On The Air

Oh, I am so glad to see Rocky gone. It’s not often you get reality show contestants that are just vile through and through. Usually there’s a good side somewhere, even in the most hardcore villains. In fact, what makes a good villain is that they have a human side too, so you can actually see there are two sides to them. Like Jonathan, last year, some saw him as the villain, but I was rooting for him all the way. I actually liked him. Or Shane, from a while back. He wasn’t a villain exactly, he was just batshit crazy. And at first you just wanted him to go away, but as the season progressed you started to get attached to him and it was almost sad to see him go.

But Rocky? None of that. Disgusting through and through, like to his core. Whether it was the way he bullied everyone on his tribe, bitched and yelled all over camp, systematically got rid of all the women just because they were women, or the hour-long gay bashing fest we got last week in his treatment of Anthony. Rocky had no good side. He was rotten, and now he and his little rat face are gone. Unfortunately he’s on the jury, so he’s not really gone from the game, and we’ve got to put up with weeks and weeks of eye-rolling from him during tribal council. Not something I’m looking forward to.

I was actually rooting for Lisi this week, is how bad I wanted Rocky gone. That’s how bad it was. “No, don’t vote for Lisi,” I actually said. Out loud.

In other, more cheery news, the only thing making this season of Survivor watchable is Yau Man. His little happy dance when he found the immunity idol was the best thing that’s been on Survivor in years. I want him and Earl to go all the way to the final two, but I know this show doesn’t work like that. I’ve seen the show too many times to expect anything good like that to happen. Alex and Edgardo are going to steamroll over those two, sooner or later, and the last few weeks of the season are going to suck like they always do. Such is the pain of watching Survivor.