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Survivor: I seriously find most of these folks close to unbearable, so not so much with liking this season.
I am so the opposite! I am loving that this episode already had some fairly good strategy for this point in the game. I guess I would be annoyed if annoying people weren't getting their comeuppance-- everyone irritating has been up for the boot or booted so far. I have no problem at all with James (agree that he didn't say anything objectionable, particularly considering the social aspect of this game is agreement, and I think his social skills have been overblown-- he was a bartender, and he's pretty snarky); Sherea (the MVP of BOTH challenges); Todd (probably thinks too much of his strategic skills, but it is entertaining); and Amanda/Aaron/Jaime are unobjectionable so far. Frosti/Erik/Denise will probably be interesting in the future. Peih-Gee is bearable. Jean-Robert is entertainingly dense, and the male model at least had the sense to dial it down while Sister Christian was in camp. Courtney is obviously not long for this world.
I'm the anti-bon!
Todd- can't stand him. He's way too pleased with his attempted strategizing, and he's not even all that good as far as I've seen. Peih-Gee has dialed it down about a thousand notches since her week one performance, but that just brings her to mildly annoying. Sherea is already (sadly) filling the neck-popping black woman role, and next week appears to be a doozy. Fun. Courtney still bugs and someone needs to give that child a sammich. Jean-Robert is a douche of the highest rank. I find him so skeevy and annoying. The rest of them, I still barely even know who they are. And I guess I'll have to give Denise a pass until she actually speaks.
Wow! The women of Zhan Hu during the reward challenge were unstoppable. Pretty amazing, and glad to see them pull it out despite the team men.
Chow.com has interviews with Hung, Dale and Casey.
Sherea is already (sadly) filling the neck-popping black woman role, and next week appears to be a doozy.
We'll have to see how it goes, but I think I'd have a similar reaction to Dave. At least, I've been having them in my living room.
Actually the only black woman on Survivor I can think of who went off on people was Alicia. Ever since her season they've been trying to recreate the Cirie magic.
"I will ALWAYS wave my finger in your face!!!"
Ah, Alicia.
Interview with Michelle Bernstein - now why can't I ever remember her ACTUAL last name? Beard is a totally different chef. . .
We'll have to see how it goes, but I think I'd have a similar reaction to Dave. At least, I've been having them in my living room.
You might have. I might have. I've done so myself in my living room, too. But as a black woman, I get my hackles up when I see it on a reality TV show because it is such a pervasive image. The Cirie's are few and far between while the Alicia's and Omorosa's and Tiffani's(ANTM) and so on and so forth are multitude. It is a shame. And perhaps Sherea shouldn't have to shoulder the burden of "All black women are not neck poppers." But that's the way it is. Her going off on Dave may be satisfying on some level, but on another level it reinforces every preconceived notion of some jackass who's watched too many episodes where Marla Gibbs went off on Sherman Helmsley on The Jeffersons.
Also, I had the sense that she was gonna be a neck poppin' mama before last night. She already went left on Dave at the last tribal council and she's had stank attitude since she got to camp in her inappropriate heels. I know a part of it is just what they chose to show, but there it is all the same.
OK, I realize - after a moment - that you're talking about a chef, but when I read "Todd - can't stand him" it bothers me. sniff
