Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Survivor Blood vs Water - Oct 22/14 Episode Recap

Blood is Blood

Last week Hunahpu went to tribal council for the first time because Drew decided to throw the challenge so he could weed out those he didn't want on HIS tribe - but it ended up blowing up in his face when he realized the unwanted person on his tribe, was him.

Hunahpu - Night 10
-Jon feels like he was the odd one out because Drew was his friend, so he starts campaigning as soon as they get back to camp - Jeremy called it his apology tour - Jon is trying too hard to tell them all he would have been with them if they told him they were voting for Drew and he especially apologizes to Jeremy saying he should have been there for him but he definitely will be now. (So you're setting yourself up as the weak-willed follower who was riding Drew's delusional coat-tails - not sure that's a great strategy there Jon.)

Coyopa - Day 11
They are looking forward to being the first tribe in the arena to witness Hunahpu's "walk of shame."  Alec says he can't see them voting Drew off first because they want to keep winning and he's looking forward to battling his brother in the arena. (I'm not sure if he's going to be happy or sad that Drew's gone - shocked for sure.)
And here they come... and everyone is shocked on Coyopa - Alec says they must have thought Drew was a threat, nothing else makes sense to him.  Baylor says she thought Drew was Mr Popular over there which makes Dale's daughter...Kelley (why can I never remember her name) laugh.  Josh says truth is they don't know the dynamic of that tribe because they are not over there... quite the segue for Jeff to tell them to drop their buffs... (Oh sweet jebus!)

Jeff asks Kelley if she would be excited to be on a tribe with her dad and she says that's a tough one - those without loved ones are kind of free - while those still with loved ones are looked at as targets right now.
-Jeremy says being in a pair is dangerous but there is nothing he wouldn't give to have Val still there.
-Josh doesn't even know what he wants to happen.

New tribes:
Coyopa - now with three pairs of loved ones: Kelley & Dale, Missy & Baylor, Jaclyn & Jon and one lone person in Keith.
Hunahpu - only one pair of loved ones: Josh & Reed with a bunch of singles: Wes, Alex, Jeremy, Julie (oh yeah, she's still there) and Natalie.

Keith is feeling a little like a target now being the only single with a gaggle of pairs while it's the opposite on the other tribe with the one couple wondering if they'll be the target in the sea of singles.

There is no challenge - they are all sent back to camp to get to know their new tribes.  Jon is ecstatic, he's with his girlfriend and he got out of the bad situation he was in after Drew got voted out.

Hunahpu - Day 11
-The new members of the tribe are not impressed.  Wes, Alec and Josh can't believe they are almost out of food on day 11. This sucks. 
-Jeremy's not too happy with the mix up either, he was under the radar, able to do whatever he wanted but now his worst nightmare has been realized and his game is shot - he's sure that Josh can work Reed and they'll want to take him out first thing.
-Josh doesn't seem to be thinking strategy yet, he's just excited that he's going to be able to play the game with his boyfriend. We learn a little more about them from Josh - he is a pastor's son and so not all his family is accepting of his relationship but some of the Christian tenants have stuck with him because they're remaining abstinent until marriage. (Uhh...huh.)

Coyopa - Day 11
-The new members are so excited there is so much food and Jon and Jaclyn cannot keep their hands and mouths off each other (get a room you two.)  He's so relieved to be with her especially because she knows everything that's going on with him, with his Dad's terminal brain cancer weighing on him. 
-She's not sure what this means for her game now, to all of a sudden have someone she can trust 100%.  And she gets right down to telling him all the background of whats been going on - it was all the guys together and Baylor flipping back and forth.  But then it's back to being excited they get to sleep together and looking forward to playing the rest of the game as a team.
-Back at camp Baylor is jealous watching the lovebirds, and there she is, single, hanging out with mom. 
-Keith is really feeling the odd man out among the couples - he's off fishing by himself while the rest of them get to know each other - but he has a secret, a hidden immunity idol in his boot (There's a snake in my boot!) - that's his ace in the hole. (Well it can save you once but you better start trying to get to know them if you want to survive past that.)

Hunahpu - Day 11
-Alec is feeling better about his new tribe, he feels like they have the more athletic of the two tribes and for the first time in his life he can say that he beat Drew (a lifetime of bragging rights in that alone, little brother.)
-Natalie and Jeremy are talking and she thinks that Alec is not that different from Drew (oh, don't tell him that.) Jeremy doesn't care, he thinks they need to get Alec on their side because he's sure Reed will have flipped to Josh, Wes & Alec so he wants to target the other single - Alec - and make him realize he's the odd man out and should join the singles.
-Natalie takes it upon herself to talk to Alec, who is taking up Drew's spot sleeping in the hammock while everyone else is working.  She says the couples are going to try and pick the singles off, one by one but he doesn't seem that interested.
-Jeremy takes a better approach, appealing to Alec's ego, he's just like a little Drew so Jeremy's befriending him by confirming that Drew didn't have the heart for this game but Alec, he has the heart. (Jeremy is a smart guy, he's playing Alec like a fiddle.)

Coyopa - Day 11
-Missy is trying to make rice, Baylor keeps telling her to put more in the pot and Dale is totally monitoring how much rice she's making.  She's not happy with Dale playing the Rice Police (now we know how they still have so much rice left) and then Baylor tells Missy that Dale has been trying to vote her out from the beginning... well, don't rile mama bear, Blood is Blood and she doesn't like hearing that Dale's been mean to her kid.  (So I guess he's out for husband no 4?)
-Dale cannot believe that Missy just comes traipsing in here and starts serving up double portions of rice - it took every ounce of his self control not to go slap the rice dishes out of their hands and tell them this is our camp, this is our rice, stay the hell away from it.
-Kelley sees the trouble a-brewing and steps in, asking her dad to go for a walk and trying to counsel him on not coming off as a crotchety old rice miser.  She knows he's set in his ways and speaks his mind which will not go over so well with Missy's diva-like ways.  Kelley is playing peacemaker because getting into a fight over a little scoop of rice can put a bulls-eye on Dale's back which then put's a bulls-eye on Kelley's back.  Dale's take on Missy: She's a self-centered, bossy bitch. (Oh boy, looks like we may see more of Dale's personality with his loved one there - and I can see why Kelley was hesitant to want to be on the same tribe as him - he's already making her have to work twice as hard.)

Hunahpu - Day 13
They are laying around in the shelter because they have no food and no energy.  Josh can't believe how fool-hardy they were on this tribe - there is maybe three days worth of rice and beans left while on Coyopa, they were eating once a day and could have made it 39 days easily.  Alec says they may have to try and trade a reward for food but Reed is reluctant to do that because they last time they tried to trade it made them all look foolish, "this isn't Survivor market." (I think the situation is a little different this time, it's not blowhard Drew asking to trade back flint, it's new tribe members telling Jeff they are starving.)

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
-They will race to dig up a bag containing a key, then they will crawl through the mud and use the key to open a gate, then they must shake a basket set on top of a pole to drop sandbags, once they have all the sandbags, two tribe members must try to land the bags on a wobbly suspended platform.  First tribe to land all 10 sandbags on the platform will win Immunity.

-Off they go - Hunahpu found the bag of keys first and they are in the mud.  Coyopa is still looking for the bag when Hunahpu is at the gate.  Coyopa finally finds the keys and is in the mud when Hunahpu starts shaking the heck out of the basket - apparently there are 20 sandbags in the basket and Hunahpu shakes it so violently the bags fly out all over the place so they have to go retrieve them all.
-Wes & Jeremy are tossing the sandbags when Coyopa finally gets to shaking the basket but they are very conservative with the basket. Hunahpu has 8 bags on the platform before Coyopa even gets their bags to the tossing area and they get all 10 on the platform before Coyopa even has a chance to throw one sandbag.  Hunahpu wins Immunity!

Jeff sends them all back to camp, Coyopa leaves and Reed asks Jeff if they can speak to him.  He tells Jeff that they are out of food and wonders if they can make a trade for more food. (What do you have to trade?)  Jeff asks how much food they have left and the new tribe members say Hunahpu was eating twice a day and not rationing at all, they have maybe a scoop left.  Jeff tells them it could be argued that Hunahpu was dominating at challenges because they were eating twice a day and now, no matter who is on the tribe, they will have to pay that invoice - however, he does give them some hope - he says they have enough food to eat tonight so he'll see them tomorrow and they can figure it out.

Coyopa - Day 13
-Keith feels like the three couples are going to gun for him as the easy vote but he knows at least one couple doesn't like another one so that could be good for him (get in there!)
-Dale knows with the numbers on the tribe, one couple has to team up with another to tip the scales and he can't stand Missy's bossy ways and Baylor's inconsistency so he feels he & Kelley will absolutely have to work with Jon & Jaclyn.  And Dale & Kelley do talk to Jon and Jaclyn and just lay out their misgivings about Missy & Baylor.
-Jon & Jaclyn hear them out but then among themselves figure they have to get to know everyone better before they align themselves with one couple over another. (I think Dale should be talking to Keith, those two would probably get along.)
-Jon & Jaclyn go and talk to Missy & Baylor and Baylor is trying to spin her former allegiance with the guys as hard for her because she loves Jaclyn (whatever).  Missy asks what the deal is with Dale and Jaclyn said they tried to take him out first but... and Missy says she thinks Dale & Kelley are a huge threat because they are so smart (why does smart not usually equal social I wonder?) But Missy seems to be much more conniving - Dale and Kelley go to get water and she's saying, I bet you Kelley's going to look for an idol right now, we need to divide and conquer.
-Jaclyn is leery of going with Missy & Baylor because of Baylor's past behaviour, she's flipped on her before and she could do it again (go with your gut! I'm not a fan of Mom & Daughter.) But Jaclyn also thinks that Dale is sneaky and she bets Kelley is the same - so she's not sure who they should go with.
-Kelley comes over to Jaclyn & Jon and says they are voting for Baylor and leaves it up to them to vote as they will.  But Dale feels confident they'll vote with them.
-Looks like Keith is voting with Missy & Baylor.
-Jaclyn tells us that if they vote with Kelley & Dale they will vote Baylor but if they decide to vote with Missy & Baylor they are going to split their votes for Kelley & Dale in case one of them has the hidden immunity idol.  Either way they will be declaring what pair they are aligning with and someone is not going to be happy.

TRIBAL COUNCIL
Jeff asks Keith how he feels about the new tribe.
-Keith says initially he felt this was not good for him being the only single, but some of his old team mates came with him so it seemed like it had good and bad, to tell you the truth.  Do you know what I'm getting at? (No, we really don't.)  He says if it's six to one tonight he's really been had.
-Jaclyn knows that two couples are going to have to side against another at some point and that makes it all that much harder to have their loved ones on the same tribe.
-Jon says they did have conversations with the other couples and it really helped him to have Jaclyn with him, she's someone he can count on 100%.
-When Jeff asked Dale if he talked to the other couples he said he and Baylor have had an ongoing rocky relationship - (So that would be a no, Jeff.)
-Baylor knows that she and Dale haven't had a chance to get to know each other, doesn't mean she doesn't like Dale...
-Dale pipes up that she did get all the girls to vote for Dale then switched her vote back.
-Jaclyn knows they are the couple in the middle and it is a good (maybe) position for them to be in right now.  They are the hottest couple in camp.
-Kelley agrees that Jon & Jaclyn are the couple in the middle but she also says she feels she couldn't go to Baylor and suggest an alliance because of the bad blood between Baylor and her dad.  She feels sort of handicapped by his existing bad blood in the tribe.
-Then 'mama bear' Missy says she can't get past the fact that Dale's been gunning for her daughter without her there.
-Kelley, "Wasn't she gunning for him first?"
-Baylor said she did suggest they vote for Dale but it was the first tribal council, no one knew anyone.
-Missy is going by what Baylor has told her, that Dale's put her name down. And it puts a damper between Kelley & Missy too because Missy is going to protect her kid, that's just a no-brainer (and all the more reason to vote one of you out, in my opinion.)
-Keith says it could be good for him if the parents are so fixated on protecting their kids they screw up their own game - but Keith understands where Missy & Dale are coming from, it's blood.  Someone's going to be disappointed today but I just hope we can get over that hump as a tribe.
-Dale says this is going to be even harder because not only are you voting out somebody's loved one, you then have to go back to camp with them after.  There is no way to vote somebody out and feel good about it.

Time to Vote:
They didn't show how anyone voted.

Tallying the votes:
No one played a hidden immunity idol - Keith is the only one who has one but Missy and Baylor were checking to see if Dale or Kelley were going to play one.

Votes:
Baylor - 1
Kelley - 1
Baylor - 2
Kelley - 2
Dale - 1
Dale - 2
Kelley - 3 - WOW!  It's Kelley going home tonight.  (I would not have sided with Missy & Baylor but I guess Jaclyn had more of a relationship with Baylor than Dale... I knew Dale should have been buddying up with Keith!)

So, with Kelley leaving tonight, that takes Elaine R., Bob L, and not sunnie out of the pool.

Next week: Dale reveals his fake idol to Jon (remember he found that medallion on the water hole on the first day) and he's trying to bank on that to keep him in there.
And Jeff brings Hunahpu a bag of rice but says no tribe has needed as much help as them and the price is going to be steep. (Oooh, what are they going to have to do?)

Kelley's final thoughts: "I kind of wish I didn't play with my Dad, he was more of a hindrance than a help to me."  She would give anything to be back on her old tribe and still in the game and to not play with him at all especially coming into the Coyopa tribe where they were not a fan of him. (Ouch, seems like their rocky relationship may be back on the rocks after this experience.)

Have a great rest of your week everyone,

Coleen

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