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Caramoan Finale

May 132013

And that’s a wrap for Survivor 26 Caramoan: Fans Vs Favorites 2. John Cochran has been crowned sole Survivor and got his definitely deserved check of one million bucks, let’s wrap this season on this blog too with a final post about it. It was a very strange season indeed. A terrible terrible one premerge. For the first time in my life I considered stopping watching a season of Survivor. I’m glad I didn’t as the second half of the season was very solid and had some incredible moments. What about this finale? Well, while it was very predictable, it was still fun to watch for the most part. Continue reading »

Caramoan – Episode 13: “Don’t Say Anything About My Mom”

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May 092013

Caramoan - Episode 13: "Don't Say Anything About My Mom"

What a strange episode. Very predictable, as soon as it started, Eddie said he was going home (i.e. we know he’s not going home) then Cochran and Brenda are both considering voting the other one out, so we know it’s going to be one of them. But seeing how both players have been edited, both all season long and during this episode, it was obvious it was Brenda. Yet, it was a very emotional episode on so many levels. One of this level was that production was being a big jerk this episode. Once Brenda won the reward challenge she was screwed no matter what. Twists that make you Continue reading »

Caramoan – Episode 12: “The Beginning of the End”

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May 022013

Caramoan - Episode 12: "The Beginning of the End"

I love having Thursday off. You see in my corner of the world, while it’s Wednesday night in the US, it’s Thursday morning here. So Thursday off means that I get to watch Survivor live. That’s the second time this season. But more important for you, that also means that I get to blog about it during the day and not late at night after a long day of work as I’m almost falling asleep on my keyboard. I don’t know if that will make a better blog post, but at least there should be less typos. But enough about me and let’s jump into the analysis of an Continue reading »

Caramoan – Episode 11: “Come Over to the Dark Side”

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Apr 262013

Caramoan - Episode 11: "Come Over to the Dark Side"

Last night, the internet cried. Our lives have become pointless. Our beers have become stale. The fun has been sucked out of our lives by a big sponge. Ok, I exaggerate just a little bit, but yeah, while I didn’t expect Malcolm to win this season, I am bummed that he was voted out so early. See, I have had one problem with Survivor in recent seasons (I mean, on top of the others problems I have like some poor casting and editing choices) is that I haven’t found any contestants to really root for since… I don’t know… Probably Stephen Fishbach in the Tocantins. That is Season 18, eight seasons Continue reading »

Caramoan – Episode 10: “Zipping Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”

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Apr 192013

Caramoan - Episode 10: "Zipping Over the Cuckoo’s Nest"

I’m going to repeat what everyone has said: “what an amazing episode! this is why 13 years later, I’m still not missing one episode of that show, even if it has early seasons that suck as bad as this one” This was indeed one of the best tribal council ever. Now let’s try to see everyone’s game play at this point. Enil Edam Tribe - Andrea Boehlke: What’s interesting about Andrea this week is that she was almost voted out by Stealth ‘R Us as they were scrambling during tribal council. Who would have thought she was at the bottom of the alliance? I guess it comes Continue reading »

Caramoan – Episode 9:”Cut off the head of the snake”

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Apr 112013

Caramoan - Episode 9:"Cut off the head of the snake"

So this is maybe a good season after all. Another great episode, that’s making me scratching my head a little as to what has really happened. So let’s try to break it down. Oh, on a side note, I usually don’t care about challenge, but I gotta admit that they are great this season. Enil Edam Tribe - Andrea Boehlke: Kuddos to her this week. She has basically managed to save herself without really realizing it, as it’s her freak out thinking she may be going home that made the Favorites alliance change their vote from Malcolm to Michael and indeed save her. Although, had Malcolm Continue reading »

Caramoan – Episode 8: “Blindside Time”

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Apr 052013

Ah! Finally a good episode this season! Merge episodes always tend to deliver, but very often afterwards they’re followed by boring pagongings. However, despite my rant about this season last week, we could have a very interesting second half. Let’s hope it happens. Enil Edam Tribe - Andrea Boehlke: She’s in for a big surprise sooner or later. At this point in the game, I’m pretty sure that she’s convinced to be more or less in control of the game with Phillip. The wake up call may be harsh. - Brenda Lowe: Come on producers and editors! What the fuck is going on with Brenda. It’s been Continue reading »

Caramoan – Episode 7: “Tubby Lunchbox”

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Mar 282013

So we’ve more or less hit mid-season and how many great episodes did we have? Jeff Probst, you are a liar again. After last season, I thought you had your mojo back, that Survivor would be great again, but no this season is as boring and predictable as seasons 22, 23 and 24. Sure it has its moments, but not enough to make a good season. And not scared of sounding like a broken record, but maybe you should rethink the way you cast and edit your show. These past few weeks, for the first time ever I’ve started wondering how long I’m going to continue watching the Continue reading »

Caramoan – Episode 6: “Operation Thunder Dome”

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Mar 212013

Caramoan - Episode 6: "Operation Thunder Dome"

I don’t know about you, but I have the feeling that this season of Survivor has finally started after five episodes of embarrassing people and events on a beach. Now, that there’s only one troll on the island (there’s still one though) the editors have finally started to show us some game play. I mean, I was actually really excited to even hear some strategy talk today and even if everything that went down was quite predictable and nothing incredible happened, I was just elated to see and hear some sort strategy being discussed. Apart from that the expected swap happened. I wish it had been completely random Continue reading »

Caramoan – Episode 5: “Persona Non Grata”

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Mar 142013

Caramoan - Episode 5: "Persona Non Grata"

This episode was hard to watch. It was quite emotionally draining (sure nothing of the proportions of what the Bikal tribe went through, but much more than watching Survivor should be) and not satisfying at all (no Probst, if you ever read this, that was not good TV, that was the opposite of good TV). And this blog post will be hard to write because there isn’t much to analyze in this episode. Brandon imploded. It was not a surprise. It was not fun to watch. As much as I like to talk trash about some contestants at times, they know what to expect when they go on Continue reading »

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