1. The Survivor deck is being heavily stacked against the fellas. This week's reward challenge put them at a huge disadvantage. There's a reason the balance beam is not part of men's gymnastics. While it might have been a reasonable challenge for mixed-gender teams, for these teams it was ill-conceived.
2. The immunity challenge also favored the women, who are generally better at communicating and working together than men. And if Scout hadn't spaced on their final pieces, the women would probably have taken this challenge also.
3. Apparently Dolly didn't watch Survivor: Amazon, when Christy made the exact same mistake and got voted off for thinking she had all the power and vacillating between two factions, only to be seen as a wild card and get turned on by both. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
4. Has either team even built a shelter?
5. Yawn. Two episodes in, and this season hasn't yet engaged me.
Posted by Peter at September 24, 2004 12:58 PMI was quite impressed with Ami's playing last night. Sensing that the younger women had control, she psyched out their most emotional and least bright member Eliza and helped her talk herself into turning on Dolly. The best part is, the younger women will now turn on Eliza for backstabbing them, further strengthening the older women's position. Richard Hatch would be proud.
Posted by: Scott Hardie on September 24, 2004 3:06 PM1) Agreed. I didn't think it was fair for the guys either.
2) Dunno that I agree here. You have to give props to the guys, tho...of the times that I've seen this challenge (or something similar) done on the show, I think Sarge did easily THE BEST job of directing and managing his people. They picked the guy who's strength is giving direction, and let him go at it. Possibly the first time that team has shown an ounce of cohesiveness.
5) It's no SAS, that's for sure.
Posted by: Chris Lemon on September 24, 2004 3:54 PM