It's Psychological Warfare
This episode was a doozy guys. After the girls banded together to blindside Nick, Scot & Jason were running scared... and what does a scared little boy or cornered dog do? They attack.
-Scot, ever the ringleader, asks how Jason and Tai feel about a little sabotage? Let's see how well they do if we take their food away - or their means of getting food... and Scot & Jason get up really early the next morning and take the machete and ax and bury them. (Right in front of Joe I might add, who is deaf without his hearing aids and apparently clueless as to why those guys are skulking around.)
-Next morning, the girls notice the missing implements but instead of falling apart, they prove to be resourceful, putting the coconuts in the fire to build up pressure, then they hack them open with a saw.
-Well, this just made Scot livid, how dare they be able to eat when he's trying to stop it... so he takes a 5 gallon jug of water and right in front of everyone douses the fire. (I don't know that I could hate anyone more than I did Scot at that moment. I had some choice expletives for that ... guy.)
-Everyone is pretty disgusted by this behaviour, except Jason who thinks it's awesome. Tai is having a hard time with the ruthlessness of the other guys, that's not how he usually approaches life, but he feels like he's got to stick with them.
-And the girls get the fire going again (suck it!)
REWARD CHALLENGE
-They are going to be divided into two teams of 4 with the extra person sitting out. That extra person gets to vote for one of the tribes to win and if they are right, they'll get to partake of the reward with the winners.
-The challenge, they will be attached to ropes, they have to unbraid those ropes by using their bodies to go over and under keeping them from getting tangled - once they've completed that, they will have to throw bean bags at a ledge to knock all the blocks off it - first team to get all the blocks off the ledge will win Reward of Take Out Chinese Food back at camp.
-They filled Jeff in on the shenanigans at camp so he offers for them to decide the team divisions. Joe volunteers to sit out. Scot, Jason and Tai are obviously one team... and which girl will go with them? Julie readily volunteers, she sees this as her chance to make a move and get herself off the bottom of the girl alliance (onto the bottom of the boy alliance?) I had hopes she was going to sabotage them in the challenge, just sit down and let them try to untangle the rope around her... but no such luck.
-Joe valiantly sides with the girls... but in the end the boys and Julia won the Reward. (It was close, but still - I can't stand Scot & Jason and their sh*t-eating grins.)
-Back at camp while filling their faces, Julie tells the guys everything she knows and tells them she's going to continue to tell them everything she finds out from the other alliance from here on out. They tell her they are going to vote Cydney out first.
-Julia has burned bridges with Aubry & Cydney, they do not trust her. Debbie still wants to mother her and trusts her implicitly. When they finish eating the first thing Julia does is ask Debbie what their plan is and she tells her that she's thinking Scot but they'll wait until they see who wins immunity then talk.
-Cydney goes to Aubry and they are in agreement that they have to vote off Julia - she's proven she can't be trusted and she's trying to play both sides - people in the middle of the road often get run over.
-Next scene is proof that Tai has gone to the dark side - while everyone else is sleeping, he goes and douses the fire. (No... it was like Anakin killing the younglings... not Tai too!) Next morning, they all think Scot did it.
-Aubry sees this latest sabotage as Scot & Jason trying to get them to vote for them because they have idols so she more than ever thinks Julia has to go.
-Debbie will hear none of that talk, she wants Scot gone so bad she can taste it and will entertain no other vote talk, she will not vote Julia.
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
-They have to stack a series of blocks on a beam close enough together so that they can knock them down like dominos in the end - but they can only place one block at a time and they have to step through lattice work attached to the floating beam to set the blocks - so any hitting of that lattice, will cause your blocks to fall and you will
have to start over. There was a lot of starting over - it made me laugh because Scot's feet are so big, I was surprised he could even get them through the holes... Michele almost had it, Debbie almost had it, even Jason almost had it - but in the end it was JULIA that won immunity (what the what?? Of Course if was Julia. ARghhh!)
So now what? They get back to camp and Debbie tells the girls (including Julia) exactly how they are going to split the vote tonight.
-Julia dutifully runs right over to the guys and tells them everything that was said, Scot tells her to vote Cydney.
-Scot says they are going to pull out all the stops tonight, tell them all about the idols and put it all on the line, anything to stay.
-Cydney & Aubry hatch plan B, Debbie is playing emotionally, she's not using her head and is putting them all at risk by trusting the fox in the hen house (that is Julia) so they are gunning for Debbie tonight.
-Michelle is game but Joe says absolutely no way. (Sigh, old guy is too honorable and deaf to strategize effectively in this horrible game).
-So now they have no choice but to approach Julia about voting for Debbie and she tells them she is still with them and says she's down to vote out Debbie tonight.
TRIBAL COUNCIL
It was a test of my willpower not to through something at Scot & Jason's smirking, condescending, smarmy faces as they made a big production about showing that Tai had an idol and Jason had an idol and they said when Jeff asked if anyone had a hidden idol Jason & Scot were going to ro-sham-bo to decide who gets the idol. (But we know they are planning the super idol trick... did anyone listen to Tai last week? Nope, doesn't appear so.)
-The cross talk starts immediately, original vote, are we all good, everyone is whispering in everyone's ears... Jeff is loving it!
Time to Vote:
They didn't show us how anyone voted.
Tallying the Votes:
Anyone have a hidden idol they want to play? Tai shakes his head, Jason & Scot make a big show of rock/paper/scissors... Scot wins (paper coers rock if you care) but then maybe we should give the idol to Tai, who just puts it in his pocket. (Quite the little skit they put on.)
Votes:
Scot - 1
Cydney - 1
Scot - 2
Cydney - 2
Cydney - 3
Debbie - 1 (her face said, huh?)
Debbie - 2
Debbie - 3 (The guys are really confused, took some of the hot air out of their "aren't we the greatest" sails.)
Final vote is for DEBBIE! She was shocked and the guys were ecstatic that they didn't have to burn their super idol, they look like the cats that just ate the canaries - they're going to be insufferable. And honestly, Debbie lasted way longer than I thought she would.
And with Debbie leaving, that takes Bryon L., Cindy M., and Elaine R. out of the pool.
Next week: The guys think they are invincible with the Super Idol but Aubry tries to lure Tai away from the Dark Side pointing out the other guys are despicable people (can't fault that logic.)
Debbie's final thoughts: She couldn't believe the girls chose to get rid of a girl, it just boggled her mind and made it that much more difficult for them to defeat Scot, Jason & Tai. "It also totally stinks that those three wankers made it further than me, but they played a better game." (Yes and no, it was her own unwillingness to even entertain the idea of voting out Julia that proved her demise.)
Have a great rest of your week,
Coleen
This episode was a doozy guys. After the girls banded together to blindside Nick, Scot & Jason were running scared... and what does a scared little boy or cornered dog do? They attack.
-Scot, ever the ringleader, asks how Jason and Tai feel about a little sabotage? Let's see how well they do if we take their food away - or their means of getting food... and Scot & Jason get up really early the next morning and take the machete and ax and bury them. (Right in front of Joe I might add, who is deaf without his hearing aids and apparently clueless as to why those guys are skulking around.)
-Next morning, the girls notice the missing implements but instead of falling apart, they prove to be resourceful, putting the coconuts in the fire to build up pressure, then they hack them open with a saw.
-Well, this just made Scot livid, how dare they be able to eat when he's trying to stop it... so he takes a 5 gallon jug of water and right in front of everyone douses the fire. (I don't know that I could hate anyone more than I did Scot at that moment. I had some choice expletives for that ... guy.)
-Everyone is pretty disgusted by this behaviour, except Jason who thinks it's awesome. Tai is having a hard time with the ruthlessness of the other guys, that's not how he usually approaches life, but he feels like he's got to stick with them.
-And the girls get the fire going again (suck it!)
REWARD CHALLENGE
-They are going to be divided into two teams of 4 with the extra person sitting out. That extra person gets to vote for one of the tribes to win and if they are right, they'll get to partake of the reward with the winners.
-The challenge, they will be attached to ropes, they have to unbraid those ropes by using their bodies to go over and under keeping them from getting tangled - once they've completed that, they will have to throw bean bags at a ledge to knock all the blocks off it - first team to get all the blocks off the ledge will win Reward of Take Out Chinese Food back at camp.
-They filled Jeff in on the shenanigans at camp so he offers for them to decide the team divisions. Joe volunteers to sit out. Scot, Jason and Tai are obviously one team... and which girl will go with them? Julie readily volunteers, she sees this as her chance to make a move and get herself off the bottom of the girl alliance (onto the bottom of the boy alliance?) I had hopes she was going to sabotage them in the challenge, just sit down and let them try to untangle the rope around her... but no such luck.
-Joe valiantly sides with the girls... but in the end the boys and Julia won the Reward. (It was close, but still - I can't stand Scot & Jason and their sh*t-eating grins.)
-Back at camp while filling their faces, Julie tells the guys everything she knows and tells them she's going to continue to tell them everything she finds out from the other alliance from here on out. They tell her they are going to vote Cydney out first.
-Julia has burned bridges with Aubry & Cydney, they do not trust her. Debbie still wants to mother her and trusts her implicitly. When they finish eating the first thing Julia does is ask Debbie what their plan is and she tells her that she's thinking Scot but they'll wait until they see who wins immunity then talk.
-Cydney goes to Aubry and they are in agreement that they have to vote off Julia - she's proven she can't be trusted and she's trying to play both sides - people in the middle of the road often get run over.
-Next scene is proof that Tai has gone to the dark side - while everyone else is sleeping, he goes and douses the fire. (No... it was like Anakin killing the younglings... not Tai too!) Next morning, they all think Scot did it.
-Aubry sees this latest sabotage as Scot & Jason trying to get them to vote for them because they have idols so she more than ever thinks Julia has to go.
-Debbie will hear none of that talk, she wants Scot gone so bad she can taste it and will entertain no other vote talk, she will not vote Julia.
IMMUNITY CHALLENGE
-They have to stack a series of blocks on a beam close enough together so that they can knock them down like dominos in the end - but they can only place one block at a time and they have to step through lattice work attached to the floating beam to set the blocks - so any hitting of that lattice, will cause your blocks to fall and you will
have to start over. There was a lot of starting over - it made me laugh because Scot's feet are so big, I was surprised he could even get them through the holes... Michele almost had it, Debbie almost had it, even Jason almost had it - but in the end it was JULIA that won immunity (what the what?? Of Course if was Julia. ARghhh!)
So now what? They get back to camp and Debbie tells the girls (including Julia) exactly how they are going to split the vote tonight.
-Julia dutifully runs right over to the guys and tells them everything that was said, Scot tells her to vote Cydney.
-Scot says they are going to pull out all the stops tonight, tell them all about the idols and put it all on the line, anything to stay.
-Cydney & Aubry hatch plan B, Debbie is playing emotionally, she's not using her head and is putting them all at risk by trusting the fox in the hen house (that is Julia) so they are gunning for Debbie tonight.
-Michelle is game but Joe says absolutely no way. (Sigh, old guy is too honorable and deaf to strategize effectively in this horrible game).
-So now they have no choice but to approach Julia about voting for Debbie and she tells them she is still with them and says she's down to vote out Debbie tonight.
TRIBAL COUNCIL
It was a test of my willpower not to through something at Scot & Jason's smirking, condescending, smarmy faces as they made a big production about showing that Tai had an idol and Jason had an idol and they said when Jeff asked if anyone had a hidden idol Jason & Scot were going to ro-sham-bo to decide who gets the idol. (But we know they are planning the super idol trick... did anyone listen to Tai last week? Nope, doesn't appear so.)
-The cross talk starts immediately, original vote, are we all good, everyone is whispering in everyone's ears... Jeff is loving it!
Time to Vote:
They didn't show us how anyone voted.
Tallying the Votes:
Anyone have a hidden idol they want to play? Tai shakes his head, Jason & Scot make a big show of rock/paper/scissors... Scot wins (paper coers rock if you care) but then maybe we should give the idol to Tai, who just puts it in his pocket. (Quite the little skit they put on.)
Votes:
Scot - 1
Cydney - 1
Scot - 2
Cydney - 2
Cydney - 3
Debbie - 1 (her face said, huh?)
Debbie - 2
Debbie - 3 (The guys are really confused, took some of the hot air out of their "aren't we the greatest" sails.)
Final vote is for DEBBIE! She was shocked and the guys were ecstatic that they didn't have to burn their super idol, they look like the cats that just ate the canaries - they're going to be insufferable. And honestly, Debbie lasted way longer than I thought she would.
And with Debbie leaving, that takes Bryon L., Cindy M., and Elaine R. out of the pool.
Next week: The guys think they are invincible with the Super Idol but Aubry tries to lure Tai away from the Dark Side pointing out the other guys are despicable people (can't fault that logic.)
Debbie's final thoughts: She couldn't believe the girls chose to get rid of a girl, it just boggled her mind and made it that much more difficult for them to defeat Scot, Jason & Tai. "It also totally stinks that those three wankers made it further than me, but they played a better game." (Yes and no, it was her own unwillingness to even entertain the idea of voting out Julia that proved her demise.)
Have a great rest of your week,
Coleen
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