Wow, less than a week out and some tribe members are already losing their minds! Poor Holly is still reeling from having to vote out her alliance partner of three whole days, and the psychological turmoil that it caused was just too much for her. So why not take someone’s shoes, fill them with sand and drop them in the water? Seems to be the logical thing to do, no? But, really Dan, if you’re going to bring (allegedly) $1600 alligator shoes with you to the jungle, you pretty much deserve what you get. I always wonder from the outset why people come to Survivor in their Sunday best. They do realize they’re going to be stuck where they are with no other clothes, right? Or are they allowed to bring other clothing items now? Still, alligator shoes are a bit over-the-top for island living.
And if Holly’s breakdown on Espada wasn’t enough, NaOnka on La Flor is losing it. Did someone steal her sock? Did anyone see Holly sneak into camp during the night? Is the Big Brother Saboteur loose in Nicaragua? No one fessed up to taking the sock — yes, one sock — so I guess we’ll never know … and Fabio will never get his spare socks back from NaOnka.
All this drama happened before the first (and only) challenge this week! If you remember last week, I gave Espada a little flak for not using the Medallion of Power to help them in the challenge, but it turns out that was a good move (even though they lost last week), because the Medallion gave them a huge advantage this week. While NaOnka claims she sat out for La Flor to test Kelly B’s strength, Espada somehow ended up with Holly as the anchor person for the first leg of the challenge. Was this intentional? Why put the most unstable member of the tribe in such an important position? And thanks to Holly, who couldn’t find a ball in a haystack, Espada nearly did lose.
Then, Tribal Council time rolls around for La Flor, and it was just amazing watching the entire tribe implode … on Day 6! And just like Wendy Jo last week, Shannon did not know when to shut his mouth. He pretty much called out everyone on the tribe, forced Chase to reveal his two alliances and showed what a true ass he is by asking Sash if he’s gay, which had no bearing on anything else happening at that moment. And this comes from a guy who has already made one gay slur in a pre-show interview, so if Shannon is reading this you know what they say about those who protest too much. At this point, I don’t care if you are one of the stronger players on La Flor, it was time for you to go. Far away.
“It’s very clear from tonight’s Tribal Council that the biggest threat to this tribe is the tribe itself.” – Jeff to La Flor after voting Shannon out of the game.
Clacked by Chuck Duncan 
on Sep 22, 2010 @ 23:14 EST5EDT
I’m not even that big a Survivor fan, but I was ecstatic over his dismissal. There’s being a villain and then there’s just being a jerk. Good riddance.
Half a year ago I tried not eating for three days. Trust me, after that I understand completely how you can go completely insane after six days without a proper meal. You start seeing things.
Anyway I can’t stop chuckling over the Marquesas mug… *snigger*
3 days?!!
If I skip breakfast, I’m a grouch, I just can’t imagine three days. Even so, Shannon seemed too venomous. That might have been a great reason to keep him though….
Yeah I know it sounds silly but Survivor on the air during that time and I wanted to understand why Boston Rob fainted. So I got 5 gallons of water (non-carbonated) and tried it over the weekend (because I would never EVER have driven or done any physical labor during that time). After 2.5 days I caved and ate again because I got the most insane headaches. My brother has Type 1 diabetes so I was able to test my blood sugar and it was around 50.
I just wanted to know how it feels like. Oh and I was looking like Rupert during that time so it wasn’t like I was hurting my body or anything.
And of course he was too venomous (my word of the day by the way, thanks :-) Still learning english after 20 years) and he had to go. I think it’s great that no food makes it easier for the contestants to get rid of the crazies right at the beginning. It also (for me) shows that Sugar couldn’t have been THAT crazy all in all because she made it that far during her first time on the show and you really (!) have to have some stamina to NOT go crazy while being extremely hungry. It also shows that the older guys in their 50s who fainted didn’t want to quit. These people really work for their million bucks and that’s why I think the show is still great after 10 years.
Even though we all know the girls get to shave their legs off-camera. It’s not like the show isn’t fooling us at least a little bit.
Oh yeah, certain people can pull it off. My mother fasts all the time, so does my husband for that matter.
I thought Boston Rob just had a case of the “crybabies”? :)
If the gals are allowed to shave their legs, why not their underarms too?
It’s interesting that CBS even let the comment to Sash stay in the show because they go out of their way to sanitize any kind of slur uttered by the Big Brother house guests (even though anyone who watches the live feeds knows what’s really being said). Shannon had already made a comment in a pre-show interview that he wasn’t going to flirt with any of the women but if a guy wanted to snuggle up to him he would use that to his advantage, finishing off with “my boys can call me a f**, but I know I’m straight.” Obviously, the guy has issues, and who knows what else he said to his tribe that didn’t make it on the show. They probably had enough of him by that point and we should thank them for sparing us any more of his hatefulness.
Wow, these people are a bunch of train wrecks. Shannon and Wendy (both mercifully gone), NaOnka, Holly, Jimmy T. Ugh. Just ugh. I really don’t like the thought that NaOnka in particular is in the power alliance and might be around for a while (if her teammates don’t get sick of her first). That kind of irrational reaction over a sock? Wow. Conversely, Dan was able to keep his cool impressively in the face of having his $1600 shoes destroyed. That tells me he’s either lying or extremely rich. If it’s the latter case, what’s he doing out here? In any event, he seems to have lucked his way into an alliance with two of the few thinking members on the show. The only people on the young tribe who could qualify for that title are Brenda (maybe) and people who haven’t spoken yet (Benry – though probably not with that moniker – and a few others who’ve gone way up in my estimation just by comparison). And Jud/Fabio is still clearly a buffoon – but I like him a lot more after this episode. Just seems like a good-natured fool.
Why bother giving the tribes names if Jeff’s just going to call them “Older” and “Younger”? The Heroes and Villains didn’t have tribe names. And what’s with Jeff awkwardly cheering on both teams? “Go olders! …Go youngers!”
You start to wonder just how much “casting” is actually done to find specific types as opposed to just pulling people from their audition tapes. Although they try to keep that part of the process under wraps, one of the women on Espada, I believe, let slip that most of the people were found by producers, not through submissions, and just had no clue what they were getting themselves into. With more and more outlets available for information, we begin to see the veil of secrecy surrounding these types of shows being pulled back more and more, and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we learn at some point one season that all of the tribe members are actors playing their roles.
Well that’s just disgusting. Not only because of the intellectual dishonesty, but because it severely hampers my chances of ever being selected to be on the show. )-:
You just have to submit a really great video and show a lot of personality.