Eh? Both teams did the challenge simultaneously.
Well, I must repeat my post from last episode and ask “WTF?”. I am really not getting the logic of these people’s decisions.
Why wouldn’t they vote off Courtney (the NYC waitress with sticks for arms). Where the hell does she wait tables? At a cotton candy restaurant? How can someone have a physical job and be so frail? Now she is just as useless as before, except that she can’t use her hands for anything. Don’t expect her to do anything at all for the next week or so. Here is hoping that the next challenges are blowing bubbles, because otherwise, I don’t know what good she will be.
And why Leslie? I don’t think she was getting under anyone’s skin. It is true that saying “The other team rocks and you suck” at TC is not the path to popularity, but still.
Good news for the other girl who was trading secrets with her. Now her secret is safe for the next few days. Not that it looks like she is going to do anything with it. Her comments were along the lines of “I am sure this is very obvious but there is no way I am going to think about this”. Yul would have the HII from both camps already.
Speaking of, I guess the kidnappee is free to steal the HII from his hosts, right? This could be a ton of fun, watching a returning hostage waving good bye at his captors with the HII.
Denise is useless. The love is gone.
Gravedigger dude lost a lot of points by opening his mouth. I can’t believe how some people are just willing to speak their minds without making any effort to check for spies first.
I am loving the challenges so far. Nice change of pace. Good season so far.
He means that if they had started with the men, the situation would have been reversed. I am assuming this is decided randomly. Otherwise, it was a handed victory.
I’m sure the teams were free to decide who would do the chopping and who would do the puzzle. Courtney would have been even more useless in dragging that heavy weight.
Oh, there is the confusion. He means (well, I think he means, I just noticed he actually said the opposite) the reward challenge with the fighting on the boats. If they had started with the men fighting, instead of the girls, Fei Long would have won the challenge.
Ha! You won’t know how much I loved reading this. 
And, yes, he just might have been able to pull something like that off…
If he meant the reward challange, then, yeah, Zhan Hu lucked out; their women seem freakishly strong. Although it may not have been entirely luck. IIRC, whenever the tribes are divided by sex to do a challenge, it’s the women who always go first.
The remaining 2 had to lug all the puzzle pieces over to where they put them together, so maybe they thought she’d be better at cutting rope than hauling dead weight.
But… I almost died laughing watching her try to cut the ropes. That and the “Sister Christian” moment had me in stitches.
I think we missed a lot of stuff off-camera. There was mention last week and some mention last night that Leslie was pretty useless around camp because she was sick all the time. So she might have been voted off because she was weak in that regard.
Of course, I tend to agree with you that they should have voted out Courtney, but I think there was more to it than we were privy to.
It was as if she could barely lift the sword.
Give her credit for finding a way to avoid being freeze-framed. 
Was that supposed to be a dis by the editors? It’s not up there with the no-final-words when Osten quit Pearl Islands.
I wonder if she’ll have to don the samauri armor next week. She’ll be crushed into dust.
Chinese armor, not samurai. That stuff looks heavy and awkward, especially to someone who’s never worn any sort of armor before. I wonder how many bystanders are going to get beaned with those bolos?
About Courtney…Jeff made it a particular point to mention “each team members individual strengths.” Which makes me think there might be a challenge coming up where a skeleton will actually have an advantage. It might come back and bite JR on the ass if he arranges to vote Courtney out just before that challenge.
But she still makes me sick when I look at her. Girl needs to put on about 20 lbs. to be skinny.
What’s the over-under on when her hair is going to start falling out?
:smack:
That DID seem like foreshadowing by ol’ Jeff. I don’t have the vibe that Courtney has any unique skills, though. And JR is so unlikeable that I think he’ll playing above his head anytime he’s able to get anyone else voted off going forward.
Allow me to voice the minority opinion.
I would not want Courtney in the office pool, however I will be disappointed when she’s eventually voted out. Or dies.
I kinda like her. Her confessionals and the snarky comments don’t pull any punches and they’re probably not too far off the mark.
I think she’s kinda cute in an emaciated kind of way.
I got a little Courtney crush.
Stop looking at me like that.
Yes, that’s what I meant. Wrong challenge, sorry.
My feeling is that it’s too bad they couldn’t have voted off two people last night: Leslie & Courtney.
Re: Courtney – LMFAO watching you try to lift that sword! And is it at least a tad ironic that this self-proclaimed (in so many words) NYC bitch is actually crying at Council because the team has to find a way – and pretty much with kid gloves, I thought – to keep her Janay-on-diet-pills frame out of the challenges? On the flip, I don’t think of being a bitch as necessarily a bad thing and you could wait on my table anytime (as long as I don’t order the 3-pound steak).
Re: Leslie – You were so clueless, Flicka from last season would say, “Wow, you really have no idea how to play this game.” And no offense to any Christians out there (or religous folks in general), but when your religion (Yes, Leslie, you are religious) weakens you instead of strengthens you (“If I only had my Bible here with me…”) it might be time to do some real soul searching. What a crutch. On the flip, you did strike me as a genuinely kind person and are welcome in my home anytime – so long as it’s not to preach the word of J.C.
BTW, I think the freeze frame was done to reference low-budget Kung Fu movies. Moonwife picked up on it.
heh, too true. This season does seem to have nothing but muscle challenges, though. Which is odd because this season also includes the smallest man and woman ever to appear on the show. Every time Todd and JR are in the same frame I feel like I’m watching Lord of the Rings.
Right there with you. As a skinny guy, I dig skinny chicks. Even though you’d probably have to wrap tape around her stomach so she wouldn’t explode, she’s still do-able.
Did anyone else laugh when James said “Am I the only one who went to Barnes and Noble before this.”
Yes for once in the history of survivor, a contestant actually bothered to go read out a survival manual.Also noteworthy, given past Survivor history: we’ve got a big black guy with muscles who apparently got them through doing WORK instead of hanging out at a gym, and who willing works around the camp. Yay! Maybe the producers heard all our griping about ‘lazy black guy’ stereotypes.