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"Lost in Translation and the Million Dollar Tears"
iltarion 1791 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Herbal Healing Drugs Endorser"
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12-20-11, 02:49 AM (EST)
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"Lost in Translation and the Million Dollar Tears" |
I am totally lost in the edit of this season. I am discombobulated, horsejacked. Why spend the first 3 episodes on the ultimately meaningless and annoying issues Brandon had with Mikayla? Why present the crucial merge episode from Cochran and Dawn's perspective? Why not tell us anything meaningful about the character of the winner until the final episode? And why edit the FTC to make the winner look like a babbling idiot and Coach look sincere?To surprise us? Idiotic. We can't be surprised any more. Every move MB makes we see coming from a mile away. Don't try. Stick to the formula that works: invest in the characters that matter. Period. Props to Sophie for employing the newest and oldest way to win a million dollars: crying. If a girl has nothing else going for her, she always has that. Does the entire jury think you are an arrogant and lazy brat because you've played zero social game for 39 days? NO PROBLEM. That is nothing that a few tears can't wash away! Yes, we still think you are an arrogant byotch, but at least we know you're human, so here's your million dollars! Very nice. The thing that I don't get is that 6 of the 9 jury members were from Savii. So, why would THEY be bitter towards Coach? He merely stuck to his alliance of 5. That is as honorable and truthful as he could have played it, to them. Yeah, he's a hypocrite, but not to them. Yeah, maybe he used religion to manipulate his own tribe, but again, NOT TO THEM. So, again, where do they get off? >
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garyc 118 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Blistex Spokesperson"
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12-20-11, 08:01 AM (EST)
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1. "RE: Lost in Translation and the Million Dollar Tears" |
LAST EDITED ON 12-20-11 AT 08:29 AM (EST)Maybe Sophie wasn't very interesting so they focused on more interesting personalities: Coach, Cochran, Brandon, and returning favorite Ozzy. As for Coach, if you weren't on his tribe to see him play you might not have taken him seriously based on his previous appearances on the show. Admitting he had tried to play with integrity only to get caught up in lies and manipulations probably made him look like he didn't know what he was doing. The praying might have ticked people off if they didn't think he was sincere while the attempts to hug alliance mates he had just voted off looked desperate to me. Think he needed to own that he had lied and manipulated because its how you build and maintain an alliance while pointing out he kept his core alliance in the game until there was no one else to vote off. If Albert was a used car salesman, Coach was too much of a politician, or too much Elmer Gantry. Not sure he could ever win survivor. Think he would get too much in his own way.
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dabo 25344 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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12-21-11, 03:34 AM (EST)
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6. "RE: Lost in Translation and the Million Dollar Tears" |
I made what argument? Nuh-uh.I didn't put any number on it, but the observation I made, to reduce it to the simplest terms, is that the editors give preference to those who do try to grab attention, the characters, the gonzos, the divas, the bigger than life eccentric bozos. Them reality show producers and editors are suckers for Desperate Attention Whores. You want your TV time, go big. Me, if I were to play Survivor, I wouldn't give a damn about getting my TV time either, but a lot of these nutsos are all about being dramatic, sho me as much as possible, make it the Me Show!. The Sophie edit became clear in the Finale, and only then. She had a strategy in place from Day 1 to get her to F5, she made decisions along the way to keep her game going (NOT the same thing as doing nothing, making decisions is making decisions, like I tried to point out to you before), and her redemption came at FTC when she was honest and realized she needed to work on improving herself as a socially interactive person. Verses being a liar and BS artist or just a deluded wannabe.
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michel 10812 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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12-21-11, 07:35 PM (EST)
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10. "RE: Lost in Translation and the Million Dollar Tears" |
I'm sorry Dabo, I mistook a post from Pepe for one of yours. He is the one that wrote about the 4 megaDAWS.But I will address this: "She had a strategy in place from Day 1 to get her to F5, she made decisions along the way to keep her game going (NOT the same thing as doing nothing, making decisions is making decisions, like I tried to point out to you before)" Let's compare Survivor to real life because it was a theme this season. In real life, one of the most stressful situation is when you are faced with a financial crisis. What "moves" do people make in that situation? 1- They do whatever it takes to solve the problem: Take a second job, work overtime, beg, borrow or steal. I would equate that to how Rob played last season. Strategic AND entertaining. 2- They make arrangements with their bank. Sometimes it works and your new deal/alliance gets you to the win. Strategic but not always entertaining. That would be how most UTR players win. 3- They go bankrupt. I would equate that to being blindsided in Survivor. 4- They don't do a thing, hoping the problem will go away. They may very well last a month (!!) but sooner or later the problem will come back to haunt them. I equate that to being voted out like Rick and Edna and how it could have ended for Sophie. See, they didn't make decisions, they procrastinated. Not exactly the same thing. Fortunately, before the credit card company send someone to repossess her car, Sophie won the lottery. 5- They commit suicide. That's Brandon.
As for Sophie's "decisions" along the way, they were either bad or were evident:
- Voting out Christine and Stacey was just going with the flow. - Voting to keep Mikayla was a terrible move because, if Coach had really been like Rob instead of being Rob-light, she would have been the next on the chopping block. Morono would not have tolerated such a rebellion. - She declined Albert's ideas to change the game but Albert's ideas were dumb: Proposing a 5 person alliance with Cochran, Dawn and Whitney? She'd have to be pretty stupid to go from majority to minority. Voting against first Edna and then Rick? Those are the people that could have helped change the game because the only way to do so was to eliminate Coach. Sophie would have been dumb to vote out Edna and Rick at F7 when those two were already scheduled for execution at F6 and F5!!
 Thanks Agman!
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PepeLePew13 24731 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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12-21-11, 10:47 PM (EST)
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19. "RE: Lost in Translation and the Million Dollar Tears" |
And I (mostly) disproved Michel's rebuttal - some of who he view as "megaDAWs" are not even in the same zip code as the four from this past season. I'm still laughing at the idea that Nate from Cook Islands could be considered a megaDAW.
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michel 10812 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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12-21-11, 00:07 AM (EST)
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4. "RE: Lost in Translation and the Million Dollar Tears" |
I'm with you, Iltarion. This was the worst season in terms of strategy and editing.
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sol 219 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Network TV Show Guest Star"
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12-21-11, 02:19 AM (EST)
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5. "RE: Lost in Translation and the Million Dollar Tears" |
A couple seasons ago I got so annoyed at Na'Onka that I decided to stop watching, and continued my break from Survivor when I heard Russell was back last season. I decided to watch this season as a casual fan. I did not check any boards for spoiling, speculating or strategy. I did not watch to try and make sense of the editing, I just watched an episode, and waited for the next without giving it any further thought. If I was a first time viewer I wouldn't have lasted through the third ep.Survivor appeared to be a tired, old shell of itself. Was that the best they could do for characters? For many fans seeing Ozzy is enough. And then there was Coach - certainly not the character he was in Tocantins. Cochran and Brandon were not characters, they were pathetic wannabees. Cochran says he has watched all the episodes, but is clueless about how the game is played. Brandon was some 12 year old who wants to fit in with the big people; but is simply too immature, and too lacking in knowledge about life to understand what being an adult is all about. The number of confessionals these guys got was a testament to how bad the season was. If you can't give me good players, at least give me entertaining characters - but leave out the Na'Onkas. Before the FTC Coach had repeated often enough that the million dollars was his to lose, it was becoming plainly obvious that he was going to lose it. His performance at the FTC was his undoing. It was obvious that no one wanted to vote for anyone on the F3, but they had to vote for someone; and I think some were trying to figure out who had the best strategy. When asked, Coach said he was a poor strategist, and Sophie promptly announced that she was the strategist. Coach lost those votes, Sophie picked them up. I think most of the jury hoped Coach would perform well enough to justify them voting for him, but he bombed. Sure some expressed their bitterness and trashed Coach, but others were done in by Cochran, not Coach. When Sophie told them how the HII was really found, Brandon switched his vote from the dishonest Coach, to Sophie. I thought those were the 2 key statements during the FTC, and I thought hers was one of the best FTC performances I had seen; although facing her personality flaws were hard on her psyche. But up until that moment it was a forgettable season. Maybe it is time to retire from watching Survivor. Maybe I've changed, or maybe society has changed over the 11 years and the characters just aren't available any more. Whatever ... it was enjoyable to come back for a few moments and read what the members here were thinking.
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iltarion 1791 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Herbal Healing Drugs Endorser"
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12-21-11, 08:25 PM (EST)
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12. "RE: Lost in Translation and the Million Dollar Tears" |
Any season where B-Rob makes it to the end is a Top 10 season.Borneo, Gabon, and Fiji are all worse seasons than this one. So, I'd probably put it 4th last. The editing can create interest if the players aren't. Why not build a story around how Sophie was perceived by other players? In winning, she is finally accepted. There was an easy story there. >
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iltarion 1791 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Herbal Healing Drugs Endorser"
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12-21-11, 09:26 PM (EST)
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14. "RE: Lost in Translation and the Million Dollar Tears" |
The first of anything is always overrated. The choreography was crap. The editing was crap. Jeff had no clue what he was doing. No one knew how to play the game and most weren't even interested in trying. And worst of all, no one gave a crap about anyone else. In 24 seasons, we've never had a F6 who despised each other more. >
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iltarion 1791 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Herbal Healing Drugs Endorser"
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12-21-11, 09:37 PM (EST)
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15. "RE: Lost in Translation and the Million Dollar Tears" |
Some people must have watched a different FTC than me. I thought Sophie was scatterbrained. She talked too fast and too long. The jury looked bored and confused.She tried to sell herself as a strategist even though she didn't make a single strategical move, and the worst was when she said she wished she was a man. Yeah, like women have never won before. I'm still trying to figure that one out. Coach's soliloquy about his game of honor being a house of cards that collapsed of its own weight was one of the best and, I thought, most sincere moments of any FTC. I wasn't expecting Coach to have a good FTC, but I was actually surprised. Though he was in rough shape heading in, I thought he did well enough to win. >
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michel 10812 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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12-21-11, 10:50 PM (EST)
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21. "RE: Lost in Translation and the Million Dollar Tears" |
Palau was bad because Ulong was filled with quitters but Tom was a very deserving winner. He didn't have too much to do post-merge because he almost singlehandedly destroyed the competition.
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Jims02 7328 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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12-21-11, 11:31 PM (EST)
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23. "RE: Lost in Translation and the Million Dollar Tears" |
LAST EDITED ON 12-21-11 AT 11:33 PM (EST)The moment Cochran lost his duel, I literally shouted at my TV, "What a waste of time!" These editors this season couldn't edit their way out of a paper bag. You know, I get the whole Cochran thing. I get that he's naturally going to be one of the bigger personalities in this season, especially after he flips. It's only natural. But, really, editors? You're going to devote THE ENTIRE CLIPSHOW TO THE ADVENTURES OF JOHN COCHRAN?!?!?!?!? Really? Really? This is what you're going to do, one episode before he gets voted out? What the hell, editors. What the hell. This has been a disturbing trend the last couple of seasons, since Jiffy became an executive producer. They seem to latch onto 2 or 3 contestants and push the heavy majority of screentime toward them. Last year, Philip was The Cochran, but at least that guy made the Final 3. And Boston Rob soaked up the rest of the screentime. I don't know how fair I'm being in this analysis because there were certainly huge DAWs in previous seasons (like Rupert). Even despite Rupert hogging the spotlight, I feel like Pearl Islands was still an ensemble cast. It could be that having all these returning contestants are making it feel like they are lead actors on a TV show. And now Jiffy's all like, "Let's have Brandon vs Russell!" and the audience cheers. Gawd almighty, is Jiffy just ridiculously out of touch, or am I just in that small vocal minority again?  A 2003 IceCat original
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iltarion 1791 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Herbal Healing Drugs Endorser"
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12-23-11, 02:23 PM (EST)
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25. "RE: Lost in Translation and the Million Dollar Tears" |
Jeff is horrendously out of touch if Russell ever comes back. I am about as Survivor hardcore as it comes, but if you put Russell and Brandon back on, you better have 14 swimsuit models with them or I'm not watching a single episode. >
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