What is Jane’s sad/tragic story that Marty said would guarantee the win? What happened to her? Why does she need the money?
It could be because she’s a relatively recent widow - her husband died in April 09.
I don’t know, personality wise, she is my favorite contestant this year.
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blah blah blah merge blah blah blah feast blah blah blah nutty NaOnka stealing food blah blah blah talk to the hand blah blah blah Marty blah blah blah Alina blah blah blah laaaaaaaame immunity challenge blah blah blah suicide by TC attempt blah blah blah Alina, the tribe has spoken.
BOR-ING
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Sad story?
Judging from her pettiness, I believe the old gal is still in High School.
Merged two threads about this episode.
I thought Marty would fall foul of the “I’ll vote you off so I don’t have to listen to your ass anymore” demographic this time ala Wendy and Shannon, but Alina took the prize instead. I didn’t much care for her, she seemed insincere every time she spoke (yeah, I know, but she seemed especially so, even in this crowd).
Purple Kelly spoke more tonight than in every previous episode this season. I think she added 8 more words to her total.
I can’t believe NaOnka (what the hell is up with the intercap in her name??) is walking around in Fabio’s socks declaring that she’s not a thief.
Damn, everyone in the entire game hated Alina. For everyone to hate her that much you gotta think she’s a right bitch. (Laughed my ass off at the “dirt squirrel” comment followed by the pantomime.) She must have been banging a cameraman or producer or something, since she very much did not get the bitch edit.
The immunity challenge this week would have been perfectly fine if they’d also had a hardcore reward challenge, like maybe the one where you wrap yourself around a pole and the other team has to pull you off it and drag you across the starting line. But since it was the only challenge in the episode, I have to say pretty weak.
Luckily MTV’s The Challenge continues to step it up with my dopey physical challenge fix for Wednesday nights. Tonight’s challenges were awesome. First you jumped off a 40 foot cliff onto a little surfboard over a lake, the surfboard zooms 100 feet across the water really fast, then you jump off and swim a couple laps. One guy was hospitalized with a concussion after falling off the surfboard, another went into terror-panic mode and voluntarily quit as he almost drowned. hehheh. Then in the “Gulag” where two people face off for elimination – first two guys and then two girls – they had a “push of war” with a long pole, the opposite of a tug-of-war. It was every bit as brutal as you might imagine, with one guy unable to stand afterward and had to be escorted off by EMTs as everyone mercilessly mocked him for being a pussy. So good.
The one thing I’d like to see Survivor do more of at every opportunity is award a men’s and women’s individual immunity. It’s a bit unfair unless there is the same number of men and women in the merged tribe, but I love it as a concept for individual challenges. MTV’s challenge shows have had 1 guy and 1 girl eliminated every episode for years now, and it really improves the game quite a bit. Instead of the “both tribes vote somebody off” lameness, they could have the first merged challenge be for male and female individual immunity and then have a double TC voting off 1 guy and 1 girl.
I’d love to find out if Purple Kelly is really that boring or if she really pissed off the editors.
This is the most boring season of Survivor YET! And there are no likable contestants. This is also the biggest group of dummies ever been on the show. I have no one to root for.
It’s amazing that there is a core group of 3 in one alliance, with a few hangers on and the rest can’t think long term enough in the game to realize they could take over the game. Nitwits.
Yes it’s boring, and yes they are stupid, and sigh, yes I’m still watching.
I was surprised they didn’t make the two idols based on age instead of gender. At least have a little consistency Survivor! This season is the old v young season. For this challenge the winners would have been the same.
There are so many inter-crap dynamics going on, I have to think that Dan is going to make it to the end as an UTR candidate. I also have to think that if The Bitch makes it to the end I will be watching that ep with my finger on the FF button.
I LOVED Marty’s “If I’m on the jury, I’m voting for Jane. [So unless you want to discount my vote, find someone else to go to the finals with you.]” I’ve been waiting for so long for someone to say that!
Is everyone who gets voted out from now on a member of the jury? If not, then they should have gotten rid of Marty last night, BECAUSE he said that. Get him out BEFORE the jury starts to form and you won’t have to worry about that scenario.
I don’t think they players know when the jury starts, until Jeff announces “Xth player voted out, and first member of the jury…”. And I’ve never seen them skip a player once they start forming the jury - even Bruce Kanegai, who was pulled from the game on a medical, and Janu Tornell, who quit, were still on their respective juries.
I’m just amazed that Alina was too dim to pick up on Fabio’s lifeline, practically leading her to the saving water (but still unable to make her drink) when he said, “We should vote for Nay!”
If she had just laid off Marty, said, “You know, Fabio, you are right. I will work with you to make that happen.” I have no doubt that they would have been able to get enough votes to make the most horrible person I’ve ever seen on this show go away. Too many people seem to get so focused on their own target, it’s such a rare thing when someone actually does say, “As long as it’s not me, I’m with you.”
thinksnow, I agree but I think at 12 people, everyone thinks they are in the major alliance, and the ‘ones on the outs’ are harder to spot. Alina knew she was on the outs, but couldn’t find 6 MORE people ‘on the outs’. We know from watching that, Marty, Holly, Dan, Fabio, maybe P-Kelly. You know, even with our insider info, I still can’t find 6 people who would band together to ‘flip the game’. I think we’ll need to wait 3-4 more shows before the main 6/8 to start back-biting.
I am absolutely shocked that someone would say this after three consecutive seasons with Coach and Russhole - and that it would be an absolute inarguable fact. The mind boggles…
FlightlessBird, that’s the thing: if she had paused for a second and realized that, if Fabio was openly talking about dumping Nay, then there was a good chance he could get others to back him.
Also, she should never have let Nay claim that she (Alina) was “with me when I took the stuff.” She should absolutely have called her on that. Sure, admit that, yes, she did know about it, because Nay walked her back to the stuff, but that it was well after Nay had already stashed everything. Further, Fabio should have pointed out that this was the second time Nay had stolen things. See: socks.
You are wrong and here’s why. Russel is a strategic game player. His burning of socks and such were not personal to him, he was trying to create drama amongst the other contestants. His failure is that eventually his strategery, resulted in him receiving no votes from the jury.
Na’s theft of the food was not strategic towards the game. It was personal to her. She flies off the handle from an emotional standpoint. Her theft of Fabio’s socks was because she felt entitled to socks, because she lost hers. Again no strategy. The closest thing to strategic thinking was being nice to Alina to preserve her jury vote…well she voted her off too early… so that clearly wasn’t strategic. She’s just a “bad” person, not someone acting “bad”.
Yes, and stealing from your companions is a sociopathic trait.
Wow, “most horrible person” ever on Survivor would be quite a long list. Hmmm…
Coach was clearly nuts, but that doesn’t necessarily make him a bad person. I reserve judgement.
Russell Hantz. Controlling, aggressive gameplay certainly, but I don’t think he’d be that bad a guy to know in RL.
Johnny Fairplay. “Douchebag” is the first word that comes to mind. Ugh.
There’s quite a few I can’t recall, e.g.: who was that racist hillbilly guy a few seasons back? Ben-something?
This might make a good thread on it’s own.