# Survivor Finale **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 16, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686 "2010-05-16T22:42:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/1 "2010-05-16T22:42:25Z")
What’s your prediction? Russell bullies his way to a win? Jerri coattails it through? Colby’s been sandbagging all season and puts on an immunity run to the final? Lets hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/2 "2010-05-16T22:46:33Z")
I rarely play favorites, but Parvati is the best player remaining, and has been the best player in the game all along. She has been a target several times and fought them all off. She is strategic, athletic, and social. One of the best players all-time, maybe the best. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/3 "2010-05-16T22:56:30Z")
I was spoiled (in the comments of Jeff Probst’s own blog!) so I’m not voting. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/4 "2010-05-16T23:00:11Z")
I’m hoping for a Sandra win - Parvati has too much of Russhole’s stench wafting around her. But boy, I sure hope Russell whimpers & pouts again. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/5 "2010-05-16T23:42:59Z")
I just don’t like the way they’re promoting this episode-- Russel against the 4 others. Each of the 5 people left, except maybe Colby, fought tough and hard to get there. Russell isn’t anything special. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/6 "2010-05-16T23:55:18Z")
Sandra ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/7 "2010-05-17T00:47:29Z")
I’m so glad I didn’t watch this entire season - it just would have pissed me off. So many of my favorite players were taken out early that I didn’t realize were on this season. Boston Rob was first on 8 years ago?!? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/8 "2010-05-17T01:31:53Z")
Do people not do running commentary? Are there West Coast folks peeking in here? ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/9 "2010-05-17T01:38:52Z")
I thought this season was filmed \*before \*the live finale of Russell’s previous season? How did Russell already know that he hadn’t won in Samoa? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/10 "2010-05-17T01:39:47Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > I thought this season was filmed \*before \*the live finale of Russell’s previous season? How did Russell already know that he hadn’t won in Samoa? When did he say that? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/11 "2010-05-17T01:40:17Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > I thought this season was filmed \*before \*the live finale of Russell’s previous season? How did Russell already know that he hadn’t won in Samoa? That’s what I was thinking, but I think he just can tell he’s not going to be the winner based on the jury. I assume if he had won, they would have edited it out. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/12 "2010-05-17T01:53:33Z")
Well, looks like Russell has once again made it to the end only to fall drastically short in the social game. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/13 "2010-05-17T01:54:52Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > When did he say that? In one of the confessionals he said that in Samoa he took two people to the final that he thought were weak, and that he thought he could easily beat because they wouldn’t get any votes, but that that strategy didn’t work. How’d he know it didn’t work? ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/14 "2010-05-17T02:08:38Z")
Ha Ha! I love that Russell got 0 votes. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/15 "2010-05-17T02:23:23Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > In one of the confessionals he said that in Samoa he took two people to the final that he thought were weak, and that he thought he could easily beat because they wouldn’t get any votes, but that that strategy didn’t work. How’d he know it didn’t work? Yes, he should NOT have known that he lost the **Survivor: Samoa** season. During last season’s reunion, he was extremely despondent that he win that season. I wonder if they asked him to do two “takes”. One saying that he won, one saying that he didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/16 "2010-05-17T02:27:00Z")
Russell Hantz = ASS He’s being an idiot at the reunion and should just be more laid back about the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/17 "2010-05-17T02:29:30Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Russell Hantz = ASS > > He’s being an idiot at the reunion and should just be more laid back about the whole thing. Someone needs to get him to understand that “getting to the end of the game” =/= “winning Survivor”. He keeps missing that part. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/18 "2010-05-17T02:31:59Z")
If he gets asked back for Season 30, we’ll see if he learned anything. I doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/19 "2010-05-17T02:53:22Z")
Jeri = Botox injections? or a face lift? or a 1/4 in of makeup? Scary looking! ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/20 "2010-05-17T02:57:00Z")
My question is YOU SUCK. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686.md?page=2)