Survivor: Gabon

[srmom]

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

[true_blue]

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???

[CutiePie2000]

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

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by true_blue

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???

Maybe the K was for the original Kota tribe..

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by srmom

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

She is a pin-up model.

Originally Posted by srmom

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.

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.

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

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."

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.)

Originally Posted by Jen

His grandfather is James Whitmore and grandmother was Audra Lindley.

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.

[srmom]

She is a pin-up model.

Yeah, that's what I meant - she lived up to the billing

I thought it was funny how during the last episodes, she used a mixture of the body paints to "make up" with lip color and eye shadow. She really is quite pretty in that 50's voluptuous Betty Boop kind of way. It will be interesting if she gets some Hollywood work from the exposure of being on Survivor. She certainly got a "positive edit" and is liked by the fans (unlike Corrine who probably couldn't get a job sweeping floors from her "exposure" as a complete witch ). Corrine better keep with selling pharmaceuticals.

On a side note, I find it strange how there are so many "pharmaceutical salesmen" on these reality shows, from Survivor to The Bachelor. Is that just a catch all phrase for out of work actor?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by srmom

On a side note, I find it strange how there are so many "pharmaceutical salesmen" on these reality shows, from Survivor to The Bachelor. Is that just a catch all phrase for out of work actor?

LOL. I've noticed that, too.

I just don't see how Corrine can be a salesperson, or at least a good one. I read somewhere she had to quit her job to go on "Survivor." I won't feel the least bit sorry for her if she has a hard time finding work now.

And I was so glad for the entire Greek community that she never mentioned her sorority affiliation.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by srmom

It will be interesting if she gets some Hollywood work from the exposure of being on Survivor. She certainly got a "positive edit" and is liked by the fans (unlike Corrine who probably couldn't get a job sweeping floors from her "exposure" as a complete witch ). Corrine better keep with selling pharmaceuticals.

Corinne is a sad excuse for a human being. It's one thing to not like someone, it's another to say what she said to Sugar. That was just awful, and I'm hoping that Sugar does very well so she can shove it in Corinne's face.

Originally Posted by MysticCat

And I was so glad for the entire Greek community that she never mentioned her sorority affiliation.

um, YES! After the last few episodes, I was hoping and praying she wouldn't say anything more about it.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by Jen

I really wish Ace had gone. ... His accent is so damn ridiculous - on one minute, off the next.

Ugh...he's sickening and his accent makes me want to slap him. So patronizing.....

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by Jen

I'm not mad Bob won though ... but does anyone else think Sugar took him on purpose so he'd win? She didn't even try at final Tribal, she knew that Bob would win a fire making contest ... I think she threw the million dollars to him, to be honest.

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.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by Jen

His grandfather is James Whitmore and grandmother was Audra Lindley.

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