Survivor 21: Nicaragua

[Ohiospeedo]

Kinda liked the show last night. Didn't really focus too much on the younger tribe. And I take back what I said about Jud. He is not hot anymore.

 

[tommy_2_0_0_0]

Wow, there are some hotties on the young tribe! Love the boxer briefs too

 

[Sgt Pepper]

Shannon's red underwear was pretty hot. Too bad he seems like an ass.

 

[Spiff]

How stupid is it that they blurred out the guys bulges?

Indeed, very stupid. I swear mainstream media is becoming more and more paranoid. Why didn't they blur out the women's bouncing boobs through their tops? What kind of freaky anatomy lesson is CBS trying to teach to overly conservative families watching this show by blurring out male natural body parts through clothing?

And ditto about the new medallion of power being pointless. I'm already not feeling good about this season.

 

[RyanZZZZ]

How stupid is it that they blurred out the guys bulges? Half the reason I watch this damn show is so I can see thier dicks bouncing around in their underwear!

You have to blame Janet Jackson for that....ever since she showed her nipple they have been blurring everything.

 

[aijalon18]

Janet is not to blame. Americans are just prudes who let conservative Christians take over everything. In England they have boobs and butts on regular newspapers and tv shows.

 

[TaggedGalaxy]

I think they want to avoid another Marcus incident, they never blurred out crotches until the fallout of Marcus' penis slipping out.

 

[altlover85]

Janet is not to blame. Americans are just prudes who let conservative Christians take over everything. In England they have boobs and butts on regular newspapers and tv shows.

Co-signed. I forgot about the Marcus incident.

 

[joesman]

You have to blame Janet Jackson for that....ever since she showed her nipple they have been blurring everything.

The point is that they do show the big boobs through the wet shirts when women are playing and yet, like The Amazing Race, if a man shows that he has any semblance of a dick they blur it out. The dick is covered you a-holes. They're not running around with raging hard ons, and besides you're supposed to be in a wilderness. Survivor, get with it.

I see Probst is still an ego nut. And Wendy, honey, put your goats may like your incessant talking but it ran on and on. Sorry, I just heard that her complete goat herd jumped a cliff when they heard she had been voted out.

 

[Spiff]

I think they want to avoid another Marcus incident, they never blurred out crotches until the fallout of Marcus' penis slipping out.

That doesn't make sense.They could have easily avoided the Marcus incident by catching it during editing and blurring just that part out. But this week they blurred out everytime they showed the guys in underwear. But that's not going to prevent another editing oversight like the Marcus event. And the Marcus event happened a couple seasons ago. They just started blurring out the VPL this season, which is more than their usual censoring of things like butt cracks and pubic hair.

 

[aijalon18]

As long as they are blurring things, I would love for them to blur flat pancake asses and gross fat guts hanging over the front of the guys shorts. That's far more unsightly than a flaccid penis.

 

[TaggedGalaxy]

That doesn't make sense.They could have easily avoided the Marcus incident by catching it during editing and blurring just that part out. But this week they blurred out everytime they showed the guys in underwear. But that's not going to prevent another editing oversight like the Marcus event. And the Marcus event happened a couple seasons ago. They just started blurring out the VPL this season, which is more than their usual censoring of things like butt cracks and pubic hair.

Yeah but they didn't catch it and it aired on TV and they got a lot of backlash for it. Since then they have taken steps to make sure it doesn't happen again like blurring out the bulges this season, and I believe it was Tocantins where Survivor gave the men specific underwear to wear rather than let them wear their own.

 

[slipintothefog]

I liked the premiere a lot more than Samoa's, even though I fell asleep after the Immunity Challenge, lol... I'm so glad there's no person to pimp out because he's on the next season too. The editing was so much better for it.

I was apprehensive about Kelly Bruno because I was sure they were going to milk the sob story. Personality-wise she seems like an average girl and I like that.

Jimmy Johnson.. MEH. Go away, please.

All of the guys on the young tribe suck. I had to laugh at the one who was all about hot girls even though his nickname is "Sash." Like... really? The one everybody called "Fabio" was annoying, but Shannon was the worst. Noticed the blurring of the guys shorts. Didn't really care.

I am so numb toward sob stories on reality shows that I totally spaced out after the woman who started the fire was all "I lost my husband in 2009..." I know that makes me sound horrible but I am so over every show needing a token sob story.

The crazy first boot had me laughing at her insanity during the Tribal Council. When Probst was reading the votes and it got to "5 votes Wendy, 1 vote Yve," I was wondering WTF was going on. I didn't even realize this was a twenty person season. I am so over those. If this were a sixteen person season, everybody would have been featured. Instead, "Benry," "Purple Kelly" and "guy who looks like he's from the Mafia" got nothing.

Na'onka stealing Sandra's "I can get loud too" line in next episode preview was a big no-no. There can be only one sassy ethnic ~queen~ and she punctuated that line with "WHAT THA FUCK!" when she said it.

The premiere pulled over 12 million viewers, up nearly 10% from Samoa's. Very happy with that. I was really scared that moving the show to Wednesday would have killed its ratings.

 

[Sgt Pepper]

Someone should post screen caps of Shannon. I know he's probably an ass, but good lord he's gorgeous.

 

[joesman]

Someone should post screen caps of Shannon. I know he's probably an ass, but good lord he's gorgeous.

^^^^^ You are so right about Shannon's looks. And Chase, too, for me. I am just guessing that alpha male comes intact with no brains as witnessed by Shannon's 'women rule your life when you get married' and Chase's telling the girl about his alliance with Shannon, while she says she is used to men doing what she wants - so she is the female side of Shannon.

 

[altlover85]

slip, I thought Sash might be gay too.

 

[Sgt Pepper]

Joesman, Tallulah has a great column/recap of the Survivor premiere, including some spot on analysis of Shannon's woman-hating. You should check it out if you haven't already.

 

[joesman]

Joesman, Tallulah has a great column/recap of the Survivor premiere, including some spot on analysis of Shannon's woman-hating. You should check it out if you haven't already.

Thanks pepper, I did check it out and it was a lot of fun and some nice cuts (death by a thousand cuts) on some of these playas.

Here is the link for anyone who wants to spend a few minutes chuckling and nodding in agreement.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tallulah-morehead/isurvivor-21-infants-vs-s_b_721270.html

 

[falconfan]

I don't know which of them decided... 'hey guys, lets walk around all day in nothing but our boxers, you know boxers so tight that they require us to be blurred by censors' but he or she is already the most valuable player of the season. Young tribe is PREEEEETTY. Survivor has these seasons where they're full of duds and those where they're full of gorgeous men and this is definitely one and I'm liking it.

Now onto more professional observations. Jimmy Johnson needs to be voted off early. He annoys me. I think he'll survive via tribe shuffle as most the young kids seemed to want him around. But really Survivor producers stop making this show about one person a year! Other people are allowed to have interviews too!

Shannon is a total stereotypical chavaunist which is all right if he keeps his shirt off.

I'm really feeling Chase though he's clearly not the brightest... in related news... I like Brenda. I've got my eye on her as a smart player. She was able to extract information from my dim darling see it's importance but not react and remain cordial enough that he didn't even get it.

 

[falconfan]

What is the point of the Medallion of Power? If the other team gets it the week after you use it, then WTF? It doesn't really matter who has it then, and it was worth it then to trade it for the fishing supplies since those aren't traded back and forth.

Stupid twist.

I would never trade miscellaneous power for something that could likely be won by day 6. I think that's silly. No one has ever starved to death on this show. And you should know that theres more than one occasion on which a tribe MUST win to survive. If you're approaching merge and down one player it could mean the difference between getting picked off or winning.