Archive through March 11, 2003
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Archive through March 11, 2003
Texannie | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 05:56 am     Squaredsc..was the other color yellow? |
Csnog | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 06:17 am     Well several of the girls used their "hand" to show her the door. I would do a little "homework" before appearing on a national show. She could have been great. |
Squaredsc | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 07:40 am     texannie, the other color is cream. |
Texannie | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 08:11 am     Squaredsc..thought maybe we were "sisters"..mine are crimson/gold or red/yellow (depending on how fancy you are!) LOL |
Tabbyking | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 08:38 am     perfectly accurate article on joanna. at least the author didn't see her through aubergine colored glasses! lol |
Webkitty | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 09:12 am     Did anyone else see Joanna on the Early Show? She started out her interview by throwing her head back and shouting out praises to the lord in a sing song, loudly. Then, after taking one call, which she double talked her way through, her sister called in and they talked about strawberry cake for the rest of time. She contradicted herself by saying that Heidi was there to push an agenda, but she (Joanna) wasn't there for the money, but to spread the word and give an example of a christian woman, huh? She gave away absolutly no clues at all about what to expect in the game (what I watch for, spoilers) The whole thing was rambling doubletalk, ack! |
Car54 | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 09:31 am     You know, I came away with an entirely different impression, Webkitty. She is who she is...a very religious evangelical person...I thought the singing was a joke because she was made fun of on the show. I thought she came off much better today than she did on the show. Not the best interview...she didn't really have any relationships or stay long enough to drop any info, but not a bad person. Actually what she seemed to be saying was that she was trying to portray a female image that was about how strong you are and how hard you work..not just what you look like...which is what everyone is ranting about in the Heidi and Jenna threads. The fight with Christy was not addressed at all that I recall...I wish Julie had asked her for more of an explanation of her behavior. I am hoping someone will get a question in from her chat this afternoon. Sorry, I liked her much better than I did from who I saw on the show. Not my favorite Survivor, but not a bad person, and not as odd as she was portrayed. It was interesting to hear that her mother died just before she left for filming and that was why she carried her picture as a luxury item. That must have been hard. Julie seemed to like her a lot. Harry was clueless as usual. |
Squaredsc | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 09:41 am     back to my usual aubergine. texannie, lol. we are still sisters in tvch. webkitty, i didn't get that at all either from her interview. in fact i was actually able to see it up thru her sister's call and about her mom. she did not say she was there to spread the word. just that that's a part of who she is, a strong spiritual individual who wasn't going to compromise her integrity. |
Northstar | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 09:43 am     I loved her comment regarding her body being beautiful "in it's natural state". Baahahah, such a well placed barb at those sporting the silicone orbs. Even Harry and Julie enjoyed it. |
Lycanthrope | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 09:59 am     I didn't see the Early Show, but bottom line is, she didn't play the game smart. If she'd done some homework on Survivor, she may have played a little better, but I didn't mind that it was her to go. The only drawback is that unless they merge next week, the women are now a much weaker tribe than the men and it will be double hard to beat them in any challenge. |
Moondance | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 10:12 am     Early Show Transcript - Click Here
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Sia | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 02:24 pm     Northstar, your post is brilliantly witty. I, too, caught Joanna's dig at the surgically-enhanced members of her tribe, and it made me laugh. She was just too abrasive with the others, and I think that's why she was voted out. And Deena's leadership will be relatively unchallenged (unless Jeanne becomes a bit more subtle in her aproach to the other Jaburu members) with Joanna out of the way. I'm rooting for Deena. I took Joanna's bawling out praises to God not as singing, but just as a continuation of her loud, abrasive behavior that got her booted from the Amazon. She said she had gone, "not for the million dollars, but to 'represent,'" and that is the problem many had with her: she wanted to push her own agenda and kept measuring others by her own standards and found the others lacking--and then she was tactless enough to point that out to her tribemates. |
Tabbyking | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 02:28 pm     wow, she is related to the blue men?! when she was gone, i found myself humming the 'ding dong, the witch is...' song from the wizard of oz! |
Niceguy | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 02:38 pm     That's so true Tabby. |
Gina8642 | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 03:05 pm     I gotta agree with Car54 that JoAnna came accross much better this morning than she did on the show. (I admit I only listened to the web clip while furiously working - where I STILL am tonight at 6:00pm UGH!, UGH!!, UGH!!! I really missed most of her expressions) I admire her devotion to her religion, although I know her constant and very loud praising of the lord would get on my nerves in very little time... She definately didn't have a clue how to play the game and it showed and still shows. She very well may have had no interest in playing the game. They always cast a few people who don't know how to play the game and/or don't want to play the game each season. I guess they consider it part of their well rounded cast. I'm trying to think if any made it post merge after the first season?? I think she may have been able to 'represent' better if they had edited her good qualities into the show more. The editors definately concentrated on all her negatives - her blow up at Christy, her dirty looks in the a.m., her phobia of the idol. She has a great smile, I don't remember them showing that much. I guess she served a purpose in their editing, but notice that none of her fellow tribe members voted her off for any of the things that have been bothering us. She was voted off because she was a threat. And, none of them seemed to be 'just saying that', they all seemed to truly believe it, and I think they were right - she was a huge threat. If she understood and wanted to participate in alliances she could have gone far. |
Spear | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 05:07 pm     Her chat transcript is up at this site. I found this bit of censorship funny (in a reply to a question about fishing): "Although I caught fi**, * *hink it was ..." |
Moondance | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 05:07 pm     Joanna's Web Chat |
Moondance | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 05:08 pm     LOL Spear... great minds! Here are some points in the chat posted at SS Markopolo (3/7/03 3:59:40 pm) Joanna's Chat -------------------------------------------------- Some VERY interesting things: Q: Do you think because of your closeness with Jeanne, that she will find it hard staying on the show without your friendship and support? A: Jeanne is pretty resilient and I think she'll do what it takes to hold her own as long as possible. Q: Roger's name keeps getting thrown out there for the men when it comes to Tribal Council voting. Were the women able to see or sense that at challenges or anything? A: The only think I can say is that during the reward challenge for the hygiene products Roger became very offended at the way I held the item over his head. ThatÕs all I can really say about him. Q: JoAnna, who worked the least in camp? A: Shawna probably worked the least in our camp. Perhaps because of her dehydration and weakness. Q: JoAnna, of all the women in camp who would you have chosen for a solid alliance? A: I would have chosen Jeanne and Janet, Christy and Shawna. Q: Joanna, why did you apply for the show if have such an issue with the immunity idol? A: I'm not a fan of the show and I felt that the show gave the leverage to choose whether or not to touch the immunity idol or not. I didn't think the prerequisite to being on the show was that you had to touch the immunity idol. Q: JoAnna, how did you feel when Christy stated that as a "vessel of Christ" you should have been nicer? Do you feel as if you were portrayed poorly? A: I can say that it was amazing to me that Christy had no respect for my Christianity and my wanting not to touch the idol, but she wanted me to be this loyal Christian when it came to putting her in her place. In that particular segment, I feel that I was portrayed poorly, because if you look, there's a glimpse of me in a bathing suit and then on talking to Christy I have on a rain jacket, and the reason for that is because I only confronted Christy after she'd been in my face three other times asking me to step down as a leader, telling me that I was stupid for not liking the idol and that I was the main reason people weren't liking her. Because those things weren't portrayed, it seems like I was aggressive towards Christy and she wasn't aggressive towards me. An indication was that she did not vote against me, I voted against her. She was a complete antagonist against me at that point in time. Q: JoAnna, was Christy's deafness a liability or an asset for your tribe? A: Christy's deafness was not a liability, but it wasn't an asset either. However, her hostility and her perception that people were weeding her out because of that became a liability. Her assumption that she was being isolated because of her deafness became a liability early. However, after she and I had our confrontation, I expressed that she should probably not feel that way and her entire attitude changed. Q: Did you and Christy make up after the incident and finally get along? A: Yes, Christy completely changed her perception of how she thought people in the tribe viewed her. She dismissed her disability and embraced her ability to function in the Amazon and represent well which she did. |
Tabbyking | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 05:18 pm     i love how she said, "christy completely changed..." i guess joanna didn't need to?! i do like her better since she's gone. operative words being, 'since she's gone'. hell, you can say anything months later. i call it 'damage control'. i would come here, read your posts about me and then do damage control! LOL look for big damage control when heidi gets to the talk circuit!!! i think the boot interviews should take place immediately and be set aside for when the episodes air, and then shown the next morning. i don't care to see what people have to say months later, because i don't personally feel it's 'accurate'. i remember the first time i ever saw an episode (outback) and a bootee was on a talk show the next morning. i thought, "wow, he cleaned up fast!" i thought it was really the next morning and that survivor was done live a la big brother ;>) |
Hermione69 | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 05:19 pm     Funnily enough, I didn't dislike Joanna as much as I thought I would after the Christy incident. Interesting to hear Joanna's side of that. I always did feel there was a lot more to what happened with Christy and Joanna and even with the whole tribe than they ever showed. |
Curlyq | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 05:38 pm     What I found telling was Joanna's comment that the girls had been openly trying to "mesmerize" the other women with their bodies to keep from being voted out. Maybe the other women's reactions to this nonsense is what prompted the "they're just intimidated by our bodies" philosophy. |
Tabbyking | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 05:43 pm     'mesmerize'?! hello, what do they have that other women don't? if another woman tried to 'mesmerize' me, i would either run like hell or laugh out loud! i'd boot their butts so fast they wouldn't know what hit 'em! if i want to be mesmerized by a woman's body, i'll go stare at myself in my full length bathroom mirror. and giggle a lot... |
Squaredsc | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 06:21 pm     moonie, thanks for the link. great chat. |
Seamonkey | Friday, March 07, 2003 - 09:18 pm     I didn't think that Christy was wanting Joanna to touch the idol, just that it was "stupid" of her to not want the idol in their camp, want to bury it.. Clearly Joanna and Janet had time to bond at LL and of course she and Jeanne got along well. Her saying she'd have also allied with Shawna and Christy.. well I assume Shawna won't last too much longer but I HOPE that this doesn't mean that Christy didn't make the jury. Also glad they asked in chat about the granola bar wrapper. Anyway, it was a great chat. Squared, I wonder if Joanna likes aubergine? |
Lslb | Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 05:30 am     From TV Guide online... Survivor Rebukes Her Rivals Most Survivor contestants love to win the Immunity Idol, which means you avoid being voted out of the game at tribal council. But last week's Amazon castoff, JoAnna Ward — a devout Christian — was never fond of the weird little tiki statue. Her religious aversion to idol worship led to friction with her Jaburu tribemates, who just didn't get it. "I didn't want to touch it," the 31-year-old school guidance counselor tells TV Guide Online. "They could sleep with it, screw it, have a party with it, take a bath with it. But I just didn't want to touch it. Look, honey, that's just not my thing." JoAnna's sassy sentiments caused a clash with Chrissy, her hearing-impaired tribemate. "Chrissy wanted to be in my face about the idol," she says. "I didn't like her talking to the other women about it behind my back." But did Jo have to bark at the girl until she was reduced to tears? "My students and my family would know that for me to step to her that way, she had pushed me to that point," Joanna insists. "I said, 'You need to stop getting in my face, if you don't want me to put my hand in yourface. Stay away from me!' That's just telling somebody to leave you alone." Alrighty then! By the way, what did Jo think of Heidi and Jenna, the young Jaburu chicks who suspected fellow females of envying their "good bodies"? "I thought that was totally ludicrous," she laughs. "I have a problem with them trying to insinuate that I — with my 5-foot-10, statuesque, beautiful brown-skinned self — am jealous of them! Come on, all you have is a boob job. What makes your body so great? I didn't realize we were competing for that." Um, excuse us? Is she saying that either Heidi or Jenna is... surgically enhanced? Nervously backtracking, JoAnna demurs: "Oh, I'm not gonna get into all that! Personally, I just didn't see any Jada Pinketts or Halle Berrys or Angelina Jolies out there. They have it going on, but those two? Come on now." — Daniel R. Coleridge |
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