Survivor Redemption Island and the Winner Is!

It never fails, the Q & A from the jury smacks of righteousness and indignation. Come on people, it’s a game for cripes sake. Everyone is so high and mighty, shame on you blah blah blah. Well shame on them, they are not sitting in the winner’s circle, now are they! David’s speech was the best, directed to the jury that Boston Rob deserves to win, he played the best game and even the two he brought with him said so much. He should have added, if you want a religious mystical experience, go to India, but don’t play the game of survivor. Oh BTW, glad they got rid of that whole remembering the fallen survivor comrades, although 40 days later, I have forgotten who played. NYC, jeff probst arrives with the ballot urn and in the same shirt, like he walked from redemption island. It never ceases to amaze me how different everyone looks as they fatten up and combed their hair. Grant you looked better with those island dreds, while Matt cut his lovely Jesus locks and Natalie got her hair Brazilian straightened. Jeff reads the votes, with all ballots going to Rob except one stray vote for Phillip from Ralph who all of a sudden gets a man crush on Phillip, stoopid is as stoopid does. Wondering if Ralph got a Brazilian on his beard? I loved it when Jeff said that in his opinion, Rob played the best game out of 22 seasons. Got that right! Guess now, Rob can add his trophy along side with his wife and hope that their children will go on to play Survivor after all it’s in their DNA.

Russell is still angry that he was voted off but when pressed by Jeff said that he would consider coming back. He might have learned a thing or two about how to play from Rob, ah then again probably not. Grant who on the island after his elimination was "cool" with that, but at the reunion show, he was holding grudges. Losing his dreds lost his cool. And yes, it's been confirmed by another Federal Agent, that Phillip was a Federal Agent, or at least she went through the Law Enforcement Academy with him. Probably got the boot since he couldn't keep it a secret that he was a secret agent.

Next season, it's off to the South Pacific and Redemption Island again. I liked the whole Redemption Island second chance, but why did it have to turn into a motel for the ejected? I'm guessing they might bring back Russell vs. Matt, the ultimate good vs. evil and will Matt end up on Redemption Island again?

As for Phillip and his chaotic ramblings, I liked him, he kept things interesting because you never knew what would come out of that specialist mouth.

All in all, a good night for Survivor and for Rob who also won Fan Favorite and the 100,000 and with that the tribe has spoken.

Survivor Redemption Island and Then There Were Four

Another season has come and gone, sigh! And if Boston Rob doesn’t cinch the title this time, he will have to pack it in for good, this is it, his final chance, the last hurrah, to win the title because in my book he IS the Ultimate Survivor. Come on, didn’t you feel a little pang of sympathy when Rob was saying that he loved his wife more than anything in the world and how she’s put up with him coming back to Survivor over and over but the elephant in the room is his regret he didn’t win because of her, ya her, big mistake, huge, stop thinking with your wanker! Sure he won the girl but he didn’t win the title and that has haunted him ever since. Only 6 more days. He’s managed to play a cool game, masterminding almost every move. You just gotta hope that innocent girl Natalie doesn’t turn her back on him, that was so totally risky of him to blindside Grant, who in the end, could have sustained the men to the end. Let’s hope that Ashley doesn’t hold too much power over Natalie. And out of the Redemption island survivors, who should come back? Grant. He might be mad at Rob, but I think he would still understand. All the others have had time to stew and build their vendetta to a vengeful pitch which could totally destroy Rob’s chance to win. Matt showed his scorn for Andrea, not very Christian of him, no second chances for her. This was a good season and every year still manages to keep my attention. I know, I have so little interesting things in my life!

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Phillip is delighted with his sassy undercover specialist (?) self since he had a premonition that came to him in a dream. His great great grandfather told him where his shorts be at. Guess there's not much to do in the afterlife. It's under a rock he saidth to Phillip, go seek and ye shall find. And lo and behold, nary under the second rock, there he discovered the truth. His shorts. Well thank heaven for that, now Phillip can cover up those pink BVDs! At the Redemption challenge, Phillip is like a seven year old, pointing to his pants to Julie. Julie, who looks like she's spent one too many millions of years in the sun goes home to the jury but not before she says weepingly that she came on because her house is in foreclosure. Ok, I take that last line back. I felt bad. Rob is like aw shucks, Matt still lives another day, thanks to his God. Maybe there is something to all that God stuff?

The immunity challenge is the log roll and Grant wins easily and gets to eat his chocolate cake too. Back at camp, Rob is like maybe they should get rid of Andrea since she was sympathizing with Matt, which is like talk of treason against Zapatera. Before they leave the challenge, Jeff gives the tribe a mystery package to bring to tribal. Rob says maybe it's for a double elimination. Boy that guy really knows this game. At tribal things work according to plan, getting rid of furry hick boy and then you guessed it another elimination, the memorization game, which Rob smugly wins and they vote out Steve, which I'm glad they chose him, because why upset the boat, let Andrea survive another round at least if she goes next she'll have no one to blame. Should be a free for all at camp with only the Zapatera tribe left to eat each other.

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Again it's dissension over rice as Phillip scoops some of Zapatara's rice, they won't miss it because they are flushed with rice and living large with only three tribe members. When Ometepe goes to check their rice, it's covered with maggots from a leak in the bottom of the container. Phillip ask Steve if they could put their good rice in with their's to which Steve says no. Play nice! Immediately Phillip and Steve get in a heated argument with Steve ending up calling Phillip "crazy" to which Phillip takes as a racial slur. Yes, we all know Phillip is crazy and has won the second highest medal in the military. What is the second highest medal? I'll have to look that one up.

I loved tribal when Jeff was trying to sort out that argument and really made some sense from both sides. He's such a diplomat! It's all in the perspective. Jeff, will you marry me? Redemption Island challenge between Matt, David and Mike, David is odd man out and gets to be the first member of the jury.

Rob wins the immunity challenge and he and his tribe are considering taking Phillip out since he is getting on everyone's last nerve, especially now that Julie stole his pants and he has to walk around in his pink BVDs. Yikes. But at tribal, Ometepe comes to their senses, letting Phillip go would be the end of Ometepe, keep the diversion on Phillip I say and they send Julie packing. Not sure what their rational was for that, I would have sent Steve home. He seems like a big challenge threat. Hillbilly can't do much of anything, but Steve can pull out the challenges. Still rooting for Boston Rob. I like him!

Survivor Redemption Island-Double Elimination

Where would this season be without Boston Rob and Phillip? Boring that's what. Rob has decided that no one on his tribe is to be alone with the other tribe. Everyone is to buddy up, which is probably a stroke of genius, so no one can be swayed over to the other side. I know Rob wants to keep hold of his cult leader status by separating the tribal sleeping areas and eating times, but not to let his clan have the fish? Come on, nothing like starving your tribe into dissension. What's a little communal breaking of bread with the enemy? Grant goes over to the other tribe like a starving dog taking a small bite of the forbidden fish.

Phillip has become the tribe spokesperson, watch dog and all around Kung Fu master of the silly speak. You just have to giggle what comes out of his mouth. You almost hold your breath that he doesn't say anything that will sabotoge his tribe, he has a habit of revealing too much and he calls himself a secret agent? I really do hope he makes it with Rob to the end. Wouldn't that be something?

Matt gets sent back to Redemption Island for a second time, and as he says, get voted out once, shame on them, get voted out twice, shame on me. Guess it's God's will. Challenge one, Phillip comes sporting a feather headdress saying that it will bring strength and luck to the Ometepe tribe and that it did, with Grant winning the challenge and sending Mike to Redemption Island, strategy there would be that he would be able to oust Matt from his semi-permanent home. Next challenge Ashley wins the immunity, you knew women were better at that challenge sending David, the brains of the Zapatera to join Mike and Matt at Redemption Island. Should be interesting next week at Redemption as the population doubles.

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If anyone can take Matt off Redemption Island it would be Stephanie. But first she has to list her food cravings which is probably driving Matt crazy, since the only thing he can converse in is God speak (not that that's a bad thing!). The challenge is the memory pictures which I thought Stephanie would ace since she's pretty smart, but alas that was not the case (she must be still thinking about that peanut butter sandwich) and Matt comes up a winner again. Next episode it looks like he might be headed back to tribe and everyone else better watch out, because it really does look like he has God on his side.

Phillip is not trusting Rob since he withheld the clue and because of that Phillip wants to CRUSH him. No problem for Rob, because he knows the more Phillip talks the more he'll get himself in trouble. Meanwhile, Sarita and David are going at it because David is lobbying for strong players not loyal players which in the end proved to be his winning argument (he's a lawyer you know) as they send Sarita to Redemption Island and no match for Matt.

I was cracking up with that whole cripsy rice argument when the girls wanted to keep some for Rob and Phillip hearing that tries to get some just to be annoying. Funny stuff. I'm kinda hoping Phillip wins just to annoy us all. But then again, I do have a soft spot for Rob!

Survivor Redemption Island-Beauty Queens and the Red Headed Step Child

Or at least that's what Secret Agent man calls himself against Ashley and Natalie who are constantly grooming each other and cutting and picking skin off from under their armpits. Yuck! I don't know what is grosser, Phillip in his pink BVD's or Ashley and Natalie's spa habits that puts grooming monkeys to shame. Stephanie tries to make an alliance with David who is realizing the virtue of having a strong player, Stephanie over the weak Sarita. Sarita who is about inert as a piece of wood now has some sort of tooth ache because she was cleaning her back teeth with a dirty stick. You're in the jungle, last thing you want is a jungle infection.

On Redemption Island, Krista and Matt bond over the God thing and after Matt of course wins the challenge, God's will, Krista gives Matt her luxury item, a Bible. Andrea who witnesses the whole thing, instead of saying, aw how nice instead says he can't be trusted since he befriended her so quickly. Am I'm sensing a little jealousy?

The immunity/reward challenge is something like Beach Squash. Rob's teams wins easily and gets to have a picnic on an amazing hill over looking the ocean. Rob and Grant steal the clue. they could never be spies, hidden under the plates, but not before Phillip comes around to join them. Maybe he does have some secret agent powers of observation?

There was a slim glimmer of hope that Sarita would go home, but Stephanie was sent packing to Redemption Island and I'm thinking she'll be a force to be reckoned with against Matt, as Matt prophetically says maybe his time is up.

Survivor Redemption Island-

Instead of calling this season Redemption Island, it should be called Mosquito Island. Kristina and Phillip are covered in a skin of mosquito bites. Yikes, can you get malaria from that? Just looks so nasty. Spending 40 days on an island has to wreck your skin. You'd come back with bites, brown sun spots and wrinkles. That's why I could never sign up for that. Plus the fact I need my pillow and soft bed and warm clothes. Love paradise, but it better be in a resort. Rob and Grant and Stephanie and Krista are sent to redemption island to watch the duel between Kristina and Matt. This time it's building a cube out of heavy blocks. Not fair since Matt will have the advantage of strenght to carry those things. On the other hand, I thought Kristina would have a chance at this since she's pretty smart and was ahead of Matt in setting up her blocks when he knocked his down to start over, but she couldn't pull it out, let alone move those heavy pieces. Stephanie takes the opportunity to tell Rob and Grant that her and Krista are up for grabs now that Russell is gone and they would be willing to join them once they merge. I'm sure Rob is hoping that would be the case since he could convince those two to do anything for him. I'm sure those two would be survivor groupies to Rob's celebrity.

The challenge is the blindfold challenge to collect puzzle bags with Rob as the caller and puzzle maker and Stephanie for the other team. While Rob dumps his puzzle pieces on the table a piece falls on the ground, but thankfully he sees it. Whew close! I knew this was going to be a shoe in for Rob because he can do two things great, solve puzzles and build things. Who knew he could also be crazy devious. When his tribe won reward, Grant and Rob notice a clue in the coffee, which Rob quickly takes, runs to where his hidden immunity idol is buried and switches the clues on Grant. As Rob says, the first clue was clueless, "under a bush, in a tree, on a branch", or in other words anywhere and everywhere.

I kinda felt sorry for the two Manson (Russell) followers, Krista and Stephanie since no surprise here, they are on the chopping block. Everyone is faulting Stephanie for not being better at puzzles, when it was Sarita who chose her to do it, so why isn't she on the chopping block?

Guess the tribe decided to keep Stephanie because she's the stronger of the two players, and I have to hand it to her, the girl's got gumption. Hillbilly Ralph can't spell for nothing as he writes Krista's name as Krasha. Maybe if Hillbilly wins he can go back to school.

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Forgot that Survivor was on last night, so I have to watch it via computer which is not always ideal, with all that buffering and playback getting stuck. I had to restart the video 3 times but somehow all the commercials never get stuck.

I was dying to see how Russell did on Redemption Island up against Matt for a second chance to stay. Two from each tribe go to the Arena where Russell and Matt build wooden domino chain which once tipped releases a ball which breaks a tile. Matt finishes first and tips his domino's which stop half way, everyone was holding their breaths. You could so hear the collective gasp from Phillip and Kristina and Ralph and Sarita. Then Russell does his and misses too which gives Matt a second chance and he manages to do it the second time, beating out Russell. Russell breaks down in weepy tears. Tears of frustration I imagine, as he lashes out against his team, telling them they threw the challenge. Fur coat Ralph in his hillbilly ignorance tells Russell well heck, he got the immunity idol 12 seconds into the game and was just about to pull it out when Sarita whispers for him not too, smart girl. Ralph makes a pretense that he was just kidding, but for the first time in the game, Phillip states the smartest thing ever and says Ralph is telling the truth, that he has it, because I can read people says Phillip. Guess he can't read everyone's disgust when he walks around camp in his baggy underwear!

Back at camp, Rob makes a pretense that he has to go to the bathroom while everyone is on the beach and hunts down the idol and much to his chagrin finds it after digging up the 38th tree.

At the challenge, Rob's tribe loses, WEAK! and they send Christina packing. I'm like why did Christina throw Phillip under the bus at tribal since he was the one trying to keep her there. Guess she was trying to divert the tribe's attention to his erratic ways and thereby hoping the tribe would vote him out instead of her, but her attempt failed. I'm thinking he needs to go soon, his craziness is wearing thin, like those pink underwear of his.-Single D

Survivor Redemption Island-Rashy Russell

This is too good! Damn this is good. The best season ever and I love the redemption island twist as Francesca said to Matt when he arrives, "why are you here, I was expecting Phillip". After the night on redemption island it's a dual between them with two tribe members from each tribe to witness the challenge-Roman arena style. Andrea and Ashley from one tribe and Steve and David from Russell's tribe. Andrea shouts out to her lover boy Matt that she didn't vote him out. Whatever. The dual, make a stick long enough to grab 3 keys and unlock 3 padlocks to get through the door first. Francesca gets off to a great start and grabs two of her three keys but fumbles for the third as it is just out of her reach. I'm like why didn't she make her pole stronger and longer in the beginning? Dumb move. Matt wins and oust Frannie. David and Steve decide to tell Russell that Frannie won just to throw off whoever goes there. Back at Rob's camp, he's a little nervous that Andrea would have bonded with her soul mate, and you know that whole thing, hell hath no fury....

At camp Russell, everyone except for Russell's and his two concubines are getting tired of looking at Russell's infected puss rash. One word-Nasty! Russell lays on the mats with this arm pits exposed, yuck, I think I just barfed in my mouth! The way that Stephanie and Krista are slaves to Russell, he so reminds me of Charles Manson with that weird maniacal look to his eyes and his hynotic hold on young mindless women.

David and Steven tell the others that they need to throw the challenge in order to rid themselves of the plague known as Russell. Firefighter Julie doesn't think it's a good idea, but the tribe holds together and lose the challenge much to Russell's suspicion. Er David would never win any Oscars for that terrible show of trying to put the puzzle together, but he covers by saying "even if my hands aren't moving my brain is". David, I don't think Russell bought it.

I'm glad that Rob's team won or was given the challenge. Rob's finally wising up that he needs to find the idol and as luck would have it he sees that fat Phillip is breaking one of the canvas reward chairs and that there is a clue in it, which unfortunately doesn't help him much, like he said, it could have read there's a clue hidden somewhere.

Steven and David's strategy for the tribal is for the votes to be split between Stephanie and Russell and once it's split, then during the re vote, Russell would be voted off. Russell however is telling his concubine to try to sway old gal firefighter Julie to side with them and they will take her to the final four. Julie during this whole time looks like she's bought into it (ah the magic of editing) so during tribal, Stephanie vocally rallies for Russell, geez, why doesn't she just say, Russell you stay, I'll go, she's so brainwashed by him. The votes are split, 3 for Russell, 3 for Stephanie and 3 for Ralph, which meant Julie vote her old alliance and the second re vote, Russell whined, I've never been voted off. Well now you have-off to Redemption with ya! Ah, that was sooooo satisfying! Love it!

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Second episode did not fail to deliver chuckles and grins as wacky Phillip continues his crazy "I am a former Federal Agent", or as Rob says, "government worker-stressful". You said it and this I know first hand. I guess a career in the Federal Government leads to a retirement of craziness and this is what I have to look forward to! Phillip this time was crab hunting in his pink BVDs, what a sight, I almost expected him to have war paint on his face and pound his chest "I got one!". Rob played it cool when he told or didn't tell Phillip that it wasn't going to be him for the vote even tho Phillip lost the immunity challenge for the tribe by not being able to break the tiles. I'm wondering why they even let him do that part, why not Rob? Obvious Phillip breaks under pressure, maybe that is why he is "former"?

Snaps to Rob for being able to subtly lead his group to vote out who he wants, wondering how long that is going to last before someone rallies to get him gone.

On the other tribe, furry coat Ralph, the country bumpkin notices that Russell steals the clue out of the reward and confronts Russell loud and clear. Russell lies his way out, but no one is fooling anyone here. Ralph better watch his back because now he's on Russell's radar.

Tribal council did not fail once again. I was holding my breath to see if Phillip was going to spill State secrets as Jeff kept asking him questions, trying to trip him. Don't know if it was the best move to get rid of Matt so early in the game, hey he's trying to play the good Christian game, might have been better to get rid of his gal pal Andrea because it looks like next episode, hell hath no fury like a woman left out in the dark!

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What is this, was that not the greatest tribal council ever and it's only the first friggin episode! Come on, really Phillip? He must be a plant, no one is that stupid, that brazen, that loony on the first episode. A former Federal Agent? Hey, I work for Federal Agents, you're making us look bad! He can't even say Francesca's name right, he kept referring her to Francequesa and then when corrected, saying "my mouth is dry, I'm being treated for it". Are you being treated for being stupid too? Rob had to pick his mouth off the floor when the whole thing was exposed that he was being voted off by Kristina and Francequesa and Phillip and that Kristina had an idol already! I loved it! This was so bathos! If Kristina was really smart she would have buddied up with Rob once she found the idol, but no, let's tell the biggest loose cannon in the tribe instead (Phillip) that you found it. Didn't you get a clue when he was grilling you secret agent style? Francesca for being a lawyer was pretty stupid (lawyers don't do well on Survivor). The dumb ones always surface pretty fast, especially when they team up with the wrong demented player.

Well, no loss over Francesca going to Redemption Island. She won't come back, she's too weak of a player to go up against anyone else to make a comeback.

Secretly rooting for Rob, come on the guy's played 3 times, he wants a win. Age has chillacked him. Evil Russell is still up to his old tricks by playing game with a young girl. Men never learn! This season looks like it's going to be good, but do we have to see Phillip in his baggy faded red bvd's all season? Put a bathing suit on for gosh sake!-Single D