Survivor: Micronesia

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Survivor Micronesia: Stir the Pot (season finale) - TV Squad by Jackie Schnoop

Well, this surely was a season of blindsides on Survivor Micronesia, wasn’t it? Down to the finale, it just went on and on. After the excitement we had all season due to the strategical game play, I felt tonight’s finale was a bit lackluster and full of filler. No, I’m not fussing just because my favorite didn’t win. Heck, if that were the case, I would have been gone when Yau-Man hit the dust! Read on past the jump for my full review of the finale.

Now, there were definitely parts of tonight’s show which I truly enjoyed. And, some of the material I didn’t care that much for they do in each finale show. In the beginning of the show we had to endure a recap bit on the whole season. I don’t know about you, but I know you know I’ve watched every show this season. Either that or I fake writing about them well, huh?

But in addition to the lengthy season recap, then there was the usual Rites of Passage segment which also touched on each previous contestant. Okay, I know that’s expected to be in there. Tonight’s little trip to Exile Island to collect the torches of the folks banished from the Magic Kingdom just seemed so posed and scripted for the cameras that I got annoyed. Maybe they should combine the two recaps of previous contestants. As it is, although the content differs, I find it redundant. Fix that, please!

I also think the show (and following reunion show) spent too much time on:

Amanda crying and not being able to make up her mind.

Erik’s incredibly foolish and naive blunder in trusting the women and giving away his immunity. I didn’t count how many times it was brought up in the three hours, but it had to be more than ten times.

Amanda crying and being indecisive.

Did I mention Amanda going all emo?

One of the great things about this season is that it was such a hard game to predict. Sure, it was probably harder for the contestants than for mere viewers. It’s the first season in ages in which the castaways took the “Outwit, Outplay, Outlast” tag line to task and that’s why the season was such a hit. While I’m not so smug in my thinking to believe that women can always out-think guys, the women on this show definitely out-schemed their male competitors. I personally think it was Cirie rather than Parvati behind all of it. However, we might have more insight to that as viewers than the contestants had during the filming. Since Parvati was more brazen and louder, they obviously though it was her ruling the roost.

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After one of the best seasons ever, Parvati won. After 4 blindsides in a row, the ending was almost anti-climatic. Everyone expected Amanda to win, but she didn’t own up to her actions during the game in the final Tribal Council. Natalie was the first of the four to go, then Cirie, Amanda, and Parvati, who were excited about making it to the final 3, found out that it would be a final 2, so they had one more immunity challenge and someone else had to be voted out. Amanda won that and chose Cirie to leave, taking Parvati to the final 2. Amanda has now spent more time on Survivor than any other player, going to the final 2 twice in a row and failing to win.

We had a chance to take part in interviews of all of the final four. Natalie, Cirie, and Amanda had one, while Parvati had a separate interview. Each MP3 file is available here. Transcripts to follow.

Paravti - Survivor Winner Interview Download Link

Amanda, Cirie and Natalie Exit Interview Download Link

Survivor Micronesia Finale, Parvati Wins by honeySC

Survivor Micronesia opens with a brief recap of the season’s events. It has been a Survivor unequaled by any other in injuries. Kathy, Jonathan, and James all leave without being voted out, Kathy battered and worn out by the elements while Jonathan and James leaving due to infections from injuries.  Cirie, Parvati, and Natalie work as a Black Widow allliance, taking out castaways through total blindsides. The weather, with it’s unexpected deluges keeps the camp wet up to five hours at a stretch.

Back at camp, Amanda, Natalie, Cirie, and Parvati cheer and celebrate at the unprecedented event at tribal council.  The girls, in a clever move, convinced Eric that he could do without the immunity necklace and then voted him out. They recount how they have repeated this move over and over and everyone falls for it.  They are all excited at playing final four.

Natalie may be the last fan standing, but she has a strong bond with Parvati who says everyone there has earned a spot in the game. Each of them hopes that the common ground will lead them to victory.

The ladies assemble for the immunity challenge. They will start on a very small perch over water from which they will pull up a bucket of water and fill a chute. As the water in the chute rises it will bring a set of keys up within reach. Once the survivor has the keys she will dive in the water and swim ashore to unlock a chest. Natalie and Parvati are in the lead, opening their chest while Amanda is just getting her keys. Cirie is lagging, but catches up after getting her keys. All four girls have gotten the chest open which gives them rungs to a puzzle ladder. There are sixteen rungs that fit precisely to their spaces. Amanda pulls ahead and after relocating two rungs that are misplaced, she wins individual immunity from tribal council.

Amanda feels comforted by the necklace that insures her stand in final three and Natalie feels that she is the bottom of the totem pole. She wants to appear confident and sure of herself. Amanda doesn’t know who she is voting for and Natalie feels that Cirie is a bit nervous about the upcoming tribal council. Parvati says she loves Natalie to death and she says this could be a switch up to take out their strongest jury vote. All of the girls are talking and none of them are giving away their vote to the viewers.

The jury enters to look at the four remaining survivors. Natalie is asked about their performances at the last tribal council, and Jeff says that it was a performance worthy of an academy award. Natalie says that this has been the craziest game. Jeff points out that Ozzy, Jason, Alexis, and Erik have all been blindsided. Cirie says that she has always felt like she was on the bottom of the alliance and the girls are quick to call her on that. When asked, Amanda feels fairly certain of the events going down tonight, but given the blindsides, she is only sure of her own vote.

The votes:
Cirie, Natalie, Natalie, Natalie. Natalie goes home. The girls all blow her kisses and she blows one back to them. The three remaining, Cirie, Amanda, and Parvati all have smiles that they were safe to final three.

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Blog Cabins: Insanely Important Film Reviews: Survivor: Micronesia Episode 14 recap (the finale!)

Coming at you live once again, it’s the Survivor, um, live blog. Starting…now!

7:00: We start off with enough spider shots and black widow references that I might as well be watching Arachnophobia. We get it - the ladies are lying, conniving bitches.

7:05: Early prediction - with us getting four ladies in the final four, and with this being Mothers’ Day and all, I say that Cirie takes it. Seems like a very CBS thing to do, setting up the season so that it ends today with her as the victor. Either that, or this episode will conclude with Natalie giving birth to the Antichrist; either one is possible.

7:09: I’ll take advantage of this lull in the action to give thanks to the show’s producers for sparing us the awful “pling” effects employed so frequently during last season’s challenges. They were beyond annoying, and I couldn’t be more thrilled that they’ve subsided and/or disappeared. With any luck, they will continue to ride this hot streak and dump the “remaining contestants walk past the torches of the losers and remember them” sequence that plagues every finale. Cross your fingers!

7:14: Now that all the men have been eliminated from the game, what a perfect time for a physical challenge. Boo. Tough luck, Cirie.

7:17: Please don’t let Natalie win. Please don’t let Natalie win. Please don’t let Natalie win.

7:19: As it should have been (with her being the toughest physical competitor from the choices left), Amanda wins Immunity. Unfortunately, once again in a finale, a key Immunity Challenge was decided by luck more than anything else, as the puzzle ladders that the contestants had to make didn’t require any skill to put together. I can’t complain too much, though - Natalie was leading up to that point, and it probably cost her a victory. Hooray unfairness!

7:29: Wow - 10 minutes without anything interesting to say. Either I’m not seeing any of the angles or the show is failing us at this point. Mostly, it’s just been some predictable angling by Natalie and Cirie, each trying to establish and/or change their place in the game. Odds are high that Amanda and Parvati stick with their alliance, as they’ve done all season, and vote out Natalie. But you never know…

7:33: Survey says…

7:34: “14th person voted out…Natalie!” (The exclamation point is mine; the rest is Jeff’s.)

7:41: I’m having a really hard time wanting Amanda to win right now. Once again, she’s put on her baby face, and now she’s crying and creating an argument with Cirie (which she’s dead wrong in, by the way) about who is on “the bottom of their alliance.” Ugh. See, here’s the problem with having all women left at the end of the game (cue angry emails for me).

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Daily Inter Lake:Kimmel doesn’t survive tribal voting

Kalispell’s favorite player finishes close second on ‘Survivor: Micronesia’

The second time did not prove the charm for Amanda Kimmel.

The former Kalispell resident came in second on CBS’ “Survivor” on Sunday evening — losing by a 5-3 vote.

The 23-year-old aspiring designer won the final two immunity challenges on Sunday’s episode to watch her competition shrink from three to two to one — her closest ally, Parvati Shallow, who then beat her in the final vote.

Kimmel showed the strain of competition in Sunday’s broadcast — her voice quavering after the producers unexpectedly told the final three they would have to compete again to trim the field to two.

“It’s like: ‘When is it going to end?’” Kimmel said in an on-camera interview on her 38th day of the 39-day contest.

Kimmel earlier told the camera: “I’m at my breaking point right now. I feel I’ve been doing this forever. I came straight from China to here, and I’m losing it.”

She came in third in the “Survivor” contest in China. Soon after she left China, Kimmel was asked by the producers to compete again with 19 other players in Micronesia.

On Sunday’s broadcast, Kimmel sucked it up to turn in a strong plea for her case to win $1 million before eight players whom she and Shallow helped to vote out. Those same eight chose who would win.

She earlier blamed her third-place finish in China for a tired, unfocused plea to the jury, which had three finalists to choose from last year.

One of the eight voting players for Sunday’s broadcast — Ozzy Lusth, a 26-year-old photographer from Venice, Calif. — started a relationship with Kimmel during the competition.

On Sunday’s broadcast just before the final vote, Lusth told Kimmel: “I’m having feelings I’ve never felt before. I feel like I’m starting to fall in love with you.”

Read the entire article at Daily Inter Lake:Kimmel doesn’t survive tribal voting.

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It was previously reported that Survivor will be immediately returning, and a day after the Survivor : China finale aired, we came up with a list of rumored returnees for the upcoming season 16 of the long running reality series. We’re in luck, as most of our listed contestants turn out to be the contenders for the new season. CBS finally announced their cast list for Survivor : Micronesia , season 16 of the reality series. This time, the ten previously listed candidates will go up against ten super fans, who were revealed today.

For the All Stars team, we have Amanda Kimmel and James Clement from Survivor : China , Jonathan Penner, Ozzy Lusth and Parvati Shallow from Survivor : Cook Islands, Jon Dalton from Survivor : Pearl Islands , Ami Cusack and Eliza Orlins from Survivor : Vanuatu , Cirie Fields from Survivor : Panama , and Yau Man Chan from Survivor : Fiji .
For the superfans, we have 34 year old writer/actor from Los Angeles Michael Bortone and 43 year old commercial builder from Virginia, Tracy Hughes-Wolf. We also have Joel Anderson, a big, 32-year-old firefighter and 45 year old golf course vendor Kathleen Sleckman. We have 22 year old ice cream scooper from Michigan Erik Reichenbach, 29 year old small business owner Mary Sartain, and Chet Welch, a 48 year old beauty pageant coach. Rounding up the team is 32 year old personal trainer from LA, Natalie Bolton, 22 year old student teacher Jason Siska and 24 year old motivational speaker Alexis Jones.

These interesting individuals make up the new Survivor teams, who will soon appear on our television screens on Thursday, February 7, when Survivor : Micronesia begins. For more information on season 16 of Survivor , log on to the official website and click on Meet the Cast for details on each contender and Watch Preview for a sneak peek of the show. Also don’t forget to check out the Survivor page at BuddyTV.com.

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