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Posted May 8th 2008 10:13PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Episode Reviews
(S16E13) "Win and survive, fail and die." - Erik
Well, maybe you can win and die, too. No, I'm not talking about an odd variant of a James Bond movie. I'm talking
Survivor Micronesia. This season has been like a roller coaster ride. While castaways I've been cheering on have been blindsided and cast away much like fish guts to seagulls, I've been enjoying the season nonetheless. After all, it's been their own darn fault!
Read on past the jump for the full review of tonight's show.
Continue reading Survivor Micronesia: If It Smells Like a Rat, Give It Cheese
Posted May 1st 2008 11:20PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Episode Reviews
(S16E12) Okay, I officially declare
Survivor Micronesia to be one of the best, if not the best, season ever in the series. You see, the show really isn't all about surviving the elements of nature. The survival skills needed don't necessarily have to do with who might forage best in the woods or who can build a sturdy shelter. Nope, it's "Outwit, Outplay, Outlast." And, chances are ... if you outwit and outplay, you're going to outlast. Tonight's backsided blindside will make for
Survivor history.
Read on past the jump for my full review of tonight's episode.
Continue reading Survivor Micronesia: I'm Gonna Fix Her!
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 Mar 19th 2008 11:38PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Episode Reviews
(S16E07) "This is a game called
Survivor." - James
Even thought the tribes have mixed on
Survivor Micronesia, it still has the Fans vs. the Favorites vibe for the most part. With the exception of a very few folks, the fans still have something to prove and the favorites still think of the fans as wannabes to be swatted off their shoulders. You know, kind of like the chip on the shoulders of many of the returning castaways.
Continue reading Survivor Micronesia: Like a Wide-Eyed Kid in the Candy Store!
Posted Mar 13th 2008 11:08PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Episode Reviews
(S16E06) The promos all this week sounded like an exciting episode of
Survivor Micronesia would hit tonight. Now, we know that the promos are edited to make us think things happen when they don't happen at all. They take things out of context and show-hungry fans will eat it up.
This week we were led to believe that Jonathan Penner's knee wound from a previous challenge might take him out of the game. We were also led to believe that fan Jason found out that Ozzy has already found the hidden immunity idol on Exile Island. Did either of these events really happen? Did both? Read on past the jump for more.
Continue reading Survivor Micronesia: It Hit Everyone Pretty Hard!
Posted Feb 14th 2008 11:00PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Episode Reviews
(S16E02) "Get a hotel room," Jonathan says.
Let's keep in mind that the castaways on
Survivor Micronesia have been together for four days as this episode was filmed. Now, that's plenty of time for true love, isn't it? And, the fact that it's airing on Valentine's Day makes it all so much more romantic, right? How touching, how sweet!
Well, unless it's only hot jungle sex noises under the fronds surrounded by rats, that is.
Continue reading Survivor Micronesia: The Sounds of Jungle Love
Posted Dec 17th 2007 12:31AM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Episode Reviews
(S15E13) Well, this is it. Who's going to win it all on
Survivor China -- the schemer, the lunch lady, the beauty queen, or the waitress long shot? Now, if I were a wagering woman, I could have won some money on this one. As with the first season with Richard Hatch, I picked the winner from the first episode. So, I'm two for fifteen. I guess I should ask Jean-Robert how those odds do in the real world, eh?
Ah, but I won't say a word about the winner before the jump. I know how dangerous that can be.
But I was right. 'Nuff said.
Continue reading Survivor China: A Slippery Little Sucker (season finale)
Posted Nov 15th 2007 11:51PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Episode Reviews
(S15E09) Whatever you do, don't eat the apple. Eat the fried chicken, the mashed potatoes, the cheeseburgers, and the fries. You can even quaff the beer. But you know what happens when you eat the apple.
As expected, the biblical words of wisdom came from James. But to whom was he referring? A lot must be happening behind the scenes with the quasi-couplings going on. Must we be like the Letterman question?
"Was there any hanky-panky going on?"
Continue reading Survivor China: Just Don't Eat the Apple
Posted Oct 25th 2007 11:41PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Episode Reviews
(S15E06) Now that I've been reviewing
Survivor: China using the actual episode titles, I have to worry that the world might run out of exclamation points. Everything is always so ... so ... emphatic in these titles. Perhaps the castaways, Courtney in particular, should save energy and not exclaim so much. I mean, after all, there has to be wasted calories, right? Todd doesn't have much meat on his bones, either.
At least it won't be a reenactment of the
Donner Party, I guess. Although that might be better than the seasonal gross foods challenge which took place in tonight's episode.
Continue reading Survivor China: That's Love, Baby! It Makes You Strong!
Posted Oct 4th 2007 11:12PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: Survivor, Episode Reviews
(S15E03) Well, tonight's
Survivor China certainly wasn't an exception to the rule. What rule, you might ask? I'm talking about the rule which necessitates either wet or muddy very physical challenges in direct correlation to the amount of clothing available to the female contestants. Throw in a chunky naked guy and call it a show!
Now, I'm just not being fair here. There was more to the show than that. But, for the love of all things good and decent, get Sherea (in particular) some clothes, CBS! Please, I'm begging here. I do not want to see what that woman's panties and bra will look like as time goes on. That's the stuff of nightmares!
Continue reading Survivor China: I Lost Two Hands and Possibly a Shoulder!
Posted Sep 19th 2007 1:03PM by Jackie Schnoop
Filed under: OpEd, Survivor, Casting
While I see that others here in the TV Squad offices have their
Early Looks screeners, I chose to review two shows which haven't issued advance copies of the premieres --
Kid Nation and
Survivor: China. So I couldn't take the easy route. I had to do research; woe is me. Indeed.
The season premiere is this Thursday at 8 PM ET/PT in most viewing areas. But here I am without a real preview, so I'll dance around a bit. Or, better yet, I've read through all the content at the
CBS website, watched all the videos on site, and I come to you with the tribes and my quick take on the castaways. The latter could be very off and I reserve the right to change my mind if my early favorites aren't what they seem on first impression.
Continue reading Survivor China: The castaways and the tribes
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