It was more like extreme version of water polo than basketbrawl. Brutal. The mud game was funny though.
It was quite a funny episode. Rohan giving up the idol was a bit stupid. Why didnāt Rohan vote for Sue?
Next challenge on Survivor will be a spelling one āSpell your tribe mateās namesā- guess which tribe will fail miserably.
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So glad that annoying bitch got turfed.
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Andrew next, hopefully.
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That was a really stupid decision, but it seems par for the course on Australian Survivor. I donāt think Iāve seen Phoebe contribute once in challenges. Sheās failed at puzzles, she offers no physical strength, was useless in the basketball challenge and was the last one to get her hair covered in mud. Additionally Kat had no ties to Saanapu, the only easy target without solid ties.
Found it pretty funny that Phoebe was the one lecturing Kat on decency and respect. LOL the irony. As was her being perceived as the scorpion temptress or some crap. Yep Phoebās youāve got the two faced, using, useless villainess edit distinctly lacking in charm.
Lee showed himself to be a shallow, chauvinistic pig, but as if that revelation was a surprise.
Really disappointed Craig never found the idol. Itās also strange that Craig had been actively looking for days with a clue and came up short but lshe came up trumps in one single morning. Wonder which producer tipped her off.
I also find it interesting that nearly every season of Survivor there is always one annoying ratty young woman that feels the need to bully and target an older woman. Why is that? Usually we get the stock standard excuse of āshe was jealous of my beautyā card but Phoebe decided to play the useless and ageist trump card. So delusional and incredibly lucky.
Iāve got a favourite. But wait I will probably spell her name incorrectly as well. Phoebe?
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Yeah forgot that the Aussie version did a revote to resolve a tie a few eps back, sorry.
Chris, I thought the American version doesnāt do rocks any more at any stage? I might be mistaken again but there seems to have been a few fire making challenges recently and ones where I recall a large amount of people watching on (the jury perhaps though?).
Yeah Iām calling bullshit. Craig had very specific instructions and couldnāt find it, and mysteriously we just see Phoebe with it in her hands? Where was it? We didnāt even see.
Producer would have asked, in crafting a confessional statementā¦are you on the bottom? Yes. Have you thought about looking for an idol? No. Where would one be? Not sure. Have you noticed anything funny about where Craig went to yesterday? etc. etc.
Yeah, she was a nasty bitch. Did you see the way she snapped at LaPaglia when he said she was struggling through the challenge? She was. She was last over the roped pyramid, and struggled through the step-through maze at the tail end.
Whoās the idiot with the ponytails? She seemed shocked when Kat stated at TC tonight that Kat had pledged her loyalty to Vavau previously. No shit, thatās why Kat voted with them for Rohanā¦why did you decide to go along with that plan? What a dopey.
Iād hate it if he won. Canāt stand him at all.
It was the jury.
Iām going one step further and saying she was virtually handed it. There was some dodgy camera work and the idol pouch looked very clean without dirt. Also the place where she āfoundā it wasnāt very distinctive at all.
I also find it hard that a bimbo that alienates her tribe by telling the boot order so the person can hear, canāt even formulate a coherent strategy with her closest ally and canāt lie convincingly to save herself would manage to find something so quickly.
It isnāt the first time a player has snapped at the host. Her foot did get caught and she was on the end of carrying the pole so it sort of stands to reason she would be last over the pyramid.
I also feel like the original Aganoa had a bullying issue which was severely downplayed by the edit. Kat and Kristie seem to have bore the brunt of it and would explain Katās seething hatred for Zoolander himself and her coming accross as a relentless bitch, which I loved by the way.
The idiot with pony tails is Krusty Kristie.
I would too but I have a feeling he might win. Iām pretty confident the winner is on the blue tribe and Sam, Kylie & Lee make it very far. Loved to be proven wrong though.
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Not just the Aussie version. So does the US. Always.
Nope. Thats why we rarely see a tie on a revote as people donāt want to draw rocks. The last time I think was the first Blood vs Water (season 27) but weāve since had some ties at the Final 4. Apart from the very first few seasons where they went on previous votes the below rule applies:
In a case of a tie, the players in question would not vote, while the remaining players vote again and are immune from the revote. If the tie holds at the revote, the vote is deadlocked.
If the deadlock occurs at any time before the final four Tribal Council, the rest of the tribe except those who were in the tie, won individual immunity, or used a Hidden Immunity Idol will draw rocks, and the player who gets the uniquely colored rock will be eliminated (if only one person would be eligible to draw rocks, they are eliminated by default), unless the remaining players who are not involved in the tie unanimously agree to eliminate either of the tied castaways (as happened in āLie, Cheat and Stealā). At the final four Tribal Council, the two tied players will instead have to perform a fire making challenge, where the loser goes home.
If a tribe enters Tribal Council with only two members, as happened to the Ulong tribe in Survivor: Palau, no official vote is held and the tribe goes straight to fire making.
As for last night I feel like Iām getting into the season now that there are less people. Well only one contestant stands out for me and thatās probably because sheās the underdog and thatās Phoebe. I canāt help but cheer for her, but also agree that her finding the Idol is a bit suss. Given Craig has tried searching for it at least twice with a clue and she just spots it right up. Andrew though is an idiot. Too early in the game to be so cocky and overconfident. He seems very similar to a Russel Hantz / Tony type character. I hope Phoebe can get revenge on him with that Idol.
The big downfall of this season is still how they picked the tribes last week. You had a strong tribe win the challenge, who then went and picked a strong team. Now they are dominating every single challenge. That whole concept was just stupid and tribes should have switched more fairly. Iām assuming though tonight or Sunday there will be another tribe switch up (and probably some gimmicky twist or non vote off ep).
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Phoebe languishing now at the bottom is called karma. I actually gave her props for being strategic at her old tribe, but itās clear she was the brightest spark in a pack of defective bulbs. I canāt give her any credit anymore as sheās pretty much either hopeless or useless. When she gets power it goes to her head and when she has none sheās a dumb hypocrite. Though now the producers have helped her out Iām sure sheāll be okay for the moment.
Andrew is just a try hard poser. I donāt like him and I donāt hate him. Heās just kind of there. I do think he has the ability to be a grade a asshole like Russell, but Russell had plans and ideas that workedā¦initially. He does seem to have the inept and clueless abrasiveness going on though. He also canāt read people very well. For all his talk Iām not sure of how much killer instinct he has. So far heās been all mouth.
I agree about the tribes. I donāt think yellow is completely hopeless, they may get lucky, but they lack brawn, common sense and puzzle makers. If thereās no boot again tonight so soon after the last ones itās going to piss me off. The stop start nature is going to get really tedious as the show goes on and it will probably kill any momentum the show has.
Iām starting to think that Andrew is a bit of an act. In the sense that he claims that heās a super fan so wants to be memorable and remembered as this hard player who has controlled the game (like Russell or Tony). However a superfan should know that playing this way very rarely pays off (Tony in Cagayan was the only real exception). The attitude that he has in the preview for tonightās episode which is basically the people who voted for me are next to go is just pathetic and Iām not sure I take him so seriously because surely heās smarter than that. Next his own alliance will be onto him if he thinks he is going to make all the calls.
Yeah everytime the show has momentum they then go and kill it. I reckon tonight will probably be a normal episode but by Sunday it will probably be time for a tribe switch of some sort so it wouldnāt surprise me if then itās a no boot episode again or some gimmicky twist instead of Tribal. Then we would expect it again at the merge ep as well.
I agree to an extent. I think his bravado is all show and heās desperately trying to make himself memorable and over exaggerate his behaviour. I feel deep down he is genuine and I feel like Lee, Matt, Sam, Kristie & Jenna are the biggest phonies out there. I also feel some of his actions are powered by his insecurities, but most of all just a really big lack of self awareness. I doubt he realises that most of his actions in his tribe are coming off pretty bad, much like Nick. I doubt he thinks heās playing or strategy is coming across as terrible. He isnāt alone in that either.
As for him vowing revenge in the preview Iād say that itās a predominant mix of fear, paranoia and wanting revenge. Iād have the same reaction too. From memory he only addressed the camera and didnāt have a Rupert-esque blow up like in Pearl Islands so there was no real harm done. I do think him over playing it might have at least creeped in a little though.
I also think his biggest crime is trying to find witty soundbites to ensure his head is always visible. Heās been really struggling and getting tongue tied and he hasnāt been making much sense. Ducks in a barrel? Is he channeling Alecia and her embryos?
As for crediting him for being smarter than that, I wouldnāt. The real question is though does he have the balls to actually follow through with a plan of his own instead of waxing lyrical about it and taking orders from Craig and Sue and even Kate.
One thing of note though was last week on Tenās popularity poll contest he was by far and away the leader which was quite frankly bullshit as he had no where near enough screen time or presence to warrant that. So heās not above stooping to new lows like rigging an online poll to ensure that he gets attention and is memorable.
On some other Survivor sites there were actually other pre-season polls I saw (mostly American sites) and he ranked the highest in all of those as well. Everyone was dumbfounded why as he didnāt even really feature in any of the pre-season commercials. Is he that full of himself that he is voting for himself (ore recruited people to vote him) in all these polls? Seems like it.
Chris I agree. The show has become a lot easier to watch with less contestants and only two tribes. I have never been a big fan of the three tribes to be honest. Just out of curiosity has the American version ever done 4 tribes? Not that I want it.
Yes. It was a disaster with only 16 contestants and I think it only lasted an episode or two. It was season 12 Panama where it was split into young men, old men, young women, old women. It also occurred in season 13 Cook Islands with 20 contestants this time divided by race. Producers freaked out when the white tribe decimated its competition so a little production help was necessary to secure a minority win. It was supposed to happen again in season 14 but a girl quit and we had 19 players.
Heās definitely recruited. I would really pity him if he wasted all of his time alone doing those meaningless polls. Just sad and embarrassing.
This is slowly turning into TBL 2015, with one team winning every challenge. 
Although tonightās episode had two challenges it finished at 8.54pm, unless previous ones which sometimes did not finish until 9.15pm. Was it due to tighter editing or less ads?