Just Annihilate Them
Quickly, last week the tribe merged with even numbers 6 men - 6 women - then Tarzan tried to get Chelsea to wash his poopy drawers and they voted out Jonas... this episode opened at:
Tikiano - Day 21 (and I just have to say, they either pre-made that sign or someone is quite the artiste)
-Troyzan is talking to Jay, disappointed that Jonas hadn't been on their Salani tribe so they could have kept him and voted out Mike. Troy says when the tribe mix up happened, the three men on the new Salani agreed they would stick with that Salani tribe (dammit! You still should have kept Jonas... come on!) Troy hopes they didn't make a mistake.
-Jay finally realizes that they are outnumbered by the women now - he thinks the next person to go has to be a girl... (possibly a little late on that... the girls are now up 6 to 5 men and if they are smart, they'll try to keep that advantage.) He just doesn't want to be overpowered by the women.
-They retrieve their Tree Mail and it's an old school 7up bottle with a note in it - it tells them if they win the cool crisp victory today they'll have relief from the stress they're facing. They keep saying 7up - the un-cola baby... enough with the product placement (but I know it's just beginning.)
Reward Challenge
They will be divided up into two tribes again (so when Jeff said last time it was one time only he was lying!) Anyway, they will race down a waterslide one at a time then run out into the water to retrieve large puzzle crates and bring them back - as more people come down the slide, more hands to retrieve the crates - once they have all 7 crates collected they have to solve the puzzle - first team to do that correctly gets the reward: 7Up Oasis - BBQ, steak, pie and as much clean, crisp refreshing 7Up they can drink... but first a taste - Jeff cracks a bottle for them all to pass around and share - Kat grabs it out of his hand before Christina (me,mememe) can get to it (ha!) And it works, I now want a 7Up.
Two tribes are: (Blue) Jay, Kat, Troyzan, Alicia, Chelsea VS (Yellow) Michael, Kim, Sabrina, Christina and Leif
Oh, and they did a schoolyard pick so Tarzan was the one person not picked (shocker), he doesn't get to participate at all.
Off they go: Jay and Mike head out - and they have to grunt the crate back on their own - they are heavy - Jay has a lead on Michael but as the rest of the tribe starts coming down and they are working together to bring in their crates, they are neck and neck - Leif is launched off the slide - on the last crate Christina abandons helping bring in the crate and starts looking at the puzzle (really? that doesn't sit well.)
-They all start on the puzzle and it's the yellow tribe that wins the reward - They are all excited but Leif is chanting "BBQ, BBQ!" (Well, that's pretty obnoxious, let's just rub the fact that you're going to be eating into the other tribes faces.)
Reward
The 7Up oasis looks so nice! Beautiful rock pool, built in barbecue and Food, food, food... They pray (it was a nice prayer but I had Coach flash backs, don't take it there again please) and then they eat! Kim fills up and leaves the table with Sabrina and they start talking strategy - they want to keep up the illusion that it's still the Salani tribe but they want all girls in the end. They want to get rid of Mike, so Kim thinks she'll tell Troyzan that Mike was talking about getting rid of Troy so they can get Mike gone and then there will be 6 girls to 4 guys, "And then we can just annihilate them."
Tikiano - Day 21
The rest of the tribe is sitting around at camp trying to convince themselves that steak would have been too hard on their systems at this point (ha ha, yeah, that's it) when Chelsea suggests they discuss who should be next to go. Troy says he was thinking Christina because no one likes her and Kat agrees that Christina is annoying but she's not a threat, she thinks they should take Mike out next. Jay is automatically suspicious, he doesn't trust them girls. Jay says he has to be like a teacher with his alliance, keep them in line, keep reminding them what they need to be doing. He knows the numbers are not in their favour and they have to stick together.
The reward winners return with the chest of ice cold 7Up to share with the rest of them, (I wonder how much 7Up had to pay for this episode... It was the 7Up Survivor Hour).
-Troy was worried about the 6 that were away, what were they talking about, is there a new plan - he's going to keep an eye on these girls and make sure they are sticking with Salani to the very end (well, they are sticking with the ORIGINAL Salani anyway :)
Tikiano - Day 22
It is a stormy day, overcast, windy, huge waves... they lost part of their shelter to the wind the night before and are trying to shore it up again when Tarzan took a piece of bamboo that was part of the wall and cut it up for firewood - Chelsea asks why he would take part of the wall when they have ample firewood and he turns on her, "someone just laid it there, it wasn't a piece of the wall, I'm not that stupid." She is so passive aggressive - "I'm not even talking about it anymore." But her expression says, you Are that stupid. She comments to Troy, "The most educated people have no common sense."
-Tarzan tells the camera that people can tell when they are an irritant to someone and he feels that Chelsea has been subliminally harassing him (is that even possible? How do you do that?)
-Tarzan is on a grumpy old man tear now - he complains to Troyzan that he didn't like her accusation and he tells him to just let it go - but Tarzan cannot just let it go.
-He confronts Chelsea and says he senses her aggravation with him and doesn't know if it's because he's a plastic surgeon and she had a bad experience with her plastic surgeon (WHAT!?!!) That's her internal reaction too - she tells the camera she can't believe he brought up her boob job (good for her for admitting it) He's crazy. She assures him that has nothing to do with it (she doesn't like you because you're an annoying old codger, doesn't matter what you do for a living.)
-Chelsea says if it were up to her she'd get rid of Tarzan as soon as possible but she knows you have to play this game with your head and they need to get rid of the bigger threats first, like Mike.
Double Rainbow... What does it MEAN?!? (And if you don't get that reference, you have to Google Double Rainbow.)
-Kim takes her opportunity to play Troy - she tells him that Mike is planting the seed that Troy's going to win and they can't let him get to the end. She says Mike could get Alicia and Christina to vote with him and if they take Troy out then they'll take all of them out. She says Mike has to be the next to go but we have to make sure he's confident he's staying.
-Troy says that really pisses him off - It totally worked - he rants to the camera that he can't stand that guy, he does nothing around there - if he wants to vote me out he's got another think coming.
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
-They will race along a ladder bridge while maneuvering a bag of puzzle pieces along a twisty rope snaking in among the ladder rungs - first 4 people to get their bag of puzzle pieces to the end move on to the next phase - using the pieces to complete a very complicated Survivor puzzle - and it is complicated. First person to complete the puzzle, wins Immunity!
Off they go - and the rain starts - the first 4 to make it to the next phase - Jay, Kim, Troyzan and...Alicia (oh, that was a surprise - but we all know how good she is at puzzles.)
Puzzle phase : there are 60 pieces to the puzzle - they are all different blocks of wood but on angles on one end and flat on the top - they have to place the pieces correctly to make it flat across the top...
Kim gets to the last piece but it doesn't fit... Alicia also on last piece but it doesn't fit... Jay was way behind but ends up pulling it out at the end - Slow and steady won the race - JAY got immunity!
Tikiano - Day 22
Jay feels it's only right that they vote out a girl tonight to get the numbers even again - it's his plan to vote out Christina tonight and keep his Salani alliance together.
-Kim has another plan and she confirms that Troy is still blinded by his dislike of Mike and she will be able to use Troy to take out the big frat boy banker tonight. She is trying to make sure Jay doesn't get wind of it because she knows he'll try to talk Troy out of it and she wants to keep her options open - she may need those boys for another vote or two.
-Chelsea obviously wasn't in on that part of the plan because she goes and asks him, "Jay, what do you think about getting rid of Mike tonight?" (Arghh! No, Chelsea, leave it alone!) He says to be honest he's scared of the girls and if they send Mike home, they'll send him next. Chelsea says that's not necessarily true - Jay,"Is that your promise?" And no one says anything! Plus, Alicia and Christina were right there too. (Oh man, now you have to be reassuring, you've gone and kicked the hornets nest, you can't just stand there stupidly! Sheesh.)
-Jay is shocked she said it in front of Alicia & Christina - he's afraid that if he doesn't go along with the girls plan to take out Mike that they'll turn on him next (I think the men's days may be numbered no matter what they do now. I almost feel sorry for them.)
-Chelsea tells Kim and Sabrina what Jay said and Kim can't believe Chelsea made such an asinine move as to bring it up to Jay in front of the Manono girls... Jay and Mike have gone off together and the girls hit full on panic mode - Kim takes off to do damage control. She comes up to them and just starts talking, doesn't let Jay get a word in and lays it out that they should vote Christina tonight and just pick off the Manono tribe one by one. Jay says he is not getting a good vibe from the girls but Mike buys it no problem. He thinks Jays just a worrier - Kim wants Christina and he's up for a good blindside (oh, if only you knew.) He goes on to say "I guess my tribe could blindside me but I don't see that happening" (and yet, I really don't feel sorry for him - AT ALL.)
-Now Kim goes back to Sabrina and Kat and says they have to decide if they are going to go with the all girl thing or stick with their Salani alliance because Jay freaked out and if they start taking out the men in their alliance there is no going back. They leave us hanging as they head out for...
TRIBAL COUNCIL
Jeff asks for a truthful response: Who here is worried that it is them going home tonight?
-Nobody puts up their hand.
Nobody thinks it's them tonight? So there are a lot of alliances and they all feel very solid and very loyal. Tarzan do you get a kick out of the fact that someone is going home but no one thinks it's them?
-It just means that someone is very good at deceiving Jeff.
So Troyzan, if you got blindsided by your alliance would it really blow you away?
-I didn't bring my bags, so yeah, I'd be shocked.
Kim, you feel the same way? (She's the mastermind Jeff)
-It would blow me away.
Chelsea - Same.
Christina - yes, same.
Mike, same question - Definitely blow me away. It would be a complete surprise.
Kim, where is the confidence coming from that nobody tonight thinks it's them?
(I bet she's thinking, just leave it alone you dimpled freak! But she says:) I think there are people that think they're part of an alliance that they are not actually a part of and that's where the confusion is setting in. We had our original alliances but then we had time to set up new relationships - I think you always have to keep your options open but then know when to stick with a plan too. (Okay, vague enough to make everyone nervous or safe... well said puppet master.)
Chelsea, that's a very carefully crafted answer.
-I think in a way you may want to be aligned with two groups, maybe more and just see who has more trust and keep yourself with the majority so maybe it's good to have more options. (Hmm, she's not so reassuring.)
Alicia, does that add a whole other dimension because now it's 11 people and anyone could be coming for me?
-I definitely agree - I feel like right now we still don't know who's on whose side and it's going to take a couple tribal councils to figure it out and to see who is loyal to who and who's going to be the one on top.
Christina, 6 women, 5 men - is there any talk that it still might be men vs women?
-I'm sure yeah, but there's also the new alliances that they built as the new Salani and Manono tribes - I think that's why no one's really sure if they are going or not.
Tarzan raises his hand - Well, I hate to say it Jeff, but we're all just playing it because we know how important tonight is. One would think that the allegiances we made before we came here were not so wishy-washy - and if we reveal too much it would ruin the whole thing. So the game is afoot and that's why we're being so ambiguous it's our best bet - and therefore, you're being played.
So, I'M being played tonight?
-You bet, you're being played - I'm sure you sense that. [everyone laughs]
Kat, it's a million dollar game on the line, we're about to vote and everyone is laughing at Tarzan.
-She says they call his rantics being Tarzan'd and Jeff just got Tarzan'd. (I like the terms 'rantics' even better.) And Jeff still keeps it going - (COME ON! Let's just get to the vote.)
Mike, at least one person is getting played - Blah, blah - he thinks his alliance is strong.
Finally Time to vote:
They don't show us who anyone voted for.
Tallying the votes:
No one plays a hidden idol
Christina - 1, 2
Tarzan - 1, 2 (who voted for Tarzan?)
Mike - 1, 2, 3, 4... it's starting to sink in... 5 - It's Mike that was blindsided, much to his chagrin. And with Mike leaving Ryan H, Kim B and Corinne H are out of the pool.
Next week: The women are in control of the game but the men fight back - they tell Kim the next 4 votes are coming her way, Troy works Christina and Jay works Kat for their votes... oooh, this could get interesting.
Mike's final thoughts: Do we really care? Nope. He does say he came out of the gate too hot and had been back pedaling ever since (I can agree with that - I've hated him since he stole the axe on day one... and I apparently hold a grudge :)
Christina and Alicia voted for Tarzan, Tarzan and Mike voted for Christina - everyone else was on board with Mike.
Have a great Easter weekend everyone,
Coleen
Quickly, last week the tribe merged with even numbers 6 men - 6 women - then Tarzan tried to get Chelsea to wash his poopy drawers and they voted out Jonas... this episode opened at:
Tikiano - Day 21 (and I just have to say, they either pre-made that sign or someone is quite the artiste)
-Troyzan is talking to Jay, disappointed that Jonas hadn't been on their Salani tribe so they could have kept him and voted out Mike. Troy says when the tribe mix up happened, the three men on the new Salani agreed they would stick with that Salani tribe (dammit! You still should have kept Jonas... come on!) Troy hopes they didn't make a mistake.
-Jay finally realizes that they are outnumbered by the women now - he thinks the next person to go has to be a girl... (possibly a little late on that... the girls are now up 6 to 5 men and if they are smart, they'll try to keep that advantage.) He just doesn't want to be overpowered by the women.
-They retrieve their Tree Mail and it's an old school 7up bottle with a note in it - it tells them if they win the cool crisp victory today they'll have relief from the stress they're facing. They keep saying 7up - the un-cola baby... enough with the product placement (but I know it's just beginning.)
Reward Challenge
They will be divided up into two tribes again (so when Jeff said last time it was one time only he was lying!) Anyway, they will race down a waterslide one at a time then run out into the water to retrieve large puzzle crates and bring them back - as more people come down the slide, more hands to retrieve the crates - once they have all 7 crates collected they have to solve the puzzle - first team to do that correctly gets the reward: 7Up Oasis - BBQ, steak, pie and as much clean, crisp refreshing 7Up they can drink... but first a taste - Jeff cracks a bottle for them all to pass around and share - Kat grabs it out of his hand before Christina (me,mememe) can get to it (ha!) And it works, I now want a 7Up.
Two tribes are: (Blue) Jay, Kat, Troyzan, Alicia, Chelsea VS (Yellow) Michael, Kim, Sabrina, Christina and Leif
Oh, and they did a schoolyard pick so Tarzan was the one person not picked (shocker), he doesn't get to participate at all.
Off they go: Jay and Mike head out - and they have to grunt the crate back on their own - they are heavy - Jay has a lead on Michael but as the rest of the tribe starts coming down and they are working together to bring in their crates, they are neck and neck - Leif is launched off the slide - on the last crate Christina abandons helping bring in the crate and starts looking at the puzzle (really? that doesn't sit well.)
-They all start on the puzzle and it's the yellow tribe that wins the reward - They are all excited but Leif is chanting "BBQ, BBQ!" (Well, that's pretty obnoxious, let's just rub the fact that you're going to be eating into the other tribes faces.)
Reward
The 7Up oasis looks so nice! Beautiful rock pool, built in barbecue and Food, food, food... They pray (it was a nice prayer but I had Coach flash backs, don't take it there again please) and then they eat! Kim fills up and leaves the table with Sabrina and they start talking strategy - they want to keep up the illusion that it's still the Salani tribe but they want all girls in the end. They want to get rid of Mike, so Kim thinks she'll tell Troyzan that Mike was talking about getting rid of Troy so they can get Mike gone and then there will be 6 girls to 4 guys, "And then we can just annihilate them."
Tikiano - Day 21
The rest of the tribe is sitting around at camp trying to convince themselves that steak would have been too hard on their systems at this point (ha ha, yeah, that's it) when Chelsea suggests they discuss who should be next to go. Troy says he was thinking Christina because no one likes her and Kat agrees that Christina is annoying but she's not a threat, she thinks they should take Mike out next. Jay is automatically suspicious, he doesn't trust them girls. Jay says he has to be like a teacher with his alliance, keep them in line, keep reminding them what they need to be doing. He knows the numbers are not in their favour and they have to stick together.
The reward winners return with the chest of ice cold 7Up to share with the rest of them, (I wonder how much 7Up had to pay for this episode... It was the 7Up Survivor Hour).
-Troy was worried about the 6 that were away, what were they talking about, is there a new plan - he's going to keep an eye on these girls and make sure they are sticking with Salani to the very end (well, they are sticking with the ORIGINAL Salani anyway :)
Tikiano - Day 22
It is a stormy day, overcast, windy, huge waves... they lost part of their shelter to the wind the night before and are trying to shore it up again when Tarzan took a piece of bamboo that was part of the wall and cut it up for firewood - Chelsea asks why he would take part of the wall when they have ample firewood and he turns on her, "someone just laid it there, it wasn't a piece of the wall, I'm not that stupid." She is so passive aggressive - "I'm not even talking about it anymore." But her expression says, you Are that stupid. She comments to Troy, "The most educated people have no common sense."
-Tarzan tells the camera that people can tell when they are an irritant to someone and he feels that Chelsea has been subliminally harassing him (is that even possible? How do you do that?)
-Tarzan is on a grumpy old man tear now - he complains to Troyzan that he didn't like her accusation and he tells him to just let it go - but Tarzan cannot just let it go.
-He confronts Chelsea and says he senses her aggravation with him and doesn't know if it's because he's a plastic surgeon and she had a bad experience with her plastic surgeon (WHAT!?!!) That's her internal reaction too - she tells the camera she can't believe he brought up her boob job (good for her for admitting it) He's crazy. She assures him that has nothing to do with it (she doesn't like you because you're an annoying old codger, doesn't matter what you do for a living.)
-Chelsea says if it were up to her she'd get rid of Tarzan as soon as possible but she knows you have to play this game with your head and they need to get rid of the bigger threats first, like Mike.
Double Rainbow... What does it MEAN?!? (And if you don't get that reference, you have to Google Double Rainbow.)
-Kim takes her opportunity to play Troy - she tells him that Mike is planting the seed that Troy's going to win and they can't let him get to the end. She says Mike could get Alicia and Christina to vote with him and if they take Troy out then they'll take all of them out. She says Mike has to be the next to go but we have to make sure he's confident he's staying.
-Troy says that really pisses him off - It totally worked - he rants to the camera that he can't stand that guy, he does nothing around there - if he wants to vote me out he's got another think coming.
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
-They will race along a ladder bridge while maneuvering a bag of puzzle pieces along a twisty rope snaking in among the ladder rungs - first 4 people to get their bag of puzzle pieces to the end move on to the next phase - using the pieces to complete a very complicated Survivor puzzle - and it is complicated. First person to complete the puzzle, wins Immunity!
Off they go - and the rain starts - the first 4 to make it to the next phase - Jay, Kim, Troyzan and...Alicia (oh, that was a surprise - but we all know how good she is at puzzles.)
Puzzle phase : there are 60 pieces to the puzzle - they are all different blocks of wood but on angles on one end and flat on the top - they have to place the pieces correctly to make it flat across the top...
Kim gets to the last piece but it doesn't fit... Alicia also on last piece but it doesn't fit... Jay was way behind but ends up pulling it out at the end - Slow and steady won the race - JAY got immunity!
Tikiano - Day 22
Jay feels it's only right that they vote out a girl tonight to get the numbers even again - it's his plan to vote out Christina tonight and keep his Salani alliance together.
-Kim has another plan and she confirms that Troy is still blinded by his dislike of Mike and she will be able to use Troy to take out the big frat boy banker tonight. She is trying to make sure Jay doesn't get wind of it because she knows he'll try to talk Troy out of it and she wants to keep her options open - she may need those boys for another vote or two.
-Chelsea obviously wasn't in on that part of the plan because she goes and asks him, "Jay, what do you think about getting rid of Mike tonight?" (Arghh! No, Chelsea, leave it alone!) He says to be honest he's scared of the girls and if they send Mike home, they'll send him next. Chelsea says that's not necessarily true - Jay,"Is that your promise?" And no one says anything! Plus, Alicia and Christina were right there too. (Oh man, now you have to be reassuring, you've gone and kicked the hornets nest, you can't just stand there stupidly! Sheesh.)
-Jay is shocked she said it in front of Alicia & Christina - he's afraid that if he doesn't go along with the girls plan to take out Mike that they'll turn on him next (I think the men's days may be numbered no matter what they do now. I almost feel sorry for them.)
-Chelsea tells Kim and Sabrina what Jay said and Kim can't believe Chelsea made such an asinine move as to bring it up to Jay in front of the Manono girls... Jay and Mike have gone off together and the girls hit full on panic mode - Kim takes off to do damage control. She comes up to them and just starts talking, doesn't let Jay get a word in and lays it out that they should vote Christina tonight and just pick off the Manono tribe one by one. Jay says he is not getting a good vibe from the girls but Mike buys it no problem. He thinks Jays just a worrier - Kim wants Christina and he's up for a good blindside (oh, if only you knew.) He goes on to say "I guess my tribe could blindside me but I don't see that happening" (and yet, I really don't feel sorry for him - AT ALL.)
-Now Kim goes back to Sabrina and Kat and says they have to decide if they are going to go with the all girl thing or stick with their Salani alliance because Jay freaked out and if they start taking out the men in their alliance there is no going back. They leave us hanging as they head out for...
TRIBAL COUNCIL
Jeff asks for a truthful response: Who here is worried that it is them going home tonight?
-Nobody puts up their hand.
Nobody thinks it's them tonight? So there are a lot of alliances and they all feel very solid and very loyal. Tarzan do you get a kick out of the fact that someone is going home but no one thinks it's them?
-It just means that someone is very good at deceiving Jeff.
So Troyzan, if you got blindsided by your alliance would it really blow you away?
-I didn't bring my bags, so yeah, I'd be shocked.
Kim, you feel the same way? (She's the mastermind Jeff)
-It would blow me away.
Chelsea - Same.
Christina - yes, same.
Mike, same question - Definitely blow me away. It would be a complete surprise.
Kim, where is the confidence coming from that nobody tonight thinks it's them?
(I bet she's thinking, just leave it alone you dimpled freak! But she says:) I think there are people that think they're part of an alliance that they are not actually a part of and that's where the confusion is setting in. We had our original alliances but then we had time to set up new relationships - I think you always have to keep your options open but then know when to stick with a plan too. (Okay, vague enough to make everyone nervous or safe... well said puppet master.)
Chelsea, that's a very carefully crafted answer.
-I think in a way you may want to be aligned with two groups, maybe more and just see who has more trust and keep yourself with the majority so maybe it's good to have more options. (Hmm, she's not so reassuring.)
Alicia, does that add a whole other dimension because now it's 11 people and anyone could be coming for me?
-I definitely agree - I feel like right now we still don't know who's on whose side and it's going to take a couple tribal councils to figure it out and to see who is loyal to who and who's going to be the one on top.
Christina, 6 women, 5 men - is there any talk that it still might be men vs women?
-I'm sure yeah, but there's also the new alliances that they built as the new Salani and Manono tribes - I think that's why no one's really sure if they are going or not.
Tarzan raises his hand - Well, I hate to say it Jeff, but we're all just playing it because we know how important tonight is. One would think that the allegiances we made before we came here were not so wishy-washy - and if we reveal too much it would ruin the whole thing. So the game is afoot and that's why we're being so ambiguous it's our best bet - and therefore, you're being played.
So, I'M being played tonight?
-You bet, you're being played - I'm sure you sense that. [everyone laughs]
Kat, it's a million dollar game on the line, we're about to vote and everyone is laughing at Tarzan.
-She says they call his rantics being Tarzan'd and Jeff just got Tarzan'd. (I like the terms 'rantics' even better.) And Jeff still keeps it going - (COME ON! Let's just get to the vote.)
Mike, at least one person is getting played - Blah, blah - he thinks his alliance is strong.
Finally Time to vote:
They don't show us who anyone voted for.
Tallying the votes:
No one plays a hidden idol
Christina - 1, 2
Tarzan - 1, 2 (who voted for Tarzan?)
Mike - 1, 2, 3, 4... it's starting to sink in... 5 - It's Mike that was blindsided, much to his chagrin. And with Mike leaving Ryan H, Kim B and Corinne H are out of the pool.
Next week: The women are in control of the game but the men fight back - they tell Kim the next 4 votes are coming her way, Troy works Christina and Jay works Kat for their votes... oooh, this could get interesting.
Mike's final thoughts: Do we really care? Nope. He does say he came out of the gate too hot and had been back pedaling ever since (I can agree with that - I've hated him since he stole the axe on day one... and I apparently hold a grudge :)
Christina and Alicia voted for Tarzan, Tarzan and Mike voted for Christina - everyone else was on board with Mike.
Have a great Easter weekend everyone,
Coleen
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