17.11 "I wanna be aligned with the good guys."

Kenny really is getting to be insufferable--I hate that Bob is falling for his whining after Bob and Corrine semi-played him.

Bob keeps winning stuff--I love it. What I don't like is when people come on Survivor and get all pious about their integrity. Bob's promise to Kenny was stupid.

I like Matty, but he doesn't have much of a personality.

Crystal's decision to bully Matty was a HUGE mistake. Sugar was set on sticking with Ken and Crystal, and then they revealed their arrogance.

I like the carnival games--last week giant gorge skee ball, this week, mini baseketball. ANd the blindfolded obstacle and puzzle was awesome.

Kenny wants to use Bob's dumb promise against him. Bob is irritated at Kenny's whiny request, and he should be, but he put himself in this situation. But Kenny REALLY over played the necklace thing. He should've let it lie. Kenny also came off like a punk calling Bob out about it Tribal. The jury was happy to see him keep it--they don't realize he's safe anyway.

I LOVED when Sugar told Matty to let her do the thinking, LOL, that was awesome. Sugar is awesome. But she should never play poker. Interesting that Jeff didn't ask Sugar anything of substance at Tribal. I think he knew Sugar might give something away. Jeff claims he's not biased, but he violates the Prime Dirrective every now and again.

LOVED Sugar giving Matty the Idol--and the jury was thrilled. Corrine may hate Sugar, but she hates Crystal and Kenny more. Can Kenny win? I doubt it--unless he goes in with Susie. Interesting. Not super compelling, but interesting. I'd like Sugar, Bob, Matty...then Kenny then Susie--Susie flat out hasn't done jack crap. Kenny at least has played a good game (at times). But I'm hoping for Sugar or Bob. Time will tell...

Peace Out!

Christine

See ya Crystal.

17.10 "He smelled like a campfire, he smelled good!"

This season has had it's moments, but it's easily the worst since Vanuatu--another season that had some great scheming but not a lot of rootable players.

I did like that Bob and Corrine's plan was plausible and their execution was almost flawless--Corrine was a little too suck uppy with Ken. Ken was so quick to buy their story. I don't QUITE get being so anxious to dump Matty as a physical threat when Corrine has all the friends of the jry--she absolutly needed to go, and not just because she's a hateful witch.

I really really hate the Nobag name.

I loved when Susie yelled at Corrine about what a baby Corrine was being about the fact that everyone else is playing the game too--and they're playing it better than you, Corrine.

I loved the discussion of how to spell Corrine's name. Hah!

I'll be glad when this is over.

Christine

It was nice to see the loved ones, and I got weepy when Sugar and her sister spread the ashes

Survivor 17.9 "Wait for it. Wait for it."

It continues to boggle my mind how Corrine can continue going around talking about how stupid Sugar and Matty are, when it is her who is continually being played.

I'm glad they got rid of the whole "pooling money" thing from the auction a little while back. Kenny played the whole thing very badly--too passive. I think he does well when he can immerse himself in the "game," and be this character he's created, but when things get social, he gets shy and awkward. He was wise to defer to Matty, who needed some sort of reassurance of thier friendship, but why not bid for the clue? Fortunatley, it didn't help Corrine win in the end, but still. In Guatemala, doomed Danni parlayed a leg-up in ONE challenge to an eventual Championship.

Wasn't it classic to watch Randy and Corrine actually talking about Randy's strategy of REALLY BEING AS ASS, as like, a new and exciting strategy and not, you know, RANDY? But then it got even better--logical Randy actually got Matty to lobby the others to dump Bob before Randy...and then undid it by insulting Matty to his face and being ugly and hostile to Susie. Oh, but everyone ELSE is stupid, right Corrine?

Does Sugar come off even remotely dumb to anyone else? She's sweet, witty...yet Randy, Corrine and Bob don't think for a second that she has it--even when Bob reads ALL the clues and doesn't find it, he thinks it's still out there, and Randy and Corrine just flat out don't thing she found it--and remember, Marcus told her she was continually sent back because they all thought she'd need to use it to stay alive--so they think she must be annoying as well. I think she's delightful.

There was a smart side to Randy and Corrine's plan--they were correct that they couldn't pull off any sort of niceness and "let's be friends" fakeness (though Corrine really should be trying to flirt her way in with Kenny--it really wouldn't take much more than talking to him every now and then). Anyway, we've seen the Idol switcheroo work wonderfully in the past (bye, Edgardo)and they're desperate. So, okay, there's a chance Bob has the Idol, so the plan is reasonably sound...and you plan to blindside...SUSIE. Just 'cuz ya hate her. Kenny and Matty would make a lot of sense. I get NOT getting rid of Matty because he doesn't totally hate you, but firemaking notwithstanding...is Susie really a threat? But maybe they're so hatefilled, they don't see any of them as threats so who cares?

So, Randy's a goner no matter what happens, but Sugar spices it up by convincing Bob (who confided in her that he has a fake Idol) to give it to Randy so that he can make a jackass out of himself by using it. The look of smugness on his face--the way he tried to pass himself off as a good and generous person as he recounted that ridiculousness over the cookies--oh, he so had it coming. I loved, too, how everyone could hear Crystal yelling her hate as she cast her vote. It was all very awesome and mean spiteful Randy had it coming--though I'm curious as to why Bob went along with such a mean scheme. I'm hoping Sugar's plan involves overthrowing Kenny, Crystal and Susie. I'd like to see Sugar, Bob and Matty make it to the end. I'd also, just out of curiosity like to see Olympian Crystal do something...you know...athletic?

Randy finishes in 8th place, just like Poor Jenna, mean Jerri (though she seems downright cuddly next to Corrine), bitchy Brandon, weird Zoe, Ken the cop, Deena who outsmarted herself, dear Rupert, brave Chad, weak Janu, paranoid Jamie, sweet Sally, snotty Candice and arrogant Mookie. In China, goffball Frosti ran out of luck.

Peace Out!

Christine :D

Survivor 17.8 "I have to act like I care about her."

Why are Randy and Corrine so full of hate? Why does everyone continue to underestimate sweet ol' Sugar?

I loved when Corrine and Charlie had their post-Marcus meltdown and said he "deserved" to stay in the game longer, and Kenny and Susie shut them down. Deserve ain't got nothing to do with it. Randy's inabilty to get over Matty's "not listening to him" about his 100% chance vs. Matty's 90% chance to win the game--which they won, EVEN AFTER THEY WON just showed how unstable Randy is--Now that Matty has more power in the tribe, he should be mending fences right around now.

I loved how Charlie was lamenting losing Marcus's brains--"he did a lot of our thinking" when genius boy's throwing away the Idol was monumentally stupid. Survivor at it's best is one Aesop's fable after another and people keep getting cocky. Kenny better watch out.

Uh, Bob's fake Idol kicks ASS! I'd fall for it.

Did anyone else think Randy's criticism of Crystal and GC, was loaded with racial overtones?

Loved how Randy mocked Crystal's patheticness re: building a fire, and then he couldn't do it either. Who did? Susie and Sugar. Loved it.

Randy is Buseyesque, don't you think?

I loved when Sugar told Jeff she wouldn't have annoyed people around camp had she spent more time there, because she doesn't talk crap about people.

LOVED when Jeff had to have Randy explaing that his C.C. vote was for Crystal Cox.

LOVED that Sugar voted against Charlie, after Corrine went on and on to us about how stupid Sugar was to believe Corrine's fake friendship.

Charlie wasn't as bad as the rest of his group, but he was getting smug. He finishes in 9th place with goofball Greg, finger-wagging Alicia, falsely accused Kelly, Cry baby Johnny pots and pans, busty Erin, Dave the rocket-scientist, Ryan-O, Sarge, Coby, Bobby Jon (his 2nd ouster), Austin, self-enamored Nathan, Edgardo (best blind side EVER??) and ca-raaazy Jean Robert.

Peace Out! :)

Christine

17.7 "I am an extremely vindictive person and I will get my revenge."

Ha! I was very pleased with the twist that brought a premature end to the dull alliance of Marcus, Charlie Randy and Corrine. Turns out, they're gonna have to prove they can roll with the punches.

Observations:

I laughed when Randy chewed out Susie for assuming was being a complete ass the ONE TIME he wasn't being a complete ass.

Loved how proud Marcus was about his oh so brilliant idea to manipulate everyone into not taking the Idol and instead, dumping it in the ocean. You're right, Marcus, that HAS never been done before! What was up with the Fang's not trying to get it? The whole "We'll look like jerks if we admit we have no power and feel vulnerable" thing was troubling.

I hate Randy.

I lobster hate Corrine.

Random that Marcus is tight with Crystal's cousin--loved how Crystal played him. Marcus seems like a great guy--but he also seems like the kind of guy who assumes everyone's rooting for him because he's such a great guy. Crystal quardupled her standing as a major player by recognizing that Marcus' offer to take her in as a replacement for Susie was a bad deal, especially as he wanted to eliminate her best bud Kenny.

Enjoyed the drama of Sugar realizng she ousted Ace too soon and that she'd been played by Kenny--it's very soapy.

I'm very tired of Susie saying she has to be Top Three--it's like Rain Man and Wapner. Susie definitly has to be Top 3.

I was frustrated with that horrible Kelly's inability to communicate a few weeks ago, so was therefor gratified when Crystal laid it all out for Susie--when she did the social math for her about how Marcus couldn't promise her anything because Randy and Corrine hate Susie.

Blidesides rule. The only sadness I have is for poor Charlie. I hope he recovers.

Marcus finishes in 10th place, like Survivor's first ever major blindside, Gretchen. In the Outback we lost mean Jeff and in Africa Clarence Black of beancangate fame. Boston Rob was dismissed in the Marquesas (but will we ever be rid of him?) and in Thailand we lost that seasn's only sane, rootable player Shii Ann. Roger was ousted by those rotten kids in the Amazon. In the Pearl Islands, all kinds of wacky crap went down--upshot is, we call 110% Andrew, mean Shawn and Osten the quitter as all tied for 10th place. Sweet Bobby Jon left the game (but not my heart), Farmer Brandon, nice guy Nick, prickly Jenny, Michelle...who's escaping me at the moment. In China, Jaime's fake idol couldn't not protect her.

Peace Out! Christine :D

Survivor 17.6 "I want to stab her in the face"

This season kinda sucks. It's not Thaliand bad, but it's Vanautuish, there's just no one to really root for. Prt of the problem is we know so little about Kota, and we know too damn much about Fang. When the tide started to really turn on Ace, I was thrilled, but had Crystal gone, it would've been no big deal.

Poor dumb Dan bumbled around telling everyone how super insecure he was, Randy got meaner and meaner--when Kota won that challenge and he was like, "The bset part about having all this food is THEY don't GET any of it!!" You could tell the others were shocked. The power click of Marcus, Corrine and Charlie have dumped weird Bob for mean Randy...what does it all mean? No one wants to give Randy a million dollars, is what it means.

I enjoyed both teams competing for individual immunity on the log roll--Fang was actually able to have fun. Winner Marcus was then able to give Immunity to Sugar, hoping to turn the tide against a "strong player" like Ace, Matty or Chrstal. I think everyone's waaaaay underestimating Sugar. Ace sure was--he certainly didn't anticipate her turning on him before he turned her in. Good riddance to Ace and his come and go British accent and all his Coup d'whatevers and lambs to the slaughter. Ace finsishes in 12th place with Bible-thumping Dirk, stinky kimmi, Stupid Silas, hippie Gabe, dull Stephanie, tough Jeanne, pointless Michelle, Lisa who was misinterpretted by mean Ami, James who should've been Jom Bob, Smart Brian, crass Bobby, charming Brad and James who I so relentlessly called Rocky, I didn't know who James was until I reread my old blogs. Last season, hot but dumb Aaron was the victim of a tribe switch-up.

Beacuse of the double elimination, we finally spent some quality time at Kota. I'm intruiged at the bond between nice-guys Marcus and Charlie and meanies Corrine and Randy. And I'm glad they didn't get rid of Susie right when she revealed herself to be crazy (read: interesting). It was truly stupid of Susie to reveal to Corrine that she was going to vote for her, but man did Corrine over react (see above quote in title). I'm wondering if this group has what it takes to survive a merge? Should be interesting. I especially loved at Tribal when Corrine used "we" in talking about how her clique had decided to vote and then she akwardly said "I mean, I..." I think it'll be hard for them to keep Bob from sensing he's been dumped for the less appealing Randy, and Bob might join up with Matty, Kenny, Sugar and Crystal.

Poor Dumb Dan finishes in 11th place with Joel, Michael who fell in the fire, angry Lindsay, doomed Gina, Dumbb Robb, Shawna the hostage, Trish who flipped on Rupert, John K., Ibrehim, Amy the cop, Dan the Astronaut Man, someone named Rebecca I barely remember, and that horrible Lisi from Fiji who quit and insisted she didn't. In China, Sherea wore out her welcome.

Next up: looks like a merge, hopefully the non-elephant parts of the show will start to get interesting (you gotta love those elephants).

Peace out!

Christine

Survivor 17.5 "He's the troll under the bridge."

Gotta agree with Crystal--Randy lost big time points with me for mocking Fang over their continued starvation. He was right about them eating too much rice though. ANd it was Jeff who said "Hey, Kota, why don't you eat these danishes in front of Fang." That wasn't cool, Jeff. It's funny that the only jerks on Kota are from Fang, Randy and dumb Dan, who's eating his way out of his tribemates good graces. He's just a tool--which Kota will use and throw away as soon as they're done.

I don't get Sugar--I know a lot of what Ace does is for the camera, so maybe they've bonded in a real way. But to give him the Idol? Really? I hope she gets closer to Kenny, who I think is more genuine. Matty's alliance made a certain amount of sense. Matty's gone a little native and nuts, no?

Oh, sweet Sugar, crying because the others can't share in the fruit she gets in Exile. Oh, stupid arrogant Ace, ordering everyone out of his way so he could bleep up the flag pole all by himself. I'm glad Kota will vote someone out next week, just so we can see the discussion--the preview looked great!

Is there anything more irritating than Kelly's utter lack of affect? That monotone voice, those dead shark eyes--like a doll's eyes...Oh, sorry, that was "Jaws." I enjoyed how Crystal and Ace aren't friends but bonded in an odd way over their hatred of Kelly. Ace as usual viewed her ouster as a bigger victory than it was--anothe coup d'gras!

Kelly finishes in 13th place along with sick Ramona, skinny Mitch, "Did your momma never hug ya?" Linda, big boobed Sarah, rage filled Ghandia, superstitious Joanna, Burton the Bully who was shamefully allowed back in, Bubba the guy that wore the Bob Barker shirt, Angie the Illustrated Girl, Nurse Margaret, classy Ruth-Marie, Jessica aka Flicka, Camp Cookie Anthony, and craaaazy Dave the ex-Model. Bet they all wish they'd kept Jackie around, eh?

Peace out, Christine :)

Survivor 17.4 "Maybe he got eaten by a monkey, dude."

I enjoy Sugar's happiness at going to the Sugar Shack but wish she'd tried to be a little more sly--why tell everyone you kicked back and ate fruit? Why not pretend you looked in vain again? She pretty much told her tribe she had the Idol.

And what was with Dan's cockiness? Trying to rile up Kota to think of themselves as "The Evil Empire"? Poor dumb Dan-trying too hard, as always. But if suits Marcus, Corrine and Charlie, who ares till floating under the radar--but out a 4th with jackie's ouster. I liked how they were pretty much like "Kelly sucks" to her face when they realized Fang had dumped valuable Jackie for Kelly. Randy might make a good fit for Macus/Corrine and Charlie. ANd bless Charlie for his compassion towards hungry Fang.

GC's continued big baby-ness was entertaining and obnoxious. Again with the "I'm a grown man" crap when Crystal JOKINGLY tells him what to do (EAT! for crying out loud)Then he goes off on his very un-grown-man-like pity party. I was glad that everyone was suitablly ticked, and liked Crystal's refusing to call after "A grown man." Crystal knows what the term means. Was Kenny being sarcastic or loyal to GC when he referred to GC's behavior as "how he rolls"?

Ace's screw-up in the Immunity--he actually listened to Randy on the other team instead of his own caller, Sugar--was awesome. Why didn't he get more flak for it? he was still prancing around with that smug smile like he's a master manipulator. It helps knowing he doesn't have fans on the other tribe either but seriously--is he a sociopath? Why can't Sugar see through his crap?

GC finishes in 14th place. In season one, 14th place Stacey the lawyer accused the producers of engineering her ouster. In the outback, Mad dog was betrayed by pal Tina on her way to the top. In Africa, Carl the dentist was punished for having a job and nice things while my husband Hunter was evicted because Boston Rob was so jealous of his awesomeness. Lame Jed went in Thailand, weak Daniel in the Amazon, HORRIBLE Lill the femalebou scout was booted but allowed back in, Brady the FBI agent was voted out and never heard from again, Willard pretended not to be a lawyer, Blake talked too much about his girlfriend's boobs, Misty wasn't as powerful a flirt as she thought, and Cristina and then Rita...I got nothing. In China, Leslie the ultra-Christian got the boot.

Peace Out,

Christine :)