I do not care for Ashley at all. Her implants scared me to death and she thinks way too much of herself.
James seems like a sweetie. And damn! Is he built or what?
I hate Courtney. What a tiresome, eye-rolling bitch. And she should have put a bit of weight on before coming on the show. She’s going to look like a stick insect after a few weeks on rice.
Lunch Lady (forgot her name) seems quite affable. And one doesn’t often see such an impressive mullet in the wild.
Love the monkeys.
Oh, yeah, don’t you love someone who don’t like other people because they are too nice?
Interesting change in the editing tonight. (Huge-breasted wrestler) was getting the loser edit, big time. It had me fooled. Chicken must have been much more obnoxious than the episode would have you believe.
Good changeup, Burnett.
I think the obvious talk about not eliminating Ashley got left on the cutting room floor (to enhance tension). No how, no way, would the losing tribe vote off their best female athlete simply because she had a flu bug. Not that Survivors haven’t made dumb choices, of course.
Chicken cooked his own goose. When you decide you’re going to be a recalcitrant in a social game–especially when you refuse to bring information regarding something you’re an expert about, C-ya, buh-bye, thanks for playing.
James is so yummy and sweet. He brings back memories of Yul. :sigh:
Frosti is soooo adorable!
Everyone else is still a blur.
No, he tried to help them, and they ignored his advice. But they are stupid. Two of the axioms in Survivor are:
that groups with a strong leader do better, they become more fit to win challenges. Note that the tribe here that didn’t have a leader lost the 1st challenge (and I predict will lose more)
and
Leaders are voted out early. Note that **PG **and Chicken got votes.
A smart tribe should realize this and vote a leader in (which more or less happened) with a promise he/she will not get any votes next Council.
Chicken was trying not to get voted out for being a leader. Tried too hard, but that group is stupid for voting out the most useful guy on their tream for survival reasons.
Is this the NYC waitress? That was very funny (in its own very stupid way).
I had forgotten about the christian wacko. Way to draw attention to yourself.
Who was the other that kept doing the motions wrong and getting slapped by the monk?
That was Courtney, the NYC waitress. I think she’s the first Fei Long person to go. I hate her.
Which means she’ll win.
Yeah, Leslie’s a bit of a wild card for me. On paper, I don’t think I’d like her much: she’s very evangelical, and I don’t usually like that sort. I also thought what she said at the temple – “I’m not a very religious person” – was kind of an outright lie, since she’s a Christian radio show host. She didn’t get that job by having pageant hair and teeth, you know?
But I found her interaction with James to be very touching somehow, and it kind of cracked my frozen, black, cynical little heart. It seemed genuine, and doubly so since there were cameras around. So, in the interest of being open-minded this season, I am going to give her a little longer before I decide how to feel about her. She was off-putting at the beginning, but she might turn out to be tolerable. Maybe. We’ll see.
(Man, this fair-and-balanced stuff is going to give me a headache from grinding my teeth. Pass the margaritas.)
Denise. And I secretly lurve her and hope she wins this thing, mostly because she is a Red Sox fan. But she is not entirely perfect, because she is also a Patriots fan. Boo! But this is a flaw I can live with, considering that gorgeous, glorious, gleaming mullet. Girl crush! 
Seeing Denise’s mullet reminded me that I actually kind of missed having “Treasure Hunters” on this summer. Viva los Wyld Hanlyns!
“I’m not a religious person” sez the Christian radio hostess. :rolleyes:
Way to Ugly-American it up right off the bat, your holiness.
She and Courtney jumped right onto my hate train in short order. I knew Chicken would go as soon as he started the petulant pouting, and I don’t think PG is making too many friends either.
They must’ve cut out something from tribal council - there was no reason I could see for PG’s triumpant “yes!” when Jeff said they’d reached a decision.
Oh, and mine was in HiDef and beautiful.
I was just glad to see that the losing team got to take flint back from tribal council. It always bothers me a little when one team spends plural days struggling to make fire and starting to dehydrate.
And I think that was the biggest downpour on an early night they’ve had.
And Chicken annoyed me.
I just did not understand Chicken at all. This is what he sounded like to me:
“mmrbmrbmma, you know, and rmndmnkrrrnmaabb, heck, rbrmbrmbr”
Just for that I’m glad he’s gone.
The “I’m not religious…” thing is a bit of an eye-roller, but it’s a common evangelical shibboleth. The point is to draw a distinction between religion - as a man-made construct - and being a Christian, which is a “personal relationship with Jesus.” I used to hear it a lot more about 20 years ago, but I also hung around with a lot more Evangelicals about 20 years ago as well, so there you go. In that subculture, it’s merely cliche; but on national TV, it’s more baffling.
But on the other hand, I can’t hold her non-participation in the ceremony against her. Jeff said it wasn’t a worship service; but I can totally understand how holding your hands together in a praying stance and repeatedly bowing before a host of buddha statues while burning incense would make someone from another religion uncomfortable. It would make me uncomfortable, and I’m no evangelical. And what little we saw of her the rest of the episode was pretty positive, so I’m going to give her a pass. There are much more annoying players to get rid of first (I’m looking at you, Courtney).
Oh, and RE: Chicken – I actually thought during the show, “Wow! He’s so unintelligible he makes Big Tom sound like a Shakepearean actor!”
James is quite the specimen… we’ve seen muscle guys before but not with such a skinny waist. He reminds me of Stretch Armstrong.
Awww, cut her some slack. She seems to be, like, sort of marooned in a land of, like, flight attendants and Sunday school teachers.
DAMN!
Put me in the camp that says Chicken couldn’t get voted out fast enough… the pouting backwoods condescension strategy just wasn’t working for him. I presume the ep title was a zinger of his that got cut? Too bad, because there weren’t many quotable one-liners from last night’s show. This looks like a promising season to me. Not much hope of winning my office pool with Jean-Robert, though. Dude, keep your shirt on and wear a belt like I do. And shuddup.
Skammer, thanks for the background on the “I’m not religious…” bit!
I was having trouble understanding him, too. They should have subtitled him!
I was kind of glad he went. I was afraid I was going to have to go digging around in the storage room to find my Big Tom - English dictionary again.
Before the show, I was hoping I’d like Chicken, but man, what a doofus! I couldn’t understand him either.
Big Tittied Wrestler is not my favorite by any means. Neither is Big City Airhead Girl.
So far, I’m pulling for Lunch Lady Denise, just because.
This was how I took her statement, as well. I don’t think she was intentionally trying to misrepresent herself, but she should realize that she’s not using the term “religious” the way most of the world does. There are some evangelicals who don’t believe in the concept of “church” at all…she may be one of those.
Yeah, I can’t quite condemn her on that one. I’m not even totally buying that it wasn’t a worship service…“worship” may not be the right word or concept, but it seemed pretty close. It’s not just Christians who would be uncomfortable, either…Jews take the “no other gods” commandment very seriously. I have a friend who was very uncomfortable once at a Hindu wedding ceremony because of the statues. This friend is not religious at all…hasn’t seen the inside of a synagogue probably since his Bar Mitzvah, but the idea is just so ingrained in him that he couldn’t shake it.
What I would have done if I were her is just pretended I was an actor playing a buddhist in a movie…it’s sort of like that, anyway.
I gotta agree. Her actions were the kind that give Christians a bad name, but at least she was hanging on to some convictions. Courtney, on the other hand, gives New Yorkers, blondes, waitresses…the human race a bad name. What a total beyotch. I’m glad she made it past week 1, so she can get some more screen time to make a complete ass of herself and alienate her entire tribe. Hopefully.
Jean-Robert, the giant pot-bellied poker player, demonstrating his “behold my madd psychological playa skillz”. Seemed like a complete tool.
James the Gravedigger – my early favorite. And dang, is he ripped/cut/buff.
Can we call one tribe John Who? cuz it sounded like that’s what they were saying.
I like Ashley myself,my early favorite.