Thanks to all for the kind words.
You can download each episode for $2 on CBS’s website if the show conflicts with class schedule. Not sure that is the option for you, but just letting you know.
That she’s damn hot for a 48 year old PTA mom.
That would be hilarious if the water was actually drinkable as-is, and they just tell them they need to boil it to get them to build a freaking fire. People have drunk it straight before and not gotten sick.
Plus, Bruce? If you’re going to filter through three t-shirts, that’s one pouring, three holding t-shirts, and a fifth catching. There were two other people on the island to go start a fire; it wasn’t an either-or thing.
Oh, and I have a brown belt in Shotokan, the same style as Bruce. His kata was not so good. All shoulders and no core muscles. Sigh. For him to get out-wrestled was just embarrassing.
Eh, I’m not that into this season. I can get by on TWoP recaps and y’all’s snark for another month.
Bobby saw Ruth Marie was taking the bag in the direction he wanted it to go so he let her carry it. Then at the last second he diverted her to his bad and won the challenge. It was a smart move, in a tribe that doesn’t have a lot of smart.
Bobby’s been showing he’s got more than just muscles. He’s been quietly watching and thinking. Right now he’s sitting out the alliance game but he’s not immediately threatened. He’s in a good position to make it to the merge as a free agent and then be able to negotiate his position.
Bobby is definitely smart. You are correct that he had that plan all along. That’s a quick wit.
The problem for Bobby is that if he makes the merge, he is the obvious target if his tribe doesn’t have the numbers.
Ya know… I am thinking I have seen some telling looks between Ruth Marie and Dan. Didn’t he pick her in the schoolyard choosing sides? Maybe they have an untelevised alliance? Old folks against the rest? Maybe they were hoping that if they sent Bruce to Exile island then LaMina could replace the person eliminated with Bruce if they should lose Immunity giving them a strong geezer alliance. Maybe?
Wait a minute. Terry jumped in the water several times. I know this because I have him in TWO Survivor pools and thus keep a close eye on him.
Misty, Misty, Misty…she needed to do less flirting and more strategizing.
I cannot believe that they have an entire ocean to their disposal, not to mention fishing equipment, and cannot catch more fish. Hell, that lumberjack found more things to eat just walking around. The spear is gone, but not the sling. Surely there are some sticks they can whittle.
Bobby rocked. Cirie rocked. Hope the Tommy Lee (Shane) alliance crumbles soon. They are a pathetic alliance.
Well, that tactic worked for Jenna Morasca…
Wha? The whole shootin’ match is in Davy Jones’ Locker. A 4’ spear with three pointy bits on one end and an 8" neoprene loop on the other. Not to say they can’t make spears, but the Hawaiian Sling is gone.
Indeed, the sling is attached to the spear.
I’d make a spear, as you say. It should be a simple matter to find some bamboo or a straight stick or something and put three barbed prongs on it. One thing that might work would be to make a bow. I’m sure that they could find a stick that’s sufficiently springy, and weave a string out of something. It would probably not work underwater, but it might work if they kept the bow out of the water. Or: Perhaps an improvised sling could be made using elastic from a bra or underwear? There was an episode of Mythbusters where they actually got some decent thrust from underwear elastic. (Power faded quickly, but it worked.)
I think Ethilrist was talking about the other tribe.
I think the only thing that accomplished was to add a whole lot of sweat and salt to their water. Mmmmm…
Put me in the group that loved the immunity challenge. BUT, it only works with the right people, i.e. not too thuggish. Guys like Boston Rob would have been looking for high fives after crackback blocks and eye-gouging under the pile. May not have looked like it, but I thought Bobby showed a lot of restraint in the heat of the moment by not laying out Ruth Marie and turning her into a crumpled pile of twisted flesh – with convulsions and all.
Very sad to see Misty go. I was really starting to like the way she and Sally played off each other.
What was the point of cracking up the snail shells and adding them to the snail soup?
They weren’t really eating them, were they? Yuck.
I’d eat the snails, but not the shells.
Has anyone mentioned the Big Mouth Snake? That guy was creepy looking!
Yes Shane Has been mentioned 
Zing!
My only guess is that they were trying to get every measley tiny invisible bit of meat off of the shells so they were adding the shells in hopes of boiling it off. Otherwise, I have no idea.
Unless they were trying to get some calcium in, too. Aren’t mollusk shells calcium carbonate?
I’m shocked at Survivor, the way I was shocked with “Fear Factor” when they had people sticking needles into themselves. The no-holds-barred immunity challenge was over the top. What is next, knife fighting for the idle amusement of Mark Burnett?
I like boxing and UFC-type martial arts, but I don’t think the people that signed up on for Survivor envisioned that they would be pressured to fight that way. It was wrong to trick them this way. I don’t think it is fitting for people who are mismatched in ability to have to fight each other. Even if some male/female pair might be somehow comparable, I think mixed-sex fighting is too close to assault to be sporting. Even if they would have had only the men fight, there was no guarantee that the participants would play by any rules. There were no rules that I saw. There was no referee, there was no immediate medical attention. The risk of injury was high. I realize the contestants have signed a waiver where they recognize that they will do physical challenges and may get injured, but falling of a rope ladder is different than getting your eyes gouged fighting for a bag.
I would have refused to do it. I would have tried to start a rebellion in my tribe not to participate. With enough people refusing, I think they could have embarrassed the producers into changing the immunity challenge. If that did not work, I would have escalated. It would have brought the challenge to a halt long enough for re-thinking.
Is no one else upset about this? It put me in mind of the Milgram Experiment