Wow, no thread yet? I guess that’s a way to keep spoilers at bay.
Pretty good show. The usual tribe mixup happened, and Ozzy lucked out by being at his own beach where he hid the HII, instead of at the other beach, idol-less. Dodged a bullet there, Oz.
The reward challenge looked brutal – several injuries, including Penner who got a good spike through the knee; its looking pretty bad in the previews for next week. The challenge look pretty unbalanced as well – the chasers caught the chasees 5 times out of 6. Joel got to drag Chet through the mud, twice. And there was a candidate for the Best Survivor Dialog Ever: “I hit my head.” “I don’t care.” “I know.”
Meanwhile, back at the winner’s camp, we find that the idiots there built their fire below high tide. Really. :rolleyes: And the steaks almost washed out to sea. What a bunch of rubes.
Amanda rocks! – she actually wrestled a small shark and won! I bet that bad boy made a pretty good meal.
What a sorry sack of idiots that tribe (damn, what are the tribe names?) for getting rid of Joel before the merge. I’m as stunned as Joel is – you keep the strong people until the merge! Next week they just have to have another roll-some-heavy-object through mud challenge, so these guys will know what they lost. Jeezus.
And Cirie manages to come out on top again, mixing shit up like last week. Why does anyone listen to her? What’s her super secret mutant “let’s do something stupid” persuasion power?
And the absolute topper was the preview where Fanboy Jason finds the OII*, and thinks its real. Awesome!
Made perfect sense for the favorites to get rid of Joel now, in my opinion. Either Chet or Joel, didn’t matter, now they have numbers and can vote out the fans at their leisure. If I were them, I would TRY to lose immunity challenges - get rid of all the fans, merge with greater favorite numbers and then get rid of all the fans on the other team. Chet doesn’t even try to play, Joel made attempts to strategize (and was a potential challenge winner, albeit still POTENTIAL) - he was the more dangerous player in the long term. Chet is just a big ball of goo!
I really enjoyed the episode - hope Penner isn’t too badly hurt, I want him to stay in the game.
Good episode. I was surprised but glad they got rid of Joel. He was becoming annoying. Chet is useless, both in challenges and around camp, but he would be easy to beat during individual immunity. Besides, Joel probably would have backed out on the deal if they voted out Cirie this time. It’s possible he could have convinced the other fans to vote off the favorites.
I knew the fans’ camp was bad but I didn’t realize it was that bad. I kept waiting for the steaks to be washed away.
I agree. That was so funny I chortled, giggled and guffawed. Or maybe it was the vicodin.
Poor Jonathan. That wound looked painful. I wonder how many problems it will cause next week. Wouldn’t an injury in that environment pretty much be guaranteed to become infected?
I noticed when they were showing everyone’s injuries they didn’t show the guy who ran into the tree. Did I miss something? Or was he not hurt enough to warrant screen time?
Both couples somehow managed to stay together, though the foursome was split in two. Ozzy & Amanda should be safe for a while, considering that their tribe apparently brought over The Stupid from the original fans tribe. The tribe considered several possibilities, but neither Ozzy nor Amanda’s names came up. Plus they have the HII as insurance.
Not sure how the dynamic on the Airai tribe is going to shake out. All I know is I was kinda bummed they won the IC because I really wanted to see what the new digs ended up looking like.
Three people impressed me quite a bit this epsiode:
Cirie, for being so strong in the reward challenge. Girl can move!
The old chick who’s been allied with Chet all game. She just keeps on ticking, and nobody in her little alliance of three ever gets voted out despite racking up lots of votes. It was pretty much all Cirie voting out Joel, but the old chick (Tracy?) has been playing a superb game of outwit. Then again, just take one look at Joel and tell me how hard you think it would be to outwit him.
Eliza for doing so well as a caller in the immunity challenge. A partial nod goes to Jonathan for the assist in this one.
Wouldn’t have mattered. Ozzy would have swum like a dolphin to the other beach, slithered his way across the terrain like a serpent, retrieved his idol, and returned — all with complete stealth and athletic grace. He would have done all this in four minutes while everyone thought he went to gather fire wood. Oh, and he would have returned with a double armload of wood.
Ozzy will realign with James once the merge occurs. Ozzy has got to be the odds-on favorite to win the whole enchilada. He’s incredibly athletic, provides for the tribe, gets along with everyone and is playing a smart game.
The reward challenge seemed almost over-the-top. Players getting slammed into trees full force and getting the snot dinged out of them and literally dragged through mud. Next week doesn’t look good for Jonathan. Another early injury pull-out maybe?
This is the second elimination that Cerie has orchestrated. Girl friend is definitely on her game as well.
Joel needed to go. He made the classic mistake of trying to do too much too early. In the post interview, he said he couldn’t believe they kept a 98 pound do-nothing, weakling over a hulking, manly man. He still doesn’t get it. That vote wasn’t a vote to keep Chet in but to get him out. There is a difference.
Man, that fans tribe is just a mess. They should have just gone in and voted a 4-4 tie and hoped for the best. I guess it doesn’t really matter if Ozzy’s tribe loses the next few immunities… They’ll just pick off the remaining 3.
And what the hell was with building shelter and fire so close to the water? Sheesh. Chet is worthless, but big hulking guy (Joel? it takes me a while to get the names down) was a complete dick during that challenge.
You’ve got to wonder if the guy who designed the reward challenge is going to get fired over the number of injuries. I’m guessing when the crew tested it, they didn’t starve themselves, go without sleep for a week, then put the strongest person in front of the weakest to see how safe it was.
I thought the reward challenge was well designed. It made for great television. Players need to balance their personal safety with the desire to win some steaks. In other words, this is a challenge that smart players shouldn’t injure themselves on, because they shouldn’t go all out. Did you notice that Ozzy let Joel and Chet go twice? And Ozzy and Amanda were inconspicuously absent when they had trouble putting the puzzle together. That was very smart… reduce your own chances of injury, reduce your visibility and let the Fans pick themselves off at tribal council.
As for Penner, it was the perfect opportunity to do the red hot wooden stick disinfection trick. That would’ve made for some great tv.
Chet’s useless (why & how did he even make it onto the show?) but Joel was an ass during the reward challenge. There was no way for Chet to get up and regain his balance with Joel continually yanking and pulling on the rope.
It was a good episode. The reward challenge rocked. I couldn’t believe the Leif Garrett looking dude didn’t have worse injuries from getting whipsawed into that tree. Chet’s show on the course was pathetic, but fun to watch from an “I’m a jerk sitting in my recliner” perspective. It was bad when he flipped over that one horizontal limb, but when “Troy” er, I mean Joel was dragging him like a dog on a leash, that was horrible. And as others said above, those three lines of dialogue will probably go down as the best exchange in Survivor history.
I’m really digging Tracy. She’s doing a helluva job in all aspects of the game.
Other than messing her knee up, we didn’t hear much from Ami. I wonder what’s going on with her strategy-wise now.
Penner’s going to have a staph infection. No doubt about it.
Anyone notice they blurred Chet’s crotch when he got onto the raft? I wouldn’t have looked anyway, but those blurs are like signs that say ‘Hey! Look over here!’
I’m betting on Ami to go far based solely on her lack of screen-time thus far. Ozzy is indeed the man, and he’s a good bet too. (Liberal’s assessment is so true, and cracked me up.) And go Amanda taking on that shark!
I was shocked to see them get rid of Joel, but happy too. Old tribal lines will be stronger than ever when this merge happens, so losing a few fans from their new tribe won’t hurt Ozzy & co. one bit. Cirie is still playing the puppet master amazingly well. She’s helped by the fact that her two biggest detractors, Penner and James, are on the other tribe.
It seems to me that Chet is the perfect distraction. With his sad sack routine, everybody has a burning desire to get rid of him and when someone tries, this vicious bunch immediately backstabs them. Pretty soon people will avoid voting for him at all costs and he’ll probably wind up in the final four.
I have to think that Cirie is the best player in the history of Survivor. Obviously there are players who are better in challenges, catching food, building shelter, etc., but nobody sees the game play out like Cirie does. She’s like a chess grandmaster playing against a novice - the novice concentrates on his next move while the master is thinking four or five moves ahead.
It would have been so easy to vote off Chet last night, and it would have been the best move for the tribe as a whole, but because it would take the play in a direction that was not favorable to Cirie, she singlehandedly changed the vote to produce an outcome more to her liking.
In two seasons she has never been a part of the strong alliance, or even a weak one. She is a lone wolf that noboby seems to really like, yet she manages to mold the game to her advantage every time. I really don’t know how she does it.
