"They should've sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful... I had no idea."
Agreed. This photo is priceless.
Some people might think Peewee is "creepy" (I do not) but Regis is, definitely.
This is why:
I watched Phiben as a middle-aged man on the morning Los Angeles news/chat show before he went national to Millionarie and GMA and Live With Regis.
He has not aged a single day in 30 years. That, even in Hollywood, is creepy!
Update/
The most significant move is for “Survivor: Nicaragua,” which will now air on Wednesday. “Survivor” has been a force on Thursday nights for pretty much a decade, and this move either suggests that the network wants to dominate Wednesdays now or that they’re starting to think they can find a better anchor.
Read the entire article at:
http://www.examiner.com/x-11363-TV-Examiner~y2010m5d19-CBS-announces-fall-schedule–changes-for-Survivor-The-Big-Bang-Theory
Meanwhile, in his final EW column, which is always so insightful (“To those of you who think I suck as a host or as a blogger… kiss it”), Jeff Probst reveals that Russell’s responses to Probst’s questions finally made Probst change his mind about Russell. And more interestingly, writes that “Less than 2,000 votes separated” Russell and Rupert” for the $100,000 fan favorite prize.
I understand why people voted for Russell, even if I think that’s dumb, but Rupert? What the hell did he do this season? Parvati, or Courtney, or Jerri, or Rob—so many others would have been better choices.
Read the entire article at:
http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/survivor_heroes_vs_villains/2010_May_18_parvati_russell_fan_favorite
I would have given it to Parvati. I think her flirty manipulativeness turned enough women voters off that she'd not have a chance with "America."
Russell said:
Did you know you lost Samoa when you played Heroes vs Villains?
“Yeah. I knew I lost because you can read what they tell you and how things are going. It’s common sense to know that you did not win.”“I do what I want to do and I don’t care.”
“I got beat by a bitter jury. They voted for the person they least hated.”
“Lebron James never won a championship. They consider him the best.”
Would like to play Rob again?
“No. He didn’t even make the jury twice. Why would I want to play him again? I knocked him out once.”Would you ever come back again?
“I don’t know. I’d have to think about that. The one guy I do want to play against is Richard Hatch.”Sandra said:
“That’s the first time he said that he knew he lost Samoa. If you’re a strategic player, how do you go 10 days later and play the same stupid game?”
“I am the best. I have 2 titles and 2 checks. If that’s not the best, I don’t know what is.”
“Weakness is actually a strategy and I love it. Colby being weak got him to the end.”
“Russell needs to thank Parvati and Jerri and Danielle for keeping his butt in the game.”
Parvati said:
Why did you keep his butt in the game?
“He was my only line of defense. Everyone was trying to vote me out. No one would talk to me. If Russell got voted out, I would have been the next to go.”Would it have been better if Jerri was there instead of Sandra?
“Jerri would have won. I would have had a better shot against Jerri, but it was a bitter jury. They just didn’t want to give me a million again.”Listen to the whole interview. (Quality of the audio is due to the phone call, not the equipment used to record it. Sorry.)
24:31 minutes long 8.8MB Download it here.
Sandra Diaz-Twine did exactly what she promised and won Survivor Heroes vs. Villains, becoming the show’s first-ever two-time winner by using a strategy very similar to the one that worked for her in the Pearl Islands. The most surprising part of a surprising finale was how unsurprised the final three seemed during the live vote reveal; it’s almost as if they knew the outcome in advance.
I'm pretty certain that the last observation in the paragraph above: "it’s almost as if they knew the outcome in advance," was a teeny bit of sarcasm. The reality is that the boot list got published at the very beginning of the season. I think this exposes a flaw in SURVIVOR's long gap between the filming and the airing of each season. (The time-gap issue won't get better with the now-standard back-to-back in the same locale shooting of the show.) Logically, the more time the contestants (and others) have to talk about who they did and did not vote for, the more of a chance that the boot list is going to get out and that it will be accurate.
The boot list for SURVIVOR: Heroes vs. Villains was leaked all over the Internet. When the show aired once tribe members started dropping in the exact order of the boot sheet, with each new boot it became clear who exactly would be in the final three.
I'm just a blogger with no inside info whatsoever and I stumbled across it by the second week of the season--and I wasn't even looking for it! I knew how far my favourite player was going to go from the get-go which was hard as there was no hope for her. I could not believe that Jerri, who was edited to seem unsure and wussy, was going to go as far as she did but when Parvati gave Jerri a HII at tribal that picture started to come together. Finally, Parvati's astounding repeated wins in the personal immunity challenges explained a lot as well as Jerri's blossoming as the season progressed. With my favourite gone and the dwindling tribe getting more screen time I started to appreciate Jerri a lot more personally and for her spirited game play. It seemed the editing at first tried to paint her in a bad light due to her musty, ten-years-ago Australian Outback "black widow" performance.
Jerri was the only one to admit being marooned with Russell scared her. I thought her bravely honest when she did so. Russell was scary to me, safely on this side of the screen. In person Russell was full of cutthroat trash-talk but the thought that he might stab me in the eye while I was sleeping and call it an accident would have prevented me from shutting one eye each night.
Parvati Shallow would have been a great winner, but had to settle for second place—and the distinction of the person who’s played the game longer than anyone else, 114 days. Her three individual immunity challenge wins also tie her for second, though Colby Donaldson retains that title, despite his lackluster performance this season (he attributed that during the reunion to a lack of excitement about being back for a third time).
"...And Russell Hantz got zero votes, though he did win $100,000 thanks to dumb viewers."
Read the entire article at:
http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/survivor_heroes_vs_villains/2010_May_17_sandra_wins
EDIT/ Russell won $200,000 for Player of the (20th) Season plus 100K for second runner-up. Also, he won the exact same amount for the game he played 10 days prior to starting this one--for a pre-tax total of $400K. I look at it this way."Player of the Season" is much like Time magazine's "Person of the Year." That person has been Hitler and it's been American Presidents. It's not how GOOD they are but how influential overall. Rupert had very little effect on this season of survivor. Russell? Hell yeah.
If, after watching the live reunion, Russell’s fans are still convinced that Russell deserves to win, they are as delusional as he is. Rob Mariano explained it perfectly: “the problem with Russell is that he doesn’t play the game to win … he plays a good game to get to the end.” I completely agree: Russell has some incredible game, and over 28 episodes, made some great moves. But he’s also so pig-headed and arrogant and stubborn that he refuses to understand how the game works.
Jeff Probst, thankfully, really questioned Russell during the reunion about whether or not he ever considers jury votes while making moves and behaving like an ass. “I don’t care about that,” Russell said, and continued to say the same thing he’s been saying since he lost in Samoa. Probst didn’t let up—“you haven’t answered what I’ve asked”—and Sandra, hilariously, said, “he doesn’t understand.” He doesn’t.
Read the entire article at:
http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/survivor_heroes_vs_villains/2010_May_17_sandra_wins
Read the entire article at:I’m glad Sandra won. I wasn’t rooting for her because she’s an underdog, nor because of her story about her husband serving in Afghanistan. I still think she played the smartest game this season, despite the fact that she didn’t win that many challenges, and she always came up short when implementing her strategies. It takes a lot to hold on despite being on the outs with virtually everyone–from the beginning, when Rob’s gang got voted off one by one, and later, after the merge, when the Heroes were unable to understand what she was planning. She’s literally a survivor. And you’re saying she didn’t do anything this season? It’s a matter of having the heat off you, the same way Colby lasted this long in the season despite being far from his peak in Australia. With him, it was disappointing watching him flounder in tasks and in morale, since it’s a far cry from the guy we saw kick ass down under. In Sandra’s case, that’s the way she’s always played. Considering the competition–let’s forget what actually happened before, okay?–Russell never really stood a chance at winning this season. It wasn’t a vindictive jury: it was a jury that knew what the game is about. In Tom’s words, it’s one-thirds strategy, one-thirds physical, and one-thirds luck. Russell perfected one aspect but Sandra perfected others, and the jury put a bigger premium on that. Now, that’s respect for the game.
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/survivor/survivor-heroes-vs-villains-wh-36604.aspx
Us: Do you truly believe you’re a worthy champion? Your physical game alone was kind of pathetic. Sandra Diaz-Twine: Yes I deserved it! To me, being the weak player physically actually helped me. Colby dominated on his first season, and the second time he played in All-Stars, the players were scared of him and and they got rid of him right away. People always want to take out the strongest ones. Us: But don’t you think it’s a lot easier to play the game when there’s not a target on your back, a la Parvati? SDT: Remember that I won in the Pearl Islands! On the first day, Randy came to me and said that Parvati was going home first because she had already won [Fans vs. Favorites]. So I went to Parvati right away and told her, ‘I’m going to do my best to save you, because if you go home for that reason, I know I’m next.’ I had to work. Us: Was it really Parvati leading Russell out there, or vice-versa? SDT: She was the shot caller. He was the goat, and she had a rope around his neck and wherever she took him to feed, that’s where he ate his grass.
Read the entire article at: http://www.usmagazine.com/moviestvmusic/news/survivor-winner-sandra-being-weak-helped-me-2010175
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - Colby's Only Option Air Date: 05/13/10 Clip 1:34
Colby feels that his only hope of staying in the game is to play ball with Russell
He starts by saying "So we (the guys denied by reward winner Jerri, of seeing blowholes & their family members) get back to camp..."More of Russell's bullying... or does he have a softer side? Jerri knows better than anyone remaining. Here "Jerri explains her reasons/(excuses(!) for not choosing Russell to accompany her at the reward" She "had a list" of reasons, she said: She would tell him she took Parvati and Sandra on the family reward when he accosted her...but to her great surprise she didn't really need to use them. After Russell literally pulled her aside after the family outing reward, Jerri's suggestion that she didn't picl Russell because she couldn't leave "Sandra behind at camp" with Rupert and Colby...(something) could happen" was all Russell needed to hear to allow Jerri to put her mind at ease. (For now.)
Survivor: Heroes vs Villains - Next Time On: Episode 14 Air Date: 05/14/10 Clip 0:25
3 Tribal Councils, 2 unforgettable hours and 1 ultimate Survivor. All that plus a Live Reunion special. Be sure to catch the season finale of Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, on CBS!
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - Season Finale Predictions Air Date: 05/14/10 Clip 2:46
Web critics including EW's Dalton Ross, assess & opine about the chances for each member of the final five to be the million dollar winner. The problem (as I see it) is that the boot list was leaked at the beginning of this season. Every. single. person has been voted out in the order that the list says. I know of the final three and I've read of the final two and only sane choice for winner. I'm very small fish in the sea so all the critics sharing their thoughts above most certainly are aware of who is rumoured very strongly to be the million-dollar winner yet they are very much keeping straight faces while they expound upon their predictions. I'm talking to you, Dalton (EW) Ross.
Rupert reacts to having just been voted out of the game
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - Rupert's Final Words Air Date: 05/13/10 Clip 3:13 Wow. What a speech! And ego! After the jump" Jerri-centric & other photos I liked from 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' S20.13Jeff Probst blogs Survivor 20: Heroes vs. Villains
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - Preview: Season Finale Air Date: 05/14/10 Clip 2:46
Bold banker Sandra Diaz-Twine (“Pearl Islands”) and sly former boxer Parvati Shallow (“Cook Islands,” “Micronesia”), with whom Hantz aligned himself early in the game, have a chance at becoming the first contestants to win the $1 million grand prize twice. Shallow previously dominated the “Fans vs. Favorites” edition, which pit former players against newbies. “I think Parvati is the best overall player, regardless of whether she wins or loses, to ever play the game of ‘Survivor,’” said Probst. “She came in with a gigantic target on her back, and she managed to not only last in the game but control the game. I think she and Russell will both argue that they’re the ones in control, and both are probably right.” The remaining contestants will compete in two immunity challenges and three tribal councils before the sole survivor is selected on Sunday’s finale at 8 p.m. EDT by a nine-person jury that’s comprised mostly of fallen heroes. Probst promised a close finish in the season’s last immunity challenge, which will feature the final four castaways blindfolded.
Read the entire article at: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jn1sX_Mpn6ymvx01p7pk1ssjm70AD9FMOLE00
The Tribal VoteParvati and Russell have been ruling Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains for so long, it’s hard to remember there are other players. Colby? He’s been worthless: no heart, no skills, no fun. Jerri? Slinking around the shadows, trying to stick with the winning squad. Rupert? Clinging to the idea that he’s one of the good guys. And then there’s Sandra, who’s been playing a delightfully nasty little game all on her own. She’s betrayed the Villains, double-crossed the Heroes, and found an immunity idol she’s kept between herself and her boobs. Last night Sandra was so confusingly awesome and deliciously confrontational, she’s fast becoming one of our eleventh-hour favorites. Not only is Sandra a great Survivor, but she’s an excellent reality-TV personality — an open book who loves to talk shit, have a good cry, and make people furious. And she’s always human: When the players’ loved ones join them in Samoa for a reward challenge, Sandra gets teary explaining why her uncle Fernando’s appearance means so much to her in light of her mom’s death (he seems to mean even more to her than Outback Steakhouse). And the more attention Sandra gets, the more Russell seethes. As we’ve seen time and time again, Russell’s ego is about 10 percent bigger than his game. His desire to squash anyone who challenges his authority clouds his chess master–like ability to visualize his future moves. For weeks, Sandra’s seemingly been gunning for him — she pranced right over to the Heroes after the merge and let them know he was the Villains’ evil patriarch. And ladies have always made Russell uneasy on the show. Last season he built a “dumbass girl alliance” with the intent to betray them all, and has virulent words for the women this week when they all go off on the reward without him: “These girls are a bunch of unappreciative little bitches.” If the key to reality TV is being evil without becoming totally unrelatable, Russell is toeing a dangerous line — with us, and the all-important jury.
Read the entire article at: http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/05/survivor_recap_russell_rupert.html
5 ‘Survivors’ head for finish line – SurvivorThe 20th season of “Survivor” and its epic battle between the Heroes and Villains ends on Sunday. What’s been most interesting, though, is not good versus evil, but what happened when 20 people who know the game came back to play again.
This season, Tribal Council has hosted blindside after blindside, especially for viewers, as we were shocked by moments such as Parvati giving up both immunity idols or Tyson switching his vote and causing his own elimination.
After Thursday night’s episode, only one person from the once-dominant Heroes tribe remains along with four Villains, although with last week’s alliance switching, that distinction matters less than it did before. It seems like it’s anyone’s game. Even people who’ve already won in previous seasons could win again.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37117180/ns/today-entertainment/
Above: Sandra pwns everyone when she plays her found "hidden" Immunity Idol
Jeff Probst Blogs ‘Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains’ Episode 13
PRE-TRIBAL Wow. They’re all losing their minds. Sandra: Rupert, loose lips sink ships. Rupert: Yes, they do. Sandra: Yes, they do and they just did. Russell: Are you with me or against me? Sandra: I’m against you, Russell. Parvati: Who invited Boston Rob back to the party. Are you with me or are you against me? Russell: What are you all doing… you’re being dumb. Go ahead and keep playing around. Holler out whatever you want, you’re diggin a deeper and deeper hole. For a moment it was like an episode of Lost – nothing made sense. Everybody was all over the map going into Tribal Council. Just like I like it… TRIBAL COUNCIL And the craziness continued at Tribal Council. What happened to these guys? They’ve lost their bloody minds I tell you. It was fantastic. Parvati was the highlight: From her worthy impression of a cigar lounge, burlesque dancer, nightclub singer with a stoagie dangling from her lips to her 180 degree head turn toward Russell when asked about the “top villain” question. It was all money.
Read the entire article at: http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/05/14/jeff-probst-blog-ep-13/
After the Jump: Life At Ponderosa, More
THE CAT FIGHT
Wow. Wouldn’t you like to see the left over footage from that scene? Let’s set the stage. Amanda dressed in bikini bottoms with a hoodie on top is surveying the room, looking for the clue. Danielle, dressed much the same way, is on the bed eating popcorn and also wondering where the clue might be. Colby is the only one actually watching the damn movie and he downs a handful of popcorn.
Danielle finds the clue in the bowl of popcorn. She carefully removes it and then tries to hide it from the others by dropping it on the floor next to her. As Amanda continues her hunt for the clue she spots it on the floor.
Amanda grabs it. Danielle tries to grab it back. The cat fight is on.
Two women, dressed only in bikini’s who haven’t showered in weeks fighting over a small piece of parchment in a hotel room while the seemingly oblivious cowboy from Texas continues to watch a movie on the television...
Amanda has it. Danielle wants it back. So... Who does the note belong to? ...
Does it belong to Danielle because she found it? Does it belong to Amanda because she found it after Danielle dropped it on the floor? Should they have to share it? Or does it go to the winner of The cat fight? ... Of course I would opt for the last scenario – let them fight it out and the winner gets it, cause let’s be honest, that would be fun to watch.
INSIGHT: From a rules point of view, there is no rule that covers something this unique. Neither Danielle nor Amanda had a clear-cut case of possession, so it was up in the air.
My call would have been to have them “work it out” which probably would have resulted in all three of them sharing it together. That’s definitely what I would have said if I had been Amanda or Colby, “Let’s work it out together.” I would never have let Danielle walk away with it by herself.
Yes let's talk about Colby's interference in Amanda & Danielle's exchange. Did Amanda ask for Colby's help? It sure did not look like it. (see photo)
Even though Danielle stumbled across the clue, she "hid" it in plain sight just under the bed. Amanda found it but as Danielle herself says in explanation of the physical exchange she had with Amanda, "Finders keepers." That's right, Danielle. Amanda found it because you didn't hide it fast or securely enough.
Given the situation of both women finding the clue to the HII the only reasonable conclusion would have been to have them both read it. Colby should have had NO part to play because based on his account of a full dinner with wine and the evidence of 2/3's a bottle having been imbibed in the room, there was a deep need for someone with a clear-headed assessment. Does this guy look like he fits the bill?
He looks like a typical guy trying tune out and watch the TV. He's pretty zoned--which is his due. He just had no place making judgment calls against his own former tribemate and then-current alliance member.
So Colby screwed not only Amanda but himself as well, because back at camp the next day Danielle told Russell of her good fortune (Russ could now add another notch on his sap-o-meter regarding how easily "Russell Wentz" will take down golden-boy, Colby. <shudder>) Russell, using Danielle's clue from the Stevenson sleepover-catfight, was all over finding the HII and he did so with very little effort. (Why are HII's so easy to find? Under a small rock?!? Seriously?)
Probst has this to say about The Hidden Immunity Idols of future Survivor series:
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RUSSELL FINDS A THIRD IDOL
“I am the king of hidden immunity idols.” I’d have to agree. Over the last two seasons Russell has proven that he has an uncanny ability to find the idols. In fact, he’s so good at it that he’s forever changed how we will handle idols in future seasons.
INSIGHT: Next season it will take more than just looking under a rock to find a hidden idol. I won’t give away what we’re doing, but in planning our creative for next season we coined a phrase, “The Russell Factor” and it influenced how we will play the hidden idol next season."
The 'Russell factor' is causing some online Survivor boards to explode in criticism of 1. The frequent opportunities for players to find hidden Immunity Idols and 2. more specifically, how Russell truly is an immunity magnet. Maybe psychopaths have some extra perception?
Probst seems to be hinting in Jeff Probst blogs survivor that Russell finds yet another HII in this game which would explain a lot of the buzz I've heard. Remember, Russell has given his HII away twice to Parvati--though now he says no more. We'll see if Parvati turns on the charm full blast and if Survivor's resident "toothless troll" as Courtney calls him, can resist her feminine wiles.
In closing:
With Amanda gone, my favourite player is as well.
Whether it was her strength and fearlessness in the challenges, her youth & radiant beauty or her strategical play in SURVIVOR, Amanda Kimmel was/is a wonderful role model of a strong, fit woman--and a true hottie. Her niceness and her willingness to share her feelings with the camera made Amanda a sympathetic "character," though in truth, she is as Jeff Probst has said more than once, constantly strategizing.
I'm amazed when people complain that she cries sometimes. You go live outside with no food for 100 days and see if you don't cry occasionally, is what I have to say to that dumb line of complaint about her.
Side note: When she started this installment of the game Amanda Kimmel she weighed 144 lbs. which many people would knock as "fat." In case you are curious she only shed 12 pounds in 30 days in Samoa. If you look at her next to most all the women and about half or more of the men she's as tall or taller. She looks to be maybe 6' tall -- so 144 lbs.? Pfft!
As noted, Amanda Kimmel "strategized" herself into over 100 days on Survivor with two trips to the final jury vote (getting no votes, sadly, due to her inability to articulate why she deserved to win). She set some records and in sum, was one of the better players ever, IMO.
Since she is now only 25 years old, I'd love to see her in say, 5 years.That I think is the biggest thing that knocked Amanda down--her wavering certitude in her own "greatness." Confidence could have taken Amanda farther in the game and if she were to gain that--and going from age 25 to say, 30 will help a great deal--and play again, I would tune in a few years just to see her.
In other news, I'm not going to spoil it here but the boot list I saw has been exactly right since day 1. Much like LOST, ironically the show modeled on SURVIVOR it seems there have been major leaks in what went on as the SURVIVOR Heroes vs. Villains game played on. This edition (20) of SURVIVOR was made last summer. That's a really long time to ask the multitudes involved with the show to not talk amongst themselves, never mind others.
Survivor: Heroes vs Villains - Season 20, Episode 11
CBS Press Release.
IN THE WAKE OF A GAME-CHANGING TRIBAL COUNCIL, EVERYONE STRUGGLES TO FIND THEIR PLACE IN THE NEWLY MERGED TRIBE, AND SOME PANICKED PLAYERS CONSIDER MAKING NEW ALLIES, ON “SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS,” THURSDAY, APRIL 29
“Jumping Ship” – With two swing votes hanging in the balance, no one can be sure of their safety heading into Tribal Council, and even the most formidable villain in the game makes a potential miscalculation, on SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS, Thursday, April 29 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Read the entire article at:
http://www.cbspressexpress.com/div.php/cbs_entertainment/release?id=24846
Original Air Date: Apr 29, 2010
Amanda reflects on her time in the game of Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains
Survivor: Heroes vs Villains - Amanda the Day After Air Date: 04/29/10 Clip 3:32
Amanda reacts to having just been voted out of the game
Survivor: Heroes vs Villains - Amanda's Final Words Air Date: 04/29/10 Clip 1:10
Amanda expresses the utmost fear of Russell's control over the Villains
Survivor: Heroes vs Villains - The Most Dangerous Player Air Date: 04/29/10 Clip 1:32Amanda describes her incident with Danielle and the immunity idol clue after the Robert Louis Stevenson reward
Survivor: Heroes vs Villains - Amanda's Mistake Air Date: 04/29/10 Clip 2:06
Now here’s where it gets bad. By now you know that Amanda has been voted out. Surprisingly, this is the first time she has been voted out ever. In her other two seasons, she hung in there until the end. She could’ve hung in there until the end this time… if she’d stood up for herself and kept the immunity idol clue. But instead, Danielle had to whine like a preschooler and she whined to Colby (of all people) as if she was fighting over a toy with her sibling and had to get Daddy into it. “Can you tell her to give it back to me?” she said to Colby after mildly struggling with Amanda for the immunity idol clue. And Colby, whose head was obviously not even in the game said something like, “She had it first,” and Amanda gave up the clue to Danielle. But that’s not the end of it. In typical school yard fashion, Danielle proclaims to her Villain buddies that she wrestled Amanda to the floor and ripped it from her hands. Whew. I haven’t laughed that hard in awhile.Read the entire article at: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2951424/a_catfight_on_survivor_and_another.html?cat=9
Colby laughs at the catfight that erupted between Danielle and Amanda at the reward
Survivor: Heroes vs Villains - Colby on the Reward Air Date: 04/29/10 Clip 3:07
Danielle reacts to having just been physically attacked by Amanda during the Robert Louis Stevenson reward
Survivor: Heroes vs Villains - Catfight Air Date: 04/29/10 Clip 1:24
I'll have my synopsis up later I just lost it! Dang!
Season 20, Episode 11
'Jumping Ship'
Episode Synopsis: Russell starts to lose control of his alliance, and Sandra targets him to be the next person voted out of the game as she strategizes with Rupert.
Original Air Date: Apr 29, 2010
If you thought VH1′s …of Love shows were the only place to see women wrestling with each other while yelling things like “psychopath”…well, think again! That equal parts confusing and entertaining struggle highlighted the latest edition of Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains. ... The claws came out when Danielle, Colby, and Amanda went on a reward trip to Robert Louis Stevenson’s home. While watching Treasure Island and chomping down popcorn, Danielle found a clue to the next hidden immunity idol and tried to hide it on the floor so no one else would see. The turned out to be a mistake when Amanda walked over and picked up the clue. Danielle then leaped to her feet and tried to physically wrestle the clue away from Amanda while calling her a “psychopath” and insisting the clue was hers. Then, in a move that was both immensely generous and immensely stupid, Colby (who shockingly seemed more interested in watching a 76-year-old movie than the two smokin’ hot babes wrestling in bikinis right in front of his face) told his alliance-mate Amanda to give the clue back to Danielle, thereby handing a second hidden immunity idol over to the enemy. Instead of refusing to give the clue up and then finding the idol to save herself, Amanda was voted out.
Source: EW
Here's a bit more detail about how the catfight went down: After winning the reward challenge, Danielle, Amanda, and Colby were treated to a nice meal,a tour of and night at Robert Louis Stevenson's mansion and a screening of "Treasure Island." Amanda was on high alert, searching for the clue to the next hidden immunity idol. But it was Danielle who found the clue in the bowl of popcorn that Amanda had, ironically, passed to her. Danielle took the clue out and placed it on the floor. That was her mistake. She should have made like she did when Parvati found a clue at a prior reward and gave it to Danielle to "hold" between Danielle's silicone-enhanced breasts. Amanda saw Danielle attempt to be stealthy so she went over by Danielle to scope things out. She saw the clue and picked it up, and this is where the real fun began. Danielle and Amanda started wrestling each other for the clue with the former telling the latter that she was a ''psychopath'' and the latter telling the former that ''it's not yours!'' All the while, Colby just sat there explaining, ''I didn't even see what happened. I was watching Treasure Island.'' Yet another "clue" that Colby is so not in the game."But here's where things went from crazy awesome to just plain crazy. When Danielle went to Colby for back-up on how it was her clue and she should get it back, Colby astoundingly, inexplicably agreed, responding, ''It's your clue, Danielle. It's your clue. You found it,'' and encouraging his fellow Hero Amanda to return it. And then she astoundingly, inexplicably did! Now to properly establish how insanely dumb this move was, let's go to the Survivor rulebook for a minute. Once you have a hidden immunity idol, no one is allowed to take it from you. They can't just grab it and pull a finders keepers, losers weepers on you. But this wasn't the idol. It was a clue to the whereabouts of the idol. And the clue was not even in Danielle's possession. It was sitting on the floor."Source: EW
Jerri does an impersonation of Amanda when she whimpers about camp
Survivor: Heroes vs Villains - Amanda's Sour Face Air Date: 04/29/10 Clip 1:24
With Amanda gone, my favourite player is as well.
I'm amazed when people complain that she cries sometimes. You go live outside with no food for 100 days and see if you don't cry occasionally, is what I have to say to that dumb line of complaint about her.
Side note: When she started this installment of the game Amanda Kimmel weighed 144 lbs. which many people would knock as "fat." In case you are curious she only shed 12 pounds in 30 days in Samoa. If you look at her next to most all the women and about half or more of the men she's as tall or taller. She looks to be maybe 6' tall -- so 144 lbs.? Pfft!
As noted, Amanda Kimmel "strategized" herself into over 100 days on Survivor with two trips to the final jury vote (getting no votes, sadly, due to her inability to articulate why she deserved to win). She set some records and in sum, was one of the better players ever, IMO.
Since she is now only 25 years old, I'd love to see her in say, 5 years.That I think is the biggest thing that knocked Amanda down--her wavering certitude in her own "greatness." Confidence could have taken Amanda farther in the game and if she were to gain that--and going from age 25 to say, 30 will help a great deal--and play again, I would tune in a few years just to see her.
In other news, I'm not going to spoil it here but the boot list I saw has been exactly right since day 1. Much like LOST, ironically the show modeled on SURVIVOR it seems there have been major leaks in what went on as the SURVIVOR Heroes vs. Villains game played on. This edition (20) of SURVIVOR was made last summer. That's a really long time to ask the multitudes involved with the show to not talk amongst themselves, never mind others.
Well over 100 shots of Amanda Kimmel :)
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - Life at Ponderosa: Amanda Pt. 1 Air Date: 04/29/10 Clip 5:27
Amanda is voted off and becomes the fourth jury member at Ponderosa
Amanda grills Coach about his 'romance' with Jerri
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - Life at Ponderosa: Amanda Pt. 2 Air Date: 04/29/10 Clip 1:45
The jury members hatch a wardrobe plan for Tribal Council
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - Life at Ponderosa: Amanda Pt. 3 Air Date: 04/29/10 Clip 1:56
Season 20, Episode 11
CBS Press Release.
IN THE WAKE OF A GAME-CHANGING TRIBAL COUNCIL, EVERYONE STRUGGLES TO FIND THEIR PLACE IN THE NEWLY MERGED TRIBE, AND SOME PANICKED PLAYERS CONSIDER MAKING NEW ALLIES, ON “SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS,” THURSDAY, APRIL 29
“Jumping Ship” – With two swing votes hanging in the balance, no one can be sure of their safety heading into Tribal Council, and even the most formidable villain in the game makes a potential miscalculation, on SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS, Thursday, April 29 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
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Original Air Date: Apr 29, 2010
Source below: EW
Here's the set up. After winning the reward challenge, Danielle, Amanda, and Colby were treated to a night at Robert Louis Stevenson's house and a screening of Treasure Island. Amanda was on high alert, searching for the clue to the next hidden immunity idol. But it was Danielle who spotted the clue in the bowl of popcorn that Colby was too busy shoving down his throat to notice. Danielle took the clue out and placed it on the floor. One problem: Amanda could tell something was up so went over by Danielle to scope things out. She saw the clue, picked it up, and this is where the real fun began. Danielle and Amanda started wrestling each other for the clue with the former telling the latter that she was a ''psychopath'' and the latter telling the former that ''it's not yours!'' All the while, Colby just sat there explaining, ''I didn't even see what happened. I was watching Treasure Island.'' Way to be into the game, Colby.
But here's where things went from crazy awesome to just plain crazy. When Danielle went to Colby for back-up on how it was her clue and she should get it back, Colby astoundingly, inexplicably agreed, responding, ''It's your clue, Danielle. It's your clue. You found it,'' and encouraging his alliancemate Amanda to return it. And then she astoundingly, inexplicably did! Now to properly establish how insanely dumb this move was, let's go to the Survivor rulebook for a minute. Once you have a hidden immunity idol, no one is allowed to take it from you. They can't just grab it and pull a finders keepers, losers weepers on you. But this wasn't the idol. It was a clue to the whereabouts of the idol. And the clue was not even in Danielle's possession. It was sitting on the floor.
I'll have more later...
...Parvati is ballsy, right? Wow. She is knowingly double-crossing the one guy everybody else fears. You know what that tells me? She’s not afraid. Parvati is extremely confident. She smelled Amanda’s bullsh*t and she doesn’t fear Russell’s. Could Parvati win this game again? Maybe.
A HERO TAKES A GAMBLE AND PLACES HIS TRUST IN ONE OF THE GAME’S MOST NOTORIOUS VILLAINS, ON “SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS,” THURSDAY, APRIL 22 April 22nd, 2010 | Posted in ep10 - Survivor Heroes vs Villains Reunited on the merged tribe, two old friends rekindle an alliance but trust doesn’t come easily for this powerful pair, and one castaway makes an unprecedented play, setting the stage for one of the most surprising Tribal Councils in Survivor history, on SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS, Thursday, April 22 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT)Read the entire article at: CBSPressExpress
FIRST INDIVIDUAL CHALLENGE Once again Colby drops out of another challenge. I think he has been one of the biggest surprises and many would probably say one of the biggest disappointments of this season. But the truth is it just shows you how unpredictable this game can be and how big of a factor luck can play in how long you last. The challenges this season have not played to Colby’s strengths so he has struggled. The alliance he chose didn’t last, so he has struggled. Because he has struggled, his attitude has waned from wanting to quit to fightin to stay alive. Survivor is not an easy game to play. This challenge certainly favored women as we witnessed with Danielle, Parvati and Candice battling in the end. I do not understand why Candice stepped out of the challenge. Even after questioning her at the challenge it still makes no sense. Immunity is everything in this game. She had a very good chance of winning. ...I really think Candice is in a good position to go deep in the game right now but her logic ...really baffles me. Not only did she give up personal immunity for herself, but in stepping down she gave immunity to someone from the Villain tribe which gave the Heroes one less person to vote for at Tribal Council. Add in the two immunity idols that Parvati had and the Heroes really had no chance at Tribal.
Read more: Jeff Probst Blogs Survivor 20: Episode 10 Heroes v. Villains
"After the shock wore off, a bit of confusion set in. As spectacular as Parvati’s move was, we were clearly deceived as the show returned to old-school editing and didn’t allow us to see something critical to the game play that contributed to the outcome. (There was a clue that was coming when we saw most of the votes being cast, setting us up for a tie.) "
This annoyed the crap out of me. I realize that if the audience had been in on all of the frantic shifting and shuffling among the Yin-Yang Tribe (which BTW, does not mean good & bad, as the tribe explained--Coach would've known this--but instead Yin & Yang mean the dual principles of nature) that went on prior to Tribal Council, the shock value may have been diminished markedly. Simply based on Danielle's catbird smile throughout the Parvati Tribal Double Immunity Idol Power Play, Danielle knew what was up (though I'm not sure if she fully understood or if her line of thinking went, " If m'lady wishes it so, it must be a good thing," but I digress.
A big part of the fun of watching the game is the mysterious elements--trying to see through poker faces, guessing an outcome before it occurs. But there was no mystery at all at Tribal--just the question of 'who' Parvati had chosen to save based on what went on off-camera. Sure, it's fun to see shocked faces (Jerri's was priceless when Parv literally pulled Jerri's arse out of the frying pan) but it's more fun to have some clue(s) to stitch together to make a semi-informed guess. Because the "old-school editing" ran so rampant we were denied that pleasure. Phooey on gutless editing.
The big mystery is why Parvati played both idols but used neither on herself — especially after Amanda told her to, and especially after she set herself up to be an even bigger target by quitting the immunity challenge, thereby indicating that she felt secure.
And why did Parvati use one on Jerri, who seemed like the least-likely target, at least from the Villains’ perspective? Parvati’s decision obviously worked to her advantage and what she did was obviously a smart, game-changing move, but without some kind of information, her actions would have been ridiculously dumb. Two idols and you don’t use one on yourself even when you’ve been told you’re the biggest target ever? The most likely possibility is that Parvati learned from Amanda (or someone else?) that Jerri and Sandra were their targets, not her. Or if you like your conspiracy theories with a side of idol, Parvati was tipped off by the producers. I’m pretty sure we’ll see that it was the former next week or later in the season; perhaps there’s a secret alliance we don’t know about.
Read the entire article at: Reality Blurred
“Russell looked me right in the eye and swore on his kid’s life that he was with us. And anybody that would do that — right away, I don’t trust them.” Rupert Boneham
Next time on Survivor 20 Episode 11 :
- 04.23.2010
- IN THE WAKE OF A GAME-CHANGING TRIBAL COUNCIL, EVERYONE STRUGGLES TO FIND THEIR PLACE IN THE NEWLY MERGED TRIBE, AND SOME PANICKED PLAYERS CONSIDER MAKING NEW ALLIES, ON "SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS," THURSDAY, APRIL 29
"Jumping Ship" - With two swing votes hanging in the balance, no one can be sure of their safety heading into Tribal Council, and even the most formidable villain in the game makes a potential miscalculation, on SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS, Thursday, April 29 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
More Episode 10 Screen caps after the jump:
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Jeff PROBST BLOG: Read the entire article
Colby proves that he is not ever destined to be a sole Survivor as he too fell for the half-baked scheme cooked up by J.T. in which they secretly give Villain a/k/a Immunity Idol magnet Russell, the Heroes' Immunity Idol. Only Amanda expressed her doubts about the so-called "girls alliance" on the Villains team and the decision to give the idol to the enemy. Perhaps there's a good reason why Amanda, above all men and women who have ever played Survivor, has lasted the longest in the game. As of this episode Amanda Kimmel had played Survivor for 100 days.
Go Amanda!
Amanda in China
Source: Scottitude.net
Some interesting "insight" (his word) from Jeff this week:
"JT made perhaps the biggest and boldest move in the history of our show last night. It will go down as one of the most controversial decisions ever made by a player. Some will call him flat out dumb, while others… like myself …see the wisdom in what he was attempting to pull off."
"THE LETTER JT’s hand-written letter to Russell is the kind of moment that reality producers dream about. You just can’t believe it’s really happening and you hold your breath that he won’t change his mind.
(By the way, you’re no doubt wondering where they got pen and paper? It was part of Amanda’s luxury item that they won in an earlier episode.)"
"JT wants to give Russell an idol. He wants to hand him a get out of jail free card and along with it the power to change the vote at Tribal and decide who goes home. No amount of hyperbole could over sell this decision. This is JT. The guy who won this game in Brazil now wants to give away the single most powerful weapon in the game to the single most untrustworthy person left in the game? It boggles the mind. It’s one of the most jaw-dropping decisions I’ve heard in the last 769 days of Survivor. (My math may be a day or two off, but I think that’s how many days the game has been played.)"
And finally, while I was scraping the 'nets for a screen cap or two of Survivor 20: Episode 9, (Episode 10's title is "Going Down in Flames" duh-duh-duh!) I read more than once that the Jeff PROBST BLOG is "sexist". I think he may have been reading the same type of comments as this week he labels Rupert "delusional" for thinking he is the strongest on his tribe (possibly in the game). Probst goes on to say that he (Probst) would choose Amanda, Parvati, Danielle and Candace over previous fan favourite, Rupert in a strength-based challenge.Wow! Way to do damage control, Jeff! He goes on -
"I hope you all understand that I never bring up anything at Tribal Council that hasn’t already been discussed or isn’t already known. I would never betray or reveal secret information. When you hear them fighting back with me, that’s just part of the game and often, the words they are saying to me, are actually intended to send a signal to someone else."
NOTE: Sunday, May 16 SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS- The special (8:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) two-hour finale begins with five remaining castaways vying for the million dollar prize and title of “Ultimate Survivor.” The finale is followed by a one-hour live reunion show hosted by Jeff Probst.
Amanda's List Amanda shows off her secret list of game play moves Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - Amanda's List Air Date: 04/15/10 Clip 2:35Survivor 20: Heroes vs. Villains - Jury Member #2 a "Chirpy" Courtney hits it off with Coach at Ponderosa.
Quotes from the booted Courtney:Why did you get voted out instead of Sandra?
I really have no idea. I made my case to Parvati, and she tried to convince Russell and Danielle to keep me. It didn't go well, because Russell didn't want anyone near her. He was like the weird, creepy husband—"Don't anyone touch my woman." I thought they all had to know that Sandra is a much sneakier, better, more independent player. They were underestimating her. I was stunned. I didn't want to say it to screw her up, but I was just like, "All right guys, rock on! Just watch, she's going to ruin you!"
At least you only lost four pounds this time...
I never really got that skinny. There were coconuts everywhere—and that was something I didn't have on my first season—so I was happy. Coconuts have water, there's hard ones, there's soft ones, you can toast it! There's so many things you can do with it. Parvati is the master—I told her she should open a resort and machete coconuts on the front lawn. Everyone would come and watch, because she's really good at it. She's had three seasons with coconuts!The rain was pretty demoralizing, and the camp—where the trees were rotting all around us—was nasty. You know, the beach looks great from a helicopter, on a beautiful day. But for the most part, the reason there's so much freaking vegetation is because it rains constantly. It was pretty gross. It rained every day at Ponderosa. Every goddamned day. There was one sunny day, and I made Coach sit out with me. It was when we were just there, just the two of us, and I made him sit out with me for like three hours.
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Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - Life at Ponderosa: Courtney Pt. 1 The latest castaway to be voted off the island, Courtney, is sent to Ponderosa and is greeted by Coach Air Date: 04/15/10 Clip 6:13Read the entire article at: Reality BlurredAnyway, Russell and JT hugged after the challenge and Russell grabbed JT’s package, and then took it back to camp where Parvati read the letter aloud in the most sarcastic, mocking voice imaginable. It was beautiful, and there was a lot to mock in JT’s writing: “This is not fake.” “I feel like I can trust you.” “You will be completely safe with us.” Best of all, he wrote, “Read in complete privacy” at the top and “Destroy this right when you finish Reading!” at the end, all of it in scrawled, printed handwriting that made sure no one would confuse it with a four-grader’s love letter. Because of that, Parvati also added flourishes like “XOXO JT” and “your BFF.” Although Russell now has a hidden immunity idol, and did a good job of playing along when all of this went down, he doesn’t get too much credit, because it was all JT and the Heroes who made this decision based on, well, no information. Even if they assume Parvati has a similar alliance like the one she had in Micronesia, it’s dumb to assume anything in a game like this, as Amanda said. I’m now hoping for an Amanda and Sandra final two, with Amanda finally winning. I’m delusional, I know.
Find out what each member of the Villains tribe had to say as they cast their votes
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains -
Tribal Council Voting
Air Date: 04/15/10 Clip 4:06
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - Life at Ponderosa: Courtney Pt. 2 Air Date: 04/15/10
Clip 2:30 Coach goes kayaking as Courtney watches and bond over drinks
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - Life at Ponderosa: Courtney Pt. 3 Air Date: 04/15/10 Clip 2:43 Courtney and Coach enjoy their 'honeymoon' kayaking, sun bathing and later primp for tribal council
More Secret Scenes and highlights from Survivor Heroes vs. Villians (20), Episode 9, after the jump
Coach has an eerie prescience/total ignorance about his impending fate.
Update! Coach's post-finale comments on Jerri: Are They An Item?
On former tribe mate Jerri Manthey:
Q: "Are you two an item?'
Coach:
'We’re not an item.'
'She's a great woman.'
'She's cool'
'We can't talk to each other until the finale.'
'I’m looking forward to seeing her at the finale. '
Coach paraphrase 'Finale is coming up in about a month.'
(It's more like 7 weeks, right? Show is days 18-21 right now?)
'We'll see what happens.'
(They are each age 38, single, and have show biz aspirations/experience.)
Jeff Probst Blogs Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains
Boston Rob is gone. Russell is in charge. Or is he? Who really is in charge over at the Villains camp? Is it Russell? Is it Parvati? Is it Parvati and Danielle? Or is it truly a power trio of Russell, Parvati, and Danielle? Expect a battle for true leadership to emerge at some point because Parvati takes a back seat to nobody. Either way you slice it, the Villains are in trouble...more after the jump
CBS — April 08, 2010 — Coach becomes the first member of the jury when he is voted out and sent to Ponderosa where he feasts
Coach taking Rupert out in Survivor: Heoes vs.Villains (S20)
I was not surprised that the Villains continue to eat themselves alive. According to Coach in one of the Ponderosa interviews, they have not eaten fish once in the 18 days he was with the Villains.
They (except probably Sandra who like Parvati has had her game on since Day 1--waiting to spring into action--which she did in this episode) have blindly followed Russell. Russell however, has no problem letting them all rot, if necessary. IMO, Russell may be a 'great strategist' but his ego will be his downfall. The true power left on Team Villains is Parvati. I think it is safe to say she'll make to the merge and then be more overt about the game she has "on" as in "Game on!" People won't know what hit them until tribal is over and they are eating peanut butter-dipped Snickers in the van to Ponderosa.
CBS cameras keep tabs on the Ejectees, taping bits of conversations from Ponderosa. I'll try to get them up whenever it is feasible as the number of Castaways becoming Ejectees rises.
Jeff Probst says Parvati "spies." Does Probst mean Parvati goes around and listens in to conversations --as in spying on people? And she's never caught?!
I haven't seen all her seasons so I'm confused with that statement. I think she and her Black Widows Alliance put me off one of her one seasons and I quit it.
Heroes vs. Villains Episode 8 Photos Source
Basically, Sandra, Courtney, Danielle, and Parvati voted together, which would suggest that Russell is even less in control than he thought he was before. Had Russell voted for Coach, we’d still have all the evidence we need that Russell is not in control, despite the voices in his head that tell him that he is responsible for the tribe’s votes, the game, small children’s happiness and/or fear, and the earth’s rotation.
Whatever happened with the vote, Sandra is either in control or played Russell or both. Sandra endeared herself to me long ago, but I practically shrieked when she said, “Russell’s so stupid he ate that crap up,” adding that “he doesn’t know how to play this game.” Amen, amen. Russell said things like, “I have the power in this game. I send home who I want to send home,” but instead of getting all flame-faced over that like I do, Sandra used that to her advantage.
Realizing that Russell hates being played more than anything else, Sandra lied to him and convinced him that Coach was going to go after him—which wasn’t too far from the truth, since Coach wanted to have the testicles to vote against Russell last week but did not. That set Russell on the path to dumping Coach, and thus when Danielle approached him to suggest that it might make sense to vote off Courtney before she breaks apart, splinters, and gets into everyone’s eyes, Russell became enraged. “I don’t want to f**king talk to you,” he said. But he changed his mind a little while later, though Danielle also changed her’s, too. What? Obviously, the editors left something out in order to deceive us.
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http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/survivor_heroes_vs_villains/2010_Apr_09_coach_outAt Tribal Council, Jeff starts off with the Villains on their previous two boots, Tyson and Rob. He then throws Courtney under the bus by saying that she is obviously their weakest player. Courtney gets upset with Jeff and defends herself. She adds that she had nothing to do with booting off either Rob or Tyson. Coach thinks everyone is laughing at them right now. Courtney attacks Coach for his wanting to win the food reward more than immunity. Coach and she bicker over this. Parvati then acknowledges that it doesn’t matter, they would still be losing even with Tyson and Rob. She adds that The Merge is on everybody’s mind right now. Russell says his vote tonight will make the tribe more stronger and more trusting. Rrrrright! It’s time to vote. We see Courtney and Coach trade votes. Jeff gathers the ballots and starts counting them. It’s tied 3-3 when he reads the last vote. Coach is out, 4-3. Russell, Parvati and Sandra sent the Dragonslayer packing. Jerri and Danielle are now the new outsiders. Jeff tells Coach he will be the first Jury member. He then tells the rest that, “The problem with trust is you don’t know it’s gone till it’s too late.” LOL! SPOILERS: We are first shown a series of the dumbest moves in Survivor history. Then, we see JT plotting with the Heroes to give Russell their hidden immunity idol to protect him from the big, bad women Villains. Seriously, this is like “WHEEL OF FISH” stupid!!!
Read the entire article at: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978161356
When going through a mud pit obstacle immunity challenge the Heroes Tribe made it look so easy it was as if they were on a whole different plane of competition. Courtney sucked enough and hurt herself just a little adding in a wrinkle that made Danielle want her out of the game. So for those following all of this without a score card, at the end of the immunity challenge the tribes stood here:
* Heroes – 4 straight challenge wins and team immunity intact
* Russell Hantz wants coach gone because Coach tried to think and he wants to make the Heroes think there is an all-girl-alliance.
* Danielle wants Courtney gone
* Coach wants Russell gone but will vote out Courtney
* Sandra proves to be useless at everything but telling lies
* Parvati wants Coach to go home
*Jeri wants Russell to go home
* The villains tell each other so many lies they don’t even know what their alliance is
* Russell looks like an even more animated Hobbit on crack fighting with Danielle and pissing her off
* The villains without Boston Rob are a total messAs the villains got ready to go to tribal council nobody could seem to make up their mind who was to be voted for. Jeff Probst pointed out at tribal council that with Boston Rob who was dominating the challenges gone and someone like – oh say – Courtney who is basically useless unless you need someone to bitch and like bag of bones, that the tribe shot themselves in the foot and set themselves up to fail. He was correct in doing so because as they seemed to almost catch on they proved nothing more than they are collectively as dumb as a bag of hammers.
Read the entire article at:
http://www.helium.com/items/1798904-survivor-april-8-2010-what-happened-and-who-got-voted-off-survivor-week-8
Above: Russell & Boston Rob
I'm not thrilled to see Boston Rob go as he plays a smart game and I tend to enjoy strategy-strong players. He's also got the physicality, strength. Pretty all-round good player.
Above: Courtney imitates Russell, The Troll.
How many times did people make catty comments about Amber? Geez. She won a million and is married to (arguably) the most-liked players ever. Jealous much? A tonight it was Parvati calling Amber out during the Tribal Council vote in he super-secret poison pen area with a cameraman. Super-secret until the "what they said and who they voted for" 5-minute video is put out for public consumption.
This was cool. More pics later... in the album. Check back.
Above: Parvati and the Hobbit (nicer than "troll') Russell
Now Team Villians no longer have Boston Rob to help drag their arses to the finish line --who is gonna do it now? Russell? LOL. I do believe that there's huge sea change beginning next week. Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - Tribal Council Voting Air Date: 04/01/10 Clip 5:34 Find out what each tribe member had to say as they cast their votes "Pray for the merge." - Coach
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - The Fantastic Five Air Date: 04/01/10 Clip 2:24 Rupert cheers for his tribe's latest immunity challenge victory, revealing what he believes lead to their much-needed win.
Above: Candice Woodcock and Amanda Kimmel Poor girls--they look absolutely exhausted. Still beautiful,though On Candice's previous team on Cook Islands she and teammate Jonathan Penner defected to the other tribe and in turn her new tribesmen sent her to Exile island (a record?) four times and Penner stabbed her in the back!
PRESS RELEASE: REELING FROM A SHOCKING TRIBAL COUNCIL, THE VILLAINS SEEK TO REGROUP BUT WITH TWO SOLID ALLIANCES OF THREE PITTED AGAINST EACH OTHER; ONE LUCKY PAIR FINDS THE FATE OF THE TRIBE IN THEIR HANDS, ON “SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS”
Jeff Probst blogs 'Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains' episode 7
Jeff Probst blogs 'Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains' episode 7THE VOICE OF BOSTON ROB IS HEARD OVER A BLACK SCREEN
BOSTON ROB
The more and more I think about it, something doesn’t feel right. Something just doesn’t feel right.
FADE IN:
EXT. FENWAY PARK – NIGHT
The stadium lights shine onto the field filled with a large crowd of mourners, mostly dressed in red and blue.JEFF PROBST
…and as we gather to pay our last respects to Boston Rob, I’d like to take a moment of silence to remember the many things he brought to the game of Survivor. He was the Godfather who left too soon in Survivor: Marquesas. On Survivor: All-Stars, he took a different approach. He put his arm around the beautiful Amber on day three and became her “knight in shining armor” as he dragged her to the end giving her the opportunity to win the million dollars while being a two-faced betrayer to everybody else — and he did it all with an evil smile that made many of us fall in love with him in a brand new way. And finally on Survivor; Heroes vs. Villains, he transformed himself yet again — this time into a fairly likable, extremely hardworking and challenge-dominating player who took it upon himself to go up against Russell, the biggest villain of all-time.Some might say the karma of past betrayals finally caught up with B Rob and he went down hard. Probably for the last time. Rob… you will be missed.
There is silence in the stadium. Then… a shout from the cheap seats.
RUSSELL HANTZ
What about me??!!! Where’s the love for me? I’m the one took him down. I’m Russell Hantz, the greatest Survivor of allllll-time. I’m that good.
Russell hops down the steps toward the railing and without hesitating leaps from the 300 section. It is a long way down to the field, but miraculously he lands in the middle of center field and bounces up on his feet unharmed.
The crowd recognizes him as the man who took down Boston Rob. As expected, the Boston crowd quickly becomes a vigilante group and takes after the gap toothed troll. In a flash, he is gone for there is still more game to play on Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains.FADE OUT
My therapist says that time heals everything, but I’m not sure how much time it will take to heal this loss. I miss him already. I miss the battle. Russell vs. Boston Rob will go down as one of the greatest battles of all time. I want them back. Now. We should do an entire season centered around Boston Rob vs. Russell. Give them some war clubs, put them in a gladiator ring.
Last night, on Survivor: Heroes Vs. Villains, Boston Rob started to get the feeling that something wasn’t right following tribal council. That something is named Russell Hantz. Because Tyson basically voted himself out of the game, Rob is left wondering who betrayed his alliance and if that person is still sharing a tent with him. Oh yes, paranoia has most certainly set in at the villains’ camp. Going into the reward challenge, Colby knows he needs to step it up big time. There have been three tribal councils where he should have been the one going home but somehow, he was spared. Considering the heroes voted out James over him, they must believe that good ol’ Colby still has some gas left in the tank. In the challenge, teams faced off, three on three. They’d have to retrieve a ball and throw it into their basket, while the opposing team tried to stop them. When the villains were told they had to sit a few players, guess who had no problem taking a spot on the bench? You guessed it – Courtney! She will go down in history as the player who made it the farthest without doing a damn thing. The heroes dominate, scoring all three points in a row, and Colby responsible for two of them. Yeah, Superman! You show them that it’s not just a fat suit! Read the entire article at: http://www.realitywanted.com/newsitem/3104-survivor-heroes-vs-villains-episode-7-recapWhat’s the first thing you said to Tyson when you met up with him at Ponderosa?
I can’t say that. [Laughs.] Since then, we’re reconciled. For me, I just wanted to know why. It didn’t make any sense. It was the first time ever in the three times I played Survivor, even counting Marquesas when I went home — it was the first time I ever went to Tribal Council and things did not go the way I expected them to go, And to me, it was a total shock, because when I go to Tribal Council, I know what’s going to happen. The person going home is always the person I think is going home. So I wanted to know why, and to be honest, at the time, he didn’t really have an answer for me. He was basically like, “I screwed up.”
I wondered if your new daughter would be a distraction for you out there, and it certainly didn’t seem to be. How were you able to block that out?
I didn’t block it out. Once I made the decision to go and play Survivor you have to use it as a motivator and not a distraction, and I did. Every time I felt down I said, “You’re doing this for your wife and your daughter. Go out there and make them proud and give 110 percent of everything you do,” and that’s it. I just wanted to make them proud. I did the best I could. I didn’t come home with it but I tried my hardest.
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Rob says that losing Tyson was a big mistake, but Russell defends it as the “best move” he could have done. Coach says everybody is worried about alliances, and Rob says it’s “catastrophic” that some people are thinking in terms of keeping alliances strong instead of the team strong. Russell says he will use Rob’s quote, “If you aren’t with me, you’re against me”. Rob says that he is definitely against him and it’s no secret, but Russell retaliates by saying Rob wouldn’t have the guts to do what he did last week. “At some point you pick someone to trust and you go with that and that’s all there is to do,” says Rob. “I did that and I think tonight’s vote will be to bring this Tribe together.” Jeff reads the votes: Rob, Russell, Rob, Russell, Rob, Russell, Courtney, and Rob. Rob is the eighth player to be voted off the show. “That is without question the biggest move this Tribe has made in the game so far,” says Jeff. “The good news is that it won’t take long at all to see if voting out Rob brings this Tribe back together or destroys it.” Read the entire article at: http://www.digitalspy.com/ustv/s76/survivor/news/a212140/survivor-heroes-vs-villains-episode-7-recap.html It had to be the week that either Rob or Russell would go if the Villains lost immunity. Rob was clearly thrown by the vote against Tyson from last week. Jerri was recruited by Russell and Danielle to come to their alliance. As she spoke out, Coach got peeved that she would assure his vote with hers. “You want to lump me and Russell together (about trust) and I hope that’s not the case,” Coach said to Jerri. Coach told her he wasn’t sure they could trust Russell, especially after Russell assured the two of them that he wanted them to go to the final three. He wants to remain “honorable.” “As much as I like Coach, he is so naive,” Jerri said. “He wants to be the good guy to everyone. You can’t be the good guy and win this game.”
Read the entire article at: http://www.newstrib.com/articles/lifestyle/hollywood/default.asp?Article=20026&aname=Cindy’s+Scoop+on+’Survivor’+Week+7
Jeff Probst blogs Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains’ Episode 6
S20x06 - Survivor: Heroes vs Villains
(In the end, Tyson Apostol was voted out with 3-2-0 votes while James Clement was sent home 5-1.)Going into tribal council, Boston Rob laid out a strategy for his alliance that was 100 percent fool proof. 100 percent. B-Rob is a very smart and strategic player. He was absolutely right. Even if nobody played the idol, so long as everybody voted as laid out by Rob, (three votes Parvati, three votes Russell) then their alliance would stay intact — at worst Russell, Parvati, and Tyson would be tied with 3 votes each. They would re-vote, Rob’s alliance would most likely target Russell, he would have been voted out.
But Rob was also prepared for an idol to be played, and if so, then Parvati’s votes would not count, and Russell and Tyson would have been tied at three votes each. We’d re-vote and Russell would be voted out.
He had it wired.
Russell was going home.
Russell should have gone home.
But this is Survivor and that means anything can happen.
And what happened last night was… RUSSELL DID IT AGAIN
Russell with his precious.
The short, stubby, tooth-missin’ garden gnome did it again! Unbelievable. UN-B-LEEVE-ABLE. I still cannot believe he pulled it off. There were two HUGE elements at play: 1. It was a very inspired move to try to convince Tyson that he was safe at the vote because Russell was turning on Parvati — therefore Tyson didn’t need to worry about voting for Russell. He could just change his vote to Parvati since his vote didn’t really matter. The thing is Tyson didn’t have to change his vote. He could have gotten the same result and still kept himself safe by voting for Russell. The smarter move would have been to say, “Fine Russell, I dig that you’re ready to vote out Parvati. I’m gonna keep with my plan to vote for you just so I don’t alert anybody but I’m with you, and Parvati is going home.” Tyson could have gotten the same result without risking anything. Tyson simply lost his mind and forgot what he was doing… because Russell put that damn Russell seed in his head! 2. Russell giving the idol to Parvati was the biggest risk he’s taken in either of his two seasons. He went for broke and it worked. You can write all the comments you want about how much you hate Russell. I don’t care. I won’t respond. That dude just made a major game-changing, momentum-switching move — and it worked. That’s what legends are made from – big bold moves...Jeff Probst blogs Survivor
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“Oh man, I have nobody to blame but myself. I was the victim of my own stupidity,” Tyson said after voting himself off of “Survivor” in one of the most shockingly stupid Tribal Council moves ever. That happened as part of a special Wednesday edition of “Survivor,” bumped by March Madness. But it was also special because there was one challenge and two Tribal Councils. The strategy was pretty clearly laid out, so it seemed like there would be few surprises at Tribal. Wrong! It’s impossible to vote for yourself on “Survivor,” but Tyson effectively managed to do it. His alliance planned to split its vote between Russell and Parvati in case Russell played a hidden immunity idol. Tyson wanted to make sure Parvati went home, so he voted for her instead, leading to a 4-3 vote. The remaining three people voted for Tyson, which would have forced a tie vote.
Read the entire article HERE
Villains' Tribal Council side-swipe by Russell and Parvati. Tyson loses out after he inexplicably changed his vote and screwed himself royally.
Tribal Council Voting: Heroes
Russell's Long-Term PlanRussell reveals his ultimate plans for after the merge
Survivor: Hereos vs. Villains - Parvati Warns Tyson While Parvati and Tyson get water, Parvati hints to Tyson that he might get blindsided if he does not take certain action to stay in the game 'Banana Etiquette' Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - Secret Scene: JamesJames is offended when Amanda tells him he needs to practice 'banana etiquette,' and takes it to the extreme when he continually offers his tribemates bananas
There is a new Episode of Survivor 20, Heroes lose miserably to the vs. Villians on tonight - Weds. March 24, in which two castaways--one from each tribe get booted! (more after photo).
Next time on Survivor: IN A HIGH STAKES CHALLENGE, BOTH TRIBES BATTLE FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN IMMUNITY AND A COVETED REWARD THAT PROMISES TO IMPROVE NOT ONLY THEIR MORALE BUT THEIR ENTIRE TRIBE'S STRATEGY, ON "SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS," ON A SPECIAL NIGHT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24 "Banana Etiquette" - When the castaways discover that two people will be sent packing in a rare double elimination, everyone scrambles to save their own skin, and one castaway surprises everyone and risks it all at Tribal Council, on SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS, airing on a special night, Wednesday, March 24 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network .
Photo: Courtesy CBS
(Above) From Survivor 20x05 (last episode) during the now Banned Forever reward competition, "Schmergenbrawl." Amanda Kimmel, J.T. Thomas, "Coach" Wade, Rob Mariano, Colby Donaldson.
While playing in this reward contest, James injured himself and was forced out of the competition, leaving questions about his fitness as an ongoing tribe member.
In my last Survivor post--which seems so very long ago, I bemoaned (some would say "bitched about") the downhill hill slide Survivor has seemed stuck in now for about the last six seasons. Unless you're in the habit of cheering on in many cases, publicity-seeking pretty boys and girls or outright nasty people--or in the case of Parvati--both, I don't know how you can truly dig this show anymore. Even Jeff Probst, in his weekly column, Jeff Probst blogs Survivor 20 Heroes vs. Villians, has been vocal about what he sees as the decline in game-playing quality. That must be a thin line to walk, given that Probst has much higher stakes than a simple host in this series.
In my 'fed-up-ness' with Season 20 in my last comments on Survivor I suggested that the show has run out of steam, that all the decent/honest/worthy ways of winning have been exhausted, leaving bottom-of-the barrel tactics that the likes of Russell and Parvati use to great advantage.
I may have been too harsh. An alternative idea now that I've been away from the show for a couple of weeks is that it go on extended hiatus, much like those expensive cable shows do and overhaul it to make it more fun. How about 12 months of no Survivor and when it comes back it does so with a crop of castaways who have never watched the show--ever. Start fresh.
Also, DO NOT let a former player return to play again for at least maybe 5 seasons which with the current schedule would be 2.5 years. That way we won't feel like they are being shoved down our throats (Russell)--and we won't be so familiar with their game-play strategies. Just some ideas because no show is immune to a decline in viewership--even if it's name is "Survivor." It's time to tweak this baby before the numbers truly reflect the quality of the programming Probst and Co. are offering.
Below is a great video to get out the bad taste in your mouth that may have been acquired by watching Season 20 thus far. Contained within are two Survivor winners--Jenna and Ethan--who played in Survivor seasons worth watching.
Surviving Survivor - Tribal Romance
Jenna helps Ethan fight for his life.
(S20x01)Preview episode 6 of Survivor: Heroes vs Villains
CBS
I started watching "Survivor" with my family a decade ago because my son, then age 6, liked the challenges.
When he was about age 11 or 12 he gave up on the show, I think in favour of video games. My spouse and I probably watched a couple more installments before we quit it, too. I tried watching the one with Courtney and the now-booted Randy and Sugar in it--Micronesia?--Tocantins? but couldn't stomach it after about 7 episodes of utter stupidity.
I'm feeling the same way now. Now in it's 20th installment, this show has devolved into a game of who is the best schemer. Even if a good player gets fairly far you just know the weaker, nastier people are going to win. If I had to pick one million dollar winner who turned me completely sour on the game it would be without question the aptly-named Parvati Shallow.
I'll be frank. I just read in a couple of different places who wins Heroes vs. Villains-- well, who the final 2 are--and I dislike them both intensely. For the jury it's going to be a choice between bad and ...bad. So why should I sit through more stupidity?
I'll just take comfort that I'm not alone as I've included a couple of excerpts from Jeff Probst's blog, EW.com, MSNBC and a couple of others and if they have to endure this show that honestly needs to be put down or at least put out to pasture, then I suppose so can I. This is the only 'Reality" show I've ever watched and it was pretty cool once--but that was long ago. In Survivor, the bad guys almost always win, and for me that's not entertainment.
Next time on Survivor:
IN A HIGH STAKES CHALLENGE, BOTH TRIBES BATTLE FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN IMMUNITY AND A COVETED REWARD THAT PROMISES TO IMPROVE NOT ONLY THEIR MORALE BUT THEIR ENTIRE TRIBE'S STRATEGY, ON "SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS," ON A SPECIAL NIGHT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24
"Banana Etiquette" - When the castaways discover that two people will be sent packing in a rare double elimination, everyone scrambles to save their own skin, and one castaway surprises everyone and risks it all at Tribal Council, on SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS, airing on a special night, Wednesday, March 24 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network
Jeff Probst blogs Survivor 20 Heroes vs. Villians
Read the entire article at: Jeff Probst blogs Survivor 20 Heroes vs. VilliansOkay onto Survivor…and THE DUMBEST DECISION YET.
Once again, Rupert tried to sell his vote based on keeping his tribe strong.
Rupert: (referring to James’ bad leg). “He’s still stronger than Tom.”
Rupert, if you really believe that James, with his bad leg, is still stronger than Tom, then you need to stop drinking that pirate grog because you’ve lost your friggin mind.
Ah, but that isn’t what Rupert believes. Rupert is doing what he needs to do to keep his alliance strong. Once again, let me, “Mr. Back Seat Driver,” point out why this makes no sense. Your own personal alliance may be intact, but your tribe is dwindling and if and when there is a merge, you are putting yourself in a very weak position because you will have fewer members than the Villains.
You know how I feel. James has been a problem from day one. First it was his attitude and now it’s his physical limitations.
And no, I’m not friends with Tom, nor am I enemies with James. I’m just sharing what I feel and I’m guessing what the audience feels as well.
RUSSELL FINDS THE IDOL
I loved the exchange between Russell and Parvati:
Russell: Just grab onto my coattails.
Parvati: I don’t ride coattails, baby.
Russell: You’ll ride these.
Russell is very good at using the idol. I’d say he’s as good at using it as anybody. He really understands how to leverage its power and he completely changed the game by securing Parvati in his alliance and then bringing over Coach.
IS PARVATI RUSSELL’S ACHILLES’ HEEL?
Do you think Russell made a wise move? Or is he falling prey to one of the most deadly flirts in Survivor history? Both Russell and Parvati pulled out their big guns and told the other everything they need to know. Russell believes Parvati will ride his coattails. Parvati told him very clearly she does not ride anybody’s coattails. It may be the showdown of the season thus far, even more so than Russell vs Rob.
Parvati and Russell have both proven they can play this game very well. It’s a deadly duo if they stay teamed up but there is no way this relationship ends peacefully.
REWARD CHALLENGE – SCHMERGENBRAWL
I think my favorite part of the challenge was when Rupert threw Jerri up against the side of the course: “Like I meant to do that!” And Jerri responded by draining the winning bucket for the Villains. You think it was the chocolate that made the difference?...
You may remember SCHMERGENBRAWL as the challenge that resulted in me tossing somebody (Ben) out of the challenge for unsportsmanlike behavior and also resulted in the evacuation of Mike Borassi due to dehydration. We should have known that it was too rough, even for Survivor.
But instead, we brought it back again this season. Once again it was physical and once again it resulted in a major injury as James was removed from the challenge after wrecking his knee.
This challenge will NEVER be played again. It was officially retired after last night’s challenge...
(NOTE: No Survivor next week and...
NEXT WEEK
Due to the NCAA college basketball tournament, SURVIVOR WILL NOT BE ON NEXT WEEK! I know, we hate it too.
THE FOLLOWING WEEK
Survivor will be on for a special Wednesday night episode: WEDNESDAY MARCH 24TH
BACK TO NORMAL
On April 1st we return to our regular Thursday night time slot.)
Read the entire article at: Reality BlurredFind out what each tribe member had to say as they cast their votes
Screen Cap Source: See moreIn the space of one episode on Survivor Heroes vs. Villains, the Heroes have gone from an amazing blindside to yet another amazingly dumb decision. Between their stupidity at Tribal Council and their streak of losses, they’re starting to look like so many tribes to come before them, except as previous players, you’d think they’d suck less. But you’d be wrong.
They kept James around, despite the fact that he can barely walk and is an increasingly antagonistic bastard. (Does anyone still like him the way they liked him in China?) Instead, they voted out Tom Westman. Now, as a previous winner, a likable guy, and someone who isn’t a part of the dominant alliance, I get why they wouldn’t keep him around. But the choice was Tom, an able-bodied, capable person, or James, who can barely walk!, and they kept James, thereby ensuring that they’ll continue to suck at challenges even more.
The challenges tonight were a replay of Schmergen Brawl from last season; since this season was filmed in Samoa, too, they just left up the structure and returned to it. Its brutality as a challenge led to James’ knee injury, and to Rupert slamming Jerri Manthey’s face into a post for no discernible reason at all. (“Wow, stop!” Probst yelled, and Rupert said, “I did not mean to do that. You okay?” Jerri, who remarkably wasn’t even bleeding, said, “Whatever, dude, whatever.”) I’m sure that’ll make Rupert a hero to Jerri-haters, but her resilience impressed me and his action did not.
What does it take, exactly? How badly do you have to be injured before your tribe will you vote you out? Do you need to be shot at close range in the face? Will that do the trick? What about if you lost a limb — an arm, say? Is that enough to get sent home? It is not my desire to sound macabre. I’m just curious and all, seeing as how last night the Heroes tribe decided to keep a player who could not even walk! How absurd is that? James looks like he just stepped off the battlefield in a Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks produced HBO war miniseries, and then the tribe kept him instead of able-bodied Tom. Because he’ll definitely be more of a help in the challenges, right?
Remember when James said the tribe had to get rid of Stephenie based on her past results in challenges in Palau. Okay, let’s apply that same criteria to Tom. Hmmm, well, let’s see — his tribe that season never lost a single immunity challenge. Not one. And then he proceeded to dominate the individual challenges as well. Yeah, let’s get rid of that guy and keep Gimpy McGee over here with the occasional bouts of roid rage. (And what’s James’ record in challenges anyway? Sure, he’s massive, but he has never dominated in the way that Tom, Terry, and Ozzy did.) You know what? If I could swap a player out, I actually would take Probst’s niece over James at this point. C’mon, she’s a Probst so you know she is scrappy, surely has ingrained leadership skills, looks great in baseball caps, and will help your tribe get the benefit of the doubt at all times from the host.
My favorite part of the Heroes deliberation came courtesy of Rupert and Amanda. Rupert claimed that you don’t get rid of people because of injury, citing how it would have been just as wrong for people to have gotten rid of him for breaking his toe. Exactly! Because your tribe has been doing so well in challenges with you and your broken toe! Amanda put her rose colored glasses on as well, telling Rupert ” James is okay, right?” Of course, he’s okay! Pay no attention to that man limping with a splint covering his entire left leg! He’s fiiiiiiiiine. Absolutely fine. Nothing to worry about.
Obviously, Amanda and Rupert are concerned about their alliance numbers and nothing more, but in doing so, they are making it that much harder for their own tribe to win. And not only that, but they are running the risk of alienating people that may flip and align with others on the Villains side if given the opportunity. As for J.T. and Candice — I don’t now what the hell they are thinking. James, Amanda, and Rupert seem like an air-tight threesome (not ITALIC {that}] kind of threesome — get your head out of the gutter) so why would you want to be in an alliance on the outside of that? Had they both aligned instead with Tom and Colby, they would have made a much stronger foursome on a much more level playing ground. I think they flat-out blew it on this one. However, as we’ve seen in pretty much every single puzzle so far, thinking through all the possibilities has not been a strength of the Heroes tribe.
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EW.com
"Knights of the Roundtable" (CBS)
At Tribal Council, host Jeff Probst points out the obvious fact that James presents a huge liability to his tribe due to his injury. His tribemates stand up for James with the exception of Tom, Colby and Candice, who contend that he is only being kept for a loyal vote for his allies. James accuses Tom of being the sole reason why their tribe continues to lose challenges, and proclaims that he is much stronger with a bum knee than Tom is without any ailments. With this, the Heroes cast their votes, and with five out of the seven votes cast against him, Tom was voted out. Tom Westman, the 45 year-old from Survivor: Palau became the fifth person voted out of SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS.
The Losers tribe — or, uh, Heroes — lost yet again, unable to compete physically or mentally with the Villains and keeping their losing streak. Then they did their best to stay losers by keeping someone who’s literally unable to walk. So heroic!
As Jeff Probst said at the end of the episode — our last episode for two weeks, because basketball will interrupt next week — “Even with a bad leg, James is more valuable to the tribe than Tom.” But before he was voted out, “Survivor: Palau” winner Tom Westman identified the real reason during Tribal Council: other arguments are “all nonsense,” Tom said, because James is “being kept because he’s a loyal vote.”
The reward challenge almost knocked James out of the game. It was a replay of the brutal “Survivor: Samoa” challenge Schmergen Brawl. Having participated in a rehearsal in Samoa before that cast did the challenge, I can promise you it’s very, very brutal, and we weren’t even playing for $1 million.
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MSNBC
James gets hurt The True Dork Times
READ more: Jeff Probst blogs Survivor: Heroes vs.Villians S20x04
Next week: 'Knights of the Roundtable' Candace makes a game changing move, and while Russell goes on the hunt for the immunity idol, Rob goes on the hunt for Russell. Someone else goes down in the game and medics are called in.
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains – 'Tonight, We Make Our Move' (S20x04)
Survivor Recap: Let the Blindsiding Begin!
Last night, Survivor demonstrated its awesome powers, turning what was shaping up to be a ho-hum hour of nature TV into a strategic tornado that concluded with a massive blind side. Are you people not watching this show? Why are you not watching this show!? Last night alone had oiled up, half-naked contestants hurling themselves down a glorified Slip ‘n Slide..., stupid scheming, brilliant scheming, Coach crying, contestants in American Gladiator balls, the host freaking, and a tribal-council stunner.
I have to agree with the recapper above who sums up Survivor E20x04 very concisely. The episode did indeed HAVE IT ALL and isn't that the huge attraction? If you've been following this installment so far, overall the Heroes have been thinking like zeroes. No voting strategy what.so.ever. At least none that seemed to make sense. Almost embarrassing and I think that may have been what host Jeff Probst is gesturing about in the screen cap (below). What? Do these people truly want to lose because they are on their way to loserville quickly unless they can turn the tide and pick up the momentum. After Jeff's impassioned speech/ Q &A /diatribe, the Heroes voted and it seemed that they had been on the cusp on making a smart vote and Probst pushed them into it or JT had made up his mind and went with the very iffy, but only viable choice to fully align with Tom and Colby (which in essense was was Probst was pleading for).
Be sure to scroll down and click the thumbnails to get a close up and personal look at your castaways in some moments that never made it to the screen.--Cyn
But first, let’s pour a little out for Coach, who got his feelings hurt at last week’s tribal council and blubbers to Tyson, “I did noble things out here, and I look ignoble.” Did he win a thesaurus in a reward challenge that we don’t know about? Tyson’s advice: don’t wear feathers, tell crazy stories, or do tai chi in public. Rob’s advice: “Act like a man.” Our advice: Get thee to Xenu, stat. Your cluelessness and ego will fit in there.
Let’s pour a little more out for bad boy Russell, who’s flying too close to the sun. Already on the outs because he’s the great unknown (since his season aired after Heroes vs. Villains taped, he’s the most slippery character), Russell aggravates his tenuous status by searching for the hidden immunity idol after the Villains agree nobody will go after it. (How oddly gentlemanly; everyone on the Heroes tribe hits the beach running once they discover their clue.) None of the Villains know that Russell is a literal immunity idol magnet, so much so that the clue for the current one winds up in his hands first, tucked into the tool set they win at the reward challenge. When they spy him digging around under a palm tree, he is so busted. “He’s a stupid ass,” observes Sandra. “Russell’s a bonehead. He’s like the hobbit on crack,” quips Boston Rob.
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http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/03/survivor_recap_begin_the_blind.html
Cirie Fields, back for her fourth shot at a million on“Survivor: Heroes vs.
Villains,” got a blindside at tribal council and was sent home in
Thursday’s episode, on Day 11 of the competition.
As a member of the Heroes tribe, the operating room supervisor at Norwalk Hospital found herself at odds against a newly found alliance of Tom Westman, James “J.T.” Thomas and Colby Donaldson.
Hidden immunity idols came into play in the episode, though a clue to its location was shared with everyone at each campsite. Westman pocketed one in the Heroes side and ended up using it, discounting the three votes cast against him.
The votes:
Tom plays the immunity idol. Jeff reminds them that any votes cast against Tom will not count, and the next highest number of votes will send someone home.Tom, Tom, Tom, Colby, Colby, Cirie, Cirie, Cirie. Tom’s votes do not count, so Cirie is the eliminated from the tribe and goes home. Jeff comments that this qualifies as the tribe’s first blindside and sends them back to camp.
Read the entire article at:
http://blogs.courant.com/roger_catlin_tv_eye/2010/03/ciries-out-on-survivor.html
Survivor: Heroes vs Villains - Tribal Council Voting
Air Date: 03/04/10
GET IT TOGETHER MAN, I’M SERIOUS
I loved the exchange between Coach and Boston Rob because it brought out Rob’s very limited patience for topics such as feelings and whining. More than any other guy I know Rob is the quintessential “guys guy.” He’s just not one to have long talks about feelings. You’re either with him or you’re against him. It’s so clear that Coach desperately wants to be with him and that is probably at the heart of why he’s feeling left out. He just wants Rob to like him! But with Rob, it’s not so much if he likes you as much as it is if he doesn’t despise you. Coach, he doesn’t despise you, so take his advice – stand up straight and get back in the game. It’s too soon for you to go home.INTERMISSION
Oh, while we’re here… how about another response for those of you who are still screaming at me to get off the Coach topic? Let’s see… hmmm… how about this 8th grade classic… “Up yours.” Ya like that one? I do too. It’s straight to the point.I’m kidding. It’s just a joke. Where’s your sense of humor. Fun. You remember fun, right? That thing you used to have before you became a pain in the a–? Yeah, that thing. Listen, if I can laugh at myself with wet cushions, you should be able to take a little Coach humor.
IDOL PLAY
I was a bit surprised at the different way the two tribes approached the idol clue. I never would have guessed that it would be the Villains who chose to not look for the idol, while the Heroes were tripping over each other in a mad dash to uncover it. Further proof that at this point, the Villains are more in control of their game. They just have it more together than the Heroes.Game Changing flip:
READ more: Jeff Probst blogs Survivor: Heroes vs.Villians S20x04
Rob thinks the Tribe should find the Idol together and get rid of it, which Russell privately thinks is stupid. He later decides to go for a walk, but Rob becomes suspicious and asks Sandra to follow him. She think she sees him on the beach and reports back to the camp, prompting Rob to describe Russell as a “bonehead” and reveal that he doesn’t trust him and the safest thing to do is get rid of him. Over at the Heroes camp, Tom discovers the same clue in the coffee jar, but again the entire camp learn the contents. Tom eventually locates the Idol, and manages to slip it into his sock while Amanda and James search nearby – but not before Amanda sees him. She informs the other Tribe members, while Tom and Colby discuss how it could help them.
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After the Heroes managed to lose two more challenges this evening, they were back in a familiar place: Tribal Council, and the majority appeared (appeared!) ready to vote out another strong player in either Tom or Colby. Probst went to town on the tribe for being more concerned with alliances instead of keeping the people who gave the tribe the best chance to win.
When Rupert then openly disowned the vote he himself was about to cast due to the alliances he had made, Probst went off: “What part of that makes sense? Keeping your word in a game called outwit, outplay, outlast?… ‘Cause I’m looking at a tribe that, you’re all keeping your word. Great. All it’s doing is giving you more time with me at Tribal Council.” When Rupert then noted that “being at Tribal Council sucks,” Probst was incredulous. His response? “You’re a part of the reason based on that philosophy, Rupert!”
This was merely the first shocking event of Tribal, however. The second came when J.T. split from the majority to join Tom (who used his hidden immunity idol) and Colby in voting off Cirie —someone he had been looking to get rid off before the game even began, according to his pre-game interview with me. It capped off an action-packed episode that also involved a slip-and-slide, an epic Coach meltdown, the return of an infamous challenge, and the search for two hidden immunity idols.
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After the jump: Slip,slide immunity challenge video
The scramble is on to find the hidden immunity idols on the next episode of Survivor.
Survivor: Heroes Vs Villians - Episode 4 Preview
Survivor: Heroes vs Villains - Alpha Males
After losing the challenge, Courtney questions the abilities of the males on her tribe
Jeff Probst blogs 'Survivor: Heroes vs Villains': Episode 3
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I love this challenge. We could do this challenge every year and I’d be happy. And if Coach could play in this challenge every season I would never stop hosting Survivor.
But first… The “Didn’t See It Coming” match: Did anybody actually think Amanda would take out Danielle? That was the biggest upset of the match. A total shocker.
“The Most Exciting” match: Colby and Rob. That was a fantastic match-up. Exactly who we wanted to see go at it. Chalk this one up for Colby. That is how this challenge was designed to be played. Aggressively.
“The Most Embarrassing” match: It’s now official. James has clearly lost his mind. It’s el gonzo. It was the most lopsided match of the challenge. There was no doubt who was going to win. James knocked Randy off with one small push and then…he threw his bag on top of him and as always had to have the last word. “Get your f—ing old ass outta here.” Sorry James but this is where I get off the James train. It’s not that I think Randy is the nicest guy in the world either, but that was just unnecessary and truly ugly.
And now…to the greatest moment of the episode… “The I Can’t Hear You, Jeff, Because I’m Too Busy Posing For The Camera” match: Coach, you are a gem. You are the greatest. I loved this moment when it happened. I love it even more now that it’s on my TiVo and I can watch it over and over and over and over.
Side note: Some of you may be wondering about the sit-out rule pertaining to back-to-back challenges. That rule only applies within an episode. Each new episode it starts fresh. Typically we have two challenges within an episode, but not always. So Courtney was able to sit out the last challenge (last week’s episode) and sit out again in this week’s challenge (new episode.) Hope that clears up any questions.
You know what is fascinating...but stupid about Survivor's Villians? The entire tribe talked about how dangerous the scheming Parvati is then did nothing to get rid of her! It seems this entire episode centered around people mouthing different variations on the same ''Parvati is a huge flirt (with both the guys and girls) and is a huge threat because she has three known allies on the "Heroes" tribe and... "Other people may be fooled by her act but I'm not because I'm on to her and know she needs to go now,' speech.
Jerri even went so far as to proclaim, ''Parvati is like a virus,'' which made me happy because it means that, unlike Micronesia, this season I will not be the first person to compare Parvati to a sexually transmitted disease.
But after all that tough talk from the tribe, not a single person even voted for Parvati. Not even Jerri, who also revealed that, ''I'm at the point right now where every time I am around here, I just want to punch her in the face. That's all I can think about, is taking her down.'' Parvati later responded ( to the cameraperson) by referring to Jerri as a ''bitter old cougar..'' Name-calling. Mature.
The Heroes should have been reveling in their 8-0 sweep of the villains, but it ended on a sour note when James went all roid rage for the second episode in a row. It was obvious to all that he was going to pummel the older, slower, and weaker Randy, and that's exactly what he did with one push. But that wasn't enough for the Incredible Bulk. He then had to throw his bag right down on the defeated and dejected Randy. Nice sportsmanship! ... James responded to criticism about his actions the same way he always does, but yelling back, in this case telling Randy to ''get your f---in' old ass out of here.''
EW"Tonight, We Make Our Move"
The scramble is on to find the hidden immunity idols on the next episode of Survivor.
Secret scene (below)
Russell shares a laugh with Jerri when he reveals to her that he is simply using Parvati to his advantage
PUT ON A HAPPY FACE
Randy was a not-surprising choice to be booted out for the Villains as much like like the poll-taking Internet audience repeatedly votes that he's one of the top un-liked --apparently his fellow Villains concur.
Both teams in Survivor 20 behave as if the voting process were a popularity contest despite their gaping blind spot to several of really relevant points--call it "old skool Survivor" voting. Jeff Probst has comments on this odd if not completely stupid behaviour in his blog.
Randy...went out..., hurling his buff onto the fire after voting for Rob “to send a little message,” he explained in his exit confessional.
Read the entire article at: Reality BlurredThis week was all about the redemption of the Heroes, as they bonded while catching some chickens and didn’t yell at each other so much. Doesn’t seem like much of a strategy, but it appeared to work, because the Heroes completely destroyed the Villains at the joint reward/immunity challenge. Of course, the glorified mud-wrestling competition involved zero puzzles and required nothing but brute strength. But hey, a win is a win – especially when the final score is 8 to 0.
Jerri and Cirie are next and Cirie wins easily, giving the Heroes their 4th win. Danielle and Amanda dance around a lot, but Amanda comes out victorious. Colby and Rob then square off with Colby winning. It is now 7-0 in favor of the Heroes. James faces off against Randy... Not-at-all surprisingly, James simply pushes Randy off the platform in a single motion. The Heroes win reward and their first immunity! The Villains will be making their first trip to Tribal Council.
Back at Camp-V, the losers wash the mud and shame off. It was pretty pathetic to come out with not a single point. Randy is worried that he may be in trouble as the oldest member. So he plots to get Parvati off. Meanwhile, she asks Coach directly if he’s voting her off. He says he hasn’t thought about booting anyone yet. Parvati plays all the tricks, including stroking him with, “I know you have no fear…”. Coach insists “flirting has never controlled me; I’m my own man.”
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Oh, Villains. That was just embarrassing. Tonight’s mud challenge ass-whooping on Survivor: Heroes vs Villains proved that the Villains’ entire team of weaklings just don’t stand a chance against the Heroes’ brute force ... when it comes to anything physical. The
Villains Will Always Lose Physical Challenges: Tonight’s Sumo’an Mud Wrestling Immunity and Reward Walloping Challenge proved that the Villains’ so-called smarts can never win against the Heroes’ brawn in a physical contest.
The “tribe full of misfits” (Parvati’s words) are hindered by scary-scrawny Courtney and Tyson and the older and weaker Randy, Sandra and Jerri. No one can deny the power of Parv’s batting eyelashes, but they cannot row a boat or wrestle an opponent to the ground (or mud).
It doesn’t matter if James, Tom, Colby, J.T. and Rupert aren’t speaking with “one voice” when victory depends solely on brute strength. Too bad for the Villains that James only revealed his nasty nature after this season began.
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A blow-by-blow account of the Sumo Mud challenge for immunity and reward Jeff calls the tribe for an immunity competition. They will square off Sumo style, keeping hands on the bag at all times and try to get the other into the mud. There is also a reward in play. They get luxury items, coffee, sugar, and a week’s worth of rice.
Tom and Russell take each other on. Tom gets Russell in the mud almost immediately with just two blows.
Parvati and Candice take on each other next.
The fight takes a few minutes, but Parvati is first in the mud and Candice wins.
Coach and Rupert go at each other next. Coach gets Rupert in the mud, but it is a do-over since Coach took his hand off the bag.
Coach shows his anger and Jeff warns him to take his anger out on the pirate.
Rupert gets Coach into the mud.
Jerri takes on Cirie and quickly Cirie gets her in the mud.
It is four zip for the Heroes.
Tyson and JT take on each other and in the rain, the mud becomes very slippery. Tyson is put in the mud immediately.
Amanda takes on Danielle and their fight is brief.
It is now Heroes 6-zip.
Boston Rob is up again against Colby and Rob fights to stay alive.
Colby pushes Rob down and slides him into the mud.
James takes on Randy and this is match point. James puts Randy in the mud in just one push.
Randy says, “Classy” and James shoots back with an expletive that is deleted.
Heroes win 8-0 and Villains have to go to tribal council. .... Randy worries that he is going to go home being the oldest in the tribe. Randy feels that if they overlook her because she has a smile and a nice wiggle, and if they don’t take care of business now, they will be in a world of trouble when she meets up with the other tribe.
Coach is approached by Parvati about whether she is about to go. She flirts with him and he says that he is immune to her charms.
Sandra tells Rob that Randy is weak.
Jerri says that Parvati is like a virus and can rope others in.
Jerri wants to bottle that up and use it in her real life, because she thinks it is powerful stuff.
Sandra says she will go with the tribe, Randy or Parvati.
She says she is trying to stay as long as she can.
Parvati works on Jerri, but Parvati isn’t getting through to her.
It is clearly either Randy or Parvati. Jerri says that she is not trying to get anyone to vote for anyone, but she is at the point right now where she wants to take her down.
Parvati says that Jerri is a bitter old cougar and her days are numbered.
Randy speaks on his own behalf and tells Coach that this is Micronesia 2.0 and if he is dead man walking, he will see him in loser’s lodge.
Coach says that there is nobody out here that is honorable but him.
He quotes Martin Luther King, saying that the measure of a man is not in times of comfort, but in how he rises to a challenge. Coach looks to hope that Randy is still there on the morrow and will fight for him.
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After the jump: More Survivor: Heroes vs Villains videos (2.26.10)
- 'The Wrong Move' - 'Tribal Council Voting' - 'Tyson on Losing the Challenge'"Too Much Respect"
Rob gets medical attention and accepts his fate.
Preview Episode 3 of Survivor: Heroes vs Villains
Survivor 20, Episode 3 Heroes vs. VilliansJames’ attack against Stephenie led both Colby and her Palau castmate Tom to defend her. Tom told James he was “bullying people.” But in the end, everyone voted with James and Rupert except for Colby and Tom, which means they’re probably next in line to go.
Stephenie tried to lecture her tribe on the way out, mocking James’ use of the term “ya’ll” in the process — “next time ya’ll lose a challenge, a little less cursing” — but James told her, “Keep your mouth shut.”
But it’s James who might want to take his own advice and shut the heck up, because although he’s in the majority now, that can change quickly on “Survivor.”
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Why did you want to come back to “Survivor?” I had always said to Kyle, “I love the game, I love to compete, I love the show.” I haven’t won, so why not keep trying until you win, basically. I said to him from the very beginning if I’m ever asked to come back, especially for an All-Star season, I’m gonna do it. No matter where we are in life, if I can do it, I’m going to do it. It’s funny because we got engaged July 13 and literally July 15 I got the call to come back. It was an honor to be asked back. I knew going into it I would be a huge target. I knew I would probably go if not first, then extremely early on. I was outnumbered and they got me. Why do you think the Heroes couldn’t gel as a tribe right off the bat and the Villains seemed to, because we’ll be honest, we thought it would be the other way around. So did we. We definitely did. We had all these great characters. I’d never met any of them personally except for Tom, so there was Colby and Rupert and Cirie and I was like, “Wow.” But then here we are day one and Rupert’s telling everybody what to do. Rupert is ultimate “Survivor” guy, you can’t do anything unless Rupert says it’s okay. Then you got James talking inappropriate about girls and all the free stuff he’s gotten after “Survivor” and Amanda’s over there smiling, modeling for the camera and me, Tom and Colby are like,”What is going on? It’s unbelievable.” Immediately there was a division. Physically we’re the stronger tribe and then it comes down to a puzzle and our puzzle people are not really that great at puzzles. And the Villains have Boston Rob so he is carrying that entire tribe on his back because he’s so damn good at puzzles. We’re a mess because there’s so many egos in the Heroes tribe, it was brutal. Me, Tom and Colby were extremely quiet this time around because you don’t want to piss anybody off. It wasn’t a fun environment and it’s really because of [Rupert and James], they made it not fun. We were very divided and I think it’s only gonna get worse for them.
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Note to Jeff Probst: You may want to change your intro on Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains, because tonight’s episode proved that it is so not the Villains with the “ruthless cunning and backstabbing!”
In another electrifying hour, we witnessed the Heroes tribe disintegrate while the Villains (OK, one Villain and his minions) again triumphed over adversity.Here’s what you need to know…
WHAT WENT DOWN
“Get Help!” Did Rob actually say these words—about himself? Thanks to the previews, at least we had time to prepare for the felling of the Robfather, who passed out from dehydration/disgust with his tribe. More shocking than “Get help!” was this dazed declaration to Jeff Probst: “I’m sorry. I feel like it’s getting the best of me.” Fortunately for us (and face it, the Villains), the tribe’s “bright shining star” (per Courtney) quickly recovered his sparkle.Crybabyitis: “When I finally came to,” said Rob, “I had a moment of clarity, And that was stop trying to be the good guy. Because I’m trying to be so good, I physically made myself sick. Just do what everybody wants you to do and be the villain. The doctors checked me out, basically told me I have the flu and a little bitty case of crybabyitis. [But now] I gotta start smacking ‘em into shape.” Atta boy!
Puzzled, Again: Despite their hefty lead in the Immunity and Reward Challenge’s physical first half (come on, Colby, James, Tom and J.T. against everyone not named Rob?), the Heroes were stymied again trying to solve the building-block puzzle. While Rob (surprise!) barked orders to his obedient tribe, the Heroes were “talking trash to each other—not a good sign,” proclaimed Probst, who later added, “The group of misfit Villains [took] the Heroes to the cleaners.” Aw.
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If I learned anything from Thursday night’s episode of “Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains,” it’s that I’d rather live with a bunch of heroes, but I’d rather go into war with villains. It’s no coincidence that JT and Cirie and Tom and Rupert have the better camp life. Everybody works hard, nobody complains and as a result there’s a leak-free shelter and good spirits. Meanwhile, at the Legion of Doom… I mean the villains’ camp, they have gone through five different shelter constructions, all of which leak. With the exception of Boston Rob (more on him later), nobody works hard and everybody whines and is self-involved. At one point, Jerri says they’re going to “spiral down into a pit of negativity.” Speak the truth, sister. I’d rather watch the complete series of “According to Jim” than live in the jungle with Coach and Randy and Tyson. There’s no question who I’d rather go into battle with, though. Once again, the villains kicked major butt in the immunity challenge for one simple reason: They have a very smart dictator and they’re willing to take orders. This, my friends, is why the Army is not a democracy.
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LATimes blogStephenie interviews that they need to get the weakest out first, so of course they should get rid of … Amanda? Really? Tom talks to Candice about how she is the swing vote, and she expresses concern. Watch out — how many times has the undecided swing voter become the target? Candice and Cirie talk it out and decide to work together. Cirie tells her that everyone things Amanda and she are so close, but when Amanda picked Parvati over her, “she cost me a million dollars.” They try to decide what to do. Cirie says as long as it isn’t me, “I don’t much care.”
At tribal council, James starts attacking Stephenie, saying there was “one individual” who messed things up. She tries to defend herself, James doesn’t let her speak. Colby steps in and starts yelling back at James, and he says, OK, fine, it was the two of you who screwed it up. Tom says he might as well blame it on all three of them since they’re together.
Man, I’d forgotten about Amanda’s Tribal Council Sadface. Anyway, she is also concerned about her standing the game.
Voting time! Jeff’s favorite time: Tallying! Steph, Amanda, “Stef,” Amanda, Steph, Amanda, Stephanie (with a heart), Stephenie. So … bye, Steph!
“Some advice, next time ‘y’all’ lose a challenge, a little less cursing out your tribe would help,” she tells them. “Keep your mouth shut,” James responds.
Meow! There’s more lovey-dovey attitude on the other tribe. Who would’ve guessed?
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After the jump (Below): Survivor Heroes vs Villains - Episode 2 Photos
Stephenie: The Day After TribalIn regard to Jeff Probst's opinion/advice to the Heroes team, who have now sent themselves to the first two Tribal Councils: I completely agree that it is STUPID to ditch Stephenie so early in the game. The so-called "Heroes" are thinking with their hearts (so to speak) instead of their heads--and that is putting it nicely. As Jeff put it,"Voting out great players (like Stephenie) in the second week is idiotic...(because) it almost always works against you."
Here's what Jeff has to say about the Rob-father's jungle floor adventure: "When the doctors and I first got to Rob at camp, he was flat out on his side. Flat out. He was shaking uncontrollably and he was slobbering from the mouth. I knew it was bad because Rob is not the kind of guy who ever complains about physical pain. He’ll complain about damn near everything else, but he’s pretty self-contained when it comes to pain. He was out of it. Before the docs diagnosed it as merely the flu, I thought he was going to have to be evacuated."
There is buzz on the 'nets that Rob faked his fall into unconsciousness but Probst seems to give validation that it was real not faked, based on crew and native Samoans who succumbed to the "Samoa flu," an especially nasty bug.
Be sure to read Jeff Probst's entire blog article as it is very informative and at times extremely amusing in it's bluntness. The Jeff you see on Survivor is the Jeff whose voice you hear in the blogs.
Jeff Probst blogs 'Survivor: Heroes vs Villains': Episode 2
Oh, one more thing. Boston Rob's passing out has pretty much been overshadowed by what an ass James Clement has made of himself by being a (quite literally) big bully. How a guy that came across as gallant in previous shows has changed so much is a mystery--or is it? Sad to even consider this but could James have been using steroids prior to coming out to Samoa? Also sad to say, this once favourite Survivor should now be a serious contender for next boot.
Even Probst says, "I would have to seriously consider getting rid of James. I know he’s the strongest guy to ever play this game, but his attitude is just not there and that is more damaging long term than his biceps are helpful short term... ... He caused as much disharmony with his running around as Stephenie did by talking during the challenge. But it was his outburst at tribal council that was most unnerving."
Gah! I agree. James just would not stop picking at Stephenie and she was not gonna take his trash-talk. She ended up being picked on (then booted!) and he ended up looking like a jerk.
Season 20, Episode 1
The episode started with a great challenge, a violent fight in the dirt that left Sugar to run to the finish line topless (Sandra unclipped her bikini top when they were wrestling, as if it was possible to love Sandra even more) and saw Colby dragging Coach and then Coach dragging Colby, never mind JT mounting Randy and Cirie throwing people to the ground left and right. More significantly, Rupert broke his toe and Stephenie dislocated her shoulder as Courtney encouraged Parvati to “break her shoulder.” Medical popped it back into place, which was more horrifying than whatever Tyson was wearing as underwear.
'Survivor' evictee Sugar to Sandra: 'Don't undo my bra, bitch!'
Previous Survivor 'Topless Sugar" scene post
From EW.com February 12th, 2010
S20xE01 - Survivor Heroes vs Villains
Q: Let’s talk about your big topless scene. First off, was Sandra trying to undo your bra or did it just come undone...? Sugar -
A: Unless we were making love, no. She totally undid it, and I literally said, “Don’t undo my bra, bitch!” I remember thinking, she thinks I’m going to put my bra back on and that she’s got me and just has to worry about them. So I was like, roll out of it, grab the bag and make the point. So that’s what I did because I wanted to prove that I was trying to win this time — that I was going to do my damnedest in the challenges to prove myself. I thought that would work.
Q: Who exactly were you flipping off?
Sandra?
All the Villains?
Jeff Probst?
Sugar: I was looking at everybody. It was supposed to be toward Sandra, but I was kinda shooting everybody off. [Laughs] Yeah, I was totally flipping off Jeff. He knows it and he knows why.
Q: So the situation with Colby: They really made you out to be a stalker in that scene.
Sugar: They want to make me look like Jerri No. 2. That’s fine with me. Yeah, that was like five seconds out of three days that I was there. That’s cool. I don’t mind my edit.
Source article at: Popwatch
Survivor: Heroes vs Villains - Sugar
In the first challenge of the season, the Heroes take on the Villains to win fire in the form of flint
..."I didn’t know a lot of people because I didn’t know most of their seasons. I went in blind. Blonde and blind!”With ten of the most beloved players in Survivor history pitted against ten of the most villainous, there was never a doubt that the opening episode of Survivor: Heroes Vs. Villains would be anything less than explosive! Unfortunately for Heroes Tribe member Jessica ‘Sugar’ Kiper, her return to the show ended abruptly last night as she became the first castaway to get the boot at Tribal Council. We caught up with the singer and actress – who finished second runner-up on Survivor: Gabon – to find out how she was feeling.
Was there anyone you were starstruck to be playing with?
“Yeah, me! I was like, ‘How am I on this season with all of these awesome people?! Rupert and Sugar!’ It’s kind of crazy! I wanted to get to know a lot of people because...
Source article at: Digital Spy
What was going through your mind, leading up to tribal council?
A. Sugar: I felt like I was at the Sugar Shack but there was no food and nobody liked me. I was so alone but yet, there were people all around me. I don’t think Colby tried to understand me. That whole thing with him is hilarious that it looked like that. I don’t even like him for that. I had the hots for JT, but not anymore!
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains / Survivor: Heroes vs Villains - James
I was totally was not going to watch Survivor: Heroes vs. Villians as I quit Survivor in the edition in which Coach, Randy & Courtney were a part. Overall, I really dig the show though, the locales are pretty, a lot of it is edited to be funny, so when I saw that James, Amanda, Stephenie, Sugar, Colby and his arch nemesis from the Australian Outback Jerri was on board I asked spouse if he was interested. He was so we watched the premiere, S20x01 tonight. Also, I have a lot of previous material on some of these players if you are looking for more photos of them or background in general--which could clue you in to what they may be playing like--or not. Just use the Lijit Wijit Search in my sidebar--or click those links there right above to find out more about the players I mentioned and a few more.
Much more later.
Survivor: Heroes vs Villains - Reward Challenge (Episode 1)Next time on Survivor E20x02,
After the jump: Boston Rob/ Russell --that guy spooks me!/ Jeff Probst on Season 20's cast“It’s Getting the Best of Me” – Backstabbing and dissension run rampant in one tribe as a castaway reveals that old grudges die hard and makes a move to put a former ally on the chopping block. Meanwhile, one Villain pushes so hard to provide for the tribe that he passes out cold, on SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS, Thursday, Feb. 18 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
CASTAWAYS:
Castaways competing on SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS (in alphabetical order separated by tribes):
HEROES VILLAINS
RUPERT BONEHAM TYSON APOSTOL
JAMES CLEMENT RANDY BAILEY
COLBY DONALDSON DANIELLE DILORENZO
CIRIE FIELDS RUSSELL HANTZ
AMANDA KIMMEL JERRI MANTHEY
JESSICA “Sugar” KIPER (1st voted out) ROBERT MARIANO
STEPHENIE LAGROSSA PARVATI SHALLOW
JAMES “JT” THOMAS JR. SANDRA DIAZ-TWINE
TOM WESTMAN BENJAMIN “Coach” WADE
CANDICE WOODCOCK COURTNEY YATES
Amanda Kimmel : "Into The Blue 2: The Reef" Premiere Amanda Lee Kimmel (born August 3, 1984) is a beauty queen from Billings, Montana who has competed in the Miss USA and Miss Earth pageants. Kimmel was a runner-up contestant on both Survivor: China and Survivor: Micronesia, breaking several Survivor records in the process.
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