Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Survivor Brawn vs Brains vs Beauty - April 30 Episode Recap

Chaos Is My Friend

Last week on Survivor, Tony found the special power immunity idol, Jefra almost made a big move but in the end she stuck with the alliance and it was Jeremiah going home.  Oh, and Spencer played his hidden immunity idol which ended up making no difference.

Solarrion - Night 28
-Jefra tries to tell us that she was convinced at Tribal Council that she'd have a harder time winning against Spencer and Tasha in the end (oh honey, you're not making it to the end) so she stuck with her alliance.
-Then she asks Spencer where his hidden immunity idol came from and is there anything more annoying than know-it-alls trying to one up each other?  Spencer said he found it the day Woo stole the clue and Kass pipes up that she knew because she can read Spencer - he's usually way meaner to her and he was too calm.  He says if that is really true he might be impressed (calm down, put the brains back in your pants you two.)  Kass also tells the camera she knew Spencer would play the idol for himself because there is no more selfish beast on earth than a 21 year old male. (She's not a very likable person, is she.)
-Spencer is mad at himself for using the idol wrong and the other tribe is rubbing his nose in it.  Kass, "We flushed the idol."  Tony, "I love it when a plan comes together."  All right in front of Spencer. (Well, isn't that classic bullying behaviour - nice.)

Solarrion - Day 29
-Tree mail - Woo and Tony come back with tree mail and Woo says his back really hurts, asks Trish to look at it, and he's got the wallets of money tucked in his pants - It's the Survivor Auction!  Trish is ecstatic, that means food and she could really use a meal.  They are all so excited.
-Tony of course is thinking there is usually an advantage up for auction so he's putting all his money on keeping that out of Spencer or Tash's hands.

AUCTION
-They each have $500, the betting is in $20 increments, they cannot share food, they cannot share money and the auction will end without warning so if you see something you like, bid on it or you could miss out.
-First item: Popcorn, candy and a soft drink - Goes to Trish for $80
-2nd item: Remains covered - $100 to Jefra...quesadilla, guac, salsa, marg.  She comes back and Woo has a food porn moment, "Yeah, take a fat dip of that guac." (Haha, stop drooling.)
-3rd item: Also remains covered - Kass gets it for $20 - they're all afraid it's something gross.  Jeff tells her she can keep what she bought or she can trade it for a second covered item.  She decides to stay with the original item... which turns out to be a steak sandwich and iced tea. (Spencer reacts like he just killed his dog.)  Kass takes a huge bite and Tony is dying, his stomach is tied up in knots, he doesn't know if he can hold out for the strategic move.
-4th item: Jeff offers the item that Kass passed up and Trish grabs it for $60... turns out to be rice and water.  Trish tells them to start spending their money.
-5th item - Ribs and Beer - Woo bids $40 and he gets it.
Jeff says, "so clearly something is up, I'm showing you all his food and you're not bidding.  Tony, what are you waiting for?"
Tony, "I'm looking for an advantage Jeff, it could be my only hope to beat these challenge beasts." (Liar, you just don't want them to have it.)
Spencer and Tasha say they are also looking for the advantage.
Jeff says, "Let's just get to it then."  When he brings out the advantage Tony says "$500!"  But Jeff tells him to cool his jets, "Here's how the bidding works.  If there are multiple people bidding the maximum $500, they will all be able to get in on the action, by paying $500 for the chance to pull rocks and win the advantage. 
-Tony is still in for $500, Spencer says he's in and Tash... she's out (if it's not a sure thing, she wants food... I hope this isn't the last thing.)
-The boys step up and black will be the winning rock - F'n Tony wins the advantage and Jeff announces the Auction is over.  So Tasha gets nothing (I wonder if she can keep the $500?) She said she was hoping there would be one more item, a clue to the hidden immunity idol (Huh?) but now she knows she just has to win immunity.

Solarrion - Day 29
-Returning to camp and Tony I guess was trying to make Spencer feel better by saying winning the advantage was a catch 22 because he's still starving and Woo just ate ribs - he'll have more energy to beat him. Spencer points out that he's starving and he doesn't have an advantage.  Spencer says he'll go down as the biggest loser ever at the Survivor auction. (Oh, I don't know, in the past people have won gross food - I think Trish was lucky with the rice and water, it could have been grubs and intestines.)
-Kass as usual thinks she's the super genius - she was going to hold out but let Tony be the martyr for the team, she feels like she's done enough.  And she relished seeing that truly dejected look Spencer has when he knows he's on the block.
-All of Tony's alliance is laying down - food coma - and he's disgusted, he's still starving, why put all that weight on my shoulders. (You put that weight on your own shoulders dude.  Now he's whining about it.)  He tries to get someone to go for water or help build a fire - no takers.  They just want to talk about the food they just ate - until Tony guilts Trish into going for water.
-Then he takes off to go read his advantage away from prying eyes - it's a clue to another hidden immunity idol. (Yeah, they're never getting rid of him now.) Hmm, but he's having some trouble finding the it.
-Tasha is working Tony remotely by playing up to the girls, she wants him to think that they could band together (that would be 4 girls to the 3 guys) and take Tony out.
-And it works, he takes note and mentions it to Spencer, that Tasha was working the girls.  Spencer takes a more direct approach and tells him maybe he should worry about that, they weren't lying when they said Jefra was with them.  Just two days ago, Jefra wanted to blindside Tony.  Tony's listening and Spencer should have left it at that but he really wants to hammer his point home and tells Tony that Jefra said if it didn't work out last Tribal Council she'd be looking to make a big move. -He's hoping Tony's paranoia will cause him to blow up and destroy the alliance making everyone fair game and hopefully saving Spencer's bacon for another few days.
-Tony knows to take everything Spencer is saying with a grain of salt, he's desperate - but Tony's still going to look into it.  The more he's thinking about it, it makes sense to Tony that the girls will band together but they're not going to blindside him - he's going to take things into his own hands. (Uh oh.)

Solarrion - Day 30
-The girls are hanging out in the water, again.  Not going unnoticed by Tony up at camp.  They had a crab someone caught that died while they were collecting firewood - Tony calls down to the girls asking if they think it will be okay, Kass says to put it in water and Jefra tells him they have to cook it soon or it will go bad... but none of them volunteer to do anything.  Tony is pissed, under his breath and to Woo, he says, "why don't you come up here and cook it then."
-He's not happy that the women do nothing around camp and the thought that they are banding against the guys is taking deeper root.  Priority number one, he's going to get that hidden idol right now... and this time he finds it.  It's the 3rd idol he's found this game - now he has two in his possession - one special and one regular.
-He decides he's going to show his alliance he has the idol one at a time and tell them it's for everyone so they're protected but what he's really telling them is that he's protected so don't even think about voting for me.  He made a conscious effort to scare them a little bit so four girls don't get any ideas.

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
They will race to dig up bags in the sand (all attached by a rope), once they have all five bags, they will release the balls inside and then maneuver them through a table maze one at a time, seating all five in their spots at the end of the maze.  First person to get all five balls through the maze on in their spots wins Immunity.
Off they go - Woo is the first to dig up his rope but they all start getting it quickly behind... except Kass and Trish.  Tony is the first one with all his bags - Tasha is the first to have all he balls out and she starts on the maze way ahead of the others.  She has two balls seated through the maze before the others even start.  But the guys soon start, she's up to three balls but Woo catches up to her.  Tasha has 4 balls and Kass & Trish still haven't even gotten their balls out of the bags.
Woo ties it up again but it's TASHA! Who wins her third immunity in a row (She is an immunity beast!  Hopefully this is the last time we see Spencer's pinched-lip, constipated face.)

Solarrion - Day 30
-They return to camp and Tasha is hoping her plan to keep cozying up to the girls will cause Tony enough angst that he'll do something stupid and maybe she can save Spencer.
-Spencer and Tash go for water and the alliance meets to confirm that they're voting for Spencer tonight.  But Tony tells the camera this is the worst case scenario for him, with Tash staying and them voting Spencer out that will mean there are still four girls and only two guys, they can pick the guys off - so it's time to make a big move again and he's targeting Jefra to go tonight to even up the gender numbers.  She was willing to vote him out, so it's her time to go.
-Tony talks to Woo and asks if he's willing to pull a fast one tonight, (his eyes open wide) "What?" Tony says let's vote Jefra instead of Spencer.  Tony convinces Woo that they have to keep the ratio of girls to guys even or they will be done.  The catch, Tony can't tell Trish or Kass so he's got to get Spencer and Tasha to vote with them.
-Tony's approach is to tell Spencer, "It's time for me to be hero and try to save you because I do not want to see you go before Jefra." (Really?) And Tony tells Spencer he's got to tell Tash because he can't let Trish and Kass find out. 
-Spencer's down with that and he's more convinced than ever that he's the smartest guy out there.  He takes Tash aside and asks if she's ready for Survivor miracle part II - Jefra.  Tony and Woo don't trust Jefra and they don't trust the girls so is she is willing to vote Jefra, it could keep him there a couple more days.  Tash, "What did you do?" Yes, she is totally down for voting out Jefra to keep Spencer there. (He's going to be insufferable.)
-Spencer goes and whispers to Tony that Tash is in, then he nods to Woo and decides he's going to go looking for the special immunity idol.
-Tony wonders where Spencer went and then it dawns on him, "Is he searching?" And now Tony's torn, if Spencer will go looking for an idol while he's trying to do this thing for him to keep him there - is he stupid for voting out Jefra and keeping a threat like Spencer around?  This game is driving Tony crazy.  He tells Woo there is going to be chaos tonight.

TRIBAL COUNCIL
-Spencer acknowledges he's in trouble, he played his hidden immunity idol last time, Tasha won her third immunity in a row and Spencer is b a
basically helpless at this point.
-Tony says it was chaotic at camp after the challenge (which makes Jefra very puzzled, it was really calm where she was hanging out in the water) He continues that Spencer came to him and told him his alliance wanting to blindside him, more specifically Jefra - so [he puts the hidden immunity idol on] I'm not the one to be blindsided tonight, I don't want to go home.
-Jefra says she was upset about the LJ situation so [shrugs] (what's the big deal?  He's Paranoid Man, everything's a big deal.)
-Kass tries to diffuse by saying that Jefra had to come to terms with the anger of being left out (Oh, don't try and make this Tony's fault, he's having none of that.)
-Tony - You don't go advertising a blindside, you're supposed to withhold it (you know BLIND side). He's not surprised they are holding together at this point, it's the only thing they have to hang on to for the next couple votes anyway.
-Spencer says this chaos is a good thing for him.  He's clearly the target tonight so if he can mix it up with the other 5, he's going to try.
-Kass says there could be a mistake made tonight, people's heads are spinning, there's paranoia everywhere.
-Jefra agrees, she knows if you're on the bottom you're going to try and break us apart in hopes it'll do something for them. (Clearly she doesn't believe anything can break them up.)
-Spencer says he thinks he played well and can go home happy with that - at the same time windows of opportunity open and close in this game and some could be closing tonight. If you pick me off then pick off Tasha and end up fourth or fifth place, you made a mistake tonight by not making a move. The most common reason people lose this game is because they don't make the move they should have, when they could have, because they got too comfortable and I hope that doesn't happen to someone this game. (Smirking, stiff neck, know-it-all look - he can be really annoying when he's right.)

With that, it's time to vote:
Kass votes for Spencer - "I already saved you once, not doing it again."
Spencer votes Jefra - "Moral of the story, actually play the game before you get played." (He's full of advice tonight.)

Tallying the votes:
Hidden Immunity idol - Tony keeps it around his neck and doesn't play it (he doesn't need to, the threat was enough.)

Votes:
Spencer - 1
Jefra - 1
Spencer - 2
Jefra - 2
Spencer - 3
Jefra - 3 (The girls are all frowning at that...) 4... it's JEFRA going home tonight.
Kass and Trish are not happy to have been left out again.  Spencer cannot keep the sh*t-eating grin off his face.
With Jefra leaving, Mike L., Donna P. and Kim A. are out of the pool.
And I just realized with Jefra leaving, that is the end of the Beauty tribe, so I guess they proved Beauty will only get you so far in the game of Survivor, now it's down to Brains and Brawn.

Next week: Everyone is tired of Tony's antics, Kass tells him to his face she might write his name down and Woo is thinking it might be time to make a move. (Oh, you guys are screwed, Tony's not going anywhere.)

Jefra's final thoughts: says obviously someone in the five alliance flipped and she suspects Tony and Woo, because if Tony wanted her out, Woo would go right along with it.  They fooled me and I wish I would have jumped ship at tribal sooner when I had the chance but I don't live with regret, this is how I played the game and this is how I have to go out. (That's a good attitude... but somehow I don't think Tony's getting her jury vote.)

Have a great rest of your week everyone,

Coleen

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