How much do you want to bet, this is will be the one and only time they give away a second million? It’s obvious it was set up for Rupert, since he wasn’t capable of winning the game. In All Stars, he wasn’t too bad, kind of an idiot, but not the worst one. But has everyone forgotten how maniacal he was the first time around?
Why does everyone think Burnett and co. set up the second million just for Rupert.
I have no doubt this was planned for All-Stars all along, even when it become inevitable that Rupert would take it easily.
Oh man. Pretty face, nice skin, beautiful heinie, fetching smile, long legs, lovely bosoms and a very composed demeanor.
What I can’t see is her actually marrying Rob. He just isn’t in her class. She’s much better looking than him, way more sophisticated, and has a much higher long term earnings potential. I’d bet almost anything she throws him over once she’s milked the situation for all it’s worth.
I absolutely hated the idea of “America’s Tribal Council” and feel it sets a dangerous precedent for future games. Do we really want every participant making nice-nice with the camera in an attempt to curry the home viewer’s favor?
What would be the game be without snarky confessionals from people like Brian or Johnny Fairplay or even Rob M?
It is my opinion that Mark Burnett just shot himself in the foot. Every future player (just like last season’s players played as if there was definitely a chance at pulling a purple rock because it happened one time) will play with the chance of winning a second million on the basis of being popular with America. Watered down, sappy, “I want to win for my Mom”, “I would give the money to charity” no fighting, no “I will always wave my finger in your face” no dead gramma.
Also, I don’t think Survivor will ever take place in a cold environment. The real life dangers of frostbite and hypothermia would make it too risky.
I’m not saying she’s not attractive – but sexiest ever? That “hot-babe” montage before announcing the winner was pretty incredible. I think she won just because she was the most recent hot babe, not because she was the hottest.
Dehydration and sunburn/sunstroke are pretty risky, aren’t they?
IIRC, Mark Burnett has actually said in interviews he’s got no interest in holding Survivor in a cold environment.
However, I could certainly see rain forest at some point.
Ok I can buy that. Do you think she’ll stay with Rob? I’m really curious what you guys think will happen.
I think they’ve got just about as much chance of staying together as any celebrity couple. Maybe more, since “Survivor” celebrity seems to be fairly fleeting. Since neither of them are going to end up in movies any time soon, I’d give it a decent chance.
Little known fact: Remember Judd Winick from “The Real World: San Francisco?” The cartoonist who bunked with Pedro Zamora? He ended up happily married to his RW roommate Pam, and they’re proud parents now. Ya never cans tell.
And Survivor:Amazon was what?
Boring.
Well, yeah. But besides that. 
Concur.
I read somewhere this morning (Washington Post? Can’t remember) that in an interview earlier, Rupert mentioned that the producers told him he’d received something like 85% of the votes. Talk about landslide.
I missed the first 10 minutes. Can someone give me a recap on the Jeff/Jerri interchange?
**Ring ** no I do not expect them not to make it – but not because either one “played” the other but ($0.02 pop psych WAG ahead) they are still riding a euphoric high of AmberRob vs. the World on the Island, & now as B-List Celebs and winning a million, +opportunities, parties, "Look it is kids of the hour” type stuff…
In 18 months they will have a nice condo in LA and a few $100thou in the Bank and will not be able to get arrested. They will need to return to earth, maybe get jobs as a construction worker and Administrative Assistant “until things get rolling again”. Eventually , he will want to come back to Boston, she want to continue looking for the high they had now and stay West to keep any option to that open. I doubt that they will last — but I will be pulling for them.
It is possible that they could get low-level jobs in show biz (like Kelley Wigglesworth, Dr. Shawn, Hasselbeck) and that would stroke their egos enough to keep the frustration and disappointment from causing the relationship to crash and burn. But I doubt it. I hope I am wrong, as I bet I woul like both IRL.
Alot of blah-blah to say what the Onion says this week:
Woman at Farscape Convention Has Danerously Inflated Self Image
BURBANK, CA—Paulette Osley, 24, a moderately attractive fan of the Sci-Fi Channel series Farscape, had her self-image inflated to dangerous levels during the three-day ScaperCon 2004, according to Pepperdine University professor of psychology Wes Martin.
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I think they’ve got just about as much chance of staying together as any celebrity couple. Maybe more, since “Survivor” celebrity seems to be fairly fleeting. Since neither of them are going to end up in movies any time soon, I’d give it a decent chance.
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I think another thing is that they’ve had a lot of time to get to know each other. Stuck on an island with nothing to do, you have plenty of opportunity to talk. Also, this isn’t a set of contrived date situations (as in The Bachelor), so you are exposed early and often to each other when you’re dirty, smelly, and under genuine duress. R&A were together for over a month like this, which is actually a pretty long time under the circumstances–if they didn’t get completely sick of each other by then, I’d say there’s something promising to build on (especially now that there are no cameras around).
The money doesn’t hurt, either. 
Although I didn’t say it, I didn’t mean in the winter. I know I certainly wouldn’t want to live outside in the winter, and I’m pretty damned hardy after spending 8 years in the Arctic.
Boo freaking hoo.
There is nothing inexplicable about Rupert’s popularity.
Two points:
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[li]Am I the only one who thinks Ruperts looks an awful lot like Iraqi troublemaker Moqtada al-Sadr?[/li][li]I’m still confused about the purple rock. Isn’t the first tie-breaker the number of votes previously cast against them? Do we know that the contestants were tied in this category?[/li][/ol]
In answer to #2, they haven’t used previous votes since Outback (Season 2). In Marquesas they used the purple rock tiebreaker, which booted Paschal, who hadn’t even been one of the names tied for “eviction”. (Damn, I can’t wait for Big Brother 5!)
They should do an urban warfare Survivor.
Oh wait. CNN already does.
But, really. An urban slum Survivor might be interesting.
I liked Sue’s new look. Life with her would be a Survivor worthy show.