Survivor: Exile Island Ep. 6 - "Salvation and Desertion"

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When I first saw this week’s episode title, I thought, “Well, duh! Dessert makes me salivate, too!” But of course I am terribly sleep-deprived because of recent reality-TV-related schedule changes, and the farkin’ soda machines in this building have not had Mountain Dew in them for more than a week. My Og, why have you forsaken me?

So, anyway, a description of tonight’s show from our friends on the Intarweb:

My guesses? Shane continues with his nic fits and adds in some bonus Tourette’s tics; Courtney and Danielle admit that they have Secret Crushes on each other and start making out; and in a shocking private interview, Cirie reveals that the secret behind her bathing suit tops staying on for the last 10 days has been

gaffer’s tape. Lots and really lots of gaffer’s tape.

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Okey-dokey, the thread is started!
::: Sits down next to rockle :::
Got anything good to eat for tonight? I have chocolate chip cookies. And Diet Coke.

My digital guide says:

At Casaya, one member’s outbursts result in a sleepless night for other teammates. Over at La Mina, the lack of food takes its toll. The castaway sent to Exile Island views the banishment as a blessing. At Tribal Council, the sixth castaway is voted out.

I’m dying to know what happens when someone new goes to Exile Island. What kind of clue will they get? No clue at all? Something cryptic that just hints that Zippy the Emergency Backup Idol has already been found?

I like the suggestion from a previous thread - a stick figure drawing of Terry with an arrow pointing to his pocket. :smiley:

The previews look interesting - the winner of one of the challenges gets to “mess with the losing tribe.” I think it’s the Immunity Challenege. I wonder what they mean by that. Steal stuff from their camp? Appropriate a team member? Decide which person is voted off?

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Checking and saying I can’t wait for the merge. The tribe storylines just aren’t that compelling this season.

My boot prediction for the week is Bruce.

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Well, we don’t have much, 'cos we po’ until payday next week, but I got some microwave popcorn and a few freezie pops. And lots and lots of Kool-Aid. Oh! And an emergency box of Little Debbie Zebra Cakes that I keep in the back of the cupboard for PMS or other emergencies. Make yourself comfortable!

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I may miss the first part or so tonight. We’re going out to eat at a great diner here in town that I can’t pass up, but we don’t have confirmation from the other people involved here yet, so it may be a bit…

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Please, please, *PLEASE * tell me that there is not going to be a telethon on tonight instead of Survivor!!!

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Can’t speak for you, but Survivor’s on here. … What kind of telethon, anyway?

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Well, that was fascinating. And let me tell you, I am kicking myself right now for not changing my Fox Reality Channel Fantasy Team, because I totally saw that one coming and was convinced it was a fake-out. Oh, well. Guess I’ll switch in some Amazing Race teams.

Why are there no new “real” episodes for three weeks? Is Burnett trying to kill me or something? Why does he hate me? … Although, at least he didn’t try to pull that garbage during the Palau season. I would have walked to Australia to egg his house if I had to. I don’t screw around.

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Because of the NCAA basketball tourney, which runs Thu - Sun nights for three weeks, more or less. CBS doesn’t want to make Survivor fans change nights for that time, which makes sense, if annoying.

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I missed it! Who got the boot?

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So is Shane crazy like a fox or just the regular type of crazy?

My first reaction was that Shane’s request to be released from the Alliance of Four Nuts was just another example of him being a lunatic. But maybe he had a cunning plan.

Look at the situation he was in. There were six Casayas and five La Minas. It’s clear the Casayas realize the La Minas have a fairly tight bond with no loose members. But the Casayas have a four way allaince with two loose members, Bruce and Cirie. And the merge has always happened at ten players.

So if Casaya lost the tribal immunity, they’d have voted out Bruce most likely or maybe Cirie. Then they’d have gone 5 and 5 against La Mina. The five allied members of La Mina would have been looking to find an extra vote to swing the majority. Cirie or Bruce would have been the loose player with no set alliance (or Courteny or Danielle may have decided to abandon the alliance). They jump over to La Mina and down goes the Alliance of Four Nuts taking Shane out with it.

But if Shane cuts himself out of the alliance before the immunity challenge he becomes a free agent. Even if they immediately recruit Cirie into the alliance to replace him he’s still relatively safe. If they win the immunity, it’ll be a La Mina going. If they lose immunity, he can probably talk them into voting out Bruce instead of him. Either way, when they go to the merge, he’ll be the loose player the La Minas will approach instead of being a member of the alliance being targeted.

Notice how once the La Minas lost and it was clear that the La Mina tribe was going to go into the merge 4 to 6, Shane immediately began back pedaling and restoring his place in the now safe Alliance of Four Nuts. All he’s got to do now is keep the alliance semi-intact and keep Bruce and Cirie semi-happy and the La Minas will be the ones who fall.

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Here’s a hnt:

“Ground control to Major Tom”

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Ooooo. Do I get to be the one to say the obvious?

The reason Dan, the astronaut/engineer couldn’t solve that puzzle? Because it wasn’t rocket science!

Excellent episode, I thought: good IC/RC, great reward, lovely way to upset all the assumptions at LaMina (and for Cirie, too, by chance.)

Anyone care to speculate? We are now at 10, the ‘traditional’ time to merge. (Mainly so the seven jury members have a chance to get to know the other team at least somewhat.)

Casaya has the numbers edge, but are vastly divided. Bruce told Bobby he was ready to flip, Shane hates his alliance, the women are making alliance-y moves…

LaMina is down by two AND their lone woman has been treated as a second class member so long I don’t think it would take much for her to jump. Probably to join the women.

Also, Terri may now reap the results of his flipping on the old gal so quickly. There’s a ‘natural’ 1-2 divide in his core group, and he’s on the short end. All that time apart from the others may have hurt him, plus the others have now seen him turn on two alliance members with relative ease. I, at least, wouldn’t be doing any pinky swears with him.

Would Aras and Shane follow Bruce into the Boy’s club? That would give them 6/4 over a possible women’s alliance… BUT with the other three being so solid, it’s got to be less appealing to be 4th, 5th and 6th in line.

And then there’s the hidden idol complications…

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GAAH!! With that single sentence, you’ve given me horrid flashbacks to Big Brother 5, and Snohomish, or Ho-ho-kus, or whatever the heck her name was and the Giant Pinky Swear Scandal…

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I’ll miss Dan. He has class. But I was hoping Sally would be saved atleast until the merge. She’s gotten the short end of the stick from the gentlemen’s club.

Shane has the mannerisms of someone who’s been institutionalized. And if he hasn’t been, he damn well needs to be.

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Gawd, if I were in that tribe, I would convince everyone to throw the challenge just go vote Shane’s ass OUT!

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Definitely regular type of crazy, no question, IMHO. He’s too A.D.D./fringe/nutcase to have schemed this split vs. just another case of spouting off again. But given the editing tendencies of the show, you knew after seeing the coming previews last week – as well as the early minutes tonight – Shane wasn’t getting the boot just yet. However, I think he’ll go next week, despite his lovey-dovey actions after the IC/RC. Really, who wouldn’t be happy to see him go?

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Am I the only who thinks Memento-boy and his gang of dysfunctional teammates are pulling one over on us? Are they acting out in front of the camera, planning to reveal their little plot later on? Because I’m getting tired of their fight/make-up/fight/make-up routine.

Gee, Dan, I hope you weren’t the guy at the helm when the shuttle had to dock at the Space Station. Sorry guys, I can’t get the pieces to fit together!

Terry and his band of losers has got to get its act together. I’m still sticking to my theory that he should make it known that he has the idol. Once the merge comes along, he’s got to.

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CBS Spoiled it! I was watching cbs news at 5:30 pm cst with Bob Schieffer. A commercial comes on with a pic of Major Tom sitting on the beach, and the voice over says “Find out about which one of the Survivors has a story that is out of this world. Tomorrow on cbs morning show.”

Which means he was probably going to be on, and they only have the loser on the next day.

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Ooooh … basketball. Well. I guess it is March. But still, I* don’t care about basketball*, so why should I have to suffer?

I think all the attention to Shane and his place in the alliance is a distraction away from the true wild card there: Aras. He’ll bolt as soon as he can, I think. And when he goes (or at least at the same time), so will Bruce. And Terry will be more than happy to have an ally to replace the now-absent Dan.

Of course, all my calculations – and the Survivors’, as well – are based on the assumption that there will be a merge at 10 players, which traditionally happens, but doesn’t always. I am not expecting there to be a merge next time, though. It’s fun to mess with the players’ heads.

Nakomis. Carry on.

You and me both. Damn. He’s totally monkeyshit insane and I don’t know why Bruce hasn’t karate-chopped him right in the throat. Getting kicked out of the game would be worth it, I think.

Hey … what’s the scoop on the MedEvac chopper they’re threatening us with? Or was my brain fooled when they intermixed footage?