Survivor: Gabon

two hours tonight, can't wait!

Never been crazy about getting "celebrities" like Crystal or that former pro-football player from a few years back. To be fair though, it's a step up from the "LA-based bartender/actor-wannabes" Probst & Co. usually line up...

And apparently I went to high school with that Jacquie chick that's on the new season. Hmm, small world.


And no, at the moment I don't remember any salacious stories about her. Haha.

$18 million on booze and drugs? That's Richard Pryor levels.

I'll tune in for "Survivor Compton" but not before!

She might be kind of dim, but Sugar is so very delicious. I'll be watching her career with great interest.

Some beautiful scenery on this one. Much better than typical beach.

Well after watching this i have a few opinions.

1. I'm not that all impressed by the contestants, seems like same old, same old.

2. That gay dude, i swear that is the gay stewardess from the last survivor!

3. The olympic gold medalist obviously hasn't done any competition or even work out after she got the gold, since she was so slow and winded.

4. There's no way the physics teacher is 57!

5. Little Jay Z will be gone very soon.

6. I like Ken, hope the dork keeps going.

7. Eye candy, yeah, but Kelly being the "hot-girl" ????????????

Marcus' "little torch".

Hey! Where's the outrage now eh?!! *Points finger at FCC*

As getting back to the first post about Probst's thoughts, i haven't really seen Corrine as the "bitch" and Kelly never acted like the "hot one."

My only one observation is that the 2004 gold medalist in track is one of the least athletic people out there.

As for this past tribal council, Ace lied his butt off, he totally brought up the GC/Crystal breakdown similarities.

Why is Matty trying to save Kenny?

Randy is so funny, love to hate him. At least he did better in the "track" challenge then the gold medalist, thats probably why she was crying.

Why does the former Olympian appear to have no athletic abilities or stamina whatsoever? She has struggled in every challenge so far.

While her strategy is puzzling, Sugar is the only compelling reason for watching this season. I needs the eye candy, because this has been deadly dull so far.

I like how Ace is British in the way that Madonna is British.

Ha... I've never watched the show, but a friend in Naples just emailed me this story. He's kind of a friend of hers. She showed me some pics on Flickr recently of his going-away party. He has apparently turned into a real d-bag, and fakes his English accent. She says the rumor is that the girl he smacked had told him she wasn't impressed by said accent.

Anyway, I saw this thread in the New Posts list, and figured this was the reason. Funny.

Hope Probst brings that up at the reunion!

Fairly weak season. Still rooting for Sugar, but her strategy so far seems to be NO strategy.

Hoping Corrine, Bob or Matty will take this.

Sugar is dumb!
Crystal is the least athletic survivor this season and is an olympic athlete? Randy is loser.
Susie is annoying and will probably slide into the final 3.
Ken's reign is going to collapse around him soon.
Bob better speak up soon and start making friends.
Corrine needs a prayer.
Matty should win this.

So going into next tribal, There's Bob, Corrine and Randy vs. Crystal, Ken, Susie, Matty and an unsure Sugar.

That would be more entertaining if Randy wasn't a hateful, racist piece of shit.

Reunion is suddenly going to be great!

The irony is that the entire episode Crystal and Sugar kept saying that Randy was acting like a two year old, then at the challenge, you clearly saw them acting like two year olds.

Next week has to be the week that Sugar and Matty realize that Crystal, Suzie and Ken are tight.. and flip to Corrine and Bob.

When are Ken and Crystal going to realize that their top three cant happen cause Sugar has the idol and they have to vote her out first.

oh, and next weeks preview... not sure what to make of that. interesting though

I like how the editors of this episode didn't even bother to force drama this time to make you believe there was another option at Tribal Council. It was just "Please enjoy Randy digging his own grave for one hour."

Gotta say, at most reunions, tribe members will gloss over whatever shouting matches or arguments they had on the island when Probst grills them on it and say "It was just the Game! We're okay now!" I don't see that happening here. These people clearly hate each other's fucking guts.

I took that preview as Bob trying to cover his tracks with Corrine (was that who he was talking to?). He's making up a story about Marcus keeping the idol and him finding what Bob believed to be the real idol so as to avoid her supreme bitchiness being directed full force at him. That's my read.

good read . it thats true he's really digging a hole he cant get out of

I like Sugar a lot. She won me over the last couple of weeks.

Watching Corinne game herself to death tonight was glorious, though.

Kenny is clearly an idiot, there was no reason for him to vote off Matty.

Andy there was no reason for Matty to be so worried, yet he was. Just goes to show you what they show and dont show. Obviously he knew something was going on.

Didn't like Bob at first but hopes he takes it.

Kenny is a clown. He's one of those people who thinks he's far more clever than he actually is. Several hundred hours of playing Tomb Raider do not a Survivor champ make and he's going to machiavellian-scheme himself right out of the game.

At this point, I'd like to see the following individuals win most to least:
(1) Bob - My wife and I have developed loads of respect for this guy over the last few episodes. And the bow ties rock.
(2) Sugar - She was my favorite at the outset, although she's essentially useless at anything physical. Loved, however, that while she seems to be an airhead, she won last night's Gabon trivia challenge.
(3) Matty - He seems like a decent enough guy... sort of the every man in this edition. On the other hand, he apparently blew an entire fortune on drugs and hookers (okay, maybe not the hookers). On the other other hand, that may be awesome.
(4) Ken - See my comments, supra.
(5) Krystal/Susie (tie) - While Susie is a non-entity, Krystal is equally useless but with the added bonus of being all kinds of attitude-y. I'm most dumbfounded by her apparent absolute lack of athletic abilities or coordination. Seriously, what's that all about, Ms. Olympia?

Even if he voted for Corrine and she had a "real" idol and used it, then Matty would have been voted off. He has no reason to gain "good will" with two people who are outnumbered. If he truely thought that the idol was fake but worth the try, he should have known that Matty would then knock him out.

Now that Corrine is thankfully gone, I don't care who wins now. I'm all about the bitter, self-righteous final Tribal and what could be the most acrimonious Reunion show ever.

Still: go Sugar!

Matty's a major threat to all of them, on paper. He doesn't seem to be killing in challenges, though.

I'd kill Bob next if I was on the island. Between him winning two challenges in a row and using a fake idol scheme two tribals in a row, that guy would be on my shit list.

Not to mention that he's currently got all the jury votes sewn up.

Sugar's playing for second place right now, and I think she knows it. The best thing she can do now is align with Bob and say, "Take me to Final, and you're guaranteed a million. Meanwhile, I pocket a very respectful $100,000, thank you."

Yeah, but there's going to be few to no team challenges anymore. It's everyone for himself, and Matty seems unable to step up alone.

But at this point they phase out the pure brawn. There will be challenges that are less about pushing people off platforms and more about brainpower and stamina. He has the stamina bit wrapped up.

There is going to be the 'What do you know about your fellow Survivors' challenge yet to come, and there may be one more massive endurance test. Matty will likely not win the first. He could win the second.

Greatness tonight. I knew that Ken's plan last week was complete dogshit.

I think Bob has it in the bag, but I said that about Amanda last season also. Looking forward to a plethora of ugly jury speeches this finale!

Sugar is quite the little mastermind and all because of some nebulous concept of good guys versus bad guys. Not complaining, however, as Crystal should have been gone about 7 tribal counsels ago.

It's hard to remove myself from what I know and they don't know, but man, getting rid of Crystal was dumb. Sure, she's useless but

a) she's not the brains of the Kenny/Crystal evil team. Now Kenny has a chance to rearrange his strategy.

and

b) I'd rather be sitting next to her in the final jury than ANY of the others. She's useless in everything and she's a pain in the ass. She cannot win the million no matter what.