Did Bikal even show up for the Immunity challenge? I remember watching it, but it kinda seemed like it was a New Gota team practice, where they just daintily ran through an obstacle course, pushed around some oversized sand cubes, and then put together a small puzzle while these other 7 people just watched as they did it. And, some random guy shouted random sentences every so often.
It didn’t even matter what strategy Bikal had, they were losing this challenge. It doesn’t matter that Phillip went out three times in the first five blocks, because the Gota tribe already had a pretty decent sized lead at that point. And, nobody else on that tribe was going to do a better job than Phillip. When Cochran and Matt are your other men, I’d pick the old, out-of-shape man, too. I guess that Cochran didn’t take the Puzzle Skills 202 course at Harvard, because he let Julia take the reigns on the puzzle side, which led to Gota finishing before Bikal even had their first piece in place. Again, though, it wouldn’t have mattered, because the Bikal tribe didn’t even have enough team strength to lift those cubes onto the upper level stages they needed to place them. So, even if Julia could have figured out where they went, it wouldn’t have mattered because nobody could have lifted them to that spot. Thanks for playing. Pick up your consolation prize on your way out.
Someone needs to help Corinne out with her analogies. Sitting next to a baby on a plane, that has diarrhea. I’m fine with sitting next to a baby. You’re supposed to tell us that the baby is crying hysterically, Corinne. That’s the analogy. And, I can think of plenty of worse situations than having to put up with Phillip giving a speech. Also, here’s an idea – WALK AWAY from him! You’re on an island, not an airplane. You’re not stuck in your seat. You can say “Man, I really have to pee” and just walk away. Sure, by the eighth time you did it in 3 days, he’d catch on, but who cares at that point. You need your peace.
Oh God, someone needs to stop Phillip. Matt and Michael should both get their SAG cards off of this show after the impressive display they put on by not laughing in Phillip’s face with all that StealthRUs talk, and him telling them they’d be approached by one of his associates with a mission that they’d HAVE to complete, in order to receive their StealthRUs name badge and swipe card. Wow. I can’t imagine how happy Phillip must have been when Probst told them they were switching tribes, because he knew he’d get to have this conversation with a new group of people. Personalities like Phillip LOVE new audiences. They never need them, but they love when they’re around. He’s just always performing without even thinking he’s performing. He’s a revelation. He truly is.
Also, Corinne, the reason he’s the leader is exactly what Matt said – even though everyone knows he’s crazy and annoying, they’re listening to him. They’re letting him be the speaker, they’re letting him decide on voting strategies, they’re letting him come up with ideas for challenges and whatnot. In the game of Survivor, the person you all go to in those situations tends to be the leader of the group. As much as you don’t like that person being the leader, it doesn’t matter – they are because you let them be. You said it yourself. You’re letting him think that way, but the difference between letting a person who isn’t in charge think they are and letting that same person actually be in charge is that you’re not doing anything to go against their rule. But, I’d imagine that day is coming. I don’t think Phillip is going to win this season. He’ll be overthrown at some point. I’m guessing final 6 is his final resting place.
Hey, Harvard boy comes up with a good idea. Don’t vote out the weak girl that you can get out whenever you want, vote out part of the duo that came on board with you guys a day ago! That is the right plan. You’re never going to win any challenges, so I guess it doesn’t matter who you vote off, but for all you know, Probst is going to merge the two tribes tomorrow, and you don’t want to go into the merge and leave a “strong” duo in your midst. You definitely need to break those two up, which is what Cochran suggests. There seems to be a little discord between the group discussing it, which leaves it up in the air going into Tribal. But, you’d have to assume they’d be smart and vote out Matt. Right?
“God save the gay.” Corinne is priceless. And, that’s not a compliment. Again, though, I like Corinne. I’m not sexist. Or homophobic. I love the gays. And they love me. I’ve told you all about those stories…
That sounded a lot worse for any new readers…go back and read my past blogs. They’re in there somewhere.
Anyway, God did save the gay. And Julia. As Matt got the shaft. Smart decision on their part. Although, like I’ve said above, it didn’t matter who they voted out now, because they’re going to continue to lose, and they could have just voted out Matt the next time around. But, it’s smart to break up the duo now, because you never know who that duo would approach and get to sway their vote. It was the right move.
And, next week, we’ll be waving good-bye to Julia. Nice try, Julia. See you around.
Until next time,
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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…