Survivor: Gabon

[Gold]

Never been a Survivor or reality show fan.

I think the winner should be anybody who can find Gabon on an unmarked map of Africa.

 

[andrews_mom]

I heard Charlie has been IMing Clay Aiken

 

[jps]

I think they ask people to wear what they'd normally wear for work, and often the start of the game is sprung on them -- they are told they're going to a cast photo shoot or something. You've got to think if those guys had had the option of playing the game in a full set of jungle gear from REI, they would have. I assume they're not just morons.

Also, I kind of liked that the one guy made a bow tie out of his buff. That was amusing.

watched online and one of the little clips they have on there is of the chick that got voted out ranting for a few minutes. she does say something about how maybe her attire wasn't appropriate for being out there, and says something like 'but that's not my fault ... it's not like I got to choose what I wore.' seemed an odd statement.

 

[terrier]

Charlie = gay Tom Brady.
I've quickly become a fan of the guy who looks like Nick Nolte in the drunken mug shot. I don't think he makes merge, but he'll be good for some laughs.
What was Gillian thinking with the mom tribe? This has the makings of a tribe worse than Ulong in Palau. The St. Louis Rams will win before this tribe does.
Whiny first girl out should've just shut her yap. Gillian seemed like the obvious boot before that.
Can't wait for the three-way pan-sexual catfight to break out over Marcus.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Probst has this game figured out. He kind of beat a leader out of that tribe because he knows that will create drama. The "leader" tag is the dumbest part of this show. All it does is give the other tribe members a cheap excuse to vote someone off. It never fails, they all know it yet nobody wants to admit it.

I'm glad, glad, glad Gillian was voted off. Man was she annoying. She almost died on the hill while her team was getting their asses handed to them, and she went and talked about how great everyone did. Then they voted off the one girl who actually got up the hill because she was pretty honest about how ****ty everyone was.

And the Olympic athlete looked like a crap athlete. Dress or no dress, shouldn't a gold medalist be able to climb a hill better than a professional video game player? Hello?

I thought the same thing. If she was tanking it (I don't think she was) that would be one thing, but that was just pathetic.

 

[Buck]

I think they ask people to wear what they'd normally wear for work, and often the start of the game is sprung on them -- they are told they're going to a cast photo shoot or something. You've got to think if those guys had had the option of playing the game in a full set of jungle gear from REI, they would have. I assume they're not just morons.

I think that's a poor assumption. The one jackass keeps wearing his tie to tribal council.

 

[DanOregon]

If I'm anywhere close to be selected to be on Survivor, every meeting I attend I've got a swiss army knife and other essentials jammed up where it can't be found, and I'm wearing boots.

 

[Buck]

If I'm anywhere close to be selected to be on Survivor, every meeting I attend I've got a swiss army knife and other essentials jammed up where it can't be found, and I'm wearing boots.

That's me every day, and I've never even applied to be on 'Survivor.'

 

[jps]

you suppose they just swing by and pick you up from your job or something, leaving you generally ill-prepared clothing wise for the adventure?

 

[DemoChristian]

Why does the tribe need a leader anyway?
The Olympic athlete is a joke.
The whole Fang tribe is a joke, in fact.

 

[TwoGloves]

Bringing along coke-bottle glasses might help with making a fire, no?

 

[jps]

my guess is that they'd nix that, tg, unless you actually need the things. they're not in the business of making this easy on these people - that's not good tv. though trying to convince them that you need reading glasses -- you know, for tree mail -- might be an easier sell.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Bringing along coke-bottle glasses might help with making a fire, no?

Anybody who is on that show should show up wearing glasses for that reason. It's even been talked about before on the show.

 

[Buck]

Why did the producers give Fang a flint to make fire?
Flint was a prize for the winners of the challenge. Fang lost the challenge, but then got flint anyway.
Lame.
It also robbed us of the chance to watch that stupid, tie-wearing ******* trying to get a spark by striking an animal bone with a machete.

 

[StormSurge]

Why did the producers give Fang a flint to make fire?
Flint was a prize for the winners of the challenge. Fang lost the challenge, but then got flint anyway.
Lame.
It also robbed us of the chance to watch that stupid, tie-wearing ******* trying to get a spark by striking an animal bone with a machete.

It's possible my memory is going, but I could've sworn they haven't done that in the past, until a tribe has "discovered" fire.

 

[Buck]

Why did the producers give Fang a flint to make fire?
Flint was a prize for the winners of the challenge. Fang lost the challenge, but then got flint anyway.
Lame.
It also robbed us of the chance to watch that stupid, tie-wearing ******* trying to get a spark by striking an animal bone with a machete.

It's possible my memory is going, but I could've sworn they haven't done that in the past, until a tribe has "discovered" fire.

Fire was up for grabs in the challenge, but later they showed the losing tribe with a flint starting a fire.

 

[DemoChristian]

Buck is right, but I'm sure they took pity on them because they know that tribe sucks and is going to gets its ass kicked all season.

 

[StormSurge]

Why did the producers give Fang a flint to make fire?
Flint was a prize for the winners of the challenge. Fang lost the challenge, but then got flint anyway.
Lame.
It also robbed us of the chance to watch that stupid, tie-wearing ******* trying to get a spark by striking an animal bone with a machete.

It's possible my memory is going, but I could've sworn they haven't done that in the past, until a tribe has "discovered" fire.

Fire was up for grabs in the challenge, but later they showed the losing tribe with a flint starting a fire.

I meant in previous seasons, Jeff would flat out tell them they don't get to take fire back with them. I was surprised to see him hand them a flint this time.

 

[jps]

these guys would probably die minus fire to boil water, cook food, etc. at least the other teams without were just pitiful and hungry for a while. these guys are so full of fail they still might starve.

(to borrow from homer ... I've seen teams that sucked before, but this is the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked.)

 

[Huggy]

At the end of tribal council - the first opne - didn't he tell them to take their torches so now they'd have fire?