Yep – they all head to what they figure is a reward challenge, but Jeff is just there to tell them that they’ll be switching tribes! Nice one, CBS. You really felt you had a “winner” in Reynold that you had to try and stack the odds against him being voted out at the very next Tribal, huh? Why not just have it have been like American Idol did this season, where the judges picked groups during Group Week in Vegas, and just put him with…oh wait, isn’t that what you did, anyway? I’m so sure the “eggs” just happened to fall in the basket that way! So, Reynold, Eddie, Malcolm, Erik, Brenda, Andrea, and Sherri ALL end up on the same tribe? Please. That may be the most dominant tribe ever in Survivor history. I can’t even imagine a challenge that they’d lose. Can you? It would have to be a dumb-luck style challenge. Hell, I don’t even think paper-rock-scissors would dumb-luck enough. Jeff would have to ask the New Bikal tribe what number he was thinking, and no matter what they said, he’d say they won! That’s about the only way I can envision that tribe winning.
Also, if I’m Sherri, I do my best to get to work. You’re stuck with the young and beautiful people, and you’re neither of those (no matter how much people may think you resemble Sandra Buttocks – sorry I had to do that after accidentally hitting a t instead of an l in the first place – guess I’m just used to typing the word butt after all these years on this blog)! But, the silver lining playbook for Sherri is that she’s on the tribe with nothing but studs and the chance of them losing is extremely slim, so she’s all but guaranteed making it to the merge. Just start trying to form a bond with them as much as you can, Sherri. But, outside of the fans who were sent to the New Bikal tribe, nobody was screwed more by the new tribes than Sherri.
And, that became evident by how quickly Reynold and Eddie started talking her down to Malcolm and Andrea, telling them she needed to go. Eddie and Reynold need to cool their school and take a deep breath before they just go and sell out someone they made need down the road. You don’t know how things are going to shake out with your new tribe, so feel them out for a little while before you go and tell them that you hate Sherri and she needs to go. But, I think we all know where this tribe is heading, with a reunited R.E.M. beach tour, in the form of Reynold, Eddie, and Malcolm coming together to shuffle everyone else off the island.
I guess Sherri took heed to my advice, and tried to bond with the pretty girls (Andrea and Brenda) by doing what all her fast food minions do; gossip. She spilled all the beans about her old tribe to them, letting them know where she stood and how Eddie and Reynold were the ones that needed to go. Sherri, Sherri, Sherri, you and the boys needed to learn the same lesson, I guess. You could have at least waited a day or two. Just get to know them, have a simple conversation about your life back home, try and form a bond, let them lead the conversation and when they tried to pin you back with questions about your alliance, just dodge the questions and shove them back in their faces. Be subtle. This talking right away stuff is only going to burn you, in the end. But, then again, you probably don’t have much of a chance at winning this entire game, so do what you want.
At this point, unless something major happens, I can only see Reynold, Malcolm, Corinne, or Phillip winning this game. Also, I threw Corinne in there, just so I wasn’t pinned as sexist, which I’m sure 99.73% of my readers believe me to be. Anyone else winning will be by default and the fact that none of those four make it to the Final 3.
Oh God, Corinne “loves gays.” In a world with ultra sensitive people in it, I’d imagine that SOME of “the gays” were offended by her saying this. I’m offended just because I hate people who lump a group of people together, and automatically lean to their side of arguments, joint ventures, whatever the situation may be. I’ll save you my angry rant and just leave this be. I still like Corinne, but think it’s ludicrous to like Michael just because he’s gay. You have no idea what he style of play may be or what strategies he already has in mind, but you want to play with him just because you like that he likes other men. As Charlie Brown would say, good grief.
Almost as bad as it was to hear her talking about that, we had to listen to how Phillip wanted to plant his seeds in Julia. This gave Julia the most airtime she’s had the entire season, so I’m actually sure she was happy about Phillip wanting to lay the pipework to her. And, yes, I know he didn’t mean it that way. It’s just that whenever Phillip talks, you can’t really pay attention to what he’s trying to get across, you just have to go with what you know and at this point, everyone knows I’m going to head towards the sexual innuendo. It’s second nature.
Scott, I actually do think the tribes are random. Because this is a game show and people are competing for money there are major gaming regulations put on the show. CBS cannot do anything to the game that intentionally gives certain players an advantage or disadvantage unless all players have equal opportunity to achieve/avoid it. The producers can certainly impress upon them certain opinions about others, but they can’t blatantly do anything that impacts a person’s ability to win fairly. I don’t think the producers can lie to the contestants and tell them it’s random if it’s actually not.
Yet, the contestants all sign away ANY rights to talk about the production of the show to anyone outside of the producers and CBS? If it truly was all random, I’d think it wouldn’t matter if people talked after the show was over. Hell, when I was talking to Christina Cha, she couldn’t even answer a question about WHERE they did the ITMs. I didn’t even ask anything about who was there, what they asked, I just asked where they did them.
I’m not accusing them of anything, just pointing out that we’d be stupid to think that the producers don’t do these things intentionally, for ratings purposes. They knew when they were taping that Reynold was going to be a big pull for viewers, so of course they just so happen to “switch” tribes after he’s about to be shown the door. And, you’d have to assume that in their ITMs that the producers pull all kinds of psychological tricks on these dummies to get them thinking in another direction. And, I’d be willing to bet my 401k that some of them even tell contestants things that are said in other ITMs. Maybe not by who, but definitely the what side of things.
But, you never know. Maybe that team really was just the luck of the draw. 🙂 I’m just cynical.
Maybe we’re both right…
Link, see excerpt below: http://www.realitynewsonline.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl?mode=1&article=article1133.art&page=1
“Dateline then explains why all of this is potentially important, by reminding us of the quiz show scandal of the 1950s. The FCC set up rules to keep producers from meddling in game shows. As Lance says, if the producer is influencing the show, it’s an FCC violation. But the L.A. Times reporter notes that the FCC is taking a more hands-off approach currently, and probably has bigger fish to fry that allegations of interference in Survivor. While I understand this sentiment, I think it’s really sending the wrong signals. Those laws are in place for a reason, and to say that they aren’t going to bother enforcing the laws essentially gives free reign for Burnett – or anybody else – to do whatever he pleases. If they aren’t going to be enforced, the FCC should just end the charade and remove the regulations altogether, so everybody knows that it’s okay once again for producers to mess around with the outcome of game shows.”
I think I must have missed an episode. Did Malcom find the idol? I know Reynold found one again but when Malcom and Andrea were having a conversation about her dream I couldn’t remember it happening?!
mtmom-My family and I said the same thing about Malcolm’s idol. I can’t imagine they wouldn’t air that footage, but for the life of me, I can’t remember Malcom finding an idol…
Did ANYONE else notice all of the bags at the feet of the favorites right before they were told they were switching up the tribes?!!! I can’t imagine those weren’t their own personal bags, so wouldn’t that be the world’s tiniest clue that something was up?
I seem to remember a couple weeks back when Malcolm DID find an idol, and Corrine or someone knew about it. I guess he’s been holding it all this time since the Favorites haven’t needed to go to Tribal.
As for Global Cooling…I say “Bring on the snow!” We’re hitting the slopes in Park City, Utah, for Spring Break, and some school board moron thought it would be a good idea to push the break to the second week in April here in
Atlanta. We’re biding our time until we can MOVE out there permanently.
Thanks for that article – that’s interesting stuff. But, anybody who watches the show with an inquisitive mind can tell that they’re up to something each and every episode. I won’t believe that anything on ANY of these reality competition shows isn’t scripted until I finally get on one of the shows. I’ve just always been a cynic, and always will be. It’s the way of the world now.
As for Malcolm finding the Idol, they did show that. It was way in the beginning of the show. Maybe even episode 1, or maybe 2. I can’t remember. But, I do remember them showing it…