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2009-11-23T11:41:00.001Z

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I'm A Celebrity 9 UK - Stuart wins immunity

2009-11-21T15:57:00.002Z

Friday's show started off with a segment showing how the two camps are adjusting to the split.

In Exile Camp they deal with their hunger by catching, killing, cooking and eating a rat they found in camp. They all agree it tasted nice and had a chicken like taste to it.

The next part of the highlights shows Katie's latest bush tucker trial - Hell Holes Extreme. She has to climb up a rock-face and put her arm into holes and search for stars. As well as stars are other creatures like beetles, spiders, rats, snakes etc. She manages to get 9 out of 12 stars. Which means 6 meals for base camp and 3 meals for exile camp.

After the trial we are shown a few clips of how Joe is starting to annoy everyone. Joe has lived in Australia for a number of years and thinks he knows everything there is to know about the Aussie jungle.

We then move onto the first Bush Battle. In the Bush Battles, the contestants in Exile Camp will compete. The winner will get immunity from the first eviction and will move to Base Camp.

This Bush Battle has then covering holes in a tube. If they move their figures the holes will be exposed and the liquid in the tube will escape. The last one with liquid in the tube will be the winner. George plays mind games with the others and convinces them that after the count of 3 they should all let go and quit the game. On the count of 3 Lucy and Sam let go, but George doesn't and finds it amusing how easily they were tricked into quitting. Eventually Stuart wins the battle and is immune from the first elimination.

After the bush battle we see base camp welcoming Stuart and in the evening Joe moans about the way Sabrina cooked dinner. It ends up with Joe being nasty to Sabrina and making Justin cry!

At the end of the show we find out who the public voted for to do the next Bush tucker trial, which is called Vile Vending. Katie gets the most votes once again, and she will have to do the trial with the highest voted member of Exile Camp. Lucy and Kim were the top 2 with Kim getting the most votes and doing the trial. We will see Katie and Kim in Vile Vending during Saturday's show.

That's it for now. I'll review Saturday and Sundays shows on Monday.

Survivor Samoa: Mick won Immunity & Laura voted off (5-5 tie)

2009-11-21T12:10:00.003Z

So, in Survivor it started with some tension of Russell playing the Idol last night and Kelly getting booted. Now, it seems that idol is going to be the dominating thing that gets people across. I just wish they had Exile Island, that's better than everyone getting to look for an idol. OK, so During the reward challenge, they all had to carry one person along a rope structure to get flags. Five of them won, and they got to go via plane to another neighboring island and have lunch by a waterfall. They also received a video of where the next idol is.

At Camp, they all scramble around to find the idol, and behold, with no surprises, Russell found another idol, making this his third idol. Shambo automatically talks about not standing Laura, and hoping Laura loses immunity so she could vote for her. At the Immunity challenge, the survivors had to break a tile with a rock. If they hit a tile, they'd get to move on to throw a spear at a target board. Only John, Monica, Bret, and Mick got that opportunity. In the second half, Brett got two close hits, but Mick was closer, and he won.

Before Tribal Council, Shambo is telling her own Galu tribe mates she will be voting for Laura, so the vote was looking to be 5-5, as of then. Then, Monica tries to develop a plan to get the Foa-Foa tribe members to vote for John, trying to force a 5-4-1 vote. However, John heard of this plan, and disapproved of it, making him consider voting for Laura. At tribal council, the vote came out, and it was a 5-5 tie. Five votes went to Laura and Natalie. Jeff Probst automatically states in the event of another tie, everyone except Mick, Laura, and Natalie would draw rocks, in which the colored rock person takes the blame. At the second vote, John ended up switching sides and voted for Laura, and Laura was voted off.

I'm not Happy with Laura gone, simple because she was the rock to Galu, and John had to mess that up. I hope that John stands no chance of winning this game. It's also painful to watch Laura lose to Shambo, who's so stupid. I mean, she's playing this game personal. She has sucked so much this game, simply because he probably doesn't take the time to play with her tribe. Galu had several opportunities to have all of them still there, but they fall apart. John may have sided with Foa-Foa & Shambo, but I don't see him staying with Foa-Foa, and he's probably going to try to use Shambo as a good ally, and try to play Russell, have Russell think he's staying with him, then boot Russell, downing Foa-Foa.

I really hope the Foa-Foa people stay together, and I hope to see Shambo & John make an attempt to go back to Galu, but see Foa-Foa burn them. Foa-foa has stuck together since the merge (3 rounds straight) and Galu has blindsided their own players (3 rounds straight). I want Foa-Foa to pull through. They got the best of Shambo, and John, now it's time for Shambo and John to pay their own mistakes for turning on Galu. Foa-Foa is loyal to Foa-Foa, they are just getting on John and Shambo easily. Also, Monica had a price to pay, simple because she tried to get four votes to John, in which I would've never tried to put someone on my own tribe in a situation like that, because you can never do that.

Love: Mick, Natalie
Like: Jaison, Brett
Neutral: Russell, Dave
Meh: Monica
Dislike: John, Shambo

BB 5 Finland: wedding

2009-11-20T23:47:00.002Z

Hola my fellas. :)

So, this Saturday a couple, actually two couples is going to get married in the BB house. One of the couple is just two ordinary people in love Katja and Mikael. They were chosen from over 400 couples.
Then, the other couple is Antti and Henna, these two was BB-housemates last year and OMG! they are just looking for publicity. Dont know if their love is real, it might be, but i just think its kind of stupid. They are totaly going to steel the show.
I doubt that the other couple wants to share their wedding day with some wanna be celebs.
that sucks.
but, im happy for Katja and Mikael anyway.

so, thats the big news. :)

//iSA

BB 5 Finland: "the past" part 4

2009-11-20T21:40:00.003Z

Hello my friends.

Sorry for the poor updating. :( but now, i'm here.

soo, yet again, here we go. :D

Week 10: On monday morning the slums and paradise had a blindfolded football competition. after a few painfull hours the paradise won (not important!). Big Brother announced that the slums time had come and now everyone would live together. Hurraayy. the housemates was really happy, some cried, some just laughed and jumped around.
To celebrate the "reunion" a band called The Virtanen Band played for the housemates.
Big Brother alowed intrigueting, i meen, now everyone were alowed to talk about the voting and stuff. :)
As for the weeks task, the housemates got to play on the play station 3 a game called Uncharted 2 and they had to solve some "problems" and know the answers to some questions. when all the problems were solved they got a surprice jungle party as a price.
For the HH competition everyone had to play the Uncharted 2 game and the one who would get the best score (??) would win. Esa A won for the first time.
On thursday morning Kätlin left the house, she was on her way to the Philippines.
Up for that weeks elemination was Antti, Iida, Toni and Stephania. On Sunday, Iida left the house.
Cathy arrived to the BBF house that night. hurray.

Week 11: First of all, directly on monday, Dana and Saranna got to know that they would be up for elemination this week becouse they had been breaking the rules by not wearing the microfones.
All the housemates were so exited that Cathy had arrived the house. And who wouldnt be, she is lovely person. For the weeks task the finnish housemates had to introduce Cathy to the Finnish culture. She got to try the Sauna, party whit the finns, see her first snow and see Santa Claus (i doubt that he was the real one). Cathy had to learn a finnish song and then sing it together with her housemates, she also got to introduce the finnish housemates to the philippens food culture. Cathy got to talk with Kätlin over the internet. PBB told Cathy that she would have to spend a hole month at the BBF, this wasnt tru.
The finnish housemates had to sing a song to Cathy, who then would have to choose a HH. She chose Sami.
On Friday Cathy got to know that she would have to leave the house, when she told that she was leaving everyone was crying and really sad. :(
On the friday-saturday night Kätlin came back to the BBF house.
Up for the elemination was Saranna, Dana, Stephania, Antti and Esa A. On Sunday, yet again, one of the girls, Saranna, had to leave the house.

Week 12: the housemates got to spend a healty week at the Big Brother house, no smoking, no alchol and no sweets.
as the week want by the housemates got to expirience different kinds of exericses. I think everyone lost at least a couple of kilos that week.
For that weeks HH competition the housemates had to guess how long it would take to burn different kinds of foods. Sampo won the HH.
Up for the elemination was Sami, Kätlin, Esa A, Toni and Stephania. Sami left the house that Sunday.
One of the old housemates, Tuija, returned to the house, she are on a secret mission there. she has to convince everyone that she is the next weeks HH, shes automaticly in the finale and she can take someone with her. haha.
This week was probably one of the most boring ones. arggh.

Soo, now i think we only have a couple weeks left. :(

//iSA.

I'm A Celebrity... 9 UK - Camilla quits, Joe arrives

2009-11-20T14:04:00.003Z

Episode 4 - Wednesday 20th November

Every year there is a live bushtucker trial, and this years will be hold in today's episode. As usual the public vote for who they want to do it, and as usual they will probably vote for the same person they have voted for all week.

More on that later, firstly, the show starts off with a segment about Kim's very loud snoring. Well she's loud in every other aspect, there was no reason to think that her snoring would be any different.

The next part of the episode is highlights of Katie's bushtucker trial, Celebrity In A Bottle. She had to lie down inside a giant glass bottle and correctly answer six questions about Australia. In the bottle with her were 2 buckets of meal worms, 60,000 cockroaches and 10,000 crickets. She got 3 questions correct which meant she won 6 meals out of 12 for camp.

The next segment featured Kim going on at Katie about how much Katie loved publicity (stating the obvious there), then Stuart and Sabrina did the celebrity chest and showed how rubbish they are at maths.

Then we got to the first celebrity to exit the camp this year. Camilla decided that she would walk because she was feeling too weak to continue. No-one seemed to try and persuade her to stay (not even the producers) and so she left the show almost immediately. Camilla's departure isn't much of a blow - in fact she had been so much in the background that had they have not shown her departure it could have been days before I noticed she was missing.

The next segment dealt with the arrival of Camilla's replacement. His name is Joe Bugner and he is a retired former heavyweight world boxing champion.

The final 40 minutes of the show are taken up with the live trial. Joe was immune from the vote as a new contestant. The hosts read the results and guess what.... yes, the public have voted that Katie will do the trial (Justin again received the second highest number of votes).

Now the first year that this voting pattern happened it was really funny to see the same person being picked on by the public day after day. But now it's got to the point where it is just boring. I want to see some of the others doing the trials.

Anyway, we get to see Katie being covered in goo and insects yet again.

The trial is split into different parts and takes the form of a school classroom theme.

1) She has to put her face in green goo.
2) She has to put her face in a tray full of meal worms (the point of the goo part was so that the meal worms now stick to her face)
3) Collect 3 words from a sphere which was full of snakes
4) Get into a pool of baby crocodiles (that had their mouths tied closed)
5) Drink a beetle juice shake
6) Pour liquid from a test test into a container whilst wearing gloves filled with green ants
7) Get into a pool of eels and solve a maths equation
8) Put on a coat which is filled with cockroaches

She did well at the trial and scored 9 out of 12, meaning 9 meals for camp. The ones she failed on were parts 5 and 7, she also got 1 out of 2 in part 6.

Episode 5 - Thursday 21st November
I guess the producers realised that the show was getting rather boring - no major fights or tension and no major talking points. So today they decided to split the camp into two and turn it into a bit like Survivor.

Before that we were shown clips of Joe's first morning in camp, then a repeat of yesterdays live trial. Then were were treated to a conversation from Kim telling Justin to have his moles removed from his face. After that it moved onto Katie and her personal life and then how horny Gino is in camp.

Finally we get onto the camp split. Two team captains are chosen at random and they are Colin and Lucy. They then have to choose who they want on their team and the split is

Colin's Team - Colin, Justin, Katie, Sabrina, Jimmy and Joe
Lucy's Team - Lucy, Gino, Stuart, George, Sam and Kim

Next comes the immunity battle. The winning team will be immune from the first eviction and will live in base camp. The losing team won't have immunity and will live in Exile, which will be even more of a dump than base camp was.

The challenge is a classic survivor challenge. Each contestant holds a pole and has to keep a button pressed. They last one remaining will win immunity from their team.

Gino is out first, followed by Justin. In the end it is Sabrina and Stuart. After over 2 hours Stuart suffers from severe cramp and Sabrina is the winner. Sabrina, Colin, Justin, Katie, Jimmy and Joe are immune from the first elimination. The other team will get chances to win individual immunity in the coming days.

The episode ends with the results of the next Bushtucker trial. It's called Hell Holes Extreme and George and Kim are immune on medical grounds again. Gino and Katie get the most votes and yes, you've guessed it, Katie got the highest votes and will do the trial. We'll see that on Friday's episode.

Expeditie Robinson 2009 Netherlands/Belgium: Episode 12

2009-11-20T11:36:00.002Z

Blog post by Arthur

Episode 12

Jeroen and Kurt take part in a battle to stay in the show. It's the toughest and longest battle so far, with the tower of cubes almost reaching the length of the two men. At the end, it's Kurt who loses the game by bad luck: a wind blows the tower over. Jeroen wins and gets to stay in the game. Meanwhile, Rita is having major trouble with the lack of food. She has lost a lot of weight (she is so thin that it is almost scary to look at) but does not want to leave the game. She is so close to the finals that she really wants to stay. She survives by trying not to think about food, although that is difficult because everybody is always talking about food.

When Jeroen arrives back at camp, Marina is very disappointed. Not only because a strong player returned but also because the other candidates pretend to be happy to see him. According to Marina they are hypocrites: first they vote him off and not they pretend to be happy to see him. Jeroen asks the other candidates to not vote for him at the next tribal council because he has taken part in two tribals already. Esmeralda is not impressed by this and still wants to vote for him, but Marcel is open for suggestions. He knows that Dennis and Esmeralda are strong people as well and asks Jeoren if he would be interested in voring for them. Even though Jeroen has always said that he is not interested in the tactical game, he realizes that he will not win if he does not play the game. Later, Marcel talks with Esmeralda and tries to get her to turn on her best friend, Dennis. He tells her that he would never vote for her and he hopes that she will do the same.

At the immunity challenge, the candidates have to go through an obstacle course. At the end of the course are four meals and one mystery price. The fastest person gets to choose their price, followed by the second fastest and so on. Jeroen is the fastest and picks the mystery price. Marcel is second and picks an hamburger with french fries. Esmeralda is third and picks the pizza. Dennis is fourth and goes for the chocolate and Rita is last and wins a sandwich with cheese. Once everybody has eaten, Jeroen receives the mystery price. He hopes that this is a challenge, but it turns out to be an extra vote. He is not happy with this, he says one vote for or less won't make a difference. After this, the candidates take part in the immunity challenge. For this, the candidates have to guess how much time they took to go through the challenge. At tribal council it will be revealed who was closest to their true time and wins the challenge.

After the challenge, the candidates compare their times. Marcel finds out that he is way off and will probably not win the immunity. He is very disappointed abuot this. Marina is also very disappointed because the other candidates got to eat and she had to go without again (as guaranteed finalist she cannot take part in the challenges). Later there is a twist: the candidates can give up the individual immunity in exchange for fruit. All but one candidate (Jeroen) vote in favor of this, but the other candidates convince him to also give up his chance for immunity. Everybody can eat some fruit, but Jeroen says he is sure that he will get the most votes at tribal council again and complains some more about this.

Right before the candidates go to tribal council, Marcel talks with Jeroen and tries to convince him to vote for Dennis and Esmerlada. He says he will get Marina to go with them so they can eliminate Dennis or Esmeralda. At tribal council, the hosts show who would have won individual immunity if the candidates had not gone for the food. This turns out to be Esmeralda, who was five seconds off. After this, the candidates vote and these are revealed. It turns out that Marcel, Rita and Jeroen have two votes and that Dennis has three and Esmeralda four. Dennis & Esmeralda will battle eachother in the next challenge.

So in details the voting:
Dennis = Marcel & Rita
Esmeralda = Jeroen & Rita
Jeroen = Dennis & Esmeralda & Esmeralda
Marcel = Dennis & Esmeralda
Marina = Dennis & Esmeralda
Rita = Jeroen & Marcel

American Idol 9 will launch January, 2010

2009-11-19T23:06:00.004Z

American Idol will be the seventh American series I have blogged. I started watching American Idol in Season five, but it didn't end very well. I wanted to watch it again in 2008, but Big Brother's winter season came on almost at the same time. I watched season eight, in which they made a few changes to evolve the show. It seems to be ironic that two of the US's biggest shows (Idol & Survivor), were failures in the UK, whereas in the UK, their successes are Big Brother (formerly) & I'm A Celebrity, and here they are just mostly looked at as Summer fillers.

In Season eight, they gave us three new elements to the show, and now only one of them has been confirmed for returning. The first new addition was a fourth judge, that being Kara DioGuardi. She made a good edition to the show, simply because she meant business and was a fair judge, completing the objectives of her as a judge. Next, they went from a top 24 to a top 36, in which they brought back a wild card episode, and gave us a top 13, with 13 finalists.

In Season eight, they had some memorable people, including the finalists who made the final four, Alison Irahita, Danny Gokey, Adam Lambert, & Kris Allen. They were a good final four, and the ones who stood with the most potential, and they were a good final four. Also, I easily remember the disappointments, Katrina Darrell, aka Bikini Girl, who showed up to her audition in her bikini. She was very hot, except, most AI voters are women, who aren't into appeal of another woman. Also, I was very appalled over Nick Mitchell, aka Norman Gentle, who was horrifying as he got to perform.

They have also given us some more things to change the show with. First off, Paula Abdul, the judge since season one, will not be in the next season. During the auditions, the auditioned will be face to face with a special judge, one for each city hosting an audition. Lastly, after the auditions we will be given the fourth official judge, Ellen DeGeneres, whom is actually a talk show presenter, and has nothing to do with the music industry. I hope she has logic opinions, and doesn't does the job.

I have some potential for AI9, and I hope it's good. I look forward to the next season, how about you all?

I'm A Celebrity...GMOOH 9 UK - Katie arrives

2009-11-18T10:41:00.005Z

Episode 2 (Monday 16th November)
It's day 4 in the jungle and we have a segment about Camilla not being able to sleep.

Then it moves onto Kim's bushtucker trial. It's called Dreaded Descent and she is locked in a perspex box and lowered underwater. She has to collect stars amongst the creatures (yabbis, cockroaches etc) that are dropped in the box a regular intervals over 10 minutes. As I expected she coped with it very well and managed to collect all 11 stars.

The rest of the show is taken up with Katie Price entering. Katie was a contestant on the show 6 years ago. She had to do a special trial before she entered which involved her collecting balls in water and putting them in a basket. She collected 7 balls and that meant 7 treats for camp (like coffee, sugar, chocolate etc.) However, in order for her to get the treats she had to agree that all the contestants luxury items be taken away from them. She agreed to this.

I guess the producers were hoping that having their luxury items removed would create tension but actually they just handed them over and nothing more was said about it.

Katie joined the others and everyone continued to get along nicely.

The public vote for the next trial was predictable. The trial is called Deathly Burrows and the public voted for Katie to do it. That wasn't surprising given that the whole episode had centred on her so she was the only one in the publics minds. We will see the trial tomorrow.

Episode 3 (Tuesday 17th November)
The first segment of clips features George going on about how great the British people are and about how everyone is pulling together and getting on well. Hopefully he will change his opinion of the British in a few days or we are in for a boring 3 weeks.

Next we are shown Katie's trial - Deathly Burrows - she has to crawl through underground tunnels and burrow through walls to find stars. She managed to get 4 stars before they poured water into the tunnels and she shouted for the trial to stop. She seemed to be having a minor panic attack as she was being pulled out. Her reaction to the trial will ensure that the public chooses her again every day now as that is how the public always vote for the trials, choosing the same person every day. So far there is no hate figure in the camp, until one emerges Katie will just get picked on by the public.

The rest of the show was pretty dull, we had segments about breasts, farting, cooking and Katie's hellish 2009, also we were shown Jimmy and Lucy getting the celebrity chest.

The next trial is called Celebrity In A Bottle and surprise surprise, the public voted for Katie to do it. Interestingly, the person that has received the second highest number of votes all 3 times has been Justin. I'm not entirely sure why the public have taken a dislike to him.

We will see Katie's trial as well as a live trial in an extended episode on Wednesday.

TARUS15 - Meghan/Cheyne take 1st & Gary/Matt are eliminated.

2009-11-16T17:06:00.001Z

TAR is winding down, faster than Survivor, because that still has ten left to deal with where here in TAR, we’re down to four teams. The teams were headed to Estonia, where they had to take a ferry which didn’t leave until well over 12 hours everyone left the pit stop, bunching everyone up. In Estonia, they had to make their way to a “secret” Merchant Brotherhood house where in this roadblock, one person had to use a candle, search for a marked room, with a number and receive a clue. The clue had nothing visible written on it, so they had to use the candle in order to read the clue. Then in Pikk Hermann Tower Garden, teams received their detour: sling (slingshot veggies at a moose sign to release their clue) or serve (play volleyball in a buddy bog and score five points). A wooden tower on the bog land was the pit stop.

Meghan/Cheyne - Meghan/Cheyne were pretty much in first in this leg, they were the first to the Merchant place, and Cheyne finished the roadblock first. They got extremely fortunate to breeze through the detour, choosing the volleyball, since Meghan is a volleyball player. Before any of the teams arrived to the detour set, Meghan/Cheyne arrived to the pit stop, taking first place for the fourth time. It seems things are almost going their way when it comes to getting first place. They got their second first place through the Fast Forward, which ultimately helped them get a back-to-back first place, since the Dubai legs weren’t bunching up, and they easily take first this time over a sport she plays. Whenever they are more stressed out, and freaking out more, they don’t seem to carry first place, though.

Sam/Dan - Sam/Dan first started racing very closely by Meghan/Cheyne, but at the roadblock, Sam didn’t seem to get the invisible clue first. After finishing, and looking for another taxi, they ended up sharing a bus type taxi to the detour where they couldn’t find the marked pathway. They ended up beating Brian/Ericka out on the volleyball court and during the detour, faced off with the Globetrotters. They simple took second place, just seconds behind then, the Globetrotters, they beat out.

Flight Time/Big Easy - During their time, they were simply just only ahead of Gary/Matt, as one of them ended up using a crayon to scribble their clue, not knowing they needed to hold it up to the candle. During the detour, they followed Sam/Dan & Brian/Ericka in a mater to find the marked pathway to the detour set. They squared off with Sam/Dan in a fight to the pit stop, as one of the Globetrotters supposedly tripped Sam or Dan. I honestly didn’t see the globetrotter literally trip them, because I’m pretty sure that physical violence on this race would lead to disqualification or a major penalty. The Globetrotters easily take third place.

Brian/Ericka - They started off, ok, as Ericka was the second person to finish the roadblock. What put them behind was not being able to find the marked pathway, as the same for Sam/Dan & Flight Time/Big Easy. They couldn’t outrun the Globetrotters or Sam/Dan to the muddy volleyball court, so they opted to do the sling detour. They finally finished the detour and moved into the pit stop at fourth place. If only they had another volleyball net, they could’ve maybe placed a bit higher, but oh well, they’re still there.

Gary/Matt - They started off the race with a speed bump, which was to spend time in a sauna on a bus. Now how epically creatively sweet is that!?!? Matt struggled to find a candelabra, putting them furthered behind. Then, Gary & Matt struggled to find the clue box at the Tower Garden, putting them even further back. They chose to do the sling detour, and at the pit stop, they were told by Phil they are in last place and have been eliminated. They had a teary goodbye, and really talked about their appreciation of the race, and just being together.

During this race, we can now clearly see there’s a rivalry between Flight Time/Big Easy & Sam/Dan. I would like to say that I’m neutral on this feud, as it appears that both of these teams have intimidated each other-and others. For instance, the Globetrotters have been seen psyching Mika out and aggressively behaving around Sam/Dan and Sam/Dan are saying stuff such as “Did Your fans help you get here!?” and stealing Brian/Ericka’s taxi, we’re supposed to see next episode. I think their rivalry is pointless. I mean, can’t they just be glad they have something to fight for, and can’t they just enjoy the race. I would give my clothes on my back, strip down naked then rub myself with maple syrup and roll in maple leaves (with paparazzi, of course) just to travel & see inches of the world, and not just on a TV screen or Google images, I know I would. What I’m saying, at this point of the race, is the experience of traveling the world with someone who love is clearly worth more than $1,000,000.

Love: Brian/Ericka, Meghan/Cheyne
Like:
Neutral:
Meh: Sam/Dan, Flight Time/Big Easy
Dislike:

I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! 9 UK

2009-11-16T14:08:00.003Z

The 9th season of I'm A Celebrity got underway in the UK last night. Whilst Big Brother UK has been going downhill in recent years, I'm A Celebrity has been getting better and better. Overnight ratings show that yesterdays launch show got over 9 million viewers which is very high.

The launch show followed the familiar format that we have seen in recent years. We were first introduced to the celebrities. I have to say that I had not heard of most of them, which is unusual for me as I am usually familiar with most IAC contestants. Perhaps I am spending too much time watching reality shows and not much time watching soaps or cheap daytime cooking / DIY shows.

Before the celebrities started on their journey into camp, they had to choose 2 (a male and a female) to do the first bushtucker trial. Sam and Gino were chosen and they had to swin to an island where they would spend the night before doing their trial the next day.

The other 9 celebs were split into groups. Sabrina, Lucie and Colin entered camp by doing the skyjump. Camilla, Jimmy, Stuart and Justin went on horseback. Finally the 2 oldies Kim (67) and George (70) walked into camp.

The following day, Sam and Gino did their bushtucker trial. The first part invloved them putting their hands in containers filled with things like crabs and octopus to find stars. For the second part they had to put a live water spider in their mouths for 30 seconds. The 3rd part was putting their heads into yabbis and beach worms to grab a star. And for the final part Sam had to search through a cabin containing eels and crabs to find 2 stars (which she failed to find) and Gino had to where a helmit containing spiders for 90 seconds (which he achieved).

At the end of the trial they had 9 out of 11 stars which meant there would be 9 meals and 9 beds in camp. It wasn't exactly a memorable trial, most of the elements we had seen before and neither of the celebs freaked out much over what they had to do.

The rest of the launch show was taken up with the celebrities first night in camp. They are all getting on well for the moment, although that is pretty standard, it usually takes a couple of days before the sparks start flying.

Also, the public voted for who they wanted to do the next bushtucker trial which was called "Dreaded Descent". The one with the most votes was Kim, and we will see her doing the trial on Monday's show. She isn't the person I would have chosen as I think the best people doing the trials are the ones that will be useless at them and I think Kim will cope well with the trials. She is used to dirt, grime and creepy crawlies from her job so I doubt the trial will phase her. But she is the loudest and most outspoken contestant at the moment and they are always the ones that the public choose for the trials.

At the end of the show the hosts revealed the "big surprise" that we had been promised at the start. The may have hoped it would be a big surprise but as it has been front page on the national newspapers for the last week, it was not a surprise for us and will not be one for any of the contestants. The "surprise" was that Katie Price (aka Jordan) would be entering as the 12th contestant. For those of you who don't know, she was a contestant back in season 3 and her romance with fellow contestant Peter Andre was probably the main talking point throughout that years show. She is now going back into the jungle and I'm sure the producers will be hoping that she stirs things up a lot - we shall see.

I thought the launch show was OK. I'd rate it as average so far. Nothing too memorable happened but it wasn't boring. I won't give my opinions on each of the contestants at this stage as a lot of them were mainly in the background and I don't really have much of an opinion at the moment.

So that's the end of my review of the launch show. If you want to continue with the blog then drop me an e-mail and I would be happy to let you.

World of Big Brother blog

2009-11-16T13:46:00.004Z

Hi everyone, my name is Graham and I am the owner of World of Big Brother (so now you know who to blame for anything that goes wrong on the website).

Just to remind you that this blog is here for anyone to contribute to. Everyone can make comments on any posts on the blog, so feel free to ask questions or give your opinions on the posts, the authors would love to hear from you.

I'd like to thank the blog authors - Dan, Arthur and Isa. They are doing an amazing job. If you would like to join them and become a blogger for World of Big Brother it's easy, all you need to do is send me an email to webmaster@worldofbigbrother.com and I will set you up with access. You can then either post to the blog directly or if you prefer, send your blog post to me and I will post it for you.

At the moment I'm looking for bloggers for -
Big Brother - Africa, Spain, Italy, Philippines, Israel, India and Serbia
The Farm - Brazil, Slovenia and Serbia
Survivor - Norway, Denmark, Bulgaria, Serbia, Sweden and Israel
Big Mama House Bosnia
La Academia Mexico
Fabrika Ukraine
The Amazing Race Latin America
The X Factor UK, I'm A Celebrity UK or Strictly Come Dancing UK
or any other reality show going on at the moment.

Expeditie Robinson 2009 Netherlands/Belgium: Episode 11

2009-11-14T11:00:00.001Z

Blog Post by Arthur

Episode 11

The elimination battle, of putting cubes on top of eachother, is won by Rita. Marjolein is not able to place the seventh cube on the sixth, which makes the tower collapse. She has to go, something she regrets but she is also happy with the things she achieved. When Rita arrives back at camp, she is welcomed greatly by the other candidates who are much happier to see her than they would be to see Marjolein.

Back at camp, Marina attacks Jeroen because Jeroen said at the last tribal council that he thinks he is received votes because the other candidates think he is too strong and the other candidates would rather go to the end with their friends than with someone strong. Marina says she didn't vote for Jeroen because he is strong and says he's arrogant to say that he is the strongest. Nobody backs Jeroen up, which upsets him. Later he notices that his old friend Kurt spends more time with Marina and Marcel. He thinks he is losing all his friends because of tactical reasons, people don't want to be around someone who receives many votes. Meanwhile, Kurt, Marina and Marcel discuss the voting and say they want Jeroen and Dennis to receive the most votes at the next tribal council. Jeroen, because they don't like him, and Dennis, because he is playing too many sides.

For the immunity challenge, the candidates get a certain number of balls in a "tube". The challenge is to grab one ball from your own tube, climb a construction and put the ball in someone else's tube. When someone has twenty balls in their tube, they are eliminated and the person with the most balls after fifteen minutes is eliminated as well. This continues until one person is left. At the beginning of the challenge, Esmeralda, Dennis, Rita and Jeroen take out Kurt. The next one out is Jeroen. A while later, the fifteen minutes are up and because Marcel & Rita are tied for number of balls, both are elimnated. Esmeralda and Dennis continue to fight, but fifteen minutes later it is obvious that Esmeralda has more balls so she is eliminated. Dennis wins the challenge. He also wins an extra price: he gets to meet someone's loved one. At the previous tribal council, one name was drawn and the loved one of that person is the one Dennis will meet. He obviously hopes that this will be his boyfriend, but it turns out to be the wife of Kurt. Dennis and Kurt's wife go to a little resort, where Dennis can eat what he wants and can tell Kurt's wife all about her husband. When the meeting is over, he tells everything to Kurt who is really happy to hear something from home.

Later, Dennis and Jeroen have a discussion where Jeroen complains that he might be eliminated because he lost immunity. Dennis explains him that it is smart to vote for the strongest people because otherwise he will be eliminated. Jeroen takes something else from the conversation: because he thinks he will get the most votes, he thinks it is smart to vote for people who will get a lot of votes, so there will be more people in the elimination battle and his chances of being eliminated get smaller (why he doesn't just make an alliance, I don't know. It's probably his holier-than-thou attitude). Marcel and Kurt also discuss the voting. Marcel explains that he will try his best to keep Kurt in the game because Kurt has said he will never vote for him. He will cast his votes for people who may get the most votes, so Kurt will be saved.

At tribal council, everybody does what they have been doing all along (which kinda makes all the conversations useless) and vote for the people who have received votes. When these are revealed, it turns out that Esmeralda has 0, Marcel has 1 and Rita has 3. Kurt has 4 and Jeroen 6, so the two men will battle eachother in the elimination battle.

Since Jeroen had 6 votes, everybody voted for him. Other votes shown were Jeroen & Rita voting for Kurt. I think Marcel, Marina and Kurt voted for Rita, so Dennis & Esmeralda would be the other voters for Kurt and Jeroen voted for Marcel.

Survivor Samoa - Laura immuned & Kelly Voted Off (4 votes)

2009-11-13T03:03:00.000Z

During this episode of Survivor, it basically starts off with Natalie killing a rat, and no, it wasn’t Shambo. Darn it. The Survivors ended up eating the rat, as we hear the famous Survivor phrase “This rat tastes like chicken” (Survivor Borneo flashback). Then, it was time for a reward challenge where they had to collect coloured coconuts on a pole and rearrange them into a sequence of numbers to have one person solve the combo. It was Dave, Monica, Kelly, Shambo, and John who won, They won a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to slide down a pile of rocks (a waterslide, made of rocks!) and eat chicken, massive sized donuts, and other food.

During this reward, the Survivors were all given their first immunity idol clue. Meanwhile, back at camp, Russell scrambled and scrambled around camp to find the idol, in which he assumed it was at camp. Sure enough, he fins the idol right under the bridge. Producers, please, just next time cut away with reward challenges and clues, just have them compete for an immunity idol by running around in circles at camp. That should cover fifteen minutes of my time once a week. Anyways, Russell shares the fact he found an idol to Shambo, where they easily talk about getting Laura out.

At the immunity challenge, the Survivors had to throw a hook at one of two bags and bring them to the end. The first three to finish will move on. It was Mick, Shambo, and Laura who moved on to round two where they had to use blocks to figure out a pattern on a board. Laura easily took charge of her fate in that challenge, and by talking to herself, she easily won. Laura may perhaps turn to be the female Ozzy, winning almost every immunity. That would be epic. Then, Shambo cries about the fact she can’t get rid of Laura, and she literally makes a desperate, sour face at her confessional.

So, the Survivor were all strategizing over who to get rid of. The former Galu tribe mates were all about sticking together, so they all agreed to vote for either Russell or Natalie, mainly Russell since he could easily have another idol. Russell is now unsure about what to do, play the idol and possibly see Natalie go, or not play, and possibly see him go. At Tribal Council, Russell ended up playing his idol, and was spared from the seven votes he did receive. It was ultimately Kelly who received the four votes, from the Foa-Foa four, and became the second person to join the jury.

I completely have so much respect for the Foa-Foa four, they are sticking together, unlike Galu’s Shambo who’s so worried about swapping sides to boot Laura it’s as if that’s all she cares about. In the game of Survivor, a tribe that sticks together goes the furthest. United We stand, divided we fall simple applies to Survivor very well. In thee past, we see that tribe who have stuck together (Tagi, Boran, Chauy Gahn, Chapera, Koror, Casaya, Aitu, Moto, Jalapao) lasted out to become the finals in the finale. Laura is about the one from Galu I like, the rest are just there, and then there’s Shambo. Next week, we’ll see all ten of them scrambling find that idol. That should be fun. Also, I want to see lots or just one comment, I really like getting them. Who are you all rooting for?

LLNMD List:
Love: Laura, Russell, Mick, Natalie
Like: Jaison, John, Monica
Neutral: Dave, Brett,
Meh:
Dislike: Shambo.

Also, Congrats to World Of Big Brother for reaching over 100 blog posts!

BB 5 Finland: Kätlins back

2009-11-10T21:58:00.006Z

Hello. :D

Read some comments from recent posts and some of u wanted to know how Kätlin is doing. well, she's fine, she misses all of her PBB friends a lot.
Yeah, i know, Kätlin have been back allready sence Saturday, but... im writing about it now.

Kältin arrived back to Finland at night. I think it was like 2 a.m. finnish time. When she entered the song Sininen ja Valkoinen played (the song Cathy was tought while in BBF), all the housemates were so exited for her to come back. Here is a couple pics, sadly, not that many.
Anyway, she told everything shes been doing at the PBB house, her housemates and all the differences that the houses have. What i've noticed is that PBB is nicer than BBF. BBF dosent talk that much. :(
The housemates saw a couple of videos from Kätlins time at the PBB and i noticed that some of the housemates were a little jellous, the trio (sami, aso and toni) for exemple. they have been trying to have some "action" with Kätlin the hole season, whitout any results, and Kätlin is at the PBB house for a week and is making out with Hermes. :D hahah.
but still, i doubt that no one would trade the week they had with anyone. the BBF housemates all "fell in love" with Cathy. And Kätlin "fell in love" with PBB.

btw, if u wanna see all the free videos BBF is posting, u can watch them all here. I've been using these in my postes. :) have fun.
Some finnsih vocabulary:
Ilmaisvideot - Free videos
Haastattelut - Interviews
Talk Show & Extra - well, its the same. :D

need help? just ask, i'm trying to answer as soon as i can

and btw. love ur comments. thanks. <3

one more thing. hows Cathy ??

// iSA.

TARUS15 - Flight Time/Big Easy in 1st & Matt/Gary Last

2009-11-09T16:49:00.001Z

In this episode, the teams had to make their way to Tivoli Grund Lond where they had to have one teammate ride the tallest ride to spot an arrow pointing them to their next clue. In their next clue, they had to play a theme park style ring game where they had to discover a Travelocity gnome. Then, teams had to pick one of two detours: Nobel Dynamite (blow up ground to uncover their next clue) or Viking Alphabet (Decode a message of the Viking alphabet). In the final task, teams had the roadblock where one teammate had to search for a red-yellow ribbon in order to check in to the pit stop, which was the same farm, Bogs Gard farm.

1st - Flight Time/Big Easy - They were the team who were pretty much lucky to et first, simple because while they started the race in the first flight, they couldn’t make the first train, putting them fifteen minutes behind. They easily caught up at the roadblock, easily passing Meghan/Cheyne. They lucked out, as one of them was the first to find the ribbon in the hay stack, claiming first place right on one of their birthday’s. They seem to have gotten lucky, as all of the teams were pretty much bunched up on the roadblock. I believe tat being on the first flight, putting Ericka/Brain & Gary/Mat behind got them first place. They ar, however, always getting along, making the race into some fun, and perhaps comical, and are a good team. They move up in my opinion.

2nd - Meghan/Cheyne - They were starting the race off well, getting on the first flight and the first train with only Sam/Dan on their heels. At the detour, they failed to listen together, which put them in the middle of the pack, as Meghan’s idea to do one bag of soil at a time was not really a good idea. At the roadblock, in which Meghan, who was the only woman pulling those strong, heavy hay stacks struggled to get a grip on the task, and easily freaked out a lot. However she was the second person to find the ribbon and Meghan/Cheyne became team number two. Cheyne comments on how Meghan pulled the weight in this episode, which easily shows to me that he’s easily willing to share the contributions the race is about. Other’s were practically carried to each pit stop.

3rd - Brian/Ericka - They were stuck with choosing a flight that was approx 90 minutes behind, with Gary/Matt on their tail. However, they took an easy fourth when Gary/Matt didn’t catch the train. They did well and maintained to stay out of last place at the route info and the detour. They caught up to Sam/Dan & Meghan/Cheyne at the roadblock, where Brain found the ribbon third, and Brian/Ericka became team number three. So, we know Brian does well on roadblocks, and I’m glad he did this one; otherwise we’d see Ericka freak out for sure. They ran a batter leg, and managed to stay out of last the entire time. I still like them, and I really see them in the final three.

4th - Sam/Dan - Sam/Dan pretty much ran this leg with most of the time leading everyone. They got on the first flight, got on the first train, and finished the route info and detour first before anyone else did. However, Sam struggled and ran out of luck trying to compete in the roadblock. Sam/Dan were constantly yelling at each other non-stop during the whole roadblock, which got them on each other’s nerves. Sam/Dan managed to beat out Gary/Matt and they checked into the pit stop as team number four. Sam/Dan are starting to really make me feel uncomfortable every time I watch them. I also don’t get their rivalry with the Globetrotters, I mean, saying stuff like “Did your fans help you get here?” is kind of pointless to say, if you ask me.

5th - Gary/Matt - They were placed on the last flight with Brian/Ericka, and missed the train, putting them down fifteen minutes and putting them into last pretty much the entire leg. They didn’t seem to be too well on navigating themselves from place to place, which would’ve put them further behind. They did okay on the detour, but were still behind Brain/Ericka the entire time. Gary was the last to find the red and yellow ribbon and Gary/Mat checked in to the pit stop a last place. However, they were spared from elimination and were to compete in the next leg with a speed bump. I really feel that luck wasn’t on their side, and I still feel they have an equal shot to race well against the others.

LLNMD List:
Love: Brian/Ericka, Gary/Matt, Meghan/Cheyne
Like: Flight Time/Big Easy,
Neutral: Sam/Dan
Meh:
Dislike:

BB 5 Finland: "the past" part 3

2009-11-08T23:51:00.003Z

Hola amigos!

so, as i said before, im going to stick to the basic here, then, later on, i can get more in to detal. or u can ask what u want to know. thats more fun! :D

Week 7: this week big brother decided to get things more exiting, so, for the slums weekly task, he had them to do a so called "secret task" (right translation from finnish, dont know what u call this things in ur countries, but anyway...). the paradise thought that the slums would to a lumberjack task and they basicly had to work without food or wather. this wasent tru. what the paradise didint know was that the slums would acctually have plenty of food, they didnt have to work as lumberjacks, just pretend, and they got like alcohol and stuff during the day. the real task was to convinse someone from the paradise side to give the slums something from their side, like food. (notice! its stricktly forbidden to give anything to the otherside)
after a kind of fun week, the slums did successfully earn their right to vote, all thanks to Esa A, how gave food to the other side.
found a couple videos from the week, in the first video the slums just got to know their real task, the second video is when Esa A gives Sampo food. as usual there is also some pics u guys can look at.
As the HH (u who dosent know what HH meens, its Head Of The House) competition the housemates had to see who could run the longest, and Sami won the competition.
Up for elemination this week was Marko and Justiina. At the end of the week there were only three girls left as Justiina was evicted.

Week 8: This week Big brother gave the slums some "smaller" tasks, they had to guess the right time, entertain a dog for a evening and play a paintball game agains the paradise.
the slums succesfully won the paintball game and as for the price the sides would change, u know, the onces who had been on the slum side would no go to the paradise side and the other way around. The new slums got the right to vote. hurray.
Sami won the HH competition again after he trhow the most basketballs in the basket.
After he won the competition he had to choose one person who would be up for elemination, he chose Esa A.
Up for elemination this week was Minna, Marko, Sampo (up for elemination after breaking the rulses) and Esa A.
That Sunday Minna left the house.
Four new people entered the house that sunday night, Saranna, Iida, Antti and Stephania.

Week 9: the three slums, Kätlin, Dana and Esa A, was up for a week full of secrets. becides the normal tasks the slums had to do some task that the paradise wouldnt know of.
The slums had to steal on item from each room in the house, without beeing cought. Esa A was the smart on here and told everyone from the paradise to come out on the yard, under that time Dana stole a item of some kind from the bedroom successfully. The next two items were stolen at night.
The slums had to throw a party without anyone from the paradise knowing. Then they had to go to the Sauna and the jacuzzi on the paradise side. That they did yet again at night.
Under the next day the slums had to put the stolen items back AND steal them again. At first it looked like impossible task but thanks to Esa A:s clever sceam, he told Sami, Toni and Aso that they, the guys, got a secret task and they should get everyone together and then talk about something that would get someone to use the words bomb, dream and sex, the guys successfully got everyone outside and completed the "task". At the same time the slums put the stuff back. When they had to steal the items back Esa A told Sami, Toni and Aso that they had to use the same words again. The guys had a pageant and got someone to use the words if i remember correctly. Durring the pageant the slums stol the items back .
The slums got their right to vote, but when Esa A later told Sami, Aso and Toni that there was no secret tasks for the trio they were quite pissed off. hahah.
At the HH competition they housemates had to eat some bulls penis and a pig eye. Stephania won the competition.
Up for elemination was Sami, Aso, Toni (the guys took someone elses drinks at a party, thats forbidden), Marko and Sampo.
The third guy to be voted out was Marko.

There u go, three more weeks. :)

Under the links there is eather a video or some pics.

Enjoy
// iSA

Survivor Samoa - Erik Voted Off (10-2)

2009-11-08T21:11:00.000Z

During the episode of Survivor, Foa-Foa talks about their constant losing and constant hope of a merge. This is where Russell talks about being on a tribe full of dummies, saying he’s got everyone played. If Russell is so much smarter, than can’t he just use his wisdom to have helped his tribe win? I mean, Galu can’t be the dumb ones, they always kept winning, whereas Foa-Foa with just two wins, makes them the tribe with the lowest wins (reward or immunity) in the history of Survivor, given Ulong won three challenges, and Survivor Fiji’s Rich/Poor twist makes Ravu/Moto an exception. Anyways, at the Galu tribe, Shambo is talking about the missing canteen, and also talking about Laura, not liking her. Laura goes ahead and counts the canteens, in which I saw Laura just double checking. Shambo’s ego got dented, and she goes off on Laura, and they argue about the canteens, which turned into Shambo talking to Laura about Laura, Monica, and Kelly being some kind of 90210 clique.

Next, the Galu tribe members and the Foa-Foa tribe members were given tree mail, in which they met on a beach where once again, Jeff Probst was absent, so the Survivors opening the chest full of new blue buffs and paints. They officially merged into one tribe. Brett named the tribe Aiga, or Samoan for “extended family”. Hey, Aiga is fine with me, it’s better than getting “Dabu” or “Aitutanga”. They were to all live on the former Galu beach. This is where Russell goes around the camp, and “planting seeds” as he calls it, of complete bull crap telling people he’ll give them the idol if he can get him to final seven. He goes to Laura, but smart, wise, Laura with common sense doesn‘t buy Russell‘s bull crap. So, he goes to Monica, and she simply doesn‘t buy it either. He goes to Shambo, and Shambo once again talks about not liking Laura. So, Russell tells Shambo that he’ll take Laura out. She agrees. Russell goes to John, who also buys the plan. Russell says something unusual, saying that someone is smart, that being John.

Then, it was time for the immunity challenge. I was eagerly expecting some kind of will-power endurance immunity challenge. Instead we get T-Ball, which is a game they teach kindergarteners how to play. The one who hit the ball into a place to score points. The man and woman with the highest score would be the eventual winner. For the men, it was John who won, which was completely fabulous, since it meant Russell didn’t win, and had to settle for second. For the ladies, it was clearly Laura who won. Honestly, did she even have to worry about not winning that one? This meant that Russell’s and Shambo’s plan to take Laura out were foiled. Yay for me! So, back at camp, there had to be a new plan. John begins talking to people about voting for Monica, saying that Laura/Monica are still a dangerous duo. Then, the formerly Foa-Foa members want to take Erik out, especially Jaison, who says he never liked him. However, Erik and the Galu guys decide it should be Russell who should feel vulnerable enough to play his idol, and they vote for Jaison.

So, at tribal council, Erik was stating his peace about wanting to keep Galu together, and easily picking off the rest of Foa-Foa. Jaison easily got arrogant, saying he’s had to prove himself in real life in order to get something. Well, you haven’t proven yourself in Survivor, and your reality tv life, that’s simply why you’re on a tribe with four verses eight. Jaison begins to really tick me off by saying “Look at my resume!” I mean, what’s that got to do with Survivor? So, it was time to vote, and after the voting was complete, Russell played his idol, securing he’d be safe from the vote. Erik chose to not play his idol. When the votes came out, Foa-Foa’s former tribe mates had their way and the Galu 90210 clique of Laura, Monica, and Kelly sided with them, in which the Galu guys couldn’t do anything else after that. So, with ten votes, Erik was voted off. Only Shambo prevented the unanimous vote.

This episode was very crazy, I mean it went from Foa-Foa being a target, to Laura being a target, to Monica being the target, to Erik being the target and eventually booted. Foa-Foa is easily ripping up the Galu tribe, and doing a very good job of it, thanks to not Russell being so great, but for John being the idiot who thinks he can get Monica out. I really don’t want to see the Foa-Foanese tribe members rip through Galu, I favour Galu simple because I think they have more potential, because they have the numbers, and can easily stop listening and pick up the pieces and get especially Russell and Jaison out. Shambo is still making me very irritated because she’s so worried about Laura she can’t find her own place in the game, and she can’t even vote for Erik even though Erik was playing her, despite the Galu guys voted for Erik. Why is Shambo playing this game?

LLNMD List:
Love: Laura
Like: Monica, Kelly, Mick
Neutral: Brett, Dave, Natalie
Meh: John
Dislike: Jaison, Russell, Shambo.

TARUS15 - Sam/Dan in 1st & Maria/Tiffany Eliminated

2009-11-06T14:46:00.001Z

In this episode of TAR, the teams had to first make their way to the Martinitoren where in this roadblock, one team member had to count the bells of the tower and correctly say their answer to the piano player, who’ll hand them their next clue. Then, teams had to make their way to De Marne where in this detour, teams must ride bikes and either do Farmer’s dance and learn a dance routine or Farmer’s Golf. Then, they had to ride their bikes to the pit stop, De Marne Harbour.

Sam/Dan - They pretty much were running a solid leg of the race. With the help of another team in the roadblock, while also helping Tiffany later, it was them and Meghan/Cheyne who moved into the front of the pack. They excelled through the golf detour, which put them ahead of the pack and they came into first place, Male/Female Dutch clothes and all.

Meghan/Cheyne - They are once again running a solid race. The only thing was Meghan didn’t know how to play golf, which, put them behind Sam/Dan, as Cheyne claims he couldn’t do the dance detour either. They are simply good racers, but not doing much else to be more remembered. Meghan seems to freak out on detours, where Ericka freaks out on Roadblock (explained later) so Cheyne seems to be holding her up, or, at least that’s what it looks like.

Flight Time/Big Easy - They were the fifth to finish the roadblock, but I must say, did better than the suitcase roadblock. They caught up and passed the other two teams ahead (Maria/Tiffany, Gary/Matt) as they danced their way to the team number three position. They ran a better leg, and everything really says they are the team to beat, simply because they’re the athletes.

Gary/Matt - These guys ran a decent leg, but not as fast as the top three teams, and I believe they could’ve had top three, maybe top two, if they chose the golf detour first, and never considered the dance detour. I see some race potential for them. They might get to the final here, but since this has been a pretty predictable race, I really don’t know for sure.

Brian/Ericka - They really screwed up, and got very lucky that Maria/Tiffany screwed up more, which, I’m thankful. Ericka struggled to count the bells on the tower and freaked out, nearly psyching herself out. Then, once they arrived at the pit stop, they received a 30-minute penalty for not riding the bikes during the detour. They were spared, since maria/Tiffany didn’t show up yet. I’m really sorry they had a bad leg, and am glad they’re still in the race, and want them to continue on to become the winners.

Tiffany/Maria - Just like in the poker world, if you can’t win, you fold, and that’s what they did. They were given the answer by Dan/Sam, so they had no choice but to continue onto the detour. The detour, however, got them screwed badly. They couldn’t hit the high striker (from the dance detour) after trying over 100 times. They finally fell apart on the gold detour, and gave up the task. Phil came to the detour set to inform them they have been eliminated.

Up next week, we have the hardest and most infamous luck-and-keen-eye task where they’ll have to find a clue among hundreds of haystacks. We see that Sam/Dan & Meghan/Cheyne were most frustrated with this, so I will be assuming they will be having the most difficult time with the next roadblock. I remember in TAR6, the season with Freddy/Kendra (<3), one teams spent several hours on that detour. I wonder if that will happen, or if these teams throw us off and ironically finish early.

As for who I want to see in the final three, well, I’ll say Brian/Ericka, just because they are my favourites, so I obviously want them to win. I would also like to see Gary/Matt get there, because they are really a good example of what the Amazing Race is all about, strengthening relationships, and plus they are really easy to like. Third, I’m going to have to say Meghan/Cheyne, simple because they deserve to be there, since they’ve done so well so far. However, these five teams are all about even to getting to the final three, and I suppose anything could happen.

LLNMD List:
Love: Brian/Ericka, Gary/Matt
Like: Meghan/Cheyne, Sam/Dan
Neutral: Flight Time/Big Easy
Meh:
Dislike:

All of these are just so good at running solid legs, and all of the remaining teams have ran the race with at least half way solidly, It’s almost too hard to predict who will win, and who will be next. It’s strictly going to depend on what’s in store for the next upcoming legs.

Expeditie Robinson 2009 Netherlands/Belgium: Episode 10

2009-11-06T12:35:00.003Z

Blog Post by Arthur

Episode 10

At the previous tribal council, Kurt, Igor and Marjolein received the most votes. Kurt doesn't understand this at all and blames Dennis & Esmeralda. They are the cooks at the camp and he is sure those two do more than just cook. Marjolein understands why she got the most votes and doesn't really mind: if she has to go, she has to go. Before the elimination battle, Igor goes meditating to prepare his mind for the challenge. When the challenge begins (build a tower of cubes, the person who makes this tower collapse is eliminated), he is not nervous at all. Nevertheless, it's Igor who loses after Marjolein does a tactical move and places a cube in a manner which makes it very difficult to place a new cube on top of it. Igor is disappointed that he has to go. He says he won't miss the people, but will miss the island.

The candidates get a letter which states that on top of the hill on the island, there are six flags. The six people to grab a flag can take part in the immunity challenge. The seventh person has to stay behind with Marina on the island. Marjolein immediately runs away and is followed by the other people. It's Rita who is the slowest one because she is not wearing shoes and cannot run through the jungle. When Marjolein, Kurt, Marcel, Jeroen, Esmeralda and Dennis have grabbed their flags, Dennis and Esmeralda complain once again. This time about Marjolein, who is lazy around camp but suddenly had the strength to climb up the mountain.

For the immunity challenge, the six who grabbed a flag are divided in two teams: Kurt, Jeroen and Dennis on one team and Esmeralda, Marjolein and Marcel in the other team. The challenge consists of three parts: a strength part, a puzzle and an individual part, where the winning team compete for individual immunity. The three men easily beat the two woman and oldest man in the strength part, but the women and Marcel are much stronger in the puzzle and continue with the individual part. Here Marjolein takes an early lead, but it's Esmeralda who beats her and wins individual immunity.

It's not just immunity that Esmeralda wins: the hosts have got letters from home. Esmeralda gets her letter and can select two other people to get a letter. The letters of the people she doesn't choose will be burnt for everyone to see. Esmeralda picks her friend Dennis and Marina, because she cannot take part in the challenges. Marjolein, Kurt, Marcel and Jeroen have to watch how the letters, drawings and photo's their family, children and friends send them are burnt.

Back at camp, there are the usual tears because of the letters and complaints about the work Marjolein isn't doing. Right before the team goes to the tribal council, Esmeralda confronts Marjolein with the complaints. Marjolein bursts out in tears when she says she doesn't understand why she is strong in the challenges but weak around camp. She tells Esmeralda that she is really doing all she can, but her body isn't strong enough. This touches Esmeralda who feels sorry for Marjolein and decides not to vote for her at tribal council. That doesn't matter, as all other people vote for Marjolein and she gets the most votes. The second person with the most votes is Rita, the other weak person around camp. Right before the voting, Jeroen and Kurt told the hosts that they want to make the finals with the strongest people, so the weakest people get voted out. While the other candidates leave, Marjolein and Rita stay behind to take part in the elimination battle.

As for the full voting results, it probably went like this:
Dennis = Marjolein & Rita
Esmeralda = Kurt & Jeroen
Jeroen = Marjolein & Rita
Kurt = Marjolein & Rita
Marcel = Jeroen & Marjolein
Marina = Jeroen & Marjolein
Marjolein = Kurt & Rita
Rita = Kurt & Marjolein
Not too sure, as it seems unlikely that Dennis would vote for the two weakest girls as he voted for the strongest men before, but since he was attacked for voting for the stronger men, he might have changed his strategy. The votes for Kurt are most unclear because he is hardly in the show and we don't know for sure who likes/dislikes him.

Expeditie Robinson 2009 Netherlands/Belgium: Episode 9

2009-11-06T12:31:00.001Z

Blog Post by Arthur

Episode 9

At tribal council, Simone and Jeroen received the most votes. This means they will compete in a battle and the loser of the battle will leave the game. Since the battle will take place the day after tribal council, Jeroen and Simone get to spend a few more hours with their team. During these hours, Jeroen asks Dennis why he voted for him. Dennis says he thought there was an alliance between Jeroen and Simone, which Jeroen denies. He doesn't stay mad with the team, soon he is friends with everybody again. Simone is less happy: she warns everybody for Dennis & Esmeralda, according to her, they are the people they have to watch out for.

The next day, Simone and Jeroen battle in a challenge. For the challenge, they have to put cubes on top of each other until the tower of cubes collapses. The person who makes the tower collapse, has to leave the show. The unlucky one is Simone, so for the eleventh time in a row, a women leaves the game.

After Jeroen returns to camp, the candidates compete in an immunity challenge. This is a wrestling match: the men have to wrestle on a little platform and the women on another platform. The task it to push the members of the same sex of the platform and swim to a central platform, to grab the immunity necklace. The fastest person wins. The battle between the men is a short one, after all men push Igor of the platform, Jeroen manages to push the other men off. At the women platform, Rita is the first one to be pushed off. Esmeralda and Marjolein battle each other for a long time, but since Jeroen has already pushed all men off, he can swim to the immunity necklace and wins. Besides the immunity, he also wins a trip to the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lampur. He can take one women with him and chooses Rita.

In Kuala Lumpur, Rita and Jeroen have the time of their lives. They can eat and drink what they want, can wash themselves and see themselves in a mirror for the first time in a very long time. Rita is shocked when she sees herself, she has lost a lot of weight.

The other candidates, who stayed behind on the island, discuss the next voting. Igor and Marjolein know they will vote for each other in hopes of not being the one who gets the most votes. Dennis and Esmeralda also discuss the voting. Dennis complains that Marjolein doesn't do any work and wants to vote for her. In the meantime, Marcel and Kurt manage to catch a goanna. Earlier, Marcel caught a little shark, so the team has enough to eat.

After Jeroen and Rita returned from Kuala Lumpur (in new clothing), the team goes to tribal council. There, Marina complains about her place in the final. She cannot compete in the challenges and says the show is a little bit boring for her because there is no excitement for her. Kurt tells the other candidates that he does not want to make alliances and Marcel says he plans on winning the game by making friends with the other candidates. After this, the votes are cast. Marcel votes for Dennis because he thinks he is too friendly with the other candidates, Esmeralda votes for Kurt because she doesn't trust him, Marjolein votes for Igor because he is an outcast and Jeroen votes for Marjolein because she does the least work around camp.

When the votes are counted, it turns out that Marcel and Esmeralda have no votes, Dennis has one, Rita has three, Kurt and Marjolein have four and Igor has six. This means that Kurt, Marjolein and Igor will compete in a battle and the loser will have to leave the show.

BB 5 Finland: "the past" part 2

2009-11-04T23:03:00.004Z

Sooo... i should probably tell u some more about whats been happening in the house. yes.

where was we? week four i think.

Week 4: for this week the slums had to learn how to play American Football. the housemates had a very hard week with a lot of training. on wednesday they had to show what they had learnd and played against a small group of proffessional am.football players. in the end, the slums earned the right to vote.
as u all know big brother like to punishs people when the rules arent followed. so this time, becouse the slums had been playing a game, similar to chess, with paradise the slums had to give up all their mattresses and some of their food. no one was pleased about that.
later that week three of the slums (Sami, Minna and Aso) had to stay up all night, as a part of the punnishment.
for this weeks HH competition the housemates had a trivia that Sampo won. hurray for sampo. when u win the HH cometition u get the privledge of not beeing a part of the elemination and u get a lot of other fun stuff, for exemple, Sampo wanted to have a party, Sampo got a party
but, as HH u also have to choose who is living in the slums and who's staying in pardise.
This time he put Tuija, Justiina and Esa A in slums and Dana, Kätlin and Sami back to paradise. (esa was pleased but Tuija didnt like it at all, she complaned the hole time she was in the slums)
Up for elemination was Tuija, Lotta, Kätlin and Nino. On Sunday, both Lotta and Tuija left the house.
Later that evening two new housemates entered the house, Marko and Toni.

Week 5: week five started yet again for the slums with a task, they had to fill a tank with water, but, the tank had holes, so water was running out all the time. what complicated the task even more what that a mystic black dressed man came and drilled more holes in the tank all the time.
the next task is for me quite complicated to explain, i think pics tell u more, but anyway, as u know the slums dosent have much food, so now the could get more in this competition. ive found a video video too, its short but...
The HH competitions this week was to carry boxes trough a track. anyway, yet again, the winner was Sampo. this week he had to arrange paradise and slums so that there would be only four people in the slum, he couldnt choose him self, Toni or Marko (dont know why, maybe becouse they were new housemates). soo, he chose Kätlin, Esa A, Sami and Justiina.
for this weeks elemination was Kätlin and Ragnar. On sunday, Ragnar was the fist male to leave the house.

Week 6: Big brother started the week with a punnishment for breaking rules, Sampo had to put Esa J to the slum and take Esa A back to paradise (Esa A didnt like the idea at all, he enjoyed beeing in the slum, Esa J protested, he didint want to be in the slum.)
the slums had a recycling task. they had to take apart some electonic apparatuses. some of the time the slums had to recycle at night, wihich didint make anyone happy, but, u got to do what u got to do. at the end of the week, the slums got the right to vote.
That week Nino had to leave the house becouse he "harrased" Sampo sexualy. No one saw that comming becouse it had all been a joke (what nino did). Sampo took all very hard.
Up for elemination this week was Esa J, Sampo, Marko, Kätlin and Esa A. The sixth housemate who had to leave the house was Esa J

when i was writing this, i noticed that i havent told u guy about the housemates, like relationships and stuff, u know. so i was thinking of writing a post about it in the future. :)

// iSA

BB 5 Finland: Cathys arrival evening

2009-11-04T00:28:00.008Z

Hello u guys.

i'm so exited about the swap. Kätlin is in the Philippines and Cathy is here, in our cold Finland. haha. :) so... apparently Kätlin is settling in the PBB house just fine, what i've heard she already have some kind of a crush on Hermes or he have on her, i wasn't sure. but anyway, so exiting.

Cathy was welcomed to the finnish big brother house with open arms, some more exited than others. I think the biggest problem is the language wall. we finns aren't famous for our skills in English. Happily, some of the housemates can speak english quite well, like Esa A or Stephania.

On the evening of Cathys arrival the housemates had a welcoming party. Cathy tried the Sauna for the first time and I think she really loved it. As usual the housemates played spin the bottle in the jacuzzi and during the game Sampo and Aso kissed each other (for those who wonders, yes, both are males)as a part of the game. Cathy was slightly shocked by that because she had never seen two males kiss each other, thats not that unusual in the Finnish BB house just because there has been quite a few gay people. but anyway. haha. ;)
then of course Sami and Saranna had something going on under the quilt (u know what i mean ;) ) and because the finnsih bb house only have on huge bed, everyone who wanted could watch, including Cathy, soo. She got a great first impression of the finns.
gladly she later told in the confession room that she thinks we are great people just because we are so open minded and doesn't care what others think about us. haha. great!!

U can see the party pics here (yet again, the text is in finnish and if u have problems, tell me!! :D )

soo. like a mentioned before. im happy to answer any questions that have to do with the finnish bb.

// iSA

BB 5 Finland: the swap

2009-11-01T17:20:00.004Z

I just got to know that Kätlin has succesfully entered the philipenes Big Brother house. Becouse they have two BB houses in Philippines she had to choose. And she chose House A. the housemates welcomed her with open arms.
Later this eavning Cathy enters the Finnish House.

That just what i got for now. ;) hah

// iSA

BB 5 Finland : "the past" part 1

2009-10-31T23:12:00.008Z

Hello u guys.

Hopefully with my crappy skills in english i can write something understanable. haha.

the finnish big brother started this year the 25 of august. that day 14 housemates enterd the new big brother house. Terttu, Lotta, Kätlin, Dana, Tuija, Minna and Jelena was the six ladies that enters the house that night. Aso, Nino, Esa A, Esa J, Sami, Ragnar and Sampo represented the men. U can find all the housemates here.

Week 1: that week the housemates had a hole lot of parties. everyone got to know each other better, both Scandinavian Hunks and Dazzling Ladies (dance groups) visited the house. along the week there turned out to be some "couples", Kätlin and Sami hang out with each other a lot and Minna and Esa J had some action under the quilt. BB viewers voted Kätlin the most interesting person that week. Big Brother suprised everyone when he told that all the housemates would be up for eleminiation, but as it then turned out, that was just a joke.

Week 2: as it turned out the housemates Nino and Lotta and Aso and Jelena didnt get together that well (ok, can u say it like that ??? ) so there was some fighting now and then.
that week the housemates had a recycling task witch lasted a hole night. when the task ended Big Brother separated the housemates in to two, "the Slum" Lotta, Nino, Sampo, Tuija, Ragnar, Esa A and Terttu and "the Paradise" Minna, Kätlin, Sami, Aso, Esa J, Jelena and Dana. That ment that the slums would have to live in crappy circumstances, no warm wather, no proper food (just like rice, fish etc.), no beds and no indoor toilet. The slums would have to earn the right to vote and every week they have to do different tasks. The paradise people would continue to live like normal.
Every thursday the housemates have a Head Of The House (im going to call it HH, its simpler) competition, the person who would win the competition would be the HH. that ment that the person would automaticly live in the paradise and no one could vote for him/her that week. Dana won the first HH competition.
This week only the paradise people voted and Aso, Terttu and Esa A was up for elemination.
On sunday 6th of September Terttu was voted out and was the firts one to leave the house.

Week 3: The slums started the week with a task, they had to spread out some sand on the task area (and its pretty big). Here u can find some pics of the task (sorry, the text is in finnish but u can look at the pics. haha). Besides from the task i mentioned the slums had to wrestle in mud, and Esa A won the challenge. After som other random tasks the Slums earned the right to vote.
That week Aso won the HH competition. Big Brother told him to choose who would have to live in the slum and who in the paradise. He failed the task so as a punishment all the paradise people and the slums changed sides.
On thursday a new housemate, Justiina, entered the house.
For that weeks elemination was Kätlin, Jelena, Tuija and Ragnar. On Sunday, Jelena left the house.

:) there u go, the 3 first weeks. if u have questions, just ask !! I'm happy to answer.

// iSA. ;)

Survivor Samoa - Liz Voted Off (4-1)

2009-10-30T15:30:00.000Z

The Survivors on Galu had a task: elect a new chief. All of the guys, including Erik, Dave, John, and Brett all plan on allowing Shambo become chief, before the even begin electing. So, when it comes time to elect a leader, Shambo was elected, receiving the four guys’ votes. The other women, especially Laura and Kelly were really not happy with this decision. Galu’s chief election was just like U.S. politics, you satisfy 60%, and disappoint 40%. Then, on Foa-Foa, Mick, Jaison, Russell, Natalie, and Liz were all pretty much fed up with their constant losing of the challenges, and wanted no more than to just win.

At the reward challenge, it was a matching and memory game: They could either take the necessary item and forfeit their point, or just take the point, and forfeit the item(s). During the challenge, Galu was in compete dominance once again, as they took seven points, one special item, and won reward. Their reward was a meal on a sailboat. Shambo, as leader, sent Laura to the Foa-Foa camp. Laura claimed it was just a personal attack.

At Foa-Foa, Russell and Laura are talking about church, ministry, and stuff like that at first. Russell tells her that his father was a preacher. I really hope that is true, because lying about being religious is just plain too far, too much. Then, Laura is told by Russell about a secret alliance he wants to make with her. Laura automatically agreed with. Then, Russell tells us his currently plan: Take Laura and Natalie to the final two, whom he thinks are the “dumb girls”. Let’s just reminisce this, that plan didn’t work for Rob, I doubt it’d work for Russell.

In the immunity challenge, I’ll just say it was a bit more creative, in a way. Instead of swimming to get puzzle pieces, they used hooks to fish them out. During this challenge, Foa-Foa had a lead, then Galu took it over, as Jaison was nearly giving up in the challenge, and Galu won immunity again, proving to Mick that some necklace isn’t bad luck. Jaison really was clearly not in this, and maybe Foa-Foa could’ve won if Jaison was in this. Simply, if you can go to college, you can do a puzzle.

Back at Foa-Foa, Russell, Mick, and Natalie seemed to have a strong upper hand, and it was either going to be Liz, the bottom, untrustworthy person, or Jaison, the guy who gave up in the challenge. At Tribal Council, they all once again mentioned a few words abut being so very tight. It was Liz with four votes who got voted off. Next week, the survivors will merge, but I still expect some kind of twist. This would be Survivor’s first ever merge with more than ten players.

I really like Russell attempting to work on the other tribe. He’s really going to have to work on getting the Galuanese tribe members to turn on each other. I am about 50-50 on the chance of Shambo jumping sides to make alliances with the Foa-Foanese survivors, whom she has said was her friends. If she does this, she’d probably want something dumb like taking Laura out to happen. However, why go with just Shambo, when Russell and Foa-Foa can easily convince Laura to jump sides, and that would allow Kelly and Monica to jump sides with her. That’s about certain to happen, if you ask me.

I am actually looking forward to and would be satisfied with a Russell/Laura/Natalie final three, simply because is Russell is doing all the backstabbing, it could give Laura a few “friend’s votes, but considering she turns on her tribe, I’d expect the Galuanese guys and/or Shambo to perhaps vote for Natalie to win. That’s just if Russell got his way, I think Laura would try to bring her, Monica, and Kelly along as far as possible, as it seems.

A few words about the Survivors:
Shambo: Umm, please vote her out, Galu!?!?!?
Erik: I don’t know if it’s just me, or did he not want to be the leader, as hopes of not being a threat?
Brett: Well, at least he can lead a tribe to victory, so he can’t be as dumb as the edit makes him look
John/Kelly/Monica: Absolutely no opinion, whatsoever, as of now with these guys
Dave: Not much to say about him, either, he seems as he’s just trying to be second in command of the Galu Guys alliance.
Mick: As good of a leader as he is being Russell’s sidekick, I think I’m just a bit disappointed with him now.
Jaison: A major disappointment, he supposed to be smart, but he gave up in a challenge and I’m glad he’s not in control, because he’d probably play personal, if he was in any powerful position.
Natalie: Like Brett, She’s probably got more sense than what the edit- and what Russell says.
Russell: Good thinking wanting the “dumbest” final three partners. . . . .NOT! It’s going to get us a so-called “dumb winner”. People are bitter, you don’t just take someone to the final two because they maybe perhaps look dumb, you have to take the one nobody would like to the end. That’s how people like Dreamz and Sugar get to the end.
Laura, I just see her as just another person nobody would vote for in the final three, is she were to turn on her tribe mates, which I see that happening because she wants Shambo out fast, therefore, at least she’s just another favourite I rooted for to go to the final three (she’d be, like, the eleventh favourite I’d see in the final three).

LLNMD List:
Love: Laura
Like: Mick, Natalie
Neutral: Brett, Monica, Kelly, John, Dave, Erik
Meh: Russell, Jaison
Dislike: Shambo.

1-5 Power Rankings:
5:
4:
3: Russell, Natalie
2: Laura, Erik, Mick. Dave
1: Jaison, Brett, Monica, Kelly, Shambo, John.

TARUS15 - Meghan/Cheyne first & Mika/Canaan eliminated

2009-10-30T13:35:00.002Z

Tasks: While still in Dubai, In the roadblock the teams had one member row a tiny inflatable boat to a yacht where they’ll be given a watch with a combo to open a briefcase they were to choose at the start of the leg on the pit stop. Then, the teams competed in their next detour: put together hookahs or equal out some gold. Then, the racers had to go to Atlantis Aquaventure Park, where they had to have both team members slide down a tunnel beneath a shark lagoon.

Meghan/Cheyne - They, once again, got first place, which shouldn’t be a hard thing to do since you took a fast forward and didn’t get bunched up because you didn’t leave Dubai. They really seemed to have some freak out moments, and talk about how stressful it was at the detour. I guess it’d be even more stressful if you weren’t in the lead, and in last. They still continue to race very good, and raced a solid race, just without the freak outs.

Maria/Tiffany - Basically, they chose the gold detour, but not because it was the right detour for them, it was all because they happened to be doing the detour with Sam/Dan, their “allies”. They were racing in the near middle of the pack, that is until a calculator saved them in the detour. They got to the water park before Sam/Dan, and that got them to team number two. At least they can get to the front of the pack now, let’s just see them do that without Sam/Dan helping them a little bit.

Sam/Dan - They were pretty much the same case as Maria/Tiffany, they were in the middle of the pack, and jumped right up since they had a calculator with them for the detour. I never would’ve honestly guessed that someone would actually have a calculator with them on The Amazing Race. They had no problem with the race either; it just was never bunched up at all.

Brian/Ericka - They had the right idea, choosing the right detour, the gold detour, but they didn’t have a calculator with them, and since the gold changed every minute, Brian couldn’t figure out the math within one minute, and he and Ericka ended up switching detours. After some frustration with the hookahs, they ended up figuring out what they weren’t doing right, and moved along to the water park. They came to the pit stop in team number four.

Gary/Matt - They too ran a solid race, with few mistakes, and since they were up against teams with a head start or advantage, they easily got fifth place. I’m actually glad they can get along, despite not being a huge part of teach other’s lives, and Matt being so different. I still wish them the best of luck in the race, as long as they continue to race well.

Flight Time/Big Easy - They were the team that just kept falling behind and two “strategies” saved them: But first, they couldn’t figure out the combo, despite it was clearly straight up given to them on a watch. I guess they can’t tell time, and I’m not sure if they really “did well for the hood”. What saved them was the option to change detours and quickly solve the math, and then got an extremely lucky break when Mika couldn’t go down the water slide. They got to be a very lucky team number six.

Mika/Canaan - They were once again, second-to-last the entire leg of the race. They had the Globetrotters, who were really far behind them. What really screwed them-or Canaan- over was Mika’s fear to slide down the water slide, as she was either afraid of heights or afraid of water, but clearly not afraid of losing the race. Canaan got really frustrated with her, and he may perhaps have not done what Jesus would’ve done, he decided to attempt to push her down the slide. The Globetrotters arrive, and convince Mika not to slide down the tube. Mika/Canaan were last, and eliminated.

This race is actually pretty good, all of those six teams have a potential to win. I’m not too sure about Maria/Tiffany, they really seemed hopeless, or just plain luckless until this leg, in which if there was some bunch up, they could’ve actually received first. Dubai was amazing, it made me want to go there.

LLNMD List:

Love: Brian/Ericka,
Like: Canaan/Mika, Gary/Matt,
Neutral: Meghan/Cheyne, Maria/Tiffany, Sam/Dan,
Meh: Flight Time/Big Easy
Dislike:

1-5 Power Rankings:
5:
4: Meghan/Cheyne, Brian/Ericka
3: Flight Time/Big Easy, Sam/Dan, Gary/Matt
2: Maria/Tiffany
1:

Greetings from Finland

2009-10-30T12:09:00.004Z

Hello everyone.

Finland's 5th Big Brother season is on. Day 67 to be exact.

The most exiting thing that is happening in the house is that Kätlin has left the house and no one knows where she is. Currently the housemates are guessing Brazil, Spain, Island and China, but we know for sure that she is on her way to the Philippines. I don't know when she are entering the Philippines Big Brother House, but its going to be soon. More on the later.

The eliminations are on and on Sunday one housemate is leaving the House. Up for this weeks eliminations is four people, Antti, Iida, Stephania and Toni.
At the moment, we don't know who's leaving but today, on Big Brother extra they are going to show us the one currently leaving.

So, there u got something. I'm going to write more later of course and tell u guys more on what's happening in the Finnish Big Brother.

// Isa

Survivor Samoa - Russell S. evacuated

2009-10-27T19:01:00.000Z

The Samoan nature continues to rain, and everyone is tired of their 80 hours of rain. Russell S. is seen working, while the other Galu tribe members were huddles together, shivering. At Foa-Foa, it was the same case, almost, as Russell H. was working, while not even minding the horrible rain, and the others remain huddled together, freezing. Finally, the rain stopped, and the Galu tribe members are amazed they wake up to see a rainbow. Spirits could be up, and they were given their next challenge.

During the challenge, the Survivors had to strap someone is a ball, and have two people blindfolded carry the ball person to a table maze, with the ball person guiding the blindfolded them through everything , even the table maze. This is where Foa-Foa was to take the lead, and this is where Russell S. passed out, due to dehydration. Jeff Probst stopped the challenge to have the medical team check Russell S. out. Russell S was in a bad condition, and Jeff Probst says to the other survivors the challenge is cancelled, which this is the first time a challenge is discontinued inn the middle of it. Nobody won reward, and everyone else had to go back to camp. As planned, however, both tribes were to report to tribal council where two people, one from each tribe, were to be voted off.

Russell S., most likely unaware of what just happened and wanting to say, even though in slurring, he’s still able to stay in the game. Jeff Probst tells him he blacked out twice and was in no condition to be on Survivor. Jeff Probst commented it’s the scariest thing he’s ever seen in Survivor. Russell S. was removed from the game, and crying, Russell S. was very disappointed. Back at Foa-Foa, the survivors prepare to boot one of their own. Liz and Natalie are almost sure they have no chance of splitting up the guys and voting one of them off, so they agree to vote for each other. Russell H., however, is there telling Natalie that Liz is to be voted off.

Back at Galu, the guys Erik, Dave, John, and Brett all band together and agree to vote for Monica, and they agreed to tell Shambo their plan, but not include Shambo in their alliance. Meanwhile, Monica tells Laura she wants to se Shambo, especially since Shambo got her last time. Then, the survivors reported to tribal council together (OK, you know something’s up) and Jeff talks to both tribal in the same old tribal council talk-show type routine seen every tribal council. Jeff Probst then is to tell the survivors the double boot has been canceled. The pizza was rewarded to them, but I know this through source, they really didn’t air that part.

Yes, it was sad to see Russell, a tribe leader with no signs of losing and almost had final five written all over him, leave the game like this, but you’re not really suffering if you take care of yourself, have the right amount of water, food, etc. He should’ve taken better care of himself, Survivor may not be Paradise Hotel, but it’s not a impossibly too rigorous and dangerous either. I think the idea of not going on with the double boot pretty much confirms that there will be a later double boot and five people will make it to finale night.

I’m almost frustrated seeing Liz and Natalie “accept” the fact they “must” or whatever vote for themselves when this is Survivor, you “have” the right to do things to avoid getting your torch snuffed. The way things are going, I don’t see Liz trying to keep herself around, because we didn’t see it this time. Also, I’m not liking the all-guys alliance, and adding Shambo in it while not being certain yourself is not too bright of a move either. I think John and Bret are not really caring about this all guy alliance, they really didn’t seem like they cared or wanted to really be with that plan. Erik is pretty much arrogant, and really cocky towards the other team, so I see him being not much but Foa-Foa’s top contender on their hit-list, if Foa-Foa remains as strong as they say they are and win these next few challenges.

Most of them are real hard to like, whether their invisible, or just not likable.

LLNMD list:
Love: Laura, Mick
Like:
Neutral: Brett, Kelly, Monica, Dave, John, Russell S.
Meh: Natalie, Liz, Jaison, Erik, Russell H., Shambo.
Dislike:

1-5 Power Rankings:
5:
4: Mick, Erik, Russell H.
3:
2: Laura, Dave, Jaison,
1: Shambo, Brett, Kelly, John, Natalie, Liz, Monica

Expeditie Robinson 2009 Netherlands/Belgium: Episode 8

2009-10-24T15:20:00.001+01:00

Blog Post by Arthur

Episode 8

The show starts where it ended last week: team Noord and team Zuid come together for what they think is the merge. However, only ten of them will make it to the merge and three will be eliminated. Who this will be is decided by a fire-making challenge. The only person who won't take part is Marina: she is already a finalist and cannot take part in any of the challenges. She is sent to the beach where she can prepare a feast for the ten winners. The other twelve start the challenge. The challenge is to make a fire tall enough to burn through a rope. Once the rope is burned, the candidates have to grab their bag and run through a jungle. The first eight people to put their bag in the chest the men carried through the jungle a few episodes ago will go to the merge.

The first person to make fire is Marjolein, followed by Jeroen and Jill. Of the three, Marjolein is the only one to make her fire tall enough to burn through the rope. She grabs her bag and runs. The fires of Jeroen and Jill stop burning, whil Kurt, Marcel and Igor all make fire and burn through the rope. They also grab their bags and run to the jungle, where Marjolein is the first one to put her bag in the chest. She can continue walking to the beach, where Marina has started a barbecue. She is followed by the three men, Kurt, Marcel and Igor. Later, Dennis, Rita and Simone also arrive at the beach. Seven people have finished the challenge, only one more will qualify. Jeroen is the first one to make fire and runs to the jungle, but is closely followed by Yolanda. Jeroen wins the sprint and is the eigth one to place his bag in the chest.

The four losers are Yolanda, Jill, Eva and Esmeralda. The four will battle in a final challenge to determine who gets the last place in the merge. For the challenge, they have to build a tower of blocks. The one who builds the tallest tower in two minutes wins. Yolanda takes an early lead and is followed by Eva. Both towers collapse after one minute. Esmeralda is then in the lead and because her tower does not collapse, she wins the challenge and is the last person to qualify for the merge. The three losers are Yolanda, Jill and Eva, who have to leave the show.

The ten people who made it to the merge, Dennis, Esmeralda, Igor, Jeroen, Kurt, Marcel, Marina, Marjolein, Rita and Simone, take part in a huge feast. During the feast, Marcel drinks too much and is awake the whole night, talking gibberish. The following day, the other candidates start working while Marcel is still sleeping. He has an headache and wants to take a 'day off' to recover. While working, Igor takes off with a coconut again. Dennis sees him drinking the coconut and later accuses him of stealing. The whole team gets involved in the argument, which ends with Kurt making fun of Igor, which upsets Igor who calls him a stupid clown.

The immunity challenge is one where they have to eat horrible food. The candidates battle in three heats and the three winners of the heats qualify for the final. The first heat is between Dennis, Esmeralda and Igor. Igor wins this easily and beats the two people who he continuously argues with. The second heat is between Jeroen, Marcel and Marjolein and is - to the surprise of many - won by Marjolein. The third heat is between Simone, Kurt and Rita and is won by Simone. The three winners battle eachother in the final. This turns into a big battle between Simone and Igor, one that is won by Igor. He wins immunity and cannot be voted out. The other candidates are not happy with this, they all wanted to vote him out.

Back at the camp, people talk a lot about who they want to voted out. The two names that are mentioned the most are Marjolein, who works the least, and Simone, who curses too much. When the ten candidates arrive at the tribal council, there is a twist however. Rather than casting one vote, the candidates will cast two votes and the two people who receive the most votes will battle eachother in a challenge. The winner will remain in the game, while the loser has to go. The candidates cast their votes and when these are counted, it's Simone who has the most votes. To the surprise of many viewers, Jeroen has the second most votes. He got these votes because he was the closest friend of Simone. This means that Simone and Jeroen will battle eachother in a challenge. The loser goes home. Who wins will be shown in the next episode.

TARUS15 - Meghan/Cheyne take FF & Lance/Keri eliminated.

2009-10-21T14:08:00.000+01:00

Teams had to scale the tallest building in the world in Dubai, UAE. In this leg, teams had to go very hot, and have one person do the roadblock by searching for water in a desert and in the detour things got cold as they went to an indoor ski resort to literally either find a tiny snowman in a large snow pile or build a snowman. Madinat Jumeriah was the pit stop.

1st: Meghan/Cheyne - Meghan/Cheyne took the fast forward which was to have someone drive an extremely fast car one leg under 45 seconds to win it. Cheyne drove the car in about 40 seconds, and him and Meghan won the Fast Forward, taking first place. I’m not exactly sure what to say about their performance, considering they were the only team vying for the FF, and had it pretty easy. I think they could’ve done without it, but considering this race has only one Fast forward, why not go for it.

2nd: Brian/Ericka - Brian/Ericka remained at the top of the pack, and I believe Brian finished the roadblock first, gaining second, and easily found their tiny snowman in the snow bank. They seemed to have had a lot of fun this leg, they’re enjoying the race, and are getting along easily. They are still my favourites and I still believe we’ll see them in the final three. Maybe after the show, they’ll get to host some interracial dating show.

3rd: Flight Time/Big Easy - They are still very good competitors, but seriously, how can they not be? They’re the most athletic team of all of them, and I am just sure they’ll need to get to the first U-Turn first, otherwise they’ll actually have to fight to stay in the race. Like I fast forward, I only expect to see one U-Turn, considering it’s what, leg five.

4th: Gary/Matt - They were running the race in the sort-of middle of the pack. Their golden element was to be the ones who built a snowman, rather than spending a whole lot of time on the find a snowman detour. They are still good racers, better than Mika/Canaan or Maria/Tiffany and could get to the final three at this rate.

5th: Sam/Dan - I don’t remember them much, and as of now, we’ve lost their connection to Maria/Tiffany we had in the first two legs. They are mainly concentrating on trying not to fight, and one of them, Is it Dan? Is seen whining and the other one is telling him to shut up a lot.

6th: Maria/Tiffany - I don’t think they are very good, as they’ve never received higher than fourth place, same for Mika/Canaan. They’re fighting to see if they can get to leg eight, if there’s another NEL, which I don’t expect one until final five.

7th: Mika/Canaan - Ugh, the disappointing team where a guy, who could race well if he raced with someone else, has an extremely ditzy partner. They’ll be very lucky to ever see final five, or like Maria/Tiffany, top five. I’d really like them, but whatever, they‘ve got no final three potential whatsoever.

8th: Lance/Keri - They were eliminated because they sucked at driving themselves from one place to another. They could’ve improved on communication skills, but I really don’t know. They’re off to elimination station.

Survivor Samoa - Ashley Voted off (5-1)

2009-10-19T16:46:00.000+01:00

This episode gave us something we rarely see, which is the survivors talking a whole lot about the environment they live in. The rain probably became the serious plot of the show, in which It was mentioned more than Russell. The Survivors deal with two days of rain, straight. Also, the episode started with Shambo the only one who voted for Monica, and possibly-most likely isolated herself further from the tribe.

In the Reward challenge, the Survivors had to play a roulette game where two sea worthy delicacies were combined in a smoothie. The challenge remained neck and neck, with four points to each team, in which they needed to score five points first in order to win. It was Ashley who couldn’t down her smoothie, and she lost the game for her tribe, Foa-Foa. Galu won, earning barbecue food. Russell S. sent Shambo to Foa-Foa, in which Shambo didn’t like, since she’d be missing out on another reward. Russell S clearly states in his confessional-and to the other tribe mates-” somebody had to pay for that chicken that was lost”.

Back at camp, Russell S. had a problem getting fire going in which Dave got irritated with. Dave ends up starting a fire, and seems to have mixed feelings about being the only guy who can start a fire. I’m sure it can’t be hard to rub metal against a stick, or whatever. I think it takes patience and performance to build a fire, not luck or 100% skill. The rain continued to pour down, and the survivors talk about how horrible it is in Samoa. They’re cold, shivery, and just miserable. At Foa-Foa, Shambo shares the HII clues with Foa-Foa, and spends so much time digging in the tree, not finding anything. Liz suspects that Russell H. has the idol, and Russell near-threatens Liz, saying “You’re walking on Thin Ice”.

At the Immunity challenge, the survivors had to have two people pull weight of a net and have four people shoot coconuts in the net. The Survivors who were the weight were Laura and Russell S. (Galu) & Liz and Russell H. (Foa-Foa). During this challenge, Ashley once again performed below the standards of the other competitors, and it was Russell H. and Liz who fell short, and Galu won immunity again. At Foa-Foa on Day 14, the Survivors remained in the shelter, freezing, and not scrambling to see who’s the next target. Judging from people’s out-loud thoughts, it was Ashley who seemed to be the weakest, and Liz who seemed to be the most untrustworthy that people were talking about. At Tribal Council, Liz received one vote, and Ashley received five votes, and she was voted off.

I’m going to officially say this: I don’t think Russell H. is playing the game hardcore and supernaturally epic like he thinks he is. If someone goes against you, just like how Marisa and Betsy did with Russell H., and are a strategic threat, it’s freaking common sense to get them voted off. Marisa was probably the move he did best and the move he could call his own. Betsy was easily voted off because she didn’t vote with the tribe. Had Betsy voted with the tribe, she could’ve been there on Day 14. It wasn’t him who gets Credit for Ben’s boot, and I think if he was capable of strategizing more this episode, he would’ve gone after Liz over Ashley, because if Russell so says he isn’t caring that’s in raining a whole lot, he would’ve figured out a way to get Liz out. Russell is getting the “cocky, arrogant, ego-tripping” edit, not the “strategic, mastermind, supernatural” edit people thinks he’s getting.

Anyone can say “I’m going to be Survivor’s biggest villain, look at me, I got so-and-so out, I’m so going down as the best villain in the history of Survivor-and the history of Reality TV-and the history of the world of Reality TV”. The only thing that’s got him to the point we are at now is that he’s just showing a split personality: He’s Russell H, a guy who “survived Hurricane Katrina”, and is “voting with the tribe”, and in front of the cameras, he’s an arrogant, big ego’d, personality who’s delusional and thinks he’s the best player ever. That’s what he’s good at so far.

Opinionated Words of each Survivor left in the episode:
Laura (Could be the strongest female in the game both physically and probably sociably.)
Mick (I like him, he’s the best male competitor, but I don’t want to see him listen to Russell all the time)
Russell H. (see, above)
Natalie (Sweet, girl next door, who would have to rely on the most bitter jury ever in order to win.)
Jaison (He won’t wow me, he’ll be just be easily played by Russell and be blindsided.)
Russell S. (Okay, I guess, and I’ll say his decision to send Shambo to Foa-Foa was okay, I guess)
Dave (An obvious MVP player, at least when it comes to Surviving Samoa.)
Brett (Still way too invisible for an official, educated opinion.)
Monica (Well, certainly after Shambo, and I think she might be playing the social card that’s going to keep her here)
Kelly (Like Brett, really invisible, and I don’t know where she exactly stands)
Erik (I see him as a blindside victim, but I really don’t know.
John (Surprisingly, I don’t remember him much, what is he doing?)
Liz (I like her, and want to see her succeed in a case of her verses Russell and the idol)
Shambo (Ugh, she’s too strategically and socially hopeless. She’ll be cut before she gets to do anything.)
Ashley (She blew it. Being horrible in challenges is almost the easiest way to be ditched.)

LLNMD List:
Love: Laura, Mick
Like: Monica, Brett, Kelly, Natalie, Liz,
Neutral: Jaison, John, Russell S., Ashley, Dave, Erik,
Meh:
Dislike: Shambo, Russell H.

NOTE: Is it just me, or does Laura, Brett, Monica, and Kelly always hang out with each other? Could this be a potential alliance? I mean, it’s clearly something can go on, just by knowing this when Shambo talks about “The 90210 Clique”. I am probably alone on this, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Laura wrangled up Brett, Kelly, and Monica and they walked all over the merge tribe. Just something to think about. If either John, Dave, or Erik on their side, and I would most likely see John doing this, this could be the potential game here. And, this about this: Why else would Laura, Brett, and Kelly want to keep Monica last week, and not Yasmin? I think it was literally these guys who got Yasmin out, since Erik and Dave wanted Shambo out more, and Russell S. wanted Monica out next.

1-5 Power Rankings:
5:
4: Mick, Russell H., Laura.
3: Natalie, Brett, Monica, Kelly.
2: Jaison, Liz, John, Dave, Erik, Russell S.
1: Shambo

Expeditie Robinson 2009 Netherlands/Belgium: Episode 7

2009-10-19T09:51:00.001+01:00

Blog Post by Arthur

Episode 7

In team South, there are three women with mental and physical problems. Eva and Sabine are very homesick and doubt whether they can continue. Rita has physical problems: she hasn't been to the toilet in eleven days and feels like she is about to explode. Nevertheless, she wants to continue and tries to work with the other candidates. Jill also shows her face for the second time in seven episodes, when Kurt compliments her for the work she has been doing.

In team North, the atmosphere is still horrible. Because Igor spends a lot of time on his own, Marjolein tries to talk to him. During this talk, Igor explains that he decided to take part in the show to see whether he can act in a group. As a kid, he was picked on because he was very small, and when he became older, he grew a lot and became a bully himself. He was never part of any group during his youth nor during his adult years.

For the immunity challenge, one person of every tribe has to stand in a small chest, while the other candidates transfer icecubes over the beach and have to throw them in the chest as well. When the person in the chest is completely covered with icecubes, the team wins. In team North it's Igor who goes in the chest and in team South, it's Rita. Both to prove that they can be of use for their team during a challenge. At the beginning of the challenge, it's a close race but eventually team North takes the lead and keeps it. They win immunity and team South has to vote someone out.

Team North celebrates their victory with a feast. During the feast Igor seems to be accepted as part of the team. He tries to act a bit more social, which seems to pay off. Except for Marcel, who says that he doesn't think Igor is worthy of still being in the show. According to him, the most worthy people are Esmeralda, Marina, Dennis and Marjolein, while Igor and Yolanda can leave the tribe.

In team South, Rita has a horrible night because of her gut-problems. The following morning she feels awful, until Jeroen offers her a cup of tea. Because of the tea (I have no idea how to describe this tastefully), she can finally take a poo again and does so immediately: in middle of the camp. She couldn't stop it and shat over all the camp. Even though she made a lot of mess, she feels a lot better after this and thinks she is strong enough to continue with the show. Eva and Sabine don't think they are, both spend their time sleeping on the beach because they want to go home. Sabine is still very annoyed by this and tells the women that she would rather vote both of them out.

At a quick tribal council, it is Sabine who receives all the votes (while she votes for Rita) and has to leave, much to her delight.

The following morning, both teams receive a letter telling them to pack all their stuff. Both tribes realize that the merge is coming. In team North everybody is happy with this news, except for Marcel, who didn't want Igor to make the merge. Team South is very happy to leave the island, there was no food left in their camp and most of them haven't eaten in a very long time.

Both teams arrive at the new island and are greeted by the hosts. They say that there is a twist, even though this is the island where the merge will take place, not all candidates will make it to the merge. There is a challenge first and the three people who finish last in this challenge will have to leave. Marina is the only one who doesn't have to take part, as she won the very first challenge and is qualified for the final already. She can move on to the beach and start a barbecue, while the other twelve candidates battle for the remaining nine spots in the merge.

Who makes it, will be shown in the next episode.

Expeditie Robinson 2009 Netherlands/Belgium: Episode 6

2009-10-19T09:49:00.002+01:00

Blog Post by Arthur

Episode 6

Both teams got the assignment to choose their three strongest candidates. In team South, Rita says everybody needs to name the three people they think are the strongest. Jeroen, Kurt and Simone are mentioned the most often.

In team North, Esmeralda and Igor both say they are the strongest. The majority agrees with Esmeralda, but disagrees with Igor and Marcel and Dennis are chosen in his place.

For the immunity challenge, both teams have to throw eggs up a ladder. The person on top of the ladder has to take the egg and go down a slide with the egg, in order to place it in an egg holder. The team who transfers ten eggs without breaking one wins the immunity. Team North takes an early lead, but it is team South who closes the gap quickly and eventually wins. As special price, the three people who were selected to be the strongest can go to a resort, where they can wash themselves and send an e-mail home. Eva and Rita are upset that only the strongest people can go because they are in big need of some contact with home.

Team North has to vote. Igor, who is the outsider of the group, shows his strength by collecting a lot of food. Marcel is not happy with the job Igor is doing, because he thinks Igor is wasting strength and he doesn't like the food Igor brings with him.

When the three strongest people of South arrive back at camp, they are welcomed with open arms. This doesn't last long, when Eva gets emotional again. This annoys Simone, who says that someone who gets this emotional should not take part in this show. Sabine disagrees and the two women have an argument. This ends when Kurt catches a stingray and the team has enough to eat for another day.

In team North, Igor gets in more trouble when Yolanda accuses him of drinking too much juice from the coconuts. The team goes to tribal council, where Igor doesn't get any votes. Esther is voted out unanimously because she asked, she wanted to leave for quite a few days now. After the tribal council, Esmeralda, Marcel and Dennis from team North want to make an expedition across the island, but return in an hour. It turns out that they found a lot of empty coco-nutshells. They think that Igor, who goes away to the jungle every day, has eaten a lot of coconuts when he was in the jungle rather than sharing this with the team. When they arrive back at camp, it turns out Igor has also eaten all the coconut the team was cooking. This leads to an explosive fight between Igor and Dennis & Esmeralda, where Igor accuses Dennis of talking behind his back rather than to his face and Igor gets angry at Esmeralda when she tells him that he should not curse. Marina and Yolanda have to butt in and end the fight before it gets out of hand. After the fight, Dennis and Marcel agree that Igor finally showed his true colours and they cannot wait to vote him out.

My personal opinion on the fight is that everybody was in the wrong: Dennis for being a drama queen and talking behind Igor's back so Igor never had a chance to say what he thought, Esmeralda, for not explaining why Igor was accused of stealing wood, and Igor, for his explosive replies. All in all, it didn't do good for Igor's position in the game.

TARUS15 - Sam/Dan first & Zev/Justin Eliminated

2009-10-13T16:12:00.001+01:00

Leg Four tasks: Teams had to make their way to the Foreign Correspondent’s Club where they must ask for their next assignment. Then, teams where given a picture of Jackie Kennedy and had to find the Kennedy suite. In the detour, teams had to either cover or wrap, by selling motorcycle helmets or finding a matching colored scarf. In the roadblock, teams had to act like monkeys and perform stunts humans do as monkeys. The pit stop was Wat Phnom.

1ST - Sam/Dan - They managed to stay in the front of the pack throughout most the race, and I believe they were only behind Zev/Justin. They were the second team to arrive to the pit stop, behind Zev/Justin, and were very close to Herb/Nate, but Zev/Justin revealed they lost a passport, and had to leave the pit stop to find it.

2ND - Flight/Time/Big Easy - Again, they ran another solid race, and easily caught up to Sam/Dan. I really feel they are decent racers indeed, and will make this race really competitive.

3RD - Brian/Ericka - This team really knows how to climb to a top position, and I really think they have potential to race, despite their first episode performance. I’m waiting for them to get first place, and make an easy run to the finish line.

4TH - Gary/Matt - They are still good racers, and I’m glad they are not a bickering team, and really get along despite being completely different. Lance/Keri can really learn from them.

5TH - Meghan/Cheyne - They kind of remind me of TAR6 Kris/Jon, but way more likable, but on a more competitive race. I see they are getting along and that’s a plus, and they are good racers, so far.

6TH - Lance/Keri - They are always almost in the bottom of the pack, along with Mika/Canaan. This is our conflicting arguing team of the season that hardly anyone likes. I am actually meh on them because they aren’t good at good grip on the race and they are always fighting.

7TH - Mika/Canaan - You can only fall in the back of the pack so many times before you’re hopeless. I really wish this team was a lot better. They are almost like the older teams or perhaps, Dani/Danielle or Marisa/Brooke.

8TH - Maria/Tiffany - This was the second time arriving last to the pit stop and got spared, after getting spared on a NEL and then on a team penalized. I don’t expect much from them, which is a disappointment.

9TH - Zev/Justin - They arrived in first, and pretty much had first the entire leg, however, Zev lost his passport. They couldn’t find it at all (it was reported that the passport was left on the monkey roadblock) and were eliminated from the race.

This was a disappointing leg simply because all it was we saw was scarf matching, helmet selling, hat searching, suite searching, and a monkey task a kid could do. This was way under what I’d expect from so much competitive teams casted. I’m starting to think this race will be very predictable, and I’d be shocked if this race didn’t end up with the Globetrotters, Team Zebra, Dan/Sam, and Meghan/Cheyne as the final four teams, I which I’d know to expect a u-turn to change that, but whatever.

LLNMD list:
LOVE: Brian/Ericka
Like: Flight Time/Big Easy, Meghan/Cheyne, Gary/Matt, Mika/Canaan, Zev/Justin,
Neutral: Maria/Tiffany, Sam/Dan,
Meh: Lance/Keri
Dislike:

1-5 Power Rankings:
5: Flight Time/Big Easy
4: Sam/Dan
3: Meghan/Cheyne, Brian/Ericka
2: Gary/Matt
1: Mika/Canaan, Maria/Tiffany, Lance/Keri

Survivor: Samoa - Yasmin voted off (8-2)

2009-10-10T03:20:00.001+01:00

This episode started with Russell H. upset with Jaison, who got his way over getting Ben out. Natalie feels secure with her alliance wth Russell H. and is sure she thinks she has a chance to beat him. That might happen, if the jury is extremely bitter. Russell says Natalie may be one of the best allies for him. I think it could be the best thing for Russell, too, because Natalie is just so far under the radar. At Galu, Shambo shares the HII clues with Erik and Joh. Erik is now HII Hungry.

Next there was a reward challenge with a twist: Jeff Probst wasn't there waiting to narrate the observations of the challenge. The Survivors, Russell H, Mick, and Natalie, or I think it was Natalie, from Foa Foa and Russell H., Shambo, and Dave from Galu compete in a bocce type game. The Galu tribe won, earning chickens.

Back at the Galu tribe, Erik has everyone working, or napping, as he goes and seatrches for the second idol he finds. Therefore, Russell H. & Erik are HII holders. Then, Shambo decides to make friends with the chickens. At Foa Foa, Jaison continues saying it's cold, and he's been so cold, and claims Survivor may be the biggest regret ever. Back at Galu, Shambo lets the chicken out, and some of the survivors end up chasing it. The Survivors are also tired of Shambo, and are considering voting her out more and more.

In the immunity challenge, the tribes had to carry blocks and stack blocks, then get across a narrow rope bridge and stack more blocks. The first tribe to finish would win. Galu kept a lead throughout most of the challenge, until Foa Foa made a comeback, tying it up. It was Foa Foa who turned their luck around and won, earning immunity for the first time.

At Galu, there were two people the tribe mates were putting on the bubble. Yasmin for her poor work ethics around camp, and Monica for her poor performance during the immunity challenge. Russell S. wanted to make sure Monica was voted off, but a group of the Galu tribe mates were talking about voting Yasmin out. At Triblal Council, the tribe mates favored the work ethics that Yasmin didn't have, and she want voted off.

Here is a few words about the Survivors remaning:
Ashley: Not really seen much this episode, but may still have potential
Brett: Four episodes and still no confessionals, he would be lucky to make it far.
Dave: Probably the most neutral Survivor here.
Liz: Most invisible this week, but judging on next week's previews, it isn't looking good.
Erik: Has strong potential, and could be backbone to Galu.
Jaison: Is losing it, and is easily slipping way off.
John: I think he could be a potential rival for Erik, and could do some damage.
Kelly: Well, at least we can sit in a conversation about strategy?
Laura: I probably trying to play a decent social game.
Mick: Foa Foa's only hope, give or take Russell or Ashley.
Monica: Weak, got spared, and doesn't look like things could work out.
Natalie: Like All Star Amber, Dumb, under good coat-tails (Russell H.), and may win this whole thing (if facing a bitter jury).
Russell H.: Would be okay, if I ever get past the Hurricane Katrina hoax.
Russell S.: A horrible leader, I mean, what happened to "pleasing the majority?"
Shambo: Playing a pitiful social game, but is still more valuable than Monica.

Next week boot prediction: There are many people who could be the next to go. At Foa Foa, it looks like Russell H. will have complete say again, but could go any way, and vote for either Ashley (his first plan), Jaison (becuase he irritates him), or Liz (judging by previews, unless Russell decides to convince Liz to stage something). At Galu, it could be Shambo (If Erik gets his way), Monica (if she's continuing to be weak), or Russell S. (if the tribe thinks he's a horrible leader). Since I want to pick one, I'll go with Jaison.

LLNMD:
Love: Laura, Mick,
Like: Ashley, Liz,
Neutral: Russell S., Natalie, Russell H., Dave, Erik, John,
Meh: Jaison, Brett, Monica, Kelly, Shambo, Yasmin.
Dislike:

1-5 Power Rankings: (=, stayed the same), (+, moved up), (-, moved down)
5:
4: Mick (=), Russell H (=), Dave (=), Erik (=)
3. Ashley (=), John (=)
2: Russell S. (-), Laura (=), Natalie (+)
1: Liz (-), Jaison (-), Shambo (-), Brett (=), Monica (=), Kelly (=)

TARUS15 - Globetrotters first & Marcy/Ron eliminated.

2009-10-06T19:47:00.001+01:00

I have come up with a different writing style for this episode of TAR15, and I want to know how it looks. Since this was one of those episodes that had a lot of stuff going on, such as half the teams on such and such, the other half on the other such and such, I am giving an individual summary of how the team performed on this leg. I’ll start with all the tasks, and put the team summaries and review of them in placement order.

THE TASKS OF LEG 03: The teams traveled back to Ho Chi Mihn City, where they to snatch a bullet from a dragon in a puppet theatre, where they received a stamp to a post office. In the detour, they had to either carry a cute, wooden animal across a park to get five balloons, or actually use their brains to search for letters on motorbikes and then scramble that word (SUCLAP) which is Vietnamese for independence. Then, in the roadblock, teams had to simply take some sort of electronic devise apart.

1ST - Herb/Nate - Flight/Time/Big Easy easily got the lead from the puppet theatre all the way to first place. They did well on the Child’s play detour and easily took down the roadblock. The are probably going to be the team to beat, and I truly wonder why Marcy said in Elimination station they’ll be the next team out, unless they get U-Turned, which we hope doesn’t happen.

2ND - Meghan/Cheyne - They are also running a solid race so far, they got a good taxi which put them in the front of the pack and did exceptionally well on the detour and roadblock. They could have a potential good run on this race, despite the abundance of completive nature we have this season.

3RD - Gary/Mat - They are doing well, surprisingly, and I really didn’t think that would happen for them. I guess, they have surprised me, just like I thought Mel/Mike would go early in TAR14, they could have that happen to them.

4TH - Brian/Ericka - This is our comeback team, they started the leg in last, and came to the pit stop in fourth place. Hey nicknamed themselves Team Zebra, and seemed to be a lot calmer this leg than last leg a lot. I’m still thinking I’ll be rooting for them, simply because I still love their positive message their trying to spread, and really feel they’ll have a chance in this race.

5TH - Sam/Dan - These two guys were really arguing a lot this episode, but not the most, though. I really don’t think we’ll get must positively vibes from this duo. They’ll probably get annoying, just like Lance/Keri. They are, however, decent racers so far, and could have a bit of potential to go far in the race.

6TH - Maria/Tiffany - They are also not bad racers, and could really do well on this show. They seem to have had the last two legs work out for them, and I’m ready to se if they can get to the front of the pack. We really didn’t get to see them react much with Sam/Dan, like they were last week, and it seems now that them being poker players isn’t being mentioned as a huge deal anymore.

7TH - Mika/Canaan - They are slowly getting better, but really need to step it up more than all of the other teams. I still like them as a team, but not really as much as I like Brian/Ericka. They are really looking like underdogs, but than again, some other teams were kind of in a similar situation for sure.

8TH - Zev/Justin - I’m not exactly sure how they got so far in the back of the pack, but I thought they’d be doing better than what they are now. Oh ell, and I don’t really remember much about them either. That’s too bad, because I really liked them the first leg.

9TH - Lance/Keri - I don’t see this team doing us much of a favor, as a mater of fact, I think they are this year’s fighting team. They really didn’t seem to have much luck this time, and I believe they would’ve been eliminated if Marcy/Ron chose the faster detour.

10th - Marcy/Ron were probably eliminated because they chose the opposing detour, in which all the other nine teams did child’s play, where they did Word Play. They were also the least edited team, which kind of had me feeling they weren’t going to last long after all.

Here is my LLNMD List & 1-5 Power Rankings
LLNMD List:
Love: Brian/Ericka
Like: Fight Time/Big Easy, Meghan/Cheyne, Gary/Matt, Mika/Canaan, Zev/Justin
Neutral: Maria/Tiffany, Marcy/Ron
Meh: Sam/Dan, Lance/Keri
Dislike:

1-5 Power Rankings:
5.
4. Flight Time/Big Easy, Meghan/Cheyne
3. Brian/Ericka, Gary/Matt
2. Zev/Justin, Maria/Tiffany, Sam/Dan
1. Mika/Canaan, Lance/Keri

Survivor: Samoa - Ben Voted off (6-1)

2009-10-05T17:51:00.001+01:00

In this episode of Survivor, Russell H. gloats about being in control, still, and says soon he’ll have everyone here acting like zombies. Russell H. is seen asking Natalie who she thinks should be voted off. Natalie says “Uhhhh, Ummmm”. Then, Jaison claims he wants Ben out for his comment he made towards Yasmin, as Jaison is still offended. Ben says he’s the only one doing work around camp, and that all of the survivors, who struggle to make a fire, would die out there if he was to be voted off. Then, Russell H. stirs the pot up again and tells Ben is was Ashley who tried to get him out. We know it was all Betsy’s idea, as that’s why she didn’t take control, and Ben believed Russell, and tells Ashley off, but Ashley backs out o that fight. Good girl, Ashley, the last thing we need other than Russell is Ben attempting to say something else ignorant.

At the Galu tribe, Shambo is appalled over seeing Laura leading three other tribe mates in a yoga class. There’s nothing wrong with yoga, I mean, It must work, simply because Galu keeps winning. In the third immunity challenge, the Survivors had to run into the water and retrieved colored boxes and arrange them so that the colors don’t repeat. The first tribe to finish wins immunity & reward, which Jeff revealed to be comfort items. The Galu tribe won, again, and Russell S. chose to keep he comfort items over the other items, as he claims he’s trying to make the women happy. That’s nice, I mean, if it were Ben there, he’d probably say “I’m uh make deeze gals, uhh, suffer her,, and uhhh, take the stuff.”. Shambo was selected to spend time on Foa-Foa’s camp.

At Galu, the women were indeed happy with the comfort, but one of the guys said he wasn’t so happy. Meanwhile, Shambo tells Foa-Foa that she hates her tribe, and that they were doing yoga, and that they don’t work, etc. The Foa-Foa tribe loves Shambo, however, and says she’s very positive round camp, and all. Then, it was more game time for Foa-Foa. Jaison claims he refuses to play the game with Ben around, and would likely quit if Ben wasn’t voted off, saying no million dollars is worth to see Ben around. Russell H. objected, saying he still wants Ashley out, telling the guys that Liz, Ashley and Natalie could very well collide together if Ashley got to stay.

At Tribal Council, Jaison confronts Ben about his remark towards Yasmin, saying it was a racist remark, and saying stuff about history, yeah, all that jazz. Ben says his remark wasn’t racist and tells Jaison that he’s not a slave and such. So, at the vote, it looked like it was between Ashley and Ben. It was Ben who got all the tribe’s votes, and he was voted off. I personally can’t be more happier to see Ben go, simply because he’s got to be one of the most ignorant Survivor’s to date. Jaison, however, doesn’t look like he’ll stand a chance, judging by the previews. Usually, when we see a tribe down four freaking members, they usually spend ten minutes of the show whining about how much they are a horrible tribe at challenges. However, this year, I don’t think we’ve seen Foa-Foa too worried about losing, which is a mystery to me.

I would like to see Foa-Foa win, so Shambo can either be voted off or flip her status around and work on building trusts with her tribe mates. I think Kelly or Bret would be the first to go, most likely Kelly from Galu, simply because she hasn’t been seen and it’s been three episodes. I’d be happy too if Foa-Foa continued losing, because I truly want Russell H to merge with less numbers, just to see him attempt to get Galu members on his side. Which, Shambo would be on board, but no truly anyone else, so far. I really hope Ashley gets to stick around, she’s been a target twice and managed to escaper from being voted off. She is probably the woman who’s doing the best strategically, given I don’t see any potential game play from Monica or Kelly, maybe Laura looks like she’s paying a decent social game and I don’t know where Yasmin stands as of now.

Here is two rankings of the Survivor Samoa cast: One is the LLNMD list I’ve been doing, and the other is a “Power Ranking” thread, where on a scale of 1-5, I’ll rank each Survivor’s chances of winning, based on strategic play, social play, show visibility and eventually, Jury relations of each Survivor. 5 means this Survivor has a strong chance of winning this game, and 3 means they have a fair chance of winning ,depending on where the game ends up taking off to, and one means, I don’t think they have any chance of winning the show. So, here’s LLNMD & 1-5PR.

LLNMD:
Love: Laura, Mick,
Like: Liz, Russell S., Ashley,
Neutral: Jaison,
Meh: Natalie, Russell H., Brett, Monica, Kelly, Dave, Erik, John, Yasmin, Shambo,
Dislike: Ben

1-5PR:
5:
4: Mick, Russell H, Dave, Erik,
3: Russell S, Ashley, John,
2: Laura, Liz, Jaison, Yasmin, Shambo,
1: Natalie, Brett, Monica, Kelly,

Expeditie Robinson 2009 Netherlands/Belgium: Episode 5

2009-10-05T11:59:00.002+01:00

Blog Post by Arthur

Episode 5

The episode started with a tribal council: the three people who thought the show is too difficult for them went to tribal council: Birgit, Carine and Esther. At tribal, the host told them that only one of the three would go home and the three had to discuss who this would be. Birgit was selected because she refused to go back to camp.

The men and Marina received a letter and were told that they had to pick two men who would go to the women’s tribe and had to pick four women who would come to their tribe. Because none of the men wanted to go to the other tribe, they drew and Kurt and Jeroen were the unlucky ones. After this, Dennis, Igor, Marcel and Marina decided to pick Esmeralda, Esther, Marjolein and Yolanda for their new tribe. They became team Noord, while the Kurt & Jeroen joined the other seven women to join team Zuid.

At the immunity challenge the two new tribes formed. But there was a twist: because one team had one extra person, that tribe had to decide who would leave the show right away. Carine volunteered and was taken out of the show. The two new tribes battled in a challenge and team Noord won. So team Zuid had to vote someone out.

The two new men, Kurt and Jeroen, worked their hardest to prove to the women that they deserved to stay in the show. Sabine got along great with the new men, but the other women had other problems. Carolien got really sick: she lost a lot of weight and was feeling really weak.

At tribal council, it was an unanimous vote. Everybody voted for Carolien, while she voted for Eva. Carolien left the island and finally got the chance to eat again.

For interest, a short description of the people who are left in the show:

Dennis = The male narrator. He was the one who narrated the walk through the jungle the men made. He is also the one who is most keen on voting Igor out, who is the outsider between the men.

Esmeralda = The leader. Everybody is extremly positive about her, she is by far the strongest women in the show and everybody has loads of respect for her. She was able to lead strong-willed people like Carine and Sabine, who were the previous leaders of the show.

Esther = The social girl. She does yoga and wants the teams to be one happy team. When the other women ignored Carine, she was the only one who talked with her and tried to make her part of the tribe again. She misses her family a lot and tried to quit a couple of times.

Eva = The silent girl. During the first night she got in an argument with Carine because she had said that she didn’t think Carine was a positive person. After this argument, Carine voted her as the weakest person and she was almost eliminated in the first challenge. After that, she never received much attention again.

Igor = The loner. He spends a lot of time on his own, walking though the jungle and looking for food. He doesn’t seem to have a good relationship with the other men, who talked about voting him off if they had to.

Jeroen = The survivor. Of the men, he seems to be the strongest and know the most about how to survive. He is now the big favorite to win, although we don’t know if he is able to play a strategic game.

Jill = The sky one. Another ignored person, who was only shown during the third immunity challenge, where she was in an important position and failed, which made her team loose the challenge.

Kurt = The forgotten. I don’t remember anything he did except for working really hard to be accepted by the women.

Marcel = The dirty old man. He was not happy when he found out he would start the show with only men because he really wanted to meet some women. Especially the young women. He was disappointed when Marina arrived at their beach because he was hoping for a younger person (even though Marina is seven years younger than he is), but the two now seem to get along fine.

Marina = The finalist. She won the first immunity challenge and automatically qualified for the final. She spend a night alone on a beach before the men arrived and showed there that the victory was not just luck, she was capable of surviving alone. But she was really happy when the men arrived, she got along much better with them.

Marjolein = The positive who turned negative. The first few episodes she was really happy to be on the island, but now she is done with the show because she is too hungry and she can’t stand the negative atmosphere between the other women.

Rita = The girl with the black eye. We don’t know much about her, except that during the first challenge, someone kicked her in the eye when she was swimming and she got a black eye.

Sabine = The harsh woman. She was the leader of first team Noord, where she tried to make an alliance with the younger girls. When one of these girls quit the alliance she got really angry and said she would murder the girl if she didn’t get voted out. But she got and after the voting, the teams merged after which she kinda disappeared.

Simone = The horny girl. She was voted out first by her tribe, but in a twist she was sent to the island and got to lead her camp for a while. She handled this slightly better then Carine did and was eventually accepted by her team. She is the one who longed the most for men, not only for their strength but also because she is desparate for some attention.

Yolanda = The potty mouth, she says what she thinks, but gets along with most of the other younger women.

TARUS15 - Part 2: Gary/Matt first & Garrett/Jessica eliminated

2009-09-29T16:40:00.000+01:00

The teams left Tokyo, Japan to see Ho Chi Mihn, Vietnam to take a bus to Cai Be, where they had to arrive to the dock to receive their next clue. All of the teams found themselves on the same flight, so it was now even to get to the bus station. The first five or six so teams arrive on the first bus leaving where they were given a lead of the teams who fell behind. The teams on the second bus decide to pay the bus company and driver to convince them to move the bus, instead of waiting an hour. So, the teams arrive to Cai Be, where they receive their next task: Fill a tree bottom with mud all the way to the line.

All of the teams arrive to the little farm equally fair, and this is where Maria/Tiffany were five their speed bump task: serve Vietnamese food to the dock guard where they’ll receive their next clue. It was, I believe Meghan/Cheyne who completed the route info first and received their next clue: Go back to the dock and make your way to Cai Be field. This is where I believe Lance/Keri and Brian/Ericka were the next two teams to finish the task, where I believe Tiffany/Maria and Mika/Canaan were the last two teams. Finally, teams arrive to the roadblock which is moving ducks to a pen with the use of flags.

During the roadblock, Meghan and Keri struggled to get it in their first attempt. It was Matt, Sam, and Globetrotter who completed the roadblock first, and got to move on. Canaan/Mika and Garrett/Jessica were frustrated with their teammate, as Jessica and Mika both struggled to do the roadblock fast. Ericka also struggled with this roadblock, and she too got frustrated, along with Brian. It was Gary/Mat who arrived to the pit stop and Phil tells them they are team number one, wining a kayak for each of them as a prize. Sam/Dan and Flight Time/Big Easy came in second and third place by a hair.

Back at the roadblock, Keri, Zev or Justin, I forgot, and Meghan finally finished the task, and moved along to the pit stop. This left us with a very frustrated Ericka, Jessica, and Mika to compete with Tiffany and Marcy in this roadblock. Next, Lance/Keri were team number four, Zev/Justin were team number five, and Meghan/Cheyne were team number six. Maria/Tiffany finished the roadblock, and went to seventh place. Finally, it was Mika/Canaan, and Marcy/Ron who finished the task, and at the pit stop, Mika/Canaan were team number eight and Marcy/Ron were team number nine.

It was now between Ericka and Jessica to finished the task, and within minutes, Ericka finished first, following that was Jessica. So it was a mad dash to the finish line where Brian/Ericka finished first earning tenth place. Jessica/Garrett were the last team to arrive, and were eliminated from the race. They were extremely disappointed with that fact, as they were totally into doing this together. I personally didn’t mind that leg, however, it wasn’t like it was anything new, they have probably dealt with mud and trees and have herded birds before.

I think Mika/Canaan are my early favorites, but they don’t seem to have had much luck so far. Brian/Ericka are my next favorites, but they haven’t been good at any of the roadblocks so far. It just might be Zev/Justin who could pull this one through and make it a good race. I can truly tell it’s a competitive race, since the placing changed drastically from leg one to leg two. There are still no teams I really don’t like, and that’s a good thing, as that like, rarely happens.

LLNMD scale:
Love: Zev/Justin, Mika/Canaan, Brian/Ericka
Like: , Gary/Matt, Sam/Dan, Flight Time/Big Easy, Meghan/Cheyne, Marcy/Ron
Neutral: Lance/Keri, Maria/Tiffany, Garrett/Jessica
Meh:
Dislike:

TARUS15 - Part One: Eric/Lisa eliminated at Starting Line

2009-09-28T18:21:00.000+01:00

TAR Premiered in an iconic Los Angeles film area where we meet the twelve teams who will embark on a journey around the world for $1,000,000. This is where Phil Keoghan dropped a bombshell on them: One team was to be eliminated at the starting line. After Phil said “Go!” the teams’ first clue was to search for a license plate with a Japanese symbol, regarding their first destination: A television studio. The professional female poker players found the license plate, where at the near very end of the task, it was left with Lance/Keri & Eric/Lisa left. Lance/Keri found the correct plate, and became the eleventh team to receive a ticket to the first destination, Tokyo, Japan. Eric/Lisa were left without the correct license plate, and were the first team eliminated, and the first team ever eliminated at the starting line.

The race continued to LAX airport where the first six teams to get the correct license plate were on the first flight to Japan, and the next five were to be on a flight 30 minutes behind. Before arriving to Tokyo, Maria/Tiffany executed their plan to lie, saying they work to counsel homeless children in Los Angeles, bluffing the teams, hiding their true poker face. Once in Tokyo, the team behind ended up catching up to various teams. Once they saw the TV studio, they were confronted by a Japanese Game show where called Wasabi Roulette where in this roadblock, teams had one person play roulette where if they were lucky to have the Wasabi bomb in front of them, they had two minutes to eat it.

The ultimate participators in this roadblock were Gary, Dan, Flight Time?, Lance, Zev, Cheyne, Maria, Canaan, Ron, Brian, and Garrett. The first four teams who completed the roadblock and moved on were Meghan/Cheyne, Marcy/Ron, Zev/Justin, and Lance/Keri, I believe. In the next task, teams had to recruit a color coded group of tourists to the first pit stop, They had to keep all 20 with the group in order to check in completely. So, those four teams ended up taking the lead of the pack. Next, it was Maria who had to eat the Wasabi bomb, and after failing the first time, she managed to pull through the second time, moving along. Finally, I don’t exactly remember the correct order they completed the roadblock accurately enough to guess, so before the roadblock was completed it was Meghan/Cheyne who arrived to the pit stop first, wining a trip to Aspen, Colorado as a prize.

Zev/Justin arrived as team number two, Lance/Keri were team number three, and Marcy/Ron were team number four. It was Brian/Ericka who were the last team at the roadblock, and at the very last possible second, Brian completed eating the Wasabi bomb, and moved on currently in last place where they were lucky enough to find an English speaking local to guide them to the pit stop. The Harlem Globetrotters, nicknamed Flight Time & Big Easy arrived in a respective fifth place. Brian/Ericka, who left the roadblock in last place, climbed all the way to the very middle of the pack, earning title of team number six Gary/Matt arrived only to find themselves in a decent seventh place.

Maria/Tiffany, who have built a bond with the gay brothers Dan/Sam, wind up flirting with them. They end up attempting work on the route info together, only to not get very far. Garrett/Jessica arrive to the pit stop to discover they are team number eight, and as soon as Maria/Tiffany discover they have lost two tourists, they end up searching for them all around Tokyo. Dan/Sam arrive at the pit stop next, only to receive ninth place. Mika/Canaan, who figured out that one tourist was left behind, checked into the pit stop, only to find out they needed their twentieth tourist. On the way down the stairs of the shrine, the very short older woman is spotted, and Canaan carries her to the end, only to hear Mika/Canaan are team number ten.

Maria/Tiffany arrive to the pit stop last, and without two of their tourists. They were informed they were the last team to arrive, but were spared from elimination, only given a two hour penalty for not completing the task and would receive a speed bump at the next leg. I personally wish TAR did without the elimination of the starting line, simple because they game them a lame task. Maybe if they game them a really hardcore epic physically demanding task that required more skill, it would’ve been a better twist. I really didn’t care about the first leg ending in a non-elimination leg, only because, it’s the very first time that’s happened. I really hope the teams who make it far are Mika/Canaan or Brian/Ericka, especially them. I love their own personal message about how an interracial marriage couple can be just as happy. Therre are,at this present time, no teams worth disliking.

The very first LLNMD scale for the first half of the episode:
Love: Mika/Canaan, Brian/Ericka
Like: Zev/Justin, Marcy/Ron, Meghan/Cheyne,
Neutral: Sam/Dan, Flight Time/Big Easy, Lance/Keri, Garrett/Jessica.
Meh: Gary/Matt, Maria/Tiffany, Eric/Lisa
Dislike:

Survivor: Samoa - Mike Evacuated & Betsy Voted off (7-1)

2009-09-28T15:42:00.001+01:00

I have decided to blog the TAR/Survivor episodes on Monday’s together, because it’s even easier on me. OK, so starting off this episode Russell H. confronts Betsy about voting for Ashley instead of Marisa. This put Mike and Betsy on the outs for two reasons: 1. They voted for Ashley and 2. They are the two oldest. Meanwhile, on Galu tribe, Yasmin is complaining about the living conditions of the tribe, claiming that “the woods ain’t the hood” and that the hood is apparently a better place to dwell in. Meanwhile, back at Foa Foa, Russell H. begins reminiscing Survivor’s addition to the game, the idols where, without even getting the first clue, Russell H. finds the first idol. He shares this with Jaison, but has no intentions of really sharing that idol.

Next, we go to the reward/immunity challenge where the Survivor played a rugby type game where they had to wrestle each other for balls to pass to tribe members to shoot into a basket. The first tribe to three points would win fishing supplies and immunity. Things got really heated when Ben was disqualified from the challenge for aggressive conduct. This happened directly after Jeff Probst issued a warning regarding the aggressive game play being presented. In which, if you ask me, I think it’s about time they slow down with their physically conducting challenges. It was Laura, who I believe scored two points for her tribe, including the winning point which led Galu to another immunity. In a twist, the leader of Galu, Russell S. got to send one tribe member over to Foa Foa who observes tribal council. He sent Yasmin.

After the immunity challenge, the Foa-Foa tribe stayed after to have the medical team check on Mike, who was apparently very ill. Mike’s blood pressure was made very risky to keep him in the game, and as he fell trying to stand up, he got back up, and was removed from the game. Over at the Galu tribe, we see Shambo as she has gone fishing. She then returns with good news and bad news. The bad news: she lots o\some of the fishing supplies. The Good news: There’s fish in the ocean! Laura recalls it in a confessional. This probably left Shambo to negative vibes from her tribe. Meanwhile, back at the Foa-Foa tribe, Yasmin babbles about how much the Foa-Foa tribe sucks, and it’s like taking candy from a baby, confronts Ben, a dude, about him being aggressive to Yasmin, a woman. Ben and Yasmin completely go off on each other, an Ben calls her “Ghetto trash”.

It was now time for the Foa-Foa tribe to figure out who to vote for. Betsy approaches the women, Liz, Natalie, and Ashley about voting for Ben, since for 1. He was disqualified from the challenge. 2. He annoyed everyone by staying up all night chopping wood. 3. Going off on Yasmin. I really wonder if Yasmin could’ve influenced the vote to get Ben off. If she really wanted Ben off, she could’ve teamed up with Betsy, work on the other girls, and maybe make a deal with Mick, such as sharing idol information with him. Oh well, I guess I’m just smarter than some of these people. I’m just saying, if you’re put on another tribe but can’t go home, work with them, try to do something. So, at tribal council, Ben and Betsy were on the bubble, but Betsy failed to come up with the amount of numbers to take Ben out, and Russell, who executed Betsy’s goodbye, got his wish, and she was voted off.

This episode was very much like the first episode, we saw a whole lot of few players (Betsy, Russell H, Jaison, Yasmin, Ben) and we saw something from the Foa-Foa tribe where we saw what, just Shambo and a bit of Laura from Galu. Where did everyone else go? I really feel the next to go will be either Shambo, who’s on the outs of her tribe or Ashley, who is next on Russell’s hit list. Just like the previews said, I could see Jaison attempting to turn on Russell H, but it would be totally disappointing to see Jaison get burned for it. I’m not sure where Yasmin stands with her own tribe, but there’s a small chance of her ever rekindling with Foa-Foa.

Love/Like/Neutral/Meh/Dislike List:
Love: Laura
Like: Mick, Betsy, Liz, Jaison, Russell S., Natalie.
Neutral: Mike, Brett, Russell H., Monica, Kelly, Ashley,
Meh: Dave, Erik, John, Yasmin, Shambo,
Dislike: Ben

Expeditie Robinson 2009 Netherlands/Belgium: Episode 4

2009-09-26T09:08:00.001+01:00

Blog Post by Arthur

Episode 4

Team Noord and Team Zuid come together on Island Zuid (don't know the exact names of the islands).

After two days with loads of complaining and crying, Marina goes back to Island Noord because she was the first finalist and has to 'prove herself' whether she is worthy of the final.

Back on the island, Doreen has trouble breathing. The medics check on her and decide that she has to leave the island for medical reasons.

The men finally finish their task and become part of the expedition. They join Marina on Island Noord and together they form team Noord. So the teams are now:
Noord = Dennis, Igor, Jeroen, Kurt, Marcel, Marina
Zuid = Birgit, Carine, Carolien, Esmeralda, Esther, Eva, Jill, Marjolein, Rita, Sabine, Simone, Yolanda

The women finally meet the men for a first immunity challenge. The men win this one and the women have to vote one of their own out. But because three women ask to be voted out, there is a twist. Only the women who want to leave have to go to tribal council. Everybody thinks that the three women will get to leave the island, as they wish. What really happens will be shown in the next episode.

The preview of the next episode showed that the three women who want to leave have to vote one of their own out. The three who went to tribal council are probably (we didn't see them yet, but from the words we can derive this): Birgit (who got in a fight with Carine and doesn't want to be on the island with her), Carine (who has no contact with the other women and people complain about her a lot) and Esther (who is homesick). We do know Carine returns to the island, so either Birgit or Esther will be voted out.

Expeditie Robinson 2009 Netherlands/Belgium: Episodes 2 & 3

2009-09-26T09:06:00.000+01:00

Blog Post by Arthur

Episode 2

Five men were introduced, Dennis, Igor, Jeroen, Kurt and Marcel.

They had a task: they had to carry a chest with all the backpacks of the women (with their clothing) through the jungle. All the episode consisted of them walking through the jungle.

Episode 3
The men are still walking.

The women did a challenge, which was won by team Zuid. Team Noord voted one of their own out:

Birgit voted for Marjolein
Carolien voted for Lianne
Lianne voted for Simone
Marina voted for Lianne
Marjolein voted for Lianne
Sabine voted for Lianne
Simone voted for Lianne
Who voted for Marjolein is not 100% sure, but I assume it is Birgit.

Lianne went because she made an alliance with Simone, Birgit and Carolien and the women agreed to vote Sabine out. Later Lianne disagreed with the alliance and didn't think it was fair to make one, which upset Simone, who turned the tables and got Lianne voted out.

After tribal council, it was announced that the six remaining women will join the eight women in team Zuid.

Expeditie Robinson 2009 Netherlands/Belgium: Episode 1

2009-09-26T09:04:00.000+01:00

Blog post by Arthur

This season started off with 16 contestants and they are all women. Here's what happened in the first episode:

The women were divided in two teams: team Noord were Bea, Birgit, Carolien, Lianne, Marina, Marjolein, Sabine and Simone, team Zuid were Carine, Doreen, Esmeralda, Esther, Eva, Jill, Rita en Yolanda.

24 hours after they met eachother (which they did at the plane and during the trip to the island, so before they actually set foot on the island), the women had to vote one of their own off.

In team Noord, Birgit had 1 vote, Bea and Marina 2 and Simone 3 votes. In team Zuid Doreen had 2 votes, Carine and Yolanda had 3. The six other women had to decide who of Carine and Yolanda had to leave and they voted for Carine because Yolanda was more optimistic.

Of course Simone and Carine didn't have to leave, they went to the islands first and got a special task to do. In the meanwhile, the other 14 women competed in a challenge to decide who would be the first finalist of Expeditie Robinson. Third was Carolien, second was Simone and winner was Marina.

After the challenge all women went to the islands, saw the person they just voted off and did their jobs. After two days the two women who were voted out had to do their task: they had to rank the other women in their camp on base of who was the strongest.

In team Noord, Sabine said that Simone was the strongest person and Bea was the weakest (other results not known).

In team Zuid, Carine ranked the other women as follows: 1. Esmeralda (strongest) / 2. Jill / 3. Esther / 4. Yolanda / 5. Rita / 6. Doreen / 7. Eva (weakest)

After this, there was an elimination challenge and the team who lost the challenge would loose one member: the person who was put last on the strength-list. The challenge was won by team Zuid, which means that Bea of team Noord had to leave the show.

After this, it was announced that five men would have to do a task and if they succeed, they will become participants as well. Whether they will succeed, will be known in episode 2.

Survivor - Marisa Voted off (7-3 vote)

2009-09-19T13:36:00.001+01:00

This episode started off with all 20 Survivors rowing their boat to a beach, until they finally arrive and are told they’ll be assigning someone on their tribe a leadership position With 4 votes, it was Russell S. elected leader for Galu Tribe and with five votes, it was Mick elected for the Foa Foa Tribe. The two leaders had to select which four people from each tribe had to participate in the first reward challenge. It was Russell H, Liz, Jaison, someone else I don’t remember who beat out the other four of Galu, winning Flint for their tribe.

During the tribe’s first time together, Shannon tells everyone she wants to be called Shambo, as that’s her nickname. John seems to be talking nonsense about building a shelter, which seems to annoy everyone in the camp. Shambo says Russell wasn’t a good leader, as she sees everyone laying in the ocean having fun. At Foa Foa, Russell H begins making several alliances with girls he thinks is “dumb”, making an alliance with Ashley, Natalie, Marisa, and even the older woman, Betsy.

Russell shows he’s more of a dickhead by making up a false story about Surviving Hurricane Katrina, and saying he lost his German Shepherd. OK, what’s almost even worse than Jonny Fairplay’s lie, because losing your dog is not as sensitive as losing your grandmother, so he’s a major dickhead. Not to mention I’m sure real Hurricane Katrina survivors are extremely upset over someone making up a fake story of something people really did go through. Marisa and Betsy are claiming there’s something fishy about Russell. Then, Russell goes even more pitiful by dumping the tribe mates’ canteens and burning someone’s socks.

Next, we can go straight to the immunity challenge. In the immunity challenge, the Survivors had to carry a rope across four wedges and release a crate for four people to recreate into a puzzle. It was the Galu Tribe who won, winning Immunity and Flint. At Foa Foa, it seemed that they all wanted to vote for Ashley, since they all think she’s the weakest member of the tribe. Then, Marisa tells Russell H there’s something suspicious about him. This got everyone wanting to vote out Marisa, since Russell H. was telling them to do so. So, at tribal council, Ashley was told she was the weakest member of the tribe, and Marisa and Ben go at it, claiming they don’t like each other. So, it was Marisa with seven votes who got voted off.

I really am with the people I know who says they don’t care that Marisa was the first to go, but the way it looked, I was sure she’d be one of the ones who’d last, simply because she was always on a Survivor preview. I really didn’t care too much for this premier, and it made no sense half the time because half of these Survivors were not shown at all. That got so annoying. I remember Russell H, Russell S, Shambo, John, Marisa, Ashley, Ben, Jaison, and that’s just about who I remember seeing right now. This was very disappointing.

BBUS - Ranking of the Winners

2009-09-18T19:32:00.002+01:00

This is the ranking of the ten winners I saw (excluding the winner of Big Brother 1, as I didn’t see that season).

01 - Will (BBUS2) - Will is probably the best winner in the eyes, of maybe like, 80% of Big Brother fans. Will lost both of his Chilltown allies by like week five, losing his house girlfriend Shannon and best friend Mike. She completely ran over the alliance of Kent/Nicole/Bunky/Hardy by getting them all out. Not only did he play them, he also made everyone extremely miserable at times.

02 - Dan (BBUS10) - Dan was someone who took a very risky move, like on week two, and could’ve left that early. His notable moves were becoming America’s Player and voting to evict Jessie, backdooring Michelle, and bringing Memphis all the way to the final two.

03. Maggie (BBUS6) - Maggie, well, was never very well liked at all, and I’m probably one of the few fans that’ll defend her. She was completely the shepherd of the Friendship alliance and maybe perhaps the shepherd to the Sovereign alliance. She could’ve been gone real fast, and if she was, the Friendship alliance would’ve crumbled. However, Keeping among numbers to avoid being put on the block, and practically brainwashing her allies could’ve well earned her the win.

04. Dick (BBUS8) - Dick was a very nasty guy that I really did not like. I really wish he was gone so early and left alone to live a miserable life. However, she got rid of some of the right people at the right time, like getting rid of Kail who was out to get him, Mike who was going to remain loyal, Jen, who he really hated, and Jessica and Eric who could’ve won this game. She clearly had one ally, his daughter Daniele who he made sure got to the end with.

05. Jun (BBUS4) - I really liked Jun a lot. She may be perhaps one of my all time favorite players. She called cooking for everyone a strategy, and floating across alliances with her ally Alison as a sidekick. She won because she had the biggest, most obnoxious and most hated female ever on Big Brother at the time as a final two partner.

06. Drew (BBUS5) - I really didn’t care for Drew all that much, and didn’t think she was going to win, and thought Nakomis would’ve been a better winner. His notable moves were getting Diane and Cowboy for the final three and ditching the Horseman alliance with Jase when it was necessary.

07. Mike (BBUS7: AS) - I honestly think Mike did okay and deserve a bit more respect than what people think. His notable moves were being a sidekick to puppet master, using Erika as a Showmance partner. Then, my favorite move from him, and probably the best move in Big Brother history, was him getting rid of Janelle.

08. Jordan (BBUS11) - Jordan, who was clearly my favorite was well, cute, likable, but not the best strategic player. Who really cares, either, it’s just a game. Her notable moves however, was trying to get Chima out week one, siding with Jeff as a strong, Showmance partner, and evicting Kevin and taking Natalie to the final two.

09. Adam (BBBUS9) - Adam was okay, but I don’t remember anything he did, except for being a part of Team Christ and helping to vote out better players like James and Natalie. He could’ve left the game first if it wasn’t for Jacob, since him and Sheila didn’t get along.

10. Lisa (BBUS3) - Lisa was clearly the worst player to win ever because of her lack of strategy. Her one ally got out week four, and after that, she did nothing, not even vote her ally back in the game. She just had no reason to go, and Danielle and Jason played her. She only won because the jurors watched Danielle play them all.

BBUS11 - Jordan Wins, Natalie 2nd, Kevin 3rd.

2009-09-17T13:16:00.001+01:00

It looks like Jordan had the easiest trip to the final two, as Kevin wanted Natalie out, and Jordan wanted Kevin out. So, at the final HOH competition, it came to a tiebreaker. Jordan was only one off with the answer, and she was crowned the final HOH. In her decision, she decided to vote to evict Kevin, which seems to be the Jury’s favorite. I think Jordan evicting Kevin was completely epic, and that’s exactly what I wanted to see happen at the very end, and I, at this moment, really felt that it was Jordan’s game, and Natalie had like no chance.

In the jury questioning and reunion part of the show, each of the jurors got to ask three question addressed to Natalie and Jordan. Then, it was time to talk about various moments of the game, as Ronnie revealed to Jordan that Natalie is really 24, not 18. Jordan was shocked and speechless to hear this. Then, it was revealed that Natalie and Kevin made up a lie, saying to Jeff that that Russell had plans to take him out, and had other final two plans. Then, everyone talks about Chima’s removal from the game, as nobody defended her.

It was time for the moment we’ve all been waiting for, the winner was to be revealed. And with a vote of 5-2, Jordan was crowned the winner, receiving as vote from America, Jessie, Lydia, Jeff, and Michelle. Russell and Kevin voted for Natalie. Then, the America’s Housemate was revealed, and Julie says it wasn’t even close, and the winner was Jeff, receiving $25,000. I’m real glad that Jordan won, she was my favorite. She was, like the fourth favorite of mine to win, Will, Jun, and Mike being the first three. This season was OK, overall.

Now, I’m waiting to see what they’ll do next year. I’m hoping that Pandora’s Box gets to come in, and be a part of every week of Big Brother somehow. I also wouldn’t be surprised if they ended up diving thirteen or so people into more teams somehow. I just hope they don’t over sue it like pairs. Than again, I’d always love to see a whole new twist that‘s crazy, and fun to watch.

BBUS - Ranking of the Seasons

2009-09-15T12:41:00.002+01:00

OK, here is the next ranking of the Seasons, this one for Big Brother. Most of the seasons were okay, as six of them were good, three of them were okay, and one of them was what I’d consider to be a very bad season. Season one will not be ranked, as I didn’t get to see that season at all, ever. So, here we go: The season’s I will rank.

01. BBUS2 - This was the season that saved the show from dying so early. Simply due to one reason, Dr. Will. It wasn’t because this season allowed housemates to discuss nominations, it was because Will, Mike, Krista, Monica, and Shannon were all the good people who made the season decent. I think it was so good to see Hardy and Nicole lose to Will, when in all reality, they should’ve got rid of Will like week six or before. Will basically saved the show from being another disappointment, simply by being the first ever puppet master and villain, something BBUS1 missed out on.

02. BBUS6 - This season was great because of well, one specific alliance, the Friendship. I know majority of BBUS fans thought they were detestable people, but I honestly thought Maggie was the best player out of the bunch. She had control of getting rid of Kaysar, James, Rachel, and Howie, completely after she was screwed losing Eric. I think April was the most hilarious player ever, and Jennifer was extremely hot. I loved how Maggie got to spend ten weeks walking all over the sovereigns’ strategies, considering the sovereigns got rid of the friendship’s weaker allies, starting with Jennifer, Beau, then April.

03. BBUS4 - I really liked this season simple because Alison and Jen played everyone, and got to the final two. The ex twist brought us from interesting game changing moves, as who’d really hook up with their ex without playing for $500,000. It was the original pair twist, that’s why I give it the most respect, unlike secret pairs or enemies, or relatives. I really just liked Alison and Jun, and that was really just about it. I’m glad they were the final two, other than that, obviously, this season would be pretty much lower than third.

04. BBUS10 - This season had a lot of good, memorable characters, such as Dan, Keesha, Memphis, Jerry, Michelle, Jessie, and Libra, all of which very strong personalities. I’m glad Dan won, and I would probably consider him one of the best BB Players ever. Other than Dan, Memphis, and Keesha, I really didn’t care too much for the other housemates, and really didn’t like Libra, Michelle, Jessie, or Jerry. Another thing, Brian and Angie should’ve made it further, so it would’ve been a very good season.

05. BBUS9 - This season had a to of good players to like, such as Sheila, Matty, Natalie, James, Adam, Ryan, Alex, Allison, Sharon, and Parker. Chelsea and Joshuah were disgusting, however. One thing I really didn’t like was seeing Natalie go, but, she did deserve her fate playing both sides. Had she not done that, she, well, would’ve made final two, but would’ve begged hard to win. I also think people like James, Natalie, Sheila, Adam, Ryan, and Matty were all very good players, and that’s a lot of good players.

06. BBUS5 - this season had a lot of interesting players, such as Jase, Nakomis, Diane, Drew, Holly, Marvin, and Karen. Cowboy, Natalie, and Natalie were so stupid. I loved how crazy Jase was in a totalitarian B Control in weeks 1-4, but then got screwed by BB limiting the veto players, and him becoming the first backdoored player. I really wish Nakomis won this season, and if she did, it’d probably be ranked higher, and I don’t know why (other than keeping a sex-mate) why Diane should’ve kept Drew around.

07. BBUS11 - this season had a lot of likable players, like the whole final six, Laura, and Casey. I really thought this season was going to start off hopelessly bad, considering it was like Jessie in control of the game. However, the Coup D’Etat was genius when it was given to Jeff so Jessie could be evicted. I really don’t care who wins, it won’t effect this season’s rank, and don’t think it’d change.

08. BBUS7: AS - I really thought people like Marcellas, Janelle, Kaysar, Howie, Erika, and George did NOT along in the house, which really ruined the whole season, especially since it was a bit too early to do All Stars. Not only was it just okay, I really didn’t want Janelle to make it far, simply I was waiting for Will to play her out, but Will and Mike waited way too late, and Will got burned.

09. BBUS3 - I really don’t know why, but this season was just really not good. I didn’t like anyone the house except for Daniele, Jason, Amy, and Lori. I really couldn’t stand Chiara, Tonya, or Lisa. I was the maddest person in the world to see Lisa won, when al she did was sit on her pretty self and sit there, not even having an ally since Eric’s eviction, week four. I think Lisa winning due to the worst ever jury format (the jurors sat at home watching everything go on) really ruined the show for me.

10. BBUS8 - This season really blew. Only Jen was like the only one I like, her and Amber. The rest really irritated me. Jessica was okay, so when it came down to it, I found myself rooting for Amber and Jessica after Jen’s eviction, which was a complete failure. Dick was so much of a moron that I can’t possibly see how anyone would like him. Not to mention, this season had a lot of issues, such as evidence of rigging, to save Dick and Eric when it was necessary.

TARUS15 - Cast Announcement

2009-09-09T20:50:00.001+01:00

TAR15 will begin on September 27th, and this time, they have twelve teams. Now let’s just hope they don’t kick off a team before the first pit stop, because we all know that’ wasn’t a good twist. Anyway, I am here to announce these twelve teams, and their capability of doing well on the race. I am well, not perfect with making decisions, so I really don’t know what to expect. This cast looks promising, as they all look like they have potential to make it far in the race.

Meghan/Cheyne are Dating from San Diego, California. They have known each other since they were elementary school students, which in TAR, can help you out a lot, with getting along and stuff. They look like they’ll be the nice couple who get along, that’s what I expect from them. They kind of remind me of Amanda/Kris, so let’s just hope they’re not screwed by some U-Turn.

Maria/Tiffany are professional poker players from California. They look ditzy, but since they’re poker players, I really don’t think they are. I think they’ll use wits and possibly looks to get all the way to the end. I don’t know how they’ll be in physical challenges, though. They’ll probably try to bluff people in the race too, so we’ll see if they do that, and see if things get interesting.

Marcy/Ronald are the dating older team from San Francisco, California. They met online, on a dating website, just like what Bob/Joyce (TARUS5) did. I feel that they look better than the other older teams we’ve gotten (Steve/Linda, Anita/Arthur) since they are still actively athletic. However, I don’t know where they’ll fall, and I hope they don’t get lucky, as that happens occasionally in TAR.

Lance/Keri are an engaged couple from Massachusetts. They seem to be a very okay couple, and I don’t know what to expect from them. I love how they are using the race to test their relationship, since that is what TAR is all about. They seem like they’ll either float along and get out midway, or perhaps longer, or they’ll get out early, or get lucky. I really don’t know.

Herbert/Nathaniel are teammates of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team from Arkansas/Louisiana. This team looks like they’ll be a physical threat, and let’s hope they’re not too intimidating to the other teams, otherwise they’ll U-turned. I really feel we’ll see a lot of good feelings from this team, and most of the TAR fans will be pulling for them to win.

Gary/Matt are father/son from Montana. They are very different from each other, as I’ll point out Gary has grey hair, and Matt has pink hair. I don’t expect much from this team, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they were the first team eliminated. However, I did think the same thing about Mel/Mike, but this time, I think there’s more competitiveness so I am still doubting their odds.

Garret/Jessica are Dating on and off from California. This team may look like they’ll cause conflict, but I think they’ll want to work things out in the race so they can stay together. I really think this team should go far, and I want to them to. I don’t know why though, I just have high expectations of them. They just look like they’ll be decent to watch.

Brian/Ericka are a Married couple from Nashville, Tennessee. They are set out to prove that love knows no color, which I completely agree, and hope they get to prove their message. Ericka was also Miss America 2004, which is nice to know. I really am thinking these guys will be one of my favorite teams, just because they look like they’ll be a nice couple, and I think (along with the Globetrotters) CBS is trying to make them get instant fame.

Eric/Lisa are married yoga teachers from Encino, California. This married couple are vegans, and have been married eighteen years. I personally don’t know what to expect from them. I think they’ll be very unlucky, and could expect them to be gone early. However, I really like them, so I truly want them to do good, so maybe I’ll be wrong.

Dan/Sam are brothers from Liberty, Missouri. They didn’t really seem to develop a bond until they told each other they were gay. I truly don’t know what to expect from them as racers. I truly probably won’t care where they’ll stand on the race. I don’t think they’ll win, but I really don’t know. I just think they’ll be there, bit not a team that will be remembered.

Zev/Justin are friends from California. Zev has Asperser’s syndrome, which I know nothing abou6, so It’ll be nice to learn about it. Anyways, They look like they’ll be a nice team, and as long as this Asperser’s syndrome doesn’t cover up their total edit (Like Margie/Luke, him deaf) and it’s constantly mentioned to us all the time.

Mika/Canaan are Newly Dating aspiring country singers from Nashville, Tennessee. I really like them, despite the fact I don’t like country music, and hope they don’t start singing to Phil at every pit stop. I see them being a nice team, and expect to see them going very far.

So, out of these teams, like Survivor, half are from the California area. Sigh. I really think this looks like a good race, there’s so many teams to like, it’s hard to pick a team to like. I think if I should pick a pre-show favorite, it’d be Ericka/Brian, Canaan/Mika, or Jessica/Garrett. I really can’t decide between those three teams quite yet, so we’ll see on September 27th, on TAR’s two hour

BBUS11 - Kevin Vetoed & Michelle Evicted

2009-09-09T13:59:00.001+01:00

In Sunday’s Episode, Natalie is given the Pandora’s Box, where she’s given the chance to opt out of the veto, and speak to one of her loved ones for five minutes. She chose to speak to her boyfriend, who then decided to propose to her, as she accepted. To spend fifteen more minutes with her fiancé, she releases some very strange, big crying baby, a copycat, and a spider with crazy string, entered the house to harass Jordan, Kevin, and Michele. When that scene was over, Natalie made up a lie, saying the final two votes are reversed for her if she wins. OK, I don’t any producer, not even me, would want to come up with a twist like that.

She later came clean about it and revealed to the housemates she got engaged, clearly throwing out for them to believe she’s eighteen, now. In the nomination ceremony, it was Jordan who was safe, and Michele and Kevin were nominated. I personally feel these were the best nominations possible, as Kevin and Michelle are both probably the best players of the four, and am glad to see them nominated. Natalie is also smarter by trying not to make Kevin and her look like allies. However, I truly think Natalie playing Jordan and Kevin could get her one less jury vote, if she had to vote to evict one of them.

In the veto competition, the Housemates had to pick blocks that go with two descriptions of evicted housemates. It was very close between Michelle and Kevin, as Jordan was completely clueless and way out of it. It was ultimately Kevin who ended up winning, easing earning himself a sot in the final three. After the veto ceremony, Kevin and Natalie celebrated earning the chance to become the final two, with Just Jordan in the way. Then, Michele begins telling Kevin that she’s way easier to beat in the final two, and she could guarantee him $500,000. However, at the eviction ceremony, Kevin voted to evict Michele, and she was evicted.

I personally thought that each of the final four had someone rooting for them in the jury house. For example, Natalie has Jessie, Kevin has Lydia, Michele had Russell, and Jordan has Jeff. Now, I’m sure that Russell, Jeff, and Michele are all pulling for Jordan. I’m still sure the seventh vote is America, but it won’t count unless it comes out as a 3-3 tie. I kind of don’t care, at the moment, who should get out next, who should be the runner up, and who should win. I think Jordan needs to win this in order to win the game, but I don’t see it happening.

BBUS11 - Jeff Evicted & Natalie HOH

2009-09-04T02:29:00.001+01:00

Sunday: Jeff & Michelle Nominated
It was a battle for HOH, as Kevin and Michelle were taking the lead. It was Kevin who pulled ahead, and finally won HOH. In his HPOH room, we see his husband of nine years. Natalie says she feels safe, as so does Jeff, who feels the deal will save him. Michelle, however, feels vulnerable, and feels that she’s got no allies since Russell left, and thinks they are all against her. So, Natalie and Kevin talk about voting out Jeff, hoping he gets out and doesn’t get the veto. So, at the nomination ceremony, Kevin broke his word with Jeff, nominating him against Michelle.

Tuesday: Michelle vetoed & Jordan nominated
Jeff was bitter about Kevin nominating him. In the HOH bedroom, there was a “Pandora’s Box” twist that unleashed $10,000 that he housemates could collect while Kevin, who was stuck in the box, had to watch everyone, and watched as Natalie betrayed him by not freeing him. Then, Michelle is crying, saying she needs this power of veto to save her. In the veto competition, the housemates had to guess which two housemates were matched up in alien babies. It was Michelle who won the veto, and she was spared another week, while Jordan feared being put on the block against Jeff. At the veto ceremony, her reality became a nightmare as Michelle vetoed herself, and Jordan became the replacement nominee.

Thursday: Jeff evicted in a 2-1 vote
Jeff comes up with a “sweet deal” for Natalie to take. He tells her he’ll get him and Michelle to throw the final HOH competition, giving her the chance to win a free HOH, and automatically advance to the final three. Natalie says she’ll consider it. At the eviction ceremony, it was Natalie on board with voting Jordan out, but Natalie voted to evict Jeff, as she claims it was because of Jeff putting her on the block against Jessie, and it was up to Kevin to make the eviction decision. Kevin, without hesitation, voted to evict Jeff, and Jeff was evicted. In the HOH competition, which is Big Brother’s worst competitions ever, the housemates had to guess random, senseless statements and see if they are fact or fiction. In a three way tie, they went to tiebreaker where Natalie was crowned the winner of HOH, saying this is for Chima, despite the fact it can’t get her a jury vote.

I think getting Jeff out was a good move for Kevin and Natalie to make, however, I really hope to see Michelle and Jordan team up now and take out Kevin, then Natalie. I would say this is anyone’s game, and any of these four have a shot of winning. This could be the most unpredictable final four we’ve seen in a long time. I really think Jordan is the safest, as Kevin would likely vote Michelle out, since Michelle can win competitions more likely than Jordan.

I truly love the fact that each of the cliques have one representative in the final four. Jordan for popular, Natalie for Athletes, Kevin for off-beat, and Michelle for brains. I really feel this is a deserving final four, with each of them deserving to be there in their own way, except I may have to find a really good reason why Jordan should be there, but I think Jordan can prove to herself she can win and stay, even without Jef around. I think if she did that, she’d possibly see a vote from Jeff and Lydia. Below I have a final four prediction/hope list of how I want the last week to go.

4th: Kevin
3rd: Natalie
2nd: Michelle
1st: Jordan

BBUS11 - Russell Evicted by a 3-0 vote

2009-08-31T15:59:00.001+01:00

Sunday & Tuesday:
Natalie and Kevin, who have decided to lie to Jeff about Russell have decided to continue with this lie, calling Russell disloyal, and saying they would be better to take to the final four over Russell or Michelle. So, Jeff comes up with a plan to nominate Kevin and Natalie and backdoor Russell. So, Jeff did just that, as we see Natalie and Kevin nominated. On Tuesday, Natalie and Kevin decide to talk to each other about getting Jeff out if one of them wins HOH. Which, I think works as Jeff is a jury threat, but clearly means they’d be just as disloyal as Jeff and what they made Russell out to be. So, Jeff wins the power of veto, and decided to take Kevin off the chopping block. Russell says there’d be Hell if he was put on the block and get backdoored, and as he expected, he got what he expected, and was placed on the chopping block.

Thursday:
On Thursday, Russell remains bitter about being put on the block, and goes off to attack Jeff and Jordan. Jordan and Jeff fight back, with words, and Jordan chest bumped Russell, as he called her fat, and told her to eat cookie dough. Russell, again, uses the “technotronics” insult, on Jeff over again. So, Jeff and Jordan are pretty sure they don’t like Russell anymore, but hey, it’s their jury vote. It was then time for the eviction ceremony. By a vote of 3-0, Russell was evicted. Russell left in a very classy way, however, and that was respectable. In the HOH competition, the Housemates had to transfer hot chocolate across a slippery graham cracker and fill the large container with the hot chocolate and get the marshmallow out. The HOH competition was left to hangover the next episode, but Kevin was the winner in the next episode anyways.

I personally feel that taking out Russell was a good move for him because it’s pretty much easier to beat Kevin and Natalie over Russell any day. However, with Russell out, this should backfire for three reasons. One, Natalie and Kevin secretly want him out, so if they got power (which Kevin did) he could be in trouble. Two, with Russell out, that makes Jeff the only physical threat, meaning he’ll have to win these last two vetoes not matter what if he wants to walk his way to the final three and final two, and third, Russell left the game over a lie that Kevin and Natalie made up. Sure it’s part of the game, but Jeff got played and Russell was the victim, now I just won’t mind seeing Jeff become the victim next.

Out of these final five, I really don’t seem to care who’s going to win. Jeff, Kevin, Natalie, and Michelle have all done their great deal of backstabbing, I suppose, whereas Jordan just floats along, as she says Together, they are a package, when it’s more like Jeff is just Jordan’s package. I actually don’t care to see Kevin, Natalie or Michelle win, and I don’t know where the jury stands to guess on anything.

Survivor 19: Samoa - Cast & Twist Announcement

2009-08-27T23:59:00.003+01:00

I’m ready to begin blogging for Survivor Samoa. Right here on CBS’s website, (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor/), they have announced the cast, and they have announced that unlike what they said, back in the spring about having eighteen survivors, there are twenty this time, so I expect a final three to be in play. Here is the promo that explains that this season of Survivor welcomes us the “biggest villain ever”. (http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/survivor_samoa/2009_Aug_26_samoa_preview) So, without further ado, I will announce these twenty Survivors, and based off of first impressions, see if they have any potential to go very far.

ASHLEY - She’s a 22 year old spa sales rep from Maple Grove, Minnesota. She’s described in her bio she’s extremely flirty, which in Survivor, we see work out some times (Like for Parvati) or not at all (like for Sydney). So, it’s hard to tell how her flirting strategy will work out. Anyways, she’s young, and nice looking, and very bubbly, like BBUS11 Jordan, so I can see myself liking her.

BEN - He’s a 28 year old “mixologist” from Los Angeles, California. First off, I think this guy must know Memphis from BBUS10, as I thought it was just his word, but apparently, it’s the new LA work for bartender. I really see him as a strong competitor, who looks like he’ll be a hard worker. I really like how he is into motorcycles, and knowing that’s a turn on for some women, maybe flirty Ashley is looking for the bad boy type.

BETSY - She’s a 48 year old police officer from Campton, New Hampshire. Yup, New Hampshire gets represented this time, since season two, and I really hopes she makes my birth state proud. Anyways, she looks like she could be one of the stronger older females that we have, so I actually have high hopes for her. Go Betsy, make New Hampshire look less embarrassing, unlike Debb Eaton.

BRETT - He’s a 23 year old T-Shirt designer from Los Angeles, California. He is described to be very flirty, and says that’ll be one of his biggest assets in the game. When I first saw him, he reminded me of this diehard Survivor fan type, instead he claims he’s very funny. I can see him looking like one of the okay Survivors, but I don’t see him standing out at all yet.

DAVE - He’s a 38 year old fitness instructor from Los Angeles, California, which so far, he’s the third Californian I’ve seen today. He looks like he’ll be one of those types who will cause conflict, he almost could very well be this biggest villain CBS talked about. Either that, or I do see him making it far, and being a good, decent player to the game, though.

ELIZABETH - She’s a 33 year old South Korean Attorney from New York City, New York, who isn’t sure if she’s going to tell these other Survivors she’s an attorney. She seems like she’ll remind me of Shii Ann, which could be great, as Shii Ann was one of my all-time favourites. She looks like she’ll be in good condition socially, physically, and mentally stable enough to do well.

ERIK - He’s a 28 year old Bartender from Ontario, California. This guy really concerns me, and I hope they vote him off, as he claims he’s a “proud womanizer” who can date four to five women with no problem. I hope all of the men feel intimidated by him, and they choose to vote him out, because I don’t like men like that. Anyways, I also hope the women don’t all want to be with him, otherwise we’d be watching a troubled season.

JAISON - He’s a 28 year old Law Student from Chicago, Illinois. He’s famous for climbing up to Angel Falls in Venezuela, and wanting to climb Mount Everest, then snowboard all the way down. He really looks like a very intelligent, adventurous guy who could do very well in this game, but I’m not sure if he name is pronounced “Jason” just with an “I”, or if it’s pronounced differently. Anyways, I really see him doing well, or becoming a huge fan favourite on this season.

JOHN - He’s a 25 year old rocket scientist from Los Angeles, California who has traveled to various parts of the world, including Canada, South Africa, South America, and Europe, and plans on using his worldly diversity to get ahead in the game, which I don’t think I’ve seen before, so this could be interesting. He seems like he’ll be a strong athletic competitor, but I don’t know if he’ll be one of the best.

KELLY - She’s a 25 year old hairstylist from Los Angeles, but was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, which is the crappy state I currently reside in! She seems like she isn’t cut out for this, and I don’t see much from her, but she is pretty hot, to say something good about her. Since she’s Delaware’s first, I hope she doesn’t embarrass that state, unlike Dan/Andrew (TAR13).

LAURA - She’s a 39 year old Office Manager from Salem, Oregon. She claims to be the fit version of Sarah Palin, and is a very conservative Christian, and is also the first Hawaiian descendant female (Brad S13, the first male). She has kids, and for a young age, has grandkids. I really like the fact she’s a sister in Christ, but I hope she plays the game spiritually smart, if at all possible, yet. Laura is probably going to be one of my early show favourites, but I will try not to really pick a pre show favourite, because last time I did (with Candace) it didn’t work out.

MARISA - She’s a 26 year old student from Cincinnati, Ohio. She was a hard farm worker who has studied abroad in places like El Salvador and Spain. I think she will be the boring chick who I won’t remember after this season. However, who knows, I said the same thing about Erinn last season. She is pretty beautiful, though.

MICK - He’s a 33 year old Doctor from Los Angeles, California. Again, this over usage of Los Angeles residents is getting to be annoying. Mick seems like the smart guy, who will probably be a strategic threat, if anything. However, he just looks like one of the Survivors I’ll always feel neutral about. I don’t expect too much from him at all really.

MIKE - He’s a 62 year old personal chef from Marina Del Rey, California. He’s the oldest Survivor this season, so that’s an automatic hindrance to these challenges, a strategy dating all the way back to season one (Sonja). I also thinks he reminds me of Dr. Phil. Him being a huge fan of the show, at his age, I’m glad at least he took the effort to at least get into shape by losing thirty pounds.

MONICA - She’s a 25 year old Law Student from San Diego, California. She’s described as exotic and flirty, and claims to be much like Parvati & Amanda from Survivor: Micronesia. I’m not sure if she’s biracial, but she’s also attractive. However, I don’t know where she’ll stand in the game, and I hope she’s not like Paloma or Carolina through.

NATALIE - She’s a 26 year old Pharmaceutical sales rep from Van Buren, Arkansas. She’s the southern belle type who claims to be very competitive. She however, looks also very boring, and I sense there will be more boring people this season, as we are seeing twenty people. I’ll explain more of that later. She’s also attractive too, so that’s a plus.

RUSSELL H. - He’s a 36 year old Multi-Millionaire Oil Company owner from Dayton, Texas. He says he’s not out to make friends, which nobody is, unless you’re on Paris Hilton’s My New BFF, but he says everyone will want to be his friend. I don’t know if the everyone’s hero strategy will work again, but hey, it worked for JT, so it could happen.

RUSSELL S. - He’s a 42 year old attorney from Glenside, Pennsylvania. He says he’s going to cut off his dreadlocks if he wins Survivor, but let’s just hope they don’t have that performed on the reunion show. This is also like , the fourth person in the law field so far this season. He looks like he’ll be an OK Survivor, I don’t know how I feel about him just yet.

SHANNON - She’s a 45 year old ex marine, now a sales rep from Renton, Washington. She seems committed to her work, and plans to be committed to Survivor. As this season’s oldest woman, I think she’s actually more of a fighting chance type of woman, like Twila. She also looks like an ok, player though. I think she’s got a better shot than what Gillian and Sandy had.

YASMIN - She’s a 33 year old hairstylist from Los Angeles, California. With a nickname like Sassy Yassy, she could be very well sassy, and I actually don’t have a problem with that kind of attitude, as long as it’s not a stereotype. Yasmin seems like the type who’ll be one of the most respected Survivors of the season, I don’t know why though.

This season is not good with statewide diversity, as this season has ten people from California, which is half the cast, and has, like four people in law fields. I really think there’s a great deal of good cast members, the one Survivor I’m skeptical about is Erik, the “proud womanizer”. I also don’t like the fact we’re getting twenty Survivors, simply because all of the Seasons with more than eighteen Survivors (Palau, Cook Islands, Fiji, Micronesia), we get a lot of boring, under edited people.

I would have to say that the three women who stood out the most are Betsy (NH Pride), Laura (Christian Pride), and Elizabeth (Potential Shii Ann?). I would have to say my three favourite guys of this pre-show are Russell H., Brett, and Jaison. I think one of those six could be potential winners. I would say I hope the women do well this season, and not get to flirtatious like what three of them said in their bios. Anyways, this looks like it could be a very good season, I just hope the fact it has twenty people on it isn’t such a bad thing.

While reading the Survivor post on Reality Blurred, I learned there’s a Chief twist revealed, where in contrast to voting a team member out based on first impressions. They’ll probably tie it into Samoan culture. The tribes get to vote for one member to be a chief on their tribe. I think that’s a nice twist, because it’s prefect in changing someone’s strategy, and this twist should do this big time, as long as nobody pulls a GC and quits their leadership position. I really think this is going to be a fun t\season. There’s no word out on whom I can predict as the Survivors’ biggest villain to date yet, nor can I tell if this chief twist will lead to that.

BBUS11 - Jordan wins veto & Lydia is evicted

2009-08-23T01:16:00.001+01:00

Beforehand:
Natalie received a phone call from her dad, as she says this week was pretty bad for her, and Natalie feels some comfort is knowing that Natalie’s dad and boyfriend watch the show together. Then, Natalie, Lydia, and Kevin try to tell Jeff a lie about Russell and Michelle making final two deals with Michelle. Jeff looked as he bought the lie, and he and Jordan planned on getting a nominee vetoed or voting Russell out next week. Personally I hope this doesn’t happen, because it could mess up Jeff’s game by keeping Natalie and Kevin in the game, ass they’ll get the votes from Jessie and Lydia. Then, Natalie and Lydia finally come to an agreement about Jessie trying to pit Lydia and Natalie against each other in a love triangle. So, They both agree to give Jessie some heck for that when one of them entered the jury house.

Veto competition, Veto Ceremony, and Eviction ceremony:
In the veto competition the housemates had to determine if a phrase Julie Chen was before or after another phrase Julie said. It was between Michelle and Jordan as they went all the way to tiebreaker, where Jordan was the eventual winner of the veto competition. During the commercial break, we see Kevin, Jeff, and Jordan in the spa room. Ultimately, Jordan decided not to use the power of veto, leaving Lydia and Natalie on the block. It was time for the eviction, and by a vote of three to one, Lydia was eviction. Lydia decided to only say goodbye to her Sugar bear, Kevin, and then leave the house. Then, it was time for the HOH competition where the housemates had dump cans into one of two tubes and fill them up to get a total of 24 cans. The challenge was immediately left as a cliffhanger, and will go on to the next episode.

This season is actually turning out a bit okay, now. While it had a bad start seeing Laura and Casey go and see Jessie control everything, I was glad that things turned around epically enough to make this season be good enough. I really hope Natalie and Kevin go pretty soon, I don’t think either one of them were decent players, but they were nice people, most of the time, and I believe they’d make pretty louse and easy winners. I think the best winners would be Jeff or Russell, but the only way that would happen is if they were the final two together. I really would love to See Jordan win, and seeing we may get a bitter jury, I believe it would be epic if that happened. Michelle, well, she’d be an ok winner, but I think she’s prety dead at third or fourth, and I fell she’s the bottom of the alliance.

Love: Jordan, Jeff, Russell,
Like: Michelle, Natalie, and Kevin
Dislike: Lydia.

BBUS11 - Chima Ejected & Jordan HOH

2009-08-20T13:49:00.001+01:00

The Nominees, Chima & Natalie up:
Since this week was originally going to be a double eviction week, I was originally planning to make two posts this week, but since Big Brother had an ejection occur, I’ll make that the first of two posts of the week. So, let me tell you about Big Brother’s gotta be best episode in a long time. But first, I’ll start with Michelle getting crowned as HOH. What had to be one of the most awkward and random things on the show was Chima, Natalie, and Lydia crying of Jessie’s eviction like a funeral, as if he actually died or something. It was almost like a funeral, but it was funny, so maybe not exactly not like a funeral. Then, Michelle was telling the housemates she wanted Chima out. This made Russell and Jeff very happy. So, at the nomination ceremony, it was Chima and Natalie who were nominated.

Chima’s Ejection:
It all started when the housemates got the chance to practice for the veto competition when Chima was told to put her microphone back on. Kevin goes and gets her microphone and she throws it in the pool. Then Chima continues to refuse to put her microphone back on as Kevin, Lydia, and Natalie are trying to convince her to put it back on. It didn’t work, Allison Grodner, who basically, owned Chima called her to the diary room and Chima didn’t even get to sit in the chair, she was immediately escorted out as she was finally ejected. I feel this had to be one of the best moments this show has had in a very long time.

The Aftermath:
Lydia tries to tell Kevin and Natalie about Chima choosing to make her decisions on her own. Then, next is the HOH competition where the housemates had to play a miniature golf type game. It was last between Jordan and Jeff where Jeff threw the competition and gave it to Jordan. This made Lydia go completely psycho as she calls Jordan a hoe and goes off on Jeff. Later, Lydia begins dumping all of Michelle’s beer and goes off on her. Lydia claims she should be the next one to go. At the nomination ceremony, it was Lydia and Natalie nominated, as Jordan claims she wants Natalie out. This episode showed Lydia looking really stupid, saying stuff about Chima making her own decisions which is true, then Lydia turns around and acts just as bitter.

Love: Jordan, Jeff, Russell, Michelle
Meh: Kevin
Dislike: Chima, Natalie, Lydia

BBUS11 - Coup D’Etat used as Jessie is evicted

2009-08-14T20:09:00.001+01:00

Sunday - Russell & Lydia nominated:
Chima was the winner of the HOH competition, which was the worst case scenario for Russell. During the day, it was a famous actor Jeremy Pivot (sp?) who entered the house to announce the HHN competition. (Hey, it was better than another former housemate, I guess). So, at the end of the nominations ceremony, it was Russell nominated for past conflicts with Chima and Lydia nominated, mostly as a pawn. I thought this was Chima’s only good move she could make, but It didn’t matter as I figured Jeff was going to use the Coup D’Etat to mess everything up for her anyways. Now, come to think of it, she better be glad she didn’t nominate Michelle over Lydia because, given Michelle’s the current HOH, that wouldn’t have worked.

Tuesday - Kevin wins POV & doesn’t use it:
On Tuesday, Russell is upset about getting nominated, and clearly states he’ll fight to stay in the game. As soon as they picked veto players, and as soon as Jessie wasn’t picked, I was happy, as I figured it is the end of Jessie now. So, during the veto competition, it was a close race between Russell and Kevin. It was Kevin’s technique of getting the eggs out that earned him the veto. After the veto competition, Chima and Russell go at it as Chima calls Russell a terrorist, as Russell claims that was Racist. It can be, since it was when Ivette said it to Kaysar in season six. So, at the veto ceremony, Kevin decided he needs to look at after himself and decides not to veto Lydia, his close ally.

Thursday -Jessie Evicted as Coup D’Etat used & Michelle’s HOH:
Russell decides to go and talk to Michelle, asking for votes, as he fails to do so, since Jessie ruined that for him, he feels it’s the Coup D’Etat that may save him. It was almost time for the eviction ceremony when Julie Chen asked if the power is to be used. Jeff stood up, said he’s got the power, and immediately nominated Jessie and Natalie. At the eviction ceremony, by a vote of 3-2, Jessie was evicted, becoming the first member of the jury. It really loved how crazy that episode was, and it’ll be just as crazy as the double eviction next week. This season went from a bad start to almost one of the best seasons, just don’t let Chima get too far, of course. That eviction was so Epic, man, I can’t believe Jessie got screwed by two America’s Choice Twists throughout Big Brother. Also, Michelle as Hoh is going to be a nice trip, she’ll probably be walked all over next episode, if she gets Chima out, she’ll obviously move up on the liability scale.

Love: Jordan, Jeff, Russell
Like: Lydia, Natalie, Kevin
Meh: Michelle
Dislike: Chima, Jessie

BBUS11 - Ronnie Evicted by 3-4 vote

2009-08-09T23:38:00.001+01:00

Sunday - Ronnie & Lydia nominated:
In the cliffhanger HOH competition, it was left between Russell and Jeff. Then, Jeff stuck a deal with Russell, hoping he, along with Jordan is safe. Russell as HOH got Jessie, Ronnie, Natalie, and Chima all nervous. So, the four of them all try to gang up on Lydia and Kevin who are simply floating along to whoever has power. Then, Lydia says to Russell that Chima wanted Russell backdoored on week two. So, at the nomination ceremony, Russell kept his word to a new ally, Jeff, and decided not to nominate Jordan and Jeff, but to nominate Lydia and Ronnie.

Tuesday - Michelle wins POV, does not use it.
In this episode, after Russell nominated Ronnie and Lydia, it’s often sure that Jeff, Jordan, and Kevin will vote for Ronnie, while Chima, Jessie, and Natalie will vote for Lydia. This leaves Michelle as a swing vote, and notices she’ll be making enemies this week. Not only does she suddenly become a swing vote, she ends up winning the veto competition. Russell decides to make a secret agreement with Michelle, and with that, she doesn’t use the power of veto, leaving the nominations the same for the first time this season.

Thursday - Ronnie evicted, Jeff wins Coup D’Etat, Chima HOH
In Thursday’s episode, Ronnie tries to weasel and rat in his way to win a sympathy vote from Jordan. Before the eviction ceremony, things got heated, well, staged, so they say between Chima and Russell and Ronnie confesses there’s no good in Michelle. Now, it was also revealed that Jeff was the winner of the Coup D’Etat where in the first chance, it wasn’t used by him. So, the results were in, and With 4 votes, Ronnie was evicted. In the HOH ceremony, it was Chima, Kevin, and Natalie left. Chima got the last question right, claiming a win for herself.

Now, I am go flipping glad that Jeff got this Coup D’Etat because I so think he’s going to use it and totally get Jessie out of the door this week. I also wouldn’t mind seeing Kevin or Michelle leaving, just because due to their game play and lack of strategy skills that it should be one of them leaving shortly. I think Lydia is doing an OK job at playing, unlike Kevin, who is just nothing but a floater’s sidekick. That’s it. Russell and Jeff are easily playing probably the two best game players because they know how to take control of how to get themselves out of bad positions, unlike Jessie, who is clearly playing the game way too hard, and did that way too early, also.

Here is a new way how I’m ranking these housemates based on how I like them. It’s basically a Love/Like/Meh/Dislike scale that I hope (if my readers are, like, alive?) you guys would do. This ranking only includes the ten housemates were there this week. So here goes:

Love: Jordan, Jeff, Russell
Like: Natalie, Lydia
Meh: Kevin, Michelle
Dislike: Chima, Jessie, Ronnie.

BBUS11 - Casey evicted & secret power revealed

2009-08-04T22:26:00.001+01:00

For now on, my blogs on Big Brother will be weekly, instead of after every episode, simply because it’s just going to be easier on me. This is about Casey’s eviction, so here we go.

Basic info of the night:
Casey tried to scheme to get the chance to stay, so he goes to Russell, and tells Russell, he’s fourth in Jessie’s alliance. At first Russell claims to be second, but what I thought was, why settle for second? Until he noticed it’ll be easier to beat Ronnie and Natalie in the final three with him out. So, Russell claims he’s got to consider keeping Casey, and says he’ll try to get the numbers to save him. Meanwhile, everyone else pretty much considered the vote to turn out unanimous. At the eviction ceremony, the vote was 7-1, Russell voted for Jordan, but couldn’t get the numbers to save Casey, and Casey was evicted.

Twist and another resurrected twist:
Shortly after Casey was evicted, Julie Chen called all housemates to the living room, where she announced the housemates have Graduated from Big Brother School District (OK, so maybe not those exact words, but still, the housemates were told they “graduated”) which is just a metaphorical way of saying the housemates are no longer competing or depending on as cliques. Then, Julie Chen announced another twist, a Secret Power was to be given to a certain housemate. This housemate would receive the power as request by America. Julie Chen revealed to America that this secret power was the Coup D’Etat, which we saw that in Season 7, it gave us a whole lot of nothing, but hey, the Immunity Idol’s in Survivor started off that way, and look at it now. (Blindside flashbacks!) I do think the Coup D’Etat can be used, it’ll just be sued predictably, because these people are all pretty much playing a predicable game.

The HOH competition:
The HOH competition required everyone to sit on a graduation hat and hang on for dear life as they get spun around, while being rained on, and then whacked by an oversized inflatable diploma. Nobody dropped before the end of the show, where it was left as a cliffhanger. (But Russell won, I’ll say more in the next blog). So, it was pretty sad to see Casey go, and to see him up against Jordan, and it really sucks to see Jessie’s ego continue inflating more than that diploma was inflated. Jessie just reminds me of Coach from Survivor, minus being a self proclaimed “dragon slayer”. I’ve noticed this is Big Brother’s, what third twist resurrected into a public voting twist (Returning Housemate, America’s Player, Coup D’Etat). What’s next? America’s Pairs? Whatever happened to Expect the Unexpected? Anyways, Go Jordan and Jeff! That’s just about it, for now, however, I finally have respect for Russell for saving Casey and not being so up to Jessie so much. Also, readers, I want to hear from you, I want to know what you think of this season, maybe compare it to BBUK10, or whatever, just comment, please?

Top 5:
1. Jordan
2. Jeff
3. Russell
4. Casey (evicted)
5. Laura (evicted)

BBUS11 - Michele wins POV, got vetoed, Casey Nominated

2009-07-29T19:43:00.001+01:00

I do have Sunday’s episode up, you can look below to read that first. This episode is about Big Brother week three’s veto competition and Ronnie and Casey battling to stay off the block. So, after Michelle and Jordan were nominated, they really looked surprised, and while thinking they were pawns, Jordan still did not want to be nominated. As of now, it’s Chima, Ronnie, Natalie, and Russell who want Jessie to backdoor Casey, and Jeff, Jordan, Michele, and Casey to see Jessie backdoor Ronnie. I’m not really sure where Lydia and Kevin stand, I think those two are pretty much stuck in-between as of now.

In this episode, we first watched a couple of dares from Truth or Dare, as we see Kevin dared to cuddle for two seconds with Jessie while he’s asleep, and see Ronnie hug Casey, while Casey is mad, and not wanting to hug a rat. Casey really seemed to take that hug more personal then I’d expect. Next, we see Jessie constantly asking several other housemates this question: “Why do you want Ronnie out and how would that benefit you?” Then, it was time for the housemates to pick veto players, and this week, Jessie talks about hoping Casey doesn’t play the veto competition. As it was finally time to pick players for the veto competition, it was Chima, Casey, and Jeff chosen to play with the HOH and nominees.

In the veto competition, the teams were dressed as pigs and had to find numbers in a pile of mud and if they liked the number, they could claim it. Thy could claim four numbers, and the one with the highest number would be the winner. In the veto competition, Jessie went out to claim $2,500 and Casey won everyone a Margarita party for everyone, but during the taking a card deal, Casey was punished and forced to wear a banana suit for a wee. In was Michele’s risk to take a card that put her on the top, and she won the veto competition.

Before the veto ceremony, Kevin and Lydia also hear about their fellow off-beater getting put on the block, and talk about the chances to save Casey in hopes of Casey getting Jessie out. It was now either Ronnie or Casey expected to be on the block, Casey attempts to talk to Jessie for one last time after having his allies telling him it’ll be him up for eviction. However, it didn’t work, and after Michelle vetoed herself at the veto ceremony, Casey was nominated, making the house, like his suit, go bananas.

This nominations was deferentially B-A-N-AN-A-S as we see Jessie thinking he’s got the game wrapped up. I’d love for a turn around, and see something happen. I really didn’t want Casey or Jordan to go, but if I had my choice, Jordan should go, since Casey is more likely to win.

BBUS11 - Michele & Jordan nominated

2009-07-29T19:07:00.001+01:00

I’m back from the best vacation ever, and ready to talk about Big Brother’s third week. So sit back at we see Rat-a-tat Rat Ronnie go vulnerable to felling safe, two jealous girls and a meathead, and the (literally) most unexplained nominations in Big Brother history.

So, it all started with Ronnie feeling like a criminal, as he was left with some bitter enemies for siding with certain people. People like Jeff, Jordan, Michele, and Casey were all sure they hated Ronnie, and were sure he’d be the next one to go. However, it seems that Jessie, Russell, and Natalie, the power athletes want Casey to go, as Casey has come pretty close to winning some challenges.

Next, we have the HHN competition that Chima, Jordan, and Kevin got to play. The teams had to wear drunk goggles (derived from I Survived a Japanese Game show?) and throw ice cubes (large plastic objects painted white) into a large can. The one with the most ice in their cans was to be the Have Not of the week. It was Chima who failed for her team, and her along with Ronnie and Michele were the week three have nots. At least this time Chima didn’t throw a fit, I was very surprised.

Jealously spawned between Lydia and Natalie, as they are involved in a love Showmance triangle with Jessie, who is still probably more into himself. We see their Jealously as Natalie and Lydia attempt to take the game personal by threatening to nominate each other and are bringing each other down. They are also not liking it when the other one is cuddling with Jessie.

Next, it was time for nominations. Ronnie acted like he felt vulnerable, and the same people who hate him are all sure he’s up for eviction. Then, at the nomination ceremony, it was Michelle and Jordan who got nominated, and Jessie left no explanation. Jordan and Michelle left the nomination ceremony thinking they were pawns, and that Ronnie was to be getting backdoored.

First off, I knew Ronnie was going to be marked as some sort of a target for getting Laura out and siding with Jessie’s alliance the minute he was HOH after Braden left because of his attempt to turn on Braden, sending them home. I really don’t care about Jessie nor do I care whether he hooks up with Natalie, Lydia, or himself, I just want to see Jessie’s alliance crumble. I would, however, enjoy to see Lydia and Natalie smarten up and see them both ditch their love for Jessie. That would be epic.

Jessie was kind of a coward for not even explaining his choice of nominating Michelle and Jordan, and a bigger coward for nominating the freakin’ two weakest players at the time in probably Big Brother’s history. It’s pretty clear I want the Casey/Jordan/Jeff/Michelle alliance to stay in all the way together, but they are severely the underdogs. I really hope they can flip something next week.

BBUS11 - Braden Evicted & Ronnie HOH

2009-07-18T14:25:00.001+01:00

In the Big Brother house on Thursday, tension sparked as Braden was upset with Lydia over Lydia targeting Braden. This is the part where Braden pulls out some Jade Goody behavior and says some racial slurs to Lydia and Kevin. Then, Lydia goes off on Jordan for really no reason by saying she’s aligned with a complete bigot. Jordan gets her chance to own Lydia stating she had nothing to do with the eviction, saying she sold her soul to the other alliance. Lydia was easily upset with Jordan over Jordan choosing not to cry when Lydia was on the block. Hey Lydia, it’s Jordan’s eyes, she can flood them with tears any time she wants to.

Once again, Jordan attempts to own the game by keeping Braden and evicting Chima. She gets together with Laura her other clique mate and tells her they would be screwed without Braden. Either way the Brains or Popular clique is screwed tonight. So, Jordan rambles up Michelle, Jeff, Ronnie, and Casey asking them to vote for Braden. Casey is completely looked at as a swing vote, and thinks it’s his decision.

Next, it was time for eviction. Braden’s speech says this was the best first week of Big Brother ever, and I have to bluntly disagree, and say that obviously another season could take that title. Chima easily explains that these housemates have forgotten things and that “anyone who aligns themselves with a bigot deserves to go home”. Then, the voting started. By a vote of 5-5, the housemates were in a tie, meaning the HOH, Jessie had to vote. Jessie easily voted for Braden, and Braden was evicted. Braden talks to Julie Chen where he learns it was Ronnie who flipped and Braden describes his Big Brother experience as discombobulated.

Next, is the HOH competition called “Most Likely to. . . . .” where they had to simply guess what the fans of Big Brother thinks about the cliques. If answered wrong, they would be eliminated. If correct, they get to eliminate another housemate. The last one standing would be the winner of HOH. At the very end, it was Michelle and Ronnie left standing, and Ronnie was the eventual winner.

I think I’d really appreciate Jordan now, and I so hope Jordan, Laura, Jeff, Michelle, and Casey get more numbers on their side and take out people like Lydia next. However, with Ronnie as HOH, I think this week will be a part of a random, unpredictable nomination ceremony. Hopefully, It will be Lydia and either Kevin Russell who end nominated. However, I think Ronnie will be crushed next week because either way he’ll have to upset half of the house with his nominations after playing both sides the first week. Here is the list of a top 5 favorite housemates of this week:

1. Jordan
2. Casey
3. Laura
4. Jeff
5. Chima

There will be NO blog for the Tuesday & Thursday episodes of this week, as I will be gone next week. I may get a Sunday blog up, and I will get the blogging back up for the third week.

Survivor confirms All Star season, called “Heroes vs. Villains”

2009-07-16T19:43:00.002+01:00

So, Survivor’s 20th season which is going to be filmed in Samoa, just like the 19th season, which is set for September. The other news is that the 20th season will be doing another All Star series called “Heroes vs. Villains. I actually think this is better than what we saw on our original all star version back in 2004 because the villains can’t be targeted by heroes right off the bat. If this season works out alright, give the casting is good, this season has way more potential than people expect.

Right after Survivor: Tocantins ended I made an all star list, having no idea they would invite people back next year. Now since this special edition is confirmed, I am not going to make another list, bit I’m going to state whom from Survivor 1-18 and I would put in. Each man, woman, villain, and hero in order of which they deserve their spot. I am putting winners, second chances, Micronesia favourites, or season eight all stars in the other pile because I want to go over who should and shouldn’t be invited back for a third chance, considering there were two-time Survivors who may get a third chance.

Heroes:
For females, I really hope people like Colleen, Elizabeth, and Peih-Gee reconsider a second chance because it was those guys who people like Parvati/Amber back in the game and people like them have got nothing to lose. I think Colleen, Elizabeth, and Peih-Gee could play a better game and not make a downfall. Those three girls were likable women who outlast their underhanded tribe. Sugar, despite she was not very liked by the Onion Layer allies like Marcus, Corinne, and Randy, her “get good people to the end” worked for her, and she wouldn’t want to play as a villain. I believe one of the most heroic, well-liked by fans and Survivors, and had it in the bag for an easy final four spot survivor was Michael from Survivor: Outback. Sure he didn’t make the merge, but it wasn’t his fault he got burned. I would much likely consider Terry on the hero side because he was more liked than hated by fans, and did an excellent job using the idol to take on Casaya. Since Tom was the winner, I think Ian is more likely to be asked back, and stands a more fair shot than Tom would. Next, I think since Danni won, Gary, like Ian, was a decent person beside Danni who stands a more fair shot.

Villains:
I think, Villain wise, Twila is pretty much going to be the first female asked back to be on this tribe because she manipulated her own female alliance and lost to Chris. I would also really like to see Candace our Mutineer of Cook Islands return just because anyone is just better than under edited Natalie. I’d also expect to see Crystal and Sierra there to be in the middle of more immature drama. Picking Male Villains, which is the least of Survivor’s worries, should likely feature Coach (who will probably go by Ben) and Randy for sure, and I’d like to see crazy Shane back and then Judd, please. Just think: This is my villain’s thinking chair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”. I really don’t want them to cast Crystal with Kenny, but I still they were both equally deserving for a villain tribe spot.

Others:
I really hope if they cast already two-time survivors, they casted the ones that made the merge twice. Please don’t bring back the pre-jury all-stars, Fairplay/Yau-man/Ami because those guys failed to live up their first-time play. I also think it would be hard to bring back Stephenie or Ozzy because those guys turned into villains after being heroes. Preferably, they could bring back Amanda/Cirie/Rob M. because those guys took massive control twice but fell short due to stupid jurors. Jonathan Penner could’ve easily changed Micronesia if he remained on his dominating tribe and they merged to a massive upper hand. In the event a couple winners come back, it should be Danni/Tom/Yul/Chris for a hero and Brian/Todd as villain winners, I really don’t think a female who was a villain ended up winning. I don’t know where to place Aras/JT, as I think they were respected as a mixture of a villain-hero type player.

BBUS11 - Russell wins POV, Lydia vetoed, Braden nominated

2009-07-15T13:42:00.001+01:00

Sunday’s blog is below, read below to catch up so you’re not lost. So, in Big Brother 11 last night, Lydia felt hurt over being nominated, and totally wasn’t expecting it. She goes in the bedroom (the one that looks like a pool) and begins crying. Kevin, Braden, Jordan, and Jeff were there to comfort her. That got the other athletes upset, and their egos were hurt. Chima was noticing that Lydia was being comforted, but not her.

In the veto competition, the housemates had to pick letters out of “zits” from a face that I swear looked like Michael Jackson’s face, and spell a word from the letters they find. The housemate that spells the longest word would win the. . . . . give me a V, give me an E, give me a T, and give me an O. What does that spell,? Veto. The veto players were the two nominees (Lydia and Chima) and surprise, all four athletes (Jessie, Natalie, Jeff, Russell). Notable words that were spelled were L-A-S-T (Natalie’s word, and it almost worked) and Big Brother’s new edition to the dictionary, T-E-C-T-O-N-I-C-S, which the housemates claimed wasn’t a word, but I looked it up, it is a word, Jeff just spelled it wrong. However, the winning word turned out to be none other than S-H-O-T-G-U-N. That’s just so appropriate to a high school themed Big Brother series. That word belonged to Russell, and he was crowned the veto holder.

Next, a big event happened. Russell decided it was time to make himself feel better (as if the veto wasn’t enough of a reason) by calling Jeff out as a two-faced liar who threw the veto competition. Jeff and Russell turn around and begin verbally attacking each other, Russell rambling on Jeff’s failure to make a word and Jeff rambles about Russell spelling Shotgun. That had to be an extremely lame and easily avoidable fight.
Natalie and Jeff also get into an argument about Jeff not being loyal to the athletes, and Natalie is right, Jeff really hasn’t been loyal to the athletes.

Laura seems to be making friends with the athletes Jessie, Natalie, and Russell as they are needing her number to get the vote their way. Then, Lydia seems to tell Jessie and Natalie they that she was not the right nominee, and decides to throw Braden’s name in there. Jessie and Natalie seem to agree, and think they can get Lydia on their side and evict Braden, after noticing the housemates are about to be divided into two split alliances. Big Brother US being divided into two split alliances has happened just about every season. Before the veto ceremony, Russell tells Ronnie it’s Braden who is going, and Ronnie tells Braden this. Russell knows that Braden knows and confronts Ronnie, who lies bluntly to Russell. So, at the veto ceremony, Russell vetoed Lydia, and Jessie nominated Braden.

I am really not sure about the game being divided already, usually it takes until week three or four. Right now there are only a few to like and a lot of them need to grow on me in order for e to like them. I don’t think Russell, Jessie, and Natalie stand a chance of getting much more allies, and maybe I think Laura and maybe Lydia would be doing a bad thing if aligning with the athletes. Right now, this is bringing back BBUS5 flashbacks, remembering in that season, there was a group of four, the “Four Horsemen” running the first week, and crumbling after that. As of now, I like all the off-beats clique members (Lydia, Kevin, Casey), and Jordan, the rest just need more time for me to decide on. I want Braden to go because of what I read about him saying.

BBUS11 - Jessie nominates Lydia and Chima

2009-07-15T12:29:00.001+01:00

Sorry for the delay, I’ve been doing something else. In this episode of Big Brother, we start off with Jessie entering the house and the housemates are already talking about how much they like or don’t like Jessie. Meanwhile, Jessie is doing some obscene victory dance in the diary room, gloating the fact he’s back in the game.

Later, the athletes, mainly Jessie, Russell, and Natalie are coming up with plans to whom to nominate. Then, Ronnie comes by and nearly begs Jessie for a deal. They come up with some first ever nerd-athlete union, and agree to nominate a pawn. Chima agrees to be the pawn. The other target seems to automatically be Lydia. However, Jessie talks about how Lydia and Laura are being really nice to Jessie.

Big Brother has announced the housemates will be having the first ever “Haves and Have Not’s” competition where the Popular people, Brainy people, and Off-Beat people competed for luxuries. In their HHN Competition, the cliques had to put pipes with coloured, glowing liquid together to spell a word (something like that). The Off-Beats and Popular people were the winners, forcing the brainy people to be placed on slop, sleep in a not so luxurious room, and go without hot water.

Chima was very upset to losing the challenge, and simple continues crying over it. Then, it came time to see Jessie nominate two people. The athletes begin talking about nominating Chima as a pawn, and want either Lydia or Laura up. They say Laura isn’t playing the game and Lydia is. When it came time to see nominations, it was Chima (the pawn) and Lydia (the target) nominated.

I really thought these were the wrong nominations. First off, Chima is still dumb for volunteering to be the pawn despite the fact she knows pawn are just as likely, if not, more likely to go home. I don’t really think Lydia was the right option for nomination.

BBUS11 - 12 new Housemates enter, Jessie enters as HOH.

2009-07-10T15:52:00.001+01:00

Big Brother 11 premiered last night, and it started with Julie Chen comparing the Big Brother game to High School. OK, I just left High school, and am now almost reliving it on my television screen, sigh. Julie Chen also talks about this high school comparison that will lead to Big Brother’s famous motto, “Expect the Unexpected, then Julie Chen joked, she’s just expecting. Julie Chen is pregnant and is presenting the show as pregnant. So, it was now time for the housemates to receive their key at home, and perform this annual “getting ready to be on Big Brother and be excited about it” ceremony.

Then, the twelve new housemates are now in front of the front door, and are there with their bags, attempting to observe each other. I’m waiting for Julie Chen and Big Brother to do what Survivor and TAR do, make the housemates drop their bags, and enter with just the clothes on their backs, but oh well. So, four by four, the housemates enter the house. The housemates run around picking a bedroom to stay in, and introducing themselves by name.

The housemates are now all together in the living room, announcing themselves by name, age, location, and profession. Natalie lies about her age, saying she’s 18, which in the US, you have to be 21 to be on the show, unless you enter the game with your ex or estranged father. Before it was time for a commercial, Julie Chen talks to the housemates about the first twist of the season , and revealing the twelve of them will be divided into four high school cliques: Brains, Popular, Athletes, and off-beats. The housemates begin to guess what Clique they’ll belong to. Lydia and Kevin are sure they are the off-beats, Jeff says he played football, Jordan announces she was on Homecoming, and Michele and Ronnie are sure they are the brains.

It was them time for the cliques to be announces. So, everyone was ordered outside. So, the brains were Chima, Ronnie, and Michele. The athletes were Russell, Natalie, and Jeff. The off-beats were Lydia, Casey, and Kevin. The popular people were Jordan, Laura, and Braden. These clique people were almost predicable, except I didn’t predict Jeff and Braden. It was time for the very first HOH competition, called The Wedgie. Housemates were to put on long underwear, and be airlifted as if they were getting a real wedgie and had to hold onto a toilet seat. The last clique remaining would win HOH, however, they won’t take HOH power, that will go to a mystery thirteenth housemate who will become HOH and join the clique in the event their clique wins HOH for them. The three members of the clique, who’s clique is HOH are all safe from the threat of eviction.

These potential thirteenth housemates are no strangers to Big Brother, as they were previous players from past seasons. The four potential housemates also represented a clique. The brain member was Brian, the first evictee from BBUS10, the popular member was Jessica from BBUS8, the off-beat member was Cowboy aka Michael from BBUS5, and the athlete was Jessie from BBUS10. One of those four would be returning back to the game and be Big Brother’s version of “Stephanie LaGrossa”.

Back in the house, and in the backyard challenge, things were not looking good for the brains. Michele and Ronnie were the first two eliminated from the challenge, leaving Chima to represent the brains, a clique she doesn’t seem to happy about. The competition went on and on, until it was the nerds wiped out, excluding Brian’s chance to return to the game. Next, the off-beats were out, eliminating Cowboy from a chance to come back. Cowboy was absolutely the worst of the four, he was useless, whipped, and a joke the first time, and would not have the capability to add anything to this season. It’s also his second failing time returning to the game, he wasn’t voted in or selected to play in BBUS7.

So, Laura, Braden, Natalie, and Russell were the final four housemates remaining in the HOH competition, and Jessica and Jessie were the last two hoping, not fighting, for HOH. At this time, I was rooting for the popular clique to win so Jessica could return in the game. However, Laura, then Braden let me down, giving Jessie the opportunity to come back and play.

This season has a bit of potential, but I feel this kind of twist will make things so predictable. For some reason, I would expect the weakest two (Michele & Ronnie) to be nominated, since it can be “too early” to start picking off strong competitors. They did this with Carol and Amber in BBUS8. I really don’t think Jessie will last, he may pull a Kaysar and keep Tenth place. I really am not favoring a clique, since none of these cliques I truly represented in high school. I really think I’m going to like Laura and Jordan, maybe because they are hot, or whatever. The rest don’t stand out yet, and I don’t think I am going to root for a specific clique. I think the Athletes have what they want this week, but all it takes is for the other cliques to regime change and gang up on the athletic four some.

I am also thinking about what I would’ve done if I was the one who controlled this show and picked which previous housemates should return. I would’ve invited Holly of BBUS5 back to be in the popular group, just because Holly was hilarious, and one of the most unique BBUS housemates, Crazy James of BBUS9 would make a perfect representation for Off-beats, he was way more outrageous, competitive, and strategic than Cowboy, Hardy from BBUS2, despite he was the one who stopped Chilltown from controlling the whole game, but it would be nice to see someone from extreme old school to play Big Brother now. As for the other brain member, well, I guess it wouldn’t hurt to bring back smart people like Maggie, Jun, or Dan back, despite they won.

I really think a lot of you readers are more into Big Brother, especially your own country’s Big Brother version, so therefore, I expect to see more comments. I love seeing comments, so please say something.

Big Brother US 11 Cast Revealed

2009-07-01T18:10:00.002+01:00

Hello, Hello, and welcome to my first Big Brother US blog. I’m sorry that BBUK10 Has been pulled off of you tube, and couldn’t watch that. But Big Brother isn’t pulled off my TV screen, so I’m all ready to blog about Big Brother 11 this winner. I’ll start with announcing the cast, I will not be revealing any information on “the twist” as I haven’t seen any official information on CBS’s website. However, you will be able to see house pictures, as that’s been revealed. Here we go!

BRADEN is a actor/model from California, who also does surfing. He’s just a typical California stereotype and very Big Brother material. He thinks of himself as a fashion icon, and makes jewelry, but was “too cool for school” Seriously, what does he have to offer because trying to be famous? Not much I see, at least. Considering he makes up words, I wonder what will be the new term for “Showmance“, or “backdoor”.

CASEY is a teacher and a rap DJ from a low income community? (No location information is on the website of CBS) He believes he will miss his family, and has a life motto: refuse to lose. He’s this season’s token older guy, who, since he is a rapper, may turn out to have a similar personality as Mike Boogie.

CHIMA is a freelance journalist who, as a military brat, lived all over the country. She’s single (yay!) but wants a tall guy (ruling me out). She really is exotic, and very beautiful. If I must say Big Brother does one thing, it’s having the hottest girl (Jen, Michelle (BB4), Holly, Jennifer (BB6). Chima seems smart, something most girls on Big Brother aren’t.

JEFF is an advertising salesman, who is into sports and is very adventurous. He’s single, and wouldn’t mind a Showmance, if she’s the right one for him at the time. He lives by a motto “treat others the way you’d be treated” Ummm, how does that exactly apply to Big Brother US?. He looks smart, and beast in challenges, but could be more of a Survivor fit.

JORDAN is the southern small hometown girl, who is very hot. I’d say she’s the hottest this season. She’s a waitress,, that’s a plus, as I prefer girls on my education level. When I saw Jordan, I figured it’d be her for the win. I was right about Tammy/Victor, Lou, and anyone could predict JT’s win, so maybe I’ll continue to be right. When I saw Jordan, “I couldn’t breath, I had no air, and she‘s on my heart, like a tattoo” (cheesy reference to Jordin Sparks).

KEVIN is a “blackenese” housemate, the first blackenese housemates, I may say. He was a Jehovah’s Witness, but excommunicated from that, breaking away from his family and friends. He describes himself to be ghetto, which I find to be very annoying. He seems like an OK guy, I really think he’ll be interesting. He hopes his lost, estranged family will someday watch Big Brother, see him, and see how he’s become. Despite I don’t think Jehovah Witnesses watch Big Brother, I know the producers will be calling them, telling them about Kevin.

LAURA is a 21 year old bikini model, which is a plus for me. She reminds me of the infamous Jen, which is an extra plus. I also like her too, and she seems fun. While in the house, she plans to live in her BIKINI! Like AI’s Bikini girl, but BB’s own version. That’s a good way to get the guys on her side, but a terrible way to get the girls on her side. It’s also a good way to be an easy fan favourite of guys.

LYDIA is the heavily-tattooed female with a eccentric personality. I really like people that aren’t afraid to act different, just I can do without the dozens of tattoos. Hey, I love how we have the exact same sport teams favourites: none, because she doesn’t watch sports. She also loves her parents, despite her police-officer dad not approving of her tattoos.

MICHELE is a brainy female who has a PHD in neuroscience as her main accomplishment, and self-proclaims to be a nerd and bad geek. OK, girls who are smart are just not for me, as those girls are easily most arrogant, and I don’t know if I’ll expect different from this girl. She also claims to be a news junkie, so I really think that’s a minus, since I can learn more about society while watching Reality TV, than from any news show.

NATALIE is a Tae Kwan Do champion from California. Natalie really looks boring, but hey, I said the same thing about Erinn, so anything can come around to surprise me. She seems smarter than the other Natalie, who believed in a 27th letter in the alphabet, and is into poker. Can the others read her poker face, as goes a bluffing with her muffin? (again, more music reference)

RONNIE is a video game addict, and a uber Big Brother fan, who can recite the order of eviction of every season throughout the series. I bet I can do that, I bet I’m just as mush of a fan as he. He also likes sci-fi collectables, especially star-trek. He’s married to his wife for five years, so there’s little hope of a nerd Showmance. I bet the producers are expecting that.

RUSSELL is a body-builder who goes by the name Russell the love muscle”. We’ll see how loving he really is, when Russell claims he’s ready to get into a fight in the house. He seems like he’ll do good in challenges, but already is giving me BB10 Jessie flashbacks. He is a real estate broker, claiming also to be loud and brash. Is really the producer’s pick for a fan favourite?

THE MYSTERY HOUSEMATE is me, a 17 year old reality TV blogger. No, I’m just kidding. But there is a mystery housemate, and CBS hasn’t revealed him/her. No, there’s only one speculation of who it is. Sheila of BB9, claims she’s looking for someone to baby-sit her dog for three months while she’s on vacation, and hasn’t logged into My Space since the day the housemates were in sequester.

OK, Big Brother begins Thursday, 8:00PM July 9th and I really think I have high expectations for this season. I’m rooting for Jordan & Laura, and I really want to hear from you, my readers, more than I did. As I promised, I have a link to CBS’s website to view the cast and the house pictures. This house really seems good, I really like it. So, here’s the house pictures: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_brother/photos/photos.php?v=25761&s=0&p=0 and here’s the official site: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_brother/ You can comment here, tell me who you’re rooting for, or email me at my new email address lol_its_dan@hotmail.com.

I’m a Celebrity US - Review

2009-06-17T15:38:00.001+01:00

Sorry I haven’t been blogging about this show, I really lost a lot of interest in it. I’m a celebrity isn’t, well, what should I saw, a nicely smooth original program. It may be a hit over there in Britain, but, here, it’s just so crazy. Spencer and Heidi have quit three times, and returned three times, only to quit again, and never to return (finally). I’m not sure if it was really the Devil or God who was telling them what to do. I wish them well in Beverly Hills, and hope they become mature Christians.

Over time, Angela was evicted first, and soon after, Frances couldn’t take being without her partner, so she left. Daniel Baldwin and Holly Montag entered the game, Daniel on day 3, and Holly on day 10. I personally hate it when someone quits, and is replaced. I like BBUS and Survivor US, if someone quits, nobody replaces them.

Also, this show is a lot like shows I’ve watched in the past and shows I watch currently. It has reverse Big Brother’s original concept, with nominations, and a public vote, in a Survivor-style location, a harsh environment, as the competitions (or the ones I saw, at least) resemble Fear Factor, that give the celebrities Survivor’s catering of Rewards, food, and immunity.

Another thing is that it is really hard for me to commit to shows that air in frequency of more-than-one times a week. Especially when I have wipeout on Wednesdays at the same time, and the fact it’s on four days a week. That kind of makes me glad Big Brother is just for three days here, in a way. It’s an OK show, but I am waiting even more for Big Brother to Start July 9th.

I’m a Celebrity US - The First Episode

2009-06-02T13:01:00.001+01:00

The episode starts off with two teams: red team and yellow team and they go trekking along the jungle to base camp. During this trek, we see Patti Blagojevich floating down the river and when Sanjaya spoke in confessional, I swear they forgot “amateur” in Amateur pop star. Also during the trek across the jungle, there was falling on rocks, pointing out a black monkey to John Salley, crossing rivers, and celebrities thinking “what have I done?” Finally, the teams arrive to base camp, and finally get settled.

During the first night, everyone seemed to be OK, except for of course, Heidi and Spencer. Spencer whines that he’s too rich for all this, and they both claim their charities couldn’t mind getting such a small amount. So, Spencer and Heidi decided to quit. Then, after the commercial break, something pulled them along, and they decided to return to the game. The next day, it was morning. Everyone was up, getting prepared for the day, and guess what? No surprise! Spencer and Heidi are gone! So, Torrie decides to mock Heidi’s hair product. However, she gets busted by Spencer. Spencer knocks out Frangela’s canteen from one of their hands and screams in her face. Then, he makes a joke about Torrie selling steroids.

On the very first challenge, the presenters, Damien Fahey and Myleene Klass were there to tell them they are not red or yellow team: They were pink team girls and blue team boys. So, in the very first mission, teams had to complete in a eating competition. They ate things like praying mantis, tarantulas, rat tail, iguana tail, etc. It was the boys who ended up winning, earning a nice chicken dinner.

During the next night, the boys decided to share their chicken dinner, and pineapple with the girls. The next day, Patti Blagojevich talks about the trial with her husband, and her losing her job, which I’m actually sorry for. The other people seemed superlative of her, and Spencer and Heidi help her with a prayer, which is very courteous of them, as they said the truth will come out. It actually sounded to me like she was sticking up for her husband with praise, and she points out him giving insurance to every kid.

Next, the Celebrities had to choose one male leader and one female leader from each team. Lou Diamond Phillips was picked for the guys, and Janice was picked from the girls. So, Lou and Janice competed for leader of he week in a battle to win that title. Janice surrendered to Lou, letting him win. Lou earned leader of the week, where Sanjaya volunteered to massage his foot. Last, the episode ended in a live trial where they are in a pit with live creatures. John Salley and Frangela are already out of it, so about sic\x of them are left.

This show is very amazing. They all have very strong personalities, whether is emotional like Patti, spoiled like Spencer and Heidi, or nice like john and Lou. Sanjaya has nice hair, and he kicked tail in the challenge, but I still don’t see him lasting. Spencer and Heidi stole the show, so we’ll see how it works with them gone. I really like Spencer and Heidi and lot, but as Christians, they have a lot to learn. I still feel that Patti will go, since she just isn’t a celebrity. My top three as of episode one are Lou, Spencer, and Frangela.

I’m a Celebrity US - Cast Reveal & Boot Prediction

2009-06-01T13:25:00.001+01:00

So, I’m a Celebrity, Get me out of here US will premier tonight! It took longer than I expected, but the ten (or eleven, as we have a pair) celebrities are finally revealed. I have here the names of those celebrities confirmed, along with the order I‘d believe they will respectably leave.

01. Patti Blagojevich is a wife of a corrupt politician. She’s probably has the least amount of celebrity status. She’s just a real estate broker and literally, doesn’t have anyone who will watch the show because of her since real estate brokers don‘t get paparazzi or even fans. Except for her family, perhaps. Basically, just ignore her and she’ll be first to go.

02. Sanjaya Malakar is just about as talented as the people who voted for him, from what I know about him. This guy appeared on American Idol 6, and later (or before) that we never saw him. I really don’t think those Idol fans who saved him week after week will come here and save him.

03. Spencer Pratt is from The Hills, and is a newlywed to Heidi Montag. Basically, the only vote he’ll get is from die hard girls who are boy-obsessed. I think Heidi may outlast him, simply because we want to see Heidi put up with a jungle without her Spencer.

04. Heidi Montag is from the Hills, and is married to Spencer Pratt. Basically, if anyone becomes a drama queen, it will be her. It’s her side career, basically to get attention. She will get votes from guys who are horny, and think she’s jut the best looking. Other than that, maybe her dramatic tantrums from the jungle will keep her here.

05. Stephan Baldwin does too many reality shows. He’s supposedly was in The Mole US twice, right? And in Celebrity Apprentice. I don’t really know he’ll really do, but I since he’s a mid boot, because the others are just more real-celebrity like.

06. Janice Dickinson is a model, and former TV judge of America’s Next Top Model. I really think she looks dramatic, but I just feel the others will get the chance to outlast her. I haven’t seen her on TV, though, or-Of these people-I know Baldwin most.

07. Torrie Wilson is a female wrestler. I really feel she’ll get far, just because guys that are horny will be wooed by her also, more than Heidi, though. I really don’t know much about her, and I’m excited to see her. I’d actually love to see her win.

08. Frangela is actually a comedic duo named Frances and Angela. They appear on radio and the show Best Week Ever. I really feel they’ll outlast all of the women and make it to the finale (there is three finalists?) however, I think John Salley or Lou will take the win.

09. John Salley is a sports talk show host from The Best D*** Sports show. I think, since the others seem more like a bunch of attention cravers, he’ll earn some spotlight and do fine in this game.

10. Lou Diamond Phillips is probably the closest person to a REAL celebrity, whom of which I don’t think has even done a Reality show yet. He’s acted in theater, TV, and movies and writes and directs. I think he’ll earn the fan base he needs for this show to really pull off a win.

Survivor - Ranking of the Winners

2009-05-23T15:54:00.001+01:00

01 Brian Hiedik (Thailand) - Brian was my favourite winner because he was just great. Some notable moves were making allies quickly with Clay and Ted, the guys, getting Helen on his side with the boys to vote for Ghandia, (nearly) convincing Shii Ann to join with the Chauy Gahn alliance, dominating in challenges, getting Jan to vote for Ted and Helen and taking Clay, the guy nobody liked all the way to the final two. If anyone was to be a unanimous winner first, it should’ve been him.

02 Tina Wesson (Australian Outback) - Tina was a very respected player, played one of the best social games ever, and was one of very few women to be loyal and strategize so well. Her notable moves include siding with Colby and Keith, keeping Ogakor together to boot Jeff, knowing he had votes, turning on Jerri and Amber, and making the final two unexpectedly after Keith was booted.

03 Richard Hatch (Borneo) Richard made this game known for what it is, which is Outwit, Outplay, and Outlast. His notable moves were include recruiting Sue, Rudy, and Kelly in an alliance. He booted off all of the Pagong members, and targeted Kelly. His Tagi members hated Kelly all so bad, the three of them voted for him. Then, a swing vote of a pick-a-number game earned him the first win. I really feel he made Survivor what it is. I couldn’t imagine Survivor is he was to lose his season.

04 Aras Baskausaus (Panama) Aras was one of the most completive players. His best move was recruiting and keeping Casaya together to pick off La Mina. He was decent at challenges and was lucky to see Terri go. I just really liked him a lot, and was very glad we won, even though it was Cirie’s game to win.

05 Yul Kwon (Cook Islands) Yul was one of the most strategic players. His moves include getting Becky as a close ally, gaining control of the idol, making an alliance with Candace, Jonathan, and Sundra. When Candace and Jonathan left, he got Jonathan back as they picked off Nathan, Candace, Parvati, and Adam. He also admitted he was out to in over jury votes from the beginning and easily was very strategic, thus making him a deserving winner.

06 Tom Westman (Palau) - Tom was one of the most dominant players. His notable moves was winning over Katie, Ian, Gregg, and Jenn all from the very beginning and easily took out Coby and Gregg after they tried to get him out. He had to be one of the best in challenges and was very dominant. He was lucky to get Katie to the end, otherwise he’d have to fight to win against Ian.

07 JT Thomas (Tocantins) - JT was probably a very amazing winner also. He was lucky to get Coach as an ally and his notable moves include teaming up with Stephen then Taj, aligning with Coach ad Tyson, blindsiding the immunity threat Tyson, and taking Erinn to the final four and Stephan to the final two only to see himself as a unanimous winner.

08 Todd Herzog (China) - Todd was a very smart super fan player. His strong moves were making a close bond with Courtney and Amanda that literally got him to the final three. Also it was good for him to have a strong ally like James and give him two idols, only to blindside him.

09 Parvati Shallow (Micronesia) - Parvati wasn’t as deserving for a second chance like the other nine were, but she almost proved herself in Micronesia. She was good for keeping close allies like Cirie, Amanda, and James, then voting for the guys, whom all of which were strong threats. She played a very good social game in both seasons, and a good flirtatious game too.

10 Chris Daugherty - Chris was probably one of the best comeback survivors. He was the man in the final women, up against a six woman alliance. He was able to vote with Twila, Scout, and Eliza to take out Ami, Leann, and Julie. He proved himself in challenges at the end, earning a win against devious Twila.

11 Earl Cole (Fiji) - I really admired Earl’s game play a lot. First off, he was great for remaining loyal to Yau Man and Cassandra. And along with Yau-Man, they managed to get Dreamz, Stacy, and Boo on their side to take out the “Four Horseman”. I really loved it when he had the courage to vote Yau-Man out, considering it was Yau-Man’s game to win.

12 Bob Crowley (Gabon) - Bob was a very ok winner. He really didn’t do much strategizing to stay along in he game, he practically had it done for him. He was very good at domi9nating in challenges, and was lucky to have the onion allies there who could vote for him to win.

13 Danni Boatwright (Guatemala) - Danni was a winner quite similar to Chris. She easily had the chance to convince Steph to turn on a couple of allies, like Jaime, Judd, and Cindy. It was also very good to see her take Steph to the end, knowing that she could easily beat Steph.

14 Ethan (Africa) - Ethan is the only winner I’d consider to me mediocre. He was the best of the worst, but worst of the best. He remained loyal to the Boran alliance and was a very nice guy. But it was Lex’s game to win, not his.

15 Sandra Diaz-Twine (Pearl Islands) - Sandra was very hilarious, and I really liked her a lot. However, she was just lucky Lil was there to take out Burton and Jon. She was loyal to Rupert and Christa, but that alliance sucked. Out of her and Lillian, it should’ve been Lillian as the winner.

16 Vacepia Towery (Marquesas) - She didn’t do much, and was not exactly a good winner. This game had Kathy written all over it, and easily had Kathy for final two. However, her one good move getting Kathy out was the only move she made good, and this is why she’s topping Jenna and Amber.

17 Jenna Morasca (Amazon) - She was a whiny, bratty, inconsiderate idiot who only won because she had immunity. She was even worse and a bigger waste quitting all stars. Idiot.

18 Amber Brkich (“All Stars”) - She had no right to be an all star, as she was no good in Australia. It was even worse to see her sit behind Boston Rob and then win. Her just being there and then doing nothing only to win is the reason she beat Jenna as the worst winner.

Survivor - Ranking of the Seasons

2009-05-23T00:50:00.001+01:00

Here is a ranking of the eighteen seasons of Survivor.

01 Season 12: Panama-Exile Island - This season had so many cool people that you just had to love. That would include Courtney, Cirie, Aras, Danielle, Bruce, and Shane, and I was so glad to see those six take control of the game. Exile Island was fresh, then, and had the idol fell in better hands, it would’ve probably delivered. Overall, those guys were entertaining, and It was probably the first time I rooted for an underdog, like Curie, who turned out to be a strategic mastermind and fan favourite.

02 Season 16: Micronesia-FVF - This was a whole lot cooler concept than All Stars for sure, because it let us see the best players come back, along with some newbies. It was a bit of a disappointment to see the Fans blow off every tribal council they had. Once again, Cirie dominated, and dominated hard. This season set the stage that blindsiding was to be the new fad on how this game is to be played.

03 Season 07: Pearl Islands - This season was amazing. It gave us our first obnoxiously overrated Survivor, Rupert and our best pre-all star villain, Jonny Fairplay. However, It did save Lil, despite the fact Outcast’s twist was the worst, as it completely goes against the rules of the game. Sure the outcast twist was bad on paper, but it brought back two players who got revenge. This season also gave us blindsides, a lot of them, for the first time.

04 Season 05: Thailand - Strangely enough, this was the season I can remember the most, despite it happened like 7.5 years ago. This was the season that had all of the good people on one tribe, like Brian Jan, Helen, Clay, Ted, on the same tribe, and Sook Jai had just Shii Ann and Jake as worthy. It was the first season we saw a great deal of twist (tribes pick themselves, mutiny, fake merge), however, this season had so many people I still don’t like (Erin, Penny, Ken, Robb, Stephanie) and I really wish they weren’t there, because if they weren’t this would be better. Shii Ann being screwed by a fake merge was made for good drama, but kind of sucked.

05 Season 03: Africa - This season had some great people, like Lex, Frank, Kim P, Clarence, and Silas. But Silas and Clarence left the game too early, and we were left with Tom, Ethan, and Kim J who were nice underdogs, and got a lucky break from the tribe switch, but I just didn’t care for them. This season, was also very remembered, since it gave us the first twist in the shows history, the tribe switch.

06 Season 15: China - China had the most amazing theme and challenges. It gave us a lot of cool people, like Courtney, Denise, Peih-Gee, James, Frosti, Jaime, and Jean-Robert. I personally would’ve liked Leslie, but she didn’t stand a chance. The idols were fine, without exile, and this season had just one problem: There was nobody I loved, I liked some people, but that‘s it, however, I didn‘t hate anyone either, so I guess that‘s cool.

07 Season 02: Australian Outback - This season delivered a lot of episodes that are worth remembered. I will always remember Mike and the fire accident, vegetarian Kimmi, and just amazing Tina. I will always remember Tina, Elizabeth (who I lost respect for after giving AS to Amber), Rodger, Jerri, Alicia, and Kimmi.

08 Season 17: Gabon - Gabon had some very good people, like Sugar, Susie, Matty, Kenny, Crystal, Randy, and Ace. However, like China, there was cool people, but none of them I could call a favourite. I really loved to see the Onion alliance get picked off, and I wish they got Bob out too. However, Dumb Sugar wanted the good people to win.

09 Season 18: Tocantins - Tocantins was a decent season. It had Erinn, Taj, Brendan, and the oh-so cool best set of pre-jury boots ever. A lot of the good people like Spencer, Sydney, Candace, and Jerry left too early. Coach ruined this season and I will forever know him as Coache and to him as a douche who is a complete idiot and I don’t care how he is r\in real life.

10 Season 01: Borneo - This season had the coolest, freshest, most real people, however, they just couldn’t play the game. Only Rich and Sue would come close to good game play. Sure Colleen, Jenna, and Gervase, were nice, but they couldn’t play until too late. Sue’s speech was the highlight of the season, as her and Rich set the fact you should play the game the way you’re supposed to.

11 Season 04: Marquesas - Marquesas gave us some hope that power shifts can happen, as soon as they ousted John and the Rotu 4. However, this was Kathy’s game to win, and she got screwed by those pansies Neleh and Vacepia. Sean and Kathy were amazing, but the rest are just, meh or bad.

12 Season 06: The Amazon - I really hated to see them divided men vs. women, that really sucked. The Amazon wasn’t very cool of a location either, and I hated to see Rob C lose and have Jenna M win. I don’t really much else that happened either.

13 Season 09: Vanuatu - Again, bad to revisit the same sex tribes. I thought it was a horrible strategy to see Mia, Brady. JP, Brook, and John K all go because they were the young group. Ami was the only hope for the show workroom out, but she got robbed from power, and was out. Eliza and Julie were nice also, and I wish they won instead of Chris.

14 Season 11: Guatemala - What a horrible idea bringing back Stephenie and Bobby John for no reason. I don’t remember much from this season, except for wanting to see Judd win. Danni was OK, but seriously, ugh, just, why her, OMG.

15 Season 10: Palau - This is where seasons just started to get just plain bad. They had the real worst twist taking out Jonathan and Wanda. I don’t remember half of these people from this season because they had too many people, and it was so obvious to see Tom win, because you could’ve figured that out after Ulong went down the tubes losing every immunity challenge.

16 Season 14: Fiji - This had to be one of the most boring and forgotten seasons of Survivor. Seriously, it was the first time the show was about to die, and I’m glad things were brought back, or I wouldn’t even blogging right now.

17 Season 13: Cook Islands - Pointless to make the race twist, or to have it look so overrated. Almost twelve of these guys made about 10 minutes of airtime throughout their time on the show. Exile Island was dry and useless this time around. Just a total messed yup season.

18 Season 8: “All Stars” - This was a completely predicable, series killer, waste of time train wreck. Everything bad possibly went on. Enough said.

Survivor - JT wins Survivor by unanimous vote

2009-05-22T15:24:00.001+01:00

In the beginning of this episode, we find Erinn knowing she needs to beat out the three Jalapao, knowing they’ve been together for a while. Taj seems like she’ll remain loyal to JT/Stephen and JT and Stephen still look like they are in control. In the immunity challenge, the survivors had to get puzzle pieces climbing through tubes on a platform that looked like a spider. It was a close race between JT and Erinn, but JT became victorious, earning immunity. Back at tribal council, Stephan and JT talk about how close they are to being the final two, and earning that ceremonial final two breakfast. Meanwhile, Erin talks to JT and Stephan, asking them to vote for Taj, knowing she’ll possibly be hard to beat in the final two, thinking she’s played a good social game. So, in Tribal Council, there was one for Taj and one for Stephan, and the other two votes went for Taj, and she was voted off.

I really thought one of two things were going to happen: They would tie it up, so that Erinn and Taj had to fight for their right to stay in a fire-making challenge or Taj and Erinn would team up to get Stephen out somehow, hoping they would take control. So, it’s now Day 38, and Stephen decides to tell Erinn it would be “suicide” to take JT to the end. So, Erinn, Stephen, and JT each participate in the right of passage, talking about the thirteen survivors that fell before them. In the final immunity challenge, the survivors had to roll balls down a chute, and catch them at the end. If they drop their balls, they lose. On round three, with three balls played a piece, it was Erinn who dropped her balls, losing. So, with either four or five balls on, it was between Stephen and JT. Once again, the winner was JT! Back at camp, Erinn spills the guts, and tells JT that Stephan wanted to vote him off. JT was shocked. But at tribal council, it was Erinn who was voted off, making Stephan and JT the final two.

JT and Stephan get to enjoy their breakfast they’ve wanted since day two. So, it comes time for the final tribal council, where Stephen reveals if he won that final immunity, he’d probably would’ve taken Erinn to the end. Sierra calls Stephen weak, and I don’t think the other jurors were any more interesting. So, it was time for all seven jurors to vote. At the live part of the show, back in the United States, the winner is revealed. By a 7-0 vote, JT is the winner, becoming the second unanimous winner after Earl. Stephen gets to become the next Becky/Cassandra/Dreamz/Sugar and not receive a vote. Join us next season in Samoa, Next fall. I personally feel JT was a very good winner, making this season worthy.

Reality TV “All Stars Selections”

2009-05-18T00:24:00.001+01:00

Big Brother, Survivor, and The Amazing Race have previously invited back some of the popular, entertaining, and best players. TAR and BB did this once, and Survivor did this three times. Just to mention that Big Brother and Survivor also have foreign shows that did all stars (Canada with Loft Story and France with Koh Lanta). Here are some of the people from Big Brother US (seasons 8-10), Survivor (Seasons 16-18), and The Amazing Race (seasons 12-14) that I feel deserve a second chance back in their show.

Big Brother
Jen (season 8) - She was clearly a very competitive player who always caused drama, worthy of entertainment, and would easily be the nail in Dick’s coffin, if these two were to meet again

Jessica (season 8) She was the best of the LNC alliance, and was a decent player, and was well liked. I would love to see her play again. Heck, she only went and got betrayed by Dick because she was a threat.

Dick (season 8) He’s a lock for any chance to bring back the best. His abusive behavior got old in week two, but he could play the game, but he doesn’t stand a chance of making the jury for sure.

James (season 9) He also will easily come back, because he was such a force to be reckoned with. He also would do decent again, and would obviously avoid a showmance.

Natalie (season 9) the life of Team Christ who made sure James left, and achieved that, just a few weeks later, though. She was so hilarious, and amazing, and would probably learn from her mistake of playing alliances.

Keesha (season 10) She was a good player, and she was loyal, and was evicted because of the renegade alliance, and also very popular.

Dan (season 10) Probably the best player after Dr. Will, and would fight even harder to stay. He’d outlast Dick for sure, and could sue anyone from his season as a tool for sticking around.

The Amazing Race
Azaria/Hendekea (season 12) - They were good racers, who just fell short at the final six. They would do easily well if asked back.

Ronald/Christina (season 12) - Everyone loved them, and they had a very good run. Their relationship was so special, how could TAR not ask them back?

Ken/Tina (season 13) - We saw them as a good team, and saved their relationship. Now, they’ll probably do just as well, if not better, if asked back.

Starr/Dallas (season 13) - Starr/Dallas were a showmance pair who had separate partners. I believe they are still together. The main reason I want them there together is to see if there would be a mix/match pair winning again.

Margie/Luke (season 14) - I think they had such a special relationship, it was good to see them race well. They would totally have a chance if asked back.

Tammy/Victor (season 14) - They were easily one of the smartest teams ever, and had a excellent run. I would love to see them win again.

Survivor
Erik (Micronesia) - Umm, Marcellas from BBUS3 was rewarded a second chance, and this guy really should get a second chance also. He was the best of the fans also, and could‘ve given the fans hope, if he played his cards right.
Natalie (Micronesia) - She was a good player to be involved with the Micronesia Witch Alliance. However, she’s a good filler, considering she was invisible during the pre-merge.

Marcus (Gabon) - He played a almost-perfect pre-merge game. The only thing was he was a victim of Survivor’s ever-so fast growing trendy blindside strategy.

Randy (Gabon) - How could you not ask him back, he would go absolutely crazy if asked back, and he’d probably make Crystal and Sugar go crazy, along with him.

Kenny (Gabon) - He took over control of the game after Marcus left, and was a very good player. He deferentially deserves a second chance to redeem himself.

Sugar (Gabon) - The starring female of the show, and HII holder. She’ll be asked back, and will probably face Randy, which would be amazing to see again.

Bob (Gabon) - He clearly was a popular winner, and was amazing to see. He played an admiring game, and won because of the friends he had from the jury.

Sierra (Tocantins) - Excellent for some drama, and it would be amazing to se her back in the game with Coach. She’d probably do a lot better, and probably learned a lot while in Tocantins.

Coach (Tocantins) - Survivor’s insane version of Dick Donato who would either fall short or do some amazing string pulling and go very far.

Stephan (Tocantins) - A good player and good strategist. He’s similar to Kenny, but they’d really both deserve to come back.

Taj (Tocantins) - She was loyal all the way, and I admire that game play so well. She was likeable, and was smart to move along with the Cross-Tribal alliance.

JT (Tocantins) - Good very good player who would be one of the first five called back if season 19 involved past players. He was loyal to the Warrior alliance, and the best at challenges this season.

That’s 25 people and teams that could be good candidates for returning to their game. I would love to see and hear what you guys think and want to know a couple all star selections you’d make. I will post this again after BBUS11, Survivor 19 and TARUS15 in December. Until then, we’ll see.

I’m a Celebrity US - Current Information

2009-05-17T23:30:00.001+01:00

OK, I will be blogging about I’m a Celebrity US version over the month of June. Here is what I do know, which came directly from the NBC website. The show will premier Monday, 1st June/June 1stat 8:00PM, with the premier being two hours. The concept pretty much remains the same as season one and like the UK version: celebrities are voted into playing challenge they can win, and at the end, the celebrities’ fate is determined by America, known as the puppet master. I’m actually, for one very surprised to see them keep the concept, considering season one flopped six years ago. I thought they’d try to pull a Big Brother, and decide to change the format in hopes America will get it better.

I Really don’t know what to say on about how successful this show will be. Big Brother U.S. and I’m a Celebrity U.S. are about public voting, but they’ve got nothing to do with Talent. The talent shows like America’s Got Talent and American Idol are big, but they’ve got talent based on them. I really thought they’d try to change the concept, which is what Graham thought also when I spoke to him. The show got sued for being derivative to Survivor (remote location setting, competing for luxuries and food) but the significant differences are Survivor never features Celebrities or has anything to do with the public choosing who stays and who goes.

There are seven celebrities that are confirmed to be on the show, meaning three spots are left for negotiation by NBC. I will have a review of the cast when all ten are confirmed, so in the meantime, I’ll share with you the seven confirmed and a brief word about whom they are. Rod Blagojevich, a US ex-politician whom got impeached last winter was supposed to join the cast, however, he was denied the right to leave the country and head off to Costa Rica, which is the setting of the show. Rod Blagojevich, however, is supposed to “play some part” is this show. Out of the seven confirmed, five of them came from other reality shows.

The confirmed celebrities:
Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt aka “Speidi” - Newlyweds from the Hills (MTV reality show)
Janice Dickinson - Super Model and Former TV Judge of “America’s Next Top Model, also owner of “The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency” and I believe a contestant on I’m A celebrity UK.
John Salley is a Talk Show host, former basketball player, radio talk show host, and a PETA supporter.
Sanjaya Malakar is an Overrated American Idol 6 contestant.
Stephan Baldwin is an Christian actor, who appeared in Celebrity Apprentice US last year.
Torrie Wilson is a retired WCW & WWE female wrestler

If I could personally choose some of my favorite celebrities, I’d choose Rosie O’Donnell just because I love hearing her talk about absolutely nothing about nothing, Sarah Palin or Mike Huckabee, if they are still looking for a politician, and Faber from Faber Drive, my one and only) favorite rock star. Also, since I’m sure another reality star will jump in, maybe Matt/Amy from Little People, Big World or April Margera or Crazy Bam Margera from Viva La Bam. You can check out the show’s website here at http://www.nbc.com/im-a-celebrity/ and you can let me know if there has been any more confirmed celebrities.

TAR - Ranking of The Seasons

2009-05-16T17:00:00.001+01:00

TAR - Ranking of The Seasons

1. TAR11AS - Yup, the All-Star season, it was probably one of the most competitive races ever, as everyone really wanted to win, or go after Charla/Mirna, Dustin/Kandice, and in the beginning, Rob/Amber. Since then, we haven’t seen Rombervision on TV again. Since the Amazing Race is about testing relationships, along with bringing back some of the entertaining teams, I believe this worked better than BB/Survivor’s All Stars. However, they completely should’ve done this sooner, maybe like for season eight, instead of family edition.

2. TAR14 - This season was just so amazing. It had entertaining tasks, and we got nice teams that didn’t fight all the time. This season gave us good winners, Tammy/Victor and we had good countries like Switzerland. This deferentially brought back TAR, especially after the season before that.

3. TAR10 - This was the season that had a good racially diverse group of people. It was famous for giving us the first alliance, the 6-pack, the first female team in the final three, and the first counter-clockwise route. Dustin/Kandice were more likeable this time, and so were many of the other teams, like Tyler/James and Erwin/Godwin. However David/Mary were so overrated.

4. TAR1 - I think of the shows I’ve watched, TAR Had the best first season. It had a good rivalry, Guidos vs. the others, mainly Nancy/Emily and Kevin/Drew. They went to do some good tasks that made this season different than the rest.

5. TAR12 - This season had nice places like Ireland, Japan, Croatia, and Taiwan. This season had nice teams like Rachel/TK, Ron/Christina, Nathan/Jennifer, and Azaria/Hendekea. The only thing was the under edit of Rachel/TK, which kind of was a shame.

6. TAR5 - I really loved this season because it evolved, including a yield, Fast Forward limit, and NEL Penalty. Charla/Mirna, Brandon/Nicole, Bowling Moms, and Chip/Kim were amazing, but Marshall/Lance, and Colin/Christie were terrible people. They also went to some nice places, like Egypt, which is always amazing.

7. TAR6 - This season had a LOT of dramatic teams, we best know Jonathan/Victoria for their train wreck behaviour. Among the others fighting a lot were Adam/Rebecca, and a little from Hayden/Aaron and Freddy/Kendra. I will always remember Iceland as the first leg.

8. TAR9 - This season was alright, and had nice teams like Mojo, Frats Eric/Jeremy, and Ray/Yolanda. It was hilarious to see the fight between the hippies and the other teams. Australia and Japan were amazing legs to remember, and too bad it finished awful.

9. TAR7 - This season is here, in the middle for one reason, Romber and their overrated fifteen hours of fame. I’m glad Uchenna/Joyce won. Meredith/Gretchen were OK, as they were the best old team ever. Brain/Greg and Susan/Patrick were amazing also, but not Lynn/Alex, their Romber hate was just weird.

10. TAR13 - This season was alright, it was just OK, and I don’t think TAR has yet to have two season that flopped. Toni/Dallas, Nick/Starr, Ken/Tina were good. The New Zealand and Kazakhstan legs were amazing. The only thing was the under edit of Anita/Arthur and Stephanie/Anthony.

11. TAR3 - This season may have had my all-time favourite team, Flo/Zach, but other than that, it was just, OK. John Vito/Jill, Ken/Gerard, and Teri/Ian were terrible. I also liked Derek/Drew, and were glad they were Flo’s friends. I liked the Switzerland and Germany legs I remember most.

12. TAR4 - This season was the first season I watched fully. However, it had a horrible ending, as soon as Tian/Jaree left, it just died.

13. TAR2 - Nothing was remembered from this season. I’m sure it was good, but I didn’t see all of it, and from what I did see, it just wasn’t remembrance worthy.

14. TAR8FE - Umm, while I support TAR’s decision to go ahead and limit the show to con continent, it’s just their Paolo’s, the Linz’s, the Bransen’s, the Gaghan’s, and the Godlewski’s constantly bullying of the Weavers made this season the worst. However, yes, a different story if the Weaver’s won.

Survivor - JT Immuned, Coach slayed

2009-05-15T23:49:00.003+01:00

The episode begins with Coach, “almost speechless” after Debbie was voted out. He’s shocked to see himself out of control of the game. And I’m glad to see Coach out of control of the game. The next day, Coach is now complaining about his Asthma and his back. Then, at the reward challenge, teams made their way through a maze that literally spelled SURVIVOR and then had to hit three poles with a bag. It was a close race between Coach and JT, but JT won. For the first time, JT asked if there was any “exile takers”, lol. Coach was sent to exile, and he immediately announced he’s going to deprive himself from sleep and starve himself for the whole time. Erinn make a comment, disbelieving Coach, which got Coach upset. For some strange reason, JT and Stephan were offended too.

At Camp, Erinn and Taj talk about Coach, and Coach’s messed up mind. Meanwhile, at the reward, JT and Stephan each enjoy a shower. Good thing, and thank GOD Coach didn’t win, because he’d sure put a show into shower. Then, JT and Stephan each get to enjoy a meal, in which they were full after eating all the meat. At Exile Island, Coach meditating and asking his “spiritual role model” GOD? If he’s a man, or something like that. He still vows to starve and sleep deprive himself, despite claiming he has asthma and back problems.

In the immunity challenge, everyone had to stand between two walls, and place their feet on a tiny block of wood. After Erinn, Stephan, and Taj were out, it was between Coach and JT. JT outlasted Coach, winning immunity. After the immunity challenge, Coach supposedly had a back spasm, or something like that, but refused to see a medic.

At Camp, it looks like JT is sure he wants Coach round for another day, for absolutely no good reason. However, Stephan sees himself as a swing vote, considering Taj is all set for voting for Coach. Tribal Council was oddly horrific. Coach decided he feels the need to recite a poem. God FORBID this at the reunion. The first votes were read, two for Erinn and two for Coach. The last vote Came out, it was for Coach, and Coach was dragon slayed.

Thank sweet Jesus that friggin Coach was voted off, I really am so glad. I thought it would never happen. So, out of the final four, I really want JT to go next, considering he’s so popular and because he didn’t vote for Coach. I’m saying that I really don’t think Taj’s in this either, and would love for her to lose in a landslide in the final two. I’d be very happy with either Stephan or Erinn wining, and that would just be amazing.

TAR - Ranking of The Winners

2009-05-15T11:37:00.001+01:00

1. Flo/Zach (TAR3) - Flo was obviously the most amazingly but train wreck-wise most entertaining person on the show, and possibly one of the most entertaining villains of reality TV before 2004. Poor Zach, for surviving the elements of the race-and the elements of Flo. I remember rooting for them in the middle of the season, when TAR3 was on. They so should’ve been asked for all-Stars, but she turned down the opportunity to do the show with her showmance partner, Drew, proving she’s not out for the fame.

2. Uchenna/Joyce (TAR7) - I really knew TAR7 was supposed to have Romber as the stars, and I’m so glad these guys took that win away from Romber. I knew Meredith/Gretchen or Ron/Kelly couldn’t do it, so it was up to them, and I’m so blessed they did.

3. Tammy/Victor (TAR14) - The teams that was so smart, so clever, and obviously deserved their win. They really only had one bag leg, and other than that, they were actually always the top three. I really liked then because they were final three potential, and that’s why I root for teams.

4. Nick/Starr (TAR13) - Nick/Starr are only there because of their dominating, and taking the most first places ever on TAR. They were also the stars of the season, and easily one of the best teams of TAR. I loved how they got on Christie/Kelly’s nerves also.

5. Freddy/Kendra (TAR6) - Kendra was very entertaining, and I can recall she said nothing wrong about Africa that episode. I rooted for them because the others were not near as worthy as them. I’m very glad they won, because that made that season.

6. Chip/Kim (TAR5) - I remember hoping this team would win because after Charla/Mirna left, they were pretty much the best. I loved it when they yielded Colin/Christie, that was great, because I couldn’t stand those guys. I’m glad that Chip/Kim got lucky in Canada and saved the season.

7. Tyler/James (TAR10) - These guys were nice, and performed a good solid race. They received a good amount of first places, which was good. However, I remember them basically for their drug past and for flirting with Dustin/Kandice for an episode or two.

8. Rachel/TK (TAR12) - Rachel and TK were nice people, and they were basically cool people. They didn’t cause conflict, which can be good. I know they were the first, and to this day, the only team to over come a speed bump.

9. Eric/Danielle (TAR11AS) - Eric and Danielle were not bad racers, it’s just well, Eric was a good racer. Danielle didn’t deserve to be there, since everyone knows she’s not an all star. However, their solid race run and a bit of entertainment got them here.

10. Linz Family (TAR8FE) - The Linz Family were so cocky and arrogant to my Team the Weavers, the one good team, it wasn’t funny. Them winning didn’t satisfy anything. They made a lot of mistakes racing, and were lucky to have Megan. They also played personal, attacking the Weavers.

11. Rob/Brennen (TAR1) - They were a nice team, but I just don’t remember them all too well. I really wanted Frank/Margarita to win, not them.

12. Chris/Alex (TAR2) - Honestly, all I remember was Alex liking Tara. That’s it.

13. BJ/Tyler (TAR9) - I really thought these guys were so annoying it wasn’t funny. OK, I really didn’t like seeing them win, and wish they lost. However, their race skills is what got them out of last. However, they were also sore about not making all stars, which made them shady too.

14. Reichen/Chip (TAR4) - I Honestly didn’t like them, and I think I don’t understand why they were even on the race. They were just plain not good, now. I personally didn’t like this season compared to the others, either.

TAR14 - Tammy/Victor Win TAR14!

2009-05-14T00:30:00.002+01:00

Tammy/Victor, Margie/Luke, and Jaime/Cara each head out to Maui, Hawaii. Once there, teams had to make their way to Beach Access 118. Once there, the teams had to season up a pig, then carry it about a mile to where it needs to be cooked. Tammy/Victor immediately arrive first, then Cara/Jaime and Luke/Margie were right behind them. Then, Margie/Luke’s method of carrying the pig easily put them ahead, making them finish the task first. Then, Tammy/Victor and Jaime/Cara, whom struggled more, were also able to finish, moving on to the next task.

In the next task, teams had to make their way to McGregor point and get on personal watercraft to go out one mile and search for a buoy with a clue. Margie/Luke led the pack, and easily found their clue before the other could arrive. Then, Cara/Jaime and Tammy/Victor found their clue closely together, but still see Margie/Luke in the lead. Yes, Cara/Jaime were still having taxi trouble, and were still screaming at taxis like they don’t know English.

In the roadblock, one person had to search through pictured surfboards and match them with pictures relating to events of the pervious legs. Margie/Luke arrive, and Luke decided to do this roadblock. Luke goes off with a great start, probably getting about eight of nine of the boards before the others arrive. Then, Tammy/Victor arrive, and Victor chose this roadblock. This is where Luke begin to get frustrated finding the last two correctly. This allowed Victor to immediately get a chance to catch up. Then, Cara/Jaime arrive and one of them choose the roadblock. It became anyone’s game, as of now.

Then, Victor finished. Victor and Tammy immediately go to the finish line, King Kamehameha Golf Club. Margie/Luke and Cara/Jaime agree to help each other out, and move on to the last one. Cara/Jaime finished, and so did Margie/Luke. However it was tool ate for them. Tammy/Victor arrived to the finish line first, and were the winners of This series of The Amazing Race. Cara/Jaime were given second, and Margie/Luke were given third.

This episode was OK, for a finale. The pig challenge was OK, and I liked the surfboard challenge, but the buoy search should’ve been replaced with a detour. I wasn’t surprised to see Tammy & Victor win, as I predicted they’d win from the start. Make sure you check up to see my ranking of the winners & ranking of the seasons.

Survivor - Stephan immuned, Debbie voted out

2009-05-09T12:40:00.004+01:00

It’s the 30th night, and Debbie is frustrated with Coach (who isn’t?) and decides it’s finally time to get rid of Coach next. It appears she’s already made up her mind. Ha, I remember saying I’d love Debbie for blindsiding Coach. On Day 31, there was talk from Coach about getting rid of Taj. Later, there was an auction. It was a small auction, as we only saw four food selections given out. Then came the family reward. Taj was automatically rewarded the money to everyone by the tribe, and she got to see a cell phone video of her family, including her husband, Eddie George, an NFL quarterback.

However, that wasn’t all, everyone got to see a loved one, as a choice from Taj, but she chose to see her husband at exile, where she exiled herself. Back at Camp, we saw Erinn’s dad, Debbie’s husband, Stephan’s brother, JT’s sister, and surprise, Coach’s assistant Coach, making it the first time someone brought out a co-worker over a family member. Coach babbles to Assistant coach about being “in control” and says everyone calls me the dragon slayer”. No. You call yourself that, you dumb apple, everyone at the most, calls you “coach”. Then, Coach and Assistant coach go off and do this weird, obscene routine where their legs are between each other. Yuck. Then, at exile, Taj meets up with her husband, and they share time on exile. He says she still looks attractive.

Back at camp, after the loved ones left, Debbie talks to Stephan and JT about wanting to accept third place, and give immunity to them so they can vote her out at the final three. Really? That move would be dumber than Erik’s move last spring. JT and Stephan are a little concerned about Debbie. Really, because I would be too. During the immunity challenge, teams had to dig a hole, cross a balance beam, then, looks at ten math operations to race back and solve a math problem. It was Stephan, who obviously won, considering he’s probably, like the best at math.

Back at Camp, Debbie still wants Coach out, and Coach wants Taj out. So, this once again leaves Stephan and JT as a strong swing vote, and could go either way. At Tribal Council, Coach votes for Taj, Debbie votes for Coach, but the alliance of JT, Stephan, Taj, and Erinn vote for Debbie, and she is voted off. In this episode, it was very strange. Why can’t they just get rid of Coach just because he’s Coach? That’s enough reason to vote for him, right?

Debbie made some moves that were pretty concerning, though, and she’s really not all that worthy of sticking around. I really think it’s almost imposable for either JT or Stephan to lose this game. Coach once again needs to shut up, and Erinn just isn’t getting into the game like I thought she would’ve. The only way JT and Stephan would lose is if Taj turns on them, and that, I don’t see happening or want to see happen. Either way, I expect Coach to want Erinn out, but we all know Coach needs to GET OUT!

Who do you want to win The Amazing Race 14 USA?

2009-05-07T01:26:00.003+01:00

It's the final of The Amazing Race 14 USA on Sunday, with three teams racing to win $1,000,000.

Who do you want to win?

You can vote for your favourite team in the poll on this blog plus you can add your comments to any posts.

I'd like to say a big thanks to Dan who has done a great job with blogging The Amazing Race this season. Don't forget to check back next week to read his review of the final.

TAR 14 - Tammy/Victor in First, Kisha/Jen eliminated

2009-05-06T23:06:00.002+01:00

The episode starts off with Jaime/Cara receiving their clue, telling them to go to Beihei Mall. Soon, Margie/Luke, Tammy/Victor, and Kisha/Jen received their clue next. During the electric bike ride, Tammy/Victor managed to take a lead, and made their way to the destination first, arriving to the detour. In this detour, teams had to take a restaurant order in Mandarin Chinese or dress up like characters from an opera, and put on each other’s make up. Tammy/Victor chose to do Chinese Waiter. Meanwhile, Cara/Jaime are struggling to get a taxi, and seem very frustrated, as they are now put into last place. Finally, Margie/Luke and Kisha/Jen arrive, and they chose to do the Beijing Opera detour.

During the detour, Luke and Margie got frustrated with the way Luke was doing Margie’s make up. It almost made Luke give up. Finally, after just one mistake, Tammy/Victor served their way to their next clue, and they arrive to the U-Turn. It was then decided among them they would U-Turn Kisha/Jen, with a note saying “Sorry, we can‘t outrun you“. Kisha/Jen finished the detour, and moved on to the next place, where they U-Turn was. Finally, Cara/Jaime arrive, and they chose to do the make-up detour. While Margie/Luke and Kisha/Jen are lost, Tammy/Victor are at the detour where Victor chose to eat four Chinese delicacies: starfish, grasshopper, larva, and scorpion.

Victor moved on greatly with the roadblock, and along with Tammy, moved on to the Pit Stop, Niao Chao. Cara/Jaime also moved on with the detour, only again to continue to get lost in the streets of China. Finally, Margie/Luke make it all the way to the U-Turn, only to see Kisha/Jen yielded. Then, Kisha/Jen arrive, and realize they must go do the other detour, since they have been yielded. Meanwhile, Tammy/Victor arrive to the pit stop, and hear they are team number one, winning a trip for two to the Galapagos Islands. Margie/Luke are at the roadblock, where Margie is completing it. Meanwhile, Cara/Jaime are still lost, and are still frustrated. Then, Kisha/Jen are struggling with the Waiter detour, since they really don’t know Mandarin.

Margie/Luke finish the roadblock, and when hey arrive to the pit stop, they hear they are team number two. Next, Cara/Jaime finally arrive to the U-Turn, and receive their next clue. Kisha/Jen are right behind them. Kisha/Jen and Cara/Jaime anticipate the roadblock, as when they finally finish, Kisha/Jen lead the way. However, Kisha/Jen lose their lead, as Jen takes a washroom break. This led Cara/Jaime to the pit stop, coming in as team number three. Kisha/Jen were eliminated.

Come see the finale, as we’ll probably see Jaime/Cara get frustrated over an English speaking taxi, only to wash away to third, hopefully. I hope this race will become a close one for Margie/Luke and Tammy/Victor, and knowing CBS, I can probably bet on it. I’ve wanted Tammy/Victor to see win from the start and still hope they pull through. Either way, this win will be unprecedented; Tammy/Victor could be the first Asian-American team to win, Cara/Jaime could be the first female team to win, and Margie/Luke could be the first Parent/Child team to win.

Survivor - Coach Immuned, Sierra voted out

2009-05-02T15:22:00.001+01:00

Immediately, when the episode began, Coach freaked out and began scrambling, wondering why his beloved warrior Tyson was voted off. This clearly left Stephan, JT, and Taj as the strongest three-some. Next, Debbie immediately points out to Coach that it’s possible the final five will be three Jalapao to Timbira’s two. So, Coach plans to make a deal with the other Timbira members, Sierra and Erinn. In the reward challenge, the survivors did a superlatives and chopping someone’s rope type challenge. After Sierra, Coach, Erinn, JT, Debbie, and Taj were out, Stephan won. He chose to exile Erinn and take Taj and JT on the reward.

Next, at the reward, Stephan, JT, and Taj were invited to a farm family dinner, and for the chance to literally, swim in their backyard, which was a lake. Meanwhile, Erinn is at exile island, all alone, starving and being very cold. Meanwhile, back at camp, Coach and Debbie are asking Sierra to get Timbira back together. Sierra says no, simply because they betrayed her. Later, back at camp, Coach and Debbie tell JT that Sierra tried to bring back the old Timbira. Then, Sierra tells Taj and Stephan that Coach and Debbie tried to get Timbira back together. JT, Taj, and Stephan try to feed information back together, discovering someone is a liar.

In the next immunity challenge, teams had to use a hook to retrieve three bags. The first three to do so will move onto the next round. In the next round, they will rotate a ball across a table maze. The first to finish that will win immunity. It was Coach, JT, and Debbie who won the first round. In the maze battle, Coach won, winning himself immunity, making his ego bigger. Before tribal council, Sierra argues with Debbie and Coach over who’s the real liar. This leaves Jalapao with a decision: to vote off Debbie, the liar, or Sierra, the drama mama. At Tribal Council, Erinn, who clearly is one of the longest lasting survivors to go this far without an alibi, personally voted for Stephan. However, Jalapao took Coach’s and Debbie’s side, and voted for Sierra.

I really can’t root for Erinn anymore, I mean, she’s there because other plans have happened. It would’ve been her, if Tyson didn’t get out. I can’t help but root for the Jalapao three, they clearly have this in the bag. It would almost be too good to be true to see them go against each other, especially after they were the minority of the merged tribe. What really makes Coach a loser and hypocrite is the fact he says he plays with honor and integrity, and lies. I actually almost want to see Coach in the final two, just to see what annoying crap he pulls out of a hat for the jury to hear, as long as he loses. He’d probably says stuff like “Umm, yeah, I slayed you all, and, umm, I’m the dragon slayer warrior who, umm, yeah, played, umm, with integrity, pride, and honesty.

So, from the previews, it will look like Debbie is turning on Coach. That’s’ actually pretty interesting, however, it’s probably basically the editors giving us some fake hope. I really doubt Erinn will win, and will probably not make the final three. I can pretty much see the final three being JT/Taj/Stephan, and either Stephan/JT or Stephan/Taj as final two.

TAR14 - Leg left hanging in Beijing, China

2009-04-29T23:05:00.001+01:00

The teams travel to Beijing, China and had to make their way to Liangzi Foot Message Place. During the way there, Kisha/Jen and Margie/Luke keep mentioning they are over their fight from the pervious leg. So, all of the teams make their way to the foot message place, with Cara/Jaime there first, and one of them choosing to do the roadblock, which was a very painful foot message that they had to deal with for ten minutes. Kisha/Jen arrived, next, and easily, Kisha chose the detour. The two ladies each struggled with the pain they were going through. Finally, Tammy/Victor arrive, and Tammy does the roadblock, becoming the next victim of the pain. Next, Margie/Luke arrive, and Luke decided to do the roadblock.

Finally, all four of the roadblock doers all survived the pain, and Cara/Jaime lead the pack as they still struggle with some language barriers and culture shock. Kisha/Jen, Tammy/Victor, and Margie/Luke each follow, and make their way to Guangcui Natatorium, where their next clue in. Finally, Jaime/Cara, Kisha/Jen, Tammy/Victor, and Margie/Luke each received the detour, sync, or swim. In sync, teams had to dive in a pool, and in swim, swim 800 meters (400 a piece) in order to receive ac clue. Jaime/Cara and Margie/Luke chose to swim, and Kisha/Jen and Tammy/Victor chose to sync. Tammy/Victor struggled a lot with the detour, and Jen’s fear of swimming left her afraid and in tears, in most of the episode. She even wanted to go home.

Jaime/Cara and Margie/Luke finished the detour easily, and in under ten minutes, and easily moved on to the pit stop, the Drum Tower. Jen still struggled to deal with her swimming fear, and Kisha was very supportive of her. Meanwhile, Tammy/Victor were still working on the detour, and Jaime/Cara were screaming at taxi drivers, saying “they all look alike!!!!!”. Finally, Tammy/Victor got the diving detour correct, and were able to finish. Next, Kisha/Jen struggled in the swim detour, but finally managed to make it through. Jaime/Cara arrive to the Drum Tower first, but, Phil tells them this was not the pit stop, and handed them their next clue.

This Amazing Race leg, along with this blog, is to be continued. . . . .

Survivor - Debbie Immuned, Tyson voted off

2009-04-24T15:46:00.001+01:00

So, the survivors return from camp, and surprise, Sierra is crying over Brendan being voted off. Tyson had the nerve to rub it in her face. Sierra looks hopeless, as if it’s confirmed that Sierra leaves next. Everyone is almost ready to vote her off. The next day, Sierra cries to Tyson, saying she wasn’t a mastermind, and Tyson rudely agreed, saying she isn’t smart enough to be a mastermind. In the reward challenge, they all teamed up and had to arrange boards to see through a spelling of vowels, and then solve a puzzle. It was Debbie, Erinn, Tyson, and JT? Who won.

So, during the reward, the survivors enjoyed watching natives dance, and enjoyed eating. Then, they all threw up their meals after they were called to dancing. Later back at camp, Sierra cries to Debbie, saying “Oh, it’s not my fault I made a mistake” and she tries to exclude Erinn from her conversation. Then, Sierra cries to Coach, asking, if not, begging, for a second chance. In the immunity challenge, the survivors had a choice: play the immunity challenge or eat pizza. Ironically, three guys, Stephan, JT, and Coach, most surprised about JT and especially Coach for sitting out. During the challenge, Tyson played smart, but was taken down by Sierra, who was-at the last moment- taken down by Debbie, giving immunity to Debbie.

At tribal council, Tyson, Coach, and Debbie, along with even Sierra are sure that Sierra will be the next to go. Then, Stephan attempts to save the day, and mentions getting rid of Tyson, since he doesn’t have immunity on him, and may never get the chance to take him down. So, at tribal council, Tyson picks on Sierra, like a big brother does to a little sister. So, it’s three votes for Sierra, and one for Tyson, after the first four votes were read. Then, the last four votes shockingly went to Tyson, and he was voted off, crushing Coach’s oh-so-fabulous, grade A, super alliance or warriors. (That’s sarcasm)

That was the best blindside in Survivor’s history, period. OK, Tyson was becoming too cocky, too good for his shorts, and I’m glad Karma bit his head off hardcore. That was just a funny as Corinne losing to Sugar last season. And hopefully, Coach will be soon, maybe next, at best. Erinn, well, I’d never though I’d say this, but now, I’m sure she’s in a very good position, she’s not an idol threat, and everyone probably needs her vote in order to make a majority. JT may have recruited himself as the powerful alliance leader, but Timbira still has four to their three, so if Coach and Sierra teamed up, shockingly, JT could be a threat to go.

Timbira may perhaps be the worst tribe ever, considering they are all worried about getting rid of their own tribe members, JT, Taj, and Stephan could easily slide to the final four, with Erinn on their side, hopefully. Erinn, who was the one I thought would be boring and invisible, may be all over the show next week, considering she and Sierra have to choose to stick with Timbira or Jalapao. Also, props to Stephan for saving the day, and voting for Tyson’ cocky butt, and props for Taj and JT for letting that happen.

TAR14 - Kisha/Jen in first, Mark/Michael eliminated

2009-04-22T23:33:00.003+01:00

The teams leave Thailand and are headed for Guilin, China. This made Tammy/Victor happy, as they were given the chance to speak Mandarin Chinese. Four of the teams-Kisha/Jen, Margie/Luke, Tammy/Victor, and Jaime/Cara have met up at the first leaving flight, putting Mark/Michael even further back in last. Then, teams had to make their way to a local beauty salon. Jaime/Cara arrived first, telling them to go to the #24 Bridge at the Li River, where teams had to receive their next clue. At the beauty salon, Luke shoved Jen, and Jen called Luke the B-Word. So, the leading teams all made their way out to the Li River. While trying to get their clue again, Luke shoved Jen, again!

Luke/Margie and Kisha/Jen spend some time stating their own side of the story. However, in the roadblock, the teams had to basically train birds to go fishing fort them. Jaime, Tammy, and Luke completed the roadblock, and I’m not sure if it was Kisha or Jen completed this roadblock. Jaime finished the roadblock first, and her and Cara moved on to the Ancient South Gate. Kisha/Jen then finished, and they moved on. So, then, soon, Tammy/Victor and Margie/Luke moved on too. Meanwhile, Mark/Michael are completing a speed bump, by washing the hair of two ladies in order to move back on to racing.

At the Ancient South Gate, the four teams ahead raced to there, and chose a detour: Choreography, or do a traditional dance, or calligraphy, write Chinese letters. Cara/Jaime chose to dance, and Tammy/Victor, Kisha/Jen, and Margie/Luke chose calligraphy. Tammy/Victor lead Margie/Luke across the detour, and they obviously decided to follow them. Finally, the three of those teams finished, and it was a three-way footrace to the finish line. Kisha/Jen were rewarded first, wining a trip for two to Barbados, Tammy/Victor were given second place, and Margie/Luke were given third place. Then, Kisha/Jen and Margie/Luke lead to a confrontation, as they accuse each other of what happened earlier.

Michael decided to complete the roadblock, however, it’s too late. Jaime/Cara-who struggled with t the choreography, and yet again, had another frustration with a language barrier, were given fourth place. Mark/Michael were in last place, and were eliminated. Next, we’ll see the four teams make their way across Beijing, where this time, I’m sure it’ll be Tammy and Victor who will dominate, and take the race out of the others’ hands.

This leg was exciting, only for the one part, seeing Jen take on Luke, who probably thinks he should get his side taken because he’d deaf, or whatever. However, I personally take Kisha/Jen’s side of the story, as we did see her get shoved right into the clue box. If you didn’t see that, than you missed the proof, and now I’m telling you. It was Luke’s fault. I hope to see Margie/Luke in last-hopefully, many hours behind. It was pretty obvious that Mark/Michael would be eliminated, especially when you saw the other four teams get so very far ahead. This race should have a nice finish, however, I’m almost confident it’ll be Margie/Luke who get karma, and get eliminated, in fourth, as a good team, like other fourth place teams have gotten.

Survivor - Tyson Immuned, Brendan voted off

2009-04-17T18:18:00.002+01:00

The episode began with the most stupidest Survivor ever, Coach memorizing a monologue about the stupidest attempt of a story ever. He basically claims he was in the Amazon, by Peru, getting stalked by indigenous tribesmen, and then getting clobbered, stabbed, and attacked by them. He claims only three people know this story, but what about the press, that would’ve jumped all over that if it did happen. Peru may be a part of the Amazon, but seriously, if he really did get attacked by any tribesman, he either a) was harassing them or b) on their property. And how the flying heck is someone beaten to death going to have the energy to row away from them, especially if they were tied up. I hope he never told any kid this, that would be blasphemous.

Anyways, the survivors had a reward challenge where they throw balls at other teams crates! It was Debbie, JT, and Brendan who won, winning a white-water rafting trip along with some food. Coach managed to be upset he didn’t win, as if his story wasn’t enough adventure for him, and along with the other seven or eight “life-or-death” situations he says he’s had. Grow up, Coach. So, Stephan was exiled. At Exile Island, Stephen established a life goal: to make fire. Yippee. But seriously, if Janu could do that, so could anyone. At the reward, Debbie was ignored, as all we saw from her was “Look at those brownies!”. Then, Brendan says he wants to work with JT, and take him to the final two. He says by having JT in the final two, he’d lose, but consider himself a winner anyways.

Back at camp, when they return, the epic battle begins: Brendan rallies up Taj, JT, and Sierra, asking them to vote for Coach. Then, JT and Taj look like they are on board with it, and it would’ve given them 100% control of the tribe. At the immunity challenge, the survivors had to make their way along a rope and ladder course. It was between Brendan, Tyson, and JT at the end. However, Tyson won. Back at camp, on I believe Day 24, it was sure Erinn, Debbie, Coach, and Tyson were on board with splitting the vote between Sierra and Brendan. Brendan and Sierra were sure they were going to get Taj, JT, and Stephan to vote for Coach. At tribal council, it was a 2-3-4 vote, with Brendan voted off, becoming the first member of the jury.

This episode gave up my hopes, and probably the hopes of the people. But you know what they say, Failure is a blessing in disguise! This means Brendan failed to get Coach out, but the blessing is Coach being blindsided by an alliance Arranged by Sierra. I’m really optimistic on this, It’s not really true yet, and yes, It’d be so sweet to see Sierra win over Jalapao and Erinn. Erinn is probably in a very good position, OK, she could flip on Tyson/Coach/Debbie because she doesn’t like them. Out of the eight remaining Survivors, only Erinn and Sierra are worthy of being there. JT needs to open his eyes, or the only money he’ll see is that pointless $100,000 rewarded to the pity vote given out at the reunion.

TAR - Margie/Luke in first, Mark/Michael in last

2009-04-15T13:06:00.002+01:00

Sorry for the late delay, I was away from home on Sunday night. So, the teams leave Phuket and head to Bangkok, Thailand where they must make their way to a Boat Yard. In the roadblock, the teams had to fix a propeller on a boat that would take them to their next destination. Margie, Luke, Victor, Kisha, and Mark worked on the roadblock. Margie finished first, and her and Luke moved along. Jaime/Cara, Kisha/Jen, and Mark/Michael all finish next, and move on, however, Kisha/Jen left their bags at the dock, and decided not to get them right away. Then, Mark/Michael discovered they were missing their stuff too, and actually decided to go back.

Finally, Victor becomes the last to finish, but since Mark/Michael go back for their stuff, Tammy/Victor catch up. In the detour, teams had to choose between broken teeth by fixing peoples’ dentures or broken record, sing in a taxi with a bunch of cross dressers. Margie/Luke chose Teeth, while the other teams chose to sing in a taxi. Margie/Luke excelled, as they took the faster detour, and finished. They arrived to the pit stop to discover, they are team number one, winning a Puerto Rican trip. Finally, Jaime/Cara arrive, and are team number two.
Meanwhile, Mark/Michael seem to have ran out of money, and decided to give their possessions to the driver in exchange of rides. Then, Kisha/Jen and Tammy/Victor arrive to the pit stop. However, Kisha/Jen couldn’t check in until they get their legal documents (passports) from the boat yard, which meant Tammy/Victor were team number three.

It was now between Marl/Michael and Kisha/Jen, and sure enough, Mark/Michael arrived. However, due to breaking the law of TAR by bargaining taxi rides, twice, they received a four hour penalty. This allowed Kisha/Jen to check in as team number four. Not even an hour into the penalty, Phil checked Mark/Michael in, and told them they were in last place. However, Mark/Michael were spared, and would receive a speed bump for the next leg. Watch next week as we see Luke immorally attack Kisha/Jen physically, by (nearly) assaulting them, and then verbally, by calling one of them the B-word.

This leg was the worst, of this season so far. I am probably not really regretting the fact I slept through, like, half of it. I really hope these producers regret making us watch cross dressers in taxi, with karaoke, and have them put dentures in people’s mouths. Fixing a propeller wasn’t that bad, considering that can require some skill. Anyways, I really like all of the teams now, but judging from the previews of next week, I’m not so sure about Margie/Luke. Mark/Michael really remind me of last season’s Dan/Andrew, being so unlucky with all their choices and mistakes. Tammy/Victor are still my pick as number one, and believe it or not, my pre-shoe pick for final three (Mark/Michael, Kisha/Jen, Tammy/Victor) is still active! So, why not, see them in the final three? If that happened, best believe would smoke that final leg, and that what I want to see.

Survivor - Tribes Merged, Joe evacuated

2009-04-10T22:06:00.002+01:00

The survivors are all talking about the possibility of an upcoming merge. Finally, all of them are given tree mail to be transported to a destination. It’s revealed that this destination, is a place loaded with a banquet of food. The tribes have officially merged into one tribe, and they get to enjoy a nice feast. The survivors talk about what to name their tribe, first they come up with something that sounded perverted, then change it to the Portuguese word for Strength, Farzo.

Immediately, Coach and Tyson form a pack with J.T., Stephen, and Debbie to get Brendan out, as Tyson calls him a sneaky bastard several times across the whole hour. During the show, Joe had an infection in his leg. Meanwhile, Brendan decides to lay low on the cross tribal alliance, saying it’s a “maybe” after Joe or J.T. go home. Coach and Tyson are so confident that it’s the two of them in control of the game that they annoy probably every single viewer to the point where if Survivor had a crowd outside tribal council (Like BBUK has, outside it‘s house), they would be screaming “Get Coach Out”, “Get Coach Out”. Honestly, Erinn saying she may “like” Coach, made me want to remind her of him being Survivor’s biggest joke.

Anyways, it became time for the immunity challenge. The Survivors had to outlast each other on a pole for as long as possible. At the end, probably at the twenty minute mark, it was between Debbie, Sierra, Tyson, and Coach, and surprise, Coach just had to mention they were all from Timbira. Coach fell, nut his fall looked like a “I’m so confident I don’t need immunity” type of fall. Lastly, it was between Debbie and Tyson, and literally, it was the first (and only) time I’d ever say “Go Debbie!”. However, Tyson won. Then, Joe was left behind for medical help.

Back at Camp, Brendan and Sierra are told it’s J.T. who is getting voted off. However, Coach and Tyson ramble around camp, convincing everyone it’s Brendan who goes. Then, there’s a plan b: throw some votes over to Sierra just incase Brendan plays his Hidden Immunity Idol. However, everything stopped when Jeff Probst (the presenter) arrived to camp, announcing Joe has been medically evacuated, and there would be no tribal council. The episode ends with Joe leaving via helicopter. Nine remain, who will be there to see the best blindside ever (or the most pitiful one, if Coach somehow survived)

This episode featured the most annoyance ever in Survivor. If Survivor had no winner, that’d be better than Coach winning. Since Brendan is the threat Tyson makes him out to be, we’ll see how having the idol will earn him the extra allies he needs. If Cross tribal allies all manage to want to stick together, this will leave Erinn, JT, and Debbie as possible swing votes. However, it’s obvious that Debbie would be the last to turn on her precious Tyson. Coach is probably more of a villain than Randy, and maybe as loathed as Jonny Fairplay.

Joe leaving was pretty much a disappointment, however, it does give Erinn, JT, Stephan, Taj, and Debbie another three days to realize Coach is a huge threat, and the biggest joke on Survivor. Anyways, I want to hear more Coach bashing. Brendan will be my favourite Survivor over passing Cirie, ever if he convinces these people to vote off Coach. Erinn, well, isn’t what she promised before, and well, meh, we’ll see. I can’t wait to see this big Coach/Tyson vs. Sierra/Brendan battle next week, but knowing CBS, it’ll be so indescribable. Just the thought of Stephan, Debbie, and JT even wanting to believe Coach will immediately exclude them from any top 5 list I make.

Top 5:
1. Erinn (7) (tie, only because Brendan is just as anti-Coach)
1. Brendan (6) Anti-Coach pride!
3. Taj (2) Good player, can’t wait to see her off the coach wagon)
4. Joe (3) Too bad he was the most useless player)
5. Sierra (2) (only there, literally because she’s Anti-Coach)

Survivor - Timbira Immuned, Sydney voted off

2009-04-04T01:31:00.002+01:00

So, on Day 16, this episode of Survivor started off with Taj wanting to tell Stephan that she wants to tell J.T. about the idol. Stephan isn’t sure they would benefit from that. Meanwhile, at the Timbira, Coach has “one of his moments” where he poorly cooked the beans in rainy water and from river water. Sierra was most frustrated with him, and is sure she’s fed up with him. In the reward challenge, the tribes had to build a barricade to avoid the other tribe from throwing pigs. Timbira and Jalapao both went back and forth taking the lead, and it was Timbira who won. It was Joe and Erinn who were exiled.

At the reward, Coach, Sierra, Tyson, Debra, and Brendan all enjoy a nice barbecue. Then, they all go for a swim by a waterfall. Meanwhile, back at Jalapao, Taj is busy making a fake idol that Joe could possibly play. Then, J.T. finds the hidden idol idea, the real one that Taj has. So, Stephen and Taj tell J.T. they found it, and the three of them agree to work together in the near future. Then, at exile, Erinn gets the clues with the hidden idol, and decided to spill them to Joe. In the immunity challenge the survivors had to release sand by sling shooting tiles, then release puzzle pieces and solve the puzzle. J.T. and Tyson did all the work for the sling shooting. It was Tyson who pulled off the challenge, and Brendan and Erinn aced at the puzzle, earning immunity for Timbira again.

J.T, Taj, Sydney, Joe, and Stephan are all upset they lost immunity again, and will go down two members. Sydney and Joe are tight, and they agree to vote off Taj. Then, Joe searches for the idol, and finds the fake idol. Then, J.T. is at first sure it’s Sydney’s time to go, but then he thinks of getting the idol to be split between him and Stephan. At tribal council, it was two votes for Taj and tow votes for Sydney. The fifth vote went to Sydney, and she was voted off.

This episode was OK, as this season is so far going down as an OK season, so far. What I would expect is to see either Cross-Tribal allies or the Timbira tribe dominating the rest of the game. However, I really don’t think people like Brendan and Erinn want to see Coach around. I would say Joe is the most screwed, considering he lost Sydney as an ally and is in the minority tribe. His best shot is to get Erinn on his side. As for The CTA (Cross Tribal Allies), it would be beneficial to start working out their options. Anyways, it looks like Brendan and Sierra are in the best situation, considering they could go either way.

I personally would like to see Erinn squeeze in somewhere, just because I want to see her get Coach out. Heck, if Debra blindsides Coach, I’d be happy. Taj is really impressive, and is emerging as one of the most remembered survivors. I really admire her game play, even though it’s took some weeks. However, I don’t get all of the Sierra love, though. I will give Stephan some credit, too, considering he’s Taj’s ally. J.T. loses respect for me, and I’m really not caring for his game play too much.

Top 5 (week six)
1. Erinn (6)
2. Brendan (5)
3. Sydney (4)
4. Taj (1)
5. Stephan (1)

TAR14 - Tammy/Victor in first, Mel/Mike eliminated

2009-03-31T23:43:00.001+01:00

The teams left India and were given a clue to a gorilla statue in Phuket, Thailand. All of the teams chose to go to the ticket agency, except for Cara/Jaime, who went straight to the airport. However, all of the teams went to Thailand on the same flight. All of the teams arrive in Thailand and immediately head off to the zoo, however, they don’t know it’s a zoo they have to go to.

All of the teams manage to find out they are to go to the zoo, except for Mel/Mike, who get a taxi to take them to Patong Beach. Mark/Michael, Jaime/Cara, and Kisha/Jen arrive first, and receive their next clue, which had teams take a picture with a tiger, and have an elephant step on their back. Mark/Michael finished that, and following them were Cara/Jaime and Kisha/Jen.
Finally, Tammy/Victor and Margie/Luke arrive and complete this route marker. Meanwhile, Mel/Mike realize they are going to the wrong place, and immediately decide to turn around. Next, the teams ahead are told to make their way to an Herb shop where they must have a shopkeeper show them a box, hoping there is a clue inside.

Mark/Michael arrive to the shop first, and immediately began choosing boxes. Finally, Jaime/Cara, Kisha/Jen, Tammy/Victor, and Margie/Luke arrive. Meanwhile, Mel/Mike finish the route marker and move on to the shop. Finally, Mark/Michael found their next clue, and moved on to the detour: ride rickshaws or fill up buckets on a boat. Kisha/Jen were next to finish the detour, and they moved on to the boat task. Tammy/Victor received their clue next, and they chose to do the rickshaw detour. Jaime/Cara began to get frustrated, until they receive their clue. Margie/Luke finally get their clue, all finishing before Mel/Mike can arrive.

Mark/Michael move smoothly and keep first place positioning, all the way to finishing the detour to arriving to the pit stop first. However, they are given two penalties, one for tampering with the pumps and the other for following a taxi to their position. Tammy/Victor made an error not carrying their rickshaw all the way, however, recovered. Tammy/Victor were told they were team number one, winning a trip to Hawaii. Jaime/Cara finish, and are told they are team number two. Mike/Mel arrive to the shop, and immediately begins searching for their clue until they find it.

Kisha/Jen are still working on the boat task, and Margie/Luke struggle to communicate in this task. Finally, Mark/Michael are done with their penalty and immediately check in, to hear they are team number three. Finally, Margie/Luke arrive to hear they are team number four. Then, an incident occurred when Margie fainted due to the heat. Margie was quickly treated and recovered. Mel/Mike arrived to the boat detour, and began working on the task. However, Kisha/Jen finished and immediately made their way to the pit stop. They were team number five. When Mel/Mike arrive, they were told they were last, and were eliminated. Five teams are left.

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Survivor - Recap of the Extra Scenes

2009-03-26T01:23:00.001Z

So, Survivor aired a “new episode” where they just air scenes that couldn’t fit in the first five episodes. This will be short, since it wasn’t a regular episode. So, here’s what happened. It all started with Timbira catching food without the use of fire. Debbie ate a small minnow-like fish, and Jerry found Brazilian fruit. Meanwhile, at Jalapao, J.T. and Stephen fail to make fire, but Sydney came to the rescue, and made fire.

Tyson is then obscenely seen parading around camp naked, and shaking his butt everywhere. Debbie found this amusing, which I found to be very creepy. Taj had a breakdown after not liking herself with a bunch of bug bites all over. Stephen makes her feel better. At Jalapao, the tribe, which was mostly Sydney and J.T. who helped build up the shelter. Timbira also fixed their shelter, holding a bench making contest between Brendan and Coach.

At Timbira, Sierra and Coach have a little conflict over Coach telling Sierra to cook the beans. Sierra explains it’s just Coach pumping her up, in order to tell her he expects more from her. Then, at Jalapao, J.T. and Stephen were playing some ball game. Back at Timbira, Coach makes some classical recitation with sounds of his mouth, in which Erinn called him the “biggest joke on the planet”. Erinn says she doesn’t like her tribe, and just wants to make the merge. I agree with Erinn. Lastly, Stephen and Brendan are seen “bonding” at exile island.

This recap was different, and I personally found some of it actually entertaining. It shows more of the “survival” and “cohabitation” part of the game, which we usually don’t see much. Not much of my opinions could change between the people, so here’s my still top 5 list: J.T. and Joe were basically the only change, simply because I don’t want J.T. to keep his controlling power.

1. Erinn (5)
2. Sydney (3)
3. Brendan (4)
4. Joe (2)
5. J.T. (5)

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TAR14 - Tammy/Victor first, Christie/Jodi eliminated

2009-03-24T22:52:00.002Z

Sorry this is late, TAR aired late, and things like school came up. So, All of the teams make their way out of frigid Siberia, and on their way to India. All of the teams managed to get the same flight, and off to their first destination, the sacred tree they go. Tammy/Victor arrive to the sacred tree first, and immediately recognized that they were supposed to call a phone number to receive the next clue. The next clue told them to go to Amber Fort, Gaura Parvati Parking. Next, there were five teams all neck and neck with each other, which included Kisha/Jen, Margie/Luke, Mark/Michael, Jaime/Cara, and Mel/Mike. So, all five of those teams raced for the sacred tree, only to find them searching for a envelope clue. Finally someone discovered there’s a phone there, and everyone begins calling. Christie and Jodi were left in last, and arrived to the sacred tree later.

Finally, all of the teams are making their way on the Amber fort. Tammy/Victor arrive first, and their next task was a roadblock, which was to take care of India livestock, a camel. Victor chose to do the roadblock, and immediately was able to keep the lead. Next, five other teams come all at once, and each had one person choose to do the detour. I don’t remember for some, but I know Mel, Mike, and Margie chose the roadblock. Mel struggled to do the roadblock, and immediately placed himself behind all of the others competing. However, the right usage of the tools to the camel feed put Mel back ahead. Victor finished first, and immediately took off with Tammy to their next destination, Johari Bazaar. Finally, Christie/Jodi arrived, and one of them did the roadblock. Tammy/Victor kept a good lead, as of now. Then, Mel finished the roadblock after using the right tools for the camel feed that took everyone else a longer time to figure out.

Finally, the others finished, and Mark/Michael, Kisha/Jen, Cara/Jaime, and Margie/Luke all headed for the detour. Christie/Jodi were left for last, and still couldn’t get out yet. Meanwhile, Tammy/Victor arrive to the bazaar, and receive their next clue: a detour that had them choosing between loading barrels and finding a small elephant or dance in the streets and beg for money. Tammy/Victor chose to dance in the streets. They managed to finish the detour before any of the other teams arrived, and received their clue, which was information directing them to the pit stop, Jaigarh Fort. Finally, Mel/Mike arrived, and they chose to dance in the streets.

Finally, Christie/Jodi finished the roadblock, and moved along to do their speed bump. Next, Kisha/Jen, Cara/Jaime, Margie/Luke, and Mark/Michael all arrived and chose a detour, three of them choosing to dance and Mark/Michael choosing the barrel detour. Mel/mike finished the detour, and were next to head to the pit stop. Finally, Tammy/Victor, who had first the entire leg pretty much, arrive to the pit stop to hear they are team number one, winning ocean kayaks as their prize. Back at the detour, the teams are seen still dancing in the streets begging for money, and Luke explains how difficult it was for him to follow up with the detour. Finally, Christie/Jodi arrive to do their speed bump, which was to correctly paint an elephant. Then, Mel/Mike arrive to the pit stop to hear they have received second place.

Finally, Cara/Jaime, Kisha/Jen, and Margie/Luke all finished the detour, and those teams arrived to the pit stop. Kisha/Jen were team three, Margie/Luke were team four, and Cara/Jaime were team five. Mark/Michael struggled with their barrel detour, which put them with Christie/Jodi, who are choosing the dance detour. It was close as Christie/Jodi and Mark/Michael finished the detour closely together. However, Mark/Michael arrived to the pit stop first, getting sixth place. Christie/Jodi were last, and they were eliminated.

This race was OK, but I just wish they’d take a break from India, since they’ve been there like eight times. This leg really shows that Tammy/Victor are perhaps one of the shows best racers, considering they ran a perfect leg. However, in this season again, we don’t see all the competitiveness like we had previously. I’m sure those other teams are ready to see Tammy/Victor make a blunder. I don’t think Mark/Michael have it in them, and wouldn’t be surprised if they are the next to go. I still feel that Tammy/Victor and Margie/Luke have final three written all over them, and I could see most likely Mel/Mike or Kisha/Jen getting third, preferably, Kisha/Jen. Overall they keep having entertaining challenges, which really seems to make TAR.

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La Fattoria - Giovanna Evicted, Marina leaves, Milo enters

2009-03-17T00:15:00.001Z

Marina, the 67 year old cancer patient, who tried to prove that cancer patients can take on tough competition, was removed from the game in episode two of La Fattoria. This was a disappointment for me, simply because I wanted to see her last, and meet her goal. She finally got too sick, and the producers basically removed her from the game due to her health reasons. Marina says it was the first time she feared dying. Marina’s husband wasn’t very happy with this, as he calls this discrimination, and plans to protest. I have the link here you can read more, if you want to.
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So, Milo enters the farm. Milo is an entrepreneur, and he was the winner of Grande Fratello 7, and I believe he replaces Marina. Giovanna was evicted, racking up 78% of the votes. The episode is left with Marianne and Morena nominated. Giovanna was one of the girls I liked, just by reading the bio. Was she any good? Apparently, someone else entered the house, but the Canale 5 website didn’t list anything.

What I would like is for you to email me at mapleleaf_melee18@hotmail.com to see you give me some more information, for all you people out there who do follow up with this show. I’m struggling with this, as I couldn’t find any information on Giovanna’s eviction. Also, you can comment me.

TAR - Margie/Luke in first, Christie/Jodi in last

2009-03-16T12:58:00.001Z

All seven teams are at the pit stop, then are told by clue, they’ll be headed to Novosibirsk, Russia. All of the teams were to arrive by train, in which since the train left at 10:26PM, all of the teams were given the same train. On the train, one of the teams talk to Luke, about using the blind U-Turn.

Once the train departed, the first team to manage their way out is Kisha/Jen, however, they took the wrong way out, letting Mel/Mike, Margie/Luke, Tammy/Victor, and Cara/Jamie to take the front of the pack. So, teams had to make their way to Punkt Tekhnicheskogo Osmotra, where they get their next clue. It was Cara/Jaime, and Margie/Luke who arrive, they read the clue. It’s a detour: In Russian Bride, teams must take a bride to a local church to get married to a groom. Or teams could head to Stadium Spartak, and move a snowplow across an obstacle. Cara/Jaime and Margie/Luke meet up with Tammy/Victor, and those three teams agree to stay together and look for the stadium together. They all also chose the snowplow detour.

However, when the top three teams were out collecting information to the stadium, Tammy/Victor took off with their own information. Meanwhile, Mel/Mike arrive, and they choose the bride detour. Then, Mark/Michael arrive, and they choose the snowplow detour. Meanwhile, at the stadium, Tammy/Victor, Cara/Jaime, and Margie/Luke arrive, and they all begin the plowing. Tammy/Victor finish first, and they move along to the Biblioteka, or the library where they’ll get their next clue. So, Meanwhile, Kisha/Jen and Jodi/Christie are seen gathering the clue, and they both choose the bride detour. Mel/Mike finally find the bride, and they move along to the church.

Cara/Jaime and Margie/Luke finally finish the detour, and they move right along. Then, Mel/Mike arrive to the church, and the photographer takes a picture, allowing them to get their next clue. Kisha/Jen had a hard time driving the Lada cars, thus this put them further behind. Christie/Jodi drove to the wrong church, which may have put them far behind also. Finally, Margie/Luke, Cara/Jaime, and Tammy/Victor arrive to the Library, where the teams discover the roadblock where one person had to strip down and run a 1.4 mile marathon, in their underwear only. Luke, Cara, and Tammy chose to do the roadblock, and they move along. Cara was walking, which allowed Tammy to catch up to her.

Meanwhile, Mark/Michael excelled at the snowplow, and they received their clue, moving to fifth place. Then, Mel/Mike arrive at the Library, and Mike chose to do the roadblock. Finally, it was literally a footrace to the pit stop, which was the Opera and Ballet Theater. It was Luke seen first arriving, and he and Margie ran to Phil at the Pit Stop. That’s when Phil tells them they are team number one, winning a trip to St. Lucia. Tammy finished the marathon, only to hear that her and Victor received second place, as team two. Cara/Jaime were team number three.

Finally Mark/Michael, arrive, where Mark chose to do the roadblock. Then, we see Kisha/Jen and Christie/Jodi arrive to the church, at separate times, and receive their next clue after the photo was taken. Next, we see Mike run in, and he and Mel check in, and are team number four. Mark/Michael check in, and are team number five. Finally, Kisha/Jen and Christie/Jodi arrive to the library, and Jen and Christie chose to do the roadblock. It was Jen who arrived and her and Kisha checked in, to hear they are team number six. Christie finished, and Christie/Jodi hear they are the last team to arrive, however, are saved by a non-elimination leg, and are told they will encounter a speed bump.

This leg was very excellent. I’m enjoying TAR14 more than Survivor: Tocantins, this time. First off, that roadblock was probably the best roadblock I’ve ever seen. I would absolutely LOVE to run around Russian streets in the frigid cold in my boxers. If that’s a real marathon like that, I’m signing up to do that. I find it ironic to see the top two teams fall down to the bottom two. This leg wasn’t much luck, it was mostly just finding the right place as fast as possible. I still believe this race will have either Margie/Luke or Tammy/Victor as the winners, and as for third, I could see Cara/Jaime or Mel/Mike there with them. If you want to contact me, use mapleleaf_melee18@hotmail.com or comment me here.