The quicker you forgive . . .- December 13, 2004 . . . the better you feel. I just watched most of the Survivor Reunion Show, and I'm liking most of these people again. I like them because, for the most part, they've owned up to how nasty they got out there, and they've forgiven each other. And I can see how I get sucked into the nastiness as a viewer, too, watching them turn into ogres under that pressure and then disparaging them for it. And then 23 of the way through the show, Dimples--who as gotten really good at interviewing these...http://blogs.salon.com/categories/survivor/2004/12/13.html#a1499 Still entertaining, still enlightening- December 13, 2004 Well. I got some food, and got over my emotional hangover, and the end of the Survivor finale looked quite a bit different. That last tribal council blew me away. My jaw was dropping at Jules. That picture of her entire face soaked in tears. Hard to imagine how she could take it all so personally. Which is what makes this experiment so fascinating. Still, after nine seasons, with the contestants knowing exactly what they're getting involved with, they still get sucked into it, they can't...http://blogs.salon.com/categories/survivor/2004/12/12.html#a1498 No more regrets- December 13, 2004 That first season of Survivor was so painful to watch sometimes. Hurt so badly not to be out there with them. I had applied, been considered, not made the cut. And the very first moments of the opening episode, when they had to hurtle off the ship into the unknown . . . Man. All I ever wanted. To hurtle into the unknown. I still would have loved to be part of that group, but I'm sure glad I'm not involved with it now. Still moderately interesting, occasionally fascinating to watch after nine...http://blogs.salon.com/categories/survivor/2004/12/12.html#a1497 What was he thinking- December 13, 2004 Just catching up on Survivor. I had a feeling Jules was going Thursday, because it appeared so obvious that she would stay. Burnett never gives away an episode like that. But why Why why why why why I had really grown to like her. And respect her. She was my leading pick to win--both hoped for and betting for. Either we've been deprived of a lot of info, or that Chris is a complete idiot. And when Eliza giggled about she and Chris making it to the final two, I nearly puked. But then any of...http://blogs.salon.com/categories/survivor/2004/12/12.html#a1496 They Shoot Survivors Don't They- December 3, 2004 One more thought. They can really torture those people sometimes. The desperation not just in their faces, but in their bodies tonight, as they slogged through the final leg of that reward challenge. (Or for Scout, the award challenge.) The way Ami and the 4th-place woman just stumbled off into the water, repeatedly. They looked drunk, almost, so fatigued, their bodies just faltered and pitched off the bamboo for no apparent reason. For what For food! For the fourth, desperate person, it was...http://blogs.salon.com/categories/survivor/2004/12/02.html#a1489 Losing Ami- December 3, 2004 Ah, it's over. Another Survivor season, another favorite player gone. And another overconfident Survivor thrown off the island because she thought she had it locked up weeks ago. She let it show, so did her alliancemates, and the little people did not particularly care for it. I still like her. Especially after what the little waif said about her. I never much liked that incredibly shrinking woman, but I liked her at tribal council when she related how Ami encouraged her. That was a side we...http://blogs.salon.com/categories/survivor/2004/12/02.html#a1488 |