Oh, and I’ve been wracking my brain for the last 12 hours or so trying to come up with a suitably snarky play on Robb, but about all I have is Blobb or Slobb and, as much of an asshole as he is, he’s no blob.
So the used-car salesman is a former porn star? Must be gay porn…no male straight porn performer is that gorgeous. He does look vaguely familiar, to tell the truth. Maybe I need to go back and look through my video-review magazines…
But **elf6c **, “LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS!!!”
“SHOW ME YOUR HANDS!!!”
Tommy Lee definitely needs to GOOOOOO.
I agree. He was certainly more valuable than some of the other team members.
Voting John off was as much of a mistake as voting Hunter off last season.
I have a feeling they edited a LOT out of yesterday’s show not really explaining why everybody voted John off unless that little water trick he pulled pissed everybody off enough.
Lola, I think this was an example of “We don’t need no stinkin’ leaders”. At least not self-proclaimed ones.
Except that they do. They’d have ended up somewhere off the coast of Bangladesh if John hadn’t tried to coordinate the rowing. I’m no outdoorsman but even I know that if one side of the boat is flailing away and the other side is not, the boat’s gonna go all flippety-skiffy and go everywhere but where you want it to.
I was seriously angry at Ghandia…they had at least a 90-second lead in the immunity challenge and she completely wasted it.
And did we really have to watch Tanya hurl? Twice? Yick.
Ghandia pissed me off, too, but I’m not sure how well I would’ve done with the ancient Thai knife puzzle either under
all
that
pressure.
Arrrrgghhhhh!
Is it the name Robb that makes people idiots? Last season had one, too.
I thought he was horribly obnoxious with the “Let me see your hands!” bit. Give it up, big guy.
Every time I saw Ted, I said, “Hey, hey, hey!” like Fat Albert because his voice was so low. He definitely seems nice.
Jan. If ever a girl was gonna crack early on in the show, I think Jan is it. Holy Crap, does she seem emotionally on the verge of destruction.
Do I really need to see someone throw up a stomach full of water? Or listen to it?
I laughed out loud when Ghandia was swimming and was pissed at John and the gang for not getting them in the canoe. She said, “Reeetards!” Cracked me right up.
I heard that this season was a lot more…angry than others - more fights and some people in Jeff’s face. That should be interesting. I heard it heats up by week two. Kick ass.
Too early for me to tell about a final winner. I like Ted, though.
Tibs.
Yeah, but…if you don’t do well under pressure, why are you on Survivor?
Oh, and my official pick for Survivor:Thailand Cutie-Boy is…Jed! He’s adorable. Yes, Brian is gorgeous, but it’s almost too gorgeous…porn-star gorgeous, if you will. Robb, if he had just never opened his mouth and talked, would be a contender (to my taste, anyway). Ken…didn’t really make any kind of impact on me. Jake, Clay, John and Ted were never even in the running.
In addition to the bit about learning to paddle properly, how about learning to swim competently? It always amazes me that people audition for the show, knowing full well–except for Africa, I guess–that they’ll most likely be surrounded by water. I was getting a little worried when Chuay Gahn was flailing about in the ocean, trying to find the water. They were not looking good at all.
I forsee myself shouting “Shut UP!” at the TV whenever Robb says anything. Or even breathes.
jayjay, Brian is a porn star of the Skinimax soft-core variety.
Oh, and I totally want to live in the Tribal Council Palace.
Yeah, but…if you don’t do well under pressure, why are you on Survivor?
Oh, and my official pick for Survivor:Thailand Cutie-Boy is…Jed! He’s adorable. Yes, Brian is gorgeous, but it’s almost too gorgeous…porn-star gorgeous, if you will. Robb, if he had just never opened his mouth and talked, would be a contender (to my taste, anyway). Ken…didn’t really make any kind of impact on me. Jake, Clay, John and Ted were never even in the running.
Just remember, Tanya doesn’t win because she leaves the show before the end. Her father was killed in a car accident around the 37th day of shooting. Not likely she’d still be in it anyway, but she leaves the show.
I had all 100 points on John in Survivor Pick’em.
That one tribe has sort of the perfect Bizarro strategy. First we’ll pick all the weakest people to be a part of our tribe and then we’ll vote off our smartest member. In a couple of weeks they will be just standing around vomiting and crying
Brian’s vidcap stills from some of his Skinemax movies are available at thesmokinggun (which I hope isn’t a SDMD violation to mention it). They are edited with black bars to block out nips on his co-stars and there’s no full-frontal shots either. I won’t link it just to be safe, but it can be found about 26 or 27 spots down in the archive.
Otherwise, Mrs. H8_2_W8 has Jed’s abs and I have Erin’s boobies to look at, but I doubt if Erin will last long enough for me to watch it to the end.
When will people learn not to be a take-charge leader from the get-go? How many times have we seen the know-it-all boss get the boot early?
Even with the somewhat stupid move of voting John out, I’m still cheering for Chuan Gang. The Young & The Brainless are far too arrogant to be allowed to win in any universe ruled by a just god…hell, the inclusion of Robb alone should earn them all a place in Purgatory, at the very least.
Jadis:
No, she didn’t blow it.
Did you notice how the other tribe couldn’t do much beside bicker? Did you notice how in the immunity challenge, they weren’t even trying at the start (they were already wearing thier “loser” faces). Meanwhile, the tribe that you think wasn’t “equal physically” had opened up a huge lead in a physical part of the challenge by working together.
The previous seasons of this show have demonstrated that the 20-somethings in the cast are usually a) pretty dumb, and b) pretty selfish. They’re more interested in conserving that physical ability to selfishly protect their position than to use it for the benefit of the tribe. I’d rather be on Jan’s team.
Jadis:
Easy: he didn’t work well with others. The early challenges, before the merge, are usually evenly mixed between physical and mental. But they’re almost always cooperative. A person who won’t or can’t cooperate with the rest of the tribe is not the “strongest player”, especially in episode one.
They have five more episodes or so before the merge, if this season is like the rest. That means ten challenges that require working together and over two weeks of living with that person. Since they had to vote someone off, they might as well trim the fat.
I don’t think there was really an “alliance” against John, just some behind-the-scenes conspiring. He thinks there was an alliance because he’s oblivious to the personal impression he makes on people and that he didn’t fit in after three days.
elf6c:
Actually, it was sheer genius. I can’t tell if it was intentional, but it was the absolutely best thing she could do in the situation.
She just singlehandedly lost the immunity challenge for her tribe, forcing them to vote someone off and go down in other tribe. Who will they vote off? Not too hard a choice, right?
But then she starts crying. The others begin to feel uncomfortable and bad for her. They try to console her: they tell her that she tried her hardest, did the best she could, and that’s all that counts. In their effort to sound sincere, they end up believing themselves: Ghandia did do the best she could (they think) and that is all that counts (they believe). How could they possibly vote her off after that?
Yup, I think Ghandia’s crying fit was what saved her. Whether consciously or instinctively, she understood the real game that was being played. No rolly eyes from me.
puddlegum:
Haven’t you been paying attention to the previous four seasons?
The “weakest” people are not the ones who can lift the least weight. The “smartest” member is not the one who is most unable to help the tribe. John may have had some good ideas, but he wasn’t able to form the consensus among his tribemembers that they were good ideas. See ya, John.
kg m²/s²
Shii is CUTE! I normally watched something else at 8pm on Thursday, but since it moved from the “Time slot of death”, to the best slot for the network (MNF lead-in), I’ll watch until Shii is voted off.
I always get here late. Most of what I thought has already been covered. But some random thoughts anyway:
-Robb is a complete moron and an asshole to boot. “SHOW ME YOUR HANDS!” Whatever.
-Shii is indeed a cutie, but also, I fear, kind of a control freak. Although hopefully she is smart enough to keep her need to “organize” people under wraps.
-Jan goes soon, I bet. And did you notice when she was talking about catching the crabs? “…and pull of their…bite-chompers.” So “claws” is too tough a word for you?
-I like Stephanie. I bet the male members of her tribe do too. Skinny dipping on day one? And she’s got her some muscles too.
-John’s “joke” about the water hole was just really f***ing stupid. If that was typical of his behavior, I understand why they got rid of him. On the other hand, he was the one who taught them all to row, which served them well in the competition. And they resented it. Oh well.
Anyway, here we go again! Woohoo!
Might I suggest “Knob”?
-Myron
I cannot believe that Robb is considered (umm… Arizona’s?) most eligible bachelor. I’d have to kill him. A skateboard. A freakin’ SKATEBOARD.
Did Sook Jai get to eat at all in the first three days? I mean, every time someone tried to sneak off to get anything to eat, StupidBoy was yelling at them to show him their hands. Yeesh. And poor pukey… although I had to laugh the second time when she was standing there talking to one of her tribemates, said “I think I’m gonna puke,” turned her head and threw up!!! Geez, girl, have the decency to walk a few feet away!
JayJay, I thought Jeffy P. was hot, hot, hot until this season. Too much time in the sun, perhaps? I know that he supposedly lost a lot of weight on this trip out, that might be it. Just wanted you to know you aren’t delusional.
-BK
John-boy: 1) played bad joke on teammates and 2) walked away from group…it cracked me up when he said at the end “I didn’t think there were any alliances!” Hello, you messed with them twice–I would think that a pastor, of all people, would have a better-than-average grasp of interpersonal relationships.
That said, I hope that Clay is gone soon–something about him makes my skin crawl.
I’m rooting for Shii to come out soon–I’m guessing she’s the token queer for the season.
When they first said the names of the tribes, and before I saw them in print, I thought they sounded like “Soup Chai” and “Chewing Gum.” Don’t know why I felt the need to share that, but there it is…
By the way, jayjay, glad you’re on board for this one. I’ve been enjoying your BB3 comments immensely.