I hate these first few episodes of reality shows where there are too many faces and you can’t assign names to faces, so it doesn’t really matter who gets voted out. It’s all just a big confusing mess. This SURVIVOR series looks like it has the usual passel of suspects.
I didn’t even realize Dolly was a Sheep Farmer during the promos. . . but all I could think of was that damned clone sheep whenever I heard her name. I wonder if this Dolly is a clone. . . .
And I have Brady in the office pool. Mmmmmmmm. . . Brady. He’s mighty fine.
And can somebody explain to me why Brooke was voted off instead of Chris, the guy who couldn’t get across the balance beam to save his life. . . or the rest of his team? I don’t get it.
I have a feeling that Sarge (Lea) is a lot more influential than we were shown through the magic of editing. The man is no fool. He knows that if he lets the young’uns vote off the oldsters, he won’t last long, either.
The old guys voting off the young guys is probably not a bad idea. Just keep losing and voting out the young ones. The producers won’t let you die of thirst, so you know they’ll step in and give everyone fire before too long. Then when the guys’ team is too small, they’ll merge the tribes and the old guys can skate to the finish while the women snipe each other off 'cause they’re sick of each other by that time.
Brook said in an interview on CBS.com that they had coconuts to drink at first so the water shortage wasn’t as imperative as it seemed.
I was also a little embarrassed for the Vanuatu people that JB or Brady (don’t remember who) was able to climb that pole so easily. It’s bad manners to beat your host’s top guy at a challenge right off the bat.
I picked Twila the highway construction lady in my office pool. She has a Loretta Lynn twang that makes her sound stupid, but I think she’s got common sense.
Chris has no balance and just learned to swim 6 weeks ago. I have a feeling this isn’t the first challenge he’s going to lose for his team.
:rolleyes: Here. Let me do it again. :rolleyes: What is it with these people? If I were on the show, you could bet that I’d practice firemaking many times before I hit the location. “We got an amber, but nobody knew what to do with it.” Aiyiyi. A lot of previous contestants never got an amber. This lot were well ahead of the game… and they couldn’t figure out how to use this hot, glowing piece amber. Aiyiyi, says me.
And dude: It’s ember. “Amber” is something else that’s hot.
It was killing me this site was down most of yesterday! I needed instant analysis! :smack:
As usual, the first episode was a wash (I have NO IDEA the motivations for choosing Brooke over some other anonymous young guy).
A few random thoughts:
Do you think the producers have done something to prevent wholesale alliances? There seemed to be a lot of disorganization on who got votes.
*Was it Brady that voted for Rory? Was he on his own or did the group send a message? It would seem that Brady, straight laced FBI guy, would be on the side of SARGE!
My wife thinks Brady is a hottie and I like that he is a straight laced FBI guy, so he is the fave in our household. Sarge is also on our radar. He is the first military guy who took a leadership role early without being abrasive. A drill sgt with tact. Dangerous in Survivor! But I figured a career military man could make fire…
I liked the comments about the artificial leg guy. Could analysis without being mean spirited.
Brady voted for Rory. The vote analysis on the CBS website says that Chad, Chris, John P, Rory, Lea and Travis all voted for Brook. Everyone else voted for Chris.
I hope Chad sticks around for awhile. I hate whoever it was that said Oh great, a guy with a mechanical leg, now everyone will be nice to him or something like that. I don’t think Chad is relying on others’ niceness to make it thru. He can hussle, as evidenced by the challenge.
He reminds me of an Andre Agassi type. You just have to cheer for him. Plus, he’s a teacher, which is awesome.
I believe that was Brady. And I interpreted what he said to bes more along the lines of, “Oh great. He’s nice, he’s good looking, he’s smart AND he’s got a disability. No one is going to vote off HIM.”
I think it was the other pudgy guy that just learned how to swim, he was wearing the orange t-shirt.
I know there have been alot of wardrobe malfunctions on Survivor, but I felt bad for Scout. She was so exhausted, she probably didn’t realise her boobs were flopping out.
Just funky editing all the way around. I was really surprised to hear, at the end, that they’d been there 3 days. 3 days without fire – so therefore, no water. You’d think they might have spared 30 seconds of film, showing us how they coped with that; at least, I assume they coped – I didn’t see anyone perish from thirst. Feh.
I never realized how hooked on Survivor I am until last Friday, when I was chatting it up with two co-workers who are also Survivor fanatics and realized that we hadn’t said a word to each other since the last episode of Survivor All Stars!
The episode really reminded me of how great Rupert was on Pearl Islands. I know Dopers love to bash the big guy, but I loved the hell out of that season from the very beginning thanks to him, while the first episode of Vanuatu was nothing to write home about. I’m sure I’ll get into it once I know the characters better, but no one stands out right now. I do hope we get a terrific Johnny Fairplay or Rob Mariano type villain to root against because the best Survivors had great heels that we loved to hate.
