I Don't Like Having Snakes Around
Last week everything seemed to be coming together on the Heroes tribe with Ben & Chrissy quietly running the show and on Healers with the love birds Jessica & Cole but over on the Hustlers, Patrick just couldn't play well with others and he was voted out... like a red-headed stepchild (Oh, I'm the worst, but I couldn't resist.)
Day 9
This episode opened with the tribes showing up for a challenge and being told to...drop their buffs. Oh yeah, it's time for a little switch up (I think this will be a good thing, shake 'em up a bit.)
So the resulting reshuffled tribes are:
Levu/Blue: Two Heroes: Ashley & Alan, two Healers: Joe & Desi, and one Hustler: Devon (Oh, poor Devon, I like that guy and he seems to be more than just a pretty face so hopefully he can stick around.)
Soko/Yellow: Two Heroes: Chrissy & JP, two Hustlers: Ryan & Ali, and one Healer: Roark (who? I know she's been pretty invisible so far.)
Yawa/Red: Three Healers: Dr. Mike, Jessica and Cole (yes, she was very excited to still be with her boo), one Huster: Lauren, and one Hero: Ben (Ben is my guy and he said he's scared - so he better figure it out.)
And as a team building exercise they are going to have their first Reward Challenge right now.
First, three tribe members will be tethered together and have to unbraid their ropes, then unravel going over under the next obstacle then use the ring on the end of one of the ropes to hook a sled and pull the puzzle pieces to them. Then the remaining two tribe members will have to use the puzzle pieces to solve an upright puzzle - spelling out Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers to win the Reward of a Peanut Butter and Jelly Bonanza - (I thought Jeff said Banana instead of Bonanza and I was wondering where the bananas were - oops) They get sandwiches (premade) and the fixin's to make more sandwiches to take back to their camp and individual bags of potato chips.
This is winner take all, nothing for second or third place.
Off they go and Red and Yellow seem to be working pretty well together - Blue is pretty much a schmozzle from the beginning and they(Alan, Ashley & Joe) never get it together enough to even start the puzzle. It's really between Red (Cole, Lauren & Ben) & Yellow (JP, Ryan & Roark) with Dr. Mike and Jessica completing the puzzle first and winning the Reward for Red/Yawa. (Jeff is trying to make the tribe names happen but aren't the colours just so much easier?) Also, we find out why Ben is always wearing the cowboy hat, that is quite the bald spot he's developing.
Yawa - Day 9
They celebrate by eating sandwiches and casually getting to know each other over said sandwiches. While Cole drones on about himself (which I think is his favourite topic) Jessica looks into her chip bag and sees the words SECRET ADVANTAGE staring back at her. To her credit she realized she was staring into the bag too long and casually rolled the top back up to take a closer look at later.
Later, Jessica steals away and reads that her secret advantage gives her the advantage to block one person from voting at the next tribal council - she will have to give it to someone at the next tribal council and they will not know it's power until they open it there. If her tribe does not go to tribal council she will have to send it anonymously to someone on the losing tribe.
So Jessica decides she's going to share the knowledge of this secret advantage with Cole and Dr. Mike because she's just so happy about having this power and they are former Healer strong.
-The next thing Cole is telling the camera is that Jessica gave him a huge gift of this knowledge (she didn't give it to you, she shared with her allies) but Cole is proving to be stupid and selfish and he's going to use Jessica's secret to win over the new people on the tribe so they will think isn't Cole the greatest guy sharing this with us. (Yeah, I couldn't believe what a dumbass he was - I would think wow, you just betrayed your alliance to us, I'm not going to trust you with anything.)
-I'm watching him tell Ben that Jessica as an advantage that will cancel out his vote and I'm yelling at the TV, "What are you doing?" It's unfathomable to me that he gives no thought to how he's blowing up Jessica's game and totally destroying any value that advantage would have had to them - doesn't even seem to cross his mind.
-He's telling Lauren and she's no nonsense asking him how she could believe this is true - because it's so completely stupid of him to share this knowledge with them, she thinks he's making it up... (nope, just that stupid.) And Lauren is going to use this knowledge to her advantage now (you go.)
Soko - Day 9
Ryan was very happy to see that Chrissy is on his new tribe because he was the one who sent her the secret advantage for the first tribal council (though she didn't end up using it) - but he's got an in. They show him divulging the fact that he was the one that sent her the advantage and she also seems genuinely touched to have been chosen by him for saving. She asked why he chose her and we all know it was because she threw up and he figured she'd be the first target but he tells her he had a good feeling about her -(what else are you going to say? You were weak so I wanted you to stick around? Not the best strategy.)
Levu - Day 9
This tribe is not touchy feely - they're sizing each other up right away and the two Healers (Desi & Joe) are thinking they can use Devon as their swing vote and the two Heroes (Ashley & Allan - while not the best of friends are now allies) are also thinking that Devon is the key. So maybe it doesn't suck so much to be Devon right now.
-Joe is true to form and goes in with lies blazing, telling Devon that both Ashley & Allan had talked to him about voting Devon out first. (What?? Joe is playing too hard too fast.)
-It does make Devon suspicious of Joe but also makes him feel really nervous that he may actually be the next to go. Desi was shooting Joe some major side-eye, if the guys didn't just ignore the women in this game, they'd probably know way more of what was going on.
Yawa - Day 10
Cole & Jessica head out on the raft to do some fishing, as usual, alone. Lauren thought they were all going fishing but then ceases the opportunity to ask Dr. Mike if he had heard anything about this secret advantage someone found in their potato chips. Dr. Mike knows how to keep a secret and plays dumb but then immediately headed out to the raft to ask who was the big mouth because Lauren and Ben know about the advantage. Jessica of course is completely blindsided and Cole acts like a kid with his hand in the cookie jar - I didn't do it... and then he admits he told Ben. I would have lost my sh!t on him but Jessica, the kind-hearted virgin is devastated, how could he hurt me like that? (Oh honey, he gave zero thought to how this would effect you, what's yours is his apparently, good to find out now.) To her credit, she didn't show Cole how she felt, she went and cried to the camera later and was blaming herself for making a poor decision in who to trust (it's not your fault he's an idiot, but also good to know now he can't keep a secret.)
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE - Day 11More heavy sleds and puzzle pieces. They have to pick up a heavy crate of pieces and manoeuver it through a table obstacle (where Devon gets it in the jumblies, ouch) and then under a tight net where they were kicking up huge amounts of dirt dust, that's got them choking a bit. Once they get through the net they have to untie the knots holding down the tarp on the pieces, once that's done one person has to use a ring of keys to unlock two padlocks on the second set of puzzle pieces, once those are unlocked they can start on the puzzle, having to put the long pieces in a tic-tac-toe kind of configuration where all the intersecting pieces are the same colour (not as easy as it looked.)
So off they go and despite Devon getting the handle in the nards, Blue is the first tribe through the table obstacle. Under the net though Red takes the lead and it's Yellow bringing up the rear. Red gets the keys first and Red starts on the puzzle. Yellow catches up here because Ashley cannot find the keys to open her locks.
They are all working on the puzzle and the puzzle brains of Dr. Mike and Jessica get the win for Red/Yawa. The Yellow/Soko tribe is the second team to get immunity and that leaves Blue/Levu heading to tribal council.
-Jessica reminds us that she has the power to block someone's vote at tribal council tonight and her plan is to help the Healers so she's going to try and mess with the Levu tribe as much as she can.
Levu - Day 11
Ashley and Devon go for water and she tells him just because he's the odd man out she doesn't want him to think he's on the bottom because those Healers got to go.
-He asks if she's serious because Joe told him that they [she & Allan] wanted to take Devon out.
-She says that never crossed their minds, it would make no sense and Devon is awakened to how much of a sketchy dude Joe really is.... So now Devon and Ashley are on the same page, and Devon gives us the title of the episode, "Joe's a snake and I don't like having snakes around."
-Desi sees Ashley and Devon hug after their talk and she tells Joe that it looks like they lost Devon - Joe's got an idol and he's not afraid to use it but he's got to make sure they vote for him, because if they vote for Desi it will be a waste of his idol. Joe's big plan to make sure this happens, pick a fight.
-Everyone's together at camp and Joe starts the conversation, are we not going to talk about this at all? And Allan falls for it, tells him he's the one that brought it up, who's he going to vote for? Joe says he's voting for Ashley, he thinks she's the weakest and that gets her back up because she's never been called the weakest, ever. They throw back why Desi is stronger than Ashley and it's getting uglier. Alan just says he's not voting for Ashley or Devon and Desi says, so our names are on the block and Alan says, "Let your man do the math." (OMG, they are cavemen.)
-Desi cannot believe that Joe lost his mind and blew up camp like that, and now her name has been put out there. Joe comes to her and tells her that he has an idol and he had to do that to take the target off her and make sure they vote for him. She thinks he did the opposite - by being all cocky they are going to think he has an idol and vote for her. (Or you're giving them too much credit.) Desi tells him that he threw her under the bus here so he should play his idol for her tonight and he'll have her loyalty for the rest of the game.
-The other three are having a similar conversation, are they going to vote for Ashley or Alan? How is this going to play out - do they vote for Joe or Desi...and do they have an idol? Joe definitely got the pot boiling.
-As they are about to go to tribal, Devon finds the Secret Advantage in his bag which tells him he can't open it until it's Time to Vote. (Woohoo! This is huge, he can block someone's vote now... and it seems like Jessica has a thing for the pretty boys.)
TRIBAL COUNCIL
-We get right into it with Alan telling Jeff about Joe sparking off but Joe takes over the re-telling saying he was just trying to have a conversation but Alan was getting upset and then Joe threw Ashley's name out there.
-Ashley says she's never been the weakest link in anything but he couldn't throw out the only alliance he has - but his actions may affect him tonight.
-Desi (probably liked hearing what Ashley had to say) but she says she was surprised by what Joe said and felt she got thrown under the bus in the process.
-Alan confirmed his vote was between Joe & Desi and with anything Alan says Joe has to redirect and throw it back at him saying that Alan actually made the divide with his words, so thank you Alan for clearing that up, continue.
-Devon knows he's the swing vote and says his vote is going to be based on who he thinks he can work with and move forward with in this game (might as well have just said, I'm voting for Joe.)
-Joe comes back with Heroes can't be broken so why would you keep two of them around but Alan gives as good as he gets - he points out that the Healers were undefeated and there are six of them out there so they should be trying to take a Healer out (touché Alan - would have been more impactful without the crazy eyes though, yikes.)
-Devon isn't changing his strategy, he's going to be voting for what's good for him at every tribal.
With that Jeff says it's Time to Vote and Devon pipes up that he has this Secret Advantage that says he can't open it until it's Time to Vote - so Jeff tells him to go ahead and I'm all excited thinking that this may be the end of slimy Joe... but then it all blows up when Devon reads that this secret advantage is being used AGAINST him to BLOCK HIS Vote (WHAT???) Jessica took away Devon's vote, Holy Guacamole! I totally thought that her giving it to Devon meant he got to block someone from voting, not that it was blocking him - wow, that's not an advantage for him at all - That sucks blue whales man!
And this is how it played out.
The other four voted and when Jeff asked if anyone had a hidden immunity idol they'd like to play... Joe does get up and goes and plays the idol... for himself (of course he played it for himself.)
VOTES:
Joe - 1 - and his douchebag celebrating begins.
Joe - 2 - they do not count and he's wildly gesturing to Desi, "I told you"
Alan - 1, 2 and it's ALAN voted out. To which Joe tells Ashley he read her face so, "thank you baby girl." OMG, I wish someone could just punch him in the face.
So with Alan leaving us unexpectedly, that takes Jenn G., Lois L., and Ethan G. out of the pool.
You know, I was not a fan of Alan but this episode made me realize that I dislike Joe even more.
Devon was sitting there and then just said, "Whoa, what the hell just happened?"
Next episode: They have to wriggle through the sand pushing a ball with their face. Looks like Chrissy tells JP that Roark wants an all-girl alliance and without missing a beat JP says then she's got to go and Devon & Ashley are in this together, the next vote is going to rocks.
Alan's final thoughts - I don't know where Devon came up with this thing, I don't know what he pulled but the whole thing fell apart (he didn't do it - it was done to him and you.) He blames a lot of this on that hidden immunity idol and he's got to give credit when credit is due, they got him.
Have a great rest of your week,
Coleen
Last week everything seemed to be coming together on the Heroes tribe with Ben & Chrissy quietly running the show and on Healers with the love birds Jessica & Cole but over on the Hustlers, Patrick just couldn't play well with others and he was voted out... like a red-headed stepchild (Oh, I'm the worst, but I couldn't resist.)
Day 9
This episode opened with the tribes showing up for a challenge and being told to...drop their buffs. Oh yeah, it's time for a little switch up (I think this will be a good thing, shake 'em up a bit.)
So the resulting reshuffled tribes are:
Levu/Blue: Two Heroes: Ashley & Alan, two Healers: Joe & Desi, and one Hustler: Devon (Oh, poor Devon, I like that guy and he seems to be more than just a pretty face so hopefully he can stick around.)
Soko/Yellow: Two Heroes: Chrissy & JP, two Hustlers: Ryan & Ali, and one Healer: Roark (who? I know she's been pretty invisible so far.)
Yawa/Red: Three Healers: Dr. Mike, Jessica and Cole (yes, she was very excited to still be with her boo), one Huster: Lauren, and one Hero: Ben (Ben is my guy and he said he's scared - so he better figure it out.)
And as a team building exercise they are going to have their first Reward Challenge right now.
First, three tribe members will be tethered together and have to unbraid their ropes, then unravel going over under the next obstacle then use the ring on the end of one of the ropes to hook a sled and pull the puzzle pieces to them. Then the remaining two tribe members will have to use the puzzle pieces to solve an upright puzzle - spelling out Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers to win the Reward of a Peanut Butter and Jelly Bonanza - (I thought Jeff said Banana instead of Bonanza and I was wondering where the bananas were - oops) They get sandwiches (premade) and the fixin's to make more sandwiches to take back to their camp and individual bags of potato chips.
This is winner take all, nothing for second or third place.
Off they go and Red and Yellow seem to be working pretty well together - Blue is pretty much a schmozzle from the beginning and they(Alan, Ashley & Joe) never get it together enough to even start the puzzle. It's really between Red (Cole, Lauren & Ben) & Yellow (JP, Ryan & Roark) with Dr. Mike and Jessica completing the puzzle first and winning the Reward for Red/Yawa. (Jeff is trying to make the tribe names happen but aren't the colours just so much easier?) Also, we find out why Ben is always wearing the cowboy hat, that is quite the bald spot he's developing.
Yawa - Day 9
They celebrate by eating sandwiches and casually getting to know each other over said sandwiches. While Cole drones on about himself (which I think is his favourite topic) Jessica looks into her chip bag and sees the words SECRET ADVANTAGE staring back at her. To her credit she realized she was staring into the bag too long and casually rolled the top back up to take a closer look at later.
Later, Jessica steals away and reads that her secret advantage gives her the advantage to block one person from voting at the next tribal council - she will have to give it to someone at the next tribal council and they will not know it's power until they open it there. If her tribe does not go to tribal council she will have to send it anonymously to someone on the losing tribe.
So Jessica decides she's going to share the knowledge of this secret advantage with Cole and Dr. Mike because she's just so happy about having this power and they are former Healer strong.
-The next thing Cole is telling the camera is that Jessica gave him a huge gift of this knowledge (she didn't give it to you, she shared with her allies) but Cole is proving to be stupid and selfish and he's going to use Jessica's secret to win over the new people on the tribe so they will think isn't Cole the greatest guy sharing this with us. (Yeah, I couldn't believe what a dumbass he was - I would think wow, you just betrayed your alliance to us, I'm not going to trust you with anything.)
-I'm watching him tell Ben that Jessica as an advantage that will cancel out his vote and I'm yelling at the TV, "What are you doing?" It's unfathomable to me that he gives no thought to how he's blowing up Jessica's game and totally destroying any value that advantage would have had to them - doesn't even seem to cross his mind.
-He's telling Lauren and she's no nonsense asking him how she could believe this is true - because it's so completely stupid of him to share this knowledge with them, she thinks he's making it up... (nope, just that stupid.) And Lauren is going to use this knowledge to her advantage now (you go.)
Soko - Day 9
Ryan was very happy to see that Chrissy is on his new tribe because he was the one who sent her the secret advantage for the first tribal council (though she didn't end up using it) - but he's got an in. They show him divulging the fact that he was the one that sent her the advantage and she also seems genuinely touched to have been chosen by him for saving. She asked why he chose her and we all know it was because she threw up and he figured she'd be the first target but he tells her he had a good feeling about her -(what else are you going to say? You were weak so I wanted you to stick around? Not the best strategy.)
Levu - Day 9
This tribe is not touchy feely - they're sizing each other up right away and the two Healers (Desi & Joe) are thinking they can use Devon as their swing vote and the two Heroes (Ashley & Allan - while not the best of friends are now allies) are also thinking that Devon is the key. So maybe it doesn't suck so much to be Devon right now.
-Joe is true to form and goes in with lies blazing, telling Devon that both Ashley & Allan had talked to him about voting Devon out first. (What?? Joe is playing too hard too fast.)
-It does make Devon suspicious of Joe but also makes him feel really nervous that he may actually be the next to go. Desi was shooting Joe some major side-eye, if the guys didn't just ignore the women in this game, they'd probably know way more of what was going on.
Yawa - Day 10
Cole & Jessica head out on the raft to do some fishing, as usual, alone. Lauren thought they were all going fishing but then ceases the opportunity to ask Dr. Mike if he had heard anything about this secret advantage someone found in their potato chips. Dr. Mike knows how to keep a secret and plays dumb but then immediately headed out to the raft to ask who was the big mouth because Lauren and Ben know about the advantage. Jessica of course is completely blindsided and Cole acts like a kid with his hand in the cookie jar - I didn't do it... and then he admits he told Ben. I would have lost my sh!t on him but Jessica, the kind-hearted virgin is devastated, how could he hurt me like that? (Oh honey, he gave zero thought to how this would effect you, what's yours is his apparently, good to find out now.) To her credit, she didn't show Cole how she felt, she went and cried to the camera later and was blaming herself for making a poor decision in who to trust (it's not your fault he's an idiot, but also good to know now he can't keep a secret.)
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE - Day 11More heavy sleds and puzzle pieces. They have to pick up a heavy crate of pieces and manoeuver it through a table obstacle (where Devon gets it in the jumblies, ouch) and then under a tight net where they were kicking up huge amounts of dirt dust, that's got them choking a bit. Once they get through the net they have to untie the knots holding down the tarp on the pieces, once that's done one person has to use a ring of keys to unlock two padlocks on the second set of puzzle pieces, once those are unlocked they can start on the puzzle, having to put the long pieces in a tic-tac-toe kind of configuration where all the intersecting pieces are the same colour (not as easy as it looked.)
So off they go and despite Devon getting the handle in the nards, Blue is the first tribe through the table obstacle. Under the net though Red takes the lead and it's Yellow bringing up the rear. Red gets the keys first and Red starts on the puzzle. Yellow catches up here because Ashley cannot find the keys to open her locks.
They are all working on the puzzle and the puzzle brains of Dr. Mike and Jessica get the win for Red/Yawa. The Yellow/Soko tribe is the second team to get immunity and that leaves Blue/Levu heading to tribal council.
-Jessica reminds us that she has the power to block someone's vote at tribal council tonight and her plan is to help the Healers so she's going to try and mess with the Levu tribe as much as she can.
Levu - Day 11
Ashley and Devon go for water and she tells him just because he's the odd man out she doesn't want him to think he's on the bottom because those Healers got to go.
-He asks if she's serious because Joe told him that they [she & Allan] wanted to take Devon out.
-She says that never crossed their minds, it would make no sense and Devon is awakened to how much of a sketchy dude Joe really is.... So now Devon and Ashley are on the same page, and Devon gives us the title of the episode, "Joe's a snake and I don't like having snakes around."
-Desi sees Ashley and Devon hug after their talk and she tells Joe that it looks like they lost Devon - Joe's got an idol and he's not afraid to use it but he's got to make sure they vote for him, because if they vote for Desi it will be a waste of his idol. Joe's big plan to make sure this happens, pick a fight.
-Everyone's together at camp and Joe starts the conversation, are we not going to talk about this at all? And Allan falls for it, tells him he's the one that brought it up, who's he going to vote for? Joe says he's voting for Ashley, he thinks she's the weakest and that gets her back up because she's never been called the weakest, ever. They throw back why Desi is stronger than Ashley and it's getting uglier. Alan just says he's not voting for Ashley or Devon and Desi says, so our names are on the block and Alan says, "Let your man do the math." (OMG, they are cavemen.)
-Desi cannot believe that Joe lost his mind and blew up camp like that, and now her name has been put out there. Joe comes to her and tells her that he has an idol and he had to do that to take the target off her and make sure they vote for him. She thinks he did the opposite - by being all cocky they are going to think he has an idol and vote for her. (Or you're giving them too much credit.) Desi tells him that he threw her under the bus here so he should play his idol for her tonight and he'll have her loyalty for the rest of the game.
-The other three are having a similar conversation, are they going to vote for Ashley or Alan? How is this going to play out - do they vote for Joe or Desi...and do they have an idol? Joe definitely got the pot boiling.
-As they are about to go to tribal, Devon finds the Secret Advantage in his bag which tells him he can't open it until it's Time to Vote. (Woohoo! This is huge, he can block someone's vote now... and it seems like Jessica has a thing for the pretty boys.)
TRIBAL COUNCIL
-We get right into it with Alan telling Jeff about Joe sparking off but Joe takes over the re-telling saying he was just trying to have a conversation but Alan was getting upset and then Joe threw Ashley's name out there.
-Ashley says she's never been the weakest link in anything but he couldn't throw out the only alliance he has - but his actions may affect him tonight.
-Desi (probably liked hearing what Ashley had to say) but she says she was surprised by what Joe said and felt she got thrown under the bus in the process.
-Alan confirmed his vote was between Joe & Desi and with anything Alan says Joe has to redirect and throw it back at him saying that Alan actually made the divide with his words, so thank you Alan for clearing that up, continue.
-Devon knows he's the swing vote and says his vote is going to be based on who he thinks he can work with and move forward with in this game (might as well have just said, I'm voting for Joe.)
-Joe comes back with Heroes can't be broken so why would you keep two of them around but Alan gives as good as he gets - he points out that the Healers were undefeated and there are six of them out there so they should be trying to take a Healer out (touché Alan - would have been more impactful without the crazy eyes though, yikes.)
-Devon isn't changing his strategy, he's going to be voting for what's good for him at every tribal.
With that Jeff says it's Time to Vote and Devon pipes up that he has this Secret Advantage that says he can't open it until it's Time to Vote - so Jeff tells him to go ahead and I'm all excited thinking that this may be the end of slimy Joe... but then it all blows up when Devon reads that this secret advantage is being used AGAINST him to BLOCK HIS Vote (WHAT???) Jessica took away Devon's vote, Holy Guacamole! I totally thought that her giving it to Devon meant he got to block someone from voting, not that it was blocking him - wow, that's not an advantage for him at all - That sucks blue whales man!
And this is how it played out.
The other four voted and when Jeff asked if anyone had a hidden immunity idol they'd like to play... Joe does get up and goes and plays the idol... for himself (of course he played it for himself.)
VOTES:
Joe - 1 - and his douchebag celebrating begins.
Joe - 2 - they do not count and he's wildly gesturing to Desi, "I told you"
Alan - 1, 2 and it's ALAN voted out. To which Joe tells Ashley he read her face so, "thank you baby girl." OMG, I wish someone could just punch him in the face.
So with Alan leaving us unexpectedly, that takes Jenn G., Lois L., and Ethan G. out of the pool.
You know, I was not a fan of Alan but this episode made me realize that I dislike Joe even more.
Devon was sitting there and then just said, "Whoa, what the hell just happened?"
Next episode: They have to wriggle through the sand pushing a ball with their face. Looks like Chrissy tells JP that Roark wants an all-girl alliance and without missing a beat JP says then she's got to go and Devon & Ashley are in this together, the next vote is going to rocks.
Alan's final thoughts - I don't know where Devon came up with this thing, I don't know what he pulled but the whole thing fell apart (he didn't do it - it was done to him and you.) He blames a lot of this on that hidden immunity idol and he's got to give credit when credit is due, they got him.
Have a great rest of your week,
Coleen
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