Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Survivor One World - February 29, 2012 Episode Recap

One World Is Out the Window

The episode opened with the women returning from Tribal Council after voting out Nina because, let's be honest, she didn't fit esthetically with their tribe. 
-Alicia tells Kat not to cry at Tribal Council (she is definitely the ring leader) Kat semi indignantly whines - I didn't, I sucked it up. (Whatever.)
-Chelsea says they are just starting to gauge who's the weaker players, even within their alliance (get with the program lady) and all they need is a little confidence to turn things around.
-Kim & Chelsea are sitting around the fire and the wind is picking up when Colton & Jonas come over to ask if the women want to go to the men's shelter for the night - there was a "massive ass" storm coming in.  Running it by the other ladies they all say no, they'll tough it out...
-Cue the gale force winds..."Oh - mygod - it's freezing"... and then the rain started... "It's so cold."

Salani - Day 6
- touching piano music - We see abandoned sandals being rained on in the sand, a frying pan half full of water over a rained out fire pit, and all the women huddled together like broken dolls under their ramshackle shelter - sad hulk music - (Really? They signed up for this - come on!)
-Chelsea says they got no sleep, they're soaking wet and freezing and the fire went out so they haven't eaten (Isn't Kat the fire keeper?  Why wasn't she on the job?  Oh yeah, she's an idiot.)
-Some of the guys walk by and Chelsea calls out to them - Troyzan's over their like a shot (dirty old man) and she asks if they still have fire... of course they do... then she asks if they can go over and get warm and he says, "Sure, go on over there."
-You don't have to invite them twice - I actually think he was lucky not to be trampled in the stampede.
-Kim says she's glad they stuck to their guns through the night and didn't run over there but they were so miserable this morning she has no shame... though she doesn't want to make a habit of it, it was uncomfortable. (Ya think?)
-Matt (king of the world/frat boy lawyer... hmm, can you tell I'm not a fan?) was not amused - barely room for all the men in their shelter - no room for the women, this is done (he has decreed it.)

REWARD CHALLENGE (Oh, and it's still raining)
-One at a time tribe members will square off in a memory test.  They will observe a row of items and when they have it memorized, pull their lever dropping a curtain, then run over to their stations and re-create the series of items in the same order.  First person to get it right gets a point - first team to 5 points wins reward. 
Reward: fishing gear plus a canoe with paddles waiting back at camp
Men have to sit two guys: Tarzan and Leif (old guy and little person)
They start out having to memorize a series of 6 items
-Sabrina vs Matt - Sabrina wins the point
-Colton vs Monica - Monica gets them to 2
-Alicia vs Jay - Alicia wins it - women have 3
The women are proving more observant - they bump it up to 8 items in the series on the next round.
-Kat vs Troyzan - he doesn't even look just hits the lever... What?  They both get it wrong (of course)
re-rack and these two go again... they look a little longer... still they both get it wrong (uh oh, I see a pattern here... are they both too dumb for this one?)
-Finally - on their 7th try... Kat finally gets the order right and the women have 4 points.
-Christina vs Bill - Christina gets it right - And the WOMEN finally win something!  Reward... of gear they won't know how to use.
-But the win is the real prize - hopefully it'll give the women some momentum.

Salani - Day 6... it's still raining
-The women return to camp energized to get the shelter storm-proofed - Kat is ready to get the fire going... but the while the will is strong, the wind proves stronger and she can't get it going - she decides to go ask the men for an ember (I just - ugh.)
-Monica & Kat go ask and they men ask if they can take the canoe out sometime... Well we can't make a decision on our own... a little back and forth and one of the guys just gives it to them - they skedaddle right quick and King Matt says they have to stop giving them things if they're getting nothing in return.
-Surprisingly, Colton agrees with him - he says he loves some of those girls but he's a Republican, not a Democrat, "I do not believe in hand outs." (Hahaha...)
-The men are arguing about whether or not to help the women anymore when Chelsea and Alicia come shivering over to warm themselves by the fire - "Just give me 2 minutes to get warm and we'll be out of your way." Oh yeah, it's totally give them an inch and they're taking a mile... until it comes to sharing something of theirs - Alicia makes a comment about how cool their boat is and Jay says, "Yeah, we're planning on using it some time soon."
Alicia - Well, I don't know...
Jay - did you not just walk away with fire a while ago, are you not standing here right now...
Alicia - I can't just make a decision... we'll let them know that's what you want...
(Oh my Godipus!  The men should kick them out right now.)
-And they kinda do - Tarzan tells them to go back to their camp right now and come back with the consensus so they can clear this up right now.  And still she's pouty about it (Let-me-smack-her!)
-As soon as the girls leave the men are all just dumbfounded - What are they thinking?  Matt says they're just acting spoiled, "It's my stuff, where's my fire..." They just don't understand and Troyzan says maybe it's a man/woman thing, we just think different.
Colton - But I don't even understand it. (haha.)

-Chelsea lays it out for the women as the men saying they are taking the boat out right now so they better be okay with it.  "I just wanted to dry my hands out for 5 minutes and they were b*tching at me the whole time..."  She's ready to give them all the fishing gear and the boat for one night of sleep - she's losing it.  Oh, and my favourite from Kat, "We're girls, we're not meant. like, to be beaten down this well."  (ARRGHH!! Have any of you watched this show before EVER??? I hate them all.)

Salani - Day 8
-The weather is beautiful and Chelsea, Kim & Monica are out in the boat, learning how to spear fish and getting confident with their gear.  They each spear themselves a fish, they weren't big but they did it - the women say it's starting to feel different - they are getting their feet under them and settling in to being there... and it's not gone unnoticed by the men.
-Matt & Troyzan are over checking out the catch and congratulating them - Troyzan says the men have to win again.

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
One person will be the caller and the rest will be blindfolded and tethered together in pairs.  Using only verbal commands the caller must guide them through a series of obstacles to the water tower: they have to pull the rope, get soaked and release a bag of puzzle pieces that they will then return to their mat.  There are five bags of puzzle pieces - once they retrieve them all, the caller will use the pieces to solve the wooden tree puzzle.  First team to finish will win Immunity.
Men sitting Colton & Jay. (And Alicia is starting to look like a cave woman - she's got to do something with that hair.)

Callers are: Bill & Sabrina - let the blind mice run... it's mayhem, as always with these blind things - Monica is gung-ho but she's on the men's course... how did that happen...
The guys are the first to get a bag of pieces.
Sabrina's so occupied trying to get Monica back on course that the rest of the girls are feeling their way by themselves...
-The men have 3 bags before the women finally stumble into one...
-The men have all 5 bags back and Bill gets started on the puzzle - the women still need 2 more bags.
-Bill's had quite the head start but Sabrina starts strong... and ties it up... and the WOMEN Win IMMUNITY!!! (I was shouting and clapping - okay, maybe I don't hate them as much as I thought. Yee, it was very exciting.)

Matt (king of the world) of course says he's looking forward to Tribal Council tonight, he's spent 8 days out there building up some power and he's ready to execute some of it - "Tonight, that's what's gonna happen."

Salani - Day 8
-The women are really happy with their win - and try not to rub it in as the men troupe by to their camp.  Chelsea said it was kinda funny, you could tell they thought they had it in the bag because they had such a lead - they're probably running around like chickens with their heads cut off right now, not knowing what to do.

Manono - Day 8
-They tell Bill he did a good job but that's not really how they feel - Colton says he's so glad to get rid of some of these people, he can't stand Bill who apparently uses lots of surfer speak - Bro, that's messed up, Brah... Colton calls him ghetto trash and he wants him gone - yesterday.
-The Misfit Toys alliance meets - Colton, Troyzan, Jonas, Leif and Tarzan and Colton tells them straight up this his their 5... Tarzan, "one one floater - Bill." Oh no, Colton says he's too wishy-washy.  Tarzan, rightly so, thinks Matt is the biggest threat and they should take him out (yes!) but Colton says Bill is the type to come up behind you and slit your throat, he's got to go first. (Hmm, seems to be little racist.  Bill is black by the way.)  They just haven't really shown enough of Bill for me to have any kind of opinion on him, except that they say he's a comedian and he doesn't appear to be funny at all.
-Jay moseys on over to see what everyone's chatting about... so of course they all clam up (yeah, that's not obvious)  Jay recognizes that there are 5 of them and his Frat Boy alliance is only 4 - quickly realizes if he's not in the alliance with the numbers he's in trouble so he says he'll vote with them (the model is no dummy) - Tarzan tells him they're thinking Bill right now but he thinks Matt would be the better choice... and Matt comes striding in to survey his subjects... and again they clam up.
Matt asks what's going on.
Tarzan - we're talking strategies - obviously.
Matt - and my being here has stopped that talk.
Colton - no...
Tarzan - to be honest, yes, right now. (Tarzan - SHUT UP!  Tarzan only good with fire & stick)

Matt doesn't like it when there is strategy talk that he's not involved in (without his permission I think he meant to say) but he leaves them to talk and pulls Troy aside afterward.
-In Matt's world - he and Troy have spent the past 9 days as the heads of two snakes - the Roosters (his guys) and the Average Joes - he tells Troy he sees him as a Rooster and wants him with them so they can be strong and defeat these chicks...Matt goes on to say to the camera something like after tribal council when they all see the power's back where it belongs, with him, things will settle down.
-During Matt's pitch Troy says -of course, you're right... But he tells the camera - Matt's just a jerk - I'm never going to be with him. "It ain't Survivor unless you're lying." (He says it with such glee, I think I've just become a Troy fan.)

Troy is talking to Colton & Jay down by the water and he tells them what Matt said, that he wants Troy, Mike, Jay & Jonas as an alliance with him and that is so dangerous to me dude.  He kept talking about them being the roosters and we the little people... Colton, "So you're saying we should get rid of Matt first." (Ding! By George, I think he's got it.)  Colton says he wants to get rid of Bill because he can't stand him but Matt is the head of the snake, you have to chop off the head to make the rest stop wriggling.

TRIBAL COUNCIL
Michael - with 9 guys, there has to be some sort of a power struggle, initially.
-The dynamics came together quite naturally - Matt & I clicked but there are a lot of different alliances in this tribe, it's hard to keep track of.
Tarzan (groan) so only 8 days in there are cracks within the tribe.
-They way I see it, we have an alliance of 5 and I trust those 5 (Colton wants to face palm but he covers as brushing his hair back... make the old man shut it!) we'll stick together, that's what I believe. (And I think Matt actually looks worried...)
So Colton, if there is an alliance of 5 that's strong, math says the other 4 are in trouble.
-Well I'm not uncomfortable, because I'm not going home tonight.
Why is that?
-Cause I have an idol. (Holy, I didn't see him spilling that...) the girls gave it to me. 
[Oh yeah, Matt & Mike are mad.]
So you're not going home because you're going to play it?
Yeah, I'm not going to be a James, go home for not playing it, that's stupid.
Michael, is the thought that an idol at camp is just too disruptive so let's throw some votes to just make sure to get it out.
-Yeah, that's on a lot of our minds (Really?  Did they know before just now?  What'd I miss?) Colton is Colton, he's been between two tribes, he's been sleeping over there, eating over there and then he has an idol on our side so it's just disrupted the whole game.
So Colton, you've been spending a lot of time with the women.
Well, yeeahh, that shouldn't be a shock.
Wait a second, why shouldn't that be a shock, you are on the men's tribe...
Because all my friends at home are girls
But you're on the men's tribe - so it's a reverse duh-double-dog dare on you...
Women are more nurturing and they pet you and tell you everything's going to be okay...
Do you know what kind of target you put on your back when you say that?
Yeah but, that doesn't mean I'm going to vote with those women.
Bill, explain to me how this makes sense.
As much as he assumed we spot-on judged him, he spot-on judged us and assumed that we wouldn't take him in...
You mean because he's gay?
Yeah. SHRUG (it was a huge shrug.)  Colton tries to pretend that didn't bother him, looking at his nails.
Tarzan raises his hand - Here's what we've discovered, Colton is highly intelligent, he's invaluable in knowing how this game is played and he already has allegiances with girls over there so when we merge he's set.  If we value our survival, we need him...
Matt does not like the way this is going and pipes up, "Who's 'We' Tarzan?"
-Well uuhhh, I'm using 'we' in the general sense, I'm trying to defend Colton's status because I think we'll prosper if he stays here a bit longer.
And Matt, you're not buying it.
I think Tarzan's put out a cry for help (WHAT?) to the 5 guys in his alliance - I think he's shivering in his boots over here and I want him to stop talking in general terms and talk turkey (who's shivering in their boots?  It that the best you got rooster-man?)
Tarzan - You're absolutely wrong.  That is not the motive behind what I'm saying.
Matt - I'm not buying it.
Tarzan - My heart is broken that he misinterprets me.
Matt, are you enjoying this game? Cause you seem a little agitated.
-Yeah some of the things that have been said here have agitated me.  Tarzan's always talking and everyone laughs at Tarzan but you don't know how much you can take seriously.  I'm more of the type of guy that when I speak I want people to listen and take me seriously.
Do you think people take you seriously?
I do. (There is no other way to take him.)
How will tonight's vote change this game for you? (Hopefully it ends it for him.)
Well, we all get one chance to make the move that sets the ball in motion, and that's tonight.  You always have to be ready to reassess - blah, blah...blah.
Bill, how worried are you that tonight's vote will not go the way you want it go?
-It's all fun and games until you're right here, right now, I mean, this is intense... (did he find something growing in the jungle? He's too hyper) I mean, I'm on the edge of my seat, I'm so jacked up right now. (Colton is shaking his head, his face says he cannot believe Bill's such an idiot.) I may go home, I might not, but I am so happy I got to play this game, man, I mean, I'm so ready to do this.
Uh, okay, with that, it's time to vote.

Tallying the votes:
Colton does not play his idol... (I knew it.)
Colton - 1
Bill - 1
Matt - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - (his mouth was so tight by the 5th vote) MATT is the first man voted out and, oh, he so deserved it!  And with the King of the Roosters leaving Sharleen H, Robert L. and Bob L. are also out of the pool.

Tarzan raises his hand and asks Jeff if they can hear the last two votes.
No.
Colton - Leave those questions to me.

Next week it looks like the men are bringing the DRAMA!  Tarzan announces Troy's betrayal, Colton wants Bill's head on a platter - Jonas, "What's going on?"  Hahaha - it looks awesome.

Matt was the most humble he's ever been in his closing statement - but he still spun it - I was probably enemy number one and that spelled my disaster. 
(Everyone voted for Matt except Matt & Michael who were the two votes for Colton & Bill.)
All I can say to Matt's leaving is - B-bye, don't let the hut door hit you on the way out.


Have a week,

Coleen










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