Survivor:Vanuatu-will probably contain spoilers

[ASH]

So, the new season of Survivor has started. Any opinions so far?

The first episode was pretty lack luster to me.. I dont understand why they voted out Brook. But then, its so early.. who knows.

 

[TracerBullet42]

How come the guy with a fake foot could make it across the balance beam and the other bum couldn't?

I can't believe that they didn't vote his sorry behind out of the tribe...

Hope tonight is crazy!

 

[John Crichton]

They did a good job of covering up who was going to get the boot tonight. Not a great job because there is a history of the "swing vote" getting the boot after getting indecisive near the start of the game but a good job none-the-less.

The "villains" are starting to show which is good. I'm glad that we are back to regular Survivor and no more of that All Stars stuff. It's all about the first timers...

 

[ASH]

Does anyone else feel the balance issues are slightly unfair to the guys.. I mean really. I always thought that in the balance challenges girls did better.

And wow was sarg intense or what...

 

[Hand of Evil]

Spoiler

Dolly

was shock be voted off voted off but it should have been expected as I thought she came across as trying to force the outcome, I don't know if she even knew she was on the block.

The guys issues on the balancing beam was because they did not think, counter weights, just leaning back could have helped but weight distribution, upper body hurt them.

 

[stevelabny]

Women definitely have an advantage on any balance beam or balance type event the same way men have the advantage on brute strength events.

running two balance challenges in a row after splitting the teams up by gender is downright nasty by cbs.

i like how chris saved himseld in ep1, and twila seems like a tough old bird, but i dont know if theres anyone to root for just yet.

but the great johnny fairplay wasnt obvious at episode 1 either, so theres no reason to run away just yet.

 

[Silver Moon]

Personally, since both tribes now seem to be divided into two groups based primarily on age I would love to see them recombined into an old tribe vs. a young tribe. I'm sure the producers were glad that Eliza got kept due to her bikinis, but I'm starting to find her really annoying.

Overall I'm not really into this one as of now - no real heroes or villains have surfaced yet.

 

[Lord Foul]

Personally, since both tribes now seem to be divided into two groups based primarily on age I would love to see them recombined into an old tribe vs. a young tribe.

That would be an interesting twist. I wonder how that would play out.

I'm sure the producers were glad that Eliza got kept due to her bikinis, but I'm starting to find her really annoying.

I've been blocking out her voice and just focusing on the "goods".

Overall I'm not really into this one as of now - no real heroes or villains have surfaced yet.

It takes me about 4 or 5 shows to remember who is who and it also takes about that long before we see their "real" personalities and strategies come out.

 

[John Crichton]

Allow me to comment on Eliza for a second.

Yes, she shows a ton of clevage. Yes, she seemed really annoying. Yes, it does seem that she engineered the booting of this week's unsuspecting victim. She's one of the more interesting people so far this season as is Chris.

I'm kinda routing for Sarge at this point, myself.

The balance challenges were a bit much and it seemed pretty obvious that Burnett and crew wanted to make it hard on the guys at the beginning. I don't blame him, really. They are getting the spotlight and as for the women (who are getting more attractive with each progressing new group, BTW) when they get the spotlight we get bitching and lots of eye candy. I am not complaining here.

18 Survivors is 2 more than we usually have for non-Allstars and we lose 2 next week. I'm not sure if the extra 2 has made it more confusing to watch but I was cool with 16. Anything more than that seems a bit much.

I will say this: The Apprentice has been more entertaining so far this season but Survivor remains the King. For now.

 

[DMScott]

Allow me to comment on Eliza for a second.

Yes, she shows a ton of clevage. Yes, she seemed really annoying. Yes, it does seem that she engineered the booting of this week's unsuspecting victim. She's one of the more interesting people so far this season as is Chris.

It's too early to tell who's good at alliance play and who's not. But if Eliza turns out to be good at it, then this week's episode was the first hint - it seemed pretty clear that all the older ladies were going to stick together, while at least one of the younger crew was a waffler. And even worse, she told everyone she was a waffler. So Eliza quietly joined the stronger alliance, and dumped the known waffler - good play, IMHO. If she can get the older ladies to keep her on while they pick off the younger crew, then at merge time Eliza will be in good shape to play an Amber and pick an alpha male to take her to the final.

Of course, it's also quite possible she just got lucky and she'll screw up next week.

The balance challenges were a bit much and it seemed pretty obvious that Burnett and crew wanted to make it hard on the guys at the beginning.

I dunno, the first challenge was a full obstacle course and the guys were doing well for a while. They lost because one of them lost his cool, not because it's impossible for men to have balance. It seemed fair enough to me, and so did this week's immunity challenge. This week's reward challenge was arguably less fair, but that's only one out of three. I doubt there's any conspiracy here, just the producers trying to figure out a set of challenges that will at least look competitive on camera.

I will say this: The Apprentice has been more entertaining so far this season but Survivor remains the King. For now.

Eh, Trump's ego seems to have fully taken over the Apprentice. Two boardrooms in a row where performance during the task had absolutely nothing to do with who got fired is a little much. It's entertaining to watch everybody snipe at each other, but it's even less of a real competition than last year. So far, at least, it's got enough time to turn things around.