Our Time to Shine
Last week it was Beauty's turn at Tribal Council and they got rid of the fabulous Brice which leaves B.McGee without a buddy.
Beauty - Night 8
Returning from Tribal Council Morgan (B.McGee) realizes she's alone on the bottom and starts to stir things up. She calls out Jeremiah right in front of everyone, asking him why he changed his mind about the vote when it was he and Brice that came to her... (not exactly.) He was surprised by her frontal attack and there was a lot of, "well, um, you know..." (Jeremiah, not a wordsmith that's for sure.)
-Later, they're all in the shelter except Jeremiah who was tending the fire, and Morgan seizes the opportunity to apologize to Alexis for voting for her but it was Jeremiah's idea, he was all fired up to take out LJ but thought they should go for the easier vote first...(Oh yeah, that got LJ's attention - and wow, is Morgan ever a liar - LJ had it right from the beginning, that girl is nothing but trouble.)
Brains - Day 9
They get tree mail clueing them into the fact it's going to be a blindfolded challenge to win food and, true to form, Tasha wants to practice. J'Tia is up for that; they are hungry because she dumped out the rice so she wants to prove herself by helping them win food. (Sounds like her hearts in the right place but I wouldn't hold my breath.)
REWARD CHALLENGE
One person is the caller and will direct pairs of blindfolded tribe mates around a cordoned off area to collect five items - once they get an item they have to return to the caller, and hoist it up to them on a platform/pulley system. Once the five items are retrieved, they will be sent out for their final item - their flag. First team back with the flag wins reward which is LIVE CHICKENS (3 egg laying hens and a rooster.) 2nd tribe will win a dozen eggs. 3rd tribe gets nothing.
Brawn sits Woo & Sarah. Beauty sits Morgan (because she has no friends.)
Callers are: Brains - Tasha, Beauty - Alexis, Brawn - Cliff
Since there are only 4 people per team, that means the three non-callers are split into a pair to retrieve and one person remains behind to help hoist - they have to hoist both sides of the platform at the same time or the item will fall off... just to add a wrinkle.
Off they go... and they seem to all be doing pretty well, except the callers seem to forget to tell them when they are going to nard themselves - LJ and Spencer take obstacles to their 'special places' a couple times (oof!)
-Beauty & Brains were neck and neck until the last item when J'Tia didn't pull the platform up and dropped their item - which allows the BEAUTY tribe to win the chickens.
-J'Tia screws up again getting the flag to the top and allows the BRAWN tribe to come from way behind and win the eggs.
-J'Tia couldn't even take simple directions... wow, she did not redeem herself in any way.
Beauty - Day 9
They return the victors with their chickens and Jeremiah (the Genius) sticks his hand in the bag of feed and finds a note to the hidden immunity idol, which everyone saw so he reads it out. LJ is so glad he already found the idol because the clue was so obvious the idol would have been found and it would have been a group idol - not good.
-Alexis seems to have no interest in looking for the idol though, she wants to know if they need the rooster for the hens to lay eggs, and if not... (winner, winner, Chicken Dinner!) Oh, hold on, I was giving her too much credit. She just honestly doesn't know and then they kill one of the chickens, not the rooster. (Huh?)
-LJ was laughing that they are the stereotypical Beauty tribe, as if he's smarter than the rest... but why did he let Jeremiah kill a hen? I'm confused but, whatever they got to eat and Jeremiah hopes he made some man points by killing the chicken and feeding the tribe.
-Morgan says she'll thank him for the food but she still doesn't like Jeremiah, she thinks he's a big fat liar (takes one to know one) and she doesn't know why he's on their tribe, this is supposed to be the Beautiful tribe (she says that like being called ugly is the most horrible insult in the world - is it wrong I wish a disfiguring accident on her so she may one day become a person of substance?)
Brawn - Day 9
While Cliff and Lindsay are clowning around, Sarah is playing the game just like Tony wanted. She wants to take Cliff out now. Tony told her Cliff and Lindsay were talking about taking her out so they are now her enemies. She goes to Woo (but Cliff's his idol) oh, Sarah is smart though, she says he doesn't need the money and ding, ding - Woo is on board. Cliff's already got huge bank, "it would be nice for one of us to achieve that million dollar success, other than Cliff."
-Woo's trying to affiliate himself with the majority, he'll do what he needs to... then Tony walks over and he's gone (wow, holy ninja skills - he just disappeared.)
-Tony wants to know from Sarah what they were whispering about and she tells him that Woo is 100% with them, then we get Tony logic, "You tell me to trust him, I'll trust him... but I don't trust him." Anyway, they do the 'swear on my badge/I'm with you'-thing again, but Tony tells the camera, that means nothing to him, he's there to lie, cheat and steal everyone's dreams from them.
Brawn - Day 11
They get tree mail and it says something about sink or swim... and sinking the shot - well they have basketball star Cliff on their tribe so it's a no-brainer, he feels they'll have it in the bag.
-But Sarah has another plan, she approaches Trish about them throwing the challenge (WHAT? The only time I agreed with throwing a challenge was the one season they did it to vote Russell Hantz out because we all know he's the devil and the less time anyone is subjected to him is a good thing... but this...) It looks like Sarah is revenge blind and playing right into Tony's hand. She rationalizes it by saying what if they merge into two tribes, they need to get Cliff out before that happens.
-Trish says it feels wrong to throw a challenge but she'll do it.
-Then Sarah approaches Woo and he's more rational, why would they jeopardize numbers right now, they are the only tribe still with six people - but he tells the camera his true reason - he just wants to watch his basketball idol shoot hoops today - but that's not how the rest of his tribe feels, so he's torn.
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
Oh, and it looks like I might have been right - the challenge platforms are out in the middle of the ocean - so it's water polo basketball?
-Jeff explains, first they have to dive down and release the buoys (balls) one at a time and get them to their platform. Once they have all five buoys, they then have to throw them into the basket (from one platform to the other where the basket is.)
-First two teams to get all their balls in the basket win immunity and last place is going to tribal council.
Brawn sits Tony & Lindsay and Beauty sits Alexis.
Off they go and Brains is as horrible as ever - J'Tia, first in the water, proves useless, cannot get a buoy. Then Tasha gets one, but Kass also can't get the 2nd buoy... and meanwhile the girls on the Brawn tribe are trying to throw the challenge by pretending they can't get the buoys but they can't even pretend to be as bad as the Brainers.
-Beauty has all five of their buoys with Brains and Brawn only on their third buoys.
-Jeremiah proves he can shoot and they get all five baskets before the other two tribes even start shooting. Beauty wins first Immunity.
-Spencer has to be a one man band with this one, he got the rest of the buoys for Brains and has to shoot the balls - Kass & J'Tia are in the water to return the misses but they can't even do that.
-Woo finally gets Brawn their fifth buoy and Cliff starts shooting, he makes a couple misses - Sarah & Trish are still trying to slow him down by getting his misses back to him slowly but Cliff is able to gets the five balls in the basket before the Brains tribe because, once again, J'Tia could not get the balls back to Spencer for him to shoot them... even trying to throw the challenge, the Brawn tribe beat the Brains. (J'Tia has got to go now, right? Come on!) Sarah laughs to the camera, she tried to help them out but the Green tribe sucks. They deserve to lose after that. (Amen, sister.)
Brains - Day 11
-Spencer feels jipped that he has to go to Tribal Council when he's doing well in the challenges. The girls have succeeded in putting themselves in the power position but in doing so, they've run the tribe into the ground. J'Tia keeps messing up in challenges but history is not in Spencer's favour - he still feels like he could be the one going home.
-So he's working it, appealing to Kass and Tasha's intellect and sense of fairness. They have a quick pow-wow and agree that it makes no logical sense to keep J'Tia, she can't do anything and they have to try and keep the stronger player.
-They also agree not to tell Spencer he's safe, they are still going to play it like he's the one going home to make J'Tia feel safe (they're still mad about the rice, let's not give her the chance to burn the shelter down next.)
-But when they give J'Tia their spiel about sticking together - J'Tia gets choked up and tells them she appreciates them going to bat for her and no matter what she'll have their backs - well, now Tasha is having a change of heart (OH COME ON!) she thinks they may need a loyal person over someone that can win challenges.
-Kass is fine being the hatchet man either way - it's a gamble no matter how they play it - she just wants Tasha to make up her mind (I KNOW! Sheesh.)
TRIBAL COUNCIL
Jeff just throws up his hands and shakes his head at them. (That would be the best Tribal Council EVER, if he just shook his head and told them to go vote. Haha ha, but that didn't happen.)
-J'Tia says some bull about her usually rising to the occasion but swimming is just not her thing.
-Tasha says that's not really true, usually in challenges they have to find a role for her so she doesn't screw things up.
-J'Tia says she knows she's weak in challenges but that doesn't make her the weakest link on the tribe.
-Tasha says their decision today is whether to go with Spencer who is strong in challenges but kicked her out of the alliance with him and Garrett or, go with J'Tia who has nothing going for her but loyalty.
-Jeff reminds them they have to actually still be in the game for loyalty to matter... and what happens when you factor in the "Rice Incident."
-Kass says she views the "Rice Incident" not as disloyalty but an emotional response - J'Tia's a hot head and makes bad decisions - but Kass gets her. Though Kass is scared that she, herself, may make a bad decision tonight.
-Spencer and J'Tia are blah, blah, blahing and Tasha & Kass are giving each other looks and nods... which Jeff totally catches and points out to Spencer - they're not even listening to you, how does that make you feel?
-Spencer says watching at home he'd love this but being the one in it - it feels pretty awful. He'd be devastated to go home so soon.
-Kass says watching from home she'd be yelling at the TV, "Don't do something stupid." But she's not sure what decision is stupid. (Oh, you so do know.)
-Jeff goads Spencer into making a plea for his life but he's looking so pissed off it doesn't come off as genuine. "I'm loyal to you two. (Okay?)" (that was implied.) "I can help you win challenges and all I'm asking for is a chance."
Time To Vote:
Spencer votes J'Tia
J'Tia votes Spencer
Tallying the votes:
No hidden immunity idol
J'Tia - 1
Spencer - 1
J'Tia - 2... 3 And finally J'Tia's crazy luck has run out.
With J'Tia leaving, Roxanne S., Wendy E., and Me are out of the pool (but I'm okay with that - she really had to go.)
Next time: They are switching up the tribes! Maybe the remaining Brainers can hold on after all.
J'Tia's final thoughts: She was not surprised they voted her out - she threw the rice out and sucked in challenges. Part of her wishes them well and part of her hopes they starve. She's going to learn from this and grow outside the game. (Whatever! B'bye.)
Have a great rest of the week everyone,
Coleen
Last week it was Beauty's turn at Tribal Council and they got rid of the fabulous Brice which leaves B.McGee without a buddy.
Beauty - Night 8
Returning from Tribal Council Morgan (B.McGee) realizes she's alone on the bottom and starts to stir things up. She calls out Jeremiah right in front of everyone, asking him why he changed his mind about the vote when it was he and Brice that came to her... (not exactly.) He was surprised by her frontal attack and there was a lot of, "well, um, you know..." (Jeremiah, not a wordsmith that's for sure.)
-Later, they're all in the shelter except Jeremiah who was tending the fire, and Morgan seizes the opportunity to apologize to Alexis for voting for her but it was Jeremiah's idea, he was all fired up to take out LJ but thought they should go for the easier vote first...(Oh yeah, that got LJ's attention - and wow, is Morgan ever a liar - LJ had it right from the beginning, that girl is nothing but trouble.)
Brains - Day 9
They get tree mail clueing them into the fact it's going to be a blindfolded challenge to win food and, true to form, Tasha wants to practice. J'Tia is up for that; they are hungry because she dumped out the rice so she wants to prove herself by helping them win food. (Sounds like her hearts in the right place but I wouldn't hold my breath.)
REWARD CHALLENGE
One person is the caller and will direct pairs of blindfolded tribe mates around a cordoned off area to collect five items - once they get an item they have to return to the caller, and hoist it up to them on a platform/pulley system. Once the five items are retrieved, they will be sent out for their final item - their flag. First team back with the flag wins reward which is LIVE CHICKENS (3 egg laying hens and a rooster.) 2nd tribe will win a dozen eggs. 3rd tribe gets nothing.
Brawn sits Woo & Sarah. Beauty sits Morgan (because she has no friends.)
Callers are: Brains - Tasha, Beauty - Alexis, Brawn - Cliff
Since there are only 4 people per team, that means the three non-callers are split into a pair to retrieve and one person remains behind to help hoist - they have to hoist both sides of the platform at the same time or the item will fall off... just to add a wrinkle.
Off they go... and they seem to all be doing pretty well, except the callers seem to forget to tell them when they are going to nard themselves - LJ and Spencer take obstacles to their 'special places' a couple times (oof!)
-Beauty & Brains were neck and neck until the last item when J'Tia didn't pull the platform up and dropped their item - which allows the BEAUTY tribe to win the chickens.
-J'Tia screws up again getting the flag to the top and allows the BRAWN tribe to come from way behind and win the eggs.
-J'Tia couldn't even take simple directions... wow, she did not redeem herself in any way.
Beauty - Day 9
They return the victors with their chickens and Jeremiah (the Genius) sticks his hand in the bag of feed and finds a note to the hidden immunity idol, which everyone saw so he reads it out. LJ is so glad he already found the idol because the clue was so obvious the idol would have been found and it would have been a group idol - not good.
-Alexis seems to have no interest in looking for the idol though, she wants to know if they need the rooster for the hens to lay eggs, and if not... (winner, winner, Chicken Dinner!) Oh, hold on, I was giving her too much credit. She just honestly doesn't know and then they kill one of the chickens, not the rooster. (Huh?)
-LJ was laughing that they are the stereotypical Beauty tribe, as if he's smarter than the rest... but why did he let Jeremiah kill a hen? I'm confused but, whatever they got to eat and Jeremiah hopes he made some man points by killing the chicken and feeding the tribe.
-Morgan says she'll thank him for the food but she still doesn't like Jeremiah, she thinks he's a big fat liar (takes one to know one) and she doesn't know why he's on their tribe, this is supposed to be the Beautiful tribe (she says that like being called ugly is the most horrible insult in the world - is it wrong I wish a disfiguring accident on her so she may one day become a person of substance?)
Brawn - Day 9
While Cliff and Lindsay are clowning around, Sarah is playing the game just like Tony wanted. She wants to take Cliff out now. Tony told her Cliff and Lindsay were talking about taking her out so they are now her enemies. She goes to Woo (but Cliff's his idol) oh, Sarah is smart though, she says he doesn't need the money and ding, ding - Woo is on board. Cliff's already got huge bank, "it would be nice for one of us to achieve that million dollar success, other than Cliff."
-Woo's trying to affiliate himself with the majority, he'll do what he needs to... then Tony walks over and he's gone (wow, holy ninja skills - he just disappeared.)
-Tony wants to know from Sarah what they were whispering about and she tells him that Woo is 100% with them, then we get Tony logic, "You tell me to trust him, I'll trust him... but I don't trust him." Anyway, they do the 'swear on my badge/I'm with you'-thing again, but Tony tells the camera, that means nothing to him, he's there to lie, cheat and steal everyone's dreams from them.
Brawn - Day 11
They get tree mail and it says something about sink or swim... and sinking the shot - well they have basketball star Cliff on their tribe so it's a no-brainer, he feels they'll have it in the bag.
-But Sarah has another plan, she approaches Trish about them throwing the challenge (WHAT? The only time I agreed with throwing a challenge was the one season they did it to vote Russell Hantz out because we all know he's the devil and the less time anyone is subjected to him is a good thing... but this...) It looks like Sarah is revenge blind and playing right into Tony's hand. She rationalizes it by saying what if they merge into two tribes, they need to get Cliff out before that happens.
-Trish says it feels wrong to throw a challenge but she'll do it.
-Then Sarah approaches Woo and he's more rational, why would they jeopardize numbers right now, they are the only tribe still with six people - but he tells the camera his true reason - he just wants to watch his basketball idol shoot hoops today - but that's not how the rest of his tribe feels, so he's torn.
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
Oh, and it looks like I might have been right - the challenge platforms are out in the middle of the ocean - so it's water polo basketball?
-Jeff explains, first they have to dive down and release the buoys (balls) one at a time and get them to their platform. Once they have all five buoys, they then have to throw them into the basket (from one platform to the other where the basket is.)
-First two teams to get all their balls in the basket win immunity and last place is going to tribal council.
Brawn sits Tony & Lindsay and Beauty sits Alexis.
Off they go and Brains is as horrible as ever - J'Tia, first in the water, proves useless, cannot get a buoy. Then Tasha gets one, but Kass also can't get the 2nd buoy... and meanwhile the girls on the Brawn tribe are trying to throw the challenge by pretending they can't get the buoys but they can't even pretend to be as bad as the Brainers.
-Beauty has all five of their buoys with Brains and Brawn only on their third buoys.
-Jeremiah proves he can shoot and they get all five baskets before the other two tribes even start shooting. Beauty wins first Immunity.
-Spencer has to be a one man band with this one, he got the rest of the buoys for Brains and has to shoot the balls - Kass & J'Tia are in the water to return the misses but they can't even do that.
-Woo finally gets Brawn their fifth buoy and Cliff starts shooting, he makes a couple misses - Sarah & Trish are still trying to slow him down by getting his misses back to him slowly but Cliff is able to gets the five balls in the basket before the Brains tribe because, once again, J'Tia could not get the balls back to Spencer for him to shoot them... even trying to throw the challenge, the Brawn tribe beat the Brains. (J'Tia has got to go now, right? Come on!) Sarah laughs to the camera, she tried to help them out but the Green tribe sucks. They deserve to lose after that. (Amen, sister.)
Brains - Day 11
-Spencer feels jipped that he has to go to Tribal Council when he's doing well in the challenges. The girls have succeeded in putting themselves in the power position but in doing so, they've run the tribe into the ground. J'Tia keeps messing up in challenges but history is not in Spencer's favour - he still feels like he could be the one going home.
-So he's working it, appealing to Kass and Tasha's intellect and sense of fairness. They have a quick pow-wow and agree that it makes no logical sense to keep J'Tia, she can't do anything and they have to try and keep the stronger player.
-They also agree not to tell Spencer he's safe, they are still going to play it like he's the one going home to make J'Tia feel safe (they're still mad about the rice, let's not give her the chance to burn the shelter down next.)
-But when they give J'Tia their spiel about sticking together - J'Tia gets choked up and tells them she appreciates them going to bat for her and no matter what she'll have their backs - well, now Tasha is having a change of heart (OH COME ON!) she thinks they may need a loyal person over someone that can win challenges.
-Kass is fine being the hatchet man either way - it's a gamble no matter how they play it - she just wants Tasha to make up her mind (I KNOW! Sheesh.)
TRIBAL COUNCIL
Jeff just throws up his hands and shakes his head at them. (That would be the best Tribal Council EVER, if he just shook his head and told them to go vote. Haha ha, but that didn't happen.)
-J'Tia says some bull about her usually rising to the occasion but swimming is just not her thing.
-Tasha says that's not really true, usually in challenges they have to find a role for her so she doesn't screw things up.
-J'Tia says she knows she's weak in challenges but that doesn't make her the weakest link on the tribe.
-Tasha says their decision today is whether to go with Spencer who is strong in challenges but kicked her out of the alliance with him and Garrett or, go with J'Tia who has nothing going for her but loyalty.
-Jeff reminds them they have to actually still be in the game for loyalty to matter... and what happens when you factor in the "Rice Incident."
-Kass says she views the "Rice Incident" not as disloyalty but an emotional response - J'Tia's a hot head and makes bad decisions - but Kass gets her. Though Kass is scared that she, herself, may make a bad decision tonight.
-Spencer and J'Tia are blah, blah, blahing and Tasha & Kass are giving each other looks and nods... which Jeff totally catches and points out to Spencer - they're not even listening to you, how does that make you feel?
-Spencer says watching at home he'd love this but being the one in it - it feels pretty awful. He'd be devastated to go home so soon.
-Kass says watching from home she'd be yelling at the TV, "Don't do something stupid." But she's not sure what decision is stupid. (Oh, you so do know.)
-Jeff goads Spencer into making a plea for his life but he's looking so pissed off it doesn't come off as genuine. "I'm loyal to you two. (Okay?)" (that was implied.) "I can help you win challenges and all I'm asking for is a chance."
Time To Vote:
Spencer votes J'Tia
J'Tia votes Spencer
Tallying the votes:
No hidden immunity idol
J'Tia - 1
Spencer - 1
J'Tia - 2... 3 And finally J'Tia's crazy luck has run out.
With J'Tia leaving, Roxanne S., Wendy E., and Me are out of the pool (but I'm okay with that - she really had to go.)
Next time: They are switching up the tribes! Maybe the remaining Brainers can hold on after all.
J'Tia's final thoughts: She was not surprised they voted her out - she threw the rice out and sucked in challenges. Part of her wishes them well and part of her hopes they starve. She's going to learn from this and grow outside the game. (Whatever! B'bye.)
Have a great rest of the week everyone,
Coleen
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