Entertainment Weekly is running a poll on whether you’d watch a season with Colton as a returnee. I’m surprised the results aren’t more one-sided.
It looks like that may happen. The announcement for the next survivor said 3 tribes, Philippines location, and 3 returning players who left the game for medical reasons.
I don’t remember hearing that. I thought she just said that his behavior wasn’t how he was raised and she was embarrassed by him?
Regarding Kat’s open heart surgery(s), wouldn’t a scar on her chest be evident, at least to the other Survivors, if not the television audience?
Chelsea’s final speech “In Survivor a pair is extremely important…”
Yes it is. Yes it is…
Sort of. She started, though, with a long defense of her strategy in the game, which (I think) diluted the message. She should have opened with the sympathy story. When she finally got around to it, the story sounded perfunctory and rushed. When she told her story to the camera earlier it had been heartfelt and moving. When she told it to the jury it was by rote.
I believe she said, “It wasn’t what he was supposed to say.”
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According to spoilers I have seen at TWoP the returning people are:
Michael Skupin (Outback), Russell Swann (Samoa) and Jonathan Penner (Cooks Islands, Fans vs Favs)
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I really hope that’s true. It really bummed me out when Penner left.
Keep in mind that the “would watch” crowd includes “I wouldn’t boycott, but I would really dislike watching it” crowd. Given that, I think 68% NO is pretty telling.
Skupin and Swann I can see, Penner would be a bit surprising since he got to play twice (and was voted out the first time). Still, he was pretty popular.
I would watch if Colton returned for two reasons :
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To see if he actually stands by his words and grows up a little bit.
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To see him get blindsided at a tribal and voted off in tears as he runs crying, arms flailing, into the jungle, only to get swallowed whole by an Anaconda.
Maybe. Or, failing his agonizing death, have him voted out the second his tribe gets to the island, in one of those “You don’t know each other, but one of you is going home based on first impressions” seasons.
I’d still prefer something more permanent. What’s the deadliest spider in the Philippines?
I have the exact same question - plus - what condition would make it necessary to have one surgery when you are 12 - then another 10 years later…so you can have a baby? I am not a cardiologist - but I would love to know - seems odd to me.
I thought the same thing. No to mention that one of your tribe mates is a surgeon you would think he would have noticed and asked about it. Tarzan wasn’t exactly shy.
I recorded TV Guide Network’s Survivor One World preview before the season but I just watched it this afternoon (it’s more interesting after you know who the characters are). Kat said she had some type of heart valve replacement and the valve is only supposed to last for 12 years and then it has to be re-done.
Of course, if I’d watched it before the season, I would have known all along she had some heart condition. Not that it seemed to matter.
Well well… the redemption of Kat - I didn’t know about/see the scar until after she said it at the final tribal council! But to answer your question, I’m fairly certain she’s had a valve (either the big one aortic or the smaller one mitral) replacement and opted for a biological (animal’s) valve. If you pick a biological valve, it lasts you 10 years, and you go under again to replace the valve when your 10 years is up. If you pick a mechanical (metal) valve, it lasts you pretty much as long as you live (or if you don’t take care of yourself, you can at least go 25 years with it before replacement), but you will be on blood thinners for the rest of your life and therefore cannot have any children since your blood cannot clot properly, i.e. you will miscarry or the baby will likely come out deformed.
I’m also fairly certain at 12 years old, the decision was made for her by her folks, for when she becomes of age at 22, she can then decide for herself whether or not kids are important for her or if she wants to risk it (every time you go under the knife it’s a gamble of life and death - so cardiac surgeons are more likely to recommend the animal’s valve if you’re in your 50s) and undergo this every 10 years just so she can birth healthy babies.
I know these because I have been where Kat is/was, and seeing I was 26 when it happened, I picked a mechanical valve instead. I’m just a wee bit jealous you can barely see her scar if you’re not looking for it! - but I remind myself she’s had a 10 year headstart while I’m only in my 3rd year… Now I have newfound respect for Kat and would gladly take her out for margaritas to toast our battle scars! She still has a lot of growing up to do though!
Thanks for clearing that up. I didn’t understand what Kat was getting at with her FTC comment about having kids–that’s a hell of a decision to have to make at age 22 (or 26, for that matter).
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz . . . wait, whu? It’s over?
That had to have been the boringest Survivor ever. Let’s pit alpha males against passive females with a queen bee and see what happens. What was interesting about the season:
- Queen Bee Colton. How in the world did he control the game? By the end of the season we knew why but at the time it was unbelievable.
- Survivors can’t do math. Troyzan tried to get an alliance together but everyone thought they were going to the final 3. If I were him the week he got voted out, I would have made a big deal of counting the women then pointing out that 6 =/= 3 and that it was guarantied that 3 women would be voted out. That doesn’t even count previous weeks before all of the men got voted off and he told everyone exactly what would happen.
- Christina is an idiot. She didn’t strike me as one until the whole “We’re going to put you name down but you’re not going to be voted off.” Unless he plays the idol.
- Worst endgame ever. I wanted Kim to win simply because she played so well, but you have a choice between taking Alicia & Christina or Chelsea & Sabrina to the final TC. Pick right and you win a million, pick wrong and you have to work for it. At the end I actually wanted Sabrina to win simply because Kim was such an idiot about the final 3.
Well, we saw later that Kim had so ingratiated herself with the rest of the women that NONE of them thought they were on the bottom of the pecking order - they all thought they were Kim’s bestest buddy.
Anyone have any speculations on what would have happened if Christina (or anyone but Kim) won the final immunity? Would she, Chelsea & Sabrina have had the brains/guts to vote out Kim?
Thank you for that thorough and clear explanation. I could not figure how they would put something in your heart that had a 10-year time frame - but this makes sense.