Posted on 08/14/2003 12:43:34 PM PDT by cuz_it_aint_their_money
Well ping-ees, it’s that time again!
Mark Burnett Productions has once again permitted 16 media whores to ply their trade just to bring us a few hours of blissful enjoyment. So without further ado, here is what your intrepid Captain Cuz has come up with so far.
During the final show of Survivor 6: The Amazon, Jeff Probst provided the following voice over for the first Survivor 7: Pearl Island Promo:
This Fall, 16 new Survivors journey off the coast of Panama, to a land steeped in a bloody history of piracy.
A hidden chain of more than a hundred tropical islands, located in the blue-green waters of Central America. These are the PEARL ISLANDS. It is a place of ancient riches, with a turbulent history of looting and plundering. The ruins of Spanish forts and sunken ships are monuments to a violent and infamous past, where the deeds of pirates like Drake and Morgan are legendary.
In these Panamanian waters lurk some of the most exotic and dangerous marine animals anywhere in the Pacific Ocean. Schools of sharks, sting rays, dolphins and sea turtles thrive in a spectacular world beneath the sea.
And our Survivors will begin their adventure during the migration of the humpback whale. For the first time, each tribe will have its own island and the marooning will be unlike anything experienced by the previous Survivors.
Who will outwit, outplay and outlast all the others to become the sole Survivor? Find out this Fall as the adventure continues in the Pearl Islands.
Well, you just knew that with all the Survivor Junkies out there in Webland, it wouldn’t be long before someone came up with some pictures about the Pearl Islands, and here are a few I have selected from the many out there in cyberspace: Photos courtesy of claycritters.com
Tribal Council view from right rear
Tribal Council from left side.
Close up of Tribal Council. Stairs under construction leading from the beach to the fort.
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Here is a brief “History of the Pearl Islands” – (an excerpt from SurvivorFever.net)
These islands have a long history as they were the first islands to be explored by Spanish Conquistadors. In fact the most famous conquistador and the person who gave the Pacific Ocean its name, Balboa, lived on these islands after having crossed the Panamanian Isthmus. He chose the islands because the weather was cooler and the mosquitoes non-existent.
After Balboa left, the islands were a center for pearl divers and the greatest of pearls, La Peregrina was found off their shores.
La Peregrina was given to Queen Mary Tudor by Philip the II of Spain in 1554; later the pearl ended up in the hands of Napoleon the III and today Elizabeth Taylor has the pearl in her possession. Richard Burton gave it to her as a Valentine's Day gift in 1969. Who knows maybe there are more such pearls to be found? In the 20th century the Pearl islands, especially Contadora were developed into vacation spots for Latin Americans and Europeans.
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Well intrepid ping-ees, that’s just about all Captain Cuz has for now.
The show will debut Thursday, September 18th, 2003 at 8 PM EDT.
And hopefully, the official Survivor Website will list the contestants sometime next week.
If so, I’ll be back next Thursday with the bios of the players.
Until then, feel free to post your own spoilers!
And remember, don’t take any wooden doubloons! Har Har Har!
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Methinks he had a change of heart.
Drake will vote him off in a New York Minute.
The Morgans shoulda voted their "leader" off, he's a jerk. Tell me, why was skinny Ryan leading off the reward challenge event? There were five pieces of treasure to be gotten and put in the chest and there were seven Drakes. Ryan S. should have been one of the ones to wait until the end and help get the chest to shore.
They set him up to fail. I'll be glad to see Andrew(?) gone.
Yep! Buy low, sell high, and if Martha Stewart calls, don't answer the phone! :~D
ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!! I'll have ta consult me physic parrot an get back ta ya on that one matey Har! Har! Har!
I am subjected to watching the rest of the season on tape afterwards. The Morgan tribe is so lame, I think we can safely say the Ultimate Survivor will be from the Drake tribe. After the merge they will pick off Morgan one by one.
That Osten, he be representen' body builders everywhere, totally obsessed with their health and body. Call the whambulance!! I was hoping Ryan S. would turn as he was leaving tribal council and say, "Hey Osten, see you, I'm going for some nice protein shakes and a rubdown." I mean really turn the knife.
I think that lawyer on Morgan will also not have many clients when he gets home, what a loser image he projects. All in all funny stuff. Still liking Rupert the best.
See you all next week!
So what's the question?
And while yer pondering that, guess it time for this weeks' posting.
BEWARE! HERE BE SPOILERS A FOLLOWIN’!!! IF YA DON’T WANT T’ BE KNOWIN’ WHO GOT T’ BOOT THEN TURN BACK NOW! YA BEEN WARNED!
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The Pirates Drake:
Burton, Christa, Jon, Michelle, Rupert, Sandra, Shawn, Trish
The Pirates Morgan:
Andrew, Darrah, Lillian, Osten, Ryan O., Tijuana
Gone t’ Davy Jones’ Locker: Nicole, Ryan S.
First off, a hearty welcome aboard t’ the following new pingee: girlscout.
Now heave to ya swabbies! Shiver me timbers n’ strike the mainsail. It’s time for:
The Rupert Show, Part II
The show opens with the Morgan Moron Tribe back at camp after booting Nicole. Tujuana and Osten are both bellyaching about how cold it is at night, and Andrews complaining about how nobody was getting any sleep due to the shelter being uncomfortable and cold. Well, Excuuuuuuse meeeeee! First off, Osten was the damn fool who traded away all his clothes at the village! Second, this bunch of goofballs left the village with money to spare! Even after Ryan S. suggest that they spend the rest of the money! WHY didn’t you idiots buy extra clothes or blankets?!?!?! HHHHMMMMMMMMM!!!!!! Ok, Ok, I’ll tone it down, just had to get that out of my system!
Day 4 dawns over at the Drake island and everybody is Happy, Happy, Happy! Due to Rupert’s fishing skills, the tribe is actually FULL after a meal. Although, I would like to add, “Rupert, it doesn’t do much for your Pirate Image to be swinging from dead trees and exposing your tighty-whiteys under your flowery skirt. A little decorum please!”
And lets not forget Sandra’s bartering skills in the village. Lets face it, this tribe appears to have its act together and is wanting for very little, aside from common sense. But I’ll get into that later.
Rupert informs Burton/Shawn or is it Shawn/Burton? These two look so much alike it’s hard to tell them apart. about the loose tip on the tribe’s fishing spear and that they would have to be very careful not to loose it. Which means, of course, that that is exactly what Burton/Shawn will do sometime during the show. Mark Burnett’s editing is getting so predictable.
Anyway, Tree Mail Treasure Chest Mail arrives calling the tribes to their first Reward Challenge. Ryan S. of the Morons, aptly comments “This one is do or die for me. There might not be more pressure for any Survivor, in the history of SURVIVOR, to do well in the Challenge, than me." DUUUHHHHHH! I know, I know I promised to tone it down.
The tribes arrive at challenge beach where Jeff P. informs them that the reward comes in two parts. Part one is one third of a map showing the location of a Treasure Chest containing booty buried somewhere on each of their islands. The second part of the reward is that the winning tribe will select one pirate to “loot” one item from the loosing tribe’s camp.
The Challenge is to swim out to your tribe’s buoy, dive down (8 to 10 feet), retrieve one of five items places on the ocean floor and deposit that item in your tribe’s chest. Once all five items are in the chest, the last person must swim ashore, tag the team, and the entire team must then swim out, drag the chest ashore and open it to win.
Jeff P. says go, and the Morons prompt fall apart. Ryan S. is the first for the Morons to swim out and before he finishes his task, the Drakes have two items in their chest and a third tribe member is swimming out. Ok, another comment on the Morons stupidity. You now have seven people left on your tribe. You only need five to retrieve items individually. Even if you acknowledge Osten’s self admitted “I don’t do so well in the water” i.e. he can’t swim and sinks like a rock. Why would you pick the skinniest/weakest dude to be first? Dumb, just plane dumb.”
Anyway, Drake easily wins Reward and again the Drakes are Happy, Happy, Happy.
The Morons are morose as they slink back to their pitiful existence at their sorry excuse of an island encampment.
The Drakes select Sandra to be their “pillager-du-jour” and she receives a most unwelcome reception when she arrives to pillage one item. After looking around for a non-existent “water jug” she decides to take the Morons’ tarp. The snippy Morons, tell her that she’ll get no help from them, so Sandra proceeds to completely tear apart the Morons shelter to get the tarp. Sandra however, harbors no ill will with her comment “You don't know how good you have it until you see others.”
Back at the Drake paradise, Burton/Shawn announces that he has lost the tip to the tribes fishing spear. I hate to be an “I told ya so.” But “I told ya so.”
Rupert, slowly boils with anger over Burton/Shawn’s stupidity and resolves to find the missing tip. After a few hours of swimming in a grid pattern, he finds the tip and bellows a happy “DRAKE” for all the world to hear!
The tribes then meet for the second Immunity Challenge. Jeff P. informs them that three tribe members are tied up on a floating platform while the opposing tribe pulls on a rope, sending the platform further out to sea. The three must untie themselves, take the ropes and a bamboo container, swim to shore, open the bamboo container, use the coordinates to anchor each end of the ropes, dig down in the sand at the point where the ropes cross, retrieve a buried tribal flag, raise that flag and have all tribe members’ hand on the flagpole to win.
The Morons actually look as if they would win this one except for a bumbling Ryan O. couldn’t open the bamboo container. The Drakes win yet again, and must send another tribemate to Davy Jones’ locker.
While discussing which one to send, Osten informs one and all that he has had enough and wants to quit. Oh Boo Hoo Hoo! Cry me a river, you big baby! Survivor get upwards of 50 thousand people sending in applications to be on the show. The screeners pick you and you want to call it quits after only 6 days! Why in the hell did you even bother to apply for the show in the first place? Shawna from the Amazon lasted two entire weeks before she wanted to quit. And you want to give up after only 5 or 6 days! You make me sick!
Anyway, the Morons go to Tribal Council and vote out Ryan S. with 5 votes to the crybaby’s 2 votes.
Anyway, without further pause, here be:
See-B-S and Survivor are playing it close to the vest this week and haven’t shown vary many promos so far. And those they have shown, don’t give very many clues. They do seem to indicate that the Drakes win the next Reward Challenge. But as far as the Immunity Challenge, it’s anybody’s guess.
Therefore, I, Capt’n Cuz, do hereby make me next proclamation er-guess:
The Reward Challenge be won by the Drake Tribe. I say this because the official website states: “Two Survivors decide not to join their tribe on a search for buried treasure, raising suspicions about what they are doing with their alone time.” The Drakes, would be more likely to go off looking for their buried treasure with two thirds of a map, then the Morons with only one third of a map. Besides, the Morons would be smart to save up what little energy they have.
The Immunity Challenge be won by the Morgan Tribe. Yes I know, I sometimes surprise even myself. But even though the Morons are the sorriest lot of castaways I’ve ever seen, even they can get lucky every now and then.
Anyway, the Drake tribe will go to their first tribal council.
Now according to the spoilers out there in the vast ethers of the web, we knew that the first bootee would be a “A youngish athletic woman, about 5'6", with short ash or platinum blonde hair.” I.E. Nicole. And that the second bootee would be “A young, tall, skinny guy, who looked younger than the girl, but very unhealthy.” I.E. Ryan S.
But these same spoilers also claim that the third bootee would be a male. So, that limits our selection to Burton, Shawn, Jon or Rupert. Now as much as I would love for Jon to get the boot, I don’t think that at this point, he has alienated himself as much as Jeff P. has indicated he will. Also, I don’t think that Burton has done anything to make himself a target. That leaves Shawn or Rupert. I think that last weeks’ “spear tip caper” will quite probably split the tribe down the middle hence the episode title “United we stand, Divided we…?” This will result in a tie at tribal council with Burton, Shawn, Jon, and Christa voting for Rupert, and Rupert, Sandra, Michelle, and Trish voting for Shawn.
Now, because I hate to even think of Rupert loosing the tie breaker and getting the boot, I’m gonna say that Shawn will be the third bootee to “walk the plank” and move residence to Davy Jones’ Locker.
I’ll be back next week with me recap & picks.
So till then, enjoy the show and remember!
Keep yer powder dry,
yer cutlass razor sharp
and don’t take any wooden doubloons!
Har Har Har!
P.S. Remember to Freepmail me if you want on or off the Survivor Ping List.
This is fun!
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