Survivor- The Best Denise Ever.

A little late I know.  But I did it!

In my last blog post, I outright predicted a few things that happened, Malcolm would be voted out, Every finalist would get a vote, Skupin was a wild card, and the winner is none other than Denise.  Yay!

I did get a few things wrong.  Lisa did have a pretty good speech, it's just Denise's was better, and I was wrong about the fire building challenge.  Oh well, I still hate Malcolm.  I never really bought the "Golden boy" title and edit that he got.  Also because Blake is the golden boy, shove off.

So, we close a chapter on Survivor 25, and start a new one!  Survivor Caramoan I believe it's called/Spelled.  More exactly the second coming of Fans vs Favorites!  Once again, we shall see just how snubbed the season of Guatemala is just because the producers wanted Stephenie to win.  I'd rather see a second chances season (Tanya, Firefighter Stephanie, Brian C. and Amy O'Hara final four anyone?) over another Fans V.S. Favorites one.  At least we aren't going to see a three timer apparently.  So not Russell Hantz.  Yay!

I other words, I'm exited to see it.  I hope I'll be able to do watch it and do some tweeting about it like this season (Sort of) so yeah.

In other words, I was a guest on the Survivor Oz Christmas party.  Although neither Tanya or Brian C. showed up (My two favorites) I got to talk to John Carroll!  You can listen to it on iTunes, or Click me for the Online version.  It's pretty long, though, three hours.  How to do another one, and I shall be here waiting for my fan interview!

Finally, I'll wrap it up by saying, congrats Denise for being the third kickass woman to win the show in a row.   How's them apples Probst?  First Sophie, then Kim, now Denise gets a chance to shine.  If women aren't interesting characters, how the hell do they keep winning?

Denise Stapley. Sex Therapist and Survivor Winner

Always remember you can E-mail me at HeatherNS17@Ymail.com, or send me a tweet.  From all the way from Tulsa, I say have a great day, and I'll post something up if I survive the end of the world tomorrow.

~Heather S.

Survivor Finale: First time in Survivor History

This Sunday is the final episode of Survivor history.  I cannot wait until then.  I get to see who wins, and just how the Jury-Finalists configuration will work.

The People left:

Denise- She is a fighter.  If the contestants were smart, they would have voted her off long ago.  Now, I'm pretty sure if she'll get to the end, she'll either win outright, or barely miss it.  She is the Stephanie Palau version in this season, with a little Guatemala Steph mixed in.  Have a mentioned how ironic that she named Stephanie as the contest she was most like?  She is also the only contestant to go to every tribe council in the season, Stephanie not going to Willard's boot.  She's a fighter, and fighters tend to win.

Lisa- She's been on a roller-coaster hasn't she?  The thing about Lisa is that I have no doubt she'll make it to the end, however I don't see her answering any of the questions well.  I see her not being clear, her pulling a FTC like Neleh's one.  Although that did get Neleh votes, they were for sure votes for Neleh.  I can see Lisa getting votes, just not the ones she needs to win.  Sorry Lisa!  However, if she does pull of a win, I can see Sucks whining about it for days.  You know how much I love to mess with them.

Malcolm- You could win, but you won't.  The thing is, the only reason Malcolm could even get to the finals, is that if he wins Immunity and Denise gets voted off.  However, knowing Malcolm I can see him forcing a tie between Denise and Skupin.  You see, I don't see Denise forcing a tie at the final four of she wins, but I see Malcolm doing that.  I also see Denise beating Skupin in the fire building challenge.  I don't know, all I know is that I have strong vibe that he won't win.  Something is telling me that he pulls of something dumb.  Also he get's hit with the curse of the intro shots, he's last in the initial intro. 

Skupin- He is my wild card.  If Denise and Malcolm are smart  they'd boot his ass.  However if Lisa and Skupin are smart, they get out Denise.  So, I'm sure that this guy will make it to the end somehow.  I'm sure he'd find himself in the finals, and pull of something amazing if he does.  So, long story short, I see him winning, but I don't see him winning.  I'd think he'll win in a Lisa, Malcolm Final three, but he'd lose if Denise is there.  It's kind of complicated at this point.  I just hope he doesn't kill himself before the final TC.  Skupin's also first in the intro, which that has been a curse, but Boston Rob kind of killed it.  Still, I'm going to be very suspicious of a Skupin win.

Some other notes of mine-

The Survivor History part is alluding to the Jury of eight, Final of nine thing.  Even if it's actually a final of two, jury of nine, I'm still right.  The Jury of eight can work on a final three, because If all three people get a vote a tie would be almost impossible. 0-4-4 and 2-3-3 are the only ways this can happen I believe  and you can have the third place person choose the winner if a tie happens.  However, since I'm not considered a true Survivor fan by even liking the choice of a final three, I'll say that final threes suck and a final two is *whine* sooooo much better! *whine*

I can see a possibility of all three getting votes here.  It's a bold thing to say, but it has happened before (China) and I can see it happening once again.  I can't tell you who gets what votes, because I believe this will be more on answering the questions than personal feelings.

It's nice to see the tribe bitch getting voted out.  I don't think I can take two hours of Abi.  Plus I want to see her Jury speech.  I can so see her bitching at the finalists.

Malcolm has the coolest pale spot on his leg where he wore his buff all the time.

End of the year rankings-

My Favorite of this season- Penner/Denise
Coolest Tribe name- Dangrayne
Coolest vote off- R.C.
Funnest moment- Penner's boot episode.
Ranking of the Ancient Voices- 6/10 (Nice to see it not plain like One World, but it's still feels like it's lacking.)
Best Intro Shot- Angie. Penner is a close second.
Most Interesting Twist- Merge at eleven, jury of eight/nine.
Heather's Ranking- It still depends who win, but It so far, it's been a great season. I'll give it a "B".

So, what is your thoughts?  Questions?  Feel free to E-mail me at HeatherNS17@ymail.com.

Heather lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her Grandparents.  She currently goes to OU and is a huge fan of Survivor for seven years. She is the creator and owner of the Comedy Stars Blog.

Survivor Demotivational Posters.

So, this week I have the Great Guatemalan Rewatch, so to tie you guys over, I have 16 posters that will brighten up anyone's day, because someone else is having a worse time on a random location with strangers  competing for money.  Kind of like a job, except they get more money than you.

Let's kick us off with Mr Hantz himself

1.

For reals, when does this ever turn out right for anyone not named Rob Cesternino?

2.

Diane once called Mama Kim a bitch in one of her interviews. Poor thing never had a chance huh?

3.

Poor Parvati.  No one deserves such punishment. 

4.

Honer is one thing, being a graceful loser isn't even in the same tier!

(reason number 114 why I love Erinn more)

5.

My number one favorite Rites, almost everyone dying in the vid caps they used.

6.

Crazy Courtney and Shane.  BBFs forever man. :)

7.

Kathy too?  What a player.

8.

Let's play the "which one doesn't fit" game!

(BTW Why did you have to be allergic to malaria pills?)

9.

I can't remember another time in China where they we're fighting.

10.

From the reunion.  I wonder how many kids looked up to her now?

11.

Yeah, I already posted this on my Twitter, but don't you love Irony?

12.

I'm a fan of DiLorzeno, but lets face it, the Casaya group and Russell's group were full 

of crazy people. (Yeah, I'm going on a limb with Parv, but Russ is crazy enough for two)

13.

Haha love her expression :)

14.

Directed towards both of them of course.

15.

Can someone tell me if that's Margaret or Danni in the foreground? I think it's Margaret...

16.

The reason you never hear from Gary?  He's hiding.

I'm planing on making some more, if you want to see a specific picture, be sure to E-Mail me at HeatherNS17@Ymail.com or something.  You can just make it yourself.

Okay, Quick update because this Blog is growing to Scout size insanity.  I'm starting testing this week, so if you don't here from me until late, that will be why.  Also, if you are a fan of Survivor Oz, they are doing a Winter thing to celebrate their first year, and I'm planing on attending.  Be sure to join us, we still have some room.  Click here for more information!

Love you guys!

Heather Short <3

P.S. I'm still serious, I can't tell if it's Margaret or Danni looking at BJ like he's nuts.  Please inform me.

Ugh Finals

Hey, what's up!  I'm currently here in dead week in college world, however I'm ready for anything here.  So I'm planing to take a small break, maybe put in some filler.  Here are somethings to tie you over.

My childhood, the start of it all

THE GREAT GUATEMALAN REWATCH- Oh my heck I cannot wait until this.  I have it on itunes, I may have cheated a bit a watched a few episodes.  I want to get the DVD for Christmas (I dropped a lot of hints about this).  I'm going to start over Christmas break.  I've either been thinking about doing a podcast over this, instead of a write up though, with my cousin as a special guest.  You guys know how awesome Guatemala is, so this rewatch will be epic.

My favorite things- A list of things that I liked this year.  Not much but hey, I didn't get around to doing it last year.  If you want me to mention something, be sure to shoot me an Email or something.

Here is a picture of that one moment that I love

The Comedy Star awards- A few things that is so awesome, I need to award it a fake award that no one cares about. Yay!

Next year on- Things I cannot wait for in 2013, if we get to it that is.

So, I will have to go on a small leave to accompany finals and such.  No worries though, I will still be on Twitter snarking it up.  I'm thinking about returning back to the polls too.  So, I'll see you guys after all of the mess that is OU's finals week.


~Heather Short

  

My Survivor Predictions though the seasons

Before I get to the main event- you should listen to this podcast.  I got a few of my comments in it, some funny ones as well.  Here it is, The Survivor Historians Podcast.  My mentions are kind of deep into it, but you need to listen to all of it.  

Okay, I've watched Survivor for seven years now, so in celebration, I'm posting some of my predictions that I could remember who I wanted to take it all.  I was right on a few, but mostly with the final episode.  I also predicted that Maggie won BB6 around this time, also I predicted that Tammy and Victor, and Nick and Star won their seasons in TAR.  But Survivor was very hit or miss.  Either my choices got out pre-merge or get voted out in the finals.  Let us began. 


S11- I wanted Amy to win, I loved her and when she got voted out before the merge I was crushed.  I really didn't start with my 1st episode winning picks in Guatemala, because of my young age at the time.  However, I would say that Amy was my pick.  My final episode pick was Danni, but I wanted Lydia to win because I loved her as well, but for the practical standpoint, I picked Danni.  

S12- Exile Island was a weird season for me.  The four tribes and I missed the reason why Misty went to Exile.  Bruce grew on me, and so did Aras.  However, I believe that either Cindy or Sally was my pick.  I really don’t remember, I remember Amy because she is a huge favorite of mine.  My final episode pick was Cirie, but Aras would have been the next choice.

S13- Cook Islands was pretty cool beans when I first watched it.  I loved Yul, loved Becky, loved Penner, and loved Flicka, and I thought that Penner won.  Fail on my part, but I did predict Yul winning in the final episode.  I didn’t really like Ozzy, and to this day I use this FTC to defend the Brains vs. Brawns standpoint in Survivor that people tend to respect you more if you get there the way Yul did.  I still believe that the HII was very minor in that regard.  It just convinced Penner to flip on Candice.

S14- I believed Yau-Man would take it the first episode, and my fall back was Michelle.  I was 13, I understood Survivor more so I began to logically predict people, but I also had that I wanted to win because I liked them.  In the final episode, I was still nursing my wounds from Michelle’s boot episode, but I still wanted Yau to win.  I’m happy with Earl though, but I also think that Dreamz didn't deserve half the crap thrown his way either.  I like Fiji, not in my top five, but hey great post-merge sans Michelle’s boot episode.

S15- Survivor China is another favorite of mine.  Peih-Gee I predicted to go far, and she was my favorite.  When I saw Zhan-Hu lose almost everything I was worried for her.  The final episode pick for me, I didn’t know.  I think I went with Todd, because he did play the better game out of all of them, but I may have also chose Amanda, but she tanked on her jury speech that I may have in retrospect removed that thought from my memory.

S16- Fans Vs. Favorites, however I tend to call it Micronesia.  I could watch most of the first episode, and I confused Ami with Amy for some unknown reason.  I still don’t get it.  I can’t remember, I may have gone with the Ami because of the confusion, or even Eliza because I thought she looked familiar.  I figured out I saw the original airing of the final five immunity challenge which Eliza won back in Vanuatu.  My final episode choice was Cirie, again.  I knew Amanda would tank, and I disregarded Parvati but still like her name.  Very much like their original seasons right?

S17- Gabon, I believe that Paloma was my choice.  Weird right?  I believed it may be just her name, but I really didn’t pay attention to Gabon TBH.  Though I did have a final episode winner, I’m proud to announce that it was Susie.  Yeah, I’m a Susie fan.  I’m thinking about a Gabon rewatch, but I’ll wait until the DVD comes out, but I’ll get Tocantins first.

S18- Ah, sweet Tocantins.  I was rooting for Erinn after episode three and I didn’t like Coach and Erinn was the perfect foil for him.  As for the first episode, Stephan was awesome.  I found it cool that my two picks made it to the final episode, but J.T. winning was kind of lame.  I would have loved to see Stephan win, or Erinn pulling off the ultimate underdog story since Danni.  I still love this season, I own a Timbira buff in honor of the most dysfunctional tribe since Casaya.

S19- Samoa, or what a lot of people call the Russell show, I was indifferent to him until Betsy got voted out.  You see, Betsy was my pick because she reminded me of Amy, my original favorite castaway, and she even had the same job.  I was hoping she would get far and cuss out Russell like Amy would have done.  My final episode pick was Natalie.  I remember her confessional about laying low, I remember her involvement with the Erik blindside.  I’m not going to rant about defending her win because that is not what I’m doing here.  
She deserved it Russell tanked FTC and Mick was Mick.  Awesome.

S20- Heroes Vs. Villains was fun.  I believe that I chose either Candice (Don’t ask) or Circe.  Yeah, I tanked and with Betsy going out early with Samoa, I thought that Candice did what she needed to do with flipping and I’ll defend that.  My final episode pick was Jerri.  I’m happy that Sandra won though, two time winner for the win!  I also didn’t want Parvati to have that honor. 

S21- Nicaragua I thought was Kelly B.’s season for sure.  She seemed pretty cool, and I love her.  I missed the episode where she and Yve got voted out (Yve was another pre-pick) so yeah.  I’m getting bad luck.  I did predict Fabio or Holly to win it all.  So I was right, so shut up.

S22- Haha you know  I knew Boston Rob would win.

S23- Last one, South Pacific.  I can only put the Final episode for this however, and I was right.  Sophie is my current favorite winner and just like Natalie she doesn’t deserve being called undeserving, that claim I can kind of understand with Natalie; however Sophie was a challenge force and a great mental player.  I believe it’s mostly her abrasive attitude, and such.  Whatever.

I missed One World D:

S25- Philippines.  Penner all the way :D 

So this is it.  I wanted to write this up.  I'm sure you guys got opinions so let me here them.  I'll be back next week when I have some time.  Sorry for no pictures, I didn't want to fill up this entry more than I had to.

~Heather Short

The joys of Illness

* Sarcasm*

Well, I had a bout of Tonsillitis, which I why I haven't been on.  Most of the time I've been defending Sophie and Natalie White over at Sucks.  A valiant battle that was.  However, people still have a negative opinion on them.  Boo.

So, while I was sick, I also got the Marquesas on DVD.  I wish they had commentary though.  I've been thinking about getting Vanuatu on DVD as well.  I mean why not, I heard Twila gets some commentary in.

Anyhow, I'm still on sucks, I'm still on Twitter.  I haven't been eating though.  Hard to eat when your throat is so swollen.  I know I lost a few pounds, not like I needed to.  Blah.

Back in college, I'm just hanging out here.  Not much to do here.  I was sick after all, and I've been researching some Survivor's play styles.  It's very interesting that's for sure.

I'm sorry I haven't been as active here.  I did get to talk to John from Marquesas on Sucks a little.  He really wants to come back with Tammy or Neleh, and I will be rooting for his success if he is on another show.

Love ya guys <3
~Heather Short

The Impact of the Ruto Four

Hey Survivor fans!  Heather Short here!  Today, I have a Survivor article for myself.  It's about the Ruto Four from Survivor Marquesas.  It's been almost ten year, so lets get it started!

The Rotu 4 was an alliance comprised of John Carroll, Tammy Leitnor, Robert “The General” DeCanio, and Zoe Zanidakis. They were an alliance formed after the Marquesas tribal switch, best known for taking out the neutral Gabe after John’s paranoia. They quickly became known as the villains of the season, their smugness led to their downfall. The coconut challenge exposed the pecking order, with the people eliminated the same way that they were going home in the Rotu 4’s eyes. After that, they were voted out one by one, starting with their leader, John.

John- Big time queer

The General- Has a little Sausage

Tammy- Engaged so no hope there

Zoe- The toughest guy on the tribe

However, let’s play a game shall we? Let’s take a slight look back at the season. It’s the tribal switch; let’s pretend that John didn't care about Gabe. He and the four voted out Rob, like they intended. Now, that means a lot. It means that Rob never told Kathy about the alliance’s pecking order. It meant that Rob never tricked Zoe about their intentions to vote out Kathy. It meant that Vecepia didn't win, because she or Sean would get voted out first after the merge. It would mean that one of the Rotu four would have won.

This would not have happen.

Now, who of the four that would win would still be a mystery, my money would be on one of the girls, Zoe or Tammy, just to keep the status quo I guess. John is too dangerous and The General is a physical threat. So I’d like to think that Zoe or Tammy won. Leaning towards Tammy, because Zoe may or may not be crazy, I don’t know really. I’m sure Zoe would have gotten more on air time, if she did get to final two.  Also Mario Lanza said Tammy would have won as well, and this is Tammy we're talking about.

Final Two of Marquesas, Crazy Vs. the Pitbull

We’re going to talk about the purple rocks now. All I know is that Paschal will not be screwed over by them, maybe someone else, maybe not at all. If the rocks were not a problem, then it does affect future gameplay. Remember in Vanuatu where Eliza didn't side with Ami because she didn't want to draw rocks? Eliza is a huge survivor fan, so she would avoid that. What would happen then? The final four dynamic caused the tie vote, would that same dynamic happen with the Rotu four? A lot of what ifs, but notice that it has a ripple on other seasons, where people where scared to cause a tie vote after Marquesas.

Eliza's reaction to the purple rocks.

The returning players of Kathy and Rob in All-Stars may also be affected. Remember that Kathy was asked back for All-Stars only because Vecepia couldn't be there. What if Tammy was asked first, or even Zoe? A little different right? With Rob it may be different as well, being voted off before the merge this time. Although Shii Ann was asked back, even though she didn't make the merge either, Rob could be in All Stars like Kathy was. However, some other more prevalent male characters would be asked first, like John for example, and Gabe would have lasted longer as well. Remember that Rob has returned on Survivor three other times, met his wife on All-Stars, had all sorts of reality TV show appearances, and just being an iconic symbol for Survivor. I’m sure history would be different then.

The Leader of the Ruto 4 Alliance in his finest moment, this would still happen no matter what though.

The Ruto Four, the victims of the coconut chop challenge. Many different variables, but they changed Survivor history. However, you can always remember that no matter what happened in the fourth season, Boston Rob got defeated by a gay nurse from Nebraska and the rest of his crew. Not the Survivor mastermind that we all know and love right? If the Rotu four survived, in that alternate universe, all Boston Rob would have been was that one guy who got voted out two episodes before the merge, or even that one guy that got his ass handed to him by Neleh of all people.

Rob Mariano, best Survivor contest of all time

Kicked Rob's Ass

P.S.- Oh my heck, all of this was fun.  I'm sure that if this happened, Tammy would have won Marquesas, always fun.  

I'm going to receive the DVD Monday (If UPS doesn't suck), so I feel awesome.  However my favorite has to be Zoe, she has to be somewhat crazy.  So huge Marquesas rewatch this week. :D

-Heather Short.