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Friday, Nov. 09, 2001 - 1:56 a.m.

The Survivor twist

OK, so Survivor certainly didn't disappoint. (Incidentally, if you don't want to know what happens, don't read this now.)

Unlike last season, in Australia, when they teased to that one guy thrashing around in the river and made it look like it just might have been an alligator attack, the incident related to this week's tease lived up to the hype.

Last week's "Next time on Survivor bit told viewers to be sure to watch the first 15 minutes. I was skeptical to the point where when I sat down to watch it after work tonight, I forgot all about it.

So then they go and tell each tribe to send three people to the original dropoff point with no further instructions. There, Jeff Probst is mauled by a lion.

NO -- there, Probst tells them they're switching teams and, in effect, creating two new tribes and throwing off all alliances. In the end, it came back to bite Silas in the ass (sort of like the tick that bit Lindsay/Lyndsey in the ass and wouldn't let go and, c'mon, would you?). And at the end of Tribal Council, Jeff went all cryptic again saying that Survivor isn't always what you expect it to be and that they've been counting on the merge in another three days ... and then he sends them home, so now there's that to question.

But I think the most interesting thing to come out of all this is the current week's FoxTrot comic strips. Start with Monday, Nov. 5, and read up to the current one. Jason starts this letter to CBS suggesting ways to improve the show, since it wasn't drawing as well as its two predecessors.

Maybe they got some of his ideas.

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