Survivor: Redemption Island -- March 2, 2011
 

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Episode 3:



Please don't let Philip get voted off. He is GOLD.

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Here's the synopsis:

I'm thinking that means

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Hard to believe no one has been eliminated from the game yet.

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I think.....

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I agree.

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That's what I'm thinking as well.

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They don't get voted off redemption island do they? I thought they competed in a challenge to stick around.

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That's correct.

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Right, but the loser of the challenge is sent home.

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For what it's worth, the episode title is -



So that's not a bad prediction.

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I dont like that anybody watches the Redemption Island challenge. I think it would be much better if they are completely unaware of who is there other than the last person they sent.

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Pretty smart move on Julie's (?) part to not flip and go with Russell and crew. She flips and they still don't have numbers so flipping doesn't make much sense.

Stephanie has some balls on her. She goes into Tribal talking shit (which might be why Julie decided not to flip after all) and even after Russell gets voted out she's still talking shit. She's not long for this game.

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The best part is initially she was the one most upset about Russell entering the game and joining her tribe. I'm pretty confident that Russell will beat Matt next week and we'll end up with a Russell/Rob face-off at RI at some point.

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Yep, didn't like that at all. Plus it takes up too much time of the show, so we get less time with them at camp.

It would be much more entertaining for Rob or Russell to end up there and run the table to get back in the game and shock everybody at their return.

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I thought the black chick was going to beat the blond dude. In the end the blond dude ended up beating the black chick. Now Russell has to go against the blond dude, instead of the black chick. He thought he'd be facing the black chick, not the blond dude. Black chick...blond dude

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I liked how Russell didn't even know the name of "the old lady" on his tribe yet. :lol:

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Did you see the guns on that old lady?

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That's his people skills at work.

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Russell just went into this season with the wrong game plan. Rob is definitely playing a much smarter game. And I am a Russell fan. It'll be interesting to see if he can run the gauntlet on Redemption.

Rob is gonna be elated :lol:

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Steve the silver fox :drool:

:lol: at the close-up of the one woman's big jugs with the immunity idol around her neck during the re-cap!

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Very entertaining episode, especially with the confidence Russell and Stephanie had going into TC, only to see the smiles wiped off their faces while Ralph sat there and laughed at them. :lol:

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I'm not really sure what those dolts on Russell's tribe think they were accomplishing by lying about who won the RI challenge.

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Not just Rob. You're going to hear a huge cheer when Jeff tells them "Russell voted out at last tribal council"

:shrug: Seemed a strange move to me too, especially since they hadn't confirmed the "throw the challenge" strategy. I guess they got an extra kick out of imaging Russell thinking he'd have the advantage, only to see a younger stronger guy there instead.

I'm just amazed those idiots pulled it off :dance: I was thinking that Ralph wasn't going to take any chances and reveal he had the HII (meaning they didn't have to worry about splitting votes). I wonder if Stephanie's bratty attitude was the difference between the "old lady" sticking with her original alliance versus siding with Russell.

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I don't think Julie ever considered voting with Russell. She just humored them by listening to their plan and the producers edited it to give us a more exciting tribal council. The guy doing the puzzle couldn't have been more obvious about throwing the competition. From that point on, I'm sure Russell knew he was getting the boot.

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I guess there is a chance that Rob's tribe, upon finding out that Russell was voted out, will re-think their strategy and determine that it might be best to get him out early.

I was looking forward to Russell being voted out, but after that pathetic challenge-throwing, I now hope he comes back and picks each of them off.

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Maybe he will be happy about.....I don't know. Personally, I would have wanted Russell to stick around long enough to make it to the merge so I could have sent him packing. I think Rob would have loved to get revenge.

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I agree... her mind seemed made up long before tribal. The CBS edit was pretty bad and predictable.

I really don't get why they would throw the challenge so early... if their alliance is 6-3 what's the harm in winning, even if one person flips you still have the #'s. It seems like they could have done this vote at any point and could have used a tarp.

Seems like a "russell" type move... making a move when you really don't have to do it. They could have picked him off at the first immunity vote whenever it happened... now they are 1 loss away from being even in #'s with the other tribe (and could have been in a commanding 3 up position). Assuming there is one of those challenges where each tribe eliminates a person pre-merge, they now can lose only 1 other challenge or they will start eating into their main alliance.

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That's true. Honestly, I could see them working together for a couple votes too if they were to both make it to the merge. Of course, that would depend on a few things.

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I can see that there are mixed feelings, but I actually like the Redemption Island gimmick so far.

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This episode was full of winning!! I loved it.

Love seeing Russell get smacked down. Loved it! Ha Ha!!!

Hope he gets smashed out of it in redemption!

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I knew without some form of immunity that Russell's days were numbered right from the start. This wasn't like his previous two seasons where nobody knew what type of game he played. Even though he made that little speech on the first day about not playing the same game this time around, he still tried to and it failed.

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For all the talk about "throwing the challenge", given the final part was so puzzle intensive I don't think they would have won anyway.

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That wasn't the smartest challenge to throw. They start spinning that wheel too slow and they drown a teammate.

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Well yea, like I said, he didn't go into this season very intelligently. The only way he wouldn't have been voted to Redemption early would have been to be a completely different person from day one. He just was unable to do it. Sure, he made that one speech... but then didn't follow through for a second.

His ego was far too big, and he just wasn't bright enough to know that he had to change his ways this time around... he just doesn't have that ability. I personally think he'll win the next few duels... but I'm not sure he can stick with it the whole time.

But then again, we don't know how long this RI thing is going to actually last. Should be fun.

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Jeff: "you just voted out one of the most successful Survivors ever!"
okay, I guess the winners of the other 21 seasons are below Russel and his total "awesomeness" in winning 0 seasons. Jeff is a complete fanboy when he should just STFU and count the votes.
Taking this from the previous thread, the reason I don't like Jeff being the host is because he plays favorites and injects himself into and potentially affects the outcomes of challenges and tribal counsel votes. Tonight, he questions why a strong 6 is better than a fractured larger group. WTF. We get it Jeff, your mancrush Russel is about to be voted off because he couldn't find the HII that "idiot" Ralph found without even looking for it and now Jeff is pouting about it. Jeff has dated a contestant from the show and he could do it again in the future who knows how he may help that person in the game? He has screamed help to his "favorites" during challenges i.e. someone dropped something or somebody hasn't noticed something, etc. On top on all that, he just seems like a smarmy person with a huge ego.

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I think he was probably basing it on the fact that Russell easily made it to the end twice by pulling off some off the most cunning moves in Survivor history. Call his strategy what you will, but it's almost effective except when it comes down to the bitterness of the people who are on the losing side of it and view it more as a friendship camp then a game.
Regardless, throwing a challenge that early is stupid beyond belief. There was no point to it, and it will come back to haunt them. If their alliance is so strong, then they can wait until a safer time to get rid of Russell. I predict being totally fucked when it comes to meeting up with Boston Rob's team at the merge.

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:up:

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Russell obviously knows what he is doing out there. It is clear that he is good at playing this game. And yes, he is a better player than many of the winners. However, this time around, he didn't make the appropriate adjustments for a 3rd stint.

No matter how much you hate him.

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Russell has spent one of the longest periods of time playing the game. Simple as that. Jeff was only stating facts. He didn't say he was the best survivor ever, just that he was one of the most successful. If you deny that fact, you're delusional.

Jeff is pouting and playing favorites because he told them that having 9 people at the merge is better than 6? Okay...


God forbid one adult have a relationship with another adult. How scandalous!

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The chances of Zapatera making it to a merge with 9 people is IMPOSSIBLE. Survivor has never merged with less than 12 people and the chances of Rob's tribe losing every IC before the merge is also impossible.

Besides, even if they stayed with 9 folks, all you are doing with a full 9 person tribe at merge is giving the other tribe a ton of potential flippers.