Holy crap.
I could have done without all the puking. 'Cause I just finished dinner.
I had to look away. I’m a wuss. gak
I’m glad about the immunity challenge outcome…
The Yak team (what was their name?) won their own, all-important flint. Now both teams have fire.
Methinks Stephenie and Bobbie John aren’t long for the game.
The Yak tribe won the reward, not immunity. Same difference, though; everyone now has fire. I’m a little hazy on the “better” camp; was it an actual ruin, as opposed to just setting up camp in the middle of nowhere like the other tribe did?
I see the Yak tribe splitting along gender lines immediately, and the other tribe looks to boot out my two favorite people (Steph and the NFL QB) first and second. Ah well, whaddya gonna do?
Oh WOW!!!
I didn’t know what the twist was until I saw it, and I couldn’t have been happier!!
I have to say though, when Bobby John’s eyes were rolling back into his head, it seriously scared me
I liked the first episode. I really wish they would give us a one hour season opener though!
No crushes so far
Oh, and speculation by my hubby on the second twist
Anyone else notice that Blake and Stephenie look a lot alike? Possible family members?
That one woman looks way too much like Gerri.
And I think there are actually two Bobbi Jons. One is absolutely adorable and one is some sort of alien with a gigantic forehead and a tiny chin. Which one you see appears to depend on the lighting…
Lady Venom …
Didn’t somebody say in a previous thread that there were three Survivors with identical twins? Your hubby may be onto something …
He looked freaky when his eyes rolled up. That bothered me more than the puking.
Judging from the previews for next week’s show, things don’t get any better health-wise. At what point do they call in real doctors? When your eyes are rolled back in your head and you can’t respond to your own name, it ceases to be a game to me.
Aw yeah, baby, they’re finally earning the name Survivor!
Btw, what’s with all the spoiler boxes? Are there people around here stupid enough to open a thread discussing a show they don’t want spoiled? Me no understand.
Wait … didn’t another show already do that? [Hint: YES.]
Anyway … wow. That was … something. And I can’t help but wonder: Is there possibly something else wrong with Nakúm, besides the heat and the humidity and the dehydration and the killer attack spike trees? Because I can’t come up with a real explanation for why Yaxhá should be faring so much better. They walked the same distance, and they actually looked like they might have carried more bags of food.
Oh, and seriously? I liked Bobby Jon before, but he is looking seriously to’ up these days. (I mean before the seizures, etc. Afterwards, well, duh.)
Well, that nurse (I didn’t catch her name) should be feeling rather secure in her tribal standing.
I’m thinking they had to have eaten or drunk something that maybe wasn’t so good for them. That was a whole lot of getting sick. Sure, I can call them girlymen from the comfort of my couch, but it seems to me like something got edited out. Those guys are in pretty decent condition, and the pudgy doorman guy fared better than any of the eye candy. I have a vision of Bobby Jon and Blake picking up poisonous arachnids and saying something to the effect of “Mmm, them spiders is good eatin’.”
Ellis Dee, I use spoiler boxes because I’ve gotten flamed for not using them on things I thought were non-spoilerish. So now I’m uber-spoiler-conscious. I’ll stop now. At least in Survivor threads. 
I was mostly just curious.
Regarding the girlymen…I assumed it was because they were the pack mules who volunteered to load up and carry all the heavy stuff to prove their manliness. (Remembering Bobby John from that challenge last season where they walked around in the water carrying weights, and as each member dropped out someone else had to carry their weight. Didn’t Bobby John carry like 4 of them for most of the challenge?)
However, I can’t say my assumption was ever visually confirmed; there was no time I thought “damn look at all that crap he’s carrying!” Well, except for at the beginning of the hike when Bobby John was carrying that big ol’ sack of corn (or whatever) awkwardly in his arms. I thought “that’s the worst possible way to carry something for 11 miles.”
And I think that prickly tree might be toxic, based on next week’s previews. But mostly it just looked like dehydration from over-exertion. Dumb guys don’t know how to pace themselves: “Me Strong, Me Carry!”
My thoughts exactly.
And it was just the guys, also; the guys from that one tribe. I’m thinking it was something besides dehydration. And anyway I wasn’t aware that dehydration caused vomiting. You would think the body would want to preserve all the fluids it could in such a case. Of course I have no idea what I’m talking about.
Margaret? I think that’s her name. Anyway, yeah – as they were heading off to TC, we agreed that she’s in no danger of being voted out any time soon. We were also wondering whether there’s some poison on those thorns that Blake (?) took in the shoulder. Because he shouldn’t be puking after three days just from dehydration, especially since they got fire right away and could get lots of water.
I just wish they wouldn’t always show nonpoisonous boa constrictors while Probst is droning a voiceover about “poisonous snakes!” Boas may be cranky, but they are not poisonous. At least show what you’re talking about; it’s not like they don’t have ample stock footage, I’m sure, of just about any creature they could want to show.
Magaret was definitely the nurse’s name. I pick her for at least top four if her team gets their act together.
I was giggling as all the big strong men were felled by dehydration. Earlier in the show one of the women was so glad that Bobby Jon was on her team because men are stronger than women . . . and looked what happened to them.
Great opening!
Obvious first person eliminated. I wonder what will happen when they don’t have an obvious target…
These people better learn to pace themselves, or they are all going to be jaguar bait!
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Did you notice Jim voted for Margaret? It seems like an inexplicable vote; he probably knew he was doomed by why not at least try to take down Bobby John or Blake? The fact that he voted against her might indicate that there’s already an alliance going on that the editors are hiding from us.
Actually, I think Brandon (the farmer who joked he had never hiked 11 miles before) didn’t join in the puking.