Survivor

[laconicchick]

Peachy said it was the first time. (I can't stop calling him Peachy even though I haven't read the recaps in about five years.)

And on that note, I kind of love him. He is just so snarky yet personable in the reunion episodes, and I liked that he wasn't letting Dreamz get away with his crap (and "this is why tribal council takes like two and a half hours" and a few of his other lines cracked me up). Does this make me a freak?

[indygirl]

I still like him, too, LC! We can be freaky together!

...Er, wait a minute...

[LurkerNan]

I wonder if Dreamz could have returned the truck to Yau Man. Just said at tribal council, "You know, Yau, I probably made that decision too quickly and now I regret it. Take the truck back and cancel the agreement." At least that might have gained him some respect with some of the jurors. I really don't see how Dreamz figured he could renege on such a big deal with a favourite tribemate and still expect to get any votes.

He wasn't the sharpest knife in that drawer. You could tell he just didn't understand what Peachy was trying to get at: If he planned to not honor the deal from the beginning, he basically stole the truck.

He accepted the deal under false pretenses. Nothing made him agree to it; he could have said Nope. But he took it, and made everyone (including the diary interviews) think he was going to honor the deal. It would have been better to say he changed his mind, but to imply that he knew he was going to renege made him a thief. Sob story or not, I hope he spends another few decades out on the street for Karma's sake.

[Benni]

He must not have planned to honor the deal during the immunity challenge or he would have dropped out and let Yow-man win it. As soon as he stayed in the immunity challenge that is when I knew he wasn't going to go through with it.

That was a fun jury to watch. I really didn't get Lacey or Lissy or whatever her name is asking to see Cassandra's shoes. But I did think it was funny when she asked Dreamz how many zereos were in a Million. And I did enjoy when Earl said I was brought up by a single mom and worked my way through college. EXACTLY! Dreamz is a man and I was so sick and tired of hearing him whine. Like the whole world owed him.

Yaw-Man should be in a commercial standing on the street watching a truck exactly like the one he should have won go buy and saying something funny like "That was a bad Dream"

[Deleted]

I loved the clip
"Dreamz: "A Chaquita..a..a.."
Jeff: A soliloquy?"

lol

Dreamz is trying to convince himself he planned it all along and it's okay because it's all in the game. But he knows it was a terrible and dishonorable thing to do and he will have to live with it the rest of his life.

Poor Yau Man, u waz robbed!

[berrybearie]

Dreamz was playing a "get to the end" game, not a winning game. He kept himself in it by lying, backstabbing, evading, realigning himself. It was strategic to go far but not to win. Even minus Truckgate I'm not sure Dreamz would have won. He alienated a whole bunch of people, and it would have come down to a sympathy vote for his background vs. voting for Earl out of respect for his subtle manuevering.

Toward the end he was in a Catch-22: keep his end of the deal with Yau-Man --> not make the final 3 (I think Yau and Earl both knew that Cassandra was a non-entity and wouldn't be taking anyone's votes. Dreamz would have been on the chopping block) vs. keep the truck and the immunity --> make it to the end but kill his chance of winning.

[prydainprincess]

Was it unanimous when Yul won last season?

[indygirl]

No. Ozzy recevied some votes last season. Earl is the first to get the entire jury!

[soul]

Now, I want to know who came in second? I'm assuming Cassandra, because she was sitting next to Earl, but she and Dreamz got a total of zero votes.

[india7]

I don't think either of them would get second prize. Zero votes out of two other people means zero dollars. If there had been the more traditional final two, and Earl got all the votes with the other player getting none, then they'd award the $100,000. But in the case of three finalists, with two not even getting a single vote, I doubt they'd decide how to award that to anyone. I think CBS may have saved themselves $100,000 this season. And really - I have to say, good for CBS. I didn't like the way Dreamz or Cassandra played, and I don't really think either of them deserve any kind of a pay off. Earl put that whole alliance together with Yau Man and *held* it together - Earl deserved to win in a landslide. The one thing I'm sick of every season are players who alienate everyone, do nothing around camp, suck at challenges, act obnoxious, etc. and are generally worthless, and they wind up being brought to the final two because everyone knows they can beat them. I don't blame the person who brings them and winds up winning, because that's strategy. But I hate how these useless wastes of space who can't really compete if their lives depended on it wind up with $100,000. Glad it didn't happen this time. Although, out of the two of them, I should be more specific - I'm glad *Cassandra* didn't get anything extra out of it. She's the new Mama Kim of this season - sit around, do nothing, suck at challenges, and wind up in the final two/three. At least Dreamz tried, in his odd, sort of bumbling way - I don't like what he did to Yau, but hey, that's part of how the game is played. Maybe CBS decided to split the $100,000 between Cassandra and Dreamz?