One semi-hidden factor that I’d like to know more about is the relationship between Adam, Parvati, and Candice. I think there’s important things going on we’re not being shown.
Adam and Candice are pretty obviously hooked up. We saw that when they were together in the original tribe and again last night when they were making kissy faces. But beyond “snuggling” how many plans did they make before their seperation?
Parvati has also expressed an interest in Adam. Is it flirtation, alliance, or both? They don’t seem to spend an inordinate amount of time together but somebody tipped off Adam to the supposedly secret plan to vote off JP and Parvati seems the likeliest suspect. There was no need to do so; they already had a majority and telling others raised the possibility of somebody going back to JP (nobody told Nate for these reasons) - the only reason it made sense would be to maintain trust in an alliance.
Another factor was Candice’s exile. The other players asked her why she was sent off and she feigned not knowing. One obvious possibility is that she had allies in Raro that wanted to protect her from Tribal Council. The only possible allies she had were Adam and/or Parvati.
So is there an actual alliance or just the potential for one? Did it just exist back on the original tribe or is it still in effect? Do all three of them belong to it or is it overlapping individual alliances? I’m hoping all three make it to the merge just so I can see how it plays out. It’ll be interesting if Adam had an alliance with Candice and then replaced her with Parvati and then ends up in the same camp with both women.
I love the footage. I have watched years of NGC and nature documentaries, but was floored at the stingrays leaping from the ocean and gliding! Who knew they could do that?!?!
I actually think a lot of the challenges this season have been superb. This one, and last week’s Immunity Challenge, especially. Which is kind of funny, because I think the quality of the casting has declined somewhat. So it’s good to see that they’re making up the slack somewhere.
And as a complete non-sequitur: Must one have an agent to get on a reality show these days? Because all of the following contestants have previously been involved in the assorted entertainment industries, according to their own CBS.com bios: Adam, Billy, possibly Brad, Cristina, Jenny, Jessica, Jonathan (Oscar nominee), Nathan, Pavarti Cheese, Rebecca, Sekou, and Sundra. That 12/20 – more than 50% of the cast!
*Dear Mr. Mark Burnett, Sir:
Please cast people with homes outside NY and LA on your show, and jobs outside of television. People who work in cube farms can be very entertaining! Don’t you watch “The Office”?
I’m new to watching the show, so forgive me if this is obvious, but what happens when there is a tie vote at the council thing? What if everyone voted for a different person (everyone got one vote)?
It’s complicated. I had originally wrote a nice long thing explaining the History of the Tie-Breaker in Survivor which the GOSH-DARNED HAMSTERS ATE, so in short:
Either a re-vote or some kind of challenge, depending. No more Purple Rock of Doom, though.
It wouldn’t have been a tie, right off the bat, though, if woudl have been 3-Johnathan, 3-Christina, 2-Cao Boi. THey would have re-voted, allowing votes only for J and Ch. Then , if it was a tie, they’d have gone to the challenge.
I think in that case, J would have lost the second vote-off.
In one of the early shows there was a tie at TC. They decided the vote by lot. Instead of having only the players who received votes, or only the top two vote-getters, drawing lots, everyone had to. Each player pulled a stone from a bag and kept them hidden. At a word, they revealed their stones. The one with the purple stone was booted. I don’t remember who was forced to leave, but it wasn’t one of the ones that people were trying to get rid of. He didn’t derserve to go. But such were the rules at that time.
I don’t remember wich season it was, but the Survivors were Neleh, Paschal, and Vecepia. But it turned out to be OK - Paschal collapsed the next day and required medical attention.
To finish explaining, Pappy got the Purple Rock Of Doom, even though the he hadn’t been involved in the tie vote.
The first couple of seasons, the person who went home was the one who had the most number of votes against them at previous councils. Then the PRoD showed up. Eventually, they got smart and started having the almost-voted-outs compete against each other in a fire-building challenge.
I agree it was clear that Chrstina was being voted out, but my point is that kidnapping Christina is not necessarily an obvious choice.
They don’t know that Christina could be a trustworthy ally by saving her. It could sow chaos, but Christina could be a loon for all they know… in which case she isn’t a suitable ally. It is unknown when the merge will occur, and by then having her as an ally could be irrelevant.
If they pick Christina, Nate could paste them in the reward challenge. Then, in hindsight, they should’ve taken the young strong buck over the older woman.
I actually think they should’ve taken the white guy that Candice was mouthing to. He would probably provide some inside information on the social dynamic of the opposing tribe.
Right. And started a generalized paranoia in every non-original-Raro in that tribe. You get Lunkhead and Blondie together for a couple of days and they’d never leave the shelter. I can certainly see that clarifying just where Candice’s loyalties lie may be useful for Yul, Becky and Sundra, but I can’t imagine that Jonathan would be happy about it, or that the rest of that tribe would let things stand without some post-Adam-departure drama.
So I can definitely see why Jonathan immediately put Nate’s name up, if only to deflect attention from Adam and Candice’s ooky-woo-woo face fest.
The tie-breaking system announced in recent seasons went like this:
Following a tie, the people who didn’t get any votes get to vote again, but they can only vote for the people who got votes. If the numbers change, it’s not a tie any more and one of the people previously-voted-for goes home. If the numbers don’t change, then they do a random draw among the people who didn’t get any votes to see who goes home, in an attempt to bully the players into a more tribal unity feeling.
They haven’t had to do the random draw in quite a while, though.
Actually, as someone noted upthread, the new system is that if the revote ties again, the two players who tied go to a competition of some sort. The last two times this happened (in Palau with Stefanie and Bobby Jon and in Panama (?) with two people I don’t remember), it was a firestarting comp.
[Mighty Mouse / Andy Kaufman voice] Heeeeeere I come to save the daaaaaay! [/ MM / AK]
This actually happened twice in Palau – between Stephenie and Bobby Jon, when they were last two Ulongs, and again between Ian and Jenn, when they were tied at the Final Four – and again in the Exile Island season, between Cirie and Danielle. Firestarting competitions, each time.
Someone really has to tell me about the purple rock of doom, though. Just real quick. Please?