This is sort of how I would approach it, as well. Kind of like … “well, look, they want me to kneel down and respect the statue, so what I’m going to do here is follow directions and keep my mind blank, I mean it’s not really worshipping a false idol if I don’t actually praise Buddha right, isn’t it just like telling somebody that you like their lamp when you know deep in your heart that it’s the most hideous thing you’ve ever seen, and I mean don’t Catholics pray in front of statues all the time and … wait, what? It’s over?”
I haven’t been religious for a long time, but it’s not really worshipping if you don’t feel it in your heart right? So like rockle said, just go through the motions. If your faith in your own beliefs isn’t strong enough to even experience another religion, I think you might need to rethink your beliefs (and in her case, her profession). But anyway, like I said, I’m not religious, I’m just judgmental.
However, what she did was at least based on some conviction whereas Gwen Stefani wanna-be bitchface should have just been kicked out of the country right then, let alone the game.
As far as the lunch lady goes, I don’t like her on first appearances because I never trust anybody with a mullet, let alone a femullet. But I’m hoping that she’ll win me over.
I was rooting for Chicken because obviously he was supposed to be the Big Tom of this season and Big Tom is my favorite Survivor ever. I still think about his jury question regarding cornmeal mush and the hyena being a creature of habit.
I think it was Jaime. Normally, you would consider it TMI for your first words on national television to be (while holding your hand in the air) “Jeff? I’m not wearing a bra.” Under these circumstances, I consider it JRAI (just the right amount of info).
Speaking of which, it looks like next week Ashley gets the Pixillation Trophy, for simultaneously falling out of her top *and *bottom.
I was going to call a “Bullshit!”. Early in the episode Jeff tells them that they are going off to the wilderness with only what they are wearing. Then we see the lady slogging through the mud in her high heels. A few minutes later we see the same lady in sneakers!
But before the first competition Jeff tells them that they can have their sneakers for the competition and wear them back to camp. So I guess the shot of high-heel-lady wearing her sneakers was not inserted in chronological order.
By the way – I object to giving the losers fire. I will always object to giving the losers fire. They’re very inconsistent in their application of the concept of “earning” fire. Of course, they’re also a little vague on the notion of “survival,” so I suppose that’s par for the course for them.
I would cut her slack since this was sprung on them pretty quickly and we don’t always act, on camera, as we would when we’re sitting safely in our living rooms. I’m not religious in any way shape or form, but I try not to be overly judgemental towards people who are.
Yeah, I had a bunch of people over to watch it last night, and I called that out when I saw them line up for the competition-- Hey, where’d they get those shoes??? But I don’t think the high-heeled lady was walking towards the IC, was she? They might have been given the sneakers between the time of that shot and the start of the IC.
By the way, did anyone else get a bizarro-world Pinky & The Brain vibe from Jean-Robert’s conversation with Todd? One where Pinky is the one who wants to take over the world, and the Brain just wants to enjoy his surroundings?
**Jean-Robert: **Todd, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
**Todd: **I think so, Jean-Robert, but if anyone got killed they couldn’t call it Survivor anymore.
**Jean-Robert: **No, no, Todd… I’m talking about claiming to be a flight attendant… it’s the perfect cover story! I’m on to how clever you are!
I’m 50/50 on Leslie, the Christian Radio Host. Her leaving the temple definately had an ‘intolerant fundie’ vibe, which I’m not generally in favor of.
On the other hand, that was one religious looking non-worship service. They’re in a temple, holding their hands in prayer-mode, and bowing to statues… I’m an atheist, so I’d have just gone through the motions and enjoyed checking out the temple, and the monks, and the statues. But I can see how someone who was religious would be distrubed by it all, even with Jeff’s assurance that it wasn’t a worship service. I mean, who died and made Jeff a theologian, anyway?
And I liked Leslie, later, especially when she interacted with James. She seems really genuine in that conversation. So I’m holding off on making a decision about her until I see a bit more.
Bellyman thinks that the other guy was very clever for saying that he was a flight attendant. He somehow surmised from that that this guy was super intelligent. Except for the part that he actually is a filght attendant.
Don’t forget the monks physically correcting the way they had their hands folded. The most un-welcome welcoming ceremony I’ve ever seen. When I want to welcome someone, it usually involves a comfortable place to sit and the offer of a frosty beverage.
Bellyman thinks that the other guy was very clever for saying that he was a flight attendant. He somehow surmised from that that this guy was super intelligent. Except for the part that he actually is a filght attendant.
I think Jean-Robert is so used to everyone overthinking things at the poker table that he won’t know how to handle himself amongst a bunch of people that aren’t playing 10 moves ahead.
It’s going to bite him and it’s going to be funny.
Neither did the other guy, who just looked puzzled and asked the exact same question you just asked. One can only wonder what goes though the mind of that guy.
I have a feeling we’re in for a lot of “I’m on to you” interactions from Jean - Robert.
He seems to think he has some kind of Super Poker Player mind reading power. Hopefully he will rely totally on his power, and be gone quickly.
My guess is he’s assuming the guy is really a doctor, lawyer, businessman, (or future doctor, lawyer, etc.) He thinks that it’s clever to claim to be from a career path with much lower expected earnings–who needs the money the most rarely defines who wins the game, but there are discussions about it from time to time-- as well as being a career path which is less associated with highly intelligent people (and possibly highly devious people–especially lawyers).
