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People still do that, the editors just don't focus on it. We saw Coyopa roasting crab more than once, so someone was clearly catching them and I'm sure if there is vegetation around, the tribes have had some. But as others have also noted, depending on the location of the season, sometimes that is not an option. Not every island location is filled with coconuts and other vegetation and even if it is, sometimes the tribe's location may not be in a vicinity where it is readily available. I guess I just personally did not think the rice thing was a big deal. They lost all their comfort items and had to sleep in torrential rain and Julie sure as hell looked like she was suffering because of that. I guess I just don't see getting some extra rice as being taken care of and people casually sitting around strategizing largely because I don't view hunger as the only discomfort of competing on Survivor. It's a big one yes but there's also the sleeping in uncomfortable conditions which is why many contestants have talked about not sleeping well the whole time they're out there and lack of sleep takes its toll on your body. There is also the bug bites, the tropical weather that can mean heavy rains for days at times as we've seen in some seasons, etc. Again, ymmv but as people starving has never been a particularly huge appeal of the show to me, I just don't think the rice thing was that big of a deal.

Honestly, to each his own but what appeals to me about the show was never "let's watch a bunch of people starve" so I'm not going to be bothered that they no longer "suffer enough as opposed to earlier seasons" or that they get enough food to get by. What I enjoy about Survivor is more the outwitting, alliances, challenges, etc. And as noted, yes a person may be okay to not have enough food for a month but how many times would they then be expected to do challenges that may be incredibly physically taxing while starving. And I think it's clear that no matter how much the rewards have gotten better in later seasons and they may not be starving as badly as previous seasons, the show does still take its toll based on how the contestants look by the end of the season. Tony who won last season, during the reunion said he was still having trouble building any muscle when he got back from the island and he had some parasites in his stomach.

As far as I know, yeah dress rehearsal basically includes them doing everything that'll be on the show to time down to the second. They also do fake elimination during dress rehearsal, so some couples will be told they're in jeopardy, they're in the bottom, etc. (I imagine that can mess with some, especially if they didn't have a good dance the previous week), Tom and Erin do "interviews" after the dance, etc. Last season at the finale when they had the video tribute thing for Erin, there were clips of her interviewing the couples in her casual clothes while they were dressed in costumes and after Tom said that some of those moments were from dress rehearsal. Well maybe he meant completely shirtless and figured what he had on was a compromise because technically he wasn't completely shirtless. There was a strip of whatever the costume was made of, running across his chest and one shoulder.

Mark, from the moment he came on the show has always reminded me strongly of the character Milhouse from The Simpsons. And his penchance for cheesy costumes does not help. Speaking of costumes, I really didn't find anything that atrocious about Bethany's Cha Cha costume. Seemed like a pretty standard Cha Cha costume to me. The only issue, if you want to call it that, was that she was wearing it with her "Lucy" hair still in tact and I think some of the clips and ribbons or whatever was going on in her hair, clashed a little with the colors of the costume. Speaking of hair, I'd say Bethany's hair has been the "wtf" this season. But kudos to the hair department with some of those creations (because those things weren't even plain hairstyles) they've come up with for her.

Other than the embarrassing meltdown in his season with Shannon, I actually don't remember Derek ever getting too upset about the judges' comments and scores, particularly whenever Len got on him about his content. Honestly, in my opinion, Derek's biggest issue in earlier seasons was his very annoying and over the top mugging which he has calmed down considerably. But with regards to his and Mark's temperament, apparently Mark did say once that Derek is more zen-like, calmer spirit, all the light and universe stuff, which he, Mark, isn't.

But that is the point of wearing those type of tights under shorts like those so if anything shows it's not exposing anything other than tights. Honestly, I thought that was pretty standard gym like attire. Going back to Mark, I forgot to mention that as much as I enjoyed Sadie's dance more than Janel's, I didn't think either was worthy of a perfect score so I definitely don't agree with him thinking a 38 was too low. But again I guess if he's comparing it to the fact that Janel got a perfect score, it sort of makes sense. Honestly, as much as Mark says that it's about Sadie and how that's what upsets him because she's working so hard and is so talented and not getting her "due", based on his, in my opinion totally out of line comments about Len, I think Mark's pissy attitude is more about feeling like the judges aren't appreciating his "genius" when it comes to choreography and I think that's ridiculous. To say that Len doesn't appreciate creativity and passion simply because Len didn't think his zombie apocalypse Paso was the be all and end all was ridiculous. I do think Len made an error in saying that the problem with the dance was lack of content because I agreed with Julianne that there was content there, The problem really was that Sadie did not execute the content properly. And that for me was the bigger issue yet Mark's so busy on his victim perch, he's completely ignoring that Sadie's technique was not good at all for the Paso. Honestly, Mark is starting to reach Maks levels for me with regards to the judges and their scores and comments. And that was never a good look for Maks in my opinion and it got really old, really fast with him and Mark is on the same path right now in my opinion.

I'm pretty sure those were short tights. Mark's apparently wondering the same thing. Apparently he was still bitching about Sadie's scores last night to some of the media. He didn't say flat out she deserved a perfect score but saying he believed she was underscored when she got a 38 for crying out loud, kind of spells that out. And I suspect it did have to do with Val and Janel getting a perfect score. Honestly, I do think Val and Janel were overscored and I enjoyed Sadie and Mark's contemporary more but Mark's whinging about scores is really getting annoying and not a good look. Mark has been bitching about his scores since Week 3 with the Vienesse Waltz and he even bitched for the switch up with Bethany and thought she should have gotten higher. In fact, I think he was annoyed from Week 2 when the judges didn't love his country Jazz for Sadie. I do agree that Sadie has some natural talent and she has certainly sold everything Mark has given her from the first week but Mark seems to think, based on comments he made last night, that her not having any experience and being so young makes what she's doing even more special and I don't necessarily agree with that. Bottom line, Sadie is good and maybe some of her scores have not been as high as they could have been but Mark's whinging is just not a good look and it's frankly incredibly off putting. If you're referring to when Bethany did the cartwheel thing, I'm pretty sure that's allowed in the salsa.

Yeah saw that too. When she did that move of wrapping her legs practically around his neck, all I could think about was her grandmother and mother clutching their pearls over that one rumba move that if I remember correctly, only included Mark running his hand up her leg. However her having her crotch practically in his face gets a pass. Okay then. I don't give it much thought though as I imagine most of that was scripted anyway. It was rumba, the supposed dance of love so of course we had to see a storyline of the parents freaking out about some of the steps.

I was just coming in to comment on that. It didn't really work for me. It's amazing what some facial hair can do for a guy but yeah, Val definitely needs to keep the beard in my opinion. In terms of the dance offs, both Alfonso and Tommy's win were a given but I have to say, with Bethany and Sadie, I kind of agreed with Bethany winning. Yes, she was tentative and careful, I'm guessing largely because she hasn't done a Cha Cha at all but I think particularly because of that, she was quite good. I don't imagine any of the pairings really learned four full dances. I always believe when they have these dance-offs that the couples focus on their main dance and throw a hodge podge of stuff in for the dance off styles. And if they've done the dance before, they often just repeat most of the choreography which is exactly what Sadie and Mark did tonight. The dance was mostly a rehash of their Week 1 dance. However it was mostly just the shimmying parts and a few times Sadie seemed unsteady on her legs. Bethany's legs though was the big surprise for me, again because she hasn't done the dance style yet. They were steady, straight and well pointed. Finally, I have to say that while Sadie shot ahead of Bethany at the start largely because of her personality and performance ability and her talent at just selling everything she was given, I think Bethany is starting to pull ahead at the end on technique. I saw a pretty impressive frame from Bethany in that Cha Cha, though not perfect, which is something I'm realizing has been lacking with Sadie.

Dude, I think Mark may burn down the place if he doesn't like his scores again. That was intense. Also, what was the point of BC Jean exactly? Like I get that she's Mark's girlfriend but get your girlfriend gigs on your own time dude. I mean the other people who used live singers, all used the artist of the song - the girl who sang for Alfonso and Witney's rumba, that was her song and Colbie who sang for Bethany and Derek's rumba, that was her song. BC Jean basically did a cover of an Alanis Morrisette song that the band was more than capable of doing. That said, I actually enjoyed Mark and Sadie's contemporary more than Val and Janel's so I definitely think the latter was overscored because I was fine with Mark and Sadie's score and didn't think they deserved a perfect 40 either. I have to say, I love when Mark does contemporary because he's always so intense and dramatic about it and I swear I could just see him imagining himself performing some SYTYCD number. It's hilarious. But speaking of So You Think You Can Dance, I think it's largely because I watched that show for many seasons that I am rarely enamored by any of the contemporary dances on this show. And I get that these are untrained celebrity dancers versus trained dancers on SYTYCD but still, I've seen such powerful and amazing contemporary numbers there, I'm usually just left going "eh..." with the ones on DWTS. Still I did like Mark and Sadie's for what it was worth and I liked the interplay with the apple. And Janel and Val was good, just not wow but whatever, I find the judges often overscore contemporary dances. I agreed with the judges about Lea's dance. For me the problem was a combination of her being timid and too careful as usual and like Julianne stated, the choreography. There were a lot of awesome nuisances in the music that I thought Artem did not utilize and interpret very well in the dance. It was okay but forgettable and her going first was not a good thing. Michael was...well he was Michael. It wasn't a trainwreck but that's not saying much. Tommy was actually pretty good I thought, he just lacked the attack and fire of the dance but considering the man is 76, I'm not sure he should be going for too much attack and fire, lest he hurt himself. Something about Bethany's dance didn't really work for me. I was not in love with the choreography that much, it felt a bit slow at times and sort of not in tune with the music but the biggest issue I had was with the dance space. I get that Derek went for the I Love Lucy staging with the living room but I think they should have placed it on the main dance floor rather than the little stage up top because with the counter and everything else, honestly, the whole thing felt a bit cramped and stifled. It was okay but didn't love it. Also, I was very nervous at points that Bethany was about to have a boob slip. I didn't realize how endowed that girl was before but those babies were jumping in that top. Alfonso and Witney...hmm. I liked the choreography, I liked the costumes, I thought Witney was fierce throughout the dance but to be honest I wasn't particularly wowed by Alfonso. I thought his feet was a little all over the place and his posture not that great. And it seemed like it took a good couple of seconds before any real Cha Cha started in the dance.

I'm not sure but I don't think they've fully searched the phone yet. It was almost the end of the episode when the old guy brought the phone for the Solano's and Ellie took it from him presumably to bring it into evidence. And then it was the next day and they were having a press conference. Assuming the phone needs to be unlocked or whatever, it might take a day or two for some tech to do it and fully search through it. I imagine, or hope, that it will come up more in the next episode. Because something has to eventually happen to direct Carver and Ellie back to Ellie's kid and this week's episode is already Episode 6 with the series only having ten episodes.

It is always interesting what the editors choose to show because hearing that about Reed from Kelley and Drew is especially surprising considering how mute they all but edited Reed as. I can only conclude that he's booted early after the merge and so never really affects the game and because of this the producers figured that storyline wasn't important enough to show. Or, he goes deep in the game and they didn't want to edit him negatively but nah, they've never been against showing the ugly sides of the eventual winner. So yeah I'm going with the theory that Reed is an early boot post-merge. I guess the other reason is that they didn't go to Tribal Council for a long time and seems like by the time they did whatever friction existed between Reed and others didn't anymore, considering his name was never thrown around and this is the tribal council that saw four different people get votes. So when editing for the entire season, they decided it wasn't important because whatever drama that happened didn't significantly affect anything.

She also would not have known about the potential alibi because the guy's attorney never brought it into evidence and never brought the guy as a witness in the trial. He explained to Wes and Laurel that it was because the guy was a heroin addict and the last thing he wanted was to have the jury associate his client with a drug addict, not to mention he may not have been considered a credible witness.

Nothing really happened with Logan while she was with Dean, but there was definitely some flirtation and she started embracing more of her privileged life style and hanging around the same people she avoided and disliked at Chilton. Things with her and Dean got strained and they finally broke up a night after he waited hours for her at her mom's, only to have her show up stumbling out of a limo with Logan and his friends. Dean wasn't angry, he just pretty much said they weren't right for each other anymore and she was heading in a different direction, had a different life than him. Of course I guess one can argue that the breakup also had to happen because Jared Padelicki had gotten cast in Supernatural and was leaving the show.

One, that happened after because her calling Bonnie was clearly after Sam's murder and two, I don't see the correlation between the two situations. Annalise is clearly panicked and as she tells Bonnie, knows that something is really wrong. I imagine she was probably hoping Sam was with Bonnie because I think with the rug gone and probably there are signs of some struggle in the house, she's figured out something bad likely happened to Sam. The point though is Annalise wasn't the one passing judgments on everyone - Wes was. He's the one who called both her and Sam disgusting and got on his moral high horse which is what Annalise pointed out to him. That he was acting so superior all because he's putting blind faith in a drug dealing girl who sure says she didn't have anything to do with Lila's murder but again, conveniently had Lila's phone. The phone she hid at Wes' apartment that he could have gotten in trouble for. On top of that, for all his moral superiority he barely batted an eye at Griffin's being set up with the phone. Rebecca seemed to have more of a conscience about it than he did. And again all this because why - for a girl he barely knows because "well she said she didn't do it." At least, wrong or right, one can say Sam is Annalise's husband who as she stated while sounding broken and exhausted, she still loves. And people have done way worse and crazier for the people they love. The point always in my opinion with Wes' storyline, is that his actions make no sense when looked at in the context of the fact that he barely knows this girl, she was obnoxious and rude to him for much of the time he's known her and the only "proof" he has of her innocence is her saying she didn't do it. That's it.

Perfectly said. It got borderline nauseating hearing repeatedly about how hot Ginny was, how bad ass, how amazing. Wasn't there even some line about some Slytherin guy who was attracted to her even though all we'd heard from Book 1 was how Slytherins seemed predisposed to hate everyone else and especially Gryffindor house members. But Ginny's hotness was just that palpable. Of course we never see any of these bad ass and amazing things she could do and I felt like Harry and Ginny in HBP took on his "most popular guy and girl on campus" personae I hated, especially with regards to Harry who one of the things I always loved was that for all his "fame" he was still kind of a dork and a loser. Well for the longest time I was a Harry/death shipper myself and I loved Harry. I was just totally fine with his dying at the end of the series. But accepting how controversial that may have been and realizing JK wouldn't go for it, I too was totally fine with him being single. That's why I hated the damn epilogue and wished the series had just ended after the war. In my opinion, Harry should not have been with anyone. Aside from his multitude of issues, I found Harry somewhat emotionally withdrawn, likely because of his multitude of issues and because of that didn't buy him with anyone. But I will say that that's probably why despite the glaring evidence of Hermione/Ron and there not being necessarily romantic chemistry, I could see why some book readers still shipped him with Hermione because she was probably the girl he opened up to the most in the series, with the small exception of funny enough, Luna. These were the only two females Harry ever had any kind of emotional connection to in my opinion. All we got about Harry and Ginny is that they both liked Quidditch and she didn't cry which apparently was something Harry found oh so offensive. Reason again I say Harry had no business being with anyone because dude was kind of insensitive and frankly a little emotionally cold. The last thing I thought Harry needed at the end of that series was romance but more likely a lot of therapy. Oh don't even get me started on how JK basically shit on Cho's character and that whole mess. Yes I never expected Harry to live happily ever after with Cho but she was presented as a nice girl who seemed bright and talented. It was obvious in OOTP that Cho was not over what happened with Cedric and should not have tried dating Harry and that's fine. What turned me off was how much of an ass Harry was towards her and later how he, along with Ginny mocked her and somehow Cho was made into this annoying, childish person all because "omg she cried...the horror". And we had to hear again how much Ginny wasn't a crier. Except funny, I sure remembered her crying in COS when she unwittingly released Tom Riddle. But how horrible of Cho to still be emotionally upset over her serious boyfriend dropping dead less than a year before. The nerve.

And that for me was the major issue with Book Ginny (Movie Ginny was just hopeless in my opinion - no offense to Bonnie but girl and DanRad were like a sleeping pill together). Ginny's entire presence in the books consisted of in my opinion being a nonentity that creepily looked at Harry through cracks in doors and ran away when he looked at her and later getting a personality that we only ever heard about from everyone else. She had a couple of snarky lines in HBP that was supposed to be funny but honestly I found more obnoxious than anything. But all the supposed bad ass things she could do and all the great talent she had, we only ever heard about from others. Like when someone would say Hermione was smart, readers actually saw that repeatedly throughout the series. Ron being funny and even his talents at Chess was another thing we saw throughout the series. Ginny was just wallpaper for like the first four books (save for being the person who let out Tom Riddle in COS and even then she was barely in the book except for acting strangely a few times until the end when Harry rescues her) and then suddenly in OOTP she was given a personality but all JK did was have everyone else go around telling Harry and by that token the readers, how amazing and super special she was, rather than actually showing it. Note, that even in the big battle at the end when all the kids went off together, she put Hermione with Harry and had Ginny and Neville and company off in another group. So I can't knock the screenwriters and the movie people if Ginny came off bland and like a nonentity in the movies because I'm sorry, she was a nonentity in the books too as far as I'm concerned. It is interesting the comments about Kloves and his not so secret Harry/Hermione shipping (honestly I think he copped to it in some interview either before the last film came out or after the movies were done) influencing the script writing because honestly I think JK herself had some kind of character bias. No, I don't think she was shipping Harry/Hermione and she definitely intended for Hermione to be with Ron but I think at some point she became just as enamored with Hermione and that influenced her writing somewhat. I do remember reading some interview where she admitted to Hermione being something of her self-insert in the books and more telling, apparently, at some point after or before OOTP the book came out, she made a comment that some of the characters were getting away from her somewhat and she had to reign them back in and this was especially true of Hermione. The reason I mention this and to tie it to Ginny is that I think JK had a plan for Ginny but somewhere along the way things went completely off road and it never happened and it's why her character turned out to be such a fail in my opinion. It is a known fact that JK wrote the crappy epilogue of the series at the same time she wrote the first chapter of the series. So she clearly had a plan and idea for where she was going with the series. However, completing the seven books spanned more than a decade of her life. In that time she became freaking loaded, remarried a guy who eerily looked a little like how you would picture Harry, had another child, etc. Many authors have admitted that often subconsciously, their real lives and what they're going through at that time can and does influence their writing. All that to say that I just really think JK herself became more and more enamored with Hermione and because of that Ginny, who was supposed to be Harry's great love, fell to the wayside. And then when she realized time was running out, she threw some contrived personality on her, threw in some lame, half-assed developed romance and then they were married at the end of the series with really, really stupid named children. And because Ginny fell to the wayside, so did Harry's love story. I will always say that it is the weirdest thing ever, that she wrote a story about the hero's journey, told in the first person and yet his relationship was far less developed than that of his two best friends. As for the movies, honestly, none of them were amazing in my opinion but I really enjoyed GOF, OOTP and the last two films. I hate the book and movie HBP. One thing I especially loved about GOF is that it was the first time I could tell that Daniel really was getting better because yeah he was really pretty mediocre in the first few films but I thought he was amazing in the big dramatic sequence where Cedric is murdered and Voldemort comes back to life.

Agreed with everything but THIS, THIS was the ultimate straw for me. As you said, when Mommy wouldn't let her throw her life away because ONE person gave her negative feedback, she ran to her grandparents, affecting the tentative truce that existed between Lorelai and her parents after years of not speaking to each other. Then once she didn't like Emily's rules after Emily put her foot down, she ran back to Mommy and suddenly acted like her grandparents were these horrible people, ranting to Lorelai about how she didn't blame her for leaving when she did years ago and how she didn't know how Lorelai could put up with them. Her crowning moment though was after Christopher came into his inheritance and offered to pay for the rest of her college, Lorelai had to practically force her to pick up a damn phone like an adult and call her grandparents and thank them for all they'd done for her education (oh like the fancy private high school and the first year of the Ivy League school she bailed out on for a semester) and let them know Christopher was now taking over the payments. And Rory rolled her eyes and acted completely put out that she had to do that. That was the moment I thought, "wow, what a spoiled, entitled, self-centered brat." And the fact is, Rory being who she was wasn't surprising when she'd existed in a bubble for most of her life, where EVERYONE told her how special and amazing she was. As I noted in another thread, of course she fell apart when one guy didn't kiss her ass and tell her she was the greatest thing since sliced bread considering she'd gone through her life with an entire town that just thought she was epitome of perfection, grandparents who worshiped her and a mother for whom she was her whole world. It's the same reason she felt perfectly fine to sleep with and pursue Dean while he was married because she decided she wanted him back and well "he was my boyfriend first." Just ugh... And then of course that was only to dump his ass quickly when she met more exciting Logan (not that I cared about Dean anyway but still).

I missed the first 10 minutes of the episode and only now watched it and I'm glad I did because I got to see the awesome moment when Annalise called out Wes' bullshit with regards to Rebecca, pointing out he's so sure of everyone's guilt apparently (no issues with the setting up of Griffin, calling Annalise disgusting for protecting Sam) and judging them yet he's putting all his faith on a drug dealing girl he barely knows who had the dead girl's phone in her possession that she willingly used him to hide it in his apartment. And I loved her snide, "please don't tell me it's because you think she's telling you the truth...I think I taught you better than that." Of course it's not like it changed anything because at this point Wes is so far up that girl's ass nothing will make him get a clue but it was nice having someone voice the stupidity of his seemingly unwavering belief in Rebecca. A girl he barely freaking knows. The other thing I found particularly interesting in that first ten minutes, is when the four were considering letting Asher into the house with the thinking that if they did, it would automatically make him involved somehow. Rebecca I noticed went as far as adding they could get him to slip in the blood, therefore adding his DNA to the scene (have I mentioned I REALLY, REALLY don't like that character). This stood out to me because it just further supports my belief that this may a case of everyone else accidentally being in the wrong place at the wrong time and unwittingly becoming part of a murder scene. I also noticed Connor saying something about none of us wanted to be here when Laurel shot down opening the door by stating that they shouldn't make Asher a part of the whole thing. And at this point, I expect Wes and Rebecca to sell the other three down the river because at this point I'm so over Wes and his Rebecca obsessing and I don't trust Rebecca as far as I can throw her, along with my plain dislike of her.

Kathy was not murdered. She was shown later in the episode when everyone in town was shown reading the newspaper article with Beth's interview. There is a shot of her at what looks to be her house, at a table on a patio, in her robe. Also, I'm pretty certain there's a shot of her with Owen at the family press conference at the end of the episode.

I was actually really uncomfortable with that. When she did it once, lightly, it was kind of cute but the longer it went on and the harder she seemed to be hitting, the more uncomfortable it got. Bethany's expression was pretty telling too. I give Derek props for being a good sport about that because that was a little out of line and is exactly why I can only take so much of Leah. Her whole "loud, abrasive, New York bad ass chick" schtick wears very thin very quickly, imo.

Hmm, I actually think Johnny Cash fits Tommy very well and honestly, if someone knows who Johnny Cash is, it's likely they know June or at least some version of their story. I also read somewhere they will likely be dancing to Ring of Fire and I actually do think many people know that song.

I don't think it's a matter of not caring about winning. I'm sure they do want to because yes, they are competitive. I think the poster was just saying that they doubt Derek is obsessing about the whole "never lost a Team Dance" like others seem to and that he'd care that much if his team had lost. And I kind of have to agree. In the grand scheme of things, yeah not that big of a deal. It's like when he and Amy lost last season. Sure, I think he would have loved to win but I believed him when he said he was proud of what they accomplished and he was happy for Maks and Meryl. Competitors are yes competitive people but many of them also learn to lose graciously (some of course, not all) as it's something that also comes with being in any competitive sport.

Yeah I looked it up and Pam was actually Dolly Parton from the movie 9 to 5. That video was a throwback. I remember Cody Linley and how he cried a lot. It was kind of funny. Derek also looks 12 in that video. They will only be immune from the vote from the last show. So after everyone dances, whoever is at the top of the leader-board is automatically safe. Then the remaining couples will have dance-offs where they win extra points from the judges and those points will be added to last week's votes to eliminate a couple. To make it simpler, just keep in mind that every week, the elimination is based on that week's judges scores and the votes from the previous week.

Yeah I remember that but I think this was something they made on their own just like this episode where you can clearly see Keith fishing with something that looks hand-made.