The Truth Works Well
Last week there was a shake up that split the tribes into three. Millennials were the majority on Ikabula (green) and Takali (purple) with Vanua (orange) the only Gen X 3 to 2. So when Vanua was the tribe to go do tribal council, did the Gen X'ers stick together? Nope. Chris was stuck with David and CeCe (who he dislikes) so he seized his chance to side with Zeke & Michelle and CeCe went home.
Vanua - Night 15
The new tribe of four: Chris, David, Zeke & Michelle - they all seem to be happy with the decision, especially Zeke, who can't quite believe that the silly Gen Xer's gave up the numbers in the one tribe where they had the majority. Zeke feels like he is the power player with Chris and it's a whole new world for him.
Ikabula - Day 16
-We learn a little bit more about Jay, as he tells us he never had a dad around so he had to protect his mom and sister, he's not a selfish millennial, he's going to win this thing for his mom. And then we see Jay and Will looking for a hidden idol and Jay finding it. Of course, right at the moment that Jay was swearing Will to secrecy, here comes Michaela, "Whatcha got there?" And she sucks all the joy of the moment right out of the boys. Jay, "Freaking Michaela."
-Michaela tells the camera she's not going to tell anyone that Jay has the idol for now, but if she catches wind of things going down, she's snitching. (Freaking Michaela is right.)
REWARD CHALLENGE
When Vanua walks in and Figgy sees that Michelle is still there she gives a little victory "yes" cry and it doesn't go unnoticed by Jeff who calls her on it. Figgy says she loves Michelle... oh, and Zeke too, and she was worried. (Figgy is not very good at this game, but she thinks she can do no wrong.) Michelle says Figgy's openness doesn't bother her, "The truth works well in this game." And Jeff laughs at her, you just may be the first person who has ever uttered that phrase.
So the challenge - one caller and three blindfolded players that the caller has to direct to retrieve 4 sets of puzzle pieces from obstacles. Once all the puzzle pieces are back on their table, the caller has to direct one, still blind-folded player to put the puzzle together (it was a simple-ish picture of a bat). First team to complete the puzzle won apple pie, brownies, cookies, milk, iced tea - Second place team got chocolate chip cookies only and Third place, nothing.
Takali/purple sat out Jess. Ikabula/green sat out Bret and Hannah.
Off they went and Purple went quickly through gathering the puzzle pieces with Figgy as the caller and Ken took her direction very well. Ikabula was right behind them with Jay as the caller and everyone listening well. Vanua brought up the rear with Michelle as the caller and David, apparently deaf to her voice having to have Chris re-yell everything to him. Takali had a big lead starting on the puzzle with Figgy directing Ken. Jay and Michaela were working well on the puzzle for Ikabula and finally Vanua had a lot of time to make up with Michelle directing Zeke on putting the puzzle together. Apparently Michelle is good at puzzles and Zeke can take direction because they were able to pull out an epic come-from-behind win of the big reward. Michaela and Jay won second place for Ikabula and those cookies were Michaela's apparently... and the golden girl, Figgy, was devastated at her failure (I'm sure she's not used to not getting what she wants, waah) they got nothing.
There was also a bit of drama from the sidelines at the end of the challenge, Hannah, who had sat out the challenge, started feeling faint and then, when moved into the shade, started feeling numb and panicky - they had medical look at her and it was a panic attack, which we find out Hannah is prone to have, as she does suffer from anxiety. Jeff gives her kudos for going out there despite the anxiety... I guess facing things that make you anxious will help you cope better the next time... but Hannah is now facing her worst fear, that she will appear weak and they'll try to get rid of her. (I'm sorry to say but that may end up happening.)
Vanua - Day 16
They are gorging themselves on the spoils of their win, they are super content and bonding sort of. Michelle brought it up and everyone was laughing about Figgy's slip up declaring how she loves Michelle and not as much Zeke and Zeke tells the camera that Michelle is a very dangerous player in this game and Figgy just proved he's still on the bottom with his old tribe - in order for Zeke to go forward, he may have to turn against the Millennial tribe.
Takali - Day 16
Figgy & Taylor "Figtails" decide that they are no longer going to hide their romance and practice telling Jess & Ken they have a thing (I really am old, cause these two... I can't even). Figgy goes to Jess first, "I want to talk to you about something, Taylor and I have a thing," all serious and Jess is like, "Ya think?" (Yeah, no news to her.) And Figgy is shocked. Next she tries her news on Ken and he hits her with a totally sarcastic, "No, you don't say." Figgy has the deluded world view of the completely entitled Millennial, proving the stereotype to a certain degree. Ken sees them as treating this like a fun vacation, but Taylor and Figgy are not as cool as they think they are (and I like Ken a little bit more for sharing my view) Ken's not going to sit on his ass and hope things go his way, he's going to make moves to make sure he's okay.
Day 18 - IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
Two tribe members start out on a platform in the water, on Jeff's go, one at a time they must go through a series of obstacles and climb a tower to release three large bags of coconuts each. Once they have all 6 bags of coconuts on their mat, those two tribe members must hang them on hooks then the next two tribe members come out and untie the bottoms of the bags to release all the coconuts and retrieve three small white balls. Those two tribe members then have to work together, manoeuvering the balls one at a time through a table maze. First and second team to get all three balls seated in the holes on the maze win immunity - third place is going to tribal council.
News on this one is that David (Vanua) actually did a great job retrieving the bags of coconuts, it was Ken (Takali) that slipped off the balance beam and having to start again put that team behind (Taylor made up the time later) and Michaela was the beast of the puzzle, barking at Hannah to just stand there, shut up and do what she's told as Michaela got all their balls in the holes bringing Ikabula the first place immunity (Michaela is so hyper focused she doesn't have time to worry about feelings.) Now it was down to Takali with Figgy & Jess working the puzzle maze and Vanua with Michelle & Zeke working together again. Michelle & Zeke had to come from behind again until they got some no nonsense coaching from the sidelines by Michaela which really seemed to calm them down and help them eke out the win over Figgy & Jess (Ouch, Figgy was instrumental in both the losing challenges this episode, maybe that will wake her up? Who am I kidding.) Takali is heading to Tribal Council.
Jeff asks Michaela why she helped Michelle & Zeke and she said that they want to keep as many Millennials as they can and the Vanua tribe is down to two and two. Taylor pipes up that there are Millennials on Takali too and she snaps, "There are three of you, if you can't figure out how to work together, you deserve to go home." Oh haha... don't be messing with Michaela when her adrenaline is high, there is no filter, you're going to get some unvarnished truth right there.
Takali - Day 18
Adam is the only one with worries it seems, he's in the hot seat between the voting pairs and no matter what he does someone is coming back from Tribal mad at him.
-Figgy is the first confirming her position with Adam, that the Millennials have to stick together and they decide they have to go Ken. Adam has shown no reason for Figgy or Taylor to doubt he's still Millennial strong to them, he's a much better actor than they are... Taylor does speculate that Adam may be playing them, but it's unlikely... but maybe. (I'm surprised they even considered it, they're so self absorbed.)
-Jess also makes a play for Adam's vote saying that she and Ken are with him if he wants to take out one of the couple... Adam is still wishy-washy and Jess tells Ken he has to go talk to Adam and reassure him that Ken & Jess are 150% with him, will never write his name down and they will run this game (throw every Survivor trope at him and see if they stick.)
-Ken is not one to go down without a fight so he does go talk to Adam, tells him that he and Jess respect him and they don't want to move forward with two conniving kids, so they are voting Figgy. He says he would have a place with him and Jess and David in a merge or he could be at the bottom of the Millennials. When Adam says how can he trust in people he's never met, Ken pulls out the big guns, telling him he has his back to the end and Ken will never write Adam's name down. (And you know Ken will stick to his word.) Adam isn't sure if going against the Millennials makes sense for him right now.
TRIBAL COUNCIL
-Ken agrees that it looks like the Millennials will be sticking together.
-Taylor says why would they screw up a bond like that. Figgy admits not everything is great between the Millennials, for instance Adam voted for her at the first tribal council but she's forgiven him. (She really is kind of tone deaf in this game... sheesh.)
-Jeff says that Figgy is basically saying that she looks at Adam the same way she looks at Taylor which brought a good laugh to the group. Adam, "She certainly does NOT look at me like she looks at Taylor." and they fill Jeff in on the showmance/romance between "Figtails". Jeff is an ordained minister, he offers to marry Figgy & Taylor right there and she says, "Survivor first, let's go" and Taylor kind of stops, "Are you serious? I can't tell if you're serious right now." If he had said, "Hell, yeah!" I think they might actually have gone for it in that moment... but it passes.
-Figgy is not worried that the romance is out in the open, they may have their thing but in the end it is just two people voting together. Like Jess & Ken are two people voting together.
-But Jeff points out that Jess & Ken are a strategic pair and Taylor & Figgy vote together because they like each other - she acts like that is the craziest thing she's ever heard - they didn't come out there for romance, it just happened, they are still being very strategic in everything they do (and the sad part is, that she believes that is true.)
-Taylor said having the numbers also makes it easier to be open with the relationship - if you don't like it we'll vote your ass out. When Jeff points out that Adam then is kind of in the drivers seat with how to vote, Taylor also threatens him that if he does flip on the Millennials they could boot his ass out in the merge. (The most laid back bully ever.)
-Adam knows what is at stake, he is looking at the future and hopes whatever four remains after tonight can actually be a four going forward. The person he is voting for he genuinely likes so it's going to be difficult - someone is going home upset tonight and someone is going back to camp upset tonight.
Time to Vote:
They don't show us how anyone votes.
Hidden Immunity idol? - Adam has no reason to even consider using his.
Votes:
Ken - 1
Figgy - 1
Ken - 2
Figgy - 2...
Final vote is for FIGGY! (Yes! Yes! Yes! I am not sad to see her go.) Adam whispers that he'll explain to Taylor if he can. Taylor for the first time looks angry and Figgy walks off crying into the night (B-bye!)
-And with Figgy leaving us, that takes Kevin R. and Susan N. are out of the pool.
Next week: Taylor seeks vengeance on Adam and David shares the fact that he has a hidden immunity idol with Zeke (new power couple in the making?)
Figgy's final thoughts: She came in there guns blazing and was a force to be reckoned with (seriously?) so it's a compliment to be taken out so early because otherwise she would have taken out every single one of them. (Ugh. Get over yourself already.)
Have a great rest of your week,
Coleen
Last week there was a shake up that split the tribes into three. Millennials were the majority on Ikabula (green) and Takali (purple) with Vanua (orange) the only Gen X 3 to 2. So when Vanua was the tribe to go do tribal council, did the Gen X'ers stick together? Nope. Chris was stuck with David and CeCe (who he dislikes) so he seized his chance to side with Zeke & Michelle and CeCe went home.
Vanua - Night 15
The new tribe of four: Chris, David, Zeke & Michelle - they all seem to be happy with the decision, especially Zeke, who can't quite believe that the silly Gen Xer's gave up the numbers in the one tribe where they had the majority. Zeke feels like he is the power player with Chris and it's a whole new world for him.
Ikabula - Day 16
-We learn a little bit more about Jay, as he tells us he never had a dad around so he had to protect his mom and sister, he's not a selfish millennial, he's going to win this thing for his mom. And then we see Jay and Will looking for a hidden idol and Jay finding it. Of course, right at the moment that Jay was swearing Will to secrecy, here comes Michaela, "Whatcha got there?" And she sucks all the joy of the moment right out of the boys. Jay, "Freaking Michaela."
-Michaela tells the camera she's not going to tell anyone that Jay has the idol for now, but if she catches wind of things going down, she's snitching. (Freaking Michaela is right.)
REWARD CHALLENGE
When Vanua walks in and Figgy sees that Michelle is still there she gives a little victory "yes" cry and it doesn't go unnoticed by Jeff who calls her on it. Figgy says she loves Michelle... oh, and Zeke too, and she was worried. (Figgy is not very good at this game, but she thinks she can do no wrong.) Michelle says Figgy's openness doesn't bother her, "The truth works well in this game." And Jeff laughs at her, you just may be the first person who has ever uttered that phrase.
So the challenge - one caller and three blindfolded players that the caller has to direct to retrieve 4 sets of puzzle pieces from obstacles. Once all the puzzle pieces are back on their table, the caller has to direct one, still blind-folded player to put the puzzle together (it was a simple-ish picture of a bat). First team to complete the puzzle won apple pie, brownies, cookies, milk, iced tea - Second place team got chocolate chip cookies only and Third place, nothing.
Takali/purple sat out Jess. Ikabula/green sat out Bret and Hannah.
Off they went and Purple went quickly through gathering the puzzle pieces with Figgy as the caller and Ken took her direction very well. Ikabula was right behind them with Jay as the caller and everyone listening well. Vanua brought up the rear with Michelle as the caller and David, apparently deaf to her voice having to have Chris re-yell everything to him. Takali had a big lead starting on the puzzle with Figgy directing Ken. Jay and Michaela were working well on the puzzle for Ikabula and finally Vanua had a lot of time to make up with Michelle directing Zeke on putting the puzzle together. Apparently Michelle is good at puzzles and Zeke can take direction because they were able to pull out an epic come-from-behind win of the big reward. Michaela and Jay won second place for Ikabula and those cookies were Michaela's apparently... and the golden girl, Figgy, was devastated at her failure (I'm sure she's not used to not getting what she wants, waah) they got nothing.
There was also a bit of drama from the sidelines at the end of the challenge, Hannah, who had sat out the challenge, started feeling faint and then, when moved into the shade, started feeling numb and panicky - they had medical look at her and it was a panic attack, which we find out Hannah is prone to have, as she does suffer from anxiety. Jeff gives her kudos for going out there despite the anxiety... I guess facing things that make you anxious will help you cope better the next time... but Hannah is now facing her worst fear, that she will appear weak and they'll try to get rid of her. (I'm sorry to say but that may end up happening.)
Vanua - Day 16
They are gorging themselves on the spoils of their win, they are super content and bonding sort of. Michelle brought it up and everyone was laughing about Figgy's slip up declaring how she loves Michelle and not as much Zeke and Zeke tells the camera that Michelle is a very dangerous player in this game and Figgy just proved he's still on the bottom with his old tribe - in order for Zeke to go forward, he may have to turn against the Millennial tribe.
Takali - Day 16
Figgy & Taylor "Figtails" decide that they are no longer going to hide their romance and practice telling Jess & Ken they have a thing (I really am old, cause these two... I can't even). Figgy goes to Jess first, "I want to talk to you about something, Taylor and I have a thing," all serious and Jess is like, "Ya think?" (Yeah, no news to her.) And Figgy is shocked. Next she tries her news on Ken and he hits her with a totally sarcastic, "No, you don't say." Figgy has the deluded world view of the completely entitled Millennial, proving the stereotype to a certain degree. Ken sees them as treating this like a fun vacation, but Taylor and Figgy are not as cool as they think they are (and I like Ken a little bit more for sharing my view) Ken's not going to sit on his ass and hope things go his way, he's going to make moves to make sure he's okay.
Day 18 - IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
Two tribe members start out on a platform in the water, on Jeff's go, one at a time they must go through a series of obstacles and climb a tower to release three large bags of coconuts each. Once they have all 6 bags of coconuts on their mat, those two tribe members must hang them on hooks then the next two tribe members come out and untie the bottoms of the bags to release all the coconuts and retrieve three small white balls. Those two tribe members then have to work together, manoeuvering the balls one at a time through a table maze. First and second team to get all three balls seated in the holes on the maze win immunity - third place is going to tribal council.
News on this one is that David (Vanua) actually did a great job retrieving the bags of coconuts, it was Ken (Takali) that slipped off the balance beam and having to start again put that team behind (Taylor made up the time later) and Michaela was the beast of the puzzle, barking at Hannah to just stand there, shut up and do what she's told as Michaela got all their balls in the holes bringing Ikabula the first place immunity (Michaela is so hyper focused she doesn't have time to worry about feelings.) Now it was down to Takali with Figgy & Jess working the puzzle maze and Vanua with Michelle & Zeke working together again. Michelle & Zeke had to come from behind again until they got some no nonsense coaching from the sidelines by Michaela which really seemed to calm them down and help them eke out the win over Figgy & Jess (Ouch, Figgy was instrumental in both the losing challenges this episode, maybe that will wake her up? Who am I kidding.) Takali is heading to Tribal Council.
Jeff asks Michaela why she helped Michelle & Zeke and she said that they want to keep as many Millennials as they can and the Vanua tribe is down to two and two. Taylor pipes up that there are Millennials on Takali too and she snaps, "There are three of you, if you can't figure out how to work together, you deserve to go home." Oh haha... don't be messing with Michaela when her adrenaline is high, there is no filter, you're going to get some unvarnished truth right there.
Takali - Day 18
Adam is the only one with worries it seems, he's in the hot seat between the voting pairs and no matter what he does someone is coming back from Tribal mad at him.
-Figgy is the first confirming her position with Adam, that the Millennials have to stick together and they decide they have to go Ken. Adam has shown no reason for Figgy or Taylor to doubt he's still Millennial strong to them, he's a much better actor than they are... Taylor does speculate that Adam may be playing them, but it's unlikely... but maybe. (I'm surprised they even considered it, they're so self absorbed.)
-Jess also makes a play for Adam's vote saying that she and Ken are with him if he wants to take out one of the couple... Adam is still wishy-washy and Jess tells Ken he has to go talk to Adam and reassure him that Ken & Jess are 150% with him, will never write his name down and they will run this game (throw every Survivor trope at him and see if they stick.)
-Ken is not one to go down without a fight so he does go talk to Adam, tells him that he and Jess respect him and they don't want to move forward with two conniving kids, so they are voting Figgy. He says he would have a place with him and Jess and David in a merge or he could be at the bottom of the Millennials. When Adam says how can he trust in people he's never met, Ken pulls out the big guns, telling him he has his back to the end and Ken will never write Adam's name down. (And you know Ken will stick to his word.) Adam isn't sure if going against the Millennials makes sense for him right now.
TRIBAL COUNCIL
-Ken agrees that it looks like the Millennials will be sticking together.
-Taylor says why would they screw up a bond like that. Figgy admits not everything is great between the Millennials, for instance Adam voted for her at the first tribal council but she's forgiven him. (She really is kind of tone deaf in this game... sheesh.)
-Jeff says that Figgy is basically saying that she looks at Adam the same way she looks at Taylor which brought a good laugh to the group. Adam, "She certainly does NOT look at me like she looks at Taylor." and they fill Jeff in on the showmance/romance between "Figtails". Jeff is an ordained minister, he offers to marry Figgy & Taylor right there and she says, "Survivor first, let's go" and Taylor kind of stops, "Are you serious? I can't tell if you're serious right now." If he had said, "Hell, yeah!" I think they might actually have gone for it in that moment... but it passes.
-Figgy is not worried that the romance is out in the open, they may have their thing but in the end it is just two people voting together. Like Jess & Ken are two people voting together.
-But Jeff points out that Jess & Ken are a strategic pair and Taylor & Figgy vote together because they like each other - she acts like that is the craziest thing she's ever heard - they didn't come out there for romance, it just happened, they are still being very strategic in everything they do (and the sad part is, that she believes that is true.)
-Taylor said having the numbers also makes it easier to be open with the relationship - if you don't like it we'll vote your ass out. When Jeff points out that Adam then is kind of in the drivers seat with how to vote, Taylor also threatens him that if he does flip on the Millennials they could boot his ass out in the merge. (The most laid back bully ever.)
-Adam knows what is at stake, he is looking at the future and hopes whatever four remains after tonight can actually be a four going forward. The person he is voting for he genuinely likes so it's going to be difficult - someone is going home upset tonight and someone is going back to camp upset tonight.
Time to Vote:
They don't show us how anyone votes.
Hidden Immunity idol? - Adam has no reason to even consider using his.
Votes:
Ken - 1
Figgy - 1
Ken - 2
Figgy - 2...
Final vote is for FIGGY! (Yes! Yes! Yes! I am not sad to see her go.) Adam whispers that he'll explain to Taylor if he can. Taylor for the first time looks angry and Figgy walks off crying into the night (B-bye!)
-And with Figgy leaving us, that takes Kevin R. and Susan N. are out of the pool.
Next week: Taylor seeks vengeance on Adam and David shares the fact that he has a hidden immunity idol with Zeke (new power couple in the making?)
Figgy's final thoughts: She came in there guns blazing and was a force to be reckoned with (seriously?) so it's a compliment to be taken out so early because otherwise she would have taken out every single one of them. (Ugh. Get over yourself already.)
Have a great rest of your week,
Coleen
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