What did Silas do that was so bad???

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Snee

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 12:51 pm Click here to edit this post
the knee thing bugged me.

Kep421

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 01:29 pm Click here to edit this post
Uh oh...the nee bothered snee...

Resortgirl

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 01:44 pm Click here to edit this post
Kep I'm in total agreement with your analysis of the situation. The younger people in the tribe are lazy. No question about that. I've been camping with people (I didn't know them well enough to go camping with them OBVIOUSLY!) and they just sat around, drinking beer while the rest of us busied ourselves gathering firewood, preparing meals, cleaning up after meals..ect. Did we ask them for help? NO! They were adults, they should have known what camping involves. The "kids" on Samburu's team are all adults. You shouldn't have to direct them to do what is needed to keep the camp going. They should get off there lazy butts and do whatever it is that needs to be done. If I were Frank and Theresa I would not participate in the luxury challenges at all.... let them eat mush!

And by the way, I've never camped with Mr. & Mrs. Lazy again!

Micknrc

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 01:46 pm Click here to edit this post
I love the snee....

Misslibra

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 02:18 pm Click here to edit this post
after all I read here I know I should stop watching the show in Fast Forward mode...and yes, also follow the discussion here. Very wise indeed. lol


I'll agree at first when Colby... I mean Silas was giving his knee speech, I was thinking he is right they need to bond as a group, but he didn't mean it in my opinion because he already said he isn't with either group, the young ones or the old ones. That is why his speech fell so flat, there was a big neon sign on his forehead flashing... fake, fake, fake !!

He just puts on what ever face he think he needs to use to get over on every body. He is as fake as they come. And I was glad the older group socked it to him with those three votes.

The look on his face was priceless. That was lesson number one Silas, if you stab someone in the back they will take out the knife and stab you back. IMO


And actually Car I don't think Silas watched enough of Survivor or BB, because if he had his game plan would be more together. He is a boy trying to play a Man's game. And trying to be a slick a$$ about it.


Keiffer and Kep I think you both are right, the split of the Sambura tribe is the results of both sides not working together as a team. I think both groups are at fault, and I think it's a shame that we are even discussing Sambura as two different groups.

I think if the older group wanted to try and pull someone in they should of maybe chose Kim, they would of probably had a better chance with her.

Now in saying all of that Silas still is a cutie, eye candy is a good thing, but at the moment that is all he is. Maybe he will do something to redeem himself.

Micknrc

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 02:24 pm Click here to edit this post
Okay whatever Silas is (poodirt) BB2 Was on while he was in Africa--love the Will--hate the Silas--what is way more disturbing is the anti-LEX thing happening in Boran...

Misslibra

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 02:30 pm Click here to edit this post
Mick, I was surprised at the anti Lex thing to. I guess they aren't showing us on TV the bossy Lex, that Kelly and Clarence are complaining about.. but then again Lex is probably another Frank, a take charge kind of guy. I happen to be a Frank fan myself. :)


GO FRANK GO !!

Micknrc

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 03:19 pm Click here to edit this post
I'm a libra too!
GO LEX GO!!

Evilnurse

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 06:54 pm Click here to edit this post
The brat packs arrogance is really sickening. Not only do they want to throw it in your face that they have the power to vote you out the also have the audacity to say and you will vote how we tell you to. I'm so happy that the "oldsters" didn't abide by bratpact rules. Will was neither as disrespectful or rude as these four brats. At least the things will was arrogant about he could back up.These brats could not survive for a week without the "old ones".

Tksoard

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 09:56 pm Click here to edit this post
What really gets to me, is that they don't do anything, and expected the O's to do everything. I think that if they were on their own, they think, "Jeff wouldn't let anything bad happen to us. He'll make sure we have food and water. After all, we are just kids." Also, who does the night watch for that crew. We see Boran's night watch, but we never see theirs. Do the O's do that, too?

Neko

Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 08:41 am Click here to edit this post
At first I thought Silas was a bit like Will but he crushed that thought last night. He can't scheme as well as Will does and he can't even lie very well. When he told the older people(Whatever they call themselves now) to vote for Lindsey so she'd have 7 votes was stupid....and the fact Lindsey was going along with that was even stupider!You think she'd realize that if it was a tie when they merge, she'd go seeing she would have 7 votes! To put it in the so to be immortal words of Carl(I think)
"Barbie goes to Africa."

Blonde

Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 10:12 am Click here to edit this post
Silas tried to be some combination of past reality show winners Richard Hatch ("just write the check out to me now") and Will Kirby ("I'll say anything to anyone"). However is not even close to having the intelligence or temperment to pull it off - that became evident in episode 4. At least the booted Samburu elders are giving him their votes as they exit so he'll lose in the event of a tie vote in the future.

Don't get ready to cash that check yet, Silas - you're not going to get it!

Blonde

Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 12:34 pm Click here to edit this post
OK, I still don't think Silas is smart enough to pull off what he was planning to do, but I did find an article with an interesting take on his behavior and that of his young followers:

Survivor: Africa -- Secrets of the 'Slackers'
Article Link
I thought last week that Silas was going in the right direction from a strategic viewpoint. In fact this site has a lot of good articles dealing with strategy for those in the TVCH Alliance or Deadpool contests.

Misslibra

Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 12:46 pm Click here to edit this post
Thank's Blonde I'll go and check that site out.

Kep421

Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 01:25 pm Click here to edit this post
I read the article. Just another way to blame the older people because they didn't properly motivate the younger ones...

Why is the older people responsible for making the younger ones do what is necessary?

Why are the kids blameless for sleeping the day away because the older people didn't force them to get up?

Why is it the oldster's fault that the youngsters weren't taught how to keep the water cooking pots in repair?

I must be missing something, but that's ok, I don't want to find it anyway.

Blonde

Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 02:59 pm Click here to edit this post
Kep, I don't think that the author is blaming the older folks. I just think she is pointing out that the young ones may not be as dumb as they seem. They were successful in yanking the older ones' chains is all. That being said, I do not think they will be successful in the overall game. That is already apparent.

Besides it all came down to the tick question on the quiz. If Carl had beat Lindsey on the quiz, the balance of power would have been the opposite. And the older group did have the right stuff to take it all the way to the finals had they survived as a group. Maybe the ones who are left can bond with some Borans and still claim a victory for brains and maturity.

Blonde

Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 03:11 pm Click here to edit this post
One more thing: it wasn't smart strategy on either the older or the younger Samburu group's part to become polarized so early in the game. The older group, being parents themselves, probably had the best chance to understand the other group and prevent that from happening. From what they've said in interviews, though, their attempts to do that did not work.

Also, in a game strategy isn't necessarily about righteousness or ethics. It's about competing and psyching out the other people. As Rich Hatch said, "I played the game as ethically as I could." Like it or not, he won. And Tina voted out people who like and trusted her. She won, too.

Kep421

Friday, November 09, 2001 - 05:52 am Click here to edit this post
This thread's title has a whole new meaning today, doesn't it?

Let's see, just what did Silas do that was so wrong.....(to get voted off)

He thought everyone on that show was dumber than himself.


WRONG!!!!