Someone grab the lube, cause there's
gonna be some fuc-, uh, I mean, someone's getting screwed
 You
know, it really can't get much worse for the Ulong tribe.
Seriously, this is the worst I've ever seen a tribe do in
terms of performance as well as in terms of what has been
done to it. Not only was it bad enough to see Ulong lose,
again, and only because of one major failure on the part of
Ibrehem, but that heinous tribal council. I mean, talk about
rubbing salt in the wounds. They first have to watch those
bastards Koror eat food and talk all loud about it, then they
have to watch their plans, their easy plans, of getting rid
of Ibrehem utterly annihilated, and they have to vote out
one of their own, one of their most valuable tribemembers:
Angie. Oh well. I really wanted her to go far, and I thought
she had a good chance.She looked like she was ready to go
at some level, although I'm fairly certain if she had lasted
she would have gone as far as she could have. There's really
not many people I care for; really, only Stephenie and Bobby
Jon hold any bit of my favor.
The Complete Failure of Ibrehem
One messup, Ibrehem? I beg to differ. You have never been
an asset to the tribe during any of the immunity challenges.
I'll give you your one point during the sumo challenge...but
that's it. While I was talking to Byron during the show, for
some reason I called it right as Ibrehem went in to the water:
"Watch how he'll puss out and lose it right here"
And he did. I so wanted to be wrong. And I so wasn't. I couldn't
believe his self-righteousness at tribal council either. Maybe
it was a last ditch effort to come across as a victim, and
he must have known to play it up for Koror, anticipating maybe
something crazy was going to happen. And sure enough, Koror
picked up that Ibrehem was on the outs, and kept him there
to make sure Ulong's suffering continued. Smart move on Koror's
part, but agonizing to watch. Ugh.
The Tribal Council(s) of Doom
 Was
it too difficult or sad to see that Willard was getting voted
off? No. Who cares.
I was a little intrigued at the scheming going on at Koror
though, with the Gregg-Jen pair looking to take out Tom and
Ian, eventually joining up with Janu and Coby. I don't think
Coby will be able to keep this to himself though, and he'll
try to double-scheme Gregg, methinks. It's going to be difficult
for Coby not to - he'll feel like he has power at his disposal
and to wield. Hopefully the drama will blow up over at Koror.
And of course, back to Tribal Council, we saw the most brutal
one ever. Plus, a tie? That's like so Season 4 in Marquesas.
Ever since the tie and the resulting Purple Rock of Death,
there's been NO ties. Amazing. And have these reward challenges
not been exceedingly extravagant? When Ulong won them, they
were just sewing kits and fishing gear. When Koror wins them,
they get a new shelter and the ability to fuck with Ulong
and eat in front of them. Doesn't seem balanced, does it?
I still am going to keep watching this show, but geez, this
has been one of the most brutal seasons ever.
Final Thoughts
Another Wednesday episode next week, don't forget. I'm sure
there'll be some more Ulong blood spilled, some yelling at
Ibrehem (who I'm guessing will be self-righteous anyways),
and Janu getting all snivvelly. Quit your whining and play
Survivor!
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Other's Thoughts:
 C-Money
speaks - It's On....:
Man! I almost forgot about
Survivor being on Wednesday... Thanks God my hubby reminded
me. I would have been devastated.
More love stories going on... Jeez people, it's not the f-ing
love connection. It's Survivor! Ulong decides to go for a
safari in the middle of the night. Looks like a good time
in the jungle tonight! (and why does it ALWAYS have to rain
at night, never during the day???)
So we are beginning to see some people in the Koror tribe
not doing anything (Willard... old guy...) I'd really like
to see them go to tribal council. Has Willard ever competed
in a challenge? I think he's sat out every one.
A voting challenge, but no swaps. Ulong starts out strong
and then the talker... Ibrahem, can't come up with a bottle.
What a disgrace! I'm so disappointed in him. I'm glad to see
Ian, the water guy (doesn't he work with dolphins???) have
a problem. And Ulong has a chance, but still does not win.
I have a feeling that Ibrahem is outta there, don't you???
He says nothing and is only strong when he needs to be. The
ladies sure are holding Ulong together, but for what?
The most this man speaks the whole time, and I really think
he's gone. Ibrahem, you look like you could take on the world,
but you just are so... I don't know. Then we move on to Koror.
Willard, yes, it's you on your way out. And please, CBS, PLEASE
stop showing Coby in his speedos. My gawd, it hurts! I think
that "Ken" (quote from Coby) is playing Coby. Tom
ain't going anywhere. This chick's (Jen) laugh is getting
on my nerves. Her flirty laugh. Making my skin crawl.
It's amazing, when Koror gets to the tribal council, the eye
rolling that is going on. We all know it's going to be Willard,
but it's good to see eyes roll for others when their names
are brought up... Pretty cruel to have Koror eating while
poor Ulong has to go through the pain of tribal council again.
My heart goes out to them, Jeff is especially cruel this time.
It would have been nice if Koror didn't "rub it in",
but you know, Ian sure is an ass about that. He started doing
a dance and singing. Just mean. I wonder how he would have
felt on the other side? My thing is, what kind of information
does Koror expect to get from Ulong during this council? Like,
you already knew that they are struggling. They are upset,
they are frustrated.
Now there's a twist. Voting for immunity to keep someone there?
And Katie votes for Ibrahem. Has she even been at the challenges???
Dumb broad. I'm at a loss for words. The people from this
tribe have bigger hearts than heads. They don't know that
Ibrahem is not really involved in the tribe. They don't know
anything about Ulong and how it is back at the camp and 3
of them vote for Ibrahem. Well, we know Katie, I'll also bet
Caryn and Coby too.
I am speechless again. They voted out one of the strongest
people on their tribe. Angie, you were AWESOME and probably
the most inspiring Survivor players I've seen in a while.
I'm outta here. Next Thursday is my birthday! I'll be 25!!!
Send money and I'll be sending my inputs to you Hobie!!!
 Squirrel's
Comments - Ep 5:
Dear Hobie,
I'm so very angry!
Overall assessment...
Show's fate in jury deliberation.
TSHS
Ok, now that I'm done being really pissed off, here's what
I think...
I'm getting a little tired of the lopsided
way they (the show) are setting up challenges and rewards.
As Hobie says, they seem to be all or nothing when Koror wins
but trivial when Ulong wins.
Tonight's episode in point. To have
the other tribe there, and to have them eat in front of you,
and to have them give immunity as a reward is over the top
torture. Of course the other team is going to see who they're
going to vote off and protect that person because it weakens
the other team they are in direct competition with. It forces
a strong person to be voted off.
Ibrehem is a f***ing slug. Everyone
knows it. Yes, we did judge you on past performance and found
you lacking there too. You're a quitter and although you're
no Oston, you're right up there in my book. Ta da, you have
immunity. Yeah, that's a fair.
Now I know life is not fair normally
but the rules are created by the producers/writers of this
show. To me, they went out of there way to make it unfair.
It was to much. I could handle it better if James or even
Bobby John were voted off but Angie!!! She and Steph are the
only ones winning it for you. Of course there's no merge and
that little flip comment at the end about "you're still
a tribe and amazingly, you still believe it" made me
want to choke the life out of Jeff. You know what, F U Jeff
and all the writers that thought up this little gem!
I can't stop being angry about this
episode! I should dump it like I dumped Pokerstars!
So why should I even bother watching
this any longer?
Steph.
She's the only other one I care about.
I wish nothing but evil upon the heads of the show's writers
and producers. I wish nothing but bad luck upon Koror. Is
that the reaction you wanted to get out of your audience you
f***ing bastards? Well you succeeded. If Steph, who's competitive
enough to kill Oston - um Ibrehem, in his sleep, can make
it to the final 4 then I won't have to dump this show forever.
If she's out one episode before that, I will be as done with
Survivor as I am with on-line poker.
TVASHS
(The very ANGRY squirrel has spoken!)
 Counterpoint
-> Linus:
Ok, I've been quiet up until
now but I can't take anymore of this poor Ulong Bull SH*&!
Ulong is NOT losing because the writers/producers are making
the show unfair, they are losing because they refuse to function
as a tribe. Now usually I am one to root for the underdog
but I just can't with Ulong. They were the strongest tribe.
They were the younger tribe. They should have been winning
BUT they aren't. This tribe fell apart the day they voted
out Jolanda and no one else stepped into the leadership role,
Period end Dot! To prove this all you have to do is look at
the underwater challenge when they had to pull a trunk. Ulong
had a decent lead, thanks to Willard, but as soon as Koror
caught up and pulled ahead, half of Ulong quit (some never
started)! Not good enough? Look at this last challenge then.
As soon as Ibrehem screwed up they suddenly weren't pulling
as fast as they were before. They didn't pick up the pace
again until Ian had some trouble but not only did Ian at least
get a bottle but his team had enough confidence to let him
go right back again. Koror plays as a tribe people! Obviously
they have some division in Koror (as we finally got to see)
but they come together as a tribe at challenges. Come one
Ulong couldn't even pick a leader last week. What did they
do? The went "fishing" aka relaxing on the water.
How can you root for a tribe this disorganized, this lazy
and this stupid? I'm sorry but I say good riddance, although
I am sad that Angie is gone but at least we won't have to
see her in that postage stamp of a bathing suit she liked
to wear everywhere.
Now for this crap about the
producers giving better rewards to Koror, are you really serious?
The tribes know what the rewards are BEFORE they compete.
The only argument that Hobie had that I could concede, but
don't believe, is that the tribes didn't know that the winning
tribe would be voting for a member of the winning tribe to
get immunity. Plausible that the producers could have said
to do this only if Koror wins but come on, really now. CBS
wants one thing and one thing only and that is viewers and
most people (obvious on Hobie's site alone) do not want to
see one tribe win all of the time and totally dominate the
other tribe. Heck even though I refuse to feel sorry for oh
poor Ulong I am tired of seeing them at tribal council.
For those of you that hate
Jeff Probst, consider this: The rumor is that Jeff is going
to be replaced by Ryan Seacrest! Now I ask you, what do you
think about Jeff Probst now? Can you imagine Survivor with
Ryan Seacrest? First we would get 10 mins of actual video
of the survivors and the rest of the time we would get nothing
but Seacrest! Now that would make me quit watching. Besides,
Jeff is supposed to be an ass to these guys. He is supposed
to get them to start talking and he is supposed to call them
out in front of everyone. Come on, who didn't love it when
Jeff called out Jeff and Kim or better yet when he asked Kim
what good she was doing sitting on the boat when the tribe
was out "fishing"? It's those comments that make
tribal council so great.
Ok, now I don't disagree with
everything that was said about this week's episode. I do believe
that it was completely wrong of Koror to act the way that
they did when they got to eat in front of Ulong. I will say,
however, that had Ulong won and acted the very same way each
and everyone one of you would have said how great it was for
them to do that to Koror. Why is this? Well simply because
Ulong has been on such a losing streak that had they won everyone
would be happy to see Koror "get a taste of their own
medicine". I do believe though, that Koror would have
handled it better on the losing end then Koror did. Why then
do I feel that Koror was wrong in acting the way they did?
Well simply because they have already crushed Ulong, now they
are simply just rubbing "salt into the wound". I
was especially disappointed with Ian. His actions were especially
rude and just not right. Koror will eventually have to turn
on itself and then they will get theirs so don't despair,
turn about will happen.
Finally, I think Koror did
the right thing by giving Ibrehem the immunity. Why? Simply
because they further divided the tribe they are competing
against and by keeping the obvious person that was going home
they now caused even more dissention and mistrust in their
competition. That's right, Koror is competing against them
so why should they do the "right thing"? Besides,
Koror is at the challenges. They see that the women are pulling
more weight than the guys (especially Ibrehem) so why not
keep him there. You don't actually believe that Koror should
do anything other than help weaken the other team any more
do you?
Love it or hate it that's
my take.
Linus
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