Author: Shane

Survivor: Gabon Episode 10

Following the merge in Survivor: Gabon Episode 9, Sugar had to pick a side to swing to. She opted to side with liars over obnoxious people and voted out Charlie, who was targeted because Ken wanted revenge (or something lame along those lines).

Randy’s starting to realize that making everybody angry with him may well be working to make himself a target. Granted, he also realizes that the closer they get to the finals, the more appealing it may be to keep himself or Crystal around (I’d say Corinne, too, but for some reason there are jury members who like her).

Corinne, Bob, and Randy are the only ones who Sugar has not told about having the immunity idol. So who does Bob pick to tell he’s got a fake idol? Sugar, of course, who has apparently offered him no reason to do so.

Corinne still thinks that everybody else is stupid. Has she looked around and noticed that her alliance is the one getting beat?

Randy’s plan? He’ll continue to be his same charming self. Oh, and like Corinne, he hates everybody, too.

Now that the Kota 6 sucks as bad as the Sovereign 6 did, Randy and Corinne want to offer the finals to a new person: Matty. As if they have that kind of power.

Contestants head to the Survivor auction. Beer and peanuts is the first item up for grabs. Sugar and Randy get in a bidding war, and Randy takes it for $180. She says she was just trying to screw him over by raising the price. Ken and Randy get in a bidding war over a covered item. Ken pays $340 for a piece of paper. He has the choice between sending himself or someone else to Exile. The good news is that if he sends them, he takes all their money, so it wasn’t completely moronic to pay that much for something covered. He sends Bob. Once again Randy and Ken get into a bidding war over a covered item. Sugar jumps in at the last minute and goes $340. Chocolate and peanutbutter. Worth it. And unlike Jenna and Heidi, she didn’t even have to strip. Randy is outbid by Susie, who pays $340 for a hot bath. Randy and Ken go at it again, but Matty jumps in eventually and pays $400 for a cheeseburger, fries, and a soda. Susie decides her $340 bath is too hot and hops out. Ken and Randy again, and Randy gets the covered spaghetti, garlic bread, and wine for $280. Without hesitation, Corinne bids all $500 for an advantage at the next immunity challenge.

Jeff offers something covered for the tribe for the first $20, and Randy buys the chocolate chip cookies. Randy questions if he can have them all for himself, a foolish statement. Jeff repeats: for the tribe. Sugar declines. Then Randy lets the others know he’s the boss and offers Corinne two. Corinne takes one and a half. Randy gives the other half to Matty. He offers to Sugar again, who accepts… then promptly gives her cookie to Matty. As for Randy? He’s left with an empty tray, and so he can play the martyr, he declines the half a cookie Corinne offers him. The Survivor auction is over. Randy promises to be an asshat to Sugar, as if he weren’t before.

When they get back to camp, Matty thanks Sugar for the cookie. Randy lets him know the cookie was from him, not from Sugar. Then he lets everybody know he’s not playing with half a deck.

Bob decides to go for the clue over comfort. Again he doesn’t realize that somebody else must have found the idol by now. He gets a clue that doesn’t help him any, so he decides to just go see the sights instead.

The plan is to get rid of Randy. Matty says Bob should go next because Randy and Corinne aren’t going to win anything.

Randy has a plan. He’s going to be mean and nasty to everybody. Yeah, that’s apparently something new in his mind. Here’s the catch. He wants Bob to give him the idol. He gets the feeling Bob probably found the immunity idol (yet nobody found it the first 8 times there). They hope to get revenge on Susie for wisely turning on them. Matty asks Randy to stop being a putz, but when he gets a no, he decides that Randy indeed does need to go home.

Part one of the immunity challenge is to cross balance beams with bags of puzzle pieces. The first two people across must arrange the blocks like dominos to raise a flag while avoiding trip ropes. Corinne’s advantage is to sit out for the first stage of the challenge. She is automatically part of the final round. Matty is first across. Ken is behind him, with Bob and Susie next. Matty has his second bag, followed by Ken, and presumably those two will be in the finals. Matty moves on. Susie gets her second bag. Ken moves on to the final against Matty and Corinne. Matty’s off to an early lead. Ken knocks over his pieces and has to start over. Matty’s done first but hesitates. Ken is the first one to try, but he only manages to knock over a few blocks and must try again. Matty goes back and is ready to try, with both Ken and Corinne deciding shortly after to go for it. Matty is close but comes up short. Corinne also comes up short. Ken wins immunity.

Bob tells Sugar he doesn’t have the idol. She suggests he should vote against Randy to save face. Then she decides Bob should give the hidden idol to Randy because she wants a laugh. Corinne approaches him, and he says he did find the idol. As agreed, he’ll give the fake idol to Randy. Looks like an idol to him. Looks like an idol to me, too.

The cookie issue comes up again in tribal council. Not just comes up but becomes the entire focus of the tribal council. Not quite as petty as two cherries, but petty nonetheless. Randy says he will not be okay with leaving (and no doubt will be bitter…er) if it’s him tonight.

Although the outcome is a foregone conclusion, the voting speeches prove entertaining. Sugar says Randy is a disgusting, old, hot headed, chauvanistic, alcoholic bigot who needs to grow up before he dies alone. Randy says his vote is not strategy but entirely personal, which is always the wrong kind of vote. Crystal is more loudly obnoxious than usual, so loud in fact that everybody can hear her. Unlike Sugar’s diatribe, she’s not saying it with a smile on her face. Somebody needs some anger management.

Randy plays his fake idol. The others can barely contain themselves from laughing.

Votes
Randy
Randy
Susie
Susie
Susie
Randy
Randy

By a vote of 4-3, Randy has been voted off the island. For some reason, Bob gave Randy a fake idol, but then didn’t vote against him. The bridge is a little too burned for him to not vote with the majority here.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Gabon episode 11, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.

CW Sunday Schedule Changes

Remember when The CW had the really dumb idea of selling its Sunday night lineup to Media Rights Capital (not long after cancelling 7th Heaven and Charmed, previously The WB’s #1 and #2 shows from that same night)? Well, I guess they’ve had about enough of that.

Insiders have told Variety that MRC failed to keep up with its payments. Of course, the lineup has been struggling in the ratings, recently performing below 700,000 viewers, and the shows were all on life support to begin with.

“The MRC shows are simply not working,” The CW COO John Matta told affiliates. “To that end, we have made a business and programming decision to protect our network and your local interests on Sunday for the remainder of the season.”

So what really lame idea is in store next? On Sunday nights, The CW will air off network fare from its parent companies CBS Paramount and Warner Bros., as well as movies from MGM. For starters, Jericho will air at 7, and a movie will air at 8.

Actually, that sounds like a nice improvement, and pretty cheap to air, too.

As for the Easy View block, Everybody Hates Chris and The Game season one will air at 5, followed by The Drew Carey Show season two at 6.

Lipstick Jungle Not Cancelled (Yet)

Despite recent reports that Lipstick Jungle was cancelled NBC has come out saying it may have been a bit premature to say that for sure. Ben Silverman, NBC Entertainment co-chairman, indicated to the New York Times that there is still some hope.

The show, which was recently moved to Fridays, has started to show signs of life, which has further been boosted by a 50% increase with DVR viewings included. With that, the network plans to finish the entire current 13 episode run and may order more if it “grows more.”

Fortunately for Lipstick Jungle, it is among the highest rated among high income households. But, should the show be given a full season order, its first run ratings will have to increase for it to have a chance of surviving for another season, as it does not rerun well.

The Biggest Loser Families Episode 10

Following Ed’s return to the game, which effectively made Amy C an endangered fifth wheel, Amy chose wisely as she turned on the blue team and voted out Brady in The Biggest Loser Families Episode 9. Interestingly, although the episode was uncomfortable to watch in parts, it nonetheless generated a large volume of conversation (mostly among people who hate Vicky), and resulted in the best ratings of the season.

Amy says she took out the second highest percentage in the house (herself being the highest). After the vote, Michelle tells her she can trust her, even if she maybe can’t trust her own team.

Vicky says that Amy is a “stupid backstabbing bitch” who messed up the whole game for “us” (us being her and her actual alliance presumably). Oh yeah, we can see the claws are going to come out and stay out already. Heba’s realized her alliance is dead, so she’s just going to work with Ed on staying above the yellow line.

Vicky tells us that, when she woke up, she was in a really bad mood (as if she isn’t in a bad mood the rest of the time). She puts up a sign letting Amy know her feelings: “Revenge. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” She decides she doesn’t want to say anything to Amy because if she says something it’s going to be mean and ugly. I missed the part that wasn’t apparently. Bob figures Vicky’s motivation of revenge is going to bite her eventually.

Bob goes to talk to Amy. He wants to just be supportive, regardless of whether she’s playing the game or not. His message is that it’s okay for her to take care of herself first for once. She promises him that she’s a really hard worker and won’t let him down.

Everybody’s standing outside as a time machine pulls up. Alison believes she’s from the 80s. They even got her talking like she’s from then. It’s like totally 80s week. The contestants get to dress up horribly to match, complete with legwarmers, entirely too tight shorts for Ed, and headbands.

The workouts are also going back to the 80s. Jillian’s got her team breakdancing. Bob hopes to get his team to have a little fun together. He has them do what’s apparently an 80s workout. Once that’s done, he wants to discuss just moving forward with them. He gives a speech; nobody else cares to comment.

The challenge is 80s trivia. A correct answer will allow them add water to someone else (I’d have opted for green slime). An incorrect answer will mean water is added to their barrel. The winner will get $5,000 in cash… or the chance to hit someone else with a one pound penalty. They start off holding 50% of their body weight.

The obesity rates have nearly doubled, tripled, or quadrupled since 1980 (this is an 80s trivia question?)? The answer is doubled. Ed is incorrect and gets water added to his barrel, an additional 25% of his body weight.

One of the most popular workout videos promised buns of…? Heba is correct with steel. She adds water to Coleen.

The National Institute of Health classified obesity as a disease in 1985. True or false? Coleen is correct with true. She adds water to Ed, as a sort of payback to Heba, and Ed’s now holding 100% of his body weight. With that, Ed’s out.

The percentage of Americans with diabetes has increased by what percent since 1980? 100%, 200%, or 300%? Coleen is incorrect, as the correct answer is 300%. She gets weight added to her barrel.

Twenty years ago, US teenage boys drank twice as much milk as soda. Today they drink twice as much soda as milk. True or false? Amy is correct with true. She adds water to Vicky. Now we are amused.

Today the most common women’s dress size is 14. In 1985, it was size 8, 10, or 12? Renee is incorrect, as the correct answer was 8. She gets water added. After that, Amy slips and is out. Coleen follows her.

Today women between 20-39 are eating an average of an extra 385 calories a day compared to the 1980s. That’s enough to gain 20 pounds, 26.7 pounds, or 35.8 pounds a year? Heba is incorrect, as the correct answer is 26.7. She has water added. Vicky drops after that, which Amy takes as good news for her.

Who won a Grammy for a music video that featured her working out in a leotard? Heba guesses Olivia Newton John (Let’s Get Physical) correctly. She adds water to Renee, who’s up to 125% of her body weight. After that, Heba loses her concentration and is out.

That leaves mother/daughter Renee and Michelle as the last two. Renee drops and lets Michelle win.

Bob tells Vicky she needs to bury the hatchet, preferably not in the back of Amy’s skull. She doesn’t want a loose cannon on her team. She also doesn’t want to hear about how blue’s still up 4-3 and she’s throwing away the advantage if she refuses to even make an effort.

Jillian’s goal with the last chance workout is to see how many people she can make cry. Looks like all of them. At least none of them quit, though. They just keep going as she throws more at them.

Coleen is already fitting in her goal closet item. Her medium top fits her, down from her starting size of XXL.

Amy apologizes to Vicky and says she didn’t lie but just changed her mind. She says she didn’t trust her, nor should she have. Vicky accepts her apology but doesn’t trust her at all. Heba thinks Amy sounds sincere but also realizes this makes it so both sides won’t vote her out because both sides still need her.

At the weigh-in, Michelle has to decide between the $5k and the one pound advantage. She takes the pound penalty instead of the money. She decides to give the penalty to Vicky.

Michelle: 186 pounds (-8, 4.12%)
Renee: 207 pounds (-8, 3.72%)
Ed: 262 pounds (-11, 4.03%)
Heba: 231 pounds (-7, 2.94%)
Coleen: 167 pounds (-3, 1.76%)

After Coleen weighs in, Coleen and Jillian have a breakdown. Bob can’t quite figure out why she’s already acting defeated with two people left.

Amy: 173 pounds (-8, 4.42%)
Vicky: 187 pounds (-6, +1, 2.59%)

Thanks to the one pound penalty, Vicky has fallen below the yellow line, alongside Coleen. Once again Amy will be the deciding vote. Vicky’s not expecting Amy to keep her considering all the swearing she’s done in her direction, nor should she be expecting it. Vicky is both a bigger threat and a bigger annoyance. Her strategy in the elimination room? She works too much and has kids at home. If that’s such a big obstacle, how does it make a difference whether she goes home now or weeks from now?

Votes
Michelle: Vicky
Renee: Vicky
Ed: Coleen
Heba: Coleen
Amy: Coleen

By a vote of 3-2, Coleen has been eliminated. I don’t get it. Last week’s vote shocked me some, but this takes the cake. Vicky has been so hateful toward Amy, and Coleen has 20 pounds less to lose. This means that Vicky lives to see another day, and she’s back in power in the game. Coleen is down from her starting pants size of 22 to a size 10 today.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Biggest Loser Families episode 11, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on NBC.

Heroes Season 3 Episode 9

Heroes Season 3 Episode 8 was all about Hiro’s spirit walk a year in the past, where we found out the history of what’s transpired.

We pick up where we left off. With Hiro screaming his head off. He’s got no clue what’s going on, but Ando forces him to blink to get them out of there. It seems he believes he’s 10 years old.

Arthur wishes to access Sylar’s empathy, and he knows he’s capable of it since Peter didn’t really survive a 7 story fall on his own without any powers. He brings him in a room to meet up with crazy electro girl Elle.

Peter doesn’t want Claire to go with him because he wants her to stay innocent. When Knox and Flint show up, she tells him to run because she has a plan. Her plan? To run and jump out of a building. This buys him enough time to get down the stairs, and she escapes without a scratch on her. They head down into the sewers.

Suresh is beginning to think it’s impossible to give people abilities without an adverse reaction. Yeah, I noticed. He believes that most of the previous powers happened during the last eclipse. He’s also come to the conclusion that he needs some sort of catalyst, which could not be stored in something but rather in someone. Kaito Nakamura springs to Arthur’s mind.

Elle seems to be angry about something. Apparently Sylar murdering her father is troubling for her.

Daphne pays a visit to Arthur. She asks him to leave Matt out of this. He tells her to just stay with Parkman, who wants to help Angela.

Peter tells Claire about how she killed him (or will kill him). He asks her to just go home, but she won’t leave him, feeling she has a favor to return for him saving her. She tells him to go while she deals with Flint and Knox, but they came for her, not for him.

Hiro has trouble buying that he’s got a gift. Sounds too much like Star Trek. Ando teaches him how to freeze time, but he’s mostly just interested in playing pranks on people.

Parkman decides to try to get inside Angela’s head, though he’s not sure he actually can. He asks Daphne to just stick around and watch him.

Elle continues to try to fry Sylar. It’s pretty obvious he’s invincible, though. He tells her to just let all the anger and betrayal out because he can take it all. Following her last surge of electricity, she goes from anger to self pity and asks him to kill her, too.

Nathan and Tracy have arrived at Pinehearst seeking answers. He’s relied too heavily on his father throughout the years and has to see him if he’s alive. His dad asks him for a hug. I’ve seen what happens when that mistake is made. Nathan stays away. Arthur tells him he was born with a talent to lead a nation. Sounds too similar to Linderman for Nathan to be interested, but Arthur promises him they can save the world together.

As he’s trying to convince Elle that she should continue on, he touches her, and her pain disappears. Now he’s got her ability as well. She begins training him how to use her power, which conveniently involves a lot of touching.

Ando wants to go to Odessa, Texas, but Hiro just wants to go to a comic book store in Tokyo. This could take some time.

Tracy wants Nathan to get himself together and stop being so under his father’s thumb. She wants to go to Washington and see if they can get some assistance, but he’s worried that his brother will come back from the future and shoot him (again) if they tell anybody anything. He’s going to Primatech so that he can see what he can dig up. He asks her to go to Washington and cover for him. So when he flies away, she marches right back in and sees Arthur. She offers for Nathan to be his public face, considering the world thinks he’s dead and all. She’ll push Nathan over the fence on to the right side as long as she comes out on the right side in the end.

Parkman gets into Angela’s head, but she tells him it’s hopeless and that Arthur’s too dangerous. As he’s freeing her, Daphne shows up and says she’s there to help him, which she does by stabbing him. She tries to wake him up in reality, and she notices he’s bleeding. She says it wasn’t her. Or was it? Arthur tells him she’s betrayed him and that he should send her away. She pleads with Matt and tells him she loves him. With that said, Angela tells Arthur they used to be like that, too, and that he has to let her go. He obliges. Matt wakes up, and he’s not bleeding. Daphne tells him that it was her and that she meant every word of what she said. Just then, Peter arrives to warn him that she can’t be trusted.

While reading a comic book about what happens next, Hiro and Ando see that an eclipse is coming.

Angela wakes up to tell them that Arthur has the formula, both halfs. Apparently, somebody who shall remain nameless has stolen the formula right out from underneath them. Both she and Peter have seen the future (as has Parkman), and it’s not one that they want to face. She knows of the catalyst. They don’t know who the host is. Until Claire pipes up about how Sylar said she was different that is.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 3 episode 10 The Eclipse Part I, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

Prison Break Season 4 Episode 11

After meeting with the man who designed the security system for Scylla in Prison Break Season 4 Episode 10, they managed to figure out what they’re up against. They need to break through reinforced walls without breathing and in complete silence. Michael’s found out he needs surgery right away, which may well get in the way of their plans.

Sara calls the doctor, who can see Michael today. He’s given them his word that he won’t call the authorities. Michael agrees to her plan.

Lincoln thinks they can trust Gretchen. At least as far as the card is concerned anyway.

The company plans to protect Scylla with an armored truck, fighter planes, and whatever else they can get their hands on.

Michael gives them a breakdown of what they have to do. They have to break through two walls, one concrete, one glass, all without making a sound due to the microphones. As for the floor, it will detect an added load of just two pounds. To further complicate matters, they also can’t generate any kind of body heat due to the heat sensors.

Gretchen dresses like a school girl and sends the general a photo to lure him there. He comes to her, but he realizes she’s just looking for his card. After he pulls a gun on her, she tells him she’s the mother of his child and loves him. He leaves with a warning: he’ll shoot her on sight if he ever sees her again.

The heat sensors sound an alarm if anything with a temperature of over 90 degrees is present for more than 5 seconds. Mahone suggests getting their hands on some liquid nitrogen to regulate temperature.

T-Bag offers Trishanne $100 to take off just her jacket. She refuses. He ups it to $1,000. Still not interested. He’s convinced she’s a fed and an armed one at that. Considering he just passed up his boss’ offer of a cruise where he could probably make $50k, T-Bag’s not happy with the way things are going as far as Scylla.

Without the sixth card, trying to crack Scylla is pointless.

Fang pays Gretchen and T-Bag a visit. They ask for help.

As he prepares to go to the hospital, Michael’s concern is that he can’t live with himself if everybody else dies but he survives because he called in sick. When Lincoln shows up, he tells him he’s not going to the hospital. Sara gives him something that will get him through the next three hours, but she’ll be taking him to the hospital afterward, warning him that he can’t have any added mental or physical stress in the meantime.

T-Bag calls Gretchen from work. Trishanne is of course tapped into their chat. Gretchen’s received a call from another buyer, who may be willing to go to $200 million.

The first step is to break through the concrete wall with reinforced steel fibers, and once they get through that, they can see their goal. They build a platform to climb across and spray the liquid nitrogen to prevent the heat sensors from going off. As he’s crossing, Sucre has a close call, nearly falling to the ground, but Lincoln comes to rescue him as he’s dangling just above the ground.

Self and Trishanne show up at the address where the other buyer is supposed to be. He tells her to shoot them for pretty much any reason at all. Gretchen and T-Bag are nowhere to be found. Instead, Fang’s waiting for them.

Michael’s way has been paved to cross toward Scylla. As he’s doing this, he has flashes and fights to prevent himself from collapsing. This must be that physical and mental stress Sara was referring to. Michael cuts a hole in the glass wall, holding the piece that comes off with magnets. Once through the glass wall, he can touch the floor, which allows him to walk up to Scylla. When he touches it, the general is alerted and calls immediately for his team.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Prison Break season 4 episode 12 Selfless, which airs Monday at 9/8c on Fox.

Ace Gordon Survivor Gabon Arrested

Well, that didn’t take long. Ace Gordon, who was recently voted off the island in Survivor: Gabon, was arrested in Naples, FL yesterday on charges of disorderly intoxication, obstruction of an officer, and resisting arrest without violence.

Staff members at Sway Lounge said he struck a woman in the bar before being asked to leave. Then, he reached toward a deputy’s face “in an aggressive manner,” whatever that means. The bar’s manager later indicated that he had an incident with a woman, but that it was actually the man she was with who he slapped.

Reports suggest that he repeatedly told the deputies that he was famous.

Ace from Survivor mugshot

Source: Naple Daily News and Collier County Sheriff via Reality Blurred