Posted on 08/26/2002 4:36:57 PM PDT by YourAdHere
Survivor V kicks off on Thursday September 19th, and since a lot of us Freepers had fun speculating on Marquesas, I thought it would be fun to start a thread on the upcoming series.
The bios are out, which you can check out here, and there's already been scandal associated with two of the castaways.
First there's Brian, an actor/used car salesman, who neglected to tell the show that he had a few "blue" movies in his past. They cast a porn star!
Then there's Tonya. Her story could have a lasting impact on the outcome of the show. Shortly before filming came to an end, Tonya's father back in Tennessee was tragically killed in a car accident. Reports are that she was immediately evacuated from the island.
If Tonya was one of the first 7 people ejected from the show, then her departure would have no impact on the outcome. However, if she made it past the merger and either onto the jury or in the final two, then that could mean one less vote in the final two, or something even stranger. Only time will tell.
I like Clay. He did good in the reward challenge, and I especially liked his comment when Ghandia was having her temper tantrum. He said his two year old acted like that once, and he whipped his butt, and put him back in his bed.
Ditto that. I like Brian (soft core pornstar) and I hate that evil B*tch Ghandia... did anyone notice how her story escalated from touching to biting? Typical liberal who likes to remain in the "victim role". I was hoping for Chewygum to lose so she would be voted out. But I am glad that lazy jed was voted out even though I hate and despise the moron with all the piercings. I know his name is Rob but I refer to him is the "moron with all the piercings".
I think this is my first post show commit since Survivor Marquesas. Wow where the heck have I been people are going to think I'm some kind of newbie! Well This episode got me back into gear and I'll be posting full force once again.
I was ROFL after sook jai looked in the water for their net and walked away without seeing it! What ARE they eating over there?
I like Shii An too. She's too competent for them. I noticed that she seems to get a lot of face time (her analyzing not a lot while in the group)...is that meaningful?
I think FReepers all over the nation had that exact same thought :)
I caught the tail-end of the first and watched the second all through. It's a fun show. I'm so glad the crying soccer mommies lost! When the one was crying about "her baby" how long could she possibly have been gone from home?
I don't like the doublemint twins either. No brains.
I haven't heard about the Histroy Channel one. I'll look for it.
Morale is dropping over in Chewing Gum, after three straight losses, and this time there are no anniversaries or birthdays to celebrate to bring up everyone's spirits. Ghandia decides to take action, by confronting Ted about his nighttime behavior - if only there was a convenient lawyer on the island, she could really lift everyone's spirits. Ted gives his excuse that he was only half-awake, and assumed Ghandia was his wife, and stopped taking action when he realized his mistake. (Let's assume his wife is forgiving enough to overlook being compared to Ghandia.) Anyway, our lawyer-in-training accepts this excuse, and prepares to move on.
And move on they do, to the reward challenge. This time, featuring the much-hyped fighting scenes we've all been looking forward to. Jeff Probst plays his part as Pirate King, and makes a valiant attempt to explain this challenge as somehow piratical. Each tribe must run across some bamboo shoots, take an item from the other tribe's boat, and return it to their own. But there's a catch. There's a small, 2-3 foot section of bamboo in the center covered with black cloth. In that section only, full contact is allowed.
The tribes start, and Sucky Tribe builds up an early, and apparently commanding, lead. But have no fear - Robb is in that tribe, and is fully capable of blowing even the best of leads. Ted, over in Chewing Gum, displays his balletic grace early, by falling off the bamboo after only 2 steps. But his next time across, he makes it all the way to the black section, where he kneels down in wait, and starts knocking off Sucky Tribe members. Robb decides this is a great idea, and decides to copy it after Ted has been knocked off. Only problem is that Robb's numerous piercings reflect the light into his eyes, and he can't tell where the black cloth starts and ends. He is quickly eliminated from the game, and one of Sucky's prizes goes to Chewing Gum. Now, at this point, Sucky still leads something like 8-4, and the game is only to 10. So what happens, you ask? The other bucks at Sucky decide to copy Robb's brilliant moves to the letter, and quickly get disqualified, as one after another of their prizes is given to Chewing Gum. If only Ghandia was on their tribe, I'm sure they'd be filing discrimination suits, claiming that they're all color blind. Sadly, they lack her legal expertise, and lose their first challenge.
But don't fear for the Suckys, things can get much worse for them. Back at camp, it turns out they're starving. That's right, they won that large fishing net, and are right by the ocean, but they don't know how to use it to actually, say, catch fish. They spend their time dragging the net right by shore, and are puzzled by the fact that the fish are failing to jump into the net. They then spend their time untangling the net, never quite realizing that a bundled up net just might be a part of the problem. Jed sleeps through this, apparently not realizing there's a problem.
This contrasts nicely to Chewing Gum, who has a pair of red berets helping them out. These guys are true worker bees, making stews from leaves and roots, to the great delight of the tribe members. The tribe spends some time learning what is edible, but then goes into non-interactive mode, while they let the red berets do their stuff. They have much more important things to do, after all, then merely learn how to survive. You see, the huge morale boost of winning a contest has put lawyer-lady into overdrive. They suddenly have breathing room, so she decides to start telling all the ladies about her problems with Ted. In her own words, she tells them the whole story, only leaving out the most trivial part - Ted's apology. This eventually leaks from the ladies, and porn-star Brian hears about it. He talks to Ted, who says it was nothing. This, in turn, gets back to Ghandia. Yes, folks, we have left the set of Survivor, and re-entered high school - maybe even high school drama classes. "Helen told me that Brian told her that Ted said..." But lawyer lady can handle this, of course. She does what anyone else would do - goes to the beach and yells real loudly, then starts throwing rocks. (By anyone else, I meant of course, anyone else with the maturity of an average 3 year old, a fact that Jake points out with a markedly understated sense of humor.)
So, while the Red Berets are busy building a toilet, irrigation system, and heck, maybe even a small portable power generating system out of bamboo, the tribe members get together to talk about the Ted and Ghandia crisis. Ted tells his version of the story, and Ghandia pouts. But everyone thinks that settles it, and they can start anew. For reasons that are unclear to everyone, even Ted seems to think this settles the issue.
Meanwhile, back in Sucky Tribe, we learn that there truly are people with IQs lower than rocks, or even Robb. After failing to catch anything in their net, they decide the problem was that they weren't leaving it out in the ocean long enough. So they decide to let it sit out in the ocean for a while. But they're not too stupid, they know they'll need to watch it, so they assign Jed to the case. Yes, that's right, to watch their most important piece of equipment while it floats in the ocean, they put their resident narcoleptic on the case. Leopards don't change their spots, fish don't breathe air, and Jed doesn't stay awake. Naturally, he blames it on Robb. But they have lost their net. They go out into the ocean to look for it - hey, how big can the ocean be, after all? They don't find it, and come back in, while the camera pans right behind them to show the net floating off to sea.
With the fun and games over, it's time for the fun and games of a new Immunity Challenge. Jeff Probst, Pirate King, now has the players raiding a temple. Two miniature Buddhist Temples have been built from an unspecified material (far too light to be rock, but too heavy for a single person to carry, maybe plaster?) There are six pieces, and it must be reassembled from platform 1 to platform 3. You can only move one piece at a time, and a larger piece may never be put on top of a smaller one. This was a very difficult logic puzzle the first time I encountered it. Of course, that was in 5th grade. But it's more than enough challenge for Robb and the Sucky gang, who manage to get almost a third of the puzzle completed by the time Chewing Gum finishes up. We had a hunch this might happen going in, when Sarah - oops, I mean Erin - said they wanted to lose to start getting rid of the jerks in the tribe.
After the contest is over, the jerks are in trouble. But Shii Ahn decides to enter the jerk competition herself. Your first loss is just the time to start making catty comments about how easy the puzzle was, but you just didn't feel like helping out in order to show up your teammates. OK, she was making the comments to the camera, not to her tribe mates, but attitude carries, honey! But there's no way she can match up to the competition in her tribe for head jerk. She only manages to pull in 3 votes, from Jed, Robb, and Stephanie. Everyone else votes for the jerk who works without a net, and Jed is outta there.
And there was much rejoicing.
Drew Garrett
Bite your tongue!
Erin/Laura Croft has an OUTSTANDING personality!
hahahah I mean the split second he said that I shouted at the TV Hah Democrat Rob is a Democrat!
Speaking of Rob...
Last season I thought we had the DUMBEST Survivor Contestant ever and for any show in the future in the personage known as Rob-Father.
But Dude (heh) I was sooooo wrong! Thailand Rob is Dumber by at least a factor of 7!
So from now on, to avoid confusion when speaking of Dumb Rob let us call Thailand Rob "Rob-Dumber."
BTW If I was in Rob and Jed's Tribe I would have said "Boys I know you two couldn't blow your noses if you brains was made of dynamite so I understand how you lost the net. So just go look for it and don't come back without the net.
But here, among friends, I'll go out on a limb and make my predictions in public, without already knowing the answers. This week, we're going to see lots of people fail to catch food, do dumb things, make catty comments to each other, and engage in general backbiting. Oh, and some one will get voted off.
OK, more seriously... The episode is titled Gender Bender. The medics haven't made an appearance since Season 2's Mike-accident, but I still think we can rule out any emergency sex-change operations. We're likely to see a guys vs. gals situation, and that only seems likely among out buddies at Chewing Gum. The Ghandia and Ted situation is almost certainly not over, and we're going to get to see even more of it tonight. Helen seems strongly won over to Ghandia's side, and I would guess that Jan is there too. The porn star sides with Ted, while Clay goes on Ted's side by default, simply by his disgust with the lawyer lady. If they lose immunity tonight, one of the pair is going to go - which will it be? The bitchy lawyer who can throw rocks on the beach? Or the big guy who throws opponents off the challenges? Bye-bye Ghandia.
But I'll hedge my bets a little bit too. Sucky showed an astonishing ability to pull defeat their way last week, and their hunting and fishing abilities give a good reason for that streak to continue. They divided, along non-gender lines, into two competing alliances. On the one hand is the Jake/Shii Ahn "worker bees" (although not hunters), on the other is the Robb/Stephanie "too dumb to come in out of the rain." The workers have 5, the dumb bunnies have 2. I'm betting Robb thinks they have a chance. They don't. Stephanie goes if they lost.
My vote: Ghandia.
Drew Garrett
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