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Car54

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 05:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
From TV Guide.com:

Survivor: Thailand
The Importance of Being E...est
60 min.
The reality series shakes things up as it launches this fifth edition. The 16 latest castaways are marooned on Koh Tarutao, an island off the coast of Thailand in the Andaman Sea. “It's a foreboding environment,” says executive producer Mark Burnett of the site, which is teeming with pythons and king cobras in its dense jungle. The former penal colony is also known for its steep limestone cliffs. As for changes, Burnett promises that all of the challenges are entirely new He also says that “the game starts off in a whole new way.” While he declines to elaborate, it looks like this version initially begins with all-male and all-female tribes.

Kaili

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 07:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's about time they get some new challenges- hope they're fun ones to watch. Now if only BB would pick up on that idea!

Maybe the new start will be the random selection of team captains (in a situation similar to the tribe switch where they don't know what they're gonna get). For example, the upside down ground things may all be blank except one on each side (women and men). Then the man and woman who won the captain job will alternate to select their teams.

Awareinva

Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 10:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
But I've come to love the Gross Food Challenge!!!!! Now some of the other lame-o challenges I can live without..... but please say he leaves in the Gross Food!! That's what hooked me on the whole Survivor experience!! Gervase and the grubs.... it was a tv classic!!!!

Pamy

Monday, September 09, 2002 - 12:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What's a Penal Colony?? My mind is in the gutter!

Wargod

Monday, September 09, 2002 - 01:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Like a jail...almost impossible to get out of on an island....or easy to get out of the jail, not off the island. It's been awhile since I've read anything about them, but the last one I did read about had ravaging diseases, poor diet, locked away with going outside for a very few minutes a day. Most prisoners didn't make it out....very nasty place. Not too sure I'd want to be on an island that was a penal colony for anything, not exposure on tv, not a million bucks, not for nothing! I'm thinking my imagaination would be playing tricks on me and I'd never be getting any sleep, LOL.

Babyruth

Monday, September 09, 2002 - 01:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
An island where guys named Rod, Dick, and Willi hang out....?

It's a prison colony. An island for prisoners.

Twiggyish

Monday, September 09, 2002 - 01:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Pamy, I am giggling at the thought your post evokes..LOL

Kitt

Monday, September 09, 2002 - 02:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
In the 1700s and 1800s we nice Europeans had a bad habit of sending our unwanted criminals to far off places to make more room for the nice folk left behind . Australia and New Zealand started out the same way, until we took a good look and realised what amazing places they would be to live, and promptly followed and let the ex-convicts build houses for us.

:) :) :)

Please no-one take me too seriously will you?!

Car54

Monday, September 09, 2002 - 02:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Um Pamy, I believe the colony you are thinking of is a PENILE colony. That would be different.

Pamy

Monday, September 09, 2002 - 05:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Babyruth & Car! Thanks for the explainations War & Kitt, for a moment I was thinking it would Fantasy Island for Chiara

Kitt

Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 11:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The title of that episode... "The Importance of Being E...est", what's that about do you think?

The missing letters are obviously A R N to make Earnest, but I think it's more likely they're going to do some competition that involves Es. Strange. Anyone heard and spoilers about the first competition or knows what the title is about? I'm curious.

Pamy

Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 01:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Could be Easiest...

Kitt

Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 01:41 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Pamy! That might actually be a good strategy, though it didn't seem to work for Sarah last year :).

Neko

Wednesday, September 11, 2002 - 12:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ARN
RAN
NAR
NRA


Yeah..that didn't work

Weinermr

Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 05:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
It's the first clue. ARN sounds like ERIN, or Erin. It means Erin will win. Or not.

Car54

Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 06:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe Erin is the Mole.

Weinermr

Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 08:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe Erin HAS a mole.

Webkitty

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 02:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think the word is EASIEST.

I've been doing some snooping around over at SS (yesterday, so I don't know what new info there might be today) and from what I can gather, after the initial male/female splitting, the tribes are split again into:

Sook Jai Tribe (Purple Tribe)

ERin
Jake
Ken
Penny
Shii Ann
Stephanie
Robb
Jed

Chuay Gan Tribe (pronounced chew way gon) (Red Tribe)

Ted
Brian
Clay
Ghandia
John
Tanya
Helen
Jan

(This info was gleaned from vid caps someone took over at SS, this is all speculation!)

It seems as if the Red Tribe found some sort of cave to make their camp in. (the EASIEST)

The Purple Tribe made their camp on the beach and had to gather bamboo and palm leaves to build a shelter. This would take more effort and to my thinking would leave them at a disadvantage going into the first IC, causing the Purple Tribe to have to vote off first (I would say Robb or ERin)

The only thing that bothers me with this scenario is that indicators (at least over at SS) are leading toward either Ghandia or John being off first.
Ghandia because there has been some reports that she has been "talking" more than what would normally be done before a new season starts, leading to maybe sour grapes? Also, because the feeling is that she might not be as phyically fit as some others, (their words not mine!) and we all know what happens there, the first ones off are the ones that can't cut it in the IC.
Same for John, reports coming in that he came back not tanned at all and no significant weight loss and also not as physically fit as some others. (I'm talking about endurance and stamina, not who is the most "beautiful" got it?)

I could be totally off on this, as I said, its just what I got from reading what their saying over at SS. I just figured I would get the ball rolling here..............

Tweaking and corrections welcomed

Car54

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 02:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow, Kitty,...until I read the whole post the idea of "The Importance of Being Easiest" had a WHOLE different meaning....not your father's Survivor if you know what I mean.

Been watching too much Big Brother.

Webkitty

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 02:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hehehe......

Car54

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 02:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well there is that porn guy, and that exhibitionist girl.... who knew!

Twiggyish

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 05:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Kitty. Lots to think about.
It's just like MB to make us think E stands for Erin, when it really means easiest.

Pamy

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 05:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah when I posted Easiest the other day I was thinking everything Webkitty just said!!!
Thanks for all the info Webkitty!!

Car54

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 05:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The cave thing makes sense...I have read that the players had to deal with terrible rains...so finding shelter would be crucial.

I read that even the crew had a miserable time because of the conditions, and we know he trucks in all the comforts for them.

Webkitty

Sunday, September 15, 2002 - 05:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yea Pamy!!

Well, I DID say that Erin MIGHT be the first to go if Sook Jai has to vote off first. So, E could stand for just about anything.

I also thought that it might mean Eldest, (as in Jake Billingsly) but there are 3 blank dots to the word? I don't know if that makes a difference, but I think Jake is going to play a part in this somehow. (just a feeling)

There is also the possiblity of the word being EARLIEST but then again, one letter off.

I know Twiggy, MB better at least let us KNOW the winner this time I'm sure he had more footage on Vee than he let us see, that just wasn't right!!! LOL! (very sneaky, MB!)

I guess we'll all find out Thursday