Survivor Gabon: Earth's Last Eden Bad Eve---Corinne

I did not get around to watching Sunday's Survivor finale until Monday. Which is sort of an indicator that Survivor is no longer the must see TV it used to be. A football game running late pushed 60 Minutes a half hour into the Survivor start time.

The DVR is smart enough to know that the series scheduled to be auto-recorded has moved to Sunday night for its finale. But the DVR apparently can not tell that 60 Minutes has not ended. The DVR recorded part 1, from 7 until 9. And then part 2, the Reunion, from 9 til 10. Because of the screwup I basically missed half the reunion. Which was fine. I usually bail before it is over anyway.

The DVR does have its benefits. As it greatly shortens 3 hours of TV viewing when you can zip through commercials and speed through boring parts. Like the tiresome walk by their fallen comrades. I always hate that part of a Survivor finale. Followed by burning the fallen comrades torches. I guess you have to have a lot of fluff to fill up 3 hours of primetime.

The biggest surprise of the evening was Susie winning the final immunity challenge by making a house of cards better than anyone else. The challenge previous to that, Susie did not do so well. It was a physically taxing run over and through mazes to find puzzle pieces. Bob easily won that one, with the overly cocky, self-described mastermind, Kenny, being sent to the jury.

Sugar finagled an ending where Bob and Matty tied, with Bob, who'd been practicing making fire all afternoon, easily torching his string, before Matty ever got a fire going, sending Matty home. Well, to the jury.

So, it was Susie, Sugar and Bob for the final three. Pretty much I didn't care who won. I probably would have liked a Sugar or Susie win better than the actual winner.

The jury assault on the final three was interesting. Kenny was embarrassing, not letting go of his "Bob lied to me" whining about giving him the immunity necklace. What a fall for a mastermind.

Marcus seemed pompous. I thought he kept it secret, he being a doctor. But he said, "As you all know I'm a physician." He then proceeded to be sort of, well, rude, particularly to Susie. I didn't get what point he was making with Susie.

Randy had some good vitriol. But he always comes across to me as being purposefully funny in a confounding to others way. He was the same way, only more so, at the reunion.

Crystal was more toned down than I would have expected.

Charlie was as flamboyant as I would have expected. He asked Bob if Bob secretly enjoyed all their intimate cuddling and spooning. To which Bob basically said "anything to keep warm."

And that brings us to Corinne. Without a doubt one of the nastiest humans ever to be on Survivor, let alone any other reality show. At the reunion Jeff Probst basically acted astounded at Corinne's attitude and asked her if she regretted her embarrassingly over the top harsh words to Sugar at the jury inquisition. The crowd loudly booed Corinne and cheered Sugar, who Probst said was the fan's favorite. Sugar looked like a version of Marilyn Monroe at the reunion. Very cute.

Corinne may have a little surface beauty, very little. Very ugly inside.

This is what Corinne said to Sugar when it became Corinne's turn to direct attention to the final three. "Sugar, you are an unemployed, uneducated leech on society and the only thing I'd vote to give you is a handful of anti-depressants so that no one else has to be subjected to your constant crying anymore. And maybe if you get some then it would seem a little more sincere when you're crying about your dead father. You don't deserve the million..."

Corinne's affect while saying the above was that of an out of control mean bitch from hell. I've known a few of those. To be avoided at all costs.

Next time Survivor goes back to Brazil. I hope it's not on that nasty Amazon River again.