Oh, and the joke of the night, after Bruce talked about what happened in the Casa del Charmin at Tribal Council:
“Give me a bottle of wine and trap me in an outhouse with Bobby and my butt’ll be sore, too…” - Me
He doesn’t realize it, of course, but not only are Shane’s tattoos sentient, but they are also secretly receiving radio transmissions from La Mina – Dan is communicating with them via a sort of intercom thingy that he fashioned out of seaweed, wet sticks, tin foil from the Space Shuttle that he sneaked onto the island in his backpack, and seagull feathers. He’s pretty wily for a doddering old fool, you know?
Thanks for the visual.
You know what I love? Watching the show and hearing how they have to get rid of someone because they can’t stand that person. So they get rid of them. 2 minutes later, they show the scenes from next week and they start all over again. They just have to get rid of someone else because they can’t stand them. Jeez. Think ahead.
Isn’t sushi a specially prepared fish?? I don’t eat fish, so I don’t really know, but I’d have to be starving pretty good to just bite into a fish like that.
‘The eyes are the windows to the soul.’
And travellers, now, within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows see
Vast forms, that move fantastically
To a discordant melody,
While, like a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door
A hideous throng rush out forever
And laugh- but smile no more.
Just a couple of things I thought of when I looked at Shane. When he was confronted by the women, I could swear I saw him rocking slightly – as I’ve seen people with mental issues do. And then there was the close-up they did, where his eyes showed (to me, anyway) a wildness that seemed to show psychosis.
His coworkers have got to be watching the show. Probably his managers too. And maybe potential employers. I wonder if they’re seeing what I’m seeing? I wonder how his career will go after the show?
Well, anyway. Casaya. It’s incredible to me that they haven’t voted Shane off already. Bruce is a know-it-all who fails to perform as often as he comes through. Bobby sees through a lot of the crap and goes his own way. The others have reason to vote either one of them off. But certainly they can see that Shane is teetering on the brink. Unless it’s just the editing, and the 71 hours, 21 minutes that we don’t see him he’s all sweetness and cherry pie.
But I don’t think that’s likely. Look at his eyes. And he asked to be voted off a few weeks ago. Casaya are fools.
I’ll admit it. I’ve reached the point where I don’t want any of these people to win a million dollars.
Bobby - A couple of weeks ago I was saying underneath that big guy exterior there was some intelligence. Unfortunately, underneath that layer of intelligence was a deep well of stupidity.
Bruce - Linking yourself with Bobby wasn’t a great move.
Shane - Had a good week because he was only mildly insane.
Aras - A glim flicker of intelligence was seen for a moment there but I think it died out.
Cirie - Still pathetic but it seems to be working for her.
Courtney and Danielle - An embarassment to women everywhere.
Austin and Nick - An embarassment to men everywhere.
Sally - Still just one tribal council away from getting booted.
Don - The old guy. He’s toast.
Terry - The alpha male. He’ll be a target as soon as they make the merge.
Casaya drops a deuce on Bobby in one of the more interesting (read: disorganized tribal councils ever). A little female alliance goes over King Aras’s head and ousts the strongest tribe member right before the merge.
Meanwhile, the musical fruit wreaks havoc on La Mina!
And now, the less anticipated, highly derivative RICH RANKINGS! (Tribe and previous ranking in parenthesis)
FORGOT TO FILE A 1040- I guess you couldn’t outwit everyone!
Tina,Melinda,Misty,Ruth- Has there ever been all male or all females ousted in the first four voted out?
Bobby- (Jerky/Casaya)- So strong. So good at cutting the heads off of things. Such an asset in challenges. But what an insensitive ass. Takes a dump in the woodshed and then drinks all the booze. That would have gotten him shot in the Old West.
EATING BEEF JERKY- You’re still playing, but you’re praying for a tribe scramble!
Courtney- (Jerky/Casaya)- You’d think I would move her up because of her power play. But it was just because she didn’t like Bobby. It wasn’t strategic. Bobby could have helped them go to the merge with numbers. Machiavellian tactics that lead to no gain makes castaways a target for revenge.
Bruce- (Mohawk/Casaya)- Your only friend just got the ax and you narrowly avoided it. Plus, you are kind of a jerk. And may I say, that for someone who screams “Banzai” and says he teaches Karate, you can’t fight and your blade work is suspect. I am starting to think Bruce is like that kid we all knew in Junior High who was a “black belt” and dating a girl…from Canada.
WHO SAID ANYTHING ABOUT A MERGE?- Middle of the pack players, the lotta ya!
Shane- (Merge/Casya)- Shane’s throw away vote was interesting. A smart way to keep his integrity and still play the game. Surprising complexity from him.
Danielle- (Merge/Casaya)- I think Bruce and Courtney go before Danielle, so she at least will make the merge.
Aras- (Mohawk/Casaya)- Aras could react poorly to the Bobby vote and be next, or he could try to pull off Cirie and Bruce. Aras is the only one in the tribe who has at least an elementary understanding of the game. So he gets the benefit of the doubt.
HEY! LOOK AT HIS MOHAWK-You might make the merge, but you’re grimacing from the jury row!
Sally- (Mohawk/La Mina)- Sally is definitely the next out is La Mina loses. But I have a feeling La Mina is going to take care of business with Bobby gone.
LOOKING FOR A BIG TOM TO ENGLISH DICTIONARY- Big Tom has spent more combined days on the show than anyone. But he didn’t quite grab the brass ring.
Cirie- (Merge/Casaya)- Cirie gets an upgrade because she went from dead in the water, to an almost guaranteed spot on the jury. Plus, I think Cirie will be the last Casaya standing if LaMina takes numbers into the Merge. We all know that there is an alliance flip late in the game. Cirie may benefit and ride it all the way.
Dan- (Tom/LaMina)- For a wiry, old guy Dan hasn’t been that bad at the challenges. Plus, he seems to be beloved.
Nick- (Tom/La Mina)- Poor Nick got the worst of the beans. I would have appreciated a Survivor homage to the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles. THAT was a missed opportunity.
ARE YOU A RAT OR A SNAKE?- Reserved for a MAXIMUM of two players. You have to be in the driver’s seat for this spot.
Austin- (Rat/LaMina)- Recovered nicely from the Beans incident and seems to be strong and well liked.
Terry- (Rat/La Mina)- That immunity idol he is carrying, along with his ability to dominate in physical challenges will be great benefits when it gets down to the merge. If Terry wins, he is only a notch below Firefighter Tom.
It was the part when he went off into the jungle holding his ass that left me feeling so terribly sorry for him at the same time I giggled uncontrollably.
My pick for the final 2: Terry and Austin.
Well, they haven’t had anything to eat except snails for eleven days, so, starving pretty much sums it up. I loved the visual of Shane eating a raw fish like corn on the cob…
Speaking of Shane. My recording didn’t have sound last night, so I’m waiting for the TWOP recap to catch up on everything that happened, but I’m wondering: did he spend a bunch of time post-immunity-challenge-failure trying to nail down Bobby to make sure he wouldn’t turn on the alliance after a merge, and then he voted for Aras? All by himself? That boy’s not right.
Speaking of voting, that’s the first time I’ve seen more than two people get votes in quite a while, and it’s been a real long time since I saw four people get votes… That is one fractured, hateful, not-happy-camper tribe there…
I don’t think he voted for Bobby. When they showed his back as he showed his paper to the camera he said “This is a throw away vote, it doesn’t mean anything. I just am making my vote go away.”
What happened is, Courtney suggested Bobby but Aras pushed them into Bruce. Thinking the group was ousting Bruce, Shane went to Bobby and told him EXACTLY what went down. They had some macho moments where both guys swore on the life of Shane’s kid (Bobby was only too happy to swear on the life of SHANE’S kid!) that they were together.
A short while later, Courtney pulls aside Shane, Danielle and Cirie and flips the vote. She decides they are actually going to vote for Bobby after all.
Shane, who has made a Twila-esque pledge does not want to write down Bobby’s name.
At the vote, realizing that there are enough votes to oust Bobby, Shane acknowledges that he is simply casting a “throw away” vote for someone not in danger.
It was not terribly dumb. It didn’t affect the outcome and he got to keep his pledge.
It was a more complex version of Dan voting for Sally instead of Ruth Marie last week.
IIRC, the first season had multiple people getting votes. Possibly the second season too. It seems to me that people caught onto the whole ‘alliance thing’ pretty early and tended to vote en bloc. There was the early strategy where in case of a tie the one who had received the most votes in the past was booted, but after the rules change that was no longer necessary and it behooved the members to vote with the alliance.
I’m pretty sure I hate everyone on this show except Terry.
Bobby could sure whack at some fish heads. Bruce once again showed that martial arts doesn’t translate real well on Survivor. I agree with Aras, you need basics (e.g. FIRE) before you build your Zen garden.
It’s about time the women band together. I’m amazed none of the men saw this coming.
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I agree with Aras, you need basics (e.g. FIRE) before you build your Zen garden.
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So why didn’t Aras build the damn fire? Does everything have to be done by everybody at the same time? I don’t like Aras’ little passive-agressive crap in this game. Bruce nailed it, they ask each other for advice and then bitch about it. The whole tribe is fucked and needs to go home.
Yeah, it doesn’t take three people to blow on a fire, but it does take one to blow on the fire and two to sit on their asses and stare at the first one…
But Bruce was definitely out of line setting up the rock garden before helping with food, water, fire, or shelter. Unless he actually did help out first, in which case he’s at the mercy of clever editing and Aras’s really odd view of how the world works…
Maybe. It all depends on how they play their cards at the merge. Terry will have a huge target on his back then, and if their tribe continues to lose ICs, they’ll be easily picked off. Terry has his trump card, but that’ll only save him once.
I wonder what would happen if, come the merge, Terry announces that he has the idol. Will that shield him from votes? As long as he has the idol, and everyone knows it, they may focus on voting off other people. That think may be more valuable to him if it’s public knowledge than if it’s secret!
Man, I sure wish they’d get rid of Shane. He is so freakin’ irritating. But I did laugh when he referred to his tribe as the dysfunctional, functional tribe. That’s exactly what we’ve been calling it.
Yeah it will be a giant bullseye on his back, but we also haven’t seen how he performs individually so he may prove dominant in individual challenges which will carry him far enough that his idol will only have to get him past the number’s game.
We’ll see 
A few thoughts:
Did I hear someone shouting “USA! USA! USA!” after La Mina won immunity? I swear I did.
To Aras: So how many people does it take to hold the flint when starting a fire. I’d imagine more than one would be a problem.
I think it’s amazing how seemlessly Cirie has siddled up to the alliance. She’ll go far.
I also think that if more than one La Mina makes it to the final four I’d be shocked.
The more I think about, the more I believe that announcing that you have the immunity idol is a sure-fire way of not getting voted off. Think about it. All Terry has to say is: “If you’re not in my alliance, and you vote for me, there’s a good chance it’ll be you who ends up being voted off. So, either join my alliance, or don’t vote for me.” Either way he’s safe from getting voted off and he gets to keep the immunity idol and play that game all over again next time.
Is there a flaw in that logic?
Sally the Fish Juggler
If Sally hadn’t dropped the fist several times (BTW, was that some sort of tuna/tunny?) La Mina would have won the RC. Was anyone else thinking, ‘If you coated your arms with sand, you might have a better grip!’?