Once again, Stephanie rocks!! Was she the only one who never missed a target in the RC? I really, really, really, REALLY feel sorry for her stuck with that bunck of losers. She has to know that she has almost zero chance of surviving the merger now. The other tribe will just pick her, Ib and B-J off one by one.
Thank God James is gone-- we kept saying “Zed’s dead, baby.”
Poor little Janu. Bye-bye time for you, sweetheart.
Purple Rock of DOOM maybe? Or perhaps the two of them will have an individual immunity challenge to decide who goes home?
Jeez, how is it possible for one tribe to suck so badly? Even Andrew’s team in Pearl Islands managed to turn it around, and they had Wussten holding them back.
Over at Survivor Sucks, they’ve posted a screen cap (scroll down to the picture) that shows Ib’s drink was a different color and not foamy. They probably gave him juice or a virgin Mai Tai.
Man, Stephanie is really screwed. This is the suckiest tribe ever - and
there’s spoilers that say there will not be a merge this season!
I must say Mark Burnett has outdone himself this season. I wanna go to Jellyfish Lake!
I can’t imagine what Stephenie was thinking, forcing a tie like that. All she did was show Bobby Jon that he can’t trust her.
James is useless. He didn’t break any of the tiles in the RC after telling Jeff that he knows how to shoot, he wasted time in the IC fixing his skirt, his “great knot” was untied in about two minutes flat… and yet he still seemed to think it wasn’t his time to go. What a jerk.
I couldn’t understand why there was even a debate about who needed to go. As soon as James stepped to be the leader, I knew they were screwed. I can’t believe the others just followed right behind him. They deserved to lose the challenge, just for their sheer stupidity.
Stephanie rocks in the challenges, but I don’t understand her line of thinking. Why keep James over Ibrehim? The guy is quiet, seems to pull his weight, and only screwed up on that one challenge. Plus, he’s not that hard on the eyes. James is loud, cocky, ugly, and perceives himself to be much better than he really is. And he messed up on multiple challenges. He needed to go a long time ago.
If she is as smart as she seems to be, she will realize that her only possible ally left is Ibrehem, and they will vote together to get rid of Bobby Jon next time. Of course, this assumes that Ib is smart enough to realize that Steph just gave him a “desperation out.” I like Bobby Jon, I really do, but I suspect that he is the type to hold a grudge, and if he stews in his own juices until the next TC, even Ib will have to vote against him, I think.
Did James REALLY say something like, “Git rid of that Allah Loving guy”?
Maybe, just maybe, she was thinking waaaaaaay too far ahead (thinking has never been Ulong’s strong point). If it came down to the final two and you were Stephanie, who would you rather be up against (not that way), James or Ibrehim?
At any rate, she’s screwed.
I noticed that too - he made some comment along the lines of “Ahh-lahh saw him through the last TC, but MY God will see me through this one”, or something equally asinine. I was so worried the 'Bama boys were going to rally and vote out Steph after Jeff pointed out the fact that the guys were all from the same area. Thank MY God that James is gone - I was going to have to quit watching if he lingered for another week.
Hehe…I was tempted to do a bad Edward-G-Robinson-in-the-Ten-Commandments impression…
“Where’s yer Messiah neowww?!”
Knots fascinate me. I’d really like to learn how to tie them, but I never seem to have the time to practice. I have a book on knots that contains instructions for an ‘untieable’ one. The story goes that a man was captured, and that the king was going to kill him. The man asked the king for a deal. He would tie a knot, and if the king was unable to untie it the man would be set free. The man went to his cell and tied the knot. The next day he presented it to the king, who was unable to untie it and the man was freed. IIRC (I can’t find the book at the moment) it involved a splice of some sort. I wondered if James had learned how to tie this ‘trick’ knot in the Navy. I guess he didn’t.
My second guess was that he’d tie a complicated knot, and then splice the ends of the rope together to camouflage the solution. That’s what I would have done.
I think it w as something like, ‘Allah may have let you stay, but my God is going to kick you out.’ Something like that. I thought, ‘It’s the same god, you dipshit!’
Somehow I knew he’d miss. Yeah, the Good Ol’ Boy has been around guns all his life! No way he can miss! Except that I figured it would be just like James to miss every one. His friends are going to have fun with him, since he was ‘whupped’ by a ‘homaseckshial’ and has now displayed his dismal shooting skills. Caryn seemed to do pretty well. She didn’t hit every one she shot at, but it was amusing to see an ACLU lawyer shooting a (fake) gun.
Last week Jeff said, ‘Oh, there’s no merge!’ I too, wonder how they’re going to handle the obliteration of Oolong. I feel bad for Stephanie and Angie. Neither of them deserved to be put with such a pack of losers.
I’m with Shayna, how can they not have a merge after such a poor display by this tribe? There’s no way that one, two or even three tribe member are going to have the physical or mental stamina to continue to compete against a tribe who’s lost just one member (and not even because they lost a challenge!) What would happen if there were only one member of Ulang? They’d have to continually fight every few days for the right to stay on the island and probably against a different member of the opposing tribe each time - while everyone else sat around doing nothing.
James is a complete and total jackoff. I’ve been praying for his demise since the first week.
Here’s the only thing I have come up with that makes any logical sense. We saw Steph saying she hated lying but did it to save herself from the vote. Suppose the dislike of lying became too great for her. So, she does the following:
Fesses up to Bobby Jon that she initially told James she’d vote for Bobby.
Tells Bobby that was a dumb promise and she really would rather vote for James.
To uphold her word, tells Bobby she’ll initially vote to keep James, upholding her word to James.
On the re-vote due to the tie, she’ll evict James, upholding her word and true wishes to Bobby.
But, this really only is going to make sense if they spend time next episode showing her explaining why the vote went down as it did. Otherwise, she’ll just like really idiotic. And, she sort of seems set up as the tragic hero of this season so I can’t imagine they would choose to edit her as an idiot.
Next week it will be three Ulong against eight Koror, right? So that means that Kuror will have to sit out five people. Since the next IC will require that one person who sat out the RC to sit out the IC, and since that would be a ‘violation of the rules’, how can this be resolved? Maybe they could do as they did in the ‘bottle dive’ challenge, except this time three members will be voted off. If Ulong wins, then it will be three against five. If Kuror wins, then both Ulong will be gone and it will be a de facto ‘merge’ in which there are eight individual players.
What week are we in, anyway? How many weeks left? Getting rid of three players will screw up the schedule. How about they vote two players off? That only works if Ulong wins. (Three against six.) If Kuror wins, then it will be one against six. Again, people will have to sit out consecutive challenges.
So either there will need to be a rule change that allows consecutive sit-outs, or we might have to have episodes where no one is voted out. (‘Padding’ the series, as it were, with camp scenes.) Or there will have to be a merge.
I and others have said (in threads about past episodes) that they should have a show where there isn’t a merge, and that one tribe should be allowed to die. I still think that would be a nice twist; but I, for one, had never really thought about the way they’d do it within the rules.
I think the way it will work is, after the next episode in which an Ulong is voted off, if they lose IC again, the two remaining will have an individual IC of some sort, with the loser going home.
Two tie votes in a row, and both times Steph switches her vote. I don’t understand what’s going through her head.
Ulong missed the golden opportunity to dump James last week, and almost blew it again this week. They must have seen something in him that eludes everyone else…or they’re voting as if the merge has already happened…but it doesn’t matter. The 3 remaining Ulongs will all be gone in 3 weeks.
Gotta be the weakest reward ever. Pringles & mai-tais? How about a real meal, Burnett?
My thoughts:
On knot-tying: If I was playing, I would have used my shirt to get some sea water to soak the ropes once the knots were tied, so they’d swell up and be impossible to undo. Do this just before time runs out so the other team can’t follow suit.
On merging possibilities: Burnett loves making up new rules. What if it gets down to two Ulongs, and the remaining Ulongs come back to form a jury to vote it down to one? Eeeevil.
Don’t be too sure the surviving Ulong(s?) will be picked off one by one after a merge, or after they’re down to even 1 (following the hypothetical rock-paper-scissors throwdown between the last 2). The Korors undoubtedly have their own suballiances, and are doing their own personal calculations about what it would take to win - if getting the Last of the Mohicans to join them would help the minority alliance become the majority, that’s what will happen. Haven’t we seen this before enough times, friends?
I practically puked at the sight of Pringles and mai-tais. Not only that, but they made the Pringles taste even worse by adding ink to them.
Very weak, indeed! I drink alcohol sometimes, but I’m not ‘a drinker’. That is, even though I have alcohol around the house, I only drink it if friends come over, and then not very much. Mai tais would not be much of a reward for me. And Pringles? :rolleyes: I agree that they needed some real food as a reward. The Kurors got beef stew! One reward I remember was [Sponsor’s Brand] coffee and doughnuts. I thought that one was a bit weak, but Pringles and mai tais? That’s just sad.
(Incidentally, I used to work with a woman named My Thai. Good god, was she beautiful!)
What kind of rope are they using? How about soaking the rope before tying the knot? Depending on the kind of rope, it could shrink when it dries and become impossibly tight.