And, they did NOT show Leif sleeping in a wooden crate!!!! Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh. My. God. I don’t even know what to say here. The kid was actually sleeping in a wooden damn crate. I get it that there isn’t much room to sleep and all, but you really decided to sleep in there? I’m sure it probably helped keep him warm and all, and it was probably better than sleeping next to Colton and Tarzan, but something about it just was too damn funny to see. And, later in the episode, they showed him just chilling in the crate, during the daytime, while everyone was up and about, like it was a lawn chair. I’m half expecting to see him with a paddle trying to see if he can float in the ocean.
After that fun, we head over to Salami Island, where the only exciting thing they have for us is to let us know that Kat had a dream that Alicia killed her at the mall, while shopping. I feel like these jugheads are actually killing me while watching this show. It’s just brutal to even have to put up with an entire hour of this show every week. I wish there was a holiday coming up where I could just get a week off from these people, because they’re sucking the life force out of me right now. Anyway, I took a course in college on dream interpretation (which is such a joke, if you ask me because I don’t believe they really mean anything), but according to what I learned, if you are being killed in a dream, it typically would mean that something is changing in your life that you have no control over. It doesn’t necessarily even mean something is happening to you or the person who is killing you, but just in general that something in your life is changing/ending/whatever. I’m pretty sure I got something like a B- in the class and let me tell you what college was like for me. I never bought any books for any class I was ever in. If I showed up on the first day and they didn’t have a rule that stated we could only miss 6 classes, I never showed up. My goal during the first week of classes was to find someone in the class I could count on to let me know if the teacher made mention of any type of tests or surprise quizzes or anything of that sort, so they could tell me this stuff ahead of time and I might actually decide to show up to class. Our classes ran on a 10-week schedule, with classes either being two days a week or three. So, you either had 20 classes or 30 for each course. For courses with 20 classes, I probably went 6-8 times. For courses with 30, maybe 12-15. Of course, if they had the “only 6 absences” rule, I went 15 and 25 times. So, I say this to you to let you know that you probably shouldn’t take my word for it whenever I mention anything I “learned” in college. But, I will tell you that I’m right all the time, so there is that…God, I miss college. To anyone whose books I stole out of the library and sold back to the bookstore for 60% of what YOU paid for them, I apologize. But, I’d like to thank you for funding any good times I had with that money. You are responsible for me having any good times in college, so I appreciate you for that. Besides, most of the kids I went to college with had mommy and daddy buy them those books, so they’re fine…
Back to Survivor (I guess), I think someone needs to tell Kat that we don’t play tic-tac-toe in our backyard! What the hell was she doing as a kid? You got so bored with your friends that you’d go outside with a pen and paper and start playing tic-tac-toe?!? I’m guessing Kat showed up to every class she went to and still struggled to pass. Not saying she’s dumb, but she’s dumb. There’s nothing wrong with that, I’m not trying to pass judgment or anything, but the girl is as much an intelligent person as Colton is straight.
We joyously run over to the Reward challenge, where they find out they’re playing the backyard classic, throw a coconut off a trampoline and break the paper targets game!! I don’t know about you, but I had that setup in my backyard just about every weekend for myself and my friends. Man, we loved that game.
I’m also going to use this reward challenge to bring up another one of my favorite conspiracy theories about Survivor. I am 100% sure that they use the editing to “cheat” the results of these challenges. I hate how they make the cuts so that they’ll show the person throwing the coconut off the trampoline, but then cut to a close-up of the coconut hitting the target! Really, so while they pan out and show the entire area and no cameraman is anywhere near the targets to get a close-up (or behind the contestants to zoom in from behind), I’m supposed to believe that in the 3 seconds it takes from the throw to the connection, a cameraman ran into place for a quick zoom shot of the target? No, it’s so obvious from the trajectory of the throw and how the coconut hits the target that they are faking it. My guess is that they actually do play these challenges and one team probably crushes the other and then they do it all over again so they can make it seen closer than it actually is for the people watching at home, even though we don’t care and might actually like watching one team crush the other. I don’t get why they do it. I don’t need a close-up of the coconut hitting the target, show me the entire scene so I know you’re not bullsh*tting me.
Anyway, I LOVE how Probst hated on Alicia the whole time, telling her that his baby niece can throw better than she can. He ripped on her before she even threw the coconut, like he was waiting for her to f*ck up. Which she did. Every time. But, I wish he would have ripped into Colton a little more. I mean the guy threw a coconut and almost hit himself with it. I don’t get why these people were bouncing the coconuts rather than skipping them off the trampoline so that they would go further and remain lower to the ground. It’s not rocket science. But, really, I love Probst, but he missed out on a golden opportunity to make fun of Colton. I think he’s afraid to because of the whole gay thing.
Oh – you make me laugh – thank you. But you didn’t mention Kat not know what an appendix was or how to stop hers from getting hurt because several people have had them out – priceless . . . . .
And if Alicia taught my child, I’d be storming the school board asking for her dismissal.
Weird tv coincidence, I watched Survivor and thoroughly enjoyed watching Colton get the karma bitch slap that he deserves, and then later I’m watching another favorite show of mine Psych and the whole show centered on the fact that the main character was laid up after getting his appendix removed. How strange that they both aired on the same night?
rsanon you beat me to it!! Scott, I can’t believe you didn’t rip on Kat for not knowing what an appendicitis is and then her thinking that she might get one from being around people who have already had one! Priceless!!
Lief has been using that box as his bed since they got it a couple of weeks ago. They showed him in it, putting the lid on the keep the rain out! So, yeah, whenever that was…we got a big laugh out of him sleeping in a coffin like box. He doesn’t seem like the brightest person though.
As far as editing for the games, its a pretty well known fact that a ‘dream team’ of stand ins play every game and challenge first, and those are when the close up shots are taken, and the helicopter shots too. That’s why you don’t see cameramen or hear helicopters during the actual comps. Most of the distance shots are filmed using the stand ins.
I was shocked at how verbally abusive Colton and Alicia were to Cristina. She handled that better than most people I know would have! I love that Colton had to leave. If anyone is a cockroach, it would be him. And Alicia is just as bad, and I’d like to see her leave soon too.
Kat has had her own health issues, so I’d think she’d know where (and what) an appendix is. I think Tarzan has been playing dumb, but at least we know why he can’t keep names straight (Jonas=Jason, Cristina=Katrina) now.
I want to clarify: the close up action shots of the comps, often we don’t see faces or bodies…because the stand ins are used and it is edited together. I don’t think the players would tolerate cheating.
I love that Colton is gone, although I would have rather seen him be blindsided rather than being medically taken out. But here’s hoping that Alicia is gone next! My mom and one of my friends teach special ed, and they are two of the most amazing people I know with the strength needed to deal with the kids sometimes. I can’t even imagine how someone like Alicia is a teacher of any kind!
If Christina is smart, she aligns with the guys and starts picking the women off. It may not get her any better than 7th, but at least she won’t be first out.
To the guy who writes this blog, I can’t believe you think Colton would have won the season. Haven’t you watched other seasons to know that people who back stab others (and in Colton’s case he does it to their face) they don’t get votes at the end. Coach – he effed over everyone and didn’t get votes. Russel, he stabbed everyone in the back too and didn’t get a single vote in the end.
Ok, lots to address here. First, I purposely left off the whole Kat and her appendix thing. I thought it was just too stupid to even comment on. I will give her a pass because I had already ripped on her before and it’s kind of getting old, for me, to just keep ripping on how stupid these people are! 🙂
As for the competitions, I think you misunderstood what I meant. I know that they have stand-ins perform the challenge. They show that to us every week. I don’t miss that. And, I’m sure those are the edits they show us, all I’m saying is that is a form of “cheating.” It has to be, because I have to believe that when they show us the person throwing the coconut at a trajectory that is going to have it coming in at a completely different angle than what they cut to, they are blatantly trying to tell me that I’m stupid enough to believe that person actually threw that. I’m saying they cheat and I can guarantee that people on the show will be fine with it. They sign all sorts of contracts that basically give away their lives while they’re on the show, so they really have no choice but to abide by what the show wants/asks/tells.
As for addicted2rs, I love how you are writing this to “the guy who writes this blog.” My name is Scott, thank you! 🙂 But, how could Colton not have won this game? Don’t you see how these idiots are following him around like little puppies? I’m sure that things would have changed in the stretch run, but I really do believe these people would have been dumb enough to give Colton $1 million. This is going to be the season that bucks the recent trend of voting for the most likeable person on the island. I can sense that.