The Krafty Chronicles -
Survivor All Stars Week 6
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By: FuggyBootnling
"Let's get back to some normalcy" - Lex van den Berghe
What a strange,
weird trip this season is turning into! In the Amazon, you had Shawna Mitchell
seriously contemplating throwing in the towel. Pearl Islands had the first
genuine quitter in Osten. Now, two people out of 18 have walked off the show.
Will we get whole tribes of quitters next season? Sheesh!
This whole Sue
thing really is a shame. First off, I don't buy for a second that she was
playing it up to fish for some big financial settlement. Not only do I think Sue
isn't that good an actress, but that just wouldn't be her...the woman is honest
to a fault, and would never feign weakness just for the sake of advancing
herself. I'm sure she was thinking about not only the incident itself, but how
it would play out on TV...how she would be portrayed. And that just turned into
a spiral of despair, humiliation, and just dark thoughts all around.
Did
she overreact? I've run this over and over in my head, and all I can say is that
she simply reacted...whether it was over or under blown is a subjective call by
any one person who saw the incident. I had thought initially that Burnett might
have edited the whole rubbing incident to make it seem much shorter than it
actually was, but then Mogo Mogo didn't even notice what happened. So it must
have lasted pretty much just as long as we saw.
I will say this - Sue is
tough as nails. This is a woman who said in her initial screening interview to
get on the first season that she loved playing football with the guys, and
always insisted on playing tackle. She drank the water unboiled the whole time
out there. So for her to be SO traumatized by a couple seconds of naked contact
with a man she's known for almost four years? You really have to think there may
be something in Sue's past that that incident reminded her of, and factored
heavily into her reaction. What's more, if that's true, she couldn't even really
talk it through out there, because next thing she knew that could be broadcast
for 25 million people...so she had to bottle it up. Just to emphasize though
that's major, major speculation...and frankly, none of our damn business!
But anyway...onto the actual game now...
One advantage to a quit
like this is that they have much more time to show scenes of camp life and
various scheming taking place. Since as far as I'm concerned, with very few
exceptions the challenges are nothing but a distraction and often quite a bore.
The timeline of this episode was all over the map so that they could fill up a
full hour. Events were shown totally out of sequence. For starters, they seemed
to insert a whole fictitious Day 16 at the start of episode that didn't exist,
where the Rich thing hadn't yet sunk in for Sue. Then the challenge was
portrayed as being on Day 17, yet Jeff said "It's been an odd 16 days" after Sue
left. Then there was the conversation with Rupert, Jenna, Amber, and Rob,
portrayed as also being on Day 17. Yet Jenna said "When we got here
yesterday..." so at the very latest that powwow had to be from Day 15, possibly
even Day 14 if the Saboga dissolution happened on Day 13. So the editing was
fast and loose this week!
Lex blew me away this episode! A couple of
people (notably Colby and Ethan) don't seem to have too much of their hearts in
this game, but Lex is out for the KILL! First of all, holding back on the
fishing was a smart idea...why try to compete with Rich when that's only going
to cause him problems? It's not too surprising that Lex was able to catch
something - he has done a lot of surfing in his time, so I knew he was a good
swimmer - but I still would have never guessed he'd be quite THAT good at it.
And then the conversation with Jerri...she clearly really adores Lex, both from
her confessional this week and from an Insider interview in week five. And while
Lex no doubt appreciates it, he's going to use that if need be to snooker her
down the road.
The other one to watch is Amber. It's growing
increasingly clear that Burnett's editors are pulling out as many interesting
Amber quotes as they can and putting them into the show. Either that, or she
really IS much more actively scheming this time around, as she promised she
would do. But she is getting very, very good editing...she plotted with Tom to
oust Rob C. in week four, and co-authored the strategy of aligning with Rupert
and Jenna this week. That alone trumps any sort of strategizing she was shown
embarking on during 11 episodes in the Outback season. And while both Rob C. and
Sue weren't impressed with her work ethic or attitude out there, we certainly
aren't seeing any of that on the show. In any case, she's way, way down the list
of people who are targets...she will go far!
Funniest Quote: Not too
much to laugh at here, especially at Chapera, but Shii Ann rolling her eyes back
when describing her conversation with Colby...was really weird, and funny.
Someone needs to Photoshop that picture and do something Shii Devil-related with
it!
So next week...a lot of things could happen here. The game only
lasts 39 days, and whereas normally there would be 10 people left at the halfway
point (Day 19) this time there are twelve. So the process of voting out people
has to accelerate at some point down the line...could it be this episode? There
is only one challenge shown in the previews...could it be both reward AND
Immunity, making that the promised twist? Could there be an early merge? Could
more than one person leave? There are many different possibilities.
Let's just hope no one else quits...please???
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