So it is really about 1st place.
Har:
The crowd yells “JT”
A voice chimes in “Stephen”
Stephen mumbles “my mom”
As i suspected, the reunion show ignored 14 people. Of course, Coach gotmost of the air time and the winner. Of the also rans, Sierra came in a distant second to Coach for airtime. Did they even talk to the person that came in third?
That had to be the most interesting final tribal I’ve seen in a long time.
J.T. and Stephen debated each other more than they argued with the Jury. The jury was relatively nice. They still seem like genuine friends though.
Jeff said that this was the second time in Survivor history that the final vote was unanimous.
What was the first?
Earl in Fiji.
Incidentally, Richard Hatch was released from prison on Thursday. He’ll be released from the halfway house in October.
Unless it’s changed recently, third place is $85000.
Briefly, because I remember looking at her hair. It was very brief, though, because i have zero recollection of what it was about.
And Coach – Coach, Coach, Coach. He brought his own fucking lie detector test and a girlfriend. :rolleyes:
Glad to see that the friendship between JT and Stephen seems to be real and enduring – would love to know what kind of business they might get into together.
This is the second season in a row when the person I’ve been rooting for as one – guess I’d better not get too used to that, eh?
So, next All-Stars – Coach will be back, of course – how about JT and/or Stephen?
Could the next all-stars be Favs vs Family? That way Probst could have Eddie George as a contestant.
JT would have to be a lock to come back. I don’t think Stephen is much of a favorite, he lost 7-0! I thought he would get at least couple votes from the girls.
My husband and I usually pick one person each season to go all the way…this year my pick was J.T.
I thought he played an excellent game, and I’m so glad he won.
Only other season my pick was right was Ethan! 
It surprised me that he had a girlfriend! I thought his weirdness would preclude that, so he decided to me a mystic monk! 
The lie detector bit was all hype. Lie detectors can be ‘beaten’. If Bennie the C had taken Probst’s test, I think he would have passed. Choosing his own analyst just made it easier. It doesn’t prove a thing. And poking around the 'net yesterday, I read that a few of his claims are demonstrably false. For example, he’s not the world’s greatest trumpet player:
And he does not hold a kayak record:
I still see some comments under the “Coach, what a tool!” theme.
But unless I was seriously whooshed during the reunion show, didn’t anyone else get the impression that the “Coach” character we saw in the game was a persona he had adopted?
Fine – but who but a tool would adopt such a persona?
I thought about that as well, but I don’t think he adopted any persona, he really is that person.
You will recall that he lost his job over going to Survivor because he lied about his whereabouts. I think he really does believe all the things he said and truly thinks that he is all that and more.
Delusions of grandeur also appears to run in his family. Check out his brother’s website:
www.petewadeshow.com
On the brother’s website, they claim that parts of the movie Cast Away with Tom Hanks was based on Coach’s kayaking trip:
Take from it what you like…
I take “raging narcissism” from that!
I watched the first dozen or so Survivor seasons and haven’t watched the past two or three. I’m just not enamored with the show anymore.
But there was nothing else on last night, so I watched the big finale. I’d only seen maybe the first two episodes of this season and then I got distracted by House or something.
Anyway, it really struck me that these final two were the most emo p•••sies I’ve ever seen on Survivor. Was it just me, or was that finale damn near homoerotic because those two love each other so much? And that “it would have been Erinn” thing really hurt the other dude’s feelings. I wanted to slap the shit out of both guys. I seriously thought JT was going to kiss Stephen when they announced the winner. I mean, when they announced the whiner. Sheesh.
Heh…yeah, when Taj got them going at each other in Final Tribal, I turned to supervenusfreak and said, “It sounds like a lovers’ quarrel!”
I picked up many of the same vibes but I just want to point out that during the reunion Jeff asked JT if he was really crushed by that confession and JT admitted it was all an act. He pretended to be hurt to hopefully get more votes.
It seemed to me that JT finally figured out that there was no way he was losing to either one of those and that picked Stephen was actually more likely to lead to a win. The lack of convincing arguments Stephen could make for picking him over JT was only highlighted by Stephen’s ridiculous “I’ve grown more” opening statement.
If you’re gonna win either way why not take your friend and get him a few grand more?
Props to me for predicting a unanimous vote, once the final 3 got set.
Award for Cleaning Up the Best goes to Erinn. A few pounds, hairdone, ditch the glasses, and da-yum!
Something that I’ve noticed all season, and this is my last shot to post it: the producers are doing a nice job of keeping the game fresh, with new challenges, new twists on the rules, etc. But the production, and Probst’s commentary, is as rigidly scripted as a Latin Mass. Every Tribal Council will feature a shot of a snake. Every episode, Probst will say “wanna see what you’re playing for?” and “I got nuttin’ for you.” and every Final TC he will say “the power now shifts…to the Jury.” Every Finale, he says “this is the only time you *want *to see your name.”