That was the very first episode of his very first appearance on the show. Ever since then, he’s been a freakin’ crybaby and as good a strategist as my cat is at playing chess.
None of the Heroes are thinking strategically, and they have zero teamwork. The Villains have already figured out the latter, and I’m quite sure that Rob and Parvati have gotten the chess game figured out all the way to end-game.
WTF was JT thinking? I could align with the gimp, the whiner and batshiat crazy guy, who seem to be totally committed to each other or win… hmmm…
Or - at least I thought this until I saw Candace’s vote; not sure where her and JT stand, but it seems to me that they are now in a loose alliance of 2 with a tight one of 3. Once Colby’s gone …
IMO, it would have been smarter to create a stronger 4 and start getting rid of those 3.
Jeff’s blog is up. First line: “Let’s call this one THE DUMBEST DECISION YET.”
Yet suggests there are more to come, and with the Brain Trust that the Heroes have left, I wouldn’t be too surprised.
Looking forward to the next Challenge that will be some sort of complicated ropes course or something. Even better, if they need to put James in a head-to-head match with someone, the villains should put Sandra or Parvati against him–since if he got schooled by a “girl”, that would be hilarious.
Also, it’s been ages since I’ve watched the show–was it my imagination, or did the opening credits exclude the castaways that have been voted out? I was only half paying attention…
It can’t be. That honor is held by “Gee, of course I’ll give up the HII to prove I’m trustworthy” Eric. Second place is held by “I have two HII and I’m still going home” James. But it settles in nicely for the bronze.
I think it has been fairly well established now that Heroes are much worse at puzzles than Villains, and will lose a puzzle challenge even when they start to solve the puzzle well in advance.
So, the question is, why do the producers keep giving them these run-and-then-solve-puzzle challenges? Most of the immunity challenges have been of this format.
First, it gets a bit boring for the viewer since all the challenges are similar. Second, it’s decimating one of the tribes.
Are the challenges decided in advance, and they stick with them no matter how the tribes end up doing?
They’ve got to be planned in advance for the props alone - you don’t whip up giant cube puzzles from scratch with 2 days notice.
That is so far up the stupidity scale, I don’t think it will ever get surpassed. It’s not only the stupidest move in Survivor history, it might be the stupidest move in reality TV history.
They could have, say, a batch of 25 to choose from, and they pick 16 out of those to use in challenges. But most likely you’re right.
I’d like to nominate Ian’s moment of rank stupidity in the F3 challenge back in Palau as the dumbest single thing that anybody ever did in the history of this game ever, but I am biased.
Schadenfreude. I mean, in principle, I really like the Heroes, and even I have to admit, the stupid is … funny. But I am not a nice person, so.
It’s getting hard to watch the Heroes each week. I just hope this doesn’t turn into an all Villains show once the merge happens.
I wonder if Russel is going to make the Villains throw an IC so he can try to get Rob voted off.
James hyperextended his knee and likely has a sprained medial collateral ligament, as the medic suggested. There is a U.S. World Cup soccer player who suffered the same injury (much worse, according to what I saw) in February, and he is back playing at the highest level of the game this week. James just has to run around on the beach.
If it weren’t for the huge brace he’s wearing, James would be walking with a slight limp, which will be gone in another couple of days. He’ll be at 90% by the next elimination challenge.
My daughter hurt her knee playing soccer last year, but played on her top rated high school team for two weeks before deciding to see an orthopedist because the slight pain wasn’t going away. An MRI showed a complete tear of her ACL.
James is fine, and is an all-around better teammate to have than Tom, who Rob was schooling at every turn.
Friend Lamar Mundane,
Do you think James will do any better than Tom did against Rob?
He can’t do any worse, and he’s better physically. He did a good job directing his team to a big lead in the last challenge.
And Tom did the same when he was the pilot in the Giant Ball directing his team.
And James is still much better physically.
I took your word for it, but I just checked the DVR. Rob smoked Tom by about 30 yards in the ball, then beat him in the puzzle as well.
Do you have some source for what you’re claiming his problem is, and how long it will take him to recover, or are you just going by what you saw on the show? Regardless, I don’t think there’s any way for the players to know how bad he really is, and whether he’ll get better, or if he’ll have to drop out tomorrow. For all we know the next challenge is the one where both teams are walking in knee deep water around a large circle, roped together and carrying weights, and the first team to catch up with the other team wins. Any challenge like that, and James will have to quit the challenge instantly.
I’m going from personal experience, plus what I saw and heard on the show. I think you’re wrong about the challenge. I think James will stomp it.