Rule In Chaos
Last week we started the new season... and it's a twisty one so far. Returning players and their loved ones found out they were going to be playing against each other and then Rupert, Candice and Marissa ended up on Redemption Island by the end of the episode.
This episode opened on Marissa arriving at...
Redemption Island
-She's still pissed that her tribe punished her for her uncle's buffoonery. But she fills Rupert and Candice in on the whole thing.
-Rupert was just happy it wasn't his wife joining them.
-Candice hits the nail right on the head by telling Marissa the real reason she's there is because she called out Brad in front of everyone and he didn't like it. So perceptive of Candice, but Marissa doesn't seem to get it. They all agree that Redemption island is a bunch of people sitting around pissed off.
Galang - Day 4
We see all the returning players in a massage train... everyone that is, except Colton. He thought this zen, yoga thing would be appealing but after 3 days he's over it. He doesn't want to play with these people he wants to get to Caleb - so with that in mind he starts trying to stir it up.
-He tells Tina that [Laura] Morett came to him and tried to throw her under the bus (uh, no she didn't) and Gervase and Aras just shut Colton down. They don't want to hear any of his stories or start planning 8 steps in advance - that's how you get in trouble.
-Colton tells them he doesn't care about winning challenges, he'd voluntarily go to tribal council. (That did not sit well.)
-Aras had hoped Colton saw how he played before and he'd changed but you can only fake it for about 3 days, then your real personality emerges.
-Colton makes fun of them to the camera, "Strategy, what is strategy? We are a unit, we are zen... we are STUPID!"
Tadhana - Day 4
-Brad is out spear fishing and teaching some of the guys to use the Hawaiian sling - teach a man to fish the whole tribe eats... or something like that.
-Tyson's girlfriend Rachel realizes that being a woman in this tribe means she's in the minority so she's trying to stay ingratiated with the guys... but this does not sit well with Laura's daughter Ciera.
-Ciera is telling Tina's daughter Katie? that she thinks Rachel has an alliance with John trying to put a target on John... a target with who? You and Katie better start sucking up there are only 3 girls left on your tribe (maybe she's not so good with math.)
Tree Mail - tells them it's time to make their way to Redemption Island to witness the duel and see who goes home for good.
Redemption Island
Half the Galang tribe starts crying when they see that their loved one is still there and safe - Gervase looks confused but not too broken up that Marissa was gone (not even an inkling that your behaviour contributed to that?)
When the duelists enter Marissa gives a dead-eyed stare to her tribe and Jeff let's her speak. She tells Gervase that the reasoning they gave for voting her out was his celebrating winning the challenge and rubbing salt into their wounds. He says he's going to rub a lot more. Brad is all puffed up at that (calm down - I can smell the football testosterone through the TV.)
Jeff says one of the twists in this season is the loved ones have the option of taking the place of their loved one on Redemption Island (huh, yeah, I hope Marissa isn't holding her breath.) Gervase says, "Handle your biz." (Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside doesn't it? Ha!)
For the challenge they will have to use a long pole to maneuver a wooden spool through a channel (maze-like), when they get to the top of the channel they have to place the spool on a small platform at the top and get another one. To make it more challenging, the metal channel is on a spring so if you hit the sides, it will wobble and the spools may fall. The first two to place all 10 spools will remain in the game. The first person to finish will be able to decide who gets a clue to the location of a hidden immunity idol (ooh.)
Off they go: Rupert rushes through the first time but the wobble causes the spool to fall - the girls get the first two placed properly... Candice and Rupert are neck and neck placing the 8th spool but his
stack is very crooked and then it falls (Laura is heartbroken, Gervase is laughing... I'm realizing, I don't really like that guy.)
CANDICE is the first to stack all 10 spools. MARISSA is the second person to stack her 10th spool - which means RUPERT is the first person out of the game. (Ahh, ooh, huh, Rupert - I'm okay with that.)
-He says he has no regrets, this is a great game, he loves Survivor but he loves his wife more. (I think Laura needs to win... if only so we never have to see Rupert's tie-dye again.)
-Rupert's buff goes in the urn, Candice gives her husband John the clue to the hidden immunity idol and Marissa actually smiled (the biggest shocker of the whole thing.)
-And with Rupert leaving, Andria S., Krista H. and Shelly P. are out of the pool - but they get their stake back.
Tadhana - Day 4
-Back at camp everyone congratulates John on how well Candice did (sucking up for a look at the clue perhaps?) John is just glad that he can stop feeling guilty, she kicked serious butt. He's just sorry that Marissa beat out Rupert because she is so mad at them still.
-The Penis-alliance is discussing this new twist of the loved ones being able to switch at Redemption Island and Vytas asks who do they think would be the most likely to switch that would weaken the other team - Tyson - so Rachel should be the next one they vote off.
-John doesn't really want to see that happen because he doesn't want Tyson going up against Candice at Redemption Island.
-When it comes to the hidden immunity idol, the guys are glad that one of their 'guys' got the clue - John reinforces that they are 5 strong so as long as he can find it, they can hold on to it to the merge and use it to help them.
-John tells the camera that he's going to try and keep it quiet if he finds the idol. (No group snipe hunt.)
Galang - Day 4
{sad hulk music playing} Laura says she's surprisingly okay with what happened, she doesn't have to worry about Rupert anymore and she's not so much a target anymore either - she's no longer two, it's just her.
-Colton can't stand the kumbaya middle school supportive crap, he doesn't mind some sitting around telling campfire stories, but that's all they want to do. This isn't YMCA camp where you talk about
improving yourself - I want to improve myself by winning a million dollars.
-Next we see Colton, the snake, planting his seeds of dissent all over - declaring to Gervase that Laura Morret is a threat and needs to go - telling Monica that Tyson said he wanted to get rid of her - telling Tina that Gervase is on board to get rid of Aras but he just doesn't want to write his name down... none of this is true. Colton hopes he can kill the Zen and get this party started (in his opinion.)
-Kat is all paranoid seeing Colton talking to Tina, she knows how ruthless Colton can be, she doesn't want him to turn against her because she knows that Colton thrives on the drama - and it's sick.
-Kat goes and talks to Colton (what? why?) and tells him that Tina was freaked out because he was trying to overly strategize with her. And Colton runs with it, demanding "What did she say?" (KAT! Why didn't she just leave well enough alone, she knows what he's like.)
Colton tells the camera he hopes this whole camp erupts into chaos because if there is one thing he knows, it's that he can rule in chaos.
Anyway, Colton runs off, grabs Tina and tries to make a big deal out of what Kat said Tina said and threatens Kat with Redemption Island. Tina is just flabbergasted, is this what the next 35 days are going to be? (not if you vote him out!)
-The rest of the tribe is staying out of it. Colton wants to make some big announcement about not wanting to be a b*tch and the rest of them tell him they can care less about his petty dramatics. (Exactly!)
Tyson finds Colton interesting, he was supposed to be out there to show them all he'd changed but it only lasted a day or so - he's going to end up overthinking himself out of the game.
-Colton hopes they lose the challenge tomorrow so these people experience tribal council and realize this is a game, not National Lampoon's Horrible Vacation. (Uh, dude, they have all played before, I think you need to be walking a little more softly and put the b*tch stick away.)
Galang - Day 5
-Colton feels the shift in the camp against him the next day. He asks Monica if they are against him and she tries to tell him to just cool it.
-Next we see Monica, Aras, Tina, Tyson and Gervase talking about Colton's gameplay. Tyson says Colton plays by getting people to turn on each other, "If Colton tells you one of us is targeting you, come ask us." Aras says this does not need to be a game of fear. Colton is just a gay Russell Hantz - he's a bully. And the anti-Colton alliance is formed. (Yay! Please vote him out soon.)
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
Three members of each tribe will be tied together at the waist then they must roll another tribe member in a barrel to a series of flagpoles. At each flagpole the person in the barrel must get out and collect (untie) a bag of balls - once they have collected all four bags of balls the remaining tribe members must roll the balls up an alley to get the balls to stick in recessed holes in a triangle pattern at the end. First tribe to get balls in all six of the target holes wins Immunity and Reward of a lot of fishing gear.
-Galang sits Kat.
Katie and Laura M. are in the barrels - that would be the worst - they stay pretty close together through the ball collecting - but Tadhana starts the bowling first - we have Hayden vs Gervase - they go back and forth but it's Gervase who gets the final ball in first and GALANG wins immunity again. Gervase gives a tribal yell, "MARISSA!! That's for you baby." (Too little, too late.)
Tadhana - Day 5
Back at camp they are rehashing their loss and Brad let's loose, he can't wait to have a physical challenge so he can body slam Gervase (oh, the salt rubbing is working on Big Boy Brad.)
-The 5 guys are talking about which girl they are going to vote out and everyone but John is on board with Rachel because of the possibility of Tyson taking her place and weakening the other tribe. John doesn't want Tyson competing with his wife so he defends Rachel saying if Tyson doesn't take her place then they have weakened themselves more by voting out Rachel over one of the other girls.
-Vytas is wondering if John has more allegiance to the guys or to Rachel (he allegiance is to his wife - hello) it worries him.
Vytas tells Katie it's Rachel and she asks if John was okay with that - huh, Vytas is now even more leery of John now. And the mark to tell Rachel is Ciera.
-John goes and tells Ciera that they're voting for Rachel but they are going to tell Rachel it's Ciera - so now Ciera is freaking out if he has the hidden idol and saves Rachel that Ciera will go home.
-She runs and talks to Katie who is on the same page so the girls are thinking of voting for John.
-John tells Rachel they are voting for Ciera. He doesn't want the guys to have any doubt about him so he's sticking to the plan. But it's too late, they are all doubting him - especially when he keeps going off on his own to look for the idol. He didn't share the clue and keeps disappearing, he's starting to look sketchy to them all.
-Vytas is starting to think that maybe they should blindside John now.
TRIBAL COUNCIL
Let's talk about the men vs women ratio, are you guys talking about this?
-Ciera says she definitely feels vulnerable when the guys go off in the boat and there is only the three girls left.
Hayden, are you relating to this?
-I understand where they are coming from, the guys have kind of bonded and that's just the way it is. Not to say there is anything going on or what not. (Ugh, I hate the "or what not." What does that even mean?)
Katie, so what do you do?
-I think we're still just trying to figure this out. (Oh wishy-washy, you need to be playing - hard! I think these girls are done for.)
John gets a clue to a hidden immunity idol from his wife - Caleb, is it fare to think John has a little target on him?
-Yeah, based on the history of Survivor and immunity idols, you're always a target.
-Brad pipes in -and there is the assumption that he's already found it. He's got to figure out if it's best to tell the tribe or not.
John, also whoever you vote out is going to be trying to take your wife out as well.
- Yeah and there is also the possibility of whoever we vote out, their loved one could potentially take their place and try to beat Candice (I think the lightbulb just went on for Rachel.)
-Hayden agrees it's twisted - we could potentially weaken their tribe by voting somebody out here tonight.
It's time to vote:
John votes for Rachel
Ciera votes for John
Tallying the votes:
No one plays a hidden immunity idol (John doesn't have it yet.)
John - 1, 2
Ciera - 1
Rachel - 1, 2, 3, 4.... So the guys stuck together and Rachel heads off to Redemption Island.
Next week: they tease that Tyson may take Rachel's place and Colton may crumble - there are tears and he breaks ranks and goes sits on Caleb's lap at the duel (No More Drama!)
Rachel wasn't hugely surprised to be voted out of her male dominated tribe but she interpreted the voting as them splitting the vote between herself and John so she thinks things may change if the guys are breaking up (it was actually just the other girls that voted for John.)
In summation - it was a little bit of a surprise to have Rupert be the first to 'leave' leave - Colton has shown his true colours again and it's refreshing that his tribe is having none of it - and the newbies are boring, the all man alliance sucks (in my opinion.)
Have a great rest of your week everyone,
Coleen.
Last week we started the new season... and it's a twisty one so far. Returning players and their loved ones found out they were going to be playing against each other and then Rupert, Candice and Marissa ended up on Redemption Island by the end of the episode.
This episode opened on Marissa arriving at...
Redemption Island
-She's still pissed that her tribe punished her for her uncle's buffoonery. But she fills Rupert and Candice in on the whole thing.
-Rupert was just happy it wasn't his wife joining them.
-Candice hits the nail right on the head by telling Marissa the real reason she's there is because she called out Brad in front of everyone and he didn't like it. So perceptive of Candice, but Marissa doesn't seem to get it. They all agree that Redemption island is a bunch of people sitting around pissed off.
Galang - Day 4
We see all the returning players in a massage train... everyone that is, except Colton. He thought this zen, yoga thing would be appealing but after 3 days he's over it. He doesn't want to play with these people he wants to get to Caleb - so with that in mind he starts trying to stir it up.
-He tells Tina that [Laura] Morett came to him and tried to throw her under the bus (uh, no she didn't) and Gervase and Aras just shut Colton down. They don't want to hear any of his stories or start planning 8 steps in advance - that's how you get in trouble.
-Colton tells them he doesn't care about winning challenges, he'd voluntarily go to tribal council. (That did not sit well.)
-Aras had hoped Colton saw how he played before and he'd changed but you can only fake it for about 3 days, then your real personality emerges.
-Colton makes fun of them to the camera, "Strategy, what is strategy? We are a unit, we are zen... we are STUPID!"
Tadhana - Day 4
-Brad is out spear fishing and teaching some of the guys to use the Hawaiian sling - teach a man to fish the whole tribe eats... or something like that.
-Tyson's girlfriend Rachel realizes that being a woman in this tribe means she's in the minority so she's trying to stay ingratiated with the guys... but this does not sit well with Laura's daughter Ciera.
-Ciera is telling Tina's daughter Katie? that she thinks Rachel has an alliance with John trying to put a target on John... a target with who? You and Katie better start sucking up there are only 3 girls left on your tribe (maybe she's not so good with math.)
Tree Mail - tells them it's time to make their way to Redemption Island to witness the duel and see who goes home for good.
Redemption Island
Half the Galang tribe starts crying when they see that their loved one is still there and safe - Gervase looks confused but not too broken up that Marissa was gone (not even an inkling that your behaviour contributed to that?)
When the duelists enter Marissa gives a dead-eyed stare to her tribe and Jeff let's her speak. She tells Gervase that the reasoning they gave for voting her out was his celebrating winning the challenge and rubbing salt into their wounds. He says he's going to rub a lot more. Brad is all puffed up at that (calm down - I can smell the football testosterone through the TV.)
Jeff says one of the twists in this season is the loved ones have the option of taking the place of their loved one on Redemption Island (huh, yeah, I hope Marissa isn't holding her breath.) Gervase says, "Handle your biz." (Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside doesn't it? Ha!)
For the challenge they will have to use a long pole to maneuver a wooden spool through a channel (maze-like), when they get to the top of the channel they have to place the spool on a small platform at the top and get another one. To make it more challenging, the metal channel is on a spring so if you hit the sides, it will wobble and the spools may fall. The first two to place all 10 spools will remain in the game. The first person to finish will be able to decide who gets a clue to the location of a hidden immunity idol (ooh.)
Off they go: Rupert rushes through the first time but the wobble causes the spool to fall - the girls get the first two placed properly... Candice and Rupert are neck and neck placing the 8th spool but his
stack is very crooked and then it falls (Laura is heartbroken, Gervase is laughing... I'm realizing, I don't really like that guy.)
CANDICE is the first to stack all 10 spools. MARISSA is the second person to stack her 10th spool - which means RUPERT is the first person out of the game. (Ahh, ooh, huh, Rupert - I'm okay with that.)
-He says he has no regrets, this is a great game, he loves Survivor but he loves his wife more. (I think Laura needs to win... if only so we never have to see Rupert's tie-dye again.)
-Rupert's buff goes in the urn, Candice gives her husband John the clue to the hidden immunity idol and Marissa actually smiled (the biggest shocker of the whole thing.)
-And with Rupert leaving, Andria S., Krista H. and Shelly P. are out of the pool - but they get their stake back.
Tadhana - Day 4
-Back at camp everyone congratulates John on how well Candice did (sucking up for a look at the clue perhaps?) John is just glad that he can stop feeling guilty, she kicked serious butt. He's just sorry that Marissa beat out Rupert because she is so mad at them still.
-The Penis-alliance is discussing this new twist of the loved ones being able to switch at Redemption Island and Vytas asks who do they think would be the most likely to switch that would weaken the other team - Tyson - so Rachel should be the next one they vote off.
-John doesn't really want to see that happen because he doesn't want Tyson going up against Candice at Redemption Island.
-When it comes to the hidden immunity idol, the guys are glad that one of their 'guys' got the clue - John reinforces that they are 5 strong so as long as he can find it, they can hold on to it to the merge and use it to help them.
-John tells the camera that he's going to try and keep it quiet if he finds the idol. (No group snipe hunt.)
Galang - Day 4
{sad hulk music playing} Laura says she's surprisingly okay with what happened, she doesn't have to worry about Rupert anymore and she's not so much a target anymore either - she's no longer two, it's just her.
-Colton can't stand the kumbaya middle school supportive crap, he doesn't mind some sitting around telling campfire stories, but that's all they want to do. This isn't YMCA camp where you talk about
improving yourself - I want to improve myself by winning a million dollars.
-Next we see Colton, the snake, planting his seeds of dissent all over - declaring to Gervase that Laura Morret is a threat and needs to go - telling Monica that Tyson said he wanted to get rid of her - telling Tina that Gervase is on board to get rid of Aras but he just doesn't want to write his name down... none of this is true. Colton hopes he can kill the Zen and get this party started (in his opinion.)
-Kat is all paranoid seeing Colton talking to Tina, she knows how ruthless Colton can be, she doesn't want him to turn against her because she knows that Colton thrives on the drama - and it's sick.
-Kat goes and talks to Colton (what? why?) and tells him that Tina was freaked out because he was trying to overly strategize with her. And Colton runs with it, demanding "What did she say?" (KAT! Why didn't she just leave well enough alone, she knows what he's like.)
Colton tells the camera he hopes this whole camp erupts into chaos because if there is one thing he knows, it's that he can rule in chaos.
Anyway, Colton runs off, grabs Tina and tries to make a big deal out of what Kat said Tina said and threatens Kat with Redemption Island. Tina is just flabbergasted, is this what the next 35 days are going to be? (not if you vote him out!)
-The rest of the tribe is staying out of it. Colton wants to make some big announcement about not wanting to be a b*tch and the rest of them tell him they can care less about his petty dramatics. (Exactly!)
Tyson finds Colton interesting, he was supposed to be out there to show them all he'd changed but it only lasted a day or so - he's going to end up overthinking himself out of the game.
-Colton hopes they lose the challenge tomorrow so these people experience tribal council and realize this is a game, not National Lampoon's Horrible Vacation. (Uh, dude, they have all played before, I think you need to be walking a little more softly and put the b*tch stick away.)
Galang - Day 5
-Colton feels the shift in the camp against him the next day. He asks Monica if they are against him and she tries to tell him to just cool it.
-Next we see Monica, Aras, Tina, Tyson and Gervase talking about Colton's gameplay. Tyson says Colton plays by getting people to turn on each other, "If Colton tells you one of us is targeting you, come ask us." Aras says this does not need to be a game of fear. Colton is just a gay Russell Hantz - he's a bully. And the anti-Colton alliance is formed. (Yay! Please vote him out soon.)
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
Three members of each tribe will be tied together at the waist then they must roll another tribe member in a barrel to a series of flagpoles. At each flagpole the person in the barrel must get out and collect (untie) a bag of balls - once they have collected all four bags of balls the remaining tribe members must roll the balls up an alley to get the balls to stick in recessed holes in a triangle pattern at the end. First tribe to get balls in all six of the target holes wins Immunity and Reward of a lot of fishing gear.
-Galang sits Kat.
Katie and Laura M. are in the barrels - that would be the worst - they stay pretty close together through the ball collecting - but Tadhana starts the bowling first - we have Hayden vs Gervase - they go back and forth but it's Gervase who gets the final ball in first and GALANG wins immunity again. Gervase gives a tribal yell, "MARISSA!! That's for you baby." (Too little, too late.)
Tadhana - Day 5
Back at camp they are rehashing their loss and Brad let's loose, he can't wait to have a physical challenge so he can body slam Gervase (oh, the salt rubbing is working on Big Boy Brad.)
-The 5 guys are talking about which girl they are going to vote out and everyone but John is on board with Rachel because of the possibility of Tyson taking her place and weakening the other tribe. John doesn't want Tyson competing with his wife so he defends Rachel saying if Tyson doesn't take her place then they have weakened themselves more by voting out Rachel over one of the other girls.
-Vytas is wondering if John has more allegiance to the guys or to Rachel (he allegiance is to his wife - hello) it worries him.
Vytas tells Katie it's Rachel and she asks if John was okay with that - huh, Vytas is now even more leery of John now. And the mark to tell Rachel is Ciera.
-John goes and tells Ciera that they're voting for Rachel but they are going to tell Rachel it's Ciera - so now Ciera is freaking out if he has the hidden idol and saves Rachel that Ciera will go home.
-She runs and talks to Katie who is on the same page so the girls are thinking of voting for John.
-John tells Rachel they are voting for Ciera. He doesn't want the guys to have any doubt about him so he's sticking to the plan. But it's too late, they are all doubting him - especially when he keeps going off on his own to look for the idol. He didn't share the clue and keeps disappearing, he's starting to look sketchy to them all.
-Vytas is starting to think that maybe they should blindside John now.
TRIBAL COUNCIL
Let's talk about the men vs women ratio, are you guys talking about this?
-Ciera says she definitely feels vulnerable when the guys go off in the boat and there is only the three girls left.
Hayden, are you relating to this?
-I understand where they are coming from, the guys have kind of bonded and that's just the way it is. Not to say there is anything going on or what not. (Ugh, I hate the "or what not." What does that even mean?)
Katie, so what do you do?
-I think we're still just trying to figure this out. (Oh wishy-washy, you need to be playing - hard! I think these girls are done for.)
John gets a clue to a hidden immunity idol from his wife - Caleb, is it fare to think John has a little target on him?
-Yeah, based on the history of Survivor and immunity idols, you're always a target.
-Brad pipes in -and there is the assumption that he's already found it. He's got to figure out if it's best to tell the tribe or not.
John, also whoever you vote out is going to be trying to take your wife out as well.
- Yeah and there is also the possibility of whoever we vote out, their loved one could potentially take their place and try to beat Candice (I think the lightbulb just went on for Rachel.)
-Hayden agrees it's twisted - we could potentially weaken their tribe by voting somebody out here tonight.
It's time to vote:
John votes for Rachel
Ciera votes for John
Tallying the votes:
No one plays a hidden immunity idol (John doesn't have it yet.)
John - 1, 2
Ciera - 1
Rachel - 1, 2, 3, 4.... So the guys stuck together and Rachel heads off to Redemption Island.
Next week: they tease that Tyson may take Rachel's place and Colton may crumble - there are tears and he breaks ranks and goes sits on Caleb's lap at the duel (No More Drama!)
Rachel wasn't hugely surprised to be voted out of her male dominated tribe but she interpreted the voting as them splitting the vote between herself and John so she thinks things may change if the guys are breaking up (it was actually just the other girls that voted for John.)
In summation - it was a little bit of a surprise to have Rupert be the first to 'leave' leave - Colton has shown his true colours again and it's refreshing that his tribe is having none of it - and the newbies are boring, the all man alliance sucks (in my opinion.)
Have a great rest of your week everyone,
Coleen.
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