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Csnog
Member
07-18-2002
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:21 pm
Jenna's mother died 8 days later and she was at her bedside.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:23 pm
ACK..losing more points everytime Essence posts!! I hope she did make it home in time to be with her mom. I cannot IMAGINE that the producers didn't question her about this before she decided to play
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Essence
Member
01-12-2002
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:24 pm
next time, rob and amber get closer. the competition gets physical. they are blindfolded and running into each other with big blocks of some sort.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:25 pm
NO matter what I think of many of Jenna's decisions and actions, she will NEVER regret leaving and getting home before her mom died.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:26 pm
Thanks so much Essence!! You are a master-spoiler.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:27 pm
I thought that Alicia was terribly cruel and rude. I also thought that Rupert is not quite the popular player this time around. His arrogance showed through early this time. Richard is a riot.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:28 pm
Thanks, Essence. I agree wholeheartedly with Sea!
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Essence
Member
01-12-2002
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:30 pm
nite guys, enjoy the show.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:35 pm
Thanks Essence!!! for the indepth posting of the show from the East Coast. US west coasters always appreciate the Nice long posts with lots of great details. Welcome new comer Herckle....your efforts to post little snippets from the show are appreciated as well, however could you add much more detail when you post for us again?? To just post one line with NO explanation was difficult for me to follow, IMHO. Then a few posts later Essence would post the LONG description and it would be clear to me what happened. I am not speaking for all, Just me.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:36 pm
can i just say that ending actually got to me- when they listed that she got home 8 days before her mom died
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:41 pm
It was good to see that she got home in time. Was she getting news that her mother was getting worse, or was she getting more and more worried?
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Peachie
Member
08-09-2001
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:42 pm
I bawled while they were talking about her leaving and I lost it when I read her mom died 8 days later, no matter the reason she went out there, it was great she made the decision to leave. I have never cried in a show like I did tonight, losing your mother is to me the hardest next to losing a child, I havent lost a child thank goodness but I did lose my mom and my heart and prayers go out to Jenna and her family.
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Robsgal
Member
12-28-2003
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:44 pm
I really didn't think of Rupert as arrogant. No one else was suggesting anything but Jerri and the other two just stood there and didn't agree or disagree. Rupert was doing the best he could -- he tried. As far as the Jenna matter, I felt very sorry for her I think that Alicia was harsh but Rupert and Tom just felt it was a tough decision to make either way. I have to agree, somewhat, with Alicia. If you know you have a family member that sick you don't go out for another game. She should not have gone. Kathy told her to buck up (in so many words) and pull it together for the team. I think, in the end, the decision made by Jenna was the right decision. Thank God she left and was there for her mother when she passed away. My heart goes out for her loss but she should never have joined the game.
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Upstate
Member
01-16-2004
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:48 pm
i hope rupert is happy with getting his way. ethan agreed with jerry but i guess isn't man enough to do what is best for his tribe...making a good shelter. at least jerri tried to make them see the light. they should of listened to her....their shelter on her survivor was washed away along with there food. i hope alicia gets kicked out soon. she is under the impression that being loud and bossy is the same as being a strong woman/person. that is not what makes a person strong.
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Csnog
Member
07-18-2002
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:48 pm
She seemed to have a premonition. At least thats how I thought they showed it. Jeff asked her if she was getting news and she just shook her head. Jeff asked if she would be able to make it to TC and she said no. He yelled for the boat to come in and she hugged everyone and left on the inflatable boat with a long shot of her hanging on.
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Peachie
Member
08-09-2001
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:51 pm
I liked Alicia in S2 and I loved her when she went in the Big Brother house but this time around I just want her to settle down and chill just a little. LOL
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Robsgal
Member
12-28-2003
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 7:52 pm
I think Alicia is exactly how she was the first time around on S2. I can still her pointing her finger at that other gal on the beach and reading the riot act. She is a tough, in your face gal. She is not someone I'd like to be up against. Lisa
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Magicjet
Member
09-25-2003
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 8:02 pm
Yes. I still see Alica's finger as well. She is very irratating. Perhaps it was in Jenna's mind that she could win more money and make things easier for her Mom? In any case, my heart also goes out to little Jenna and to all those loosing a beloved parent. It was indeed a sad sad show.
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Rslover
Member
11-19-2002
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 8:06 pm
I love Rupert but tonight he got on my nerves. First, for being so stubborn and adamant about "his cabin" and not listening to Jerri. I'm sure she was dying to say "I told you so" when the contractor agreed that the water could get to it. I also thought it was horrible that he referred to Jenna's choice to leave as "giving up" I'm glad she made it home before her mother died.
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Csnog
Member
07-18-2002
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 8:18 pm
Rupert's cabin built into the ground would be fine if you were in the woods but, NOT on the beach. On the beach you want to get as far off the ground as possible due to the sand fleas and crabs not to mention the possibility of a storm surge. It could have been the best built of the three and they would have lost on that decision alone. Rob was a very good builder. I thought I saw Rupert look to the sky in relief when Jenna said she was leaving. I think he thought that if they lost the IC he was a gonner.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 8:23 pm
Also, when you only have twenty four hours to build a great house, why would you spend hours digging a hole unnecessarily. The thing about Rupert is that it has to be his way all the time and it is getting on people's nerves.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 8:37 pm
Wow. That has to be one of the more powerful episodes I've ever seen for Survivor. I'm wondering if Jenna was hounded into going out for this game by MB and company. I just have goosebumps knowing that she was half a world away, and just knew. I'm grateful for her sake that she was able to get home in time to be by her mom's bedside. My prayers and thoughts go out to her. I agree with whoever said that she needed to do what was best for her, and the rest of them should only support her. I wasn't happy with Alicia's response. And Big Tom suggesting that if someone is his family died he didn't want to be called back home? Not too cool. I've been a big fan of Rupert's, but I wasn't really happy with his insinuation of "quitting." But quitting would have been fairly fresh in his mind with Osten. Still, there was a huge difference in how Jenna left this game, and how Osten left Pearl Islands.
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Chieko
Member
11-20-2003
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 8:57 pm
I just know this is the unpopular view but what was Jenna doing there in the first place. She had all of the same issues the first time. She was terribly worried about her mother, she wasn't a great team player, she didn't help her tribe members very much, she made a terrible fuss when Christy got the letter and she didn't until they let her have her letter too, with Christy's permission. She whined around and begged to be sent home and in the end she won a million dollars. So what was she doing out there again! If this was the third elimination she hadn't even been gone two weeks and I'm not buying it that she suddenly got premonitions about her mother. She just remembered that it wasn't very fun being out in the wild without food or water or home comforts and decided to quit again. Last time they wouldn't vote her out, this time they did let her go. Many terminal patients hang on until they feel it is time to go. Of course no one can say this would have been the case with Jenna's mother but she had no business being there in the first place and I think it was not fair to her tribe members to commit to a game and then without anything changing--- except her own mind ---decide two weeks later to leave. A nasty attitude I know but I can't be the only one that feels this way.
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Gina8642
Member
06-01-2001
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 8:57 pm
Enjoyed the show, but it dragged a bit toward the end. A full hour with one challange to fill the time didn't quite cut it. The shark story was cute, but edited long. I thought Colby's stud comment was priceless. I really got a lot of secret satisfaction at Rupert's bullying coming back to haunt him. This guy has been annoying me since his boot ep last season. He gets the best editing of EVERYONE. Glad they didn't make Rupert look like the perfect guy and perfect hero for once. I also liked it because women who speak up for themselves always have so much hate thrown at them - especially ones on reality TV shows. (Example - Jenna L spoke up for herself and her strategy in eps 1 & 2 and some now want nothing more than to see her leave.) It irks me to no end that if a woman dares to show some personality or show an opinion then they have the entire internet out for your blood. Smile sweetly, look pretty, and keep your much shut and everybody loves you. Ick! Here, Jerri spoke up and Rupert just ignored her and called them all whiners for not pitching hard enough to his rediculous endevor. Like that place would have looked that much better if they had worked twice or three times as hard? It was the design that was flawed - not the amount of work that went into it. Why he thought building a sunken hut on a big flat beach below the high water mark was such a good idea is beyond me. LOL. Hopefully Rupert will learn to listen up a bit and consider everyone's ideas a little more fully. Two heads are better than one. All that said - I don't think Saboga could have won the challange anyway. I just don't think they had the building skills or ideas we saw the other two tribes come up with. For once I agree with the judging of one of these subjective challanges. Mogo Mogo's was very cool, but Chapera's was even better. The cute picnic table and cool swing were great touches. Top it off, Chapera's was built by a real contractor (I believe Rob M is a foreman of a construction crew - he does know what he is doing. This was good because the contractor who judged looked for sound construction which Rob M provided. Nothing shook apart. We also saw that Rob C is definately on the outs with his tribe. He's been painted into being 'the lazy one'. A dangerous position to hold on any tribe - especially one that values hard work. I loved that I could see Colby and Jeff's friendship when they communicated by just looking at each other during the judging. For Jenna M. I was soooo glad to see her go home in time for her mom. She did the right thing. Sure, it probably would have been better if she hadn't gone in the first place - but we don't know how things stood when she left. The decision was her call and she made the right one. BTW - If she wasn't getting communications from home - that was just eerie that she left when she did - just enough time to go home and say her good byes. I wasn't clear from what Jeff said if she did or not. That whole questioning everyone at the challange beach by Jeff about Jenna M was just wierd. What was up with that? Was he asking their permission? Was he asking for their vote? Why does Jenna have to sit there and listen to everyone judge her? I kept saying to myself "She wants to leave Jeff - let her go". The questioning was lame, pretty pointless, and just a little cruel. Big Tom looked like a fool making fun of death in front of someone suffering like that. Unpreventable and unpredictable accidents (like the car accident he mentioned) is a whole different circumstance to a known illness and an expected death. He was comparing apples to oranges. Ick! I'm wondering what they will do next week? We'll probably start with that immunity challange - the blind led by someone screaming at them - and then what? 30 minutes of plotting by the losing tribe? Could be another long episode....
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 9:05 pm
I haven't seen it yet and I ache for Jenna's mom and all the years she fought the cancer.. many years and still so young when she died. I think Jenna hasn't made great choices (just imo)several times.. like taking it all off for peanut butter.. but anyway she had two huge paydays from Survivor and from Playboy and it strikes me as greedy, no matter who put pressure on her, because not only was she leaving again (and eventually rethought things and thankfully made it home "in time") but she wasn't just affecting herself but the rest of her tribe. I suspect that some who sound harsh may have not gotten just how sick her mom was, or.. wondered what on earth Jenna was doing there. However, I'm pretty likely to be shedding a tear or two by 9pm.
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