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Webkitty

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 07:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Also, I don't think Kathy has been the underdog since the beginning.

I think her position in both tribes she's been in has been more secure than MB has led us to believe.

I see it as his way of weaving a story, underdog to winner, but I don't think it really went down exactly like that.

Remember Richard Hatch's confessionals to the camera? How he felt he needed to be the food provider to secure his place in the tribe?
No one to my recalection ever looked on him as being an underdog.

I think MB has so much tape on all these people, both being boastful and uncertain, that he can go back in the editing and weave whatever story he wants to.

Crazydog

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 06:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I really like the fact that the Five genuinely seem to like each other and that there hasn't been any backstabbing or ill feelings. Assuming Tammy and Robert go next, then it will get interesting. Obviously Neleh and Pascal will vote together. Sean and Vee will vote together. That leaves Kathy as the swing vote. This might be obvious, but she would be much better off voting with Sean and Vee because her chances of winning against either Neleh or Pascal are not as good as they would be against Sean or Vee. I think she has a really good shot to win if she plays right and doesn't become the first of the five to go.

Fruitbat

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 06:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Crazydog I am not convinced Sean and Vee will vote together. I don't see Sean aligned with anyone. He will go where it suits him and possibly vote Vee out first. He is not using his heart, which is the way to play for the win. I think they all know this and will take the same stance.

I am LOVING this part. No hard feelings, just the game.

Weinermr

Monday, April 29, 2002 - 09:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Webkitty - I agree 300%. Kathy has never been an underdog. She has always worked hard, been in the thick of things, tried to do her best, and succeeded at most everything she has tried (with exceptions yes, but who is perfect?). She has been a strong member of every tribe or faction she has been in, and has never really been in danger of being voted off, although the TV portrayal of her has been otherwise. Kathy is definitely part of the endgame of S4, and may be the true Survivor to the very end.

Amac

Wednesday, May 01, 2002 - 03:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kathy has her own website! Check it out!

Kathy O'Brien

Weinermr

Wednesday, May 01, 2002 - 03:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Great Amac! Thanks!!

Seamonkey

Wednesday, May 01, 2002 - 04:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Nice website!! I've driven through her area in the fall and it was wonderful. Took a ferry across Lake Champlain at sunset.

Fruitbat

Wednesday, May 01, 2002 - 05:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Burlington Vt is beautiful. Good shopping and restaurants too.

Willi

Wednesday, May 01, 2002 - 05:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Amac...Thanks for the link...Very cool!
Burlington is a nifty area.

Webkitty

Wednesday, May 01, 2002 - 05:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I almost moved to Burlington (a long time ago )
Very nice place. Winters too long and cold for me, though!

Squaredsc

Wednesday, May 01, 2002 - 06:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
very nice, and she looks so much better on the site, of course none of us would look that great out in the wild, with no toilet, shower, soap, etc. i've never been to vermont, but it looks like someplace i would like to visit.

Car54

Tuesday, May 14, 2002 - 03:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
oops...posted in the wrong folder!

Weinermr

Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 02:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
GO KATHY!!!!

Wink

Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 02:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Kathy is a sweetheart. After reading her site yesterday I sent her an email and received a very gracious reply this morning. Kathy is THE Ultimate Survivor.

Tksoard

Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 03:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey Wink, did you ask her who won???

Wink

Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 03:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well I just know she did so I didn't have to ask her Tks.

Tksoard

Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 04:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, you've convinced me!! I'm going to vote now!! GO KATHY!!!

Fruitbat

Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 05:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I am impressed with this woman, who I did not like at the start. I am convinced she wins this.

Webkitty

Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - 05:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Her buff still irritates me but I am able to seperate that out with my admiration of how she has played this game.
I think she has good powers of observation and intuition.
And no alliances. A first!

Meme9

Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 04:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
At this point in the game, looking at the remaining players...I would like Kathy to win.

Ok Weinermr, you pick her very early good job!
It's fun when you get to root for the same person though out the show. It was that way for me, with Ethan last year!

Go Kathy

Micknrc

Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 04:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey Weiner,

Is it too late to join the KINGTWOAS club?

Weinermr

Friday, May 17, 2002 - 12:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
You're all welcome to join the bandwagon and root Kathy to final victory this Sunday. Latecomers, latebloomers, people who wear bloomers, all will be joyfully added to the list of Kathy supporters.

Ophiliasgrandma

Friday, May 17, 2002 - 10:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Depending on how IC's go, I think Kathy shot herself in the foot by not getting rid of Neheh when she had the chance.

Webkitty

Friday, May 17, 2002 - 11:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
GO KATHY!!!!!!!

Car54

Friday, May 17, 2002 - 02:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Episode 12: Vavrick-O'Brien advances to the final four
By Erica Jacobson
Free Press Staff Writer

Paschal English may be the only judge on “Survivor: Marquesas,” but Kathy Vavrick-O’Brien found herself listening to testimony and closing arguments during Thursday night’s episode of the CBS reality show.


With only five contestants remaining on the South Pacific island of Nuku Hiva, the 48-year-old real estate agent from Monkton found herself poised to cast the swing vote. She was lobbied throughout the show by the informal pairing of Los Angeles schoolteacher Sean Rector and Oregon office manager Vecepia Towery as well as the clearly bonded duo of English and Utah student Neleh Dennis.

“I will absolutely be puking sick if you and Vee and Sean...,” Dennis started telling Vavrick-O’Brien on a hike.

Trying to lighten the mood, Vavrick-O’Brien enlisted Dennis and Rector to help her collect troca shells for a meal. Rector, who could not swim prior to landing on Nuku Hiva, balked at going in the ocean.

“All right, man,” Vavrick-O’Brien called from the water. “I’m telling you it’s like an Easter egg hunt.”

She also went off alone on a beach to fly the same kite that had won her a Snickers bar and a scuba trip during a reward challenge in episode eight.

“Tensions are way too high,” she said as her kite crashed down onto the rocks. “Paschal definitely thinks that Sean and Vee were up to something from day one.

“I’ve been trying to figure out how to get to the final two and I think Sean and Vee are the answer....I think the immunity challenges are really going to swing it.”

The strategizing really started when Vavrick-O’Brien won immunity by answering trivia questions correctly and collecting tikis. Her safety from being kicked off the island didn’t make the following tribal council any easier, though.

“I have all these different issues weighing back and forth,” she said. “And I have to decide which way to go.”

In the council hut, “Survivor” host Jeff Probst asked Vavrick-O’Brien if she wanted to transfer that immunity to prevent someone else from being voted off the island.

“Nobody has come to talk to me,” she said.

“Anybody here want to talk to Kathy?” Probst asked.

“Me,” Rector said.

The argument that ensued involved a lot of talking but no real communication between English, Rector and Vavrick-O’Brien. She eventually joined Dennis and English in expelling Rector from the island.

Vavrick-O’Brien is now one of the final four contestants whose fate will be determined Sunday during a two-hour season finale broadcast on CBS that includes a live audience in New York City’s Central Park. The final episode airs at 8 p.m. followed by a one-hour “Survivor: Marquesas” reunion at 10 hosted by Rosie O’Donnell.

The Burlington Free Press wants to know what you think about Kathy Vavrick-O’Brien’s performance on “Survivor: Marquesas.”
E-mail Erica Jacobson at ejacobso@bfp.burlingtonfreepress.com.