premieres Thursday Sept.18th 8/7c

Yahooooooo, Pimp!!
I love Survivor as much as I love Big Brother!
Can I get beat up for saying that here??

Nope!
We have some pretty good survivor addicts as well!

Meet the cast!

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20221152_20221155_20221313,00.html

Check out Jeff's comments too.

I would like to opt for 24 hour feeds!!! LOL

Looks like a good group of Survivors...Lot of California types in this group...
I will say they are a good looking bunch.
I didn't get into last seasons too much..but am going to make myself get
interested in this one...It always takes me about 3 weeks to get interested
in Survivor...Guess because they start out with so many players.

Thank you Jane for bringing us this informatiom.

Videos

http://www.ew.com/ew/package/0,,20221152_20221172,00.html

Don't forget about the Ponderosa this year.

Survivor premiere changed from the 18th to the 25th of Sept.

http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-News-Blog/Todays-News/Survivor-Gabon-Earths/800045753

Tonight's the night!
I was just reading the bios for Survivor Gabon .... looks like an interesting group of 18 contestants .... a doctor, two lawyers, an olympic gold medalist - can't wait.
Survivor Gabon

Can't wait to see it!! I love Survivor almost as much as BB!

I'm ready for Survivor tonight! Can't wait to see all the new peeps and their home away from home. I love Survivor!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Probst characterizes Survivor - Gabon as "good against evil".
Survivor article

This sounds like it is going to be a great season. I can't wait!!!

Some spoilers from Survivor Skills
Link to site

Jul. 28 2008,22:59
3) Some of the cast were changed a few weeks before they left, the producers didn't like them, they went with a second string of applicants. So much for recruiting speculations

"The producers didn't like some of the ones that were first cast. They wanted to take another look." They called back some semifinal contenders who'd been interviewed in LA for the lengthy interview, and then sent home a bit early.

A survivor named Paloma said it was the worst experience of her life. regets doing it

This is the Olympian info:
Crystal Cox career highlights include:
2004 Olympic 4x400m gold medalist;
2004 USA Indoor 200m champion; 6th in 200, 400 at 2003 USA Outdoors;
3rd in 200 and 2002 USA Indoors


Tons more on their site.

Here are the tribes ( who they picked)



Eldest tribe members, Bob and Gillian start the tribal pick

Bob picks Ace first (Kota tribe)

Gillian picks Crystal (Fang tribe)
Ace has chosen Jessica (Kota)
Crystal picks Susie (Fang)

Jessica has chosen Marcus (Kota)
Susie chooses Matty (Fang)
Marcus chose Charlie (Kota)
Matty chooses Randy (Fang)

Danny picked before Ken (Fang)
Charlie picks Kelly? (Kota)

Danny picks Dan? (Fang)
Kelly picks Paloma? (Kota)
Dan picks Ken (Fang)

Corinne last picked for Kota
Michelle is last picked for Fang

Spoiler - boot

Spoiler:
	this site acme braintrust has Michelle as the first one booted

another site says:

Spoiler:
	lists Gillian as very vulnerable and Ken, Michelle, and Paloma as vulnerable

Show time!!!!! Can't wait to hear everyones opinions later...

Sorry this is such late notice but we just got the confirmation about 30 min ago that Erik from Survivor China will be joining us tonight immediately following the CBS show for anyone who is interested! Erik will be talking about Survivor of course and his pending marriage to Jamie who was also on Survivor China. Here is the link and thanks! Lorraine

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/BigBrotherAfterDark/2008/09/26/Survivor-Premiere-Episode-possibly-a-BB-HG-Interview

I found this first episode of Survivor to be frustrating. Starting of with the two eldest members picking teams, Bob and Gillian. What a crappy team Gillian picked for the Fang tribe! So, the teams are completely unfair (in terms of physical strength) and what does the Fang tribe do? They boot Michelle, the most physically fit female on their tribe for being "negative". IDIOTS! This was a bummer to me, I found Michelle to be an enjoyable character to watch, being all bitchy and emo! Not to mention the friendship her and the gamer guy had was interesting. Oh well. So, of course the Kota beat Fang at every challenge and Gillian ended up getting the boot too. She was really annoying to me. I would rather listen to Michelle bitch then Gillian being "optimistic" but that's just me.

I don't really "like" any of them that much, Dan is good looking and nice, but his niceness will get him in trouble. That Fang tribe is a mess! They couldn't even work out a leader!

I am really curious how they are going to play out this "good vs. evil" theme. With the way it is set up now, it's more lie "weak vs. strong".

Ace will definitely be around for a while an be entertaining.

I thought it was funny when Randy hit his head and Gillian couldn't help him because she couldn't see in the dark. I COULD NEVER BE ON THIS SHOW!!!!!

I found it a bit frustrating as well, starting with the picking of the teams .... it just didn't seem logical. I was surprised that the Olympic gold medal winner (Crystal?)did so poorly in the hill challenge unless she was trying to fly under the radar. I wasn't surprised when Randy stated that he'd never been married - big surprise there buddy! (What a joyful personality for some poor gal to have to deal with, no?)
I wanted Michelle to hang around longer too - her bitchy, abrasive personality would have been fun to watch.
Looks like a good season but I hope we don't have a total Pagonging of the Fang tribe - that gets a little boring for me.

I agree with everything. I was disheartened by the end of the second hour. Here we go again! One tribe totally overwhelming another. I have no favorites at this point, I just don't like to see such a lop-sided playing field. It is getting old, really fast. I'm losing my taste for Survivor.

ITA--Gillian drove me insane, I can't believe they let her stay at that first tribal council WTF were they thinking? Oh wait, they weren't. And to get rid of their strongest girl? OMG they are the dumbest people EVER! I also agree that I hate the lopsided tribes, wasn't it that olympic gold medalist that picked that other older woman? HELLO--you need strong men. Anyway....enough of my ranting. I will say that I like the 2 guys from the other tribe, the gay lawyer and the doctor....

I thought them making a fishing pole from glasses, shoe strings and a stick and catching 5 fish was GREAT! I love it when someone can come up with an idea like that, and it works. And the awful guy who gave up his glasses seemed like he has already mellowed just a tiny bit. He said something nice to Gillian when he voted her out....but he's still pretty awful. Otherwise, I'd be rooting for him for the fishing hook alone, lol.

I don't think I'll be rooting for the alliance of 4 with the lawyer in love with the doctor, lol. It seemed like they talked to the lawyer 85% of the time....hmmm....One would think that alliance is going to go very far. They seem nice enough, but IDK. There are so many people still, and I'm not drawn to anyone yet. I guess I'll go with the physics teacher. I mean who can resist a man in a bow tie, lol.

So far I like none of them, maybe the old guy (physics guy), but thats about it. Cast is really predictable and uninteresting so far. Definitely dislike that Randy guy, hes a real winner (NOT).

Hopefully, some people will begin to stand out and I will find some to cheer for.

I agree with all of your opinions regarding this cast..but I do like bow tie guy!!

Jeff Probst is writing a blog each week for EW. It's kind of long so I'll just post the link. Here's his take on the first two episodes:

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/09/jeff-probst-blo.html

Poor Gillian.

Thanks Lizbeth.

Jeff cracks me the hell up and he can be snarky, what's not to love?