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S05.E07: Worth the Cooties
HurricaneVal replied to shapeshifter's topic in Bob ❤️ Abishola (Bob Hearts Abishola)
Yeah, my TV schedule app from Xfinity has a very confusing entry for tonight's episode. It is identified as S5.E7: Worth the Cooties, but the episode description is for the pilot. Same as for The Neighborhood. Very confusing! -
I think that only works with glasses made from real glass? Most lenses today are made from plastic so it is lighter on the nose and ears, and it doesn't quite have the same intensity of sunlight focus as real glass. If I were going in Survivor, though, I might have special spectacles made just for this. Won't help me at the penultimate final council where I might need to make fire, so I'd still practice with a flint and machete.
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I think the rule is if you have to have medical intervention beyond a check over and basic first aid--like you'd get in the school nurse's office, from a the team trainer, or an EMT in the field--then you're out. Bandages, splints, braces, antibiotic cream are all fine. A little time sitting in the shade with ice packs on pulse points and bottles of water type stuff. That year when that one tribe was on bacteria beach and several (not seven) tribe members had bad infections, I think the rules were stretched to give them prescription antibiotics. As I recall, that one guy ended up going home on a medical that season because there was a bad infection very close to his knee that could have compromised his long term mobility. He was given a choice of staying and risking his leg and/or blood poisoning, or going home, and he chose to go home. I would hope that if the risk of sepsis truly was nigh, he would have been involuntarily removed from the game by the doc, but they gave him the choice for the dramatic moment.
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Hmmm.... There doesn't appear to be individual player threads for this season--or at least not any in the first page listing of threads. Anyways, I learned on another discussion board that Bhanu has an IMdB page where the mini-bio states: This mini-bio was created by a Paul Smith, and Bhanu's credits all seem to be walk-on, extra type roles. A couple of those listings say they're "uncredited" which leads me to believe either Bhanu or his agent or spouse or best friend etc. added those to his filmography. I'm not sure if "audience member" or "pedestrian" exactly qualifies as making waves in the industry, either. Self-promotion and drawing focus is the name of the game when it comes to the entertainment industry and the subset of reality TV, so he's certainly giving it his all. If that's the objective, then kudos to him, he's certainly accomplishing that goal! So, when Bhanu says he's "not an actor" he's either totally lying, or he's being very self aware and entirely honest regarding his actual talents.
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Good Lord. Bhanu is a lot, isn't he? I thought that maybe he was getting it together when he told his tribe he pulled the white rock and got sent back to camp and has no idea what the other two had to do. I thought that was brilliant strategy. Then he boofed it by fessing to Q. On the first episode, I thought Bhanu had such promise. He fell fast. Faster that anyone in Survivor history, really. I felt sorry for Venus last week. Then this week I can see she is a bit snotty and perhaps her isolation on the tribe isn't just mean girls being mean. Randen's injury seemed to just come out of left field. We never really saw how it happened, not did we even know he had issues. Just suddenly Jeff and the medic appeared in camp, talking about Randen's numb hand. If it was something that happened on camera, like in a challenge or while foolishly rock climbing at the beach cliffs, we would have been subjected to endless slowmo loops of the injury happening like we had to see Joe Theismann's leg breaking over and over again. It must have been something he mentioned at a med check one day that got the medic concerned. I was worried it was an infection, he had that bandage on that wrist, and his hand seemed seemed swollen. He'll be back, and hopefully not come back as a giant asshole as the last early out on a medical came back. You know, we all laugh about Hunter....but if that hadn't all been a house full of obsessed Survivor super fan's recreation of challenges and puzzles, but a very different collection of a guy still hung up on his high school crush, we wouldn't think it was so funny. The boy ain't right in his head. His house wasn't anything but Survivor obsession. He's single, right? All that aside, Hunter made that challenge for his team. He worked it, and hauled them all to the finish line. He is actually a super fan who is walking the talk. He caught fish. Started fire. He is more than faithfully recreated puzzles and backyard net slides. How sweet that he uses Survivor challenges to engage with his students. He's single, right?
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"Tulsa" was hilarious! Calvin freaking out over being a grandfather was funny, but Tina being totally OK with being a grandma is both totally in character, and out of character. Grandma lust is real, y'all, and that's what we're seeing now. But at some point, she's got to have the "I'm old enough to be a grandma!" freakout because Tina has always been a wee bit vain--much like Calvin. Or maybe that's the story point, she's finally matured out of her vanity, and embraces the role of grandmother.
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S05.E06: A Tablespoon Of Dad
HurricaneVal replied to DanaK's topic in Bob ❤️ Abishola (Bob Hearts Abishola)
I, also, loved the Abishola cleaning scene. She went from uncomfortable with dealing with a spirit to exuberantly familiar as she momentarily gushed over her happiness with Bob to the spirit of Bob's dad. That was really sweet. If you think about it, there is precedent for Max still being around, legitimizing Abishola's beliefs. Didn't Max appear in one or more of Bob's dreams in a prior season? What I really missed here was the other Nigerians weighing in. Ebun, Tunde, and Olu were missing. Ebun lives there, I'm sure she had an opinion...and, OMG, Kemi's take would have been hysterically funny! Bob stashing a bit of his dad at the bar was nice, so was taking his mom there to get some incremental closure. -
I am starting to really dislike the three tribe version of Survivor. It seems season after season there is one tribe that just loses and loses. With so few players on each tribe, it just really weakens that losing tribe, not only for challenges, but for the ability to form alliances, and they go into merge with nothing. Then the focus goes to that losing tribe, because that's where all the drama is--sorry Tevin, Bhanu is the drama queen this season--and we go to the merge clueless about the other players. When it was two tribes, I feel like the coverage was more even. We just whipped back and forth between two camps, not three. I'm feeling a little sorry for Venus. I know we were manipulated into feeling that with the editing, but there was some epic mean girl smirking at her and eye rolling from Soda and Tevin that I didn't think was kind--or called for. I mean, over at loser camp they were working a scam on Jess with the fake idol, but even when Jess couldn't be led by hand to the fake idol, the hissing and eye rolling between Q and Tiffany was more exasperation and incredulity than outright meanness. On the other hand, Venus seems to be embracing that martyr role, sooooo..... That "build a freestanding arch, and spell it correctly" challenge was a truly new and innovative challenge, and I applaud Survivor for finding something new and innovative. Tribes truly needed to communicate and work together to make that happen. My only quibble is the challenge favored taller competitors who could more easily brace across more of the arch. Maria was a beast, though. Mama's got depth.
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Sorry. Wrong thread!
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S05.E05: Tayo Time
HurricaneVal replied to DanaK's topic in Bob ❤️ Abishola (Bob Hearts Abishola)
It was scary the way Tayo went from affable former son-in-law to chillingly controlling possible abuser then back again in the blink of the eye. Kudos to the actor for that. I don't think we saw Dele with Tayo at all, and I'm glad for that. I loved how unequivocally and 100% Bob was on Abishola's side. There's something very dark about Tayo, we saw hints of that when he first came to Detroit and took Dele back to Nigeria with him. What we saw last night was more than a hint. Abishola has her feet under her now, and with Bob's support, I think everything will be OK. That was a cold slap of harsh reality in the middle of a lighthearted sitcom. -
This? Is brilliant. Especially if you have zero confidence in your bluffing or acting ability. You could honestly just say "Maybe I have it. Maybe I don't. Do you feel lucky? Well, do you?"
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I just couldn't find it. 😆 I scrolled and scrolled, and couldn't find it. Then @LadyChatts bumped it today and it is right there. Whew!
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I think there is hope for Jess. At the start of Tribal Council, she was practically non-verbal and spacey and unable to follow a train of thought to form a coherent sentence. I saw the sideways glances at her like "Oh crap, maybe we oughta vote her out now!" But by the end of TC, she seemed fine and was defending herself and making points quite well. Was that because she got it together over the course of the discussion? Or was she faking everyone out at the beginning? If that is a personal strategy, then it sucks because it clearly puts a target on her back. However, as I thought about this later, it might have been a strategy worked up to keep Jelinsky thinking the target was Jess, and Jess was just overdoing it. Maybe those alarmed glances at her from Bhanu and Q were more of an appalled "Cool it, sister!" than "Oh man, we should change our target!"
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We did get to see a lot more hanging out at camp, so that was really nice. I love to see them bobbing around in the water just chatting and soaking the experience in. It doesn't have to be strategy-strategy-strategy all the time. Why, for the love of God, why do people immediately share their immunity idol finds and blab them to the whole tribe? It isn't a community resource. And why did Ja-quitter-sky immediately own up that he lost his vote? He could have said he'll find out at their first tribal. His behavior at the water carrying challenge makes me worried that he's prone to lashing out whenever he gets frustrated. That's not a good look, Boo. Bhanu is like a toned down Yam-Yam. He plays it right, he can go far. Unfortunately, he's on a losing tribe, sooooo...... Are there no spoilers for this season, or can I even ask that in this thread?
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S01.E04: I Plunge to My Death
HurricaneVal replied to Mr. Sparkle's topic in Percy Jackson and the Olympians
OK. I officially love this show now. I just realized I binged on four shows straight, and literally gasped when Percy took that breath. I'm invested.- 3 replies
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