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Read the recap instead of watching... an apparently wise move.

I might start watching now that things HAVE to perk up a bit.

^ Don't get your hopes up. Still the same old predicatble boot.

This season has sucked for quite a few episodes now. I guess if one is a huge Rob M fan they might be enjoying it since it has been THE ROB M SHOW since almost the beginning but I'm completely bored of him and it.

I've been watching each episode hoping something interesting will happen but each one has been a colossal disappointment.

Which is a shame because I think there were some really great characters cast this season (i.e. everyone but those complete wastes of space Ashley and Natalie) but we haven't been able to see nearly enough of any of them because of THE ROB M SHOW. Bringing back two very experienced players and putting them in charge of complete Survivor virgins (and complete doormats in a few cases) has proven to be a monumental failure IMO and I hope they never do it again.

The ONLY thing that can save this season for me now is if Mike or Ralph (or maybe Andrea or Matt) make it back from RI and beat the others in the finale. I have zero interest in seeing any of Rob, Ashley, Natalie, Philip or Grant win. (Though I'll grudgingly take a Grant win if those are the only 5 I can choose from.)

Bring on a new (and better hopefully) season soon please.

No matter how big a Rob M fan anyone is, I still don't see him winning in the finale. IF it's him, Phillip and Natalie, the jury will give it to Natalie because Phil's pissed off everyone, an the jury pretty much never rewards the guy who obviously ran the show, just out of spite. Whoever the three end up being, if Rob's among them, they'll choose someone else. He hasn't a prayer. The Alpha Male almost never wins Survivor unless he manages to do his thing with subtlety and making the others somehow like him. Rob's done neither.

He's played an excellent game and would get my vote, but Rob ain't winnin' this thing.

I dunno, Lardy. If Rob gets to the finals, I can almost see the whole tribe falling prostrate in front of him chanting "Rob is Survivor Supreme."

Was I the only one hoping Rob would fall down the stairs?

Skipping again. I'll read the recap.

I wish I had followed your lead these past few weeks, Lash. I have found this season to be just interminable.

I don't mind the concept of "Redemption Island," but I really hope this is the last time they bring back players from previous seasons. Though it's probably unintentional, every time I hear Jeff Probst call Rob, "Mariano," it just smacks of favoritism.

Yeah, this 2 experienced pros thing has been a compelete and total failure all the way around.

The deliciousness of seeing Russell taken out early has all been lost by the idiocy of keeping Rob around until the end.

FLOP.

Survivor history normally shows that mixing experienced players with greenhorns tends to favor the experienced ones. Fans vs. Favorites showed that. Stephanie got far when she was brought back with Bobby-John (or whatever) that one season. I like Boston Rob, but his success against all these n00bs is definitely hurting the element of suspense.

Save the vets for All-Star editions, which I always like.

Dang, how'd we get to the finale already?

Still have 8 players in the mix... interesting to see what happens with Redemption Island...

My order of who I'd like to see return from Redemption Island -

1. Mike
2. Matt
3. Andrea
4. Grant

and I'd basically like any of the four RI players to win the game. I find the remaining four Survivors in the main part of the game all insufferable.

I haven't seen all the seasons of Survivor but this was EASILY the worst of all the ones I have seen.

I don't know how anyone could not have seen Rob winning this game since practically the beginning. It has been SO obvious from the editing and all the focus on him and even from his interactions with all the other challengers. You could tell that the Zapatera team all respected him and that he had pulled the wool over his own team's eyes to such an extent that if any of them resented him for what he did to them (like Grant did) they would all still think he was worthy of the $1 million - which is exactly what happened.

After the first few episodes, this season had absolutely ZERO surprise or surprise. Heck - I could have given you a boot list at the merge and it would have been spot on to the boot list that eventually happened. That did not make for interesting television.

This season was a total let-down and that feeling seemed to pervade the atmosphere at the Reunion too. Other than Jeff obvisouly giddy that his man-crush Rob had finally claimed a victory on his fourth attempt, everyone else (even the audience) just seemed somber and bored - like they were as over it all as I was. Which they probably were - it must have been so frustrating for them to watch the show and see that they had been Rob's pawns all season, and that that had played perfectly into CBS's hands because this had been THE ROB SHOW all along.

And now they're bringing back the exact same gimmick of having two returning Survivors next season?!? Ugh! Well, it couldn't be a worse season than this one I guess.

Bleh.

Watch one of them be Matt (who will promptly be voted out to Redemption in the first Tribal Council ).

WHAT? AGAIN? Did they learn nothing feom this season going tits-up so quickly? SO glad I skipped these last several episodes.

Called it. Attorney David even spelled it out in his closing statement to the jury.

Yep, you did. Usually, the tribe turns on the big manipulator and gives all their votes to the flunky. The difference here was Rob's rock star status. I didn't take that into account.

Robs GREEDY!! period. thats why I stopped watching Survivors.

I'm worried this show has lost my interest entirely, like American Idol has. That's okay, I'm enjoying my scripted shows these days.

Rob just had to be the man of the house and bring home as much money as his wife did.

I think it was set up by the producers to keep bringing Rob back until he finally won. After 4 tries, it does not seem ike such a feat. Very dissapointed in the tribes for not getting rid of him. Hopefully he will keep his word and NOT ever play again. The viewers award should go to 2nd place, if the Survivor winner is also named Fan Fave.

SURVIVOR starts back tonight. With that same Redemtpion Island twist, bleeeeah.

ALso bringing back former players Coach and Ozzy.

I missed Ozzy's previous seasons so he is new to me and I grew to enjoy Coach's general ridonkulousness, so we'll see how this goes.

But I'm actually more excited about ANTM: All-Stars!

I kinda like Ozzy's laid-backed-ness and Coach seems to be slowly winning over the tribe, although he's still amusingly nutbaggy.

Cochran the adorable nerd was fun to watch. I was a little surprised that Semhar was voted out unanimously.

Brandon, Russell's nephew? >bleeah<

The youtube account that I used to watch Survivor episodes at has been disabled. I was amazed he/she was able to get away with it for as long as they did though.

Had to download this episode which I hate doing. Paranoid about viruses.

It was a good episode though and I'm optimistic about this season. (Shudders remembering his positive thoughts at the beginning of last season too though... )

It helps that I don't dislike Coach or Ozzy as much as I disliked Rob and Russell I think - though I didn't really like Ozzy in the one season I saw him in (Cook Islands) so we'll see how he goes.

I too was surprised by the unanimous Semhar vote. I totally thought Cochran was the one who would be going.

Early favourites -

Mark (though the desperation to be called Papa Bear was a bit tragic I thought - and you just know that that is totally his gaydar/manhunt/grindr/etc. profile name! haha),
Dawn (by virtue of her early breakdown reminding me of Holly of a few seasons ago - whom I loved)
Edna (the nice-seeming Asian lady who helped Coach)
Farmer guy (whose name I have forgotten)
Cochran (kind of annoys me too but I like that he's not just a boring model type - so sick of them)

What?!?! I could SWEAR I remember you posting about having a serious crush on Ozzy back in the day?!?! Dontcha remember the "race wars" (he was one of the hispanics) Survivor that begat him? You saw that one, right?

Cook Islands (Ozzy's original season) is one of my favourite Survivor seasons and I really liked Ozzy's alliance of underdogs that went on to be the final 4. However, Ozzy was always my least favourite of that alliance. He has an arrogance about him that I find a bit off-putting.

I think this current season is either going to improve my opinion of him or push him firmly into the DISLIKE camp - like last season did with Rob.