Survivor: South Pacific September 28 2011

On now.

Wow, Poetry lady…is crazy. I wish she could have a long run. She’s like Philip, only female and poetry obsessed.

“I would have 10 of this man’s babies without the aids of drugs…”

Nutty.

Rather boring episode, actually, though I did like the challenge.

Probst is pretty informative on both twitter and tout(where he does video answers to questions people send him).

Brandon isn’t going to last much longer.

I want someone to literally kick Cochran’s whiny ass to the curb. If he thinks his plan to oust Ozzy is going to work, he truly is delusional.

I dislike lil Hantz much more than Lil Russell.

PB was nuts, and Exile Island is stupid. They should immediately put the winner back in the game, maybe on the other team. That would shake things up.

Brandon is certifiably insane. Don’t they screen these people for psychological problems? Or did he just get a pass because he’s related to the troll?

PB is nuts, but I wouldn’t get off at the next stop if she got on the bus.

Brandon, on the other hand – he’s just fucking scary. Seriously scary. As in, I’m not kidding around, he’s gonna blow, and when he does, I hope he’s not holding anything sharp.

I’m a little disappointed that Brandon didn’t go into an evangelistic bible thumping frenzy, when he gathered everyone together. Although, he almost made up for it, when he pointed to God triumphantly, while being propelled across the water.

I wonder how PB felt when she got a look at the White Lady Braid disaster everyone saw on her head. I loved the faces everybody made while she did her tedious “poetry”.

Looks like Coach is beginning to (finally) emerge as the leader he always claimed to be.

If you remember his first run, he was an insufferable twit who constantly sang his own laurels recounting what a great guy he was and how people were naturally drawn to his warrior spirit. The reality which he couldn’t grasp, was that he was all talk and no game.

It looks like he’s come to understand that it is through one’s actions that the more powerful statement is made.

I have to say, he doesn’t appear to be such a bad guy this time around.

I could at least relate to the early Russell, in the sense that he was completely cut throat and single minded. His misogyny, not so much and I’m finding that Lil Hantz seems to have the same disgusting genes…

His hang up on that one girl who has shown him ZERO interest is disturbing. It’s not like she’s constantly flirting with him or anything *.

  • At least that’s how the editing is making it appear.

I’m not his advocate, nor do I know him or anything, but I think your * is quite important. We have zero access to what things were really like. The editing really impacts things. He could be pretty normal, but the editing is making him look nuts.

I agree that they should return the winner of exile immediately to the show to the other team. It would make you really think before voting someone off.

Also, I want a season that consists of teams made up of all the nutjobs from previous seasons: poetry lady, Philip, Russell’s nephew, that heavy metal guy who fell in love with a woman on the other team and was the first voted off that one season. All whackos all the time.

I’ve seen this a lot in really conservative religious communities. Hantz is obviously very attracted to her, but he’s married, so he feels horribly guilty about that. I wonder if he’s putting on a bit of a show so the people back home will know how righteous he was holding to his beliefs. :rolleyes:

Either way, when I was a member of a very conservative religious community, we were taught that modesty was the woman’s responsibility and if the men were tempted by us, then it was *our fault *for turning them on. (In that church, men are not responsible for their own thoughts.) So his anger and resentment toward this woman is just his projection – he’s blaming her for his attraction to her.

I noticed last night when she confronted him, he acted like she was a shrill, screaming harpy who “attacked” him. What I saw was a strong, confident woman who was simply trying to confront a problem openly and honestly. Her body language wasn’t even all that threatening or confrontational. That does not fit into Hantz’s little religious worldview that women are supposed to be submissive and defer to men. In my former community, she would have been labeled as an “uppity woman.” (And would have been chastised to “keep sweet,” which means, you never argue with a man, question a man, or stand up to a man. Ever. And if you get raped, it’s your own fault for tempting a man, so you have to repent.)

So, I agree, his behavior is very disturbing. Why isn’t he so offended by all the other women running around in bikinis and their underwear? Because he doesn’t wanna bang them. He just wants this one girl and isn’t willing to take responsibility for his own thoughts and feelings. So he blames her and pretends like she’s the whore of Babylon specifically put in the island to test him. It looked to me like the other Survivors weren’t buying his story and she did the best possible thing when he was “ratting her out” to the rest: she kept her mouth shut and let him make himself look like a fool. That was brilliant. If she’d gone all shrill and defensive, she’d look just as bad as him. But by standing there silently and allowing him to spew his nonsense, she really just let him drive the nails into his own coffin (maybe it’s actually a cross). I didn’t see much else of the episode after that, but I suspect he’s going to be (if he hasn’t already) pinging the other Survivors’ Creep-O-Meter™ and will not be long for this game.

Does he add anything else in terms of providing food, or being strong in the challenges? I’m not following that closely.

No idea.

Dogzilla, I’m tempted to quote your entire post – absolutely, perfectly nailed it, imho.

While we’re bitching about things, I want to know when Survivor turned into Big Brother. There are no surviving challenges any more. They get all worked up over Reward of coffee? They’ve been on the island for a week. They have fire and fishing equipment? Nobody had to spend a day trying to bow a fire into existence? What kind of pussy summer camp has this show turned into? Bring back the days of mental collapse due to starvation and stress.

Looks like the producers have decided that the social game makes better TV than the actual survival game.

I am glad that they have got away from the clothes on their back survivor. I do not tune into Survivor to see people suffering in torrential downpours and starving. I am glad that they give them more than huge bumper crop of bananas nearby as I say about 150 bananas on the tribe pole.