Easy enough, though. All you have to do is shift each column down by one sqaure relative to the previous column. Oh, yeah… and get your teammates to listen to you.
I’m a quilter. I did it in my head in about three minutes flat.
Not the dumbest…that would be Thailand. But it is the most boring and they are all, indeed, pretty dumb. I’m basically watching out of routine now…I have no interest whatsoever in who wins. Hell, I THOUGHT I would be rooting for Lea in a Rudyesque sort of way, but he’s just devoid of personality, particularly for a Marine DI.
I also thought I would be sad when Brady was voted off, since he seems like an intelligent guy, who’s also an FBI agent…but he and hell, almost ALL the guys have been given zero character development. Either Burnett screwed up big time or these people are just incredibly lifeless cardboard cutouts.
Yep, I was really looking foreward to watching the guys pay for their boneheaded stratagy "vote off all the strong people so not only do you continue to loose challlenges, but when merge comes around, there a fewer of your origional team than there are of the the other team" Yep brilliant thinking there :rolleyes:
But no! Instead of letting these dimwits feel the consequences, the producers pull a "deus-ex-buttsaver" and let them get off.
Shouldn't they have let it go a few more rounds, and give us the pleasure of watching these boziods squirm?Doper Island… We’d have fire in no time (because we’re smart enough to *practice * before signing up for the show) then water purification, rum and riki-tiki-condos. The crew would be lured in with rum drinks and hot rock massages, bash them on the head and then we’d vote them out. “No really, Jeff. Izzy was here last week. Honest. He was sitting on the back row,” she said, trying to look innocent. <<sniff>> It’d be beautiful, man!
But can we please keep Probst? As a pet? I bet he looks good on a leash… 
Change that to “some female viewers,” okay? I’m an ordinary hot-blooded 33-year-old hetero female, and I don’t give a hoot about “eye candy” or cute guys or what have you. I watch this stuff because it’s like crack to the armchair anthropologist in me. I’d rather see boring Brady gone than any of the fat five. Whatta bunch of characters.
And speaking of which, as much as I heartily dislike Rory, he has a Tilley hat, so I have to root for him a little bit. 
It was really interesting to observe the post-Mia Yasur. It is a little hard to separate the effect of Mia’s leaving from the effect of Da’s visit, but it really does seem as if she was a major factor in the discord. And I still contend that Lisa’s decision to switch her vote had as much to do with her recognition of that as with any strategy. Like I said last week, she may have aligned herself with the youngins, but she is 44, and with that usually comes some wisdom.
Now that I think of it, her decision to go with the youngins may have been primarily strategic in the first place. In the previous “young vs. old” situations, the young have prevailed…she may be smarter than her horrible boob job makes her look.
I proudly announce that I immediately thought of the diagonal strategy – line up all the same color on a diagonal as your first move. Line up all the same icon on the opposite diagonal (avoiding conflicts with the first diagonal) as the second move. So I’m at least as smart as Eliza. :rolleyes:
The guys are just…pathetic. I’d be really disappointed if a shuffle bails them out; I’d like to see them thrash around pathetically for another week or two.
Da rocked!
OK, we can keep Probst. But he’s not allowed to wear a shirt. And he’ll stay in our condo, OK? 
You know, you’re right, although I do sort of disagree. My problem is, I think everyone in this entire cast is boring (or at least they’re edited to look that way) and I found that with J.P. and Brady, at least they had something going for them. Not much, but something. I suspect that J.P. and Brady could have been interesting, if they had been kept around longer. I also think that Chad might be very interesting, but all I know about him is “he had cancer and now has an artificial leg.” Not enough to hook me, I’m afraid, but then again, I do admit to not being impressed easily (most of the time).
Burnett, do you read these boards? WTF? Where are the good players? I mean, I think Boston Rob was a total jackass, but at least he was interesting. Even Rupert, as sick of him as most people are now, even Rupert usually did something worth putting on TV, even it if was building that god-awful underground log cabin. This group? Nothing. So, show more of Da!
That’s a good point, rockle. I should remember that since this is only my second time watching Survivor, I perceive things quite differently than those people who what watched it many times before. What is interesting to me may be really boring and played out to you.
And I’m sorry if I seemed a little snippy. I read another message board about reality TV shows, and while most of the discussion there is excellent, the straight females there do tend to go on and on (and on and on) about male eye candy. When their favorites get voted off, they often say that they won’t bother to watch any more. And for some reason, the females also seem to be slightly obsessed with male-on-male sexuality. I’m just a little tired of wading through all that to get to the analysis of the other parts of the shows. So when you said the magic words (eye candy), I snapped.
Not a problem, Green Bean. I personally will continue to watch, if only so I can “neener-neener” at the players when their stupid decisions bite them in their collective ass. Oh, and let me say … I hope that the guys get Pagonged.
I got ‘distracted’ by the time they had the puzzle thing going. What I could see out of the corner of my eye didn’t make much sense. Can someone describe what the actual game was?
Sure. There were 16 tiles. Each tile was one of four colors, and one of four logos.
The teams had to arrange the tiles in such a way where no icon and no color was duplicated in each row – up and down, and left and right.
Lots of people in this thread seemed to cotton on to the right pattern immediately. I am not one of those people, ahem. But I’d like to think I could have at least commanded enough authority to shut everybody up for once.
Too many chiefs in the Lopevi kitchen on that challenge.
Whose the idiot that said “hola” to Da when he arrived?
He doesn’t speak english, so he must speak spanish. :rolleyes:
My god…it’s Mirna from Amazing Race!
Yes, you’re right. I’d miscounted.
[Comic Book Guy voice]Worst…Survivor…ever![/Comic Book Guy voice]
I’m watching only out of habit and because I’m still hopeful that the merge will cause some personalities to emerge and make the show fun again, but this has really sucked some major ass so far. I really despise the men vs women gimmick on Survivor the inter-gender relationships have usually been the most fun to watch (Rupert/Christa/Sandra, Rodger/Elisabeth, Paschal/Neleh, etc). I hope Burnett never pulls this crap again.
I still don’t really like anyone on the show yet, but I really dislike Eliza.
Here’s hoping Eliza gets sucked into the great abyss during the earthquake …
You know the season is too boring when you start cheering on natural disasters. Do I care if anyone is hurt? Nope. I just want to see a really cool earthquake. And lava. LOTS of lava.
And screaming, as all of the Useless Ones are sucked under into the rivers of lava, and the flesh is burned from their bones, and … oh, wait, I’m getting a little too into that, aren’t I?