Aaaanf Inshane lives up to his nickname.
Geez, first inShane shoddily repeats Greg from Survivor 1 with the Blackberry, now he does it with the old “pick a number”. How pathetic.
Augh. Danielle is a doofus, that dreadlock/snake lady needs to shut up, and Shane is a fuckhead. You guys have been watching these people for how long?
I so want Aras to win.
Yeah, I guess I’m going to have to go with Aras, giving that Terry and Cirie are gone. Danielle talked herself right out of a million dollars, assuming she had a shot to begin wth. Which I doubt.
WTF, Shane? Does he look like a Hogwarts dropout or what?
Finally, the person I actually wanted to win a Survivor has won out of the final three. About damn time.
(Yeah, I wanted Cirie to win, but I knew she wouldn’t…).
E.
Yayyy!
Good. Advance spoilers were wrong…they had Danielle winning.
Glad to see the outcome.
So,** Lockseer** what colour shirt were you wearing?
Hopefully someone on Aras’ end got a screenshot so we can see Lockseer yelling “WOOOO!” in front of millions of television viewers 
Great job, Aras!
I’m glad to see that they dispensed with the filler of the final 2 reminescing about their predecessors. I’m also glad that they dispensed with the obligatory shot of Jeff taking a boat/helicopter/blimp to the reunion show. It was hokey.
I was also glad that everyone has kissed and made up. I didn’t like the nastiness that other finales have taken. Though I think this is the most boring Survivor ever, I’m glad that no one seems to be emotionally wounded by the process.
Cirie just won the other Yukon. Everyone who didn’t expect that, please raise your hands.
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Thought so. Not that I begrudge her that…I really do think she was an incredible player. She went from a definite negative, hanging precariously on by her fingernails, to one of the Final Four, and engineered some pretty impressive ousters on the way. And, unlike a previous “most popular Survivor”, she was very gracious whenever things didn’t go her way. I actually would have been very happy to see Cirie win the whole $million, though I figured that her chances weren’t so great, unless Aras got the final immunity.
They did that with the Final Three tonight. They all went to Exile Island to gather the torches of their “fallen comrades” and burn them along with the giant skull.
I yelled to my wife when they showed the Aras Party, “One of the people from my nerdy message boards is there!” and she actually thought that was mildly interesting. I was so proud.
- I am content with an Aras win. Not my fave, but he seemed like a good guy. After Thursday’s TC, I really wanted Cirie to win. She made a strong case why a non-power player should be allowed to win.
*Shane may be crazy, but he was the only fire in a terrible season.
In hindsight, I think this was an excellent season.
Cirie’s Phoenix-esque rise from ashes in the beginning to make the final four was awesome. Her strategizing was clever, timely, surprising, and best of all, amazingly effective. Note that she is currently the only player who didn’t win it all that never got voted off. (Bobby Jon barely made the jury his second go-round.)
Terry was even more impressive than Tom the fireman. And Tom made his season great all by himself.
Danielle…I could literally sit and stare at her cleavage for hours on end. (How awesome was that buff-top? Yummy tan lines…)
The alliance of four guys from Le Mina was solid. It’s fun to see alliances hold together; reminds me of the first season.
Terry and Aras provided fantasticly competitive challenges. Has any season had any challenges more competitive than the final reward challenge? And that wasn’t the only one. Of course, I mostly watch just because of the challenges. I’ll watch anything with obstacle courses…I watch Real World/Road Rules challenges without fail, despite never watching either of the feeder shows. (Pity me.)
As far as tonight was concerned:
The initial fire-building tiebreaker was superb. Great job editing that; I was on the edge of my seat. The reward challenge was funny as hell. I loved how Aras was saved by his shirt. And then he made it to the top first, but Terry got his pieces in faster. Nice drama there.
I couldn’t believe when Aras pulled an Ian at the immunity challenge. Of course it pissed me off that Danielle screwed over Terry, but she painted herself into a lose-lose corner by nodding to Aras when she totally didn’t need to. Aras was about to fall off anyway. So she had to screw somebody over. Didn’t matter, though, as either guy would have easily beaten her. It was funny to me to see Jeff’s sadistic streak come out when he polled the jury at the reunion just to demonstrate how she had no chance no matter what.
I totally agree with Shane that Terry was the only deserving one of the final three, and it was unfortunate that he didn’t make it any further than that.
A couple final thoughts:
Interesting that the final four was perfectly representative of the original four mini-tribes. One old guy, one young guy, one old woman, on young woman. If you had told me that during the first episode, I would never have picked those four to represent the four tribes.
It’s too bad they already did the allstars and the redux with Steph and Bobby John. If they hadn’t, I’d have loved to see an all-stars with Terry and Fireman Tom as opposing “captains”. Both get one schemer each, (Cirie and whomever,) one bulldog each, (Aras and Boston Rob,) one crunchy granola chick each, (Courtney and that crazy singing lady from whichever season,) etc… Basically, I wanna see Tom and Terry go head to head.
And finally, did they stop the disgusting food challenges a while ago, or was it just an oddity that there wasn’t one this season?
Best outwitting ever:
Shane: “Pick a number between 1 and 1,000,000.”
Aras: “5!”
Well done, sir. Well done!
Admittedly I was not a regular watcher this year during the middle chunk of the season. That said, I noticed that in the last few episodes they didn’t have a “fallen comrades” challenge either. They usually have one towards the end. Or did I miss it?
Most. Overrated. Experience. Ever. Not talking about the finale…talking about the finale “viewing party.”
Anyway, it was a brown shirt. You can’t really see me…I was in the back-right, holding a sign that had a palm tree on it. You really can’t see me at all. And I’ve paused on TiVo.
So, I find out today that the party is at 5pm, not 8pm, so we can get the live feed from New York (you could even hear audience reaction over the video). Thing is, we only got the feed from about 8:30pm to 9:30pm EST…there was a huge truck with a massive satellite on it, and they cut our feed. So…we pretty much saw Terry coming back from what must have been the reward challenge, through the opening comments of the final tribal council.
During the commercial break right after Danielle won the immunity challenge the segment producer (or whatever she was) at the house I was at filmed us reacting as if Aras had won the million dollars. We had a couple test runs.
There was a bit of drama afterwards, when the woman who owned the house couldn’t get her TiVo that records DVDs to work again after the satellite technicians unhitched the live feed. One of the technicians was on the phone with the producer (who had left) saying that he felt like he was being held hostage there. Lovely. They made us remove all our Red Bull cans and Crayola markers, because of the brand names. We started getting calls just after 7pm PST saying how Aras had won, and then a phone call from the local CBS affiliate wanting to come and film at 10pm PST. We were all a bit underwhelmed by the "live viewing’ experience and took off for our respective homes to watch the parts we missed.
We had several sign ideas that we rejected, pretty much all Terry-bashing, with varying degrees of explicitness. The main sign you can see (by my buddy with both his arms in casts) does say “Call Terry a Whambulance,” though. I had “Hi SDMB!” on my sign, but after writing in marker, realized I’d written “SMDB” instead. Folded it in half out of embarrassment. Should have clicked “Preview.”
They didn’t do a traditional “fallen comrades” challenge, where they ask questions about your tribemates. The closest was that survey they all filled out, and then were quizzed on.
The “remembrances of tribemates past” thing, where you gather their torces, blah blah blah, has always been done with the final three, every season. Not final two.
I love the fact that Danielle will spend the rest of her life thinking she should have picked Terri. What an idiot!