I don’t really care to watch the Survivors struggle. If they are working too hard, there isn’t enough time for plotting and backstabbing.
If anybody is interested in playing with me, I created a private fantasy tribe at survivor.com called Straightdope with the password monster. Only 7 more teams are allowed to join.
OK, now I’m in the right place…
If anyone has AOL/AIM and wants to join us, run to chat room: S10chat
Oh, but it’s so much fun watching them try to think! 
Wow, it really has gotten started quick. Water, shelter, and already planning who to vote off.
I knew Wanda was going home.
Wanda was a given–was she trying to be obnoxious?
But why did that woman not pick the strong, young blond dude? He could win challenges; what good is some clapped out old dude with floppy tits?
And nice loyalty from gay Coby to the punk girl “Oh, we’re buds, whoops, I’m picking someone else!”
I have no clue why she didn’t pick the young guy. I was wondering about the same thing.
Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill?
Glad that Wanda went home. I couldn’t have taken that singing.
I’m still reeling that the other team didn’t keep their fire, I don’t know how the boat could have tipped unless every single one of them was leaning the wrong way, in which case they deserve to lose fire.
I still enjoy this show and I’ve seen every one of them but I thought that picking the teams like they were in PE class was a mean thing to do. The feeling of humiliation would start to set in after you were passed over the first couple times and by the end would be unbearable. I felt for the young guy but not for the singer. She should consider herself lucky. If she had made it to one of the tribes they would have had an early vote and chopped her into little pieces with one of the machetes. FOOD!
That water didn’t seem so deep where the one tribe lost the box of flint and steel that they couldn’t have dove down and retrieved it then. When they go back out it might be hard to find.
I’m looking forward to this new one, as I always do.
Does anyone else think Angie was flashing back to Junior High when they were picking sides?
LOL. I certainly did, I think Coby was too.
I thought this was a very promising beginning. I liked the new format for the first couple of days. It seemed to create a nice camraderie.
Jolanda fell prey to that thing that has happened so many times, where the obvious “strong leader” gets axed right away. It’s too bad.
Angie needs some serious therapy. All she can talk about is how different she is, and how other people see her as different. She’s an obvious case of a person who tried desperately to fit in during childhood, failed, and reacted by sticking out her lower lip and saying “well, I’ll just show you how different I can be! So there.” But she still desperately wants to fit in. She said that she memorized the order in which people were chosen! Oy.
Coby is a catty pain in the ass. He started asking people who they were going to vote for seemingly within the first 30 seconds. I predict his downfall is going to be scheming and plotting too much, as per the “What Survivors Should Have Learned” articles on Reality News Online.
I’m really glad they chose Willard rather than the young guy. I find the older players more interesting, almost without exception. And I was really extra glad to see Wanda gone. She’s just like that awful music teacher that Ana Gasteyer played on SNL.
Janu seemed pretty cool and down to earth, which I wouldn’t have expected from a Vegas showgirl. Nice job climbing the tree and tying up the pole.
Tom the NY firefighter has the honor of being my very first reality TV boyfriend. 
The contents of my last post now revealed:
I’m giving myself half-points.
Still early to know everyone but here’s my first impressions:
Wanda - First one voted off and she still seemed to have been around too long. A strong contender for most annoying Survivor player ever.
Jonathan - Was he the guy that jumped off the boat and tried to swim to shore? It’s the only obvious reason we could think of as to why he got singled out.
Ibrahem - Why did he stand around so long waiting to be picked? He’d have been one of the first people I’d have grabbed for my team.
Angie - Alienation isn’t a great strategy in a game that depends on politics. Expect to see her gone soon.
Coby - Such a bitch! Seriously, it was sad to see the way he abandoned his “friend” Angie as soon as the cool kids took him in. Most likely to get himself in over his head with too much plotting.
Jolanda - Establish yourself as the boss. That’s always been a great strategy.
Stephenie - Establish yourself as the boss. That’s always been a great strategy.
I liked the twists this time around, but, as always, by the end of the first show, they’re back to the standard format. WHY?? Make some REAL, permanent changes to shake things up.
Ooh yeah, I called almost all of it. And though it was evil, at least we didn’t have to put up with Wanda and her annoying singing for too long.
Yeah, but she’s really cute! Too bad she won’t be around very long. 
What the hell was Wanda thinking? Could it have been, ‘I’ll be as annoying as I possibly can; then they’ll be sure to keep me around!’? That screeching must have been torture on the row in, let alone had she been allowed to stay.
Jolanda is just the person Ulong needs. I’ve noticed that tribes tend to be very disorganised, and that they need a strong leader. (Of course, they also seem to not know when to get rid of the strong leader; so maybe this was a good move.)
They didn’t show the spill (unless it was really quiick and I missed it), but I’ve heard outriggers can be a bit unstable. If a wave raised the outrigger and everyone reacted naturally to gravity instead of leaning ‘uphill’, I can see how they could have flipped. (Of course, I have no experience in outriggers, so TIFWIW.)
A good, but ultimately flat start.
I wish they’d kept the “all on one beach” beginning. If they had, we’d have seen:
The blue-buffs who’d won fire and lost it would have been razzed by the brown-buffs. The brown-buffs, who were beating themselves up for losing the challenge, would have found out about the blue-buff’s misfortune and preened: “we suck, but they * really* suck! Woot!” Coulda been quite fun.
And later we’d get tension as teams would enjoy reward loot (food, amenities) in front of the other team without sharing, and we’d see cross-plotting across team boundaries, and perhaps extra-team alliances.
Instead, we’re back to 2 teams, 2 beaches. Whipty-doo. :rolleyes: