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Brian Smith
May 16, 2013, 1:27:47 AM5/16/13
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More insight about the disastrous reunion show from Allie. No wonder these
people are pissed.
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Usually I don't go out of my way to make ranty type posts and comments,
because honestly who gives a shit what I have to think, but with the amount
of questions and comments and nasty things people are saying, I feel it
necessary to speak my mind.. To the people saying they wouldn't have asked
us questions anyway, that is quite obvious, and also NOT what we were
complaining about. Being on a Fans vs Favorites season was amazing, and I
would LITERALLY GIVE ANYTHING to go back. That being said, no one gave a
shit about any of us from the get go.
There were 8 of us in the audience who flew out 6 family members a piece,
made them pay money for hotel rooms which were not cheap. My personal issue,
we were told to bring three outfit choices, I was told Saturday that two of
my dresses would be an inch or two short because, sitting on the bleachers,
and it being a live show and all they were worried about any accidents, and
my third and favorite dress, was the same color as Franny, and since we
would be sitting next to one another ON STAGE, I needed a new one. I then
spent close to four hours panicking, driving around LA looking for a dress
until 10 pm, and missed dinner with my family, who I harassed multiple times
to be at a restaurant at 7pm.
Come Sunday afternoon, during mic check, we found out we would no longer be
on stage. Corinne and myself being the only ones with mouths, shot back at
Jeff and said how unfair it was and how our families didn't fly across the
entire country, and spend thousands of dollars to watch the back of our
heads. Later in the green room, Hope, Laura, and myself spoke with Jeff and
told him that was complete bullshit. The excuse that there was not enough
room on stage was completely irrelevant, especially when you take into
consideration that everyone on stage moved over thinking we were sharing
those bleachers in the first place, we also told him this, to which he just
shook his head, gave us hugs and said he understood. Clearly, no, no he did
not understand. Ask anyone who did get to sit on stage, they will tell you
they agree with us, and not in a, "we are so sorry, sucks for you," kind of
way, but in a genuine, heartfelt, "we are so sorry this is even possible,"
kind of way. Don't believe me, read Erik's interview..
http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/05/13/survivor-caramoan-erik-reunion/2/
People who have quit the game have been brought back and sat on stage.
People who didn't mean to be there in the first place, like half the people
on stage Sunday, got to sit on stage. Erik and Shamar were medically
evacuated, and no one cared to even pan a camera on them and say, how are
you? I am not saying we wanted questions. Would that have been amazing?
Absolutely. Would it have been nice to hear from 3 of the 4 people who
actually applied for a seasons of Fans vs Favorites, instead of NONE? Yes.
We are not bitching because we didn't get questions. Do people care that
Laura and I are moving to LA? No. That Hope is moving to NY? No. Matt has a
new tattoo? No. We get that no one cares. But to feature a 12 year old (no
matter how cute she may be) who couldn't form a coherent sentence, former
contestants, who were 100% irrelevant, and also COMPLETELY homophobic, lets
not act like you don't have to be PC because you said something remotely
entertaining 13 years ago, and to not speak to Sherri, who was TIED FOR
SECOND, not third like everyone kept thinking, Eddie who was 4th, and also
one of peoples favorite players, Erik, who left 5th both games due to wildly
different reasons,and Michael, who to be honest I am not sure how he didn't
run down and choke Rudy, is absolute bullshit.
I love Brandon Hantz, I really do, but for 2/5s of the cast to be the only
ones on stage because they were trying to divert attention away from him not
being there, was a huge slap in the face, to not only Fran, Hope, Shamar,
Laura, Matt, Julia, Corinne and myself, it was a slap to our families who
gave up work, time, patience with us over the past few weeks, and the
viewers, who unlike CBS care what happens to us. Also, you spelt my name
wrong on the check, it's Alexandra...
Source: https://www.facebook.com/allie.pohevitz?fref=ts
Brian
people are pissed.
___________________________________________________________________________________
Usually I don't go out of my way to make ranty type posts and comments,
because honestly who gives a shit what I have to think, but with the amount
of questions and comments and nasty things people are saying, I feel it
necessary to speak my mind.. To the people saying they wouldn't have asked
us questions anyway, that is quite obvious, and also NOT what we were
complaining about. Being on a Fans vs Favorites season was amazing, and I
would LITERALLY GIVE ANYTHING to go back. That being said, no one gave a
shit about any of us from the get go.
There were 8 of us in the audience who flew out 6 family members a piece,
made them pay money for hotel rooms which were not cheap. My personal issue,
we were told to bring three outfit choices, I was told Saturday that two of
my dresses would be an inch or two short because, sitting on the bleachers,
and it being a live show and all they were worried about any accidents, and
my third and favorite dress, was the same color as Franny, and since we
would be sitting next to one another ON STAGE, I needed a new one. I then
spent close to four hours panicking, driving around LA looking for a dress
until 10 pm, and missed dinner with my family, who I harassed multiple times
to be at a restaurant at 7pm.
Come Sunday afternoon, during mic check, we found out we would no longer be
on stage. Corinne and myself being the only ones with mouths, shot back at
Jeff and said how unfair it was and how our families didn't fly across the
entire country, and spend thousands of dollars to watch the back of our
heads. Later in the green room, Hope, Laura, and myself spoke with Jeff and
told him that was complete bullshit. The excuse that there was not enough
room on stage was completely irrelevant, especially when you take into
consideration that everyone on stage moved over thinking we were sharing
those bleachers in the first place, we also told him this, to which he just
shook his head, gave us hugs and said he understood. Clearly, no, no he did
not understand. Ask anyone who did get to sit on stage, they will tell you
they agree with us, and not in a, "we are so sorry, sucks for you," kind of
way, but in a genuine, heartfelt, "we are so sorry this is even possible,"
kind of way. Don't believe me, read Erik's interview..
http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/05/13/survivor-caramoan-erik-reunion/2/
People who have quit the game have been brought back and sat on stage.
People who didn't mean to be there in the first place, like half the people
on stage Sunday, got to sit on stage. Erik and Shamar were medically
evacuated, and no one cared to even pan a camera on them and say, how are
you? I am not saying we wanted questions. Would that have been amazing?
Absolutely. Would it have been nice to hear from 3 of the 4 people who
actually applied for a seasons of Fans vs Favorites, instead of NONE? Yes.
We are not bitching because we didn't get questions. Do people care that
Laura and I are moving to LA? No. That Hope is moving to NY? No. Matt has a
new tattoo? No. We get that no one cares. But to feature a 12 year old (no
matter how cute she may be) who couldn't form a coherent sentence, former
contestants, who were 100% irrelevant, and also COMPLETELY homophobic, lets
not act like you don't have to be PC because you said something remotely
entertaining 13 years ago, and to not speak to Sherri, who was TIED FOR
SECOND, not third like everyone kept thinking, Eddie who was 4th, and also
one of peoples favorite players, Erik, who left 5th both games due to wildly
different reasons,and Michael, who to be honest I am not sure how he didn't
run down and choke Rudy, is absolute bullshit.
I love Brandon Hantz, I really do, but for 2/5s of the cast to be the only
ones on stage because they were trying to divert attention away from him not
being there, was a huge slap in the face, to not only Fran, Hope, Shamar,
Laura, Matt, Julia, Corinne and myself, it was a slap to our families who
gave up work, time, patience with us over the past few weeks, and the
viewers, who unlike CBS care what happens to us. Also, you spelt my name
wrong on the check, it's Alexandra...
Source: https://www.facebook.com/allie.pohevitz?fref=ts
Brian
FirstHit
May 16, 2013, 1:48:36 AM5/16/13
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FirstHit
God's Debris
May 16, 2013, 9:05:38 PM5/16/13
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On Wed, 15 May 2013 23:27:47 -0600, "Brian Smith"
<dcg_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>More insight about the disastrous reunion show from Allie. No wonder these
>people are pissed.
>___________________________________________________________________________________
>
>Usually I don't go out of my way to make ranty type posts and comments,
>because honestly who gives a shit what I have to think, but with the amount
>of questions and comments and nasty things people are saying, I feel it
>necessary to speak my mind.. To the people saying they wouldn't have asked
>us questions anyway, that is quite obvious, and also NOT what we were
>complaining about. Being on a Fans vs Favorites season was amazing, and I
>would LITERALLY GIVE ANYTHING to go back. That being said, no one gave a
>shit about any of us from the get go.
I'm quite surprised this decision was so late minute. I liked it
<dcg_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>More insight about the disastrous reunion show from Allie. No wonder these
>people are pissed.
>___________________________________________________________________________________
>
>Usually I don't go out of my way to make ranty type posts and comments,
>because honestly who gives a shit what I have to think, but with the amount
>of questions and comments and nasty things people are saying, I feel it
>necessary to speak my mind.. To the people saying they wouldn't have asked
>us questions anyway, that is quite obvious, and also NOT what we were
>complaining about. Being on a Fans vs Favorites season was amazing, and I
>would LITERALLY GIVE ANYTHING to go back. That being said, no one gave a
>shit about any of us from the get go.
better without them on the stage BUT, to treat them like this at the
lat minute is just BS. And that said, I'll go back on what I said and
say that while they aren't needed on stage, after reading her comments
I would still put them on stage because there is no harm in doing so
and they did, after all, play the game, and were, after all, part of
the whole thing.
@somewhere.com madamS
May 17, 2013, 8:01:43 PM5/17/13
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"Brian Smith" <dcg_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:l7_kt.19660$l94....@newsfe21.iad...
> More insight about the disastrous reunion show from Allie. No wonder these
> people are pissed.
> snip
> people are pissed.
Allie was not one of my favorites. In fact, I considered her a little twit.
However, reading that facebook post makes me feel that she might have been
the victim of a slanted edit, because she makes perfect sense and does not
come across as "twit-like" at all. There is a chance that someone else wrote
it, but her name is on it so I am assuming that she feels this way. The post
is well-written, and sheds a lot of light on the show. I have been an
apologist for Jeff, but I am really starting to think that his arrogance is
killing the show. If that was indeed an attempt to camoflage the absence of
Hantz, it was ineffective. We noticed that he wasn't there, but mainly with
relief. His interviews after his exit showed that he still thinks that he
was justified in what he did, and that he hasn't learned a damn thing. If he
had been there, it would have been a disaster, with him talking over
everyone and acting the fool. Most of us didn't want him on the show in the
first place, but Jeffy knows what will make an entertaining show. LOL. I
really don't think he cares what the fans want. I KNOW that if he brings
back Colton, that he doesn't care what *I* want. Thanks for posting this,
as I would never have found it on my own. It was interesting reading.
madamS
Brian Smith
May 18, 2013, 3:48:15 AM5/18/13
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"madamS" wrote in message news:kn6gcu$609$1...@speranza.aioe.org...
I think all of the young girls that got the boot early got bad edits. If
Allie hadn't written that post someone would have called her on it by now.
She was tweeting similar sentiments immediately and I think she decided to
let all of her frustrations out in her Facebook post. Laura was/is also very
annoyed at the way they were treated. And how's this for further insult.
Hope said that they weren't even mic'd. I guess that explains why when Dawn
made her comments about Corrine we only saw a shot of her in the audience
and Jeff didn't ask her to respond.
To me what really comes across as a slap in the face to these people is that
they convinced their families to spend a bunch of money to come out and see
them with the expectation that they would be on stage and thus on TV. And
the dress deal with Allie was really insulting. To tell her that two of her
dresses were too short the day before the reunion and that they were worried
about an "accident," and then the next day inform her she wouldn't even be
on stage just screams that they don't give a fuck about these people which
is basically what she said in her post. One stupid unbelievable excuse after
another on the part of Jeff, etc.
Brian
Allie hadn't written that post someone would have called her on it by now.
She was tweeting similar sentiments immediately and I think she decided to
let all of her frustrations out in her Facebook post. Laura was/is also very
annoyed at the way they were treated. And how's this for further insult.
Hope said that they weren't even mic'd. I guess that explains why when Dawn
made her comments about Corrine we only saw a shot of her in the audience
and Jeff didn't ask her to respond.
To me what really comes across as a slap in the face to these people is that
they convinced their families to spend a bunch of money to come out and see
them with the expectation that they would be on stage and thus on TV. And
the dress deal with Allie was really insulting. To tell her that two of her
dresses were too short the day before the reunion and that they were worried
about an "accident," and then the next day inform her she wouldn't even be
on stage just screams that they don't give a fuck about these people which
is basically what she said in her post. One stupid unbelievable excuse after
another on the part of Jeff, etc.
Brian
FirstHit
May 18, 2013, 4:02:10 AM5/18/13
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On Saturday, May 18, 2013 12:48:15 AM UTC-7, Brian Smith wrote:
> I think all of the young girls that got the boot early got bad edits. If
>
> Allie hadn't written that post someone would have called her on it by now.
>
> She was tweeting similar sentiments immediately and I think she decided to
>
> let all of her frustrations out in her Facebook post. Laura was/is also very
>
> annoyed at the way they were treated. And how's this for further insult.
>
> Hope said that they weren't even mic'd. I guess that explains why when Dawn
>
> made her comments about Corrine we only saw a shot of her in the audience
>
> and Jeff didn't ask her to respond.
>
>
>
> To me what really comes across as a slap in the face to these people is that
>
> they convinced their families to spend a bunch of money to come out and see
>
> them with the expectation that they would be on stage and thus on TV. And
>
> the dress deal with Allie was really insulting. To tell her that two of her
>
> dresses were too short the day before the reunion and that they were worried
>
> about an "accident," and then the next day inform her she wouldn't even be
>
> on stage just screams that they don't give a fuck about these people which
>
> is basically what she said in her post. One stupid unbelievable excuse after
>
> another on the part of Jeff, etc.
The whole thing is pretty poor!
> I think all of the young girls that got the boot early got bad edits. If
>
> Allie hadn't written that post someone would have called her on it by now.
>
> She was tweeting similar sentiments immediately and I think she decided to
>
> let all of her frustrations out in her Facebook post. Laura was/is also very
>
> annoyed at the way they were treated. And how's this for further insult.
>
> Hope said that they weren't even mic'd. I guess that explains why when Dawn
>
> made her comments about Corrine we only saw a shot of her in the audience
>
> and Jeff didn't ask her to respond.
>
>
>
> To me what really comes across as a slap in the face to these people is that
>
> they convinced their families to spend a bunch of money to come out and see
>
> them with the expectation that they would be on stage and thus on TV. And
>
> the dress deal with Allie was really insulting. To tell her that two of her
>
> dresses were too short the day before the reunion and that they were worried
>
> about an "accident," and then the next day inform her she wouldn't even be
>
> on stage just screams that they don't give a fuck about these people which
>
> is basically what she said in her post. One stupid unbelievable excuse after
>
> another on the part of Jeff, etc.
Reuniongate!
FirstHit
shawn
May 18, 2013, 11:28:31 AM5/18/13
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wonder if that was a last minute decision and if so why was it made.
It can't be because of the size of the bleachers as they had to do run
throughs with stand ins long before any of the actual players showed
up. Did someone in charge of production suddenly have an issue with
letting the audience know that Brandon was excluded? Why would that
even be an issue? Just say he was being excluded and move on so it
doesn't impact the show.
The fact that were telling Allie that her dress was too short for the
stage and fitting them for mics tells me that they actually did intend
to have the pre-jury on stage up till the day of the show. That leaves
me with a poor impression of the production with that sort of last
minute change of a live show that they've done tens of times before.
God's Debris
May 18, 2013, 2:49:59 PM5/18/13
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anyone have ever thought they gave a fuck about these people? They
use them to make money, that's it. If they aren't useful for that
purpose then they are not needed. They made the judgment that on a
going forward basis they were better off to not have the whole Russell
thing highlighted and proceeded according to THEIR needs, not the
loser players needs.
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