JudyObscure

Jeff cried and so did I. This season takes me back to the day I heard some guy called Probst on NPR talking about a new show where strangers would be dropped together on an island and have to get along. Me jumping up and saying, "Yes!" "Survivor," will never get old because the people are different every season. I kind of think we're all on the spectrum to some degree, it's just a matter of what conditions will break us. I was always the, "What me worry?" kid, but the older I get the less stress I can handle. This week I've been brought to the edge by my cable company, which is due this morning. My husband just left saying he expects to see crime scene tape around the house when he gets home.

I love the sick woman on the bathroom floor who's so happy she's found an online doctor.

I've always watched Dateline the morning after, on my computer, through Spectrum, my cable provider. Now I can't do it because NBC is insisting I go through some rigmarole and join a NBCUniversity thing. I called Spectrum although I knew it wasn't their fault. I can still watch CBS and PBS online. I ended up buying a whole new package and someone has to come out to set it up. NBC may lose a lot of viewers over this.

Somethings must be very wrong with me, that I like everyone this season. Well maybe not David, he brags too much. "I'm the kindest person you'll ever meet, I'm very empathetic, I treat all women like princesses." Who says those things about themselves? Then the women repeat it like it must be true, "David's so kind he's, so empathetic," Shake it off, ladies! Unfortunate, Eva. How many times have we seen these cute young girls go on Survivor and get a big whopping pimple that lasts the whole season? It's okay, Eva, we see how amazingly fit you are. My thighs were never that firm in my entire life. Charity and David thinking they have each other fooled. Heh. Bianca is so smart, so is Sai, so is Mary, so is Kamila. Just a great cast. Kyle and Kamila may end up putting Guyana on the map over that bad taste of Kool Aid in our minds.

It's the story I look up for. Eva breaks my heart a little when she wants to please her mother, but she's so torn because she really didn't inherit her mom's hate gene in spite of all that training. What does Andre want? he's going to mess up Ashley's head and he's kind to Dani but seems a little bored with her, too. And if you're bored by Dani you just have a terminal roving eye that won't ever be satisfied. Sports.

He said something to the effect that he had enjoyed his life and the adventures he has had up until now, but that it was time to change since he wanted a family. I thought it sounded like he had probably had a habit of doing stunt work for a movie then gone on a surfing or mountain climbing vacation, then back to work when he was broke, then more fun till the money ran out, and so on. There's nothing wrong with that, but he just something else now and he's found a woman who wants the same thing, they just can't do it unless he gets some steady work.

Judy Tanuta (comic): "So I was on this flight to England and the squid in stretch pants next to me thought he could talk to me ... just because he bought my ticket." Paige: "This Marty guy at work wanted to date me and I said. No way! Just because he found me a house and bought me a car and pays my insurance and buys me groceries." He worships the ground she walks on. Poor Paige, the girl can't help it, she innocently moves into a couples apartment, sleeps in their bed with them, has 'benefits" with both of them, told her crazy stalker she was pregnant by Scot and now mean people are saying she had something to do with all this! I wish Josh had reported this one, it called for some snark. My favorite line was Scot's after the detective asked him if Desiree had and enemies, "No way! She was an art teacher! It's an elective!"

Because staying home, bearing and raising children, watching them, teaching them, keeping the house clean, doing the laundry, shopping, cooking and driving them places -- is work. Why is it if that if you pay other people to do all that work, and go sit in an air conditioned office somewhere you're working harder than the SAHM?

True, lilysmom, Sai still doubted Mary. I 'm so glad she didn't get booted though, she's my favorite this year, so funny and so honest. I thought it was hilarious in the first show when she said she became a therapist because she likes hearing people's secrets. She keeps her good humor even when she's losing and most of all, in a show where people seem to get cast according to how good they are at bragging, often winning final tribal for the same thing, it is so refreshing to have someone who can admit to a few faults.

Oh I agree with what you're saying, but I didn't imagine that her ultimatum was that he win Survivor, rather that he figure out a way to get out of that trailer and into a proper home of some sort. I thought it was most likely in his mind only, that the way to get money was win Survivor. Totally agree with Tango. I think she's admirable to want financial stability and if he doesn't soon get steady work then she should move on.

Yes! I like that his girlfriend is thinking about choosing a good father for her children over having a hot guy with muscles. More women should do that. I absolutely love the Mary/Sai show and I'm glad it's going to continue, thanks to their ability to manipulate sweet Cedrek. The two of them had me laughing through the whole show, "That's what happens when you trust boys," should have been the episode title. Those journey segments are simply beyond boring, with all those second by second interviews they reminded me of Big Brother challenges.

If I could change one thing about this show, Eva would be in place through her mother's shenanigans, but she would be innocent of the reason, still thinking her father was someone else. I need a nice underdog to root for. I'm glad it looks like Eva might baulk before she lets her mother make her do something horrible. I just noticed Dana/Leslie/Sherry gets wasp-buzzing sounds whenever she's plotting. LOL

Oh, I'm sure she believes that. When she said that she has always wanted a bumper sticker saying, "Jesus loves you...but I'm his favorite." She pretended to be joking, but you know she really feels that way. There is something so horrifically blasphemous about most of her blather that I find it deeply offensive.

I had to watch the Lori Vallow show. Dateline knew we would be hate watching and rewarded us with dark lighting that made Lori look haggard and greasy, downright ugly at times. For Lori I expect that's much more upsetting than the life-without-parole thing. After all, that won't matter in the near future when the End Times arrive and she and Chad get to be the Supreme Leaders. My church teaches that Jesus will be the leader, but then my church teaches that murder is worse than divorce, so who knows. It was fun seeing her try to flirt with Keith and hit a wall.

I just missed the show and was wondering if anyone was doing recaps, but right here is Rodney's fine post. Thanks!

I'm loving this season1 So far I like all but one or two people and usually it's the other way around. Even mean ol' Sai is a smart villain, and exciting to watch. I like the "couples;" Joe and Eva, Mitch and Charity, Kyle and Kamila. They seem to really care about each other. What basketball skills! I'm putting these guys in my March Madness Brackets.

Oh my! Don't you know that there have always been second-wife characters in every soap in the past? I can't name them. I didn't know any of the past soap characters you threw at me because this is the first soap I've followed, but I feel sure there were white women who had affairs in some of those other soaps. Just because Haley is black doesn't mean you get to call her awful names.

Okay. I'm out of here.

Haley's such a dope -- Crazy Lady's holding her at gun point and she wants to quibble about what name Dani calls her. Bill spent a long time standing just behind Haley like she was his little shield -- not a good look Bill. I thought the police guy was taking Dani straight to jail, but a few seconds later she was back in front of Bill making more speeches and then at the bar. I need to see Dana-Leslie at least once every show, her face is stunning. I usually can't hear a few of her lines though. After the cop was told to go home because Bill "deserved" it, and then Nicole made excuses for Dani, while Dani said she only went to the wedding intending to look good (with a gun in her purse) and Nicole told her it all was making her stronger? Ugh. I'm starting to dislike the entitled Duprees. Except for Grandma.

You have my sympathy, iMonrey. Now you know how I felt a few years ago when everyone decided I was a racist because I complained about this show's heavy handed treatment of diversity. When the person everyone had planned to vote out had to be changed at Tribal "because of the optics" (after they found out the other tribe had just voted out a black person) I got fed up. I'm all for diversity. I've voted in favor of it since it was called affirmative action, and I'm glad the show has figured out diverse means more than just color, but it has always needed to be a little more subtle about it, and Jeff needs to quit with the self-conscious glee over every heartfelt moment of connection or whatever he calls it. I say that even though I like those moments, I just don't want him to stand and point at it.

I agree, the eyes and nose were close, but the mouth and jawline were different. Add in the long dirty hair which never would be connected to the short business style light brown hair. I think the brother who recognized Ryan had hated him since the sweet-tea incident and would have been ready to recognize him at the slightest hint. That won't always happen.

The family and friends didn't seem that bad to me. They were all very poor and that can account for a lot of bad teeth as well as minimal education and bad grammar. I thought her mother and step-father seemed like nice people. The police seemed to be doing the best they could covering a large rural county with not much manpower or money. Did they say Ryan's parent's had been hiding him from the police? I had the impression he had just returned to his home on Wednesday to confess to them before going to church to confess. Most Wednesday night services are very small with just a dozen or so people, so it wasn't like a huge congregation forgave him. I can't blame that little church group for trying their best to be forgiving. They're Christians and Jesus asks his followers to be forgiving. They did the right thing legally by taking Ryan straight in after the service, so it's not like their forgiveness delayed justice in any way. I sure don't blame them for not being able to see into the mind of a psychopath.

I've been trying to make one of my own today, but every site I went to wanted to talk less about the characters and more about the actors, naming all the roles they've ever played, and leaving me even more confused. I'm going to stick with it though. They say old people should do a daily crossword or Sudoku to stave off dementia. I'm going to do this show. So now we know why Laura needed to be incapacitated. Now Eva will be in position to make lots of trouble. No matter how bad Bill has been, it made me cringe to hear his daughter talk to him like that.

I definitely see what you're saying. I hope if it comes down to it Eva will encourage him to go forward in his own interests.

In 48 seasons I don't think I've ever heard anyone say what Joe said referring to Eva, -- that he would stay loyal to her and if it meant he would get voted out early, so be it. That may not be how you're supposed to play the game, but it's how I've always wanted to see it played. I will hand it to Saiouna, she kept working on that idol clue long after I would have torn it into confetti and fed it to the fish. I like almost every one so far except David. I drive a 1998 neon and don't eat steak at all, so I'm sure he wouldn't like me either. Joe for the win!