Survivor 14

[mousepod]

Nope - the last two standing in the endurance challenge were Dreamz and Yau.

I hear what you're saying - and if Dreamz hadn't been playing the sympathy card since day one, I'd agree with you. The fact that Dreamz constantly talked about how he was "basically homeless" invited game play around that "fact".

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by mousepod

I hear what you're saying - and if Dreamz hadn't been playing the sympathy card since day one, I'd agree with you. The fact that Dreamz constantly talked about how he was "basically homeless" invited game play around that "fact".

Totally. And he played it right up to the end. There was a point before the final tribal, I'm forgetting exactly when, that he said he wasn't playing the sympathy card, that he told his life story simply because that's who he was and how he got to know people. But then right off the bat with his opening statement he said, "You all know my story, so you know I deserve the money." That was lame.

[Alex]

So, does Yau get to keep the truck after all or does Dreamz still get it?

I don't watch the show (though I've read episode recaps as they cycle through the TVgasm blog) so I don't know if Dreamz is a self-proclaimed nickname or an imposed one. If the former, I just want to say that anybody who would take such a nickname deserves neither a home nor to win Survivor. They need to live a life of squalor as an example to any impressionable young people who might otherwise follow a path towards a really stupid nickname.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

So, does Yau get to keep the truck after all or does Dreamz still get it?

Yau could have kept the truck, but he has said that he's still giving to Dreamz.

I don't watch the show (though I've read episode recaps as they cycle through the TVgasm blog) so I don't know if Dreamz is a self-proclaimed nickname or an imposed one..

I think he had the nickname beforehand. But it's hard to be sure. It seemed to me like the producers have started to encourage nicknames in response to the popularity of nicknames on other reality shows. The survivors seemed to be going out of their way to give nicknames to each other and, more annoyingly, their alliances. But with Dreamz, it did seem like he came pre-nicked.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Yau could have kept the truck, but he has said that he's still giving to Dreamz.

Yet another example of why life--if reality TV is life--is a law school hypo. If the truck is really Yau's, and he gives it to Dreamz, he has to pay both income tax and gift tax on it. I would think that once they made the deal, they huddled with the Survivor producers to establish that Dreamz had officially earned the truck for income tax purposes. If it had not been established that the truck was Dreamz's, I think we would have heard about it. Like many people who win such things, Dreamz will probably have to sell it to pay the taxes on it unless he hits a post-Survivor windfall of paid appearances. Or unless the producers promise to pay his taxes, like they did for Richard Hatch.

Yau could, of course, sue Dreamz for breach of contract for either the value of the truck or the difference between fourth and third place. It would probably be too speculative to say his damages were a million dollars. However, based on his comments last night, it sounds like he's not going to.