I still think Redemption Island is a joke. Every time we see it, it just feels like a waste of show time.
Another relatively forgetable kick-off, too. Rather slow start to the year.
It didn’t even look like they were really trying on RI. I’d be sprinting back and forth between tossing and grabbing the bags.
RI definitely needs to go. I knew they would have at least two seasons, they probably planned that out before the first one aired. But I hope they’ve noticed by now that people just plain don’t like it.
I love how Coach thought he could head off STACEY’S bitterness with a goodbye hug. Duh, Coach…this is Bitter McBitterson. If she makes a run on RI, you just created an opposite-tribeperson…
There definitely was no urgency in the RI challenge in the bean toss.
IMO, Brandon is much much worse than Russell.
Do not like this immunity challenge. They need to put this one on the back burner.
I will say they have seem to have solved the whole “one team is a lot better than the other in challenges” problem. We’ve gone back and forth in four closely matched challenges.
I got the impression, although it is hard to say with the editing, that it was alternating throws rather than a race.
Stacy was hilarious. What a mean looking woman. Talk about angry eyes.
Boy did she suck at this game, though. I still can’t believe her and Christine (the other angry player of the season) weren’t even smart enough to coordinate their votes. I mean have either of them ever watched the game before? I’m sure their duel next week will involve a lot of hostility because I’m not sure if there’s much else to either of their personalities.
Also, this has to be the last season of Redemption Island…right? The challenges always feel like a waste of time and once a person is voted off who wants to see them back? Totally defeats the purpose of the game, in my opinion.
I thought it was a really dull episode. The hanging around camp maneuvering, the bean bag toss, the hang sandbags challenge… nothing seemed at all fresh or interesting.
Looks like Probst agreed. The Tribal Council was clearly so dull he had to resort to “say something nasty about another player” to try to kick up some excitement.
And new swimsuits! I guess they are running out of pixels.
Next week they get turn down service and a mint on the pillow…
I like whats-her-name-forties-woman-with-butch-hair’s comment: “Thank god we got swim suits, I was afraid my bra/panties were see-thru!” Yeah, like we could ever tell at home; a plumber’s crack on this show would merit blurring the entire plumber.
So who was voted off? The episode was over by the time I got home from work.
Stacey, the bitter black woman.
That’s Dawn, and I doubt she was worried about US seeing anything. She IS on a beach with ten or so other people…the home audience is a long ways off in both time and distance.
Isn’t she Mormon? Did she get a dispensation for the undergarments?
Yes, she said she was a Mormon.
I assume they had the players pick out what type of swimsuit they wanted, and it wasn’t a situation where the producers just decided who got the bikinis and who got the one-piece.
FF’ed thru RI as usual. All I know is that PB lost. I think we were already 20 minutes into the show before RI was over. What a waste.
If they are going to give the players swimsuit eventually, why don’t they give them swimsuits immediately?
I wasn’t paying attention – why did they give them bathing suits at all?
What Richard and Rudy must be thinking about these spoiled brats. I demand a return to the real Survivior: the one with nudists and suffering! Or at least a DVD release unpixelated.
I did kind of enjoy Cochran talking about his Big Survivor Move[sup]TM[/sup] after deciding that he, Jim and Dawn should vote for Elyse. Dude, it’s still 4 to 3. If you get somebody to vote against their alliance, or successfully play an Immunity Idol, then its a Big Survivor Move. Otherwise, it’s just a losing vote.
And Coach looking Hantzy in the eye and saying “Stop it” was pretty cool. There is definitely something wrong with that kid.
But aside from that, yeah, I agree. A pretty flat episode.
They didn’t explain it. The suits just showed up with their tree mail.
I liked little Hantz crying at TC. Coach’s hug attempt was amusing too. Other than that, this was a big “meh”.
…Who rejected her team’s offer of hugs all around as she grabbed her torch for the march to Redemption Island. Talk about stink-face. I couldn’t hear what exactly she said, but the looks on their faces was priceless.