Oh, that would be sweeeeeeeeeet. Except we’d have to vote out Probst and the camerapeople, because we Dopers have to stick together! It would be the first season in the history of the show where everyone conspires to split the money evenly 16 ways (even if it is against “the rules” – screw you, Burnett, rules were made to be broken!).
I applied myself a couple times. Unfortunately, I’m a white family man with about 10 extra pounds, and I don’t look much like a model or a bartender, so Survivor didn’t have much use for me. 
I still wish they’d put more average-looking people on the show. I’m stunned that MB & Co. haven’t yet figured out why Rupert was so popular – because he was an everyman, and someone Average America could get behind. :smack:
Hey, Chas, you and me both. (Well, I’m a woman, but you catch my drift.) It’s a c-o-n-spiracy, I tell you. I can’t even get a job as a P.A.!
Or (as we’ve seen so many times) your occupation couldn’t be listed under your name in the confessionals as “Model/Bartender” or “Model/Student” or “Student/Bartender” or some other variation. :rolleyes:
is it just me, or does this look to be the most boring Survivor ever.
or is it that they just have the dumbest ‘contestants’ ever.
So, which one of them do ya think had hot volcano lovin’ with Da?
Twila. You just know there’s a smolderin’ volcano of LOVE hiding under that rough highway-maintenance-worker exterior!
And I’m kind of liking the “age and treachery will beat youth and fitness every time” trend on the voting…
OK, I read the spoiler, so the result was not a surprise. It was interesting to see the misleading editing pointing at Rory again for the third week in a row.
So, now, with Brady gone, we have the guys down to 5, and the ladies at 8 and kicking butt in the challenges. I’m rooting for the girls to wipe the floor with the fellas to make up for the Amazon Humilation (aka “they burned down the camp!?!?”)
And what happens? Skip to previews-from-next-week: “everyone, take off your buffs!”
Dammit. They’re going to mix-master the tribes and do the “take a buff from the magic helmet” trick, so we’ll have mixed teams again. Way to let the air out of the sails. :smack:
Not a horrible episode, but not that interesting. But I’m afraid next weeks mix-mastering is too early – I feel I just got to barely know the tribes and we’re doing 52 pickup.
Could someone post a synopsis? I was out on the farm helping with harvest and missed the show.
I would normally agree with you, except that I don’t like that this is working against the female viewers. Hey, IMO, Twila, Leann, Ami and Scout can pick off all the Bowheads they want … but for the love of Og, the only eye-candy left for us women is skinny gay John the mechanical bull operator? I mean, come on! It’s like having to go into the rest of the season with a merged tribe made up of Rob C., five Heidis, and a buttload of Clays. Ick.
Actually, weren’t they both at 7 each, so now they’re only off by one? The guys have 6 and the girls have 7?
And I hope the mixing goes better than last time (on All-Stars) when they only ended up switching Amber.
Whoops, I hit “submit” too soon.
Did the guys ever admit that they screwed up by not listening to Rory in the puzzle challenge? That was totally their fault. The girls worked together as a team, and listened to Eliza (it was Eliza, right?), and won by working together.
The guys messed up by all of them trying to be in charge - too many Cheifs and not enough Indians, if you know what I mean. (Yeah, I know that phrase is probably very un-PC, sorry about that.) None of them listened to Rory, and they were all trying to put pieces in place. They tried to claim Rory wasn’t solving the puzzle, but he was - they just didn’t listen to him.
I would disagree, if only because I find Chad, Sarge, Chris and Travis more infinitely edible than any of the skinny muscle queens in diapers (with the possible exception of Brook…). I like a little meat on the bones.
If there’s anything that this season and Amazon have taught us, it’s that all-male teams are constantly awash in a sea of testosterone. There’s 8 (or 9) Alpha Males all trying to be the pack leader, and while that’s entertaining to watch, it doesn’t make for good tactics.
Well, in retrospect, Chad isn’t awful. Not quite my cup of tea, but not awful. At least he seems like a nice guy.
In the first episode, I thought Stupid Old Guy was stupid when he told the Young Athletic Guy that YAG is a threat and must be voted off. Before the merge, you need to keep the YAGs on the team since they are more likely to bring you victory over the other team. At last night’s TC, Jeff told them a couple of times that kicking off your future threats early might not be the best stretegy. I don’t know if the SOGs are bright enough to understand that.
I don’t think they did. I also don’t know if Rory had a clue as to the solution to the puzzle. It was hard to tell if he did or didn’t, because nobody was listening to him anyway.
As for the RC: Did the guys choose to go first? That seemed like a poor strategy to me, exactly because of what happened. They showed Arafat where the objects were, and all Arafat had to do was go and pick them up. Had any of them lucked into a match, the situation would have been reversed; but it seems to me that the odds would have favoured (and did favour) going second.
Pretty funny that there’s food all over the place, and no one knew it was there.
What was Rory’s deal with the spear? Um… Guy… The fish are in the water. You know. “Swimming around”. If they were in the tide pools, you really wouldn’t need a spear to get them. Take off your shirt and shoes, put on the mask, and go for a swim.
Hey, he’s a grown-ass man and he doesn’t take orders very well. Or, apparently, solve any kind of puzzles, like the puzzle of how to get the fish to jump on the end of the sling. (Related aside: Remember how Boston Rob said last year that fishing with a Hawaiian sling was easy, like picking fish out of a fish tank? Heh heh heh. They are obviously in very different waters now.)
I just opened Word and made a 4x4 table try to solve the puzzle myself. It was easy.
I did it in Excel. But I’m willing to admit it’s probably harder when you can’t click and drag.