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JasonSiskaRulz		#641	[-]
Posts: 60 (12/14/09 01:48 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Ads - The reason I wake up every morning. Remove this ad ^^Courtney^^??
koondog		#642	[-]
Posts: 56 (12/14/09 02:22 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Stephen was the anything more to Brendan and Sierra relationship than just being in an alliance. In one of the extra Survivor clips Sierra told Debbie they had a crush on each other.
caseydillas		#643	[-]
Posts: 110 (12/14/09 02:32 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Well the jury is told to amp up the hostility for final tribal. It's a funny experience - they attack you and then you go back and they're like, "Congratulations! Welcome home!" (And then they come up to you and confidentially pull you aside and desperately seek the reason that you voted them off, like it has something to do with them and not the game.) I mean I can see the argument that they would have voted against me for betraying JT. But not if that meant voting for Erinn. Believe me, those people hated Erinn and for the most part liked me. I don't know why this is shocking to people. The REASON we took Erinn to the end w us was because they hated her and she could never win a jury vote. It's not like I'm saying this about Taj, who was our partner from day 1. I can see Taj winning a jury vote against me. I don't think she would have, but I absolutely believe it is feasible. Timbira -hated- Erinn. They thought she always underperformed in challenges - and even though I was no challenge champion, they like respected my nerd effort. And even the things she did well, like puzzles, they didn't give her credit for - they always gave Brendan credit for solving the puzzles. (Even though one of the puzzles - the staircase with the giant blocks - Brendan actually lost for their team. Erinn had it right and Brendan messed it up. But there was some cognitive disconnect at Timbira). I swear to you, if they could have voted off Erinn every vote of the game, they would have. And it wasn't strategic. It was purely personal. I talked to Tyson about this post-game. I said, "If you had just been able to be nice to Erinn, you could have won." And he said, "Yeah, well, that was an impossible task." I mean, Tyson and Erinn are now friends. She's friends with all of them. But during the game - forget it. The other thing is, it was hard for me to differentiate myself from JT because we pulled off all the game's moves together. But had JT not been sitting there, I could have both given him a shout-out - "yes, JT deserves this, that's why I had to vote him out" - and been the only person of the two of us on the mat. ETA: Just so you don't think I'm like overestimating my jury-winning abilities. Some people on the jury have told me that if I had won the F3 challenge and taken JT, they would have voted for me. I 100% believe this is -not- the case. I think it is easy to say out of the heat of the moment and after having watched the show. But I am positive I would have lost to JT. Many thanks for the long thoughtful reply Stephen. I guess no matter how many times I'm told that Timbira hated Erinn it's hard to reconcile that level of animosity with what was presented on the screen. The same with Sierra. Your posts go a long way toward decyphering your season.
SkyDreamer		#644	[-]
Posts: 553 (12/14/09 08:57 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	TheWizard wrote: JT Tyson Brendan Erinn/ Taj - Taj pre-merge, Erinn post Debbie Joe Coach Sierra Really though I feel like it's JT, Tyson --> The Rest --> Coach, Sierra. Yet you said you would have voted for Ben over Erinn
Lexxan		#645	[-]
Posts: 741 (12/14/09 09:04 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Another Question for you, Steve: Why did everyone seem to hate Erinn and Sierra so much?
River50		#646	[-]
Posts: 382 (12/14/09 06:13 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	JasonSiskaRulz wrote: ^^Courtney^^?? I wish. Cuz then I'd be snuggled up with Stephen (who looks fabulous running in chaps, by the way).
Maniacboy888		#647	[-]
Posts: 3256 (12/16/09 11:48 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Stephen, what is your favorite Tocantins episode to watch again? Least favorite?
TheWizard		#648	[-]
Posts: 337 (12/17/09 12:16 AM) Avocado Assassin Reply Quote More Recent Posts	caseydillas wrote: Well the jury is told to amp up the hostility for final tribal. It's a funny experience - they attack you and then you go back and they're like, "Congratulations! Welcome home!" (And then they come up to you and confidentially pull you aside and desperately seek the reason that you voted them off, like it has something to do with them and not the game.) I mean I can see the argument that they would have voted against me for betraying JT. But not if that meant voting for Erinn. Believe me, those people hated Erinn and for the most part liked me. I don't know why this is shocking to people. The REASON we took Erinn to the end w us was because they hated her and she could never win a jury vote. It's not like I'm saying this about Taj, who was our partner from day 1. I can see Taj winning a jury vote against me. I don't think she would have, but I absolutely believe it is feasible. Timbira -hated- Erinn. They thought she always underperformed in challenges - and even though I was no challenge champion, they like respected my nerd effort. And even the things she did well, like puzzles, they didn't give her credit for - they always gave Brendan credit for solving the puzzles. (Even though one of the puzzles - the staircase with the giant blocks - Brendan actually lost for their team. Erinn had it right and Brendan messed it up. But there was some cognitive disconnect at Timbira). I swear to you, if they could have voted off Erinn every vote of the game, they would have. And it wasn't strategic. It was purely personal. I talked to Tyson about this post-game. I said, "If you had just been able to be nice to Erinn, you could have won." And he said, "Yeah, well, that was an impossible task." I mean, Tyson and Erinn are now friends. She's friends with all of them. But during the game - forget it. The other thing is, it was hard for me to differentiate myself from JT because we pulled off all the game's moves together. But had JT not been sitting there, I could have both given him a shout-out - "yes, JT deserves this, that's why I had to vote him out" - and been the only person of the two of us on the mat. ETA: Just so you don't think I'm like overestimating my jury-winning abilities. Some people on the jury have told me that if I had won the F3 challenge and taken JT, they would have voted for me. I 100% believe this is -not- the case. I think it is easy to say out of the heat of the moment and after having watched the show. But I am positive I would have lost to JT. Many thanks for the long thoughtful reply Stephen. I guess no matter how many times I'm told that Timbira hated Erinn it's hard to reconcile that level of animosity with what was presented on the screen. The same with Sierra. Your posts go a long way toward decyphering your season. You can actually check out the Life at Ponderosa vids for a glimpse inside of that. The last one before Erinn's boot there's a brief scene of Deb and Sierra making fun of her. And then her first Life at Ponderosa vid, there's a scene of Coach saying how much they can't stand her.
TheWizard		#649	[-]
Posts: 338 (12/17/09 12:18 AM) Avocado Assassin Reply Quote More Recent Posts	SkyDreamer wrote: TheWizard wrote: JT Tyson Brendan Erinn/ Taj - Taj pre-merge, Erinn post Debbie Joe Coach Sierra Really though I feel like it's JT, Tyson --> The Rest --> Coach, Sierra. Yet you said you would have voted for Ben over Erinn Erinn had more "strategy" than Coach. But Coach was "playing" a completely non-strategic "game," if those words can even be used in relationship to him. For him to make it to the end playing the way he did, he would absolutely deserve the million dollars.
TheWizard		#650	[-]
Posts: 339 (12/17/09 12:27 AM) Avocado Assassin Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Ads - The reason I wake up every morning. Remove this ad Maniacboy888 wrote: Stephen, what is your favorite Tocantins episode to watch again? Least favorite? I haven't ever watched any of them again. My favorite episodes to watch were the second one (which was when JT and my story got fleshed out, and I made the winning shot in basketbrawl), Sydney's boot episode bc there was some fun Jalapao strategy, and the Tyson boot ep. Least favorite? Definitely Spencer's boot episode. That was one of our biggest strategic moves, and it sucked that it was presented as "Spencer messed up a challenge!" And of course the finale.
Mypoody2		#651	[-]
Posts: 10773 (12/17/09 12:30 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Spencer, what a fucking dud.
SuperJude		#652	[-]
Posts: 15859 (12/17/09 04:46 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Don't cast teenagers as they lack the necessary social skills. Thank you, assholes in casting, for reading! -SJ™
Lexxan		#653	[-]
Posts: 776 (12/17/09 04:56 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I really hate it when Editing F***s up my pre-game favorites. My Tocantins Favorites were Spencer, Sydney and Jerry, and none of them got a decent edit Same with Kelly, Dave, Natalie and Monica this season. Someone totally needs to fire those editors!
JLK Name		#654	[-]
Posts: 2655 (12/17/09 05:02 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	TheWizard wrote: Maniacboy888 wrote: Stephen, what is your favorite Tocantins episode to watch again? Least favorite? I haven't ever watched any of them again. My favorite episodes to watch were the second one (which was when JT and my story got fleshed out I remember that, it was the start of your big crush on JT
JackSparrowBauer		#655	[-]
Posts: 3553 (12/17/09 08:17 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	TheWizard wrote: Maniacboy888 wrote: Stephen, what is your favorite Tocantins episode to watch again? Least favorite? I haven't ever watched any of them again. My favorite episodes to watch were the second one (which was when JT and my story got fleshed out, and I made the winning shot in basketbrawl), Sydney's boot episode bc there was some fun Jalapao strategy, and the Tyson boot ep. Least favorite? Definitely Spencer's boot episode. That was one of our biggest strategic moves, and it sucked that it was presented as "Spencer messed up a challenge!" And of course the finale.
JT4ever		#656	[-]
Posts: 524 (12/17/09 09:37 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	JLK Name wrote: I remember that, it was the start of your big crush on JT You know, I always thought JT's mancrush on Stephen was bigger than Stephen's crush on JT. It was interesting to me that Stephen kept plenty of things from JT all throughout the game, whereas JT had absolutely no secrets from Stephen. It's as if Stephen was able to separate his affection for JT from the need to play the game, while JT couldn't imagine his game without Stephen. Their respective relationships with Brendan was telling, I thought. Stephen had no problems allying, and spooning, with Brendan, even though they were wary of each other's game, while JT never even considered Brendan's -- apparently genuine -- overture. His first instinct was to tell Stephen all about it. I know that the official story that JT's distress at FTC about Stephen's assumed betrayal was an acting job. And maybe it was. But if so, it was method acting. There are a couple of confessionals with JT in the last episode where he ponders Stephen's double dealing with Erinn, and much as he tries to hide his feelings behind the easy smile, there is palpable, unmistakable anguish in those eyes. Anyway, my JT mania is showing. So I best move on. Question for you, Stephen.Would you ever try to read things into the frequency with which folks were called to confessionals. Did everyone pretty much get called on a regular basis, or where there variations that might be seen as meaningful? For example, it's hard to imagine that Russell gets called to confessionals exactly as often as Brett. Can it be?
SirCrocodilep		#657	[-]
Posts: 291 (12/17/09 09:43 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	SuperJude wrote: Don't cast teenagers as they lack the necessary social skills. Thank you, assholes in casting, for reading! -SJ™ Teenagers will make excellent toadies!
TheWizard		#658	[-]
Posts: 341 (12/17/09 10:22 AM) Avocado Assassin Reply Quote More Recent Posts	SuperJude wrote: Don't cast teenagers as they lack the necessary social skills. Thank you, assholes in casting, for reading! -SJ™ Although in Spencer's case I think it made for a very interesting character. Like he was obviously very smart and strategic and a good athlete, but just was lacking a couple years. So he had an interesting hurdle to overcome. He pretty quickly out of the gate set himself up in a great tribal position, but then partially through his own inexperience in dealing with and reading people, it crumbled. It's really too bad that none of that made air!
SuperJude		#659	[-]
Posts: 15872 (12/17/09 11:53 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Yeah, not to say you can't be personable and smart at 19 but you'll still be a social moron compared to the rest. Just how it is. I had no read on Spencer really. -SJ™
micronesia		#660	[-]
Posts: 449 (12/17/09 12:08 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Ads - The reason I wake up every morning. Remove this ad TheWizard wrote: Lexxan wrote: Stephen, I don't know if it hadn't been answered before, but what would have happened if Erinn had won the F4 IC? I think we would seriously have talked about voting JT off. It would have been easier if I had won that IC - Taj votes Erinn, JT votes Taj, Erinn and I vote JT. If Erinn had won, I do think we could have convinced Taj to vote for me or JT and JT to vote for Taj. Taj claimed beforehand that if Erinn won that immunity, we should let it go down to some firemaking challenge, because that was the only "fair" way to decide which Jalapao went. (Which is obviously totally nuts.) Would I have done it? I don't know. On the one hand, I was always very aware that JT was the biggest jury threat out there. On the other, in the Final 3 with Erinn and JT I'm guaranteed a spot in the F2 and (ahem) will win if Erinn or I wins the final immunity. I thought that if the F3 were me, Taj and Erinn, Taj might have been angry enough at me to take Erinn out of spite if she won - and Erinn might have taken Taj if she won. And I never counted on winning immunities. Would`ve loved to see that happen... Follow-up question: Do you think it would`ve been a no-brainer to get people to vote that way? Obviously the Taj vote for Erinn would`ve been easy, but JT must`ve been aware at that point that you might not happily take him to the F2... Do you think he would`ve (or: how likely in %...) smelled a rat once the two of you told Taj to vote for Erinn with the "intention" to vote off Taj, while your actual plan would`ve been to vote with Erinn for JT?

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