(S14E14) Oh my. Yau-Man made this season one of the most interesting to watch right up until the final episode. This was nearly the season that proved to me that Survivor should just be retired. But then we got to see some very interesting twists, not the ones by the editing team, which were haphazard and ineffective but by Yau-Man as he became one of the most loveable longshots the game has ever seen.I love the blinded maze challenge it brings a bit of humor to the proceedings watching everyone stumble around. Cassandra is the very opposite of a challenge monster (challenge minnow perhaps). Yau-Man, Boo and Dreamz all stumble around pretty effectively but Yau-Man wins immunity.
Boo's last gasp plea is against Dreamz which make me wonder why no one targets Cassandra. She's total dead weight, a placeholder, only there because she is a vote and a body. This season many commenters on this blog have commented on how Jeff leads the discussion at tribal and thereby influences votes. That is definitely in play tonight but it's a bit pointless. We all know who is going home. Earl plays his idol just because it is the last chance he can.
Cuteness points to Earl for saying that he and Yau-Man are like "Rush Hour." Dreamz gets honor points for saying he is going to try and win the immunity challenge even though he has to surrender the necklace to Yau.
The river tour of fallen Survivors reminds me how few of these people I liked or even remember. Not a great season overall even though the last few weeks have been interesting. Alex's sound clip is so self-aggrandizing it make so glad he didn't end up in the finals.
Wow, the final immunity challenge is a torture challenge involving both a rack and water torture.It's a bit painful to watch and it seems like one of those challenge were a slight error might decide things as often happens in the final challenge. Cassandra goes first of course. I was surprised she held on as long as she did. Poor Yau with his tiny bird wind arms. Earl falls out of the challenge leaving Yau-Man and Dreamz. Now Yau-Man must not trust Dreamz otherwise he would have immediately dropped but he did eventually drop. Dreamz has the necklace. Oh now it's on...
Dreamz looks like he is going to barf. Yau-Man fondles the necklace but suspects he's not getting anywhere near it. Now Dreamz starts spinning his fiction about how much he has suffered and struggled and how he might be giving up one million dollars since there will be 3 people at final tribal. Of course if he doesn't do it will anyone vote for him to have $1 million? I don't think so but who knows? One topic, one choice, what will Dreamz do? He keeps it. So much for my faith in humanity.
Poor Yau-Man. Earl and Cassandra help vote him out. I had heard spoilers about this so I wasn't surprised but I still cried to see Yau-Man go. So unfair. Even Boo looks to be crying too.
Onto final tribal. Grrr, first question in and Dreamz mentions the fact that he was homeless. It seems to me that Cassandra is having a hard time explaining her presence in the final three. Her justifications are all passive, I listened, I empathized, blah, blah, blah. And with good reason. Ooo and Mookie is mad (and incredibly hot). Alex is also very mad although not quite so hot in my opinion. He lawyers the hell out of Cassandra and Dreamz. Boo gets on Dreamz about being a bad Christian. Yau-Man gives Dreamz the chance to admit he changed his mind but Dreamz doesn't, he blusters around. At least Earl admits the truth he could not win if he took Yau-Man.
Turns out he was right. Earl is the unanimous winner. He was really the only choice. Cassandra did not take on an active role and Dreamz's actions make it impossible to vote for him.
At the reunion show Jeff tries manfully to figure out what Dreamz knew or didn't know at any given time. He never figures it out and neither have I. Yau nails it went he says that sometimes Dreamz is a genius and sometimes he has no idea what is going on. Overall the reunion show doesn't bring any big surprises except perhaps for 
Gary's massive Survivor Fiji tattoo. Scary.
This episode is a solid 6. Dreamz's decision made it compelling watching but after that it just sort of fizzled out.
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5-13-2007 @ 11:35PM
Kyle Beabo said...
Brutuz...
Juduz...
...Dreamz.
Yau-Man should have won. Dreamz cheated the man out of a million dollarz.
http://kylebeabo.blogspot.com/
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5-13-2007 @ 11:50PM
Cody said...
I know that 2nd place gets $100,000. Since Earl got all the votes, I expect that both Cassandra and Dreamz tie for 2nd place and get $100,000. What does third place get? I assume it's less than that. If I was Alex or Mookie or Edgardo, I think I would have written Casandra's name down just to make sure that Dreamz was locked into 3rd place and got as little money as possible.
If I was Dreamz, I would have sold the $60,000 truck and bought two $30,000 trucks and gave one to Yau-Man at the finale.
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5-13-2007 @ 11:53PM
Meesh said...
I actually switched it off after that. I knew that Earl would win by a landslide. Who in their right mind would reward Dreamz for his betrayal of Yau? no one. Who would give Cassandra a vote for being a tag along? No one.
hey do they award a fan favorite prize anymore? I would vote to give another truck or some serious cash to Yau Man for not only being an incredible player, but for being so gracious and generous in defeat.
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5-14-2007 @ 12:00AM
Robert said...
Yeah I was hoping Cassandra would get at least one vote so she would have gotten the 100,000 and Dreamz would have gotten nothing. As it stands, I don't even know what Cassandra and Dreamz received.
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5-14-2007 @ 12:00AM
Cody said...
Also, can I say that I think the last two seasons of Survivor have been some of the most watchable? Survivor certainly had some rough patches, and even Allstars was nigh unwatchable. But these past two have made me yearn for more, and the fact that there was only about 8 weeks between them helped that. I think that Survivor is the only reality show still on TV that does it right. It really nails the humanity of voting people off but trying to gain their respect at the same time.
Also, I would have loved to see Jeff mention the Michelle stumble in the finale. I laughed every time they showed that.
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5-14-2007 @ 12:05AM
Vin said...
I was hoping for Yau-Man to win, but Earl really was the most obvious choice after him.
The one thing I'm still trying to figure out is Lisi's incoherent rant. If she was trying to prove a point, I didn't get it.
This was one of those seasons that definitely got better as it went on. I hope the next season doesn't take as long to get into gear.
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5-14-2007 @ 12:11AM
Jackie said...
Dreamz wouldn't have won no matter what he did. From the time he took the truck deal, he lost the million.
Overall, with the exception of a very trying beginning, this ended up one of the best seasons ever on the show. The blog readers I have were almost all in support of a Yau-Man win.
As was I. (Sigh)
Amazing Race down, Survivor down. Next up, Big Brother!
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5-14-2007 @ 12:16AM
Chris said...
I'll admit I've only seen two episodes this season, with the finale being the second...
I'm not certain of his name, but I believe it was Alex (?) that kept telling Cassandra to "stop talking" sounded like a preschool child screaming for the other kid to "gimme"... how infantile! I was getting aggravated during that whole 15-second exchange and hit the 30-second skip on my remote. I'm sorry, but nobody needs to hear that.
Based off of what I've seen, Yau-Man played the game extremely well and kept his moral values... Dreamz on the other hand, Boo had every right to call him on what he did and how poorly of a Christian example he was making, if he was even trying. It'll catch up with Dreamz in one way or another.
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5-14-2007 @ 12:20AM
Chris said...
Also, making the point (?) the one woman tried to make about Cassandra's watershoes was absolutely ridiculous. Grandstanding only makes you look like a bigger fool than your opponent.
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5-14-2007 @ 12:23AM
RP Perez said...
Dreamz showed not integrity as a man, I hope his kids see that. Did he honestly think he could win if he didn't uphold his part of the bargain. He got a car, and he should have taken the chance that he would have gotten voted off. He would have more sympathy by the jury.
Dreamz=No Class
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5-14-2007 @ 1:03AM
Robert said...
By the way, Lisi's an idiot that doesn't know how many zeros are in 1,000,000.
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5-14-2007 @ 1:11AM
Alexis said...
I didn't realize until halfway through the tribal council that all three finalists were black. Of course, one was dead weight and two betrayed the asian guy who did all the work. How shocking.
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5-14-2007 @ 1:14AM
hal said...
What a disappointing finish!! None of the final three deserved it. If I had been on the jury, I would asked Jeff if I could vote for "none of the above" or do a write-in vote for the obvious best player: Yau-Man!!!
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5-14-2007 @ 1:23AM
Linda said...
I WANT TO PUKE WHEN I SEE DREAMS,HES NOTHING BUT A FU-KING LIAR ,HE SURE MAKES ME RESPECT HIS BACK GROUND,MAKES ME WANT TP PU-K.NEVER TRUST A NER_
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5-14-2007 @ 1:30AM
BigTed said...
Waiting to hear whether or not Dreamz would keep his promise to Yau-Man was the best part of this season, and much more exciting than finding out who actually won.
But I was surprised that Dreamz thought it was a good strategy to say he was just "playing the game" all along, so breaking his promise didn't really count. It would have gone over a lot better (and might even have been the truth) if he said he had intended to give the immunity idol to Yau-Man, but felt he had to change his mind when he found out that the terms of the game had changed and three people were going to the final council rather than two.
Even so, it was funny how self-righteous some of the jury members sounded -- after, of course, they had played the game in as self-serving a way as anybody else.
Actually, I think Yau-Man was kind of scr*wed over by the game itself during the last immunity challenge. The holes in the barrels over their heads should have been perfectly even to make it fair, but while everyone else had water pouring a little bit to the side (at least at first), it was hitting Yau-Man right in the middle of his head. (And he was the only one who wasn't wearing any headgear.) This must have been incredibly distracting, and it may have been the deciding factor in why he lost the last challenge.
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5-14-2007 @ 1:36AM
Linda said...
I WAS WATCHING SOME PLAY BACK, AND DREAMS MADE A PROMISE TO YA-MAN THAT HE WOULD KEEP THE DEAL THEY MADE ON HIS SONS LIFE.SO DREAMS KISS YOUR SON ASS GOOD BY,BECAUSE YOU SAID THIS TO GOD.OH FOR GOT DREAM HOW MANY ZEROS IN A MILLION LOL
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5-14-2007 @ 1:37AM
Linda said...
GUESS YOU DON'T THINK MUCH ABOUT YOUR SONS LIFE.
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5-14-2007 @ 1:45AM
Mel said...
Dreamz - The new Sanjaya
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5-14-2007 @ 2:07AM
Joseph Land said...
Linda, really, your loud and bigoted remarks are just as, if not more, annoying then Dreamz breaking his word.
I have no problem that you think little of Dreamz, I feel the same, but it should be solely because of his dishonesty, not his race.
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5-14-2007 @ 2:08AM
Mel said...
I should note that Lisi and Alex came off much more horrible than Dreamz did. Despite the betrayal by the man, he has a tough choice to make and he was under the impression that it was a game. I can see why he did, especially since as I pointed out before, he does not like being made use of and I suspect that was why he went back on the deal with Yau because he knew Yau was using him in his strategy. I find it hard to fault and ostracise a man who made a mistake like this in front of 15 million viewers.
What was sickening was Alex, a supposed do-gooder in real life telling someone to shut up for 20 seconds straight when it was basically a time for them to talk and answer questions. How did he pass the bar again?
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