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The thing is...when they have an all-star type show, they almost always have a TON of luxuries. Sure they still have to survive, but they're given a lot more. I figure it's because they want them to strategize more instead of worrying about MORE survival. It seems when they have all new players, they factor in the survival part more.
That being said, I've never seen so many food challenges (good ones) as in the last several years. I do wish they'd go back to having to find water - remember Africa? They had to filter elephant poop water before they could boil BEFORE they could drink. One of the rewards was a 50 gallon tank of fresh water, but only after a long time of boiling elephant poop water. Man, those were the days! Good times!
The thing is...when they have an all-star type show, they almost always have a TON of luxuries. Sure they still have to survive, but they're given a lot more. I figure it's because they want them to strategize more instead of worrying about MORE survival. It seems when they have all new players, they factor in the survival part more.
That being said, I've never seen so many food challenges (good ones) as in the last several years. I do wish they'd go back to having to find water - remember Africa? They had to filter elephant poop water before they could boil BEFORE they could drink. One of the rewards was a 50 gallon tank of fresh water, but only after a long time of boiling elephant poop water. Man, those were the days! Good times!
I highly doubt they will ever do that again. At least three participants that season ended up hospitalized with a serious, potentially deadly disease as a result of the limited water sources.
Producers of the CBS show kept it hush-hush, but Star has learned that Lindsey Richter, 27, Lex Van Den Berghe, 38, and Clarence Black, 24, spent time in an African hospital being treated for amoebic dysentry, a disease that claims 50,000 lives annually - and gives new meaning to the term Survivor!
"They almost certainly got it from water infected with animal feces," explains Dr. Scott Johnson, an expert on the disease. It can live in a patient undetected for years. If it's not treated, it can kill."
Lindsey, who was booted off during week 6 of the 16-week contest, fought potentially deadly dysentery while filming the program and for weeks after she returned to the U.S.
"Lindsey got kidney pains early in the show," says Portland, Ore., advertising exec's best friend, Tiffany Brugger, 27. "She thought it was dehydration and they took her to a hospital in Nairobi, where she was put on intravenous liquids. They took her back to the same hospital after she was voted off and when she got home to Portland, she went to a local hospital as well."
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Interesting move by Fishbach and I'm still on the fence if I think he made the right decision or not. I kind of feel it's too early for a move like this. As a viewer, it was a lot more fun than just watching Wentworth, Ciera, and Abi being voted off one by one over the next 3 episodes, but as a strategy fan, I don't know that it made much sense. Fishbach is trying to build a resume for the final tribal but he may end up burning too many bridges to even make it there. I think he's paranoid. His first season he lost because while he made all the big decisions between him and JT, everyone saw JT as making those decisions. Stephen was just seen as a tagalong. It feels like he wants to make up for that this season but now he's doing the opposite and going too hard.
Interesting way to get the hidden immunity idol to Jeremy, though not really too hard to sneak off at night to get it. No one's going to suspect you of going idol hunting in the middle of the night so seems pretty easy to get away from camp for a bit.
I was surprised to hear everyone talk about what a power player Wigglesworth was and how she chatted up everybody and everybody liked her. I WISH WE COULD HAVE SEEN THAT! Oh well. The producers obviously didn't seem to like her on the show. Rumor is Probst wasn't happy because she wouldn't give them the whole redemption theme and constantly dwelling on losing her first season. So she kind of got the shaft. But as I recall from her first season, she really is kind of boring. She was expressionless as she was blindsided. Almost acted in her finals words like she didn't even care. I'll be interested to see her ponderosa video and exit interviews (there were also rumors she wouldn't be doing exit interviews but I think she is).
A double-header next week! Two back to back episodes! I was wondering how they were going to get enough people out without having 7 people still remaining in the final episode. I guess now we know. Probst says the second episode someone makes one of the most daring moves ever. We'll see!
She's expressionless because of all the work she's had done on that face. Nose job, facial fillers, lip injections, who knows what else. Seriously, check her images from her first season, she doesn't even look like the same person.
The solution is very easy, I think. The five who give up their chance at immunity, thus securing their tribe a beautiful shelter, should NOT receive any votes at the next tribal council.
The solution is very easy, I think. The five who give up their chance at immunity, thus securing their tribe a beautiful shelter, should NOT receive any votes at the next tribal council.
Maybe but that's not necessarily the best way to play. They know the risk if they give up a shot at immunity. Really, the easy solution is don't give up immunity. If others want to, let them. They've been out there, what, 25 days? What's another 14 at this point? I know that is easy to say from the comfort of my living room, but honestly, if someone gives up immunity they have no one else to blame if they get voted out.
They have really got to change the name of Survivor to Uncomfortable or Bad Vacation. Construction crews?!?
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