…almost too embarrassed to admit it but the wife and I are really into this show. We’ve hardly missed any since the whole series began. We don’t watch much junk TV but this show is our addiction. Remember the one with the tri coach?
BTW, I really have the hots for Alicia. Reminds me of an old girlfriend. Man what an athletic looking body she has. And looks so great in that red bikini. However, despite her claimed physical fitness she’s apparently never won an individual challenge and always seems mediocre in the team challenges. Looks can be deceiving.
Any other Survivor addicts out there. Who’s your money on to win this time. Please don’t say Boston Rob.
We built a bike for one of the fellas on the show! Does that count for anything? He used it at Ironman. His name was…, he is a famous chef, ah shucks, what was that fellas name?
Nice guy too…
Keith Famie. A fun kind of guy. I liked him. He’s the guy who had to sit up on a pole for a long time. I opnly saw the show once or twice myself.
I like that show where they put regular people in SAS selction and they get chewed up and spit out. I think its on the history Channel. That’s hilarious!
they filmed the survivor africa show about 40 miles from where i work. it was a zoo. the funniest thing about it was that just about every day, some kenyan would come up to me and say “why is it that these mzungu (white folks) are getting paid a million dollars to survive out here? i survive out here every day! someone should pay me a million dollars”
Didn’t Famie come in third? He was the one Colby should have taken to the final two with him instead of his $900,000 choice.
All stars rocks just because nobody has been able to really trust anybody. The normal alliances haven’t set in like normal I think because everybody has been there and done that and they aren’t willing to trust anyone.
I never really started watching until last season (Pearl Islands) Never missed an episode. And haven’t missed one of the All-Star episodes. Hell, I even stood in line for 7.5 hrs. when the auditions came to town (Ft. Worth) for the 9th season back in Feb. Nonetheless, I never got a reply. Anyway, I would to have stopped training for 3 mos. to shoot if I had been picked—no way!
Rob is getting a little full of himself, however, it kills me that Shih Ann has become a swing vote. she did nothing but mouth off the first show she was on and she’s doing it again. All Star? It’s like major league baseball when each team has to have a rep at the all star game. I shse the only one from her show that they could get?
I’m actually in a sweepstake where we all put in 10 bucks and last three standing get a share of the booty. Names were drawn out of a hat. I picked up Jerry. We’re a little behind you folk (Ethan went home last night) so as of the moment she’s dodged bullets the last two weeks. I pray she doesn’t head to Council any time soon cause I can’t see her hanging around much longer. So if you people know something I don’t keep it under wraps…better yet I won’t read any more posts! Trust me to score the lazy complainer!
I’m with those who can’t stand Boston Rob. The guys thinks he’s so smug and well I suppose he can think that as everything he tries his hand at comes up trumps. You could see how much Colby, Ethan etc hated losing to him. It gave me great delight to see him park it on his arse trying to smack that golf ball. I want to see him make the mistake of mouthing of to Rupert and watching him get pile driven into the ground with a double fisted sledgehammer!
Boston Bob is as gaggy as he was the first time. Basicly (as I see it…), the team that canned Colby is basically toast… they sacrificed their stronger team members WAAAaaay too early. There going to get their butts kick by the other group. Once the teams merge… they won’t stand a change (or, so it seems at this point - things change very quickly).
I love the irony of the show’s name, contrasted with the fact that most of the people there wouldn’t stand a chance if it were real.
It leaves little doubt that Nietzsche was right all along.
Agree with Joe. The stupid team is screwed. If I were Jeff Probst, I’d put off a merge and let those knuckleheads rot. they’ve all been playing like they know what they’re doing, and it hasn’t occurred to them that they’ve lost every single competition that they’ve done.
I’ve been stuck on Survivor since the first episode of the first season, though I will admit that I skipped a few of the Marquesas and Pearl Islands episodes because they weren’t that great.
I hope Jenna goes home soon, I can’t stand her. She annoys the crap out of me.
Keith Famie was in Survivor Australia, but it was Mike Skupin who fell in the fire, not Keith. There was always a lot of tension between Jerri and Keith, funny, Jerri said Keith “couldn’t even cook rice” or something like that. Keith didn’t look terribly athletic, which IM did he do and how fast?
Haven’t seen 5 minutes of Survivor, but I too have an addiction - I haven’t missed an episode of The Shield. Don’t know what it is about that show, but I’m hooked.
It IS a glorified game show. So is “The Apprentice” (survivor in NYC). It’s like watching office politics in action. While the winning team is riding high right now, they’ll get mad at each other and screw it up. they all do. Both shows are entertaining, but what bugs me is that they all have highly inflated opinions of themselves and people seem to think thay have something special because they were on TV. Is that what a little fame does to us? Some thrive on the fact that they get portrayed as complete jackasses. What did anyone think of Jon on the Pearl Islands? the grandmother bit was hilarious and great strategy, but AI wouldn’t trust the guy if I met him in real life. He would literally use his dead grannie to get ahead!
“It IS a glorified game show. So is “The Apprentice” (survivor in NYC). It’s like watching office politics in action.”
I don’t watch The Apprentice either. I never much cared for office politics or game shows. I find all this so called “reality” TV to be overblown and boring. I don’t watch any of it. Then again, I don’t watch TV much at all. I’d much rather be doing something than watching something.
The dead grandmother trick was too dirty even for reality TV. He could end up paying for it after that show. I’d sure never hire him. Don’t imagine anyone else would either unless it was a job selling Florida swamp land as retirement dream properties to northerners.
I don’t know. I think that a few of the backstabbing scumbags would do just fine at the financial firms I’ve worked at.
The thing about the show, as much as I despise the way most of the people deal, is that it has given me great insight into how useless people survive, and connive, and succeed. Since I lack the ability to think that way, I find it helpful.
I still hope that voting off all the strong people already bites the chupacabra, or whatever, tribe in the ass.
It looks like Rob and Ambuh are going to get separated! Oh heavens! Who will she sleep with now?
TOTALLY HOOKED. We have not missed an episode since the 4th show of the first season. There are only 2 shows I am hooked on (ie that I bother to tape so I dont miss) Survivor and 24. I would love to do the show, but alas, no Canadians are allowed.
The All Star is a great show, I was jumping up and down when Hatch got kicked off. He was bearable the first time around, but just an annoying idiot on All Stars.
I’m still rooting for Rupert. He got shafted on Pearl Islands.
I have a bit of Survivor news that is sure to send this thread in another direction.
First let me say that I am a big Survivor fan. It’s a totally contrived situation, but thats the definition of a game isn’t it? Plus the fact that the editors can cut it anyway they want after the fact. Mark Burnett is a genius.
Now for the news: Dena Benett from Survivor Amazon has been invited to compete at Kona this year. Before we all get splattered by the exploding heads of the fairness police, let me say that Dena is a great person. She is a deputy district attorney in Riverside, CA who specializes in prosecuting child abusers. She help pass a law making it a felony to leave a child unattended in a car. She will be using her race in Kona to raise money for abused kids.
