Kathryn's Mole Insider Column
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Webkitty | Wednesday, July 03, 2002 - 08:38 pm     Roan, thanks for posting that. I always try to get a clue from her column, but I've been wrong every week so........... |
Cinnamongirl | Wednesday, July 10, 2002 - 09:05 am     Episode 9 The Wine Stomp game was my favorite of the episode, mainly because I enjoyed watching Anderson try to fulfill his official duties as he got drunker and drunker. Heather and Al were pretty funny too, especially when they were plotting how to convince the other players to drink the juice they'd just stomped. They were so serious, and yet so sloppy drunk. It was ridiculous, of course, that they agreed to the bet with Anderson about pouring and carrying the wine glasses. I tried to do that when I was completely sober and I shattered one of the wine glasses. But it was difficult to tell if either person's decision was intentional sabotage or simply intoxicated foolery. The game with the car was fun in a different way — watching them work themselves to death over that car when a simple answer was right under their noses. I was surprised that it took so long, this late in the season, to figure out that there must be an easier way. At least Darwin, Dorothy and Bribs tried to crack the greenhouse puzzle. Bill seemed tied to that car (maybe he was just looking for the chance to plant his neutralizer in Dorothy's book). The other players made much of the fact that Dorothy seemed to pull the combination out of a hat, just as she'd guessed the answers to some of the brainteasers in Dumb v. Smart a few episodes back. I guess they think the producer fed her the answers, but I think they underestimate how smart she is. How great is it that Dorothy thinks Bill neutralized her because she found a gray hair underneath the sticker in her journal? That's the best piece of detective work we've seen all season. I can just see her in her hotel room with a magnifying glass and some tweezers. If she keeps that up, maybe our ratings will start rivaling CSI. I am officially declaring Pass the Ball the worst Mole game of all time. And it's not just because I had to stay up all night with the players watching that ball go around and around and around, tediously monitoring whose turn was next. Well, maybe it is because of that. The game would have been so much better if we had kidnapped Katie's stuffed animal before she left and we'd played All Night Meadow Muffin. At least we could have gotten some satisfaction then. There were a few interesting moments, but they were barely detectable to the naked eye. Bribs kicked the ball out of turn to thwart Bill's exemption play (finally, Bribs joins the dark side) and Darwin encouraged Dorothy to hit the ball when it was his turn (if he hadn't been executed the same night, that move might have carried more weight). Bill's move to end the game and sacrifice the money for an exemption was easier to see, but he was so lackluster about it that it was a little anti-climactic. Darwin was one of the most entertaining players to me for a number of reasons — he did all of these really funny voices, he was always quick with a witty retort, and he was very, very bright. I expected him to make it into the final round. My one disappointment with him was that his numerous coalitions didn't amount to more. He had two left when he was executed — one with Bribs and one with Al. After wondering if Darwin was knocking off his coalition partners, we now have to wonder whether one of his partners double-crossed him. Next week, a new coalition pops up, and this time I think they mean business. Kathryn |
Em101 | Friday, July 19, 2002 - 02:25 pm     heather is the mole !!!!!!! i picked out that kathryn was the mole from the first show (mole 1)and i did the same on mole 2 heather is the mole if i'm wrong you can all kick me after!!!! |
Knightpatti | Friday, July 19, 2002 - 07:40 pm     So what clues are pointing to Heather being the Mole? |
Em101 | Friday, July 19, 2002 - 08:27 pm     heather is always losing money for the pot.......no one loses that much money i just think that...... that strange {huh} |
Ciara | Saturday, July 20, 2002 - 01:54 pm     If Heather is the mole and she is trying not to win money for the pot wouldn't she have found all 5 mole prints to stop the pot from earning another $100,000? |
Em101 | Saturday, July 20, 2002 - 04:30 pm     how would she be able eo get all the mole prints with out anyone seeing her and she almost did she can't lose everyone of them that's the point of the game to make people think your not the mole! |
Chelle | Tuesday, July 23, 2002 - 02:06 pm     Hi Kathryn. I wish that I had found this earlier. I picked you the first show last year as well. I also have leaned strongly toward Heather being the Mole this year, but I thought she might be too much like your profile. Then again what a brilliant way to mislead. 'Chelle |
Kstme | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 09:47 am     Just picked this up from Kathryn's column on ABC... by Kathryn Price Episode 12 Can you believe that we're finally just a week away from the end? I'm sure that will be a big relief to the Mole, who has had to keep this secret for over a year now, and an even bigger relief to the winner, who has been waiting to receive that money for almost as long. So, who done it? I'm not even going to try to rehash all of the suspicious things that the final three players have done. Suffice it to say that I could make a highly credible case that any one of them is the Mole. Which is great, because in the first few rounds I worried that no one would step up as a prime suspect other than the real Mole, and the game would be all over but for the furious scribbling of tedious facts about what the Mole ate for breakfast. But several great candidates emerged — and three out of four of them are in the finals (the fourth being Elavia, who is probably only gone because of that bribe). My husband still believes that Rob was the real Mole and that at the reunion he'll reveal that he was mistakenly executed. My husband also thought Kate was the Mole last time around, so don't hold your breath for Rob's triumphant return. I was very unhappy that the producers decided to reuse the Three Questions game from last year — a game that last season's fans will recall that I thought was "hideous." I was totally indignant on the new players' behalf that they should not be subjected to such meanness, but lo and behold, they were completely unfazed. Then, I must admit, I was a little unhappy that they weren't more upset, because it meant that I was just a neurotic cry baby and that the game wasn't really all that offensive. So you can understand that I took some perverse pleasure in Heather's little meltdown during the final game. At least I wasn't the only one to crack under the pressure of the game (I am blindly choosing to see no distinction between the fact that she faced possible death by wild boar and I merely had my feelings hurt). Most of you are probably pretty entrenched in your Mole choice by now (if the message boards are any indication, most of you aren't just entrenched, but barricaded behind, locked in and welded to your choice). If you haven't made a pick yet, it's pretty much too late to claim any glory if you guess correctly before next week. You do, after all, have a 33% chance of being right no matter what. But either way, you'll find out next week. You'll also get to find out what the real hidden clues were and I hope they don't pale in comparison to some of the ingenious clues that were identified by the message board sleuths. Before you begin ripping our clues to shreds, please take a deep breath and remember that I helped create and plant many of those clues. If you've learned nothing else from the show and my column, you should know that I'm a neurotic cry baby (see above paragraph) and I'll take it personally. So try to go easy on me. Good luck with your picks and I'll see you back here next week for a final recap. Kathryn |
Azriel | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 12:27 pm     It sounds like Kathryn is saying the message board slueths are wrong? I hope I hope I hope! If it really is Bill, then I'm going to be mad at all the sooooooo obvious clues. |
Kitt | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 03:11 pm     I'm mad about the soooo obvious clues too: if they're true - and I have to believe they wouldn't do them if they weren't - then they've spoilt the game for me; if they're not true then I don't think they should have put them there, and they've spoilt the game for me. Grrrrrrr. <in a Mole funk this week!> |
Tabbyking | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 07:00 pm     yeah, kitt--damned if bill is and damned if bill isn't! |
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