![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was wrong,” she says, of both the accusations and the bag search. He insists he was just eating grass Jerri says, in the most condescending way possible, “we appreciate the information.” They all refuse to apologize to him. In another interview, he revealed that producers search contestants before the game starts, so there could be no contraband.Īnyway, Kel overhears everyone in the shelter talking about him, and comes back to gently confront them. There was even a theory that Kel was not disappearing to go eat beef jerky, he was actually off masturbating, a story that even ABC News covered. I felt bad for Kel, because he tells us he knows it’s “important for me to assimilate,” but he’s also clearly not a type-A personality like so many on his tribe, and seems introverted and quiet.ĬBS News reported that Las Vegas oddsmakers bet that Kel would win the $1 million, which is remarkable considering what a nothing character he ends up being.Īlso remarkable: How obsessed the world was with this scandal. Marilyn is not happy about what everyone is doing to “Cal,” which is how she says Kel’s name. Where are the camera operators?! Do they have too few around? Tina Wesson, who was virtually ignored during the season premiere, tells the camera, “if he had beef jerky I’d kill him.” And then Tina looks in Kel’s bag! I think this is the very first occasion in Survivor history when someone does that-yet is not captured on camera. She’s recounting this the cameras did not capture it. Jerri says she caught Kel eating something that looked like beef jerky. Two in a row.”īack at camp, the conversation is about who is going to be sent home-Kel-though it is not framed as strategizing. Probst is just kind of there, among the tribes, and says, almost casually, “Yeah, you guys are on a hot streak. While Jeff Probst starts the challenge with both tribes placed on their mats-and remains mercifully silent the whole time-the conclusion is once again less organized, letting the spontaneous celebration mark the victory rather than Probst’s screaming. (The editing is, again, very choppy.) This news about his lack of swimming ability also added additional horror for me to the episode-one immunity challenge moment where Rodger’s foot became entangled in netting in the water. He did not look thrilled, but also made it with no problem. #Bovine swam to outbank how to#We learn that Rodger cannot swim-or at least, just learned how to swim immediately before coming onto the show. I so appreciate how both this and episode one’s immunity challenge have incorporated the landscape, rather than just clearing out a space and building an obstacle course there, which is why so often happens in modern Survivor. ![]() (This challenge had press on location covering it.) The reward challenge takes place at a cliff, where the tribe members have to jump off and swim to a crate, one at a time, before swimming through some small rapids to a beach. It’s a brilliant moment and the first instance of camera operator sassiness that I can recall.Ĭolby is so dismissive of Kel’s efforts he delivers this amazing quip: “The guy couldn’t fish a rubber ducky out of a bathtub.” The camera then dips underwater and pans over to show us a bunch of fish. Watching them lounge in the swirling, shallow waters of the river, I flashed forward to next season, Survivor Africa, when the contestants will literally have a shithole as a water source.Īs they relax, several tribe members-Colby, Keith, Mitchell-talk about how there are just no fish and this is futile. So, too, does Kel, though his tribe wants to just relax in the “family whirlpool,” as Marilyn describes it. Without mentioning Richard Hatch’s name, he adopts Hatch’s strategy of trying to become the tribe’s provider. Nearly all of the camp footage we see is about food, starting with Mike Skupin declaring himself “a student of nutrition” and thinking “it was odd” that his tribe was annoyed that he woke them up with a pot of rice that he wrecked by overcooking it after not consulting anyone. This episode also could have been titled “The Hunger Games,” because nearly everything involves food, from Jerri establishing her villainy by accusing Kel, without evidence, of eating beef jerky, to the immunity challenge, which an eating challenge that pushed Kimmi to her vegetarian limits. This episode could have been titled “The One That Beat Friends in the Ratings,” because CBS put Survivor up against NBC’s Friends, and won. Today, Survivor: The Australian Outback, episode 2, “Suspicion,” which originally aired Thursday, Feb. This spring, I’m recapping Survivor’s second season week by week, roughly 20 years after each episode premiered. ![]()
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