three dresses. Two of them were deemed to be too short (she would be seated in 'bleachers" and it was a live show), and the third one was the same color as Franny’s who would be sitting right to her. So she was forced to go shopping at the 11th hour for another outfit. Then 6 friends/families were flown and had to pay for hotel rooms (Survivor paid the airfare). IMO, Probst and other executive producers deserve all the criticism that they are getting. FTR-She didn’t explain why Franny could not have worn another one of her three dresses. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-5-12-13-last-push-season-finale/658145/90 "2013-05-17T01:27:11Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > Concerning Blood vs Water: > > Aaugh - I’ve just read a spoiler that’s turning my stomach. Returnees rumored to be Gervaise & nephew, Rob C & father, Monica & NFL husband, Laura (?) & daughter & last but most repulsively, Rupert & a tremendous sense of entitlement - I mean wife. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::mad::rolleyes: > Up for replacement, should someone drop out or get eaten by Rupert: Terry, Shane, Aras, Kat, Tyson, Natalie B, Steph V, Big Tom & Tina. Some real disappointments there. Hopefully someone (Rupert) drops out (Rupert) so someone else gets to step in (anyone but Rupert). Did I ever mention how I felt about Rupert? [spoiler]I hate Rupert, too, but on a different site I saw that an even more repulsive player, Colton the gay racist, is part of the group as well. Hopefully he’s just a decoy. [http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/survivor\_blood\_vs\_water/2013\_May\_13\_cast[/spoiler]](http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/survivor_blood_vs_water/2013_May_13_cast%5B/spoiler%5D) ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-5-12-13-last-push-season-finale/658145/91 "2013-05-17T02:43:47Z")
Lamar, if your spoiler is correct, I’m out. I’ve watched literally ever single season–but that would be it for me. There’s more interesting stuff on TV than anything associated with that. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-5-12-13-last-push-season-finale/658145/92 "2013-05-17T04:01:02Z")
Ditto. I’ve watched all but 1 season of survivor. I missed the first season, then caught the second season and got hooked. I skipped the first part of Survivor:Samoa until Russell Hantz was voted out, but otherwise I’ve seen every episode of every season since. [spoiler]But I just cannot see watching a season with so many retread players, _again_. We just did that! I’m fine with doing one season with returning players, then a season with all new faces. That works, mostly. But a season that includes two previous winners, _right after_ a Fans v Favorites season, and with players that are returning for the third and _forth_ time? _Seriously?_ Shark, meet jumped. Also: Colton. Fuck that, and fuck him. Get off my television, bitch. [/spoiler] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-5-12-13-last-push-season-finale/658145.md?page=4)