Gabon is also not helped by being immediately followed by Survivor: Tocantins, another season which would be included in many a fan’s top five. When getting into the characters that are memorable, there is a wealth of personalities that mesh together in a brilliant way that in my opinion, has been rarely replicated on Survivor. In terms of the nature, Gabon has some of the most beautiful shots in any Survivor seasons. Constantly throughout the season he searches for approval with his tribe mates, worries about being targeted and generally just wants to be accepted as part of the group. Matty is dumbfounded at her answer and just kind of gives up on his line of questioning. Ace Gordon comes over from Kota and decides that he is going to run things at his new tribe despite being down in numbers and having swapped with Kelly who already hated him at the Kota tribe. There are very few players you could look at and put them below what the Survivor Historians call the “Ashby Line”, which evaluates a player based of whether they are more memorable than Ashlee Ashby of Survivor: Palau. Crystal is the gold medalist winning Olympian and Kenny is the professional video gamer. I don’t necessarily prescribe to the “Jeff only likes alpha males” theory but it is very clear that there is a certain type of player he doesn’t like and Susie falls in it. The premiere spot for Survivor history and analysis ranging…. Randy Bailey. If Randy Bailey, a 49-year-old videographer from Eagle Rock, MO, did nothing else, he made his exit from Survivor: Gabon a memorable one. In Gabon he was portrayed as an angry, old hermit when he was actually forging lasting friendships with Corinne Kaplan, Charlie Herschel, Matty Whitmore, and others. motion. In his glorious tenure as the leader of Fang, he boils rice in clean drinkable water instead of using lagoon water and annoys Randy Bailey. Each finalist seems to have a different approach to this final tribal council. Reality TV - Survivor. This is why it becomes even more surprising when the vote is revealed. The show had not gone back to Africa since its 3rd season which had featured some of the most fascinating wildlife and some of the most dangerous conditions. Randy was When it comes to Kenny, we are supposed to see him as this season’s mastermind villain which makes Gabon even funnier. Also Randy brought along super fans as his guests to the reunion instead of friends and family because that is totally a Randy thing to do but also because he might not have any friends or family. Day one Survivor fan and reality television junkie. Matty, the star of the famous GIF, really shines after the merge. She is unable to climb steep hills, fails at holding up posts with the back of her hands, can’t swim and doesn’t even run faster than the majority of her cast. It stands to reason that for such a final three, the final tribal council would be entertaining simply for them trying to explain why they should win the game… and it is. He took down Marcus. One would think that an attorney of his physical profile would be comfortable within himself but Dan tells us right off the bat that he is doing Survivor as a way to find himself. At the merge, he just sort of blends out of the drama and actively avoids having to make any strategic moves. He is never in the driver’s seat strategically as he is on the outskirts of the dominant Kota alliance and then falls into a higher spot within that alliance at the second tribe swap. Randy just After meeting and talking one-on-one with each of the Survivor Gabon cast members at pre-Ponderosa, the location where they stay and wait until the game starts, I decided to try to rank them based… As promised on the podcast, we’re starting with Survivor: Gabon.. For this Watch-Along, the three of us that haven’t seen Gabon– John, Mark, and Matt- will be watching the season and discussing three episodes here each week. Even Playboy Gets It, Child Protection and the Limits of Censorship, A Beginner’s Guide To Getting Dressed: Layering, Joe Biden’s Days of Debate Prep Paid Off. about this in an earlier entry. She also eats a termite and gives one of the more awkward reunion show answers in Survivor history. The one moment where Gillian might have been able to provide some use and she can’t even make a difference. At the merge is also where Bob goes on a challenge tear, at one point winning five in a row which includes three immunities. He claims to be a photographer but I would be willing to bet the pictures he takes are mostly of naked people. Sports fan and alleged analyst. Once the first tribe swap happens, Fang gets some new blood and changes up the dynamic but they still suck. Then with Fang in the driver’s seat, they still managed to fumble the ball and let an original Kota member win the game. Kenny Hoang, your Survivor Gabon “mastermind” everybody! Survivor Gabon is a confluence of moments that exist almost disjointed from one another. His boot also gives us Survivor’s most famous GIF which has been posted on every internet forum since the dawn of time. Sugar does not pick up on this and tells him she feels bad for hurting Kenny’s feelings. Randy is similar in personality to Corinne but pulls it off much more convincingly. He's easily the star of the game at this point. She is also useless at challenges but likes to think she contributes more to the season than she did. Dan is the first player on his season to be sent to Exile Island which is really just an isolated grassy area. Ace presents himself as a high class human being who has traveled the world. Corinne is a bitter woman who hates her tribe in confessionals but acts nice to them on the island. For much of Gabon, whatever Sugar wants to happen is what happens. To understand why Gabon is usually so looked over, it’s important to put it in historical context. During the pre-merge, Matty is the only one who can never get out of Fang and becomes its de facto narrator, something he excels at. The latter is especially lauded as the season that started to shape what is now seen as the modern era of strategy. No player is more emblematic of that than Sugar. Any season is bound to be entertaining when 50% of its pre-merge contestants are at least some form of memorable and that is the case with Gabon. Gillian is immediately useless to her tribe, unable to climb up steep hills and failing to help Randy when he cuts his head on Fang’s hut despite being a nurse. The others start to realize that he hasn’t angered anybody and keeps showing his physical worth so they need to get rid of him. The Fang tribe is now Matty, Sugar, Corinne, Charlie and Randy while the Kota tribe is Marcus, Kenny, Crystal, Bob and Susie. @atribeofone1 on twitter. By this point, Kenny is dead to rights but is allowed to survive until the final five because Crystal is annoying. Matty also has a much less advertised bond with Susie who is willing to go with him to the finals. This woman tried to eat elephant shit and paraded it around in front of her tribe and she still wasn’t booted first. I swear this all happened on a season of Survivor. They show us his Exile Island excursion where he takes the time to go on a safari and tell us about how wonderful his journey has been. Those three people would be picked before Matty Whitmore, Marcus Lehman and Dan Kay. Randy fights Because modern seasons don’t really stand out in terms of the aesthetic appeal, going back to a season like Gabon can be very shocking to the eye. Still, strategic play shouldn’t be all we limit a good Survivor season to. Jessica “Sugar” Kiper certainly has experienced both side of the Survivor spectrum. Ace at the end of the giant wicker ball challenge, he created it While Gabon did not throw the players in for as much of a loop as Kenya did, playing the game in Africa surely looked and felt different than the beach side locations we are used to now. with Sugar over the cookies, 3. Of course, Kenny wants the necklace so that he can in turn vote out Bob. He's far from a master strategist, but he's an idol-making (faking) machine, and that saves this stretch. What did you think of Corrine? A. Jacquie, Survivor Gabon: Randy is crazy, he would say the most obnoxious things. At tribal council, she likens it to choosing between a father and a brother. The reunion is of course no different and has its share of interesting moments. Consider this, Kota had a strong majority, managed to lose it to the clusterfuck that is the Fang tribe. Don’t know the guy well enough to come to any sort of conclusion about that. Here, expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface. In this case, so much weird stuff happened that it feels surreal. Needless to say by the end of that very same episode, it seems pretty costly. Ace’s storyline revolves around his relationship with Sugar Kipper, his “model”. Immediately something that stands out in comparison to the current era is the area itself. There was a sea turtle that was killed and eaten, giving PETA folks a heart attack almost instantly. After Dan is voted off, the players expect to merge but instead are surprised by another swap. Once he hits the merge, Matty finds himself in a dominant position. When Jacquie becomes the first casualty of the nu-Fang swap, she is replaced by Randy who has come in from Fang and hates his original tribe. Survivor: Gabon — Earth's Last Eden is the seventeenth season of the American CBS competitive reality television series Survivor. Look, Survivor has had its share of nerdy schemers but none of them have ever really been portrayed as outwardly villainous like Kenny was. The only problem is that he refuses to allow them the chance by continuously being immune. Dan Kay, a former contestant on Survivor: Gabon, died unexpectedly on Dec. 31, PEOPLE has confirmed. Randy shows He is first depicted as the old, dependable dude on Kota who knows how to do basically everything. As Probst read the votes for the winner, he had to be petrified. As well, around the time of Gabon is when the editors started to get a little bit fancy with their editing. One of the most notable things about playing in Gabon is how dirty everyone got. He is like a new kid in school trying to make friends and coming off so desperate that it actually turns people off. It marked the second season of the series that was filmed in Africa (Survivor: Africa had been filmed seven years earlier in Kenya). He comes off very genuine with his message and come his vote off, it is sad to see him go without ever really fitting in with either of his tribes. No truer is this the case with the first season I would like to throw into the spotlight in a regular feature we are going to call “Why you should watch”. This is this season’s winner saying these things. You never knew what would come out of his mouth, he was just weird. The premiere spot for Survivor history and analysis ranging from Borneo to the current season. Michelle Chase and Gillian Larson get voted off 'Survivor: Gabon'. If the jury is going to dish it out, Sugar is going to give it right back because it is obvious from the beginning that Sugar isn’t even playing to win at this point. He became an Underwater Demolition Team (UDT) Frogman in 1951, serving on two UDT Teams. Rudolph "Rudy" Ernst Boesch (/ b ɒ ʃ / BOSH; January 20, 1928 – November 1, 2019) was a United States Navy SEAL, and two-time competitor on the reality competition show Survivor.. Born and raised in Rochester, New York, Boesch enlisted in the United States Navy at age 17. Survivor: Gabon, also known as Survivor: Gabon — Earth's Last Eden, is the seventeenth season of Survivor. As for the rest of the jury, they all have their moments. While it’s clear that Sugar’s edit dominates the post-merge and becomes annoying for people who want to watch others, she isn’t the only one who gets attention. It’s funny that this cast had not seen season 16 while out on location but Kenny is trying to “Erik” Bob out of the game. The new swap features two tribes of five with each tribe having a 3–2 advantage for Kota. Over the course of Survivor history, some seasons eventually get labelled as bad for whatever reason. While this is only an overview of what went down in Gabon and why it is worth watching, I can’t even do it justice. GC is offered up to take the leadership role despite being showcasing none of the skills for the position. The worst part of Sugar’s flameout during final tribal council is that you can tell the jury wants to vote for her. This is also the second season in which Ponderosa videos would become available for the jury members. Randy Bailey is a two-time Survivor contestant and frequent guest on RHAP and Reality TV RHAP-Ups. takes random potshots at Crystal, 4. Paloma shows some feistiness before ultimately being voted out for being useless in challenges. Gabon is at its core a very pure version of show’s original purpose which was to put a bunch of strangers from different walks of life on an island and see what happens. It was the first time in the "Survivor's" 39 season history that a contestant had been pulled over an issue of conduct and he is finally speaking out. The name of his strategy? Tengaged.com is an online social site and it's not affiliated with Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, Lionsgate Entertainment, Endemol, Big Brother TV show or any other party related to the social games that can be found in this site. Write on Medium, Top 100 Survivor Characters of the Decade, Rap & ‘Flexing’: What Long Nails and Face Tattoos Have in Common, Queer Actor Ezra Miller Is the Hero We Need Right Now. The one problem with his plan is that Erik was mostly outdone by Cirie Fields and Kenny is like the Cassandra Franklin version of Cirie. At Kota a majority alliance is formed between Marcus, Charlie, Corinne and Jacquie. Then he takes out Charlie for revenge because Charlie is the one who caused the idol to be thrown into the water. two of Gabon, Randy puts his main Survivor strategy into It got so bad that producers had to finagle fresh clothes as a reward for multiple challenges simply to add some color to the show. Randy fools It becomes clear in the post merge that most of Gabon is fueled not by strategy but by emotion. It hasn't been that interesting as a far as the game structure itself, which is the same as ever, but the casting people have managed to put together a… is in trouble, his strategy is to take everyone else down with him, 5. They weren’t quite sure how they wanted to go about editing it into an online video piece and you can tell. We get a lot of confessionals from Matty about the beauty of Gabon’s wildlife and how being there has changed him into someone who wants to take control of his life. She also has a story line that involves Randy and her hating each other to an impossible degree. Susie argues that she is a hard worker and a role model. After making it through 30 days in Gabon, Bailey had seemed to find a way to adapt his prickly personality to the game and find success. Another important personality trait given to Sugar: she cries constantly. She flips on Marcus with Ken and Crystal and suddenly the frontrunner to win it all becomes the first jury member. We get to see him interact with his wife when he wins the loved ones reward. Absolutely not. That accent is highly inconsistent and likely fake. They figure it best to have the idol holder with them rather than against them.
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