Randy really thinks he’s in charge.
I’m actually liking him more now than at the beginning. I can’t believe they got everyone to throw away the immunity idol.
BAH! I think Randy is a dolt.
Argghhhh…no! I hate, hate, hate Suzie. Now there’s a little less eye-candy at 8pm est.
That was AWESOME!
Hee hee! When Marcus was crowing about how he duped everyone into throwing away that immunity idol, you just KNEW he would come to regret it. Of course, he might not have ended up with it and so it may not have mattered, but he had at least a 1 in 10 chance of getting it and it would have saved his ass tonight. He had some fairly bitter parting comments, too.
Charlie is going to be devastated!
You know, you’d think by now that people who go on Survivor would’ve realized some immutable laws. Never crow in a confessional about how untouchable and in charge you are, for surely you will be immediately voted out.
It’s one of those things like the Second Law of The Amazing Race: if you’re at an identified location and you can’t find the clue box, and if you’re running around like a chicken with your head cut off, stop for a moment and look to see where the camera guy is pointing the camera other than you. Voila, clue box.
I was glad to see Kenny stay. I like him, and I like Bob. I’m pretty meh-ish about the rest of them, though I’ll still give Sugar a bit of a pass for getting rid of Ace, even if she does regret it now.
Marcus’s biggest mistake was letting his mind get taken out of the game by a bogus second-hand emotional connection. Just because they’re cousins doesn’t mean she’s good people, Marcus. I have cousins and aunts that I never speak to for one reason…they’re trash. I have cousins who’ve knocked up four girls and don’t pay child support for any of the kids. I have an aunt who stole my grandmother’s Social Security check…repeatedly. Just because they’re related doesn’t mean they’re alike in temperament or trustworthiness.
jayjay, they weren’t even cousins. Marcus is a close friend of her cousin. Okay a mildly interesting coincidence, but I wouldn’t be building my plan around either.
No, I understand the relationship. I’m saying that just because her cousin is your best friend doesn’t mean she’s equivalent to her cousin in trustworthiness or “goodness”. Marcus was transferring his emotional connection to Crystal’s cousin to Crystal, which was the root of his downfall tonight. If he’d kept to his original plans, Crystal would have had no leverage to turn Suze and Kenny would have gone.
Speaking of Kenny, one thing I can’t stand is when someone gets that kind of attitude about being the target. Yes, you’re the target…it’s part of the game. That petulant, vindictive, eye-narrowing, voice dripping with loathing crap doesn’t fly. Grow up.
If Crystal were any smarter, I might’ve thought she might have been lying about being cousins with Marcus’ best friend. If Marcus were any smarter, he would’ve had a second bottle in his pocket to pull a switcheroo when throwing the “idol” out to sea. It would’ve saved him.
Suzie pulled a really stupid move. If she thinks that what she did is going to help her get any votes from her original alliance, particularly Bob and Charlie, she’s nuts. The Fang people aren’t going to help her either. Stupid move. Also, never ever say that you like to think of yourself as an honest/trustworthy person on Survivor, and play like it means something to you, then follow that up by backstabbing the alliance you claimed to be with.
Crystal’s attitude is very annoying. She’s got this thing going like everyone is against her, so she’s just going to screw them all over for spite. I get the feeling she’s going to be one of those entertaining tribal council speakers. Unfortunately, that means we get to see her make those smug “eat that” type faces she’s been making at the camera for weeks now for the entire rest of the show. The “Olympic Athlete” title beneath her name seems more and more mocking as time goes on, I have to say. I know little old ladies that would be stronger physical competitors than her. Olympians everywhere must be proud.
I was going to further elaborate on my opinion of what happens when you pull a move like Suzie’s that depends on if you are playing with Survivor morals or try to use real-life morals, but ran out of steam.
Also, watching that immunity challenge made my shoulders hurt just looking at it. I have to think those poles didn’t actually weigh all that much (maybe 5ish pounds a piece?), but just looking at it, the challenge seemed way more physically punishing than standing on a pole or hanging from a bar. This because there is no solid way to just lock in to that position and zone out, unlike other past endurance challenges.
Did you notice the little grin she had at the very end of the ‘oh, no, poor little stupid me made a booboo over Ace’ speech?
I don’t think she regrets dumping Ace for one second. He was too strong, she had a chance to get rid of him and took it. That blather was just a smoke screen to hide behind for a while. Until she goes, ‘whoopsy, acidentally stabbed another player in the back’ again the next time.
Sugar is devious and dangerous, imho.
Go Sugar!
I liked the Madness of Crowds scene when they dumped the idol into the ocean. It was like something out of Lord of the Flies or something. I’m positive that “idol in a bottle” will show up on a beach somewhere, and maybe a tribe member will find it. If you throw something into the surf, unless you heave it into a strong current, doesn’t it generally come back? Or maybe the producers will give the bottle a little help, for that matter. There was a shot later of that bottle floating not far from shore, which I think is a strong hint in this direction.
I don’t recall who said it, I think it was during the banquet + idol madness, but there was also a nice echo of James’ “don’t bite the apple!” proverb from the China and Fans v Favorites seasons. So, of course, Marcus does bite the apple by throwing out his strategy, and then bites the big one. Walked right into that one, Marcus.
Looks like another merge next week, the real one this time, so maybe that will save Sugar’s ass.
Lots and lots of time-lapse intervals in the show this time – the ones with the stars were very nice, as well as the one with the wind on the lake and the spattered-light-in-the-forest. I’m picturing the guy who shoots these – does he just plop down his Sony XDCAMHD and tripod, point it at something and hit Record, then take out a folding chair and read a novel all day (or night)? I’d think this would get really boring after a while.
I’d think that probably describes Survivor camera work no matter what. These people don’t really do anything interesting most of the day. They sleep. They nap. They work. The show-worthy stuff is, in some episodes, obviously at a premium. The majority of the time, these people aren’t really doing anything non-boring…and the camerapeople have to be there filming them doing completely non-interesting things at least 36 times longer than we have to be there watching them.
I’d almost bet the time-lapse people have the plumb jobs…they can sit there and read a book, do a crossword puzzle, take a nap, play with their Nintendo DS. The people on camp duty have to deal with the contestants…the smelly, dirty, petulant, scheming, secretive contestants.
Good points! I’d want the job on the helicopter mount doing the crazy zooms and pulls, like that one in the first episode this season when they pulled back from a tight shot of Probst’s face to 3 miles away in 8 seconds. I think they stuffed the camera man in a circus cannon for that one. 
Just need to revise this. It’s 72 times longer, not 36. I was apparently thinking of that other planet with the 12-hour days…
Okay, I felt like a complete idiot – but why did they throw the extra idol away? Why were they saying “it’s like the apple in Eden”? Why would it be a bad thing to have that idol?
From a standpoint of what they thought was happening, throwing the idol away was actually a really smart move by Marcus and Randy. They thought they were merging, and that meant that (former) Kota has a handy 6-4 advantage. They definitely didn’t want another idol sitting around in someone’s bag to muddy up the waters…they knew it was already a good bet that at that point, only Sugar would have the idol.
The twist completely destroyed their game plan, though.
twickster, I was just about to post the same thing. I watched the episode and I still don’t understand what Randy was ranting about, and why everybody went with it.
What would’ve been the downside to somebody saying “uh…, on second thought…no. I think I’ll take it. Yoink.”
Because it’ll do you next to no good. The very next vote is going to be to burn that idol. And then the next vote is going to be to oust the person who reached for it.