Bag of Tricks
Last time on Survivor there was a crazy tribe-wide search for a hidden immunity idol of which Spencer came out the victor. He was also able to win the individual immunity which proved the end of B.McGee (Morgan.)
Solarrion - Night 22
-They return from Tribal Council and Tony goes on the offensive because the minority alliance voted for him - he was pissed to see his name written down, he thinks he's an over 40 bald guy he shouldn't be seen as more of a threat than LJ or Jeremiah... (Dude, they're not stupid, they've been watching you operate and know who's running the show.) He says he's going to take it as a compliment... but it was a stupid argument and he should have just kept his big trap shut, he's just made himself that much more of a target.
Solarrion - Day 23
Trish is worried that Tony's going to be paranoid and start spinning out of control - he has a tendency towards that already, and after his reaction to the votes last night... she and LJ agree they have to keep an eye on him.
-And Tony doesn't disappoint, he's telling LJ he couldn't sleep, his name is always coming up on the chopping block. "This is where people start to panic, where people start to lie and not trust each other..." Tony tells the camera that he wants to get rid of LJ next but he doesn't want to be the bad guy so he's going to set LJ up, make him break a promise or want to break a promise and hopefully take himself out... so he's planting the seeds.
-Tony tells LJ he thinks Woo found the idol and LJ says he'll play it when he thinks he's going, Tony says he could take out some of our people... and LJ asks, "You want to get rid of him now?" That's what Tony wanted, LJ said he wants to get rid of Woo (not really) and now Tony's going to run and tell everyone LJ can't be trusted and pit them all against LJ to take him out. (Tony's such a weasel, I hope this bites him in the ass.)
Solarrion - Day 24
Tree Mail - sounds like Reward of a Spa Day.
-Tony wants to win so he can have the opportunity to strategize and manipulate people in a weakened state after the pampering. (You can't fault his dedication to always be playing the game, but it's in no way endearing to me.)
REWARD CHALLENGE
They will be split into three teams of three - on Jeff's go they will throw a rope through a ring releasing sandbags, then they must throw the sandbags as far as they can through a rope tunnel. Once they've worked together to get the sandbags through the tunnel, one player will bounce the sandbags off a trampoline and into five baskets. First team to get one sandbag in each of the five baskets will win the reward of: Survivor Spa Reward - shower, massage, spa lunch.
Three teams:
-Jefra, Trish and LJ (Orange)
-Kass, Tasha and Woo (Purple)
-Spencer, Tony and Jeremiah (Green)
Jeremiah is the first person to release the sandbags for green and he starts trying to throw the sandbags down the tunnel too (that looks really hard.)
-LJ is the next one to get the orange sandbags released.
-Tash passes this over to Woo and he finally gets their sandbags released.
-They are all working their sandbags through the tunnel but it's green with the lead and moving on to the bouncing into the baskets. Tony has three targets filled before the other teams even get started.
-Orange gets started bouncing... Purple gets started bouncing but they can't catch up - it's the Green team of Tony, Spencer and Jeremiah that get to enjoy the spa day.
-Tony's plan is to talk to Spencer and Jeremiah about blind-siding LJ, "Just call me the opportunist because if there is an opportunity, I'll jump on it." (Pretty much the definition of opportunist.)
Solarrion - Day 24
-The reward losers return to camp and Woo wishes he'd won the Reward but at least he's happy his boy Tony won and will be keeping an eye on Jeremiah and Spencer for them (oh, poor, trusting Woo.)
-Jefra says she's not worried, they know at this point their best bet is the six-alliance sticking together. She goes out on the boat with Trish and JL and he's telling the girls that Tony is super paranoid right now about Woo having an idol and wants to get rid of him now but they agree the next three people to go should be Tash, Spencer and Jeremiah. LJ tells the camera he's not worried because he's built such a strong bond with Tony, they used their hidden immunity idols to save each other and he trusts Tony will do the right thing. (Oh poor, trusting LJ.)
-They decide that someone has to put out Tony's fire and Trish says she'll do it. They're plan is built on patience and she thinks she can defuse Tony's manic scheming (good luck.)
REWARD
-Spencer knows he's down but he's not out yet, he's glad he was paired with his right hand man, Jeremiah, on the Reward but he really wants to talk to Tony and find out where his head is at.
-Tony is game and starts the ball rolling, asking Spencer if he wants to talk strategy. You Bet! But they talk in vagueries, it's annoying. Basically Spencer offers himself and Jeremiah up as pawns for Tony to use as he sees fit and Tony says he wants to keep them around to use them to make a big move in his alliance, maybe not now but someday. Neither Jeremiah nor Spencer trust Tony at all - they know how hard he's playing the game. Spencer says one thing Tony doesn't know is that Spencer has a hidden immunity idol and he's not afraid to use it. At this point, if he can use Tony to get him a little farther in the game, he might find a detour that gets him all the way. (He's hoping that Tony drops one of those balls his juggling.)
Solarrion - Day 25
Everyone is back in camp and Tasha knows she's got to make a move - she figures Tony's alliance must realize that he's not going to take another strong guy with him to the end so she targets LJ and asks if he's willing to talk. He says he's willing to listen. She says she has a proposition for him and asks him to meet her off by themselves... but he stands her up. He knows Tony is a big ball of anxiety right now and he doesn't think she'll have anything of worth to say to him so he doesn't want to risk being seen going off with her. (Smart, but not very gentlemanly of him.)
-Tasha was going to propose he take Jefra, Spencer, Jeremiah and herself and blindside Tony but LJ is obviously not man enough to make a big move. It's obvious to her that Tony is calling the shots and has everyone under his thumb, if something doesn't change, she's screwed.
Tree Mail - it's a colourful clue but doesn't really tell them what they'll be facing.
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
Today's challenge will test how 25 days out there has affected their minds - it's a memory challenge. Jeff will show them a series of coloured tiles, then they have to recreate the series correctly in their frame. Get it wrong and they're out, last person standing wins Immunity.
Off they go - first round is only 4 colours- Trish is first out on the second tile (really?) Woo is out on the third colour, and the rest make it to the 2nd round.
-Next round: this series was seven colours, little more challenging, the sixth colour takes out Jeremiah, Jefra, Kass and Spencer - leaving LJ, Tasha and Tony, down to the last colour: they each put something different - Tony is out - LJ is out and it's TASHA with a much needed immunity win.
Solarrion - Day 25
-Back in camp everyone is congratulating Tash and she's thinking, "In your face, LJ."
-The six strong alliance meets and LJ proposes they split the votes between Spencer and Jeremiah in case one of them has an idol. LJ knows Tony's worried Woo has the idol but taking out someone in their alliance makes no sense to him at this point. They agree to splitting the votes.
-Tony wants to take out LJ before he has the chance to turn on him - he's got a lot of work to do stirring everyone up and making them think LJ has to go.
-Next we see Tony talking to Woo and telling him that LJ's shady, he wants to blindside him (Woo) and Tony doesn't like that, if he's willing to turn on Woo, he'll turn on Tony too, "Maybe it's time for another shocked face." And Woo laps it up, he thinks Tony is his closest ally and it's great to have him on his side - it's that easy, Woo is voting LJ.
-Tony moves on to Spencer and tells him that LJ wanted to sacrifice Woo so if Spencer and Jeremiah vote LJ with them, he's 100% safe.
-Spencer said it's like Christmas morning and instead of the ashes and coal he was expecting, he got a great big present called, "Let's vote out LJ." He's hoping this isn't too good to be true and just a ploy to get him not to play his idol but if it is true, this could be a big game changer for him.
-Spencer goes and tells Jeremiah the plan and he's in 100% with whatever Spencer wants to do. Spencer says right now they just have to let them kill each other.
-Tony then moves on to Trish, he asks her what they were talking about at camp when he was off on the Reward and she tells him the LJ said Tony was worried about Woo and LJ told him getting rid of Woo wasn't a good idea. Tony says no, it was the other way around, LJ was lying to her because he doesn't want to be in fourth place behind Tony, Trish and Woo. She's not sure who to believe now. Tony and LJ told her completely opposite stories and she can't figure out why.
-Tony proposes that the three remaining Brawn vote for LJ and get the three on the other side to vote LJ with them - and she balks, she wants to stay with their original agreement to remain six strong until Spencer, Jeremiah and Tasha are gone.
-Trish and Kass are in the shelter and Kass asks if they're alright and Trish tells her that Tony was mad about his name being written down last time and he's flipping out - she told him to take a chill pill. Kass tells the camera she loves a blindside but it's too soon, it's stupid, and she thinks Tony knows that.
-Tony tells the camera he's got a plan in place right now to take out LJ but Trish wants to keep their alliance six strong and she's been his closest ally out there since the beginning. If he takes LJ out now, she could turn on him and that's not good for him, so he says he's got to know when to kiss ass and when to kick ass - unfortunately he's in a position right now where he may have to kiss ass and get rid of Spencer or Jeremiah.
TRIBAL COUNCIL
-Jeremiah confirms for Jeff that it's still the six-strong against Spencer, Tasha and himself.
-Jeff asks Kass if she has any empathy for her former tribe mates who are in this position because of moves she's made and she basically says no, it's the game and you can't play it without getting a little dirty.
-Tony agrees, when you agree to play this game you know you're going to be lied to, you're going to be deceived and that's why he brought his bag of tricks with him tonight (implying he has another hidden immunity idol.)
-Tash says the longer you're in a tight alliance, the more you can see the cracks.
-Jeff asks LJ if there are cracks, was he approached by Spencer, Tash or Jeremiah. He says he was vaguely approached but he realizes there is no reason to cause anxiety among their six, they are pretty water tight.
-Jeff starts asking them what they do and if loyalty plays a role in their professions - LJ says he thinks he has a pretty good gauge to know if someone is loyal. Tony says he's in construction (which got Sarah's attention - he's still lying to them?) and loyalty is huge, you turn around and someone has stolen a tool (really? I thought they all knew he was a cop by now - weird.) Kass says she tried to check her life at the door when she came out there - you have to be 100% selfish if you're going to get far in this game (this has both Sarah and Morgan on the jury rolling their eyes at her - no votes for her there.)
-Woo says he knows there may be threats in his alliance but for now they are six strong, why not stay the course, take out the bottom three and then they can sort out each other.
-Jeff asks Spencer if he knows who's on the bottom of the six alliance - he says he doesn't really know but if you are one of the people being told there is no division we're six strong... maybe you're on the bottom (that had Jefra and LJ going, "wait, what now?") and it is that time when people have to start thinking, how do I put myself in a position to win.
-Trish says she thinks their Brady Bunch is about to get very disfunctional. She got comfortable thinking we're six and they're three but it doesn't end at this, it really begins at this because something has to break. Jeff says it will, but when? She says it could be tonight but that would be something she was completely unaware of - of course every time they come to tribal council the place goes crazy but that's what makes it so fun and what makes your stomach sick at the same time.
Time to Vote:
Spencer votes for LJ, fingers crossed for another blindside.
Tallying the votes:
Hidden Immunity idol? And Spencer doesn't play it (uh oh.)
Votes:
LJ - 1, 2, 3
Jeremiah - 1, 2, 3
Spencer - 1
LJ - 4, 5... WOW, they actually did it. LJ is voted out much to the delight of the jury girls... and Spencer's fist pumping celebration (calm down, Opie.) Jefra can't believe Tony flipped.
With LJ's departure, that takes Kevin R., Jennifer G. and Robert L. out of the pool.
Next time: Tony's on a mission, spying on Jefra talking to Trish and Woo falls out of a tree trying to shake down some coconuts (oh no!)
LJ's final thoughts: it's very hard to find the balance between patience and being assertive. If you move too soon you can bite yourself in the butt but if you wait too long you'll find yourself looking into a lens saying, "Where did I go wrong?"
Hope you're all having a great week :)
Coleen
Last time on Survivor there was a crazy tribe-wide search for a hidden immunity idol of which Spencer came out the victor. He was also able to win the individual immunity which proved the end of B.McGee (Morgan.)
Solarrion - Night 22
-They return from Tribal Council and Tony goes on the offensive because the minority alliance voted for him - he was pissed to see his name written down, he thinks he's an over 40 bald guy he shouldn't be seen as more of a threat than LJ or Jeremiah... (Dude, they're not stupid, they've been watching you operate and know who's running the show.) He says he's going to take it as a compliment... but it was a stupid argument and he should have just kept his big trap shut, he's just made himself that much more of a target.
Solarrion - Day 23
Trish is worried that Tony's going to be paranoid and start spinning out of control - he has a tendency towards that already, and after his reaction to the votes last night... she and LJ agree they have to keep an eye on him.
-And Tony doesn't disappoint, he's telling LJ he couldn't sleep, his name is always coming up on the chopping block. "This is where people start to panic, where people start to lie and not trust each other..." Tony tells the camera that he wants to get rid of LJ next but he doesn't want to be the bad guy so he's going to set LJ up, make him break a promise or want to break a promise and hopefully take himself out... so he's planting the seeds.
-Tony tells LJ he thinks Woo found the idol and LJ says he'll play it when he thinks he's going, Tony says he could take out some of our people... and LJ asks, "You want to get rid of him now?" That's what Tony wanted, LJ said he wants to get rid of Woo (not really) and now Tony's going to run and tell everyone LJ can't be trusted and pit them all against LJ to take him out. (Tony's such a weasel, I hope this bites him in the ass.)
Solarrion - Day 24
Tree Mail - sounds like Reward of a Spa Day.
-Tony wants to win so he can have the opportunity to strategize and manipulate people in a weakened state after the pampering. (You can't fault his dedication to always be playing the game, but it's in no way endearing to me.)
REWARD CHALLENGE
They will be split into three teams of three - on Jeff's go they will throw a rope through a ring releasing sandbags, then they must throw the sandbags as far as they can through a rope tunnel. Once they've worked together to get the sandbags through the tunnel, one player will bounce the sandbags off a trampoline and into five baskets. First team to get one sandbag in each of the five baskets will win the reward of: Survivor Spa Reward - shower, massage, spa lunch.
Three teams:
-Jefra, Trish and LJ (Orange)
-Kass, Tasha and Woo (Purple)
-Spencer, Tony and Jeremiah (Green)
Jeremiah is the first person to release the sandbags for green and he starts trying to throw the sandbags down the tunnel too (that looks really hard.)
-LJ is the next one to get the orange sandbags released.
-Tash passes this over to Woo and he finally gets their sandbags released.
-They are all working their sandbags through the tunnel but it's green with the lead and moving on to the bouncing into the baskets. Tony has three targets filled before the other teams even get started.
-Orange gets started bouncing... Purple gets started bouncing but they can't catch up - it's the Green team of Tony, Spencer and Jeremiah that get to enjoy the spa day.
-Tony's plan is to talk to Spencer and Jeremiah about blind-siding LJ, "Just call me the opportunist because if there is an opportunity, I'll jump on it." (Pretty much the definition of opportunist.)
Solarrion - Day 24
-The reward losers return to camp and Woo wishes he'd won the Reward but at least he's happy his boy Tony won and will be keeping an eye on Jeremiah and Spencer for them (oh, poor, trusting Woo.)
-Jefra says she's not worried, they know at this point their best bet is the six-alliance sticking together. She goes out on the boat with Trish and JL and he's telling the girls that Tony is super paranoid right now about Woo having an idol and wants to get rid of him now but they agree the next three people to go should be Tash, Spencer and Jeremiah. LJ tells the camera he's not worried because he's built such a strong bond with Tony, they used their hidden immunity idols to save each other and he trusts Tony will do the right thing. (Oh poor, trusting LJ.)
-They decide that someone has to put out Tony's fire and Trish says she'll do it. They're plan is built on patience and she thinks she can defuse Tony's manic scheming (good luck.)
REWARD
-Spencer knows he's down but he's not out yet, he's glad he was paired with his right hand man, Jeremiah, on the Reward but he really wants to talk to Tony and find out where his head is at.
-Tony is game and starts the ball rolling, asking Spencer if he wants to talk strategy. You Bet! But they talk in vagueries, it's annoying. Basically Spencer offers himself and Jeremiah up as pawns for Tony to use as he sees fit and Tony says he wants to keep them around to use them to make a big move in his alliance, maybe not now but someday. Neither Jeremiah nor Spencer trust Tony at all - they know how hard he's playing the game. Spencer says one thing Tony doesn't know is that Spencer has a hidden immunity idol and he's not afraid to use it. At this point, if he can use Tony to get him a little farther in the game, he might find a detour that gets him all the way. (He's hoping that Tony drops one of those balls his juggling.)
Solarrion - Day 25
Everyone is back in camp and Tasha knows she's got to make a move - she figures Tony's alliance must realize that he's not going to take another strong guy with him to the end so she targets LJ and asks if he's willing to talk. He says he's willing to listen. She says she has a proposition for him and asks him to meet her off by themselves... but he stands her up. He knows Tony is a big ball of anxiety right now and he doesn't think she'll have anything of worth to say to him so he doesn't want to risk being seen going off with her. (Smart, but not very gentlemanly of him.)
-Tasha was going to propose he take Jefra, Spencer, Jeremiah and herself and blindside Tony but LJ is obviously not man enough to make a big move. It's obvious to her that Tony is calling the shots and has everyone under his thumb, if something doesn't change, she's screwed.
Tree Mail - it's a colourful clue but doesn't really tell them what they'll be facing.
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
Today's challenge will test how 25 days out there has affected their minds - it's a memory challenge. Jeff will show them a series of coloured tiles, then they have to recreate the series correctly in their frame. Get it wrong and they're out, last person standing wins Immunity.
Off they go - first round is only 4 colours- Trish is first out on the second tile (really?) Woo is out on the third colour, and the rest make it to the 2nd round.
-Next round: this series was seven colours, little more challenging, the sixth colour takes out Jeremiah, Jefra, Kass and Spencer - leaving LJ, Tasha and Tony, down to the last colour: they each put something different - Tony is out - LJ is out and it's TASHA with a much needed immunity win.
Solarrion - Day 25
-Back in camp everyone is congratulating Tash and she's thinking, "In your face, LJ."
-The six strong alliance meets and LJ proposes they split the votes between Spencer and Jeremiah in case one of them has an idol. LJ knows Tony's worried Woo has the idol but taking out someone in their alliance makes no sense to him at this point. They agree to splitting the votes.
-Tony wants to take out LJ before he has the chance to turn on him - he's got a lot of work to do stirring everyone up and making them think LJ has to go.
-Next we see Tony talking to Woo and telling him that LJ's shady, he wants to blindside him (Woo) and Tony doesn't like that, if he's willing to turn on Woo, he'll turn on Tony too, "Maybe it's time for another shocked face." And Woo laps it up, he thinks Tony is his closest ally and it's great to have him on his side - it's that easy, Woo is voting LJ.
-Tony moves on to Spencer and tells him that LJ wanted to sacrifice Woo so if Spencer and Jeremiah vote LJ with them, he's 100% safe.
-Spencer said it's like Christmas morning and instead of the ashes and coal he was expecting, he got a great big present called, "Let's vote out LJ." He's hoping this isn't too good to be true and just a ploy to get him not to play his idol but if it is true, this could be a big game changer for him.
-Spencer goes and tells Jeremiah the plan and he's in 100% with whatever Spencer wants to do. Spencer says right now they just have to let them kill each other.
-Tony then moves on to Trish, he asks her what they were talking about at camp when he was off on the Reward and she tells him the LJ said Tony was worried about Woo and LJ told him getting rid of Woo wasn't a good idea. Tony says no, it was the other way around, LJ was lying to her because he doesn't want to be in fourth place behind Tony, Trish and Woo. She's not sure who to believe now. Tony and LJ told her completely opposite stories and she can't figure out why.
-Tony proposes that the three remaining Brawn vote for LJ and get the three on the other side to vote LJ with them - and she balks, she wants to stay with their original agreement to remain six strong until Spencer, Jeremiah and Tasha are gone.
-Trish and Kass are in the shelter and Kass asks if they're alright and Trish tells her that Tony was mad about his name being written down last time and he's flipping out - she told him to take a chill pill. Kass tells the camera she loves a blindside but it's too soon, it's stupid, and she thinks Tony knows that.
-Tony tells the camera he's got a plan in place right now to take out LJ but Trish wants to keep their alliance six strong and she's been his closest ally out there since the beginning. If he takes LJ out now, she could turn on him and that's not good for him, so he says he's got to know when to kiss ass and when to kick ass - unfortunately he's in a position right now where he may have to kiss ass and get rid of Spencer or Jeremiah.
TRIBAL COUNCIL
-Jeremiah confirms for Jeff that it's still the six-strong against Spencer, Tasha and himself.
-Jeff asks Kass if she has any empathy for her former tribe mates who are in this position because of moves she's made and she basically says no, it's the game and you can't play it without getting a little dirty.
-Tony agrees, when you agree to play this game you know you're going to be lied to, you're going to be deceived and that's why he brought his bag of tricks with him tonight (implying he has another hidden immunity idol.)
-Tash says the longer you're in a tight alliance, the more you can see the cracks.
-Jeff asks LJ if there are cracks, was he approached by Spencer, Tash or Jeremiah. He says he was vaguely approached but he realizes there is no reason to cause anxiety among their six, they are pretty water tight.
-Jeff starts asking them what they do and if loyalty plays a role in their professions - LJ says he thinks he has a pretty good gauge to know if someone is loyal. Tony says he's in construction (which got Sarah's attention - he's still lying to them?) and loyalty is huge, you turn around and someone has stolen a tool (really? I thought they all knew he was a cop by now - weird.) Kass says she tried to check her life at the door when she came out there - you have to be 100% selfish if you're going to get far in this game (this has both Sarah and Morgan on the jury rolling their eyes at her - no votes for her there.)
-Woo says he knows there may be threats in his alliance but for now they are six strong, why not stay the course, take out the bottom three and then they can sort out each other.
-Jeff asks Spencer if he knows who's on the bottom of the six alliance - he says he doesn't really know but if you are one of the people being told there is no division we're six strong... maybe you're on the bottom (that had Jefra and LJ going, "wait, what now?") and it is that time when people have to start thinking, how do I put myself in a position to win.
-Trish says she thinks their Brady Bunch is about to get very disfunctional. She got comfortable thinking we're six and they're three but it doesn't end at this, it really begins at this because something has to break. Jeff says it will, but when? She says it could be tonight but that would be something she was completely unaware of - of course every time they come to tribal council the place goes crazy but that's what makes it so fun and what makes your stomach sick at the same time.
Time to Vote:
Spencer votes for LJ, fingers crossed for another blindside.
Tallying the votes:
Hidden Immunity idol? And Spencer doesn't play it (uh oh.)
Votes:
LJ - 1, 2, 3
Jeremiah - 1, 2, 3
Spencer - 1
LJ - 4, 5... WOW, they actually did it. LJ is voted out much to the delight of the jury girls... and Spencer's fist pumping celebration (calm down, Opie.) Jefra can't believe Tony flipped.
With LJ's departure, that takes Kevin R., Jennifer G. and Robert L. out of the pool.
Next time: Tony's on a mission, spying on Jefra talking to Trish and Woo falls out of a tree trying to shake down some coconuts (oh no!)
LJ's final thoughts: it's very hard to find the balance between patience and being assertive. If you move too soon you can bite yourself in the butt but if you wait too long you'll find yourself looking into a lens saying, "Where did I go wrong?"
Hope you're all having a great week :)
Coleen
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