The Devils We Know
Last week on Survivor we had the epic Reward challenge that nearly killed some people - Beauty lost their first member when Caleb had to be air lifted out and then Brawn finally got rid of Blondie (Alecia) at Tribal Council.
This episode began at Brains tribe - we see the colossally arrogant Peter, reluctantly using his medical training trying to suck up to his tribe - they are gratefully allowing him to tend their minor wounds but it's really not winning anybody over.
And we see Ice Cream man Neal, equally determined that the cancer on their tribe, (that would be Peter... and I'm always kind of tickled when they bust out a reality trope like calling someone a cancer), will not be the one to find the hidden immunity idol. Neal successfully finds the clue, the box, retrieves the key and gets the third hidden immunity idol.
Reward challenge(?)... Nope. Jeff brings them all together and tells them to drop their buffs. Oh yeah, they are switching up the tribes.
Jeff also tells us that they had always planned to do the switch-up at this point in the game but they expected to have 14 people left - with Caleb's unforeseen departure, that left them with 13 people... the solution they came up with: six blue buffs, six yellow buffs and one red buff - the single person that gets the red buff will go back to the Brawn beach alone, they will not participate in the Immunity Challenge, meaning they cannot be voted out and they will fill the spot on whichever tribe does go to Tribal Council and votes out the next person. So, still sucks to be red.
New tribes:
Blue/Chan Loh: Neal & Debbie, Cydney & Jason, Keith & Michelle - two brains, two brawn and two beauty. (Exactly even.)
Yellow/Gondol: Peter, Aubry & Joe, Tai & Anna and Scot - three brains, two beauty and one brawn (who is the size of two.) (Also pretty even.)
Red/To Tang: Julia, the blond sorority girl, youngest person out there, will have to fend for herself for water, food, fire... everything. She says she thinks she'll be okay, but the downside is she won't be able to get to know everyone and will be coming back in at a disadvantage. Later we see that she is NOT okay on her own, she gets so dehydrated she's lying listlessly in the shelter, crying (that's only going to dehydrate you more - I'm guessing she's not a science major.) She's only 18 and she's not equipped to do this one her own.
Gondol - Yellow - Day 12
-Tai & Anna welcome everyone to their camp and share their mangos, heart of palm and there is still a chicken left. It's all happy happy, joy joy getting to know you... and Peter is immediately confident that he has nothing to worry about now that he's in the majority of the 3 brains on this tribe (he's learned absolutely nothing, or just doesn't care about the social aspect of this game because immediately everyone knows he's an arrogant prick.)
-The Brains figure they will have to get rid of a beauty first if they go to Tribal because they don't want to have even numbers, with Julia coming back to the tribe (and are you going to vote off the giant at this point? No, Scot is still safe.)
Chan Loh - Blue - Day 12
-Debbie starts being Debbie, trying to impress the Brawn members because she wants to align with the powerhouses, by doing chin ups (she's embarrassing) - then she proposes everyone go scavenge for food and she goes off with Cydney complimenting her disciplined physique and saying she knows she's smart... we find out that Cydney went to Penn, an ivy league school, so she is smart but she's been keeping that on the down low - she likes Debbie's motherly vibe. Debbie also shares that she and Neal are tight and in the end she wants a woman to win - Cydney's on board.
-Then Debbie approaches Jason and just says they want to take out a beauty if it comes to it at the first Tribal. Debbie is patting herself on the back for being the mastermind out there, now Brains and Brawn are covalently bonded, they can't be beat. (She better watch the cockiness, that tends to get you blindsided.)
Gondol - Day 13
-Tai is being his genuine self, and everyone loves him. Poker Player Anna knows it's between Tai and herself if they go to Tribal so she starts working to throw Tai under the bus, telling the Brains about catching Tai looking for the hidden immunity idol and how sketch he can be.
Chan Loah - Day 13
-Nick sees this tribe switch-up as a re-birth for him, it's the battle of the pairs and he wants to court another pair to join him and Michelle. My favourite line of his, "When it comes to being manipulative, I'm the most intelligent person out here." (Oh Sweet Jebus! Save us from all these narcissistic shitheads.) Nick talks to Jason and they agree that they like each other so far - both totally discount the women as just going along with whatever they decide to do (sigh.)
-Jason sees himself and Cydney as sitting pretty, both the other pairs have come to them, they hold all the power right now.
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
Two members from each tribe will swim out and retrieve a net of fish puzzle pieces - once on the shore, two other tribe members will have to untie all the fish from the net and hang the 14 fish on hooks hanging from a pole. Then those two tribe members will carry the pole up the beach to the remaining two tribe members who will have to use the wooden fish pieces to solve a puzzle (fitting all the pieces together correctly.)
-Scot & Aubry vs Nick & Jason retrieving the net of fish. Scot basically does this part of the challenge all by himself... Oh and all the fish puzzle pieces weigh about 100lbs.
-Tai & Joe vs Cydney & Michele untying the puzzle pieces - the girls untie quicker but carrying the pole of pieces is really heavy and they fall behind when Michelle had to drag the pole.
-Peter & Anna vs Debbie & Neal - and Debbie & Neal blow them away - CHAN LOH/Blue wins Immunity.
Gondol/Yellow - Day 13
-Back at camp, the former Brains members meet. Aubry wants to vote Tai, Peter talks to her like she's stupid, "You want the primary provider out?" he thinks the smarter vote is Anna but he'll do what they want, and he leaves them to come to his decision. So it's Anna tonight.
-Peter goes and tells Anna & Tai that they are talking about voting one of the Beauty out and Tai tells us how he feels, "I do not like Peter." (You and everyone else who has the misfortune to meet him I think.)
-Tai wants Peter out and he can do it, he has the idol, so he talks to Anna & Scot, proposes they take Peter out and shows them his idol.
Scot is immediately in, "Done!" Anna is so excited at the prospect of blindsiding Peter she has a hard time wiping the huge smile off her face (I can't blame her there.)
-Later, Aubry goes up to Scot and tells him they are voting Anna tonight... and Scot realizes with Tai safe, he is now the only person that knows where there are two hidden immunity idols which, when combined, can be a super idol... this could be huge for him if he makes it to the merge. So Scot tells Tai that he is safe and should hold on to his idol for as long as he can - just let Anna go tonight. Tai is worried that he may be the one to go home with the idol in his pocket but he's going to see how tribal pans out and decide whether to play it or not then.
TRIBAL COUNCIL
It's basically Anna and Tai pleading their cases to stay.
Anna says she's strong, she's competitive and hopefully they'll see her as an asset and keep her around. (Weak)
Tai lays it out that he is their main provider of food, he fishes, he climbs trees to get mangos - he has a lot of resources, a lot of skill and never, ever complains about work. (He could happy his way into winning.)
-Jeff does ask if there has been talk of idols which makes Scot and Anna nervous that Tai's going to spill the beans.
-Joe old-man answers that he doesn't think there is a hidden idol (Joe, there is always a hidden idol).
-Tai jumps on that, he agrees that there must not be any hidden idols because he looked and he couldn't find it (a little too nervous but they don't know him well enough to realize it's not just his normal twitchiness.)
-Peter makes another stupid speech about not being worried at all because he's in the power position and it there is very low probability that he's going home. (Arghhh... that just makes me wish they would blindside him.)
Time to Vote:
Anyone want to play a hidden immunity idol?
Tai looks at Scot, he almost imperceptibly shakes his head, Tai looks down. Anna looks at Tai and when he doesn't move she frowns (yup, not looking good for you.)
Votes:
Peter - 1
Anna - 1, 2, 3... 4 and it's ANNA voted out. Not much of a shocker, but it would have been so satisfying if they had taken down Peter, oh well, I'm pretty sure he's not going to be around to the end.
And with Anna leaving, that takes Kevin R., Lynne B., and Lois & Dave L. out of the pool.
Next week: Debbie is courting a new ally by creepily flirting with Nick and Joe investigates one of his own, confronting Peter about being against him.
Anna's final thoughts: "Oh my god, this hurts so much," (what, your fake boobs smashed in that buff? I couldn't let her go without commenting about them at least once.) She did not expect to be out this early, she thought she was playing a good game but maybe she was playing too hard - it was her strategy to go all in, and she thought blindsiding Peter would be so awesome (and it would have been), "But they blindsided ME!" (Yup, that they did.)
Happy St Patty's day everyone,
Coleen
Last week on Survivor we had the epic Reward challenge that nearly killed some people - Beauty lost their first member when Caleb had to be air lifted out and then Brawn finally got rid of Blondie (Alecia) at Tribal Council.
This episode began at Brains tribe - we see the colossally arrogant Peter, reluctantly using his medical training trying to suck up to his tribe - they are gratefully allowing him to tend their minor wounds but it's really not winning anybody over.
And we see Ice Cream man Neal, equally determined that the cancer on their tribe, (that would be Peter... and I'm always kind of tickled when they bust out a reality trope like calling someone a cancer), will not be the one to find the hidden immunity idol. Neal successfully finds the clue, the box, retrieves the key and gets the third hidden immunity idol.
Reward challenge(?)... Nope. Jeff brings them all together and tells them to drop their buffs. Oh yeah, they are switching up the tribes.
Jeff also tells us that they had always planned to do the switch-up at this point in the game but they expected to have 14 people left - with Caleb's unforeseen departure, that left them with 13 people... the solution they came up with: six blue buffs, six yellow buffs and one red buff - the single person that gets the red buff will go back to the Brawn beach alone, they will not participate in the Immunity Challenge, meaning they cannot be voted out and they will fill the spot on whichever tribe does go to Tribal Council and votes out the next person. So, still sucks to be red.
New tribes:
Blue/Chan Loh: Neal & Debbie, Cydney & Jason, Keith & Michelle - two brains, two brawn and two beauty. (Exactly even.)
Yellow/Gondol: Peter, Aubry & Joe, Tai & Anna and Scot - three brains, two beauty and one brawn (who is the size of two.) (Also pretty even.)
Red/To Tang: Julia, the blond sorority girl, youngest person out there, will have to fend for herself for water, food, fire... everything. She says she thinks she'll be okay, but the downside is she won't be able to get to know everyone and will be coming back in at a disadvantage. Later we see that she is NOT okay on her own, she gets so dehydrated she's lying listlessly in the shelter, crying (that's only going to dehydrate you more - I'm guessing she's not a science major.) She's only 18 and she's not equipped to do this one her own.
Gondol - Yellow - Day 12
-Tai & Anna welcome everyone to their camp and share their mangos, heart of palm and there is still a chicken left. It's all happy happy, joy joy getting to know you... and Peter is immediately confident that he has nothing to worry about now that he's in the majority of the 3 brains on this tribe (he's learned absolutely nothing, or just doesn't care about the social aspect of this game because immediately everyone knows he's an arrogant prick.)
-The Brains figure they will have to get rid of a beauty first if they go to Tribal because they don't want to have even numbers, with Julia coming back to the tribe (and are you going to vote off the giant at this point? No, Scot is still safe.)
Chan Loh - Blue - Day 12
-Debbie starts being Debbie, trying to impress the Brawn members because she wants to align with the powerhouses, by doing chin ups (she's embarrassing) - then she proposes everyone go scavenge for food and she goes off with Cydney complimenting her disciplined physique and saying she knows she's smart... we find out that Cydney went to Penn, an ivy league school, so she is smart but she's been keeping that on the down low - she likes Debbie's motherly vibe. Debbie also shares that she and Neal are tight and in the end she wants a woman to win - Cydney's on board.
-Then Debbie approaches Jason and just says they want to take out a beauty if it comes to it at the first Tribal. Debbie is patting herself on the back for being the mastermind out there, now Brains and Brawn are covalently bonded, they can't be beat. (She better watch the cockiness, that tends to get you blindsided.)
Gondol - Day 13
-Tai is being his genuine self, and everyone loves him. Poker Player Anna knows it's between Tai and herself if they go to Tribal so she starts working to throw Tai under the bus, telling the Brains about catching Tai looking for the hidden immunity idol and how sketch he can be.
Chan Loah - Day 13
-Nick sees this tribe switch-up as a re-birth for him, it's the battle of the pairs and he wants to court another pair to join him and Michelle. My favourite line of his, "When it comes to being manipulative, I'm the most intelligent person out here." (Oh Sweet Jebus! Save us from all these narcissistic shitheads.) Nick talks to Jason and they agree that they like each other so far - both totally discount the women as just going along with whatever they decide to do (sigh.)
-Jason sees himself and Cydney as sitting pretty, both the other pairs have come to them, they hold all the power right now.
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
Two members from each tribe will swim out and retrieve a net of fish puzzle pieces - once on the shore, two other tribe members will have to untie all the fish from the net and hang the 14 fish on hooks hanging from a pole. Then those two tribe members will carry the pole up the beach to the remaining two tribe members who will have to use the wooden fish pieces to solve a puzzle (fitting all the pieces together correctly.)
-Scot & Aubry vs Nick & Jason retrieving the net of fish. Scot basically does this part of the challenge all by himself... Oh and all the fish puzzle pieces weigh about 100lbs.
-Tai & Joe vs Cydney & Michele untying the puzzle pieces - the girls untie quicker but carrying the pole of pieces is really heavy and they fall behind when Michelle had to drag the pole.
-Peter & Anna vs Debbie & Neal - and Debbie & Neal blow them away - CHAN LOH/Blue wins Immunity.
Gondol/Yellow - Day 13
-Back at camp, the former Brains members meet. Aubry wants to vote Tai, Peter talks to her like she's stupid, "You want the primary provider out?" he thinks the smarter vote is Anna but he'll do what they want, and he leaves them to come to his decision. So it's Anna tonight.
-Peter goes and tells Anna & Tai that they are talking about voting one of the Beauty out and Tai tells us how he feels, "I do not like Peter." (You and everyone else who has the misfortune to meet him I think.)
-Tai wants Peter out and he can do it, he has the idol, so he talks to Anna & Scot, proposes they take Peter out and shows them his idol.
Scot is immediately in, "Done!" Anna is so excited at the prospect of blindsiding Peter she has a hard time wiping the huge smile off her face (I can't blame her there.)
-Later, Aubry goes up to Scot and tells him they are voting Anna tonight... and Scot realizes with Tai safe, he is now the only person that knows where there are two hidden immunity idols which, when combined, can be a super idol... this could be huge for him if he makes it to the merge. So Scot tells Tai that he is safe and should hold on to his idol for as long as he can - just let Anna go tonight. Tai is worried that he may be the one to go home with the idol in his pocket but he's going to see how tribal pans out and decide whether to play it or not then.
TRIBAL COUNCIL
It's basically Anna and Tai pleading their cases to stay.
Anna says she's strong, she's competitive and hopefully they'll see her as an asset and keep her around. (Weak)
Tai lays it out that he is their main provider of food, he fishes, he climbs trees to get mangos - he has a lot of resources, a lot of skill and never, ever complains about work. (He could happy his way into winning.)
-Jeff does ask if there has been talk of idols which makes Scot and Anna nervous that Tai's going to spill the beans.
-Joe old-man answers that he doesn't think there is a hidden idol (Joe, there is always a hidden idol).
-Tai jumps on that, he agrees that there must not be any hidden idols because he looked and he couldn't find it (a little too nervous but they don't know him well enough to realize it's not just his normal twitchiness.)
-Peter makes another stupid speech about not being worried at all because he's in the power position and it there is very low probability that he's going home. (Arghhh... that just makes me wish they would blindside him.)
Time to Vote:
Anyone want to play a hidden immunity idol?
Tai looks at Scot, he almost imperceptibly shakes his head, Tai looks down. Anna looks at Tai and when he doesn't move she frowns (yup, not looking good for you.)
Votes:
Peter - 1
Anna - 1, 2, 3... 4 and it's ANNA voted out. Not much of a shocker, but it would have been so satisfying if they had taken down Peter, oh well, I'm pretty sure he's not going to be around to the end.
And with Anna leaving, that takes Kevin R., Lynne B., and Lois & Dave L. out of the pool.
Next week: Debbie is courting a new ally by creepily flirting with Nick and Joe investigates one of his own, confronting Peter about being against him.
Anna's final thoughts: "Oh my god, this hurts so much," (what, your fake boobs smashed in that buff? I couldn't let her go without commenting about them at least once.) She did not expect to be out this early, she thought she was playing a good game but maybe she was playing too hard - it was her strategy to go all in, and she thought blindsiding Peter would be so awesome (and it would have been), "But they blindsided ME!" (Yup, that they did.)
Happy St Patty's day everyone,
Coleen
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