sigh I’m totally with you. We’re pathetic, I think.
But I don’t really care, myself. 
I disagree. Bobby Jon doesn’t have the inter-tribe relationships yet to do this, and James is a piece of shit. The tribe was right to vote out Jeff - I suspect Kim will step up now that her partner isn’t there to protect her sorry ass. Besides, I think we have a clear female alliance in Ulong.
Anyone else catch James’ comment regarding Kim? “She’s a woman, so the only thing she has going for her is her sexy-ality”. Real nice, pig. Go back to being an extra in “Sweet Home Alabama”.
Other than James (and maybe Katie and Caryn), there isn’t a person on the show I don’t like. This episode was the best in a long time in terms of solid relationship building and team-oriented challenges.
Ever heard of water aerobics? It’s a lot harder than it looks if you have something motivating you to keep moving. Also, they probably cut out huge chunks to make it look like people dropped out in the first minute or two.
I cannot believe that Ian went along with the idea of trying to go spearfishing for sharks that were bigger than he was. “Hey, let’s stand here, waist-deep in the water, and throw some chum out for the sharks! And when they come close, we’ll throw sticks at them! What could possibly go wrong?”
Hmm. Good personalities, good challenges, good locale, good tans. Could this be a GOOD installment of Survivor? Once again, I give you the less anticipated, highly derivative RICH RANKINGS! (K or U for Tribe and Last Week’s Rankings in Parentheses).
FORGOT TO FILE A 1040- I guess you couldn’t outwit everyone!
Wanda,Jonathan,Jolanda, Ashlee- If you had missed Survivor: Vanauatu, I’ll bet it wouldn’t have hurt this bad!
Jeff- (U/Beef Jerky)- Seemed well liked. You could have saved it. But ask and ye shall receive…
EATING BEEF JERKY- You’re still playing, but you’re praying for a tribe scramble!
Willard- (K/ Jerky)- The symbolic statement of the IC was “you can’t pull your weight.”
Caryn- (K/Jerky)- When she was tying up with Katie (or was it Jennifer?), she was seemed to be posing for the camera.
Kim- (U/ Jerky)- Some wanted to keep the cripple!
WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT A MERGE?- Middle of the pack players, the lotta ya! (Also a holding spot until people develop a personality!)
Ibrehem- (U/Merge)- Strong, but blah!
Bobby Jon- (U,Merge)- Deserves to move up, but with dwindling numbers, he’ll be the last player NOT to make the jury. A workhorse!
Janu-(K/Big Tom)- So much for that personality we talked about. She didn’t help at all on either challenge. The biggest fall of the week.
James- (U/Mohawk)- Under the radar, but he must have done SOMETHING to draw Jeff’s vote.
HEY! LOOK AT HIS MOHAWK-You might make the merge, but you’re grimacing from the jury row!
Angie- (U/Mohawk)- If she were on the other team, she’d at least be in Big Tom country. If I were head coach of the Women’s US Water Polo team, I’d give her a call.
Katie- (K/Merge)- I can’t tell Katie and Jennifer apart, but she was with the Snake Hunters during their moment of glory. She can latch on and go pretty far.
Jennifer-(K/Merge)- I can’t tell Jennifer and Katie apart, but she was with the Snake Hunters during their moment of glory. She can latch on and go pretty far.
Coby- (K/Big Tom)- He has done well to position himself close to the power alliance. He will likely outlast all of Ulong. But I think he is chafe to be discarded when tough cuts have to be made. He’s a Bernard. Liked……but not well-liked.
LOOKING FOR A BIG TOM TO ENGLISH DICTIONARY- Big Tom has spent more combined days on the show than anyone. But he didn’t quite grab the brass ring.
Gregg- (K/Merge)- I see a three way power play alliance forming among the snake hunters. The week’s biggest climber.
Stephanie- (U/Big Tom)- The only female to stick out the (awesome) IC. She’s strong and tough. I could see her sneaking into an alliance given the right tribe shuffle. She’s smokin’ hot, too.
ARE YOU A RAT OR A SNAKE?- Reserved for a MAXIMUM of two players. You have to be in the driver’s seat for this spot.
Ian- (K/Rat)- Easily my favorite. Strong and likeable. Shows guilt over killing animals, and yet continues to hack off heads. There’s something for everyone.
Tom- (K/Rat)- Koror’s camp epitomizes what Survivor should be about. Tom is the driving force behind that. Even Ulong loves the guy!
Bobby-John reminds me of Bobby Brady. And he looked a little Jesus-like with his diaper outfit.
You know, this is totally true, but it was still funny as hell. It’s like, none of those guys actually thought they were going to catch a shark with those sticks (and they’re smart enough to know that they don’t want to lose their machete when dinner swims away), but chasing them around sure beat the hell out of sitting around doing nothing all day. They remind me a lot of my favorite cousin Jason* (who would be so excellent on this show, by the way - Burnett, do you read this?), whose most frequently heard line is, “Eww! Cool!” Like, “Killer poison snakes! Eww! Let’s cut their heads off! Cool!”
Koror has renewed my faith in this game and this show, because they are a big bunch of dorks who work hard and play hard, and I like that.
** Not that you asked, but when I tried out for Survivor, this particular cousin agreed to be my visiting family member, because nobody else was willing to eat bugs. His question was: “Am I going to eat toxic spiders? Because that would be sweet!” (Yes, my family is crazy.)*
So they win the reward challenge, they’ve been walking around in their underwear having to get their nipples and butt-cracks pixellated to avoid offending the Viewing Public, and they make… nothing… except for one guy making a loincloth out of desperation. I guess nobody wanted to get typecast as a girly girl or girly man and admit knowledge of the arcane art of pushing a needle through cloth.
They talk about making fishing hooks and lines and going fishing and end up hunting sharks with pointed sticks that they can’t throw straight.
They kill a few big, honkin’ snakes (fair enough–two fewer poisonous snakes is going to make them sleep a little better at night) and don’t eat them, instead using them as chum for the aforementioned sharks.
Looks like my spellchek thought I was calling Coby a sore caused by movement…
That should Chaff.
People, People. I’m talkin’ 'bout Chaff!
Until I hear James make this comment about other women, I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt and think that he was just talking about Kim. Let’s face it, she’s been pretty worthless in challenges. The fact that she was cuddling up with Jeff at night was probably the only reason he didn’t want to vote her out last week. We’ll see if she moves on to another guy or starts pulling her weight around camp.
I wonder how many of Legolamb’s 371 posts were actually posted by me. We know this is one of them.
He goes home on Saturday 
so the posting under the wrong name thing will end for a few months.
Shut yo mouth!
And when I say that James looks like an extra in “Sweet Home Alabama”, I mean it.
Shut yo’ mouth!
I think the reason I truly love Ian is because he reminds me so much of the good parts of every ex-boyfriend I’ve ever had. Come on, is there anyone who doesn’t like Ian? Has he pissed anyone off? Has he done anything wrong? I’ll put 20 on Ian for the win right now.
Nor this week, either. He had the swing vote and voted for James.
I’m back in. I bowed out of last season early on because it was so awful. But, I started fresh with this one because of pre-show hype promising everything would be different. It’s really not though. The opening 30 minutes was different, but at this point the tribes are the same, rewards, are the same, etc, etc.
What makes this so watchable though. The people. This is such an improved group over last time. The idiot quotient is down. The high and might quotient is down. They have actually given us honest to goodness people to root for.
Spoiler time. The final 4 projection is floating around on other boards. As a service to all of you weak willed pansies like me, read on. For those of you strong enough to avoid it, I salute you as you pity me.
The final 4 is thought to be Tom, Ian, Katie, and either Greg or Jennifer.
I’ve sprained my ankle a couple of times. The first time it took three weeks for the swelling to go down enough for it to fit in a ski boot. The second time I was hobbling for a couple of weeks. Jeff indicated he’d hurt his ankle before, and I’m pretty sure he knew how long it would take to heal – too long for the game. He’ll be on the CBS Morning Show soon, and I hope he’ll say how long it took.
Heh. Actually, I’ve stood in knee-deep water trying to get some sharks close enough so that I could take some pictures of them in the murky water with a disposable u/w camera. I thought about taking a tin of cat food next time. (They’re really small sharks – about a meter long – and docile. I was more worried about stepping on one of the hundreds of sting rays. I probably would have put the tin in the water and stayed on the kayak with just my hands in the water.)
Angie rocks. I thought about having one team member stay far away, and the other team member throwing the ring; but then I remembered how hard it is to throw large things when you’re not able to touch the sea floor.
I could live with that.
I just got reminded of something… When Probst showed the first vote for Jeff, I thought, “Wow! Somebody voted for Probst! That’s gotta be against the rules!”
But then I figured it out. :smack:
But, I’m talkin’ 'bout Chaff!
Who?
Munch, I’m not sure you’re remembering the quote correctly. Did he actually say that she’s a woman, therefore her sexuality is her main asset, or did you infer that part of it.
I agree that he was only talking about Kim. I didn’t get any sense at all that James was making any kind of generalization about women.
And I’m really sensitive about that sort of thing, too. I hate it when people assume that a woman is automatically weaker or less capable or more manipulative than a man. But based on what we’ve seen of Kim, it certainly seems a fair assessment of her.