[QUOTE=Elret]
Me too, plus my answers consisted of things like “The second one!” or “The one with that guy!” I don’t think I ever knew the proper “names” of the seasons even while I was watching them.
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Same here. The only ones I know by name are the second and third ones: Survivor Outback and Survivor Africa. All the other ones are a blur.
(Now that I think about it, add Survivor China to the list)
[QUOTE=Polerius]
I was right. Take a look at this video of the immunity challenge.
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I’m getting a “clip no longer available.”
The best part of that challenge was Jeff busting Parvati’s balls. Something like:
Jeff: Parvati, nowhere near in it.
Parvati: Oh…Jeff
There was an odd pacing to her reply; I think she actually said “oh fuck you/off, Jeff” and they just killed the audio in the middle of it.
[QUOTE=Ellis Dee]
There was an odd pacing to her reply; I think she actually said “oh fuck you/off, Jeff” and they just killed the audio in the middle of it.
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That was the impression I got as well. It seemed very clear to me that she’d cussed him out.
[QUOTE=Ellis Dee]
I’m getting a “clip no longer available.”
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Strange. The link is working for me.
Jeff: Parvati, nowhere close to being in this challenge
Parvati: Oh…Jeff
You’re right, it does seem like she could have said something that they edited out, but does it make sense that one of the contestants would talk to Jeff that way?
BTW: it could also have been the case that she was just out of breath from all that digging, and the pause between “Oh” and “Jeff” was her just catching her breath.
[QUOTE=jayjay]
That was the impression I got as well. It seemed very clear to me that she’d cussed him out.
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More fodder for “Survivor: Uncensored”. Where we get to see what was on Amanda’s butt in China.
[QUOTE=jsc1953]
Speaking of which – I found the reward challenge impossibly hard. All the previous seasons of Survivor blur together. All beaches look alike.
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Yay me! I got all but one right! (And it was the one Cerie missed, too) :smack: 
[QUOTE=Polerius]
You’re right, it does seem like she could have said something that they edited out, but does it make sense that one of the contestants would talk to Jeff that way?
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Parvati? I have no trouble believing that she’d cuss out Jeff, or anyone.
[QUOTE=Liberal]
He actually got to help Ozzy work! He actually got to stand ten feet from Jeff. He might have banged Parvati or Amanda for all we know. (Or Ozzy, come to think of it.) Anyway, he’s a good kid and he had a good time. I think he really will take a life lesson from it, and not anything solemn or dour. He’ll just take it that if you try really hard, you can make your dreams come true.
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Yeah, he is pretty much your quintessential nice guy. I don’t think he could hold a grudge against someone who killed his dog. Did you hear what he said right after the vote? He’d just been the victim of the biggest Survivor screw-over in history, and what was his response? “Oh, you guys”, as if they’d just tussled his hair.
On the other hand, he does bring new meaning to the world “dumb”. I saw a news store where the headline referred to his “blunder”. No, a blunder is when you’re walking down a path and you’re not paying enough attention to the ground and you stumble over a tree root.
In this case, the women dug a big pit, put sharpened stakes at the bottom, and lit the whole scene with massive floodlights. Then they led Eric to the edge of the pit and said, “See this pit? See those sharp stakes at the bottom? Go ahead, jump in, they won’t hurt you, trust me.” And Eric, after saying, “This is the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make”, jumped.
[QUOTE=Eureka]
I couldn’t believe they hid another Immunity Idol. I assumed that once one was successfully used, there would be no more hidden idols.
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Yeah, I was snonkered by that as well; there was some supposition in last week’s thread along the lines of “there’s no way they’d hide the idol again!”, and I’d bought into that, silly me.
So this counts as the fourth time the idol was placed on Exile Island, having been found three times this season, and it could have been a fourth time if Parvati had gotten off her behind and looked. This is ridiculous – I hope they retire the HII or at least come up with a less-stupid, more-rare method for obtaining one.
[QUOTE=squeegee]
I hope they retire the HII or at least come up with a less-stupid, more-rare method for obtaining one.
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What they should do is just hide it without clues. Period. Don’t put it 30 feet up in a tree or anything, but hide it well.
Or better yet, go back to single clues, cumulative. And clues, not directions. The clues this season were ridiculous. Every single person who’s gone to Exile has come within 10 feet of the HII, and more than 3/4 of the people who’ve looked for it have found it. The only way they could have possibly dumbed the clues down any more would be to have a map in that tower with a big black X on it.
Burnett needs to hire new writers…I’ve noticed that not only were the HII clues just ridiculously transparent and easy, but they’ve completely given up on even pretending to try to make the challenge tree-mails rhyme in any real way.
[QUOTE=squeegee]
Yeah, I was snonkered by that as well; there was some supposition in last week’s thread along the lines of “there’s no way they’d hide the idol again!”, and I’d bought into that, silly me.
So this counts as the fourth time the idol was placed on Exile Island, having been found three times this season, and it could have been a fourth time if Parvati had gotten off her behind and looked. This is ridiculous – I hope they retire the HII or at least come up with a less-stupid, more-rare method for obtaining one.
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They’ve done this before. I like the HII to be available, because then going to EI is a good thing/bad thing combo, not just a bad thing. Makes it more difficult, strategically, to select who is sent there.
[QUOTE=squeegee]
So this counts as the fourth time the idol was placed on Exile Island, having been found three times this season, and it could have been a fourth time if Parvati had gotten off her behind and looked.
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Do we know for a fact that she didn’t? Assuming the HII can be played at the next TC (which I’m not sure it can)…I would love to see a move to oust Parvati, foiled when she pulls out the HII at TC. With a “what, you didn’t think I *trusted *you guys, did you?”
[QUOTE=jsc1953]
Do we know for a fact that she didn’t? Assuming the HII can be played at the next TC (which I’m not sure it can)…I
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Jeff explicitly stated that the HII could be used for the last time last night’s TC, and not after.
[QUOTE=John Mace]
They’ve done this before. I like the HII to be available, because then going to EI is a good thing/bad thing combo, not just a bad thing. Makes it more difficult, strategically, to select who is sent there.
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I’ll agree with your there, it does make it perilous to send someone to EI. I just think they’ve gone too far in the “easy to find” direction with the HII.
[QUOTE=jsc1953]
Do we know for a fact that she didn’t? Assuming the HII can be played at the next TC (which I’m not sure it can)…I would love to see a move to oust Parvati, foiled when she pulls out the HII at TC. With a “what, you didn’t think I *trusted *you guys, did you?”
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HIIs are never usable once they get to the F4.
[QUOTE=John Mace]
HIIs are never usable once they get to the F4.
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Darn. I was really enjoying my scenario.
Just watched the episode…
I don’t have the words…
Because we dont have a smiley putting a gun to his head,sticking his head up his ass or jumping off a cliff i will just say :smack:
Eric,Eric,Eric…tsk tsk tsk.
It was nice of him to include Cirie in his “beautiful sexy women” comment though.
Cirie will be out if she doesn’t win II. She has masterminded most of the plots and if the other three don’t realize that they are as dumb as Jason,Ozzy,James and Eric…well,maybe not Eric.
My view of Cirie hasn’t changed since I posted this earlier this year. For that matter, my thoughts on how Jeff Probst views the female survivor competitors hasn’t changed either,
So, thinking ahead, the best outcome for a final three for Cirie would be Cirie, Natalie, and Parvati. I think she needs Amanda out, but in a way that her hands can be relatively clean, and I think her best chance of achieving that is if Natalie wins the immunity challenge.
It will be interesting. Personally, I’d like to see Cirie win, though I wouldn’t want to know her in real life. She is far too effective at this for me to believe that there wouldn’t be temptation for her to spill that behaviour into real life. I would also be okay with Amanda winning. I wouldn’t like to see Parvati or Natalie win, though it’s hard to imagine a situation where they would.
Is it wrong of me to want Amanda to not win the million so she will accept the offer from Playboy to pose for some big bucks? Does wishing that make me a bad person?
Yes.
FYI, here’s the afterward about Erik on the Ponderosa site. He’s bearing up and surprisingly cheerful (though “cheerful” is probably his usual demeanor). The other losers gave him quite a bit of noise about the Idol, though.