You know, I wasn’t really buying into the Steph hating until that ceremony. These people are here doing this cool ceremony for them, and she interrupts the ceremony to ask if they can eat the chicken that was just sacrificed to the gods.
There aren’t enough :rolleyes: in the world. No, Steph. You can’t eat the chicken. Get your own.
Jersey Steph lost! I’m happy because I’m simple and petty.
Hopefully her whiney self will not show up on the next Survivor All-Stars. I’d rather them give her the million dollars like they did w/ my 2nd most hated player Rupert than have to endure that chick for a third time.
I have no doubt that Jeff knows everything interesting that goes on in camp long before TC.
He has said he reviews footage every day when he is not at a challenge or TC.
Plus, there are probably two or three producers in the camp at all times that prepare him some talking points.
And there is a very good chance that one of those producers even suggested that if he were there, he’d eat that chicken.
My gut tells me that the Survivors are pushed into certain storylines, but I think it is more not-so-subtle suggestions rather than out right fabrication.
And I dry them on the guest towels, too!
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Funny you should mention that, middleman ; while watching that TC and hearing Jeff say that, I thought, “Wow, what a great category for the next season’s rankings!” Maybe around the “Big Tom” category.
I will definitely be looking forward to the next season, and especially your rankings and more random insanity from my dear rockle . The postings from you guys (and the rest) made this mediocre season that much more enjoyable. Kudos to you all and see you in January!
Is the record still held by Big Tom? Or did Steph overtake him?
Awww, thanks! I’m blushing here, really. If it helps to tide you over, I’m also posting in the final Amazing Race: Family Edition thread of the season. With the Final Three Teams we have left over there (and judging from the amount on Mountain Dew I’ve had in the last half-hour), there will be plenty of insanity to be observed, I think.
Meet you back here for American Idol! 
Yup. January 17th. Be there or be square!
I don’t think so, but I’m not sure. I think Steph was voted off on Day 33 of the Palau series and obviously she lasted the full 39 days of the Guatemala series - a total of 72 days. Big Tom had a combined total of 73 days. I would also have expected some mention to have been made if Steph had broken his record.
But I could be wrong about what day Stephenie got voted off on the first time (it was Episode 11). If anyone knows for sure, let us know.
Is it just me, or did the rules at the final challenge say that they all had to let one hand go, but then they all lost their balance, grabbed the rope with BOTH hands, and use both hands to settle themselves against the post?
I guess they can’t disqualify all three of them, though.
They all did let one hand go (of the rope). I don’t see how that extrapolates to “don’t use that hand again”.
I interpreted it as “now you have to balance yourself with one hand”, but I guess not.
They had to let go of one rope, but Jeff didn’t specifically say that they had to balance with only one hand. Just one rope.
That was my take, ** rockle.** That you lost the use of one of the two ropes.
As for what happened next, I cannot imagine the producers being anything but overjoyed!
Ha ha! Me too. It took me more than a few seconds to figure out which was which.
I actually think Danni got prettier (in the face) as the season wore on. I’m thinking her self confidence improved. Except for the makeup, I thought she looked good at the reunion show, too. Better than Stephanie, anyway. If it is a self-confidence thing, I think winning Survivor should be good for her. 
Stephanie looked beautiful during both shows, but horrible at both reunion shows. She is a real natural beauty with a fabulous figure. When she puts on all the crap that most women use to compensate for their less than perfect selves, she just looks like anyone else. Only when that stuff is stripped away, you can see how pretty she is.
Lydia wins the prize for "person who looks pretty much the same no matter what. I think she’s cute as a button, and I liked how she got really buff in the upper body by the end of the series. I also liked her “family moment.”
And I totally agree with Little Nemo–Stephanie’s final two performance sucked the sacrificial chicken. You’d think that she would know by now that the jury as a whole is looking for “honesty” more than “niceness.” The “I’d throw Rafe off the jury because I know he won’t vote for me” will obviously play better than the “I love you all so much I just can’t decide” act pulled by Stephanie.
Which brings up a question for all of you who have watched a lot more Survivior than me: I’m thinking that at the final two, a person will not necessarily lose votes for back-stabbing if they can give a solid reason for the back-stabbing. Like being able to say “Yes, I stabbed you in the back, and I’m sorry I had to do it, but I had to do it because of XYZ” isn’t as bad as “betraying” someone for no apparent reason, as least as far as getting the votes at the end. Is this so?
Oh, and one final thing–What the hell was Rafe yakking about in his vote-out speech? “This game is about integrity” or some such? :rolleyes: After eleven seasons, you’d think he’d know that the game is not about integrity. It’s about getting the million bucks. Anybody who signs up for Survivor and expects to get to the end without doing any lying, backstabbing, or betraying is a fool.
That’s the way it played out in the very first season. The final two were the infamous Richard Hatch and Jenna Lewis. Rich had stabbed just about every single person on the jury in the back, openly and non-apologetically. Jenna skated her way right to the Final Two by flying under the radar. In the end, as Sue Hawk put it so eloquently in probably the best final TC jury speech ever, it came down to “the snake and the rat.” Prickly Sue suggested that they let nature take its course and allow the snake to eat the rat.
Rich won, of course.
Yes, saying that you backstabbed somebody because that’s the way the game works wins more respect from most jurors.
Rafe fell for the underdog’s trap, the Rupert lesson: Everybody enters the game with a strategy. Some of them work better than others. We’ve seen the Honest Guy win. We’ve seen the Toughest Player Ever win (interestingly enough, they were the same guy…). We’ve seen the “I’ll vote for anybody, so long as it isn’t me” lady win. We’ve seen the Behind-the-Scenes manipulator win a lot. We’ve seen the “I’ll hitch my chances to the strongest players I can find and see how that works” work pretty darn good, if not actually win.
The underdog’s trap is that everybody thinks their strategy should work, just because it can, and they completely miss the point that if they’re on the jury, their strategy did not work. They call it the Loser Lodge for a reason.
I hate when people do what I’m about to do, but it was Rich and Kelly Wigglesworth.
That’s an interesting, and likely, prediction. It is interesting when reality winners have skill sets that make them strong candidates for (non-acting) jobs.