I'm pleased with who won :)

Definitely. I just wish Matty had a chance at getting it. And I'm completely surprised that Susie actually received 3 votes.

Oh, and Corinne is pure evil.

For the first time ever, the person I had rooted for from the beginning actually won. I might just have to quit watching Survivor so I can go out on top.

I can't believe Susie won the last challenge. I wonder how the votes would've gone had the final three been Bob, Sugar and Matty. I was surprised by how open the jurors were about disliking Sugar. I mean, it was easy to see that Corrine didn't like her, but I was surprised that Marcus said what he did.

Randy cracked me up during the reunion show. I don't usually watch the reunion, but I'm so glad I did last night. When he said he earned his engineering degree from Vandy by cheating, I loved it. I can understand why Corinne was puzzled by her edit - Randy was obviously a jerk, and the producers showed that. Corinne was just as evil, but it seemed like the producers tried to hide it more.

Anyway, yay for Bob! Winning the million and the fan favorite 100K. Go Bob!

Yay! I was happy Bob won, and I loved the way it happened, where Sugar voted for Matty so there was a tie. Good for Bob that he went off in the jungle and worked on his firebuilding skills. He is a deserving winner!

Boy, Corrine was SOOOOO over the lines of decency during her inquisition of Sugar. She's never going to live that down.

I thought Sugar looked amazing at the reunion, like a "pin up" model!

Oh, and Susie's 3 votes were disgruntled Kenny (can you believe he was still bitching about Bob not giving him the necklace even after Bob point blank revealed to everyone Kenny's scheme to vote him out!! what an idiot, totally no sense!), Crystal, who hated Bob, and Matty who had kind feelings for Susie the whole time.

Randy was the deciding vote, and he was such a loose cannon at the voter inquisition, that I really had no idea where his head was at!!

I was watching the show while packing to move after 18 1/2 years. What did Suzie say to Randy that he said her answer cost her the million dollars?

DaffyKD

Randy was talking about that damn chocolate chip cookie. Susie had basically told him to get over it, it was just a cookie. He said, "It was a million dollar cookie"

I thought this at first.. but as she said, she couldn't decide between the two of them, so she left it up to fate. I don't blame her for doing so as she never had any bad feelings toward either one of them.

If you remember, both Bob and Matty didn't do well on the fire-making challenge a few weeks ago, and Susie crushed everyone. Bob took it upon himself to practice making fire. Matty didn't. And honestly, when they first started, I thought Matty was going to build a fire a lot faster than Bob.

Basically, they both had an equal opportunity to win. Bob just pulled it off.

I think she knew that either Bob or Matty would hands down beat her, so she would lose regardless. I felt like putting Bob in a tie break with Matty was her way of "letting the best man (fire builder) win!" And, it was up to them. I think she really likes both of them and would have been happy for Matty if he'd won.

The fact that Susie got any votes was a huge surprise to all - especially Jeff Probst - could he be more obnoxiously obvious about his disdain for Susie!! But, the vindictiveness ran deep - both against Bob by Kenny and Crystal, and against Sugar by the onion crowd.

*** totally cross posted with AST :)

Hmmm....after reading his bio, it's probably a good thing that Matty did not win.

"Matty Whitmore knows first-hand what it's like to have a lot and what's it's like to lose it all. At the age of 18, Whitmore inherited a trust fund from his grandparents, allowing him to live a comfortable life in paradise until partying it all away. Now at the age of 29, Whitmore wants the opportunity to find out what he's capable of doing on his own and believes SURVIVOR holds the answer."

I don't see why this is such a problem, though. If you deserve to win, you deserve to win. And I wouldn't necessarily hold something against someone if it happened 11 years ago... and when he was 18. Pretty sure there are a whole lot of people who would frivolously spend money if they were handed a large chunk of change at that age. He said he wanted to go on the show and earn the money, and I think that he worked hard.

IMO, Sugar was the most powerful when it came to strategy, Bob was the most powerful in terms of physical hardships and immunity challenges (surprisingly enough!) and Matty was most powerful in terms of the relationships he built. I think that any one of them would have deserved to win.. regardless of what's happened in their past.

Mrs. Roper!!!
And Brooks from "The Shawshank Redemption" - get busy livin' or get busy dying.

Could anyone tell what the symbol was that was drawn on several of Bob's votes? It looked like a K in a triangle with possible sigma in the corner???

I don't know what it means but it looked rather "fraternal" to me (like Kinsmen, Knights of Columbus, something like that). :)

Maybe the K was for the original Kota tribe..

She is a pin-up model. :D

Right. In her Reality News Online interview, she said that she knew she had no chance at winning the million dollars, and she wanted one of the "good guys" (i.e., Bob or Matty) to win. She says pretty forthrightly that she was never trying to win the million dollars or the jury's votes; she was trying "to win America over" in the hopes it would parlay into acting.

A little "editing" from CBS, maybe? Per an earlier interview with him, "I was given an education trust from my grandfather; I went through that by the time I was 23. I’m about 30 now, so that’s been 7 years of being destitute, on my own. All me." (He did play baseball at Saddleback College, which as I understand it is a community college.)

James Whitmore is his grandfather, but Audra Lindley (Mrs. Roper) is not his grandmother. She was his father's step-mother for a while, but she and Whitmore divorced before Matty was born.