memoirs on a rainy day

This season of Survivor has finally wrapped up. As always, Survivor is very entertaining. I thought that when the boys got voted out that it would get less entertaining, but it didn’t.

The big surprise was that it was only a final two, not a final three. After the survivors were down to only three, it was predictable who would be in the final two.

Instead of focusing on her accomplishments of the last few months, Amanda focused on being nice. She needed to assert herself more and tell the jury what she had done in order to win. She didn’t.

By far the biggest moves in this season were the blindsides. Ozzy, Jason, Alexis, Erik and even some of the earlier ones got blindsided. The fans should have known that something like that would happen. Just like Cirie said, the fans were younger and less experienced. They wouldn’t have been able to pull the wool over the eyes of more experienced players.

This was a good season of Survivor. It’s been touted as one of the best ever. I still think that Survivor All Stars was the best season of Survivor.

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The girls that are left in Survivor definitely have the upper hand. As much as Erik is the Survivor über-geek, he isn’t a match for that much manipulations.

The girls just want to get rid of Erik. If he wins immunity, they will have to get rid of one of their own. The only reason that Erik has stayed in the game, is because he’s won immunity many times in a row.

This was actually a great episode. I’m surprised how easily the girls were able to dupe Erik. Having been a fan for so long must have schooled him in the art of the blindside. That’s what you’d guess, but he didn’t see it coming, especially when all of the girls were working together just to get rid of him.

Naturally, Erik wins immunity. This puts all of the girls in disarray. They know that one of their own will leave. They decide to get rid of Nat. Amanda and Cirie suggest that she tries to manipulate Erik into giving her his immunity necklace. The way things are going for him, he will never get enough votes in the finals. At least, that’s what they are trying to convince him of.

Erik is naive and easily manipulated. Their plan works easily since Cirie and others are working toward that goal as well. The jury is flummoxed when Erik gives up his immunity. The girls were also surprised that their plan worked out. Erik is the dumbest Survivor in the history of the game. That’s what Parv says to the camera.

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It’s been a while since there has been a vampire show on TV. Angel was just a continuation of Buffy. Blade was an action show. Moonlight is somewhere in between. It’s gritty and romantic, which isn’t appalling. Unlike Angel and Forever Knight, Mick St-John isn’t that old of a vampire, so the flashbacks all take place in the 1950s to 1970s.

Alex O’Loughlin plays Mick St-John, a vampire private detective. He is a vampire who fully remembers what it meant to be human and longs to be human. Before the break, the big intrigue was that his vampiric ex-wife came back human. Since Mick longs to be human, he needs to find out if there is a cure for vampirism. Coraline disappeared before Mick could investigate it fully. He managed to get some of her blood though.

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I’m actually surprised at how good this episode was. It was really good. I find it interesting that the Immunity Idol is so easy to find. It’s good to have it back in play, since Jason got voted off last time without using it.

I’m not surprised that James got taken out of Survivor for medical reasons: his finger really looked bad. The funny part was that only Erik and Parv were there to say goodbye.

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It’s time for this show to end. Who’s going to win? One of the jurors will win 25K$ thanks to the votes of the public.

The jurors had no idea who was coming. Fat Nat thinks that Adam really played well. Josh thinks that Ryan Ryan played a good game. He thinks that Sheila couldn’t win anything in the house.

Sheila isn’t happy that she got evicted. Sheila is voting for Ryan to win. She’s bitter. Matt wants to know who outsmarted everyone. He thinks it’s Adam. Chelsia agrees that Adam played a good game.

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It’s been a while since there has been a vampire show on TV. Angel was just a continuation of Buffy. Blade was an action show. Moonlight is somewhere in between. It’s gritty and romantic, which isn’t appalling. Unlike Angel and Forever Knight, Mick St-John isn’t that old of a vampire, so the flashbacks all take place in the 1950s to 1970s.

Alex O’Loughlin plays Mick St-John, a vampire private detective. He is a vampire who fully remembers what it meant to be human and longs to be human. Before the break, the big intrigue was that his vampiric ex-wife came back human. Since Mick longs to be human, he needs to find out if there is a cure for vampirism. Coraline disappeared before Mick could investigate it fully. He managed to get some of her blood though.

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Jason is a really dumb player. He is too naive to actually see what is going on. This episode is a testimony to his stupidity really, which in itself is a bit funny. Jason’s actions even surprised James, who declared that the way that Jason is playing is really stupid.

Then again, he’s just a kid and he trusts his tribemates, when he shouldn’t really. They voted off Ozzy by blindsiding him. Ozzy was also overconfident in his stature. This shocked Amanda and James, while Parv and Cirie were giddy with delight of seeing him go.

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Moments before de show, Adam and Ryan struck a deal to get rid of Sharon. They tell this to Sheila when they are doing the 1^st part of the final HOH competition. Ryan used Adam to get rid of Sharon. He didn’t get any blood on his hands. That’s why Sharon was evicted. This happened an hour before the eviction. Adam came with this plan and shared it with Ryan. Ryan is convinced by Adam to get rid of Sharon because she is the stronger player between her and Sheila. Ryan believed what he said. He believed that Adam was truthful, which he was, but he was actually thinking about himself.

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Adam is in trouble. Ryan might backdoor him. The power of the house shifts to the winner of the POV competition. Ultimately, the winner of the POV dictates who will be evicted. Sheila has a little cry about being nominated this week. Whatever! There aren’t enough people left for it to be really personal. She doesn’t realize this.

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Well, we all knew it was coming. Only some of the favorites didn’t foresee this.

Ozzy and some of the players win a reward. It involved flying to an Indonesian island and pigging out on food. The others downplayed the food when they came back, but Ozzy boasted about it. Amanda realizes that he’s arrogant. Erik was sick because of the Micronesian beer and the betel nuts.

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