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Post by Kyle on May 26, 2005 9:53:56 GMT -5
Basically that night, February 7th....don't think for a minute that date is not permanently etched into my brain....was my biggest headache the whole game. 1. Before TC, I confront Jamie about who is getting the boot in Hawaii, and she confidently tells me it's me. 2. During TC, I make the ever-so-targeting "Pagong" comment in my answer. 3. Ryan keeps asking during TC who we are voting for and i keep putting him off 4. As people are voting, I tell Ryan it is for him and that I will self vote. 5. He asks me who he should vote for, and I tell him Kelley. 6. Ryan suggests Jenne or Gracie and I say no, that Kelley should be the vote. Ryan's hint of the alliance if he didn't have a million already. 7. Ryan votes for Taylor, I'm not allowed to self-vote. 8. I make the other ever-so-targeting comment about, "Let the guy stomping begin" at the end of TC. 9. Taylor reams me for Ryan's vote. 10. Jamie confronts me to make sure I will hold nothing against her in Holidays for voting me out in Hawaii. I say I won't and she tells me how much she respects me. 11. Feeling secure in my alliance that I didnt' know she was in as well, I tell her she doesn't respect me, just trying to save her own ass. 12. Jamie fumes then comes back to me with this: 13. I don't know when Ryan told Ellie, but I message Jenne and she responds with only a ....then tells me Ryan leaked our alliance. 14. That's when I'm guessing the whole "Kill Kyle" chat happened because no one would answer me, and everyone was saying that no one else was talking to them. The rest is history...
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Post by Kyle on May 26, 2005 10:11:18 GMT -5
And by the way Jamie....thank you for you kind words. I'm glad things can be different between us outside of the game!
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Post by Kyle on May 27, 2005 10:55:53 GMT -5
Episode 10: And the Oscar Goes to...
R.I.P. KELLEY
So I had survived one crazy tribal council, and that is EXACTLY what I did….survived! When Gracie tackled me as soon as I got there, I had no idea to what extent I was in danger. Sad thing here is…I think this is the point I sort of stopped playing the game and coasted for a bit. Sure I was going to work hard on the challenges, but I knew I was secure from then on out. And the beginning of this episode shows me feeling very superior to Lucas, because that’s how I felt the minute Jamie left tribal council, and me with my best guilt trip foot forward. Yes, Marsha Adams (my mom) had come out of me just a tiny bit, and I was going to heckle Lucas for all he was worth. Well, I actually think I got even more quippy with him because I thought he was being way sarcastic with me when he said:
Now I do have to laugh at myself here because I immediately threw into Lucas’ face that “I” had saved him 3 TC’s in a row! Funny thing is, and I like to hold on to this for some reason, but I no more saved Lucas at any of those TC’s than he saved himself. If you get down to the technicalities of it, Little Steven saved him the first time by not showing up. However, and Ryan and Rami can attest to this, I was back and forth all the way up to tribal council about whether I was going to vote for Lucas, and Little Steven not showing up was almost a relief for me. I honestly didn’t want to turn on Lucas over emotion…and it all stems from Mitch.
But anyways, at Tony’s TC, I was raring to go to vote for Lucas but Taylor gets most of the credit for this redemption. BUT, I did begin to have second thoughts when Taylor and I were deliberating, so it wasn’t hard to convince me to vote for Tony instead. That’s when I was honest with Lucas about why I didn’t trust him….when he tackled me like a crazed lunatic before that TC….and “this” is what I could hold over his head. I told him everything of why I didn’t trust him. I was truly honest.
Now with Rami’s TC, there wasn’t really a “save Lucas” necessary. I had already decided long before hand when Jenne, Gracie, and Taylor had all convinced me that Lucas was on my team, that I was not going to gun for Lucas anymore. It wouldn’t have mattered if I was willing to vote for him anyway because Big Steve wasn’t going to budge from voting Rami.
So long story short….which I’ve already spelled out in quite a lengthy scenario, but whatever…I really didn’t have much to do with saving Lucas. But it looked like I had a lot and it was plenty of fuel for me to hang the guilt over him. And the fact that I had yet to write his name down, and he wrote mine the first chance he got….that was sweet leverage. Or so I thought.
And boy did Lucas deserve an Oscar through this episode. Sheeeeesh! Slitting wrists, and blowing his browns out and whatnot?
*slaps forehead* aye yi yi yi
Sidenote….I thought the “regrouping” chat between the 4 was somewhat touching. It just kind of made you feel so warm and fuzzy. Seriously.
So yeah, after that intense tribal council, Kyle was feeling set all the way to the final 2. That’s why you see me bouncing around between Taylor, Jenne, Gracie, and Lucas passing out kisses and hugs and handshakes and hard-ons for Taylor. I thought I was the most popular person in Valetine’s Day. Gracie and Jenne were so right, and did a heck of a job securing me. I felt like I owed all three of them. There was no way I was going to turn on them.
Here’s the irony here. Taylor dropped me two vital hints right before Jamie’s TC that could very well have drastically changed the events of this game at this point.
I was too busy fearing for my safety in the game to think back on St. Patrick’s Day and the unveiling of the aliases. I was concerned with one matter and one matter only. I knew who Tenzil and Beth were, but I didn’t make the alias connection. Right before TC I even went to Tonga and Socotra and briefly perused their profiles again, but saw nothing of significance. I wasn’t too concerned at that point.
Had I searched through thoroughly, with a clear head and remembered St. Patrick’s Day, I would’ve figured it out. Beth’s interview essay in Tonga was all about the PC game Everquest and we had discussed her liking that game many times. Lucas and I had discussed us having the same birthdays, which was the same as Tenzil’s. I should’ve been tipped off because Tenzil was always one of the first to go in those games.
But, I was distracted, and I didn’t even think about it after my friends saved my bacon.
What would I have done if I had found out about it, you ask? I don’t know. I say I might have tried to rally up the others and turn on them, but I honestly don’t know. I had grown too close to them that I don’t think I could’ve done it in the first place….well, except for to Lucas.
Now here’s something I will never understand:
I was no more neurotic than anyone else who had been led blindly to the chopping block or left out of things. Episode nine was nothing but half a cast of characters practicing psychosis at its best.
So that’s it in a nutshell. A little less spastic than before. The teaser for episode 11 says things get even more heated. I can’t imagine, but then again I was clueless to quite a bit. I mean what else is a walking ass privy to while singing to the hills?
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Post by gracie on May 27, 2005 11:54:27 GMT -5
Had I searched through thoroughly, with a clear head and remembered St. Patrick’s Day, I would’ve figured it out. Beth’s interview essay in Tonga was all about the PC game Everquest and we had discussed her liking that game many times. Lucas and I had discussed us having the same birthdays, which was the same as Tenzil’s. I should’ve been tipped off because Tenzil was always one of the first to go in those games. I mean what else is a walking ass privy to while singing to the hills? *grin* Beth played in Okinawa not Tonga ... and you are never an ass ! *kisses* and *hugs*
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Post by Kyle on May 27, 2005 13:18:14 GMT -5
Potato.....Pot-ah-to!
;D
I meant ass as in the "idiot" sense....which i was in this game!
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Post by Lucas on May 27, 2005 15:58:53 GMT -5
Sadly, I wasn't acting.
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Post by Big Steve on May 30, 2005 14:12:26 GMT -5
I enjoy following you in the episodes! You are a class-act guy! Thanks for everything and keep up the perspecive articles!
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Post by JoJo on Jun 2, 2005 11:31:14 GMT -5
HI Kyle,
I'm still behind on episodes, but I keep finding myself wanting to rub your back and saying "there there, Kyle, it will be OK." Just my mom side coming out, I suppose. Truly, its sometimes painful reading the episodes and seeing that you don't have a clue about what your allies have in store for you. Nevertheless, you are one of my favorite castaways, and I love reading your game perspectives.
This one is a personal favorite; I literally snorted out loud when I read it!
Thats downright hilarious! Good luck to you!
JoJo
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Post by Kyle on Jun 13, 2005 5:44:27 GMT -5
Episode 11: The Band of Egos
Will be here shortly....
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Post by gracie on Jun 13, 2005 7:32:02 GMT -5
*pouts* I want it NOW btw .. I love the dancers in your siggy .... *giggle* ALWAYS makes me think of you.
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Post by Kyle on Jun 14, 2005 10:09:39 GMT -5
Episode 11: The Band of Egos
R.I.P. BIG STEVE
Hmmmm, it feels like a ghost town around here lately, but I'll continue on with my commentaries anyway...if only for my own fulfillment.
I really don't know what to think about this episode. It doesn't make sense to me, and it doesn't answer the questions that I was hoping to have answered, especially for Steve's sake. I wrote his name down at tribal council thinking he had become a last minute spastic player, plotting and scheming with everyone...but this episode shows no evidence of that.
At the time, I had heard these things:
From Gracie: Steve had made a final 2 deal with her, and that he was wanting to vote me out.
From Taylor: Steve and Ellie were plotting with me to vote Taylor out.
From Jenne: I don't quite remember, and the episode doesn't exactly refresh my memory, but she is the one that came to me confirming a Steve vote and at the time I was perfectly ok with it because of the stuff that was going around.
From Lucas: Are you kidding? At this point anything between Lucas and I was all small talk.
From Annette: Well...nothing. We didn't have much interaction toward the end of the game. We were too comfortable in our alliances.
From Ellie: Stop playing! Ellie didn't even know I existed.
From the horse's mouth (Steve) : That Lucas needed to go before it was too late.
So yeah, that was all the rumors flying around about my friend Big Steve and I was hoping they would all be cleared up at this episode, but....nope! There weren't even chats between him and other people about those things mentioned above except for when he told me we should gun for Lucas and his discussions with Gracie about final 2. Nothing else was aired if they existed. So I guess I will continue with life wondering. Wondering if it was all a fabrication of the Band of Egos (formerly the Band of Brothers) or if we are the victims of a rush job for episode 11.
I tend to lean that way because I realize there were absolutely no confessionals from anyone aired except for Big Steve, and I personally had 3 very significant confessionals.
So anyway, from my point of view...I had basically gone to auto pilot at this point in the game except my guard was up fearing Lucas would swing a tie and screw us over. I would have gone with Steve in a hearbeat to swing a tie because I knew Lucas had more votes than anyone else. Well....he and I were tied, but since Annette was the initial target, it would've worked out. I was fairly confident that Taylor would help us out but I wasn't going to mention it until the last possible minute....until Lucas won immunity.
Can I just say that I busted my butt for these challenges....every single time....and always came in close 2nd or 3rd place? How frustrating is that? I'm the king of exerting ALL my energy into one task but failing to use the resources readily available to me just because I didn't go the extra mile to look it up. Just like I spent hours upon hours on the Gains and Losses challenge manually refreshing the pages when I could have just gone to a URL refresher site, I went through every page of the flippin' dictionary extracting words. I didn't know there was an anagram site that would spit out 14,000 words in mere seconds. Geeeez!
It never ceases to amaze me. Valentine's Day has just turned out to be a huge learning experience for me. Mistake after mistake after mistake that I will NEVER make again.
Ok, enough about that. But yeah, Lucas won immunity so there was nothing left to do but go with the crowd, and whether the vote was going to be for Annette, Ellie, or Steve...I did not care. So it just happened to land on Steve, and Big Steve took the fall.
This commentary is entitled The Band of Egos....because, well it should be fairly obvious. I do have to give props to Taylor for trying to keep everyone's egos in check here and there. I thought that was pretty classy. But things like.....Oh no! I "almost" got ONE vote from the person who is no longer in the game!...and...I got a stray mystery vote, I want blood!....and.....How dare these people act without consulting us!......
hold on....i'm gonna puke.....
Ok...I held it in.
There I'm over it now.
So, yeah, the title of this commentary should speak for itself.
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Post by gracie on Jun 14, 2005 11:07:34 GMT -5
Episode 11: The Band of EgosThis commentary is entitled The Band of Egos....because, well it should be fairly obvious. I do have to give props to Taylor for trying to keep everyone's egos in check here and there. I thought that was pretty classy. But things like.....Oh no! I "almost" got ONE vote from the person who is no longer in the game!...and...I got a stray mystery vote, I want blood!....and.....How dare these people act without consulting us!...... I can explain, for my part, why that "almost" vote freaked me out. I had figured, I thought, that Ellie and Steve were behind the information and one of them set me up. So I got paranoid. Sue me
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Post by Kyle on Jun 14, 2005 12:27:43 GMT -5
Meh.....too much hassle for just one vote. Paperwork, lawyer expenses....etc, etc. BUT.....I could just give you a couple of the votes that I already had, then we can just call it even? Here's the running tally: Lucas Jamie Kelley Kelley - this one could've been for Gracie Lou had she sent it to Karen in the first place. Ellie
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Post by Kyle on Jun 14, 2005 12:34:23 GMT -5
For anyone who is wondering.....no I don't take this game or anything that happened in it that seriously! It's just fun to stay in character until the game is officially over.
It's also fun to lash out at the reigning egos, even though they know I love them more than anything.
;D
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Post by gracie on Jun 14, 2005 16:16:17 GMT -5
For anyone who is wondering.....no I don't take this game or anything that happened in it that seriously! It's just fun to stay in character until the game is officially over. It's also fun to lash out at the reigning egos, even though they know I love them more than anything. ;D *giggle* and I adore you! But this is fun
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