It’s funny because it’s true. This is me, in my living room last night: "Nooooooooo! You foooooooooooooool! Why are you trying to give me a stroke?" I loved Rafe up until the moment he said “I relase you.” Then I knew it would never work out between us, because I have to be the craziest person in any relationship I’m in. It’s a shame, really. Rafe is actually prettier than Ian, but not nearly as hot, of course. Nicer teeth, though.
I yelled at the TV a lot yesterday (and that doesn’t even include the Eagles game … le sigh). Why, oh why, didn’t they keep Lydia? Jesus Christ, why? Who on EARTH would want to let Steph get that close to the money? As it is we’ll never be able to get rid of her.
No offense meant here, but what is it with women and their eyebrows?? The one on The Apprentice has hers all funked up looking like some alien from the planet Zantar too. Just leave them alone, they look fine. Maybe Steph is bucking for a contract with some makeup company or something.
Rafe, did he pull an Ian? ‘Oh forget our alliance, $90,000 is just as good as a chance at $1,000,000.’ Arrghh! I would have still taken Steph if I was Danni. At least he still has his integrity–(I only heard that twice last night).
Danni lucked out on that last challenge. If it was the standing on the wooden pole one, I think Steph would have beaten her, but those long legs of Danni’s gave her a good more comfortable spot leaning up against the pole.
Danni on Gary…Brett Favre?? Yea, he’s going to spend his off-season starving on an island and eating bugs and corn pone.
I thought Judd questioning Danni at the end was kinda dumb (Judd, dumb?? Never). Re: skating thru. What was she supposed to do, be all dumb and big-mouthed and drunk like you? She won, and you’re voting for her, take that doorman.!
Don’t ask me. I mean, I get my eyebrows done, but only a little bit, so it doesn’t look like I have caterpillars on my face. NOTHING like these women. But, then again, my idea of “hussied-up” makeup is mascara and Chap Stik, so.
I’m with you on that. I think this show brings out the worst in people. Like there isn’t already a gauntlet of backstabbing we all have to make our way through every day.
I don’t remember too many of the specifics, but as they jury was polling the final 2, I counted four solid votes for Danni, and three fence-sitters. No solid votes for Steph at all. It didn’t help at all that half of her answers about strategy amounted to “sorry, no clue; I just went in and played hard and allied with all the strong cool kids, and, hey, look, shiny hair!”
Okay, here’s a real example: “I didn’t know which way to go with my strategy until we got to the F3 challenge; I didn’t know whether it was going to be a strength challenge or a mental one…” HELLO! IT’S ALWAYS A STRENGTH CHALLENGE!
In one of the previous threads from this season, I pointed out some of the strategic brilliances that fail people in the end-game: pissing off the jury really doesn’t help, 4 is greater than 3, SHUT UP, and I just reminded myself of another one: Watch the freaking show. It’s out on DVD. There is no excuse for getting to a particular type of challenge that is always the same, and not knowing how it’s going to work. Oh, and practice starting fires.
I thought he was saying that people still in the game have to go to Exile Island and “survive” by themselves for days at a time. I think the losers still go to the Loser Lodge.
p.s.: Hot damn, but that’s a bunch of good-lookin’ people.
re: probst’s decision to stick around: “I’m a television producer. I’m producing one of the most popular reality shows ever. I think I’ll retire now. [pause] Wait, that’s dumb. Never mind.”
Yay for Margaret and Brian! Good form!
I felt kind of sorry for Cindy that she lost her job until I thought, “Gee, I wonder how many job offers she’s gotten from modeling agencies…”
Amy was funny. “Hey! You’re that lady from Survivor!” “Stay focussed, man, I’m arresting you…”
And it looks like Danni watched the show and thought to herself, “Okay, being that skinny is not a good look for me. Pass the mashed potatoes.”
Yea, her answers were total BS, ie). “I just wanted to go up against the strongest player” that’s why she voted off Lydia. What a load of crap.
If there’s a million at stake, I want to go up against the slowest, dumbest, weakest player around. A million bucks buys a lot of shiny hair.
Hmm. The person I wanted to win the million won for the third season in a row. That is pretty satisfying.
I laughed last night when Rafe gave up the promise for no reason. The best I can come up with was he was worried she was going to go back on her word anyway and this way he could make a STRONGER case to stay.
That didn’t happen. And in the end, he got all annoying and preachy. It was time for him to sit down.
But what really made me laugh was that I was reminded of this prediction I made in the Rich Ratings after week 8’s episode:
Danni worked hard to win it and Rafe pulled an Ian.
As for last night’s episode, pretty decent finale. I was shocked when they booted Lydia. I think that was Rafe’s indecision on who to abandon (Danni or Steph) coming out one TC too soon.
I don’t think he would have won either way because Steph or Danni would have beat him in the challenge and would have taken Lydia.
Either way, that was the best balance challenge I have ever seen. I loved the moment where EVERY one of the contestants was hanging onto the rope for dear life.
And then the agony of Steph trying to hang on while flamingo Danni (that hat is either pink or the KC red is really fading!) looks like she should be doing her nails.
That was the one time I actually felt any emotion for Steph. She really did try hard and held out for a long time.
The final tribal council was kind of mediocre. Bobby Jon realizes his life’s dream of getting to sit on a jury and comes up with THAT question? Basically it was a “why do you want to win?” Thanks for playing, Bobby Jon!
Gary falls into the whole “honesty” mess. Hypocritical given that his game plan was based on deception.
Jamie was incoherent.
Lydia had some interesting emotion but how mad can you be when someone carried your sorry butt to the F4.
Rafe whined and really didn’t get much.
Judd was ok, but it wasn’t Sue Hawk or anything.
Only dull Cindy was able to come up with an interesting question. Who would you bump from the jury? Steph loses points by saying BJ. C’mon, Steph. That was his life’s dream and you want to take it away from him!?
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Gary falls into the whole “honesty” mess. Hypocritical given that his game plan was based on deception.
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Actually, I disagree with that. The deception didn’t affect his game play, so I don’t think it was part of his game plan. Aside from having training and skill from 15 years ago, having been a quarterback didn’t make that much of a difference. Now, if they had had the “throw the football-shaped coconut so it breaks your tiles” challenge, that would have been awesome…
Particularly since she deliberately talked her alliance into carrying him to the jury.
I agree Gary was ethical in his game play. However, when you are dishonest when it serves you, you should at least be somewhat understanding when someone else is dishonest to strengthen their game.
I was glad, however, that no one asked the “charity” question about how the Surivivors would spend their million. That question blows.
Are there any questions that you’d like to see asked that haven’t been asked or haen’t been asked very often?
Ditto. As far as I can remember, Gary only told that one lie (“Who, me? In the NFL?”), which was not really part of the game. Of course, I didn’t watch past Rafe’s Ian-pulling, so I don’t know what Gary’s actual question was. I just wanted to defend his honor, or something like that, because I liked him an awful lot. Which is ironic, because he played for the Cowboys, and I am an Eagles fan, and my attachment to him is a violation of the laws of nature or summat.
middleman: If I’m ever on a Survivor jury, I figure I’m already going to have a pretty good idea for whom I’m going to vote, so I’m going to ask the following question, which I swear I am not making up.
My answer would be cars. Specifically, “whatever it takes to get myself into the backseat of Ian’s car.”
I hadn’t thought of that. I wonder how that affects Jeff’s relationship with Julie, incidentally. I mean, obviously he’s getting a share of the swag, right?
She may have modeling offers, but I wonder if she’d take them? I know and have known people who worked with animals. It seems to be a bit of a calling. And remember that she’s the one who wishes she was back in the jungle.
Maybe she’ll get a job at another zoo? I think some zoos would want a person who is a minor celebrity as well as being dedicated to the cause. Or maybe she can land an animal show on one of the cable channels.
I’m not shedding any tears for Cindy yet (although she was my favorite). IIRC, zooworkers get paid next to nothing. I suspect that she’ll have lots of offers from other zoos and Animal Planet.
IIRC, Ian got $85k for coming in 3rd, and I think 4th place is $75k. (Can’t provide a cite, but I those figures on the web somewhere.) Probably chump change for Probst, but not too shabby just the same. I think Julie came in like 5th or 6th though, which is probably somewhere in the $40k-$50k range, I’m guessing.
At the begining, she looked like one of those marathon runners who gets rid of all their excess body weight. Plus it’s hard to be that skinny and that muscular at the same time, so I’m sure the skinny was intentional. There’s no telling how long she had been preparing her body for the show.