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The Reunion
« on: May 16^th, 2005, 8:44am »

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Surviving the Palau Reunion: Domination and Revelation
by David Bloomberg -- 05/16/2005

You thought all was revealed in the Survivor: Palau finale? Ha! Not even close! Join David as he brings you through everything that was discussed at the Survivor reunion, including some pretty impressive surprises!

Have you read about what happened in the two-hour finale yet? If not, Click here to do it now. Ill wait.

As we lead in from Toms win, Probst notes that Ians move to give up a chance in the Final Two was one of the most unexpected ever (Ill say!). It was a season of domination with one tribe creaming the other, revelation with several players getting life-changing experiences, and it exceeded expectations as one of the greatest seasons ever.

The full group of 20 is back together. Probst begins by congratulating Tom and pointing out that this is his hometown. He also notes that it was a season of domination as Koror won 11 of 14 challenges a record and he won five of seven individual challenges another record. So he definitely deserves it. What was his plan going in? Tom says he owes it to a good friend of his and his wife because he was trying to concoct a persona to be and they told him to be himself. He thought he could hide under his gray hair but that didnt happen. He says he played a lousy strategy game. Probst notes that is why he won he said nothing but offended nobody.

In response to another question by Probst, Tom says he formed the alliance with Ian and Katie the first night. Probst notes its unusual to see an alliance last that long. He then says Katie took a lot of heat in final Tribal Council, but she made a good point in talking about her strategy of hooking up with two strong people. Why was there so much animosity?

Gregg says its unfortunate and when he was outside of the game he saw people as characters and discounted personal relationships. But for 33 days, Katie was entertaining and they are friends. But he feels horrible about having laid into her. Plus, the game wasnt over and he felt he needed to put them in the hot seat so they could be held accountable for their actions. After he cast his vote, he gave both of them hugs and told them they played great games.

Probst says Katie seemed completely surprised by the animosity, which surprised Probst because he could tell it was there from previous Tribal Councils. Why was she so surprised? She says she wasnt surprised by Janu, and she went in knowing she probably wouldnt answer her question

Before she can finish, Probst cuts her off and says thats another thing she went all that way and it take four votes to win, and she gave one up. Katie says she didnt give it up, she knew she couldnt beat Tom and had always said that. Janu admits that her mind was made up anyway. Chuckles all around. Unfortunately, he doesnt follow up with the point I raised in the recap that by not answering Janus question, Katie also may have influenced the others negatively.

They dont go back to the question that Katie was supposed to be answering before Probst interrupted her, but instead jumps back to Tom and a discussion of how he and Gregg both came in approaching Survivor with a lot of game theory, trying to figure out the best move of each person, assuming each person would make that move, and then figuring out a counter. He figured his best plan was to get to five and then make his move. So how did Tom counter him?

Tom says that Gregg really believed that when you were on a plan, you stick with that plan (yeah, we noticed). He believed Gregg would hold to that and go to five, and he planned to also go to five until he got other information that made him change his mind.

Probst moves to Caryn and points out that if you make it to five without an alliance, you should be the swing vote and no matter what happens you should be guaranteed Final Three. So what happened? She says shes not entirely sure but believes that when she wouldnt give up info on Katie and Jenn to Ian and Tom on the beach, she ticked them off and she wasnt useful to them anymore.

Quick cut to Ian and the final immunity challenge decision. Ian says he was thinking about it the whole time there was nothing else to do. He came into the game planning to play with his values and he realized that he hadnt been doing that. He has no regrets.

Before heading to a commercial, Probst brings up the fact that seven out of ten of the winners have been 30 or older and it brings up the topic of maturity. He says it seems like Ian grew up a bit out there. Ian agrees, and says it helped that he played with somebody almost three times his age, which earns some laughs.

As we return, Probst says that Coby proved some things to others and himself, as we hear his confessional again about how he was made fun of as a child and even quit school because of it. Back live, Coby says he came to get rid of some of his demons and be the prom queen. He wanted to be part of a team, and then the game started off in a nightmare from high school the pick em game. But then he was part of the most dominating team ever! Now he has put all of those old feelings to rest. Good for him!

Probst continues in this vein by saying one of his favorite moments was the showdown between Coby the gay hairdresser and James the self-proclaimed redneck from Alabama. Probst says that after Coby won, it was nice that James was complimentary, but he imagines that when James went into work the next day after that episode aired, his coworkers probably had something to say to him. James says that might have been true but hes been out of work! But his old friends ribbed him a bit. Still, he says, Coby whupped his tail!

Coby wasnt the only person who changed, as James says that one change he had was that he doesnt take his family or kids for granted anymore. But it doesnt stop there, as Probst moves to Janu.

He notes that she had some tough days, laid around camp, and then she was thrown on an island by herself. But that was great, she says, and it all came together for her. She says she came into Tribal Council knowing she was going to quit.

Probst takes this opportunity to revisit that so-called controversy and ask flat-out if he coerced her into quitting. No, you did not. He then asks all the others who were there. They all say no. He says that if somebody comes to Tribal Council not planning to quit, there is nothing he could say to get them to do it.

But there is another form of quitting, the engineered quit. Yes, hes talking to Jeff. Probst says it might not officially be a quit to tell people to vote you out, but to him its pretty similar. So he wants Jeff to defend his actions after he injured his ankle when he could have still helped in other ways. Jeff says he knew his limits and he knew hed injured himself.

But what does Bobby Jon think? Probst reminds us of when Bobby Jon saw the injured Jeff cutting coconuts would he have left with an injured foot? No, Bobby Jon says he would have had to have his head cut off to leave voluntarily. But he does say sometimes you cant help it and he understands it.

Probst says hes not suggesting Jeff wasnt hurt, and then he also notes that both Ashlee on one side of Jeff and Kim on the other had also had enough. Ashlee agrees that she had definitely had it. She thought she was tough, but nope.

Without getting an answer from Kim, Probst goes to Jonathan and Wanda, the two people who never had a chance because they didnt get picked. Probst says Jonathan didnt seem a likely person to not get picked, so what happened? Jonathan says he jumped out of the boat. Angie says thats not it, though. She says that while he seems very nice now, but out there he didnt really talk to people and they took that the wrong way. He tries to defend himself by saying that with 20 people hitting the beach at once and going their separate ways, its kind of difficult. She attempts to respond and explain to him how hes wrong (and he is everybody else pretty much managed, and its silly for him to argue now since what mattered was what their perception was at the time), but Probst cuts her off.

Wanda was the other one who didnt get picked, but she seemed to be okay with it or was she? She says it was devastating, but there was some pleasure in the fact that they asked for another song. Guess what? She prepared another song for this occasion (sung to the tune of Oh Susanna):

We were stranded on Palauan shores
With coconuts and rats
We survived the heat, found some food to eat
And some survived the spats
Were Survivors
We faced and passed the test
And in history
All the world will see
That Survivor 10 was best

We now move to Stephenie, first off the boat and last on Ulong. Probst asks if she knew she had it in her to survive as the last member on her tribe. She says she knew going in shed be okay in the challenges but didnt know how shed do without food. It was really tough to lose every single immunity challenge, too. But the night she was by herself, she realized it couldnt get any worse.

What has been the reaction of fans? She says its weird and is so grateful that everybody is so supportive. Its nice to hear from people who say shes their hero.

Probst points out that Bobby Jon never got voted out, he just couldnt build fire as quickly. But Bobby Jon has no sour grapes about it. Probst notes that Bobby Jon never slacked off, and he give credit to his family and the people of Troy, Alabama, for that work ethic. Finally, did the Jellyfish Lake moment stay with him? Definitely, to him that was peace.

Moving back in the order a bit, Probst notes that Jolanda won the first immunity and then was voted out first what happened? She says that for one thing, she thought shed get to pick a team, but instead only got to pick one player. So she ended up on a team of young adults and anyone who is a parent knows that people that age want to prove to the world that they know everything. They didnt want leadership or to be a team. She knew when she was voted off that they would suffer.

Angie is asked if shes right about why they did so poorly, and Angie says yes, they didnt listen to each other. The other tribe listened to each other and worked together. Jolanda says the young people on Ulong also underestimated Koror because they were old and appeared weaker. But Koror thought and made plans.

Ibrehem changed his game plan when he saw what happened to Jolanda. It wasnt that she was strong, but that she had a strong personality, and he didnt want to jump out and appear similar.

We see a list of events that had never happened before Survivor: Palau. Unfortunately, the first one is blocked because they still have the Survivor logo on the screen, but it seems to be the first time two people never played. The others are:

First time to have a tribe never win immunity.
First tribe of one.
First time there was no merge. (I would disagree with this one there was a merge, its just that it was a merge of many with one.)
Most ties at Tribal Council.
Longest challenge in Survivor history.
First Tribal Council held at a challenge.
Time for couples updates! First to Jenn is she still with Gregg? Jenn answers that on the island, they had a good alliance, a good bond. They are still continuing to be friends. Well, that didnt really answer the question, did it?

What about Kim and Jeff? Kim says they are amazing friends. Another non-answer! Ah well, I guess I cant blame either of em. They had plenty of their lives on TV, so maybe they want a little privacy now.

Probst moves on to a topic that he thought was interesting but never made the show Willard is an attorney but thats not what he told the others. He said he was a mailman with the theory that many people dislike lawyers but nobody dislikes mailmen. He had told Caryn, he says, because shes a lawyer too and they could smell each other out like sharks. Heh.

Another thing to share, which Probst says will be a very big surprise for all but one of them, is what Coby did to change his life. Coby says that the game helped him put away his problems of being a gay man in society and so when he got back he started looking into adoption so he could have a family of his own. He was looking into international adoption but then his cousin called him she was pregnant and couldnt keep the baby, so he has adopted a little girl! Congratulations, Coby! He gets hugs all around and brings out a baby picture.

One more part to the story: He named her Janu! Obviously, Janu is overcome by this and pretty well breaks down in tears as they hug.

As Survivor: Palau has ended, there is a new batch of contestants getting ready for the greatest adventure of their lives. They will head to the rainforests of Central America, where there are ruins of the Mayan civilization in the country of Guatemala. Eighteen contestants will be marooned within the mysterious and rugged terrain and will actually live within the ruins of a vanished civilization. Cool! They will also be forced to embrace the ancient Mayan lifestyle. Hmmm, considering Probst also mentioned that the Mayans practiced human sacrifice, I hope they dont embrace all of their lifestyle! Next Fall we will see Survivor Guatemala: The Maya Empire!

With that, its time to say goodbye to Survivor: Palau. But of course you wont be saying goodbye to us here at RealityNewsOnline. In the coming days, well have plenty more to say about Survivor; in the coming weeks we have the finales of other shows like The Apprentice and American Idol; and in the coming months we have all the summer shows for you. Then well be back again for a new Survivor in September. See you then!

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Re: The Reunion
« Reply #1 on: May 16^th, 2005, 2:13pm »

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OMG coby adopted a baby and named it Janu that was so cute

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Re: The Reunion
« Reply #2 on: May 16^th, 2005, 3:10pm »

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I didn't hear about Coby's baby until today because I didn't watch the end of the reunion. I wish Katie or Jen had won, but at least Katie got in the final 2.

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« Reply #3 on: May 16^th, 2005, 4:45pm »

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Superchic, quick question, why do you think Katie should have won?? Just curious?

As for the reunion shows, I really never liked them. They don't talk too long to all of the contestants. That is what I want more of.

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« Reply #4 on: May 16^th, 2005, 9:23pm »

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It was an ok reunion, the first one on Survivor I've ever watched!!! Grin

I wanted Katie to win too!! Cheesy

But, I'm glad Tom did, he deserves it and he's a hard worker and a strong player in the game!

CONGRATS TOM!

Oh and on the Coby topic that's adorable a baby named Janu! They must've been real close~! Congrats Coby!!!! He was also awsome in the game! Wink

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Re: The Reunion
« Reply #5 on: May 17^th, 2005, 7:54am »

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I didn't like katie at all and felt she didn't deserve to be in the final 2.....I knew jenn would be voted out because the other 3 knew the jury would vote for her!

All in all it wasn't too bad.....but just how many more series can we take?

i never watched series 3, 4, 5 and 6....they bored me, i only got back into survivor recently.....only because there is nothing else to watch on that day at that timeslot.

Personally I'm rather over all reality TV!

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