merge-related stories
Posted Nov 6th 2009 1:00AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Episode Reviews
(S19E08) I know this photo might be considered sort of spoilerish for the front page. But since last week's
Survivor promo showed the merge going down, I know you all know Evil Russell will attempt to work everyone. Heck, that's what the guy does. To me, he comes off akin to a snake oil salesman. Yet he seems to get people to believe his wily ways. I bet he could have sold a lot of snake oil a century back.
Continue reading Review: Survivor Samoa - All Hell Breaks Loose
Posted Apr 10th 2009 1:07AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Episode Reviews
(S18E08) I don't know. Is it just me or is this sexy librarian in a bikini look on Erinn from
Survivor just a bit unsettling? There seems to be an evil gleam in her eyes, too. Maybe she's considering some Donner Party action and Coach will be her target? Sigh. Nah, it would never happen. Mr. Lord "Willie Nelson" Fauntleroy is just too darn skinny.
The promos promised us a merge tonight. This could get interesting with secret cross-tribe alliances. Will the Exile Island Allies take over the game? Or will the numbers in Timbira squash the weaker Jalapao tribe one by one? Read on.
Continue reading Survivor: The Dragon Slayer
Posted Nov 27th 2008 10:25PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Episode Reviews
(S17E11) The good news is that there was a
Survivor show tonight on Thanksgiving evening. The bad news is that it was basically a recap show covering the entire season thus far. But there were enough new clips we haven't previously seen to make it worthwhile at least touching on the episode. Some of the footage really cemented my opinions of some of these castaways and some was just plain bizarre.
Continue reading Survivor: I Was Put on the Planet For This Show
Posted Nov 13th 2008 11:06PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Episode Reviews
(S17E09) Nope, this Survivor episode's title isn't about Kenny. He's been the mastermind behind the last two blindsides -- Marcus and Ace. If anyone is the brains behind everything, it should be him. He definitely couldn't be the brawn behind everything, but brawn isn't always the key to getting to the final four of this show. So, to whom does the title refer? It's someone who's far from a mastermind in the game, but it's key to the episode. Read on.
Continue reading Survivor: The Brains Behind Everything
Posted Apr 17th 2008 11:00PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Episode Reviews
(S16E10) "When you're annoying, you might not be able to appease everybody with a donut. They might just want the donut." - James
All week the promos for tonight's
Survivor Micronesia episode were saying that a blunder would overtake James having two idols and not playing them to save himself in
Survivor China. It's true. James is no longer the goat of stupid moves. Maybe they should rename the tag line for the season. Instead of
Fans vs. Favorites, it could be
When Smart Castaways Do Dumb Things. Or,
When Smarter Castaways Outwit Those Not as Smart.
Read on past the jump for the full review of tonight's episode.
Continue reading Survivor Micronesia: I Promise ...
Posted Apr 10th 2008 11:46PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Episode Reviews
(
S16E09) "It's something you have to try, kind of like a juicy rabbit." - James talking about the bowl of bats at the feast.
Ew! Perhaps if they didn't still have fur, were diced and then sautéed in a light garlic butter sauce. Um, no. I still don't think I'd be eating bats when there's a whole table of fruit and other good food. I guess I'm just not that experimental with my foodstuffs. For tonight's new low fat, no bat review of
Survivor Micronesia, read on past the jump.
Continue reading Survivor Micronesia: I'm in Such a Hot Pickle!
Posted Nov 2nd 2007 12:01AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Episode Reviews
(S15E07) Oh, I so love it when karma comes around and bites someone in the butt, don't you? Tonight's
Survivor China had such a moment that it's destined to go in the show's archives as a classic, yet hilarious, blunder.
It was Yau-Man Chan's original plan during his season gone into motion through sneaky actions and dumb mistakes. And, after watching tonight's show, it couldn't have happened to a more deserving person.
We all saw the promos. Instead of being as smart as she thinks, it turns out that Jaime might be more dumb than anyone ever thought possible. After all, I didn't think she was dumb. Well, not until ...
Continue reading Survivor China: I'm Not as Dumb as I Look
Posted Nov 24th 2006 2:58PM by Deidre Woollard
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, CBS, OpEd, Survivor
(S13E09) It's merge time. It's a bummer for me since I really was hoping they'd just let little Aitu fight it out to the finish. But instead we now have Aitutonga which is a bit like a frat keg party mixed with a meeting of the chess club. The best thing about this season is that there are a series of small paired alliances and then a few mercenaries. No one likes a mercenary but they sure keep things interesting.
At the merge feast, Yul offers the first olive branch saying that he looks forward to getting to meet the other tribe. "You've got class," answers Nate enthusiastically. He's enthusiastic, of course, because he is drunk off all the beer at the merge feast. Jonathan is increasingly frustrated with the "youngsters" of Raro who don't seem to care about winning the game and act as if the are on
The Real World instead of
Survivor. So it seems natural that he should hook up with Yul again.
Continue reading Survivor: Cook Islands: Why Would You Trust Me?
Posted Jan 31st 2006 4:33PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Programming, WB, The CW
The
inevitable has happened. With
the merging
of UPN and WB as one network, some things will have to go. After all, there are only so many hours in the day. The first
show to fall victim to the merge is
Cult, which was in development. The CW just announced that it will not be
needing its services. What a bummer for the creators of the show, who were probably ecstatic two weeks ago when WB
picked it up. It
is was about a television program that mysteriously manipulates its viewers.
And if you're wondering what that means for
Aquaman, you can
relax. WB ordered the drama pilot before the networks merged, but The CW is reportedly still backing the
Smallville spin-off.
Posted Jan 24th 2006 5:10PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, WB, UPN, Watercooler Talk, The CW
Well, I
guess we've all heard the big news today by now, right? The WB network and the UPN network
are going to merge to become "The CW
network", or "The CW" for short. Sounds like a decent idea to me: two half-networks that are limping
along combine to create a more powerful network, capable of defeating the forces of evil while shooting lasers out of
its hands (wait, I might be getting this new network confused with
Voltron).
There's only one problem: the name.
"The CW". I realize that the name is a combination of "CBS" and "Warner", and that naming
it "The WC" is problematic; besides the fact that the name is a classy way to say "toilet", it's too
close to "the WB" for comfort's sake. But this name... it just doesn't work for me. It sounds like it's
one letter short of being called "The Cow", or, as one commenter suggested, "The Country Western
Network".
So can anyone think of a better name? Let me know in the comments.
[Photo: Bebeto
Matthews/AP]
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