***The Official Survivor 4: The Marquesas *** thread (1 Viewer)

[Scott Weinberg]

Feb 28th? Cool!

While I honestly can't deal with ANY of the other "reality" shows, I truly am a diehard Survivor junkie.

Looking forward to the season/discussions,

 

[Jon_B]

I'm with you Scott on that one. Can't wait.
Jon

 

[Scott Weinberg]

Has anybody else bothered to look through the contestant profiles? Based on what I've seen so far, I want to marry Gina!
As far as I'm concerned, the only interesting things about the upcoming contestants are A) what they're bringing as their luxury item and B) what their favorite movies are.
What that in mind, here's a listing of these important issues:
Gabriel (curly blonde hair lookin' guy who was once a figure skater, singer, ballroom dancer, cellist and ballet dancer)
Luxury Item: Childhood Teddy Bear (giggle)
Favorite Movie: October Sky
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Gina (sigh)
Luxury Item: Adventure Bag (Sounds sexy!)
Favorite Movies: It's a Wonderful Life, Erin Brockovich, The Goonies
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Hunter (thick necked body-builder sort)
Luxury Item: Navy Wings from Grandfather
Favorite Movies: Braveheart, Pulp Fiction, Lethal Weapon
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John (Pretty boy male nurse)
Luxury Item: Massage Oils (HANDS OFF GINA, MALE NURSE!!)
Favorite Movies: Notting Hill (I guess I don't have to worry about him on my Gina ), The Sixth Sense, Sixteen Candles
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Kathy (Middle-aged mom type)
Luxury Item: Canvas and Paints (Thinking ahead for the inevitable "go make a giant SOS sign...now!" challenge?)
Favorite Movies: Field of Dreams, The English Patient (The English Patient????)
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Neleh (21 year-old blondie college girl!)
Luxury Item: Scriptures (So she's NOT Jewish then...darn. )
Favorite Movies: Notting Hill (again??), Meet the Parents, Billy Madison
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Paschal (57 year old JUDGE!! Should be interesting...)
Luxury Item: American Flag (Oh, gimme a break...)
Favorite Movies: Entrapment (The judge likes himself some booty!), Titanic, Good Morning Vietnam, American Graffiti
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Patricia (Middle-aged truck assembler gal)
Luxury Item: A lock of her Arabian horse's tail. (That will surely come in handy.)
Favorite Movies: Miracle on 34th Street, Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman (Sounds like Patricia is into 'wish-fulfillment'. She'll be gone before March is over...)
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Peter (Owns a bowling alley. Has lots of teeth.)
Luxury Item: Cologne (PETER!! HANDS OFF GINA!!)
Favorite Movies: The Wizard of Oz, Planet of the Apes ('68), It's a Wonderful Life (Pete likes those obscure flicks )
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Rob (young Italian guy wearing a t-shirt)
Luxury Item: Football
Favorite Movies: Top Gun, Goodfellas, The Godfather (1 AND 2!), The Deer Hunter (I vote this guy 'most likely to get some action' in the Marquesas.)
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Robert (Roly-poly tattooed limo driver. Could be the new Tom.)
Luxury Item: Voodoo Doll (hopefully of Jeff Probst)
Favorite Movies: Dances with Wolves, The Godfather "saga"
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Sarah (Young cutie. Looks a bit like J.Lo, but Gina is still the beauty of the bunch.)
Luxury Item: Pillow (Yeah, baby!)
Favorite Movies: Pretty Woman, Mermaids, Rush Hour, American Pie (OK, bad taste in movies, but she's bringing a pillow!!)
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Sean (Tough-looking junior high teacher from Harlem)
Luxury Item: Bible (Heck, it beats using poison oak, right?)
Favorite Movies: Grease, West Side Story, Coming to America
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Tammy (Another cutie my age! Alas, she's engaged...)
Luxury Item: Photo of her fiancee and dog. (Awwww!)
Favorite Movies: Silence of the Lambs, Along Came a Spider (She lists ACAS as her FAVORITE movie??!? Bah, her fiancee (and dog) can have her!)
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Vecepia (36 year old office worker from Portland. Also pretty, also engaged.)
Luxury Item: A book of her OWN poetry. (At least bring some NEW poetry to read, huh?)
Favorite Movies: Love and Basketball, A Soldier's Story, Pretty Woman, The Hurricane (Why have I never heard of this Pretty Woman movie??)
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Zoe (36 year-old fishing boat captain. She looks like a weird lady.)
Luxury Item: Necklace (That's not luxury, Zoe. That's JEWELRY!)
Favorite Movies: American Graffiti, Gladiator, Rough Magic, Bullit, The Insider, The Quick and the Dead
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So based on my research, none of these people like good movies. OK, aside from a few picks. And what's with these whacked-out luxury items? ("I want to bring an ashtray! Or an empty cardboard box!")
Me? I'd bring porn - and lots of it.
No, I'm kidding. It's tough to imagine what we'd actually pick for a luxury item, but I can damn sure guarantee it wouldn't be a necklance or a lock of hair from a horse's ass!!
OK, I'm off...

 

[Brett Halsey]

I'm must admit that I'm getting a little tired of the "Survivor" shows.
Season Three just finished a couple of weeks ago here in Australia, and what do you think the station broadcasting Survivor here (Channel 9) do: go and make there own version called "Australian Survivor".
I watched the first episode and it made me feel ashamed to be an Aussie, it was so lame and the the winner only gets $500,000 ($US 250,000). And I guess on top of all this they will soon inflict Survivor 4 in tandem with their own Survivor on us, making Channel 9 my new station to boycott.
If anyone wants to check it out try this link:
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P.S. Channel 9 also broadcasts Who Wants To Be A Millionaire here in Australia too, and in the two-three years it has been on not one person has won the $1,000,000 ($US 500,000).

 

[Scooter]

I was under the impression that Survivor originated in Oz!

 

[Scott Weinberg]

In case anyone wants to kick off the Survivor festivities with some healthy competition, I started up a Yahoo! Survivor Tournament. You don't want to join in a few weeks late, so take a look and see if it looks like fun!
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Group#: 2669
Password: OAR
The rules are quite simple:
You have a total of 100 points to distribute among the cast each week. Put more points on the survivor(s) you think most likely to be voted off the show this week. The number of points you wager on the survivor who ends up voted off the show this week will be added to your total score.
The participant with the most points at the end of the season is the big winner. Fun!

 

[Patrick Sun]

I'm in!

 

[Bill Catherall]

Me too!

 

[Dheiner]

Hey folks,

Did you all hear about this?

A "Survivor: Africa" contestant from Santa Cruz is savoring a belated victory this afternoon.

Nearly two months after the show finale, Lex van den Berghe and the contestant known as "Big Tom" have been declared runners-up. Each will get a $100,000 dollar prize.

The show's producers say Lex was mistakenly penalized for missing a question during one of the final immunity challenges. It turns out he was right when he said that fellow contestant Lindsey had no body piercings. The new judgement also bumped up Big Tom, who missed the question.

The game's original runner-up, Kim, and the winner, Ethan will both keep their prizes and their titles.

 

[Daryl Furkalo]

I'm on the Yahoo challenge. I am the defending champion of the office pool from Africa afterall ...

 

[Dennis Reno]

I'm in. I'm using my Fantasy League ID which is "ecrdude".

 

[Patrick Sun]

Maraamu tribe:
I'm sure every guy was staring at Sarah who did little to hide any of her physical assets. But the one to watch is Gina, I think she's the real deal. Hunter is definitely the MacGuyer of the group, and if you read his bio, you knew the guy had some game. Rob is a goof. Peter was a bit creepy with that wide wacky smile. Sean was a bit too urban (I bet the producers loved putting this guy on the island). No telling on Vecepia, or Tricia (though she's the oldest and most out of shape).
Rotu tribe:
John the nurse has a temper. Kathy is a badgerer (pain in the butt in the face of danger, but nice with little stress), Paschal is the oldest (judge from Georgia) and might be an early target, Neleh is the "Colleen" of Survivor 4, Robert cracks me up with his demeanor, Zoe would fly under the radar (she's pretty capable with leadership skills), No strong feelings on Gabriel, or Tammy yet.
Hmm...from the outset, I would have pegged the Maraamu tribe as the stronger tribe in the challenges, but it didn't turn out that way in the 1st challenge. The meeker Rotu tribe didn't impress me, but somehow they found a way.
So, it wasn't too hard to see why Peter, the zen dude with the spooky eyes got the boot.
Not sure if it'll be any better than any of the previous seasons, but I still find myself watching the show.

 

[TomF]

I agree with your assessments, Patrick. I made the same wrong prediction about the immunity outcome. The tribe that lost sure was a mess trying to work those torches in the water.

I'm sure every guy was staring at Sarah who did little to hide any of her physical assets.

My votes go to Hunter from Maraamu and John from Rotu as the guys I'll be staring at, although John showed some early signs of maybe being annoying...but then so did Sarah.

 

[Mark Kalzer]

My review:

Already, after one episode, this looks better than Africa! It seems Mark Burnett learned from his mistakes from Africa, and has fixed nearly all of them! Right away, we can feel distinct personalities from most of the castaways! Sean is a "cool dude"...Hunter is the born leader...Peter is the outsider, (figuratively, AND literally!), Rob is the goofball! "He's the fruit loop!" Love that line!

Sarah right away appears to be the evil person. She has a great body, (and great breasts) and she payed for it. Apprantly she plans to make that money back by winning the million dollars with those breasts! When you consider that previous players endure so much emotional and physical torture to reach the final two, wouldn't it be kinda frustrating to see her to make it all the way just because of her breasts? Hope she's gone soon. Now Neleh, she has a cute face, and was BORN with it! Maybe it's my 17 year old mind about to switch over to 18 talking, but I love her already! And she barely said ANYTHING during that episode! I officially delcare her the "Colleen" or "Elisabeth" of Marquasas! Did we even get one of those in Africa? Kim P? Nah.

Another place where Africa was faulted was in the setting. Let's face it, Africa was a dull place. Sure, there was animal dung everywhere, which always makes for interesting TV, but other than that, it was flat, dull, yellow flatland. No hills, few trees, not even a river. No water. Not even the weather was a factor. Now we come to Marquasas! We're back on one of the most beautiful islands! Colour everywhere, mountains, beaches that last for miles, it's a paradise! Not to mention that there's water again, and the producers waist no time using it!

I only think the Tribal Council set could've been a bit more epic, but from what I hear, they only had three weeks to design and construct it, as opposed to the months they had in Austrailia. (Thank you Sept. 11 for them moving out of Jordan) Still, it isn't bad.

Overall, looks like an exciting Survivor adventure we're in store for!

 

[CharlesD]

This episode was quite entertaining! Rob the construction guy was a hoot and methinks he is dumber for real than Big Tom pretended to be in the last show.

Ms. Flotation Devices "Cleopatra" entrance was fantastic. I hope she stays areound not only for the obvious reasons, but also because she could be another Jerri...

 

[Alex S]

Wow, this is so much better than S3.
It does like like paradise.
Interesting group of people. Especially Sarah.
Please don't vote her off !

Great 1st show.

 

[Steve Clark]

I guess I saw a different version of Survivor than everyone else. I found this to be one of the worst episodes of Survivor ever and I have seen them all. I could not warm up to any of the participants at all. Except for Sarah exposing herself, there was no excitement or drama at all in this episode. Africa got off to a great start with Clarence stealing the food and alliances starting off right away.

 

[BrianShort]

Steve: I guess you did
Like most here, I thought this was a great episode, especially for an opening one where you dont even know any one yet. There are already several characters I think I'm going to like... Neleh, Hunter, Sarah of course , and a few others. Nobody there really irritates me yet, even Peter, which is good IMO. Hopefully we'll see some conflict, but I'm glad that they seem to get a long a bit better than in Africa
Glad they moved out of Jordan too... isnt it mostly desert?
Brian

 

[Daryl Furkalo]

Well it is good that Sarah wasn't voted off first, but looks like Tricia is about to get nasty after surviving as well. Tropical paradise is much more interesting than Africa.

 

[Tiffany A]

I loved it! Now that the "struggle for food" element is gone....other more interesting aspects will surface! Like who can keep the fire going in the rain...who can find the "best" dinner!
My money is squarely on Hunter to go to the final three. (And that is not a compliment)
How do we join the game?