No you can’t.
It’s a shame George C. Scott wasn’t on the Upolu tribe. Mr. Scott is not a fan of Adam Sandler comedies, as evidenced by this YouTube clip:
I imagine had Rudy Boesch been the returning player, there might have been a similar reaction.
Part of his prayer when he was along on the island was chanting “I’m not worthy! I’m not worthy!” I don’t know if there’s any demonation that does that, but my mind immediately went to Wayne’s World.
I assume you mean denomination. We Catholics say the following prayer before receiving Eucharist: “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and I shall be healed.”
That was my very first thought when Coach started chanting that.
Ahhh, I actually remember making that same connection, then instantly forgot it. Thanks.
When did Survivor eliminate the violent challenges? There used to be challenges full of dragging people, wrestling, and tackling but those all all gone now. They don’t even have log-rolling or bashing each other with padded paddles. I seem to recall James hurting his leg in one of these challenges and getting/asking to be voted off. Maybe that was the end of it. Or was it when the guy passed out at a puzzle and the medical team looked seriously worried?
Some of the immunity challenges this season have been good, but there hasn’t been the risk of injury other than bumping your head on a bamboo pole.
Didn’t everyone on ozzie’s tribe that they injured themselves in the “piranha fish” eating a Ham challenge.
FWIW, I don’t like challenges with a big risk of hurting the contestants.
I don’t like blind-folded challenges either, but last nights was better than past blindfolded challenges.
I guess the tribes decided on the “twins” before they new what the challenge was.
Yeah, all they knew was to put on makeup matching each other. It didn’t describe the challenge. It looks like everyone did the “strong + weak” pairing.
Coach was quite a prayer Nazi after the challenge wasn’t he?
“ON YOUR KNEES!!!”
Yeah, the run-a-weird-race-solve-a-puzzle formula is getting REALLY old.
Yes, and yes. Cut the Jesus crap, and I’m getting really tired of the formulaic ICs.
Ballsy move by Ozzie, and Woody Allen gets another chance to stay in the game.
One thing I noticed at TC is that those guys don’t look like they are suffering one bit. Plump little Survivor bitches just having fun. I like to see them suffer.
Does Keith have a cosmetic heart shaped implant on his chest? He had this weird shape on his left pectoral.
I am so sick of all the Christian prayer circles God this and God that crap. Unfortunately it seems like the producers must be totally into it as other than Coach’s meditation ritual (complete with eagle call!), all the prayer stuff is being played totally seriously. I keep expecting to see the punchline, but nope. I so keep wishing one of the other tribe members would have a confessional saying something like “I’m Jewish/Buddhist/atheist/etc., I don’t really give a crap.”
I think I remember reading that Keith has a pacemaker.
I’d like to see one whole season without a single goddamn puzzle, just to see if they could do it.
Well, there was Brandon’s “We prayed to find the idol and then we found it! Yay God!!!” when Coach already had it the whole time. That was pretty funny.
But yeah, I wish they’d cool it with that stuff. It gets old fast.
As a Christian myself, I agree with most of your sentiment. I don’t think the producers are really for it, though. I do wish they wouldn’t show a bunch of people praying about a game, though. As a kid, I was always learned to pray for the safety of everyone involved and so forth…not to win or find hidden advantages.
It bothers me, too.
Recall that once upon a time they had both a reward challenge and an immunity challenge. Now they have the RI challenge and a combined reward/immunity challenge. They have bent over backwards to make sure that men and women can compete in these without an obvious favoritism towards one sex.
I haven’t yet seen a balance or hold-on-as-long-as-you-can challenge, which favors slight, fit females.
What was with the opening of Coach meditating on some small island? how did he get there? with a helicopter shot. And Where the heck was it? Looked totally set up.
Amen! What’s the point of plugging that self-inflated excuse for a human being?
Each season of this show sinks further from the “good ones” when the concept of survival in a strange place was at least a part of the idea.
Now it’s nothing but Jesus freaks and assorted weird dregs of society.
Sucks!
Jeff Probst answering the question:
Religion has played a part on the show from the very first season, and has been a major storyline for the past two installments. I have to ask you because we’ve seen it asserted by contestants time and again on this show: Do you think God really cares who wins an immunity challenge and gets to go see a cross-dressing Adam Sandler comedy?
Well I’m a bit like Steve Jobs. I’m 50-50 on the God thing. If there is a God, then I’m guessing that from time to time s/he does check out Survivor and based on who is asking for the “favor,” probably does care about the outcome. If it’s Coach and Coach is being sincere, I think God would probably lend him a bit of a hand. I think God appreciates the journey/struggle Coach is on in this lifetime and he probably wants to throw him an encouraging bone. The key with all of this is to remember that simply because God helped one tribe doesn’t mean he doesn’t like the other, just not as much.
From this interview, which is a follow-up to Dalton Ross’ re-cap of the episoce