# Survivor: Exile Island Ep. 8 - "An Emerging Plan" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568 "2006-03-30T17:52:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/1 "2006-03-30T17:52:02Z")
_ **Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!** _ No basketball tonight! Which, frankly, I could not be _happier_ about, because I am so sick to gosh-darn death of Villanova that I just want to _puke_. If any of you guys had them in your office pools, you should have checked with me first, because I could have told you they would choke. Philly curse, you know? Then again, I had Gonzaga, so. From our usual source: > [@Yahoo! TV](#): > > The tribes merge and some castaways try to convince new tribemates to join their alliance; Bruce winds up with a chipped tooth and a cut lip when they try to build a bigger shelter. And, as an added bonus, some info from a super-top-secret source that I am about to reveal: > [@Survivor Journal](#): > > It’s bittersweet for one Survivor stranded alone on Exile Island. > > Even though the company is nice, one castaway struggles with the monotony of camp life. > > When the two tribes finally become one, the Survivors celebrate together, but hidden agendas quickly take over the camp. > > Building a bigger shelter becomes a dangerous project and leaves one Survivor with a chipped tooth and a cut lip. Which, come to think of it … _that’s kind of stuff we already know._ Thanks, CBS! Anyway, now that there’s going to be a merge, is there going to be a major reshuffle of alliaces? (That’s a rhetorical question – of _course_ there is.) I have no idea who’s going anywhere tonight. I just hope it isn’t Sally. She’s grown on me. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/2 "2006-03-30T18:07:27Z")
I’ll watch _Survivor_ but only because I’m a hopeless junkie for the show. CBS really dropped the ball on their schedule. Taking the show off the air for two weeks in the middle of the season killed all momentum for the show. I barely remember who the players and what the group dynamics were when I last watched it. Other than, as I recall, I didn’t really like any of the players who were left at this point. If it wasn’t for _My Name is Earl_ being a rerun I’d be tempted to intentionally miss _Survivor_ for the first time ever. ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/3 "2006-03-30T19:28:37Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > I’ll watch _Survivor_ but only because I’m a hopeless junkie for the show. CBS really dropped the ball on their schedule. Taking the show off the air for two weeks in the middle of the season killed all momentum for the show. I barely remember who the players and what the group dynamics were when I last watched it. Other than, as I recall, I didn’t really like any of the players who were left at this point. If it wasn’t for _My Name is Earl_ being a rerun I’d be tempted to intentionally miss _Survivor_ for the first time ever. I hear you. It was very stupid. Plus: _basketball!_ I don’t know a lot of reality show fans who are also interested in college hoops. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/4 "2006-03-30T20:20:23Z")
I am a fan of both, but I agree the momentum kind went kaput. Especially when there wasn’t that much to start with! I am kind of glad there wasn’t a new episode two weeks ago. That was the day middleson#2 was born. The Rich ratings would have been delayed. ---
**Author:** ![Aguecheek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Aguecheek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aguecheek)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/5 "2006-03-30T20:56:57Z")
K, we’ve been watching, and like others here, we’re going to have to pay extra special close attention to remember what’s going on. At any rate, a question: We missed the stoopid Wednesday night episode just before they went to playing basketball. Did we miss anything or was it just a clip show? ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/6 "2006-03-30T22:35:22Z")
Yep, just a recap show that Wednesday. My kids have a school program tonight -so I will have to record tonights episode and watch it later. ---
**Author:** ![FlightlessBird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cdc98d/32.png) [@FlightlessBird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlightlessBird)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/7 "2006-03-30T22:53:31Z")
I too will be watching it on TiVo. The only thing they did right with the break, is to start this week with the second half of the game. Post-merge style! If I remember correctly it’s 6-4 Casaya. I have to question whether Casaya will break their ‘alliance’, or even more stupidly go after Terry at the first TC. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/8 "2006-03-30T22:56:59Z")
> [@misstee](#): > > Yep, just a recap show that Wednesday. But we did get to see why the one episode was called ‘Snake Dinner’. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/9 "2006-03-31T00:40:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Building a bigger shelter becomes a dangerous project and leaves one Survivor with a chipped tooth and a cut lip. Just a chipped tooth and a cut lip, huh? Didn’t the teaser from last week’s show someone being carted away on a strecher? ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/10 "2006-03-31T00:47:28Z")
> [@middleman](#): > > I am kind of glad there wasn’t a new episode two weeks ago. That was the day middleson#2 was born. The Rich ratings would have been delayed. Whoa … CONGRATULATIONS! Which of your favorite reality TV stars did you name him after? And if it’s Ian … do you need a fairy Internet godmother for him? ---
**Author:** ![rockle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@rockle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rockle)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/11 "2006-03-31T01:59:34Z")
So, after this episode, there are like 21 days left, right? That’s, what, five or six more episodes? Would my life really be _so_ bad if I just gave up on this mess and called it a season? I am _ **soooooooooooo booooooooooooooooored** _ with these people. Even their _drama_ is tedious. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/12 "2006-03-31T02:34:10Z")
I’ll probably keep watching, in hopes of (I’m putting this in a spoiler box since it will reveal three people who were NOT voted off) Seeing Terry and Shane throw down. Terry is pretty much the only one left that I like. Austin is OK, I guess. The rest of them are a buncha idiots for keeping Shane around. Did anything even remotely interesting happen in the first half-hour? ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/13 "2006-03-31T03:14:41Z")
Did anyone else think that Cerise wouldn’t last more than 30 seconds hanging upsidedown on the log? I was impressed that she made it all of 3 minutes before giving up. Also, did anyone else’s heart start to quicken when In-Shane got 4 quick votes at tribal council? I was so ready for that cocky idiot to get burned. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/14 "2006-03-31T04:26:28Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > Also, did anyone else’s heart start to quicken when In-Shane got 4 quick votes at tribal council? I was so ready for that cocky idiot to get burned. Damn. Yep, but other than that a very blah episode. I’ve seen 4 or so full episodes this season and I can only name two of the Survivors (Shane and Circe). Moreover, I just don’t care that much to attempt to learn them. Well, besides [Courtney](http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor12/survivors/bio_courtney.shtml). I had to look her up because I think she bares a resemblance to [Rikku](http://yunasville.com/Gallery/albums/Yuna/Rikku.sized.jpg) from the Final Fantasy series and I was curious. Well, I see it. Hopefully the season picks up as we whittle people down. They usually do. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/15 "2006-03-31T04:42:01Z")
Personally, the main reason I keep watching is the hope of seeing Terry tossed out. First he forms the He-Man Women Haters Club at Lamina. This episode he learns of the merge, and what does he say? He immediately talks about feeling out Bruce, and then Shane. What about going after a woman, huh? Yeah, they might have cooties, but their votes count just as much as a man’s. Sheesh. Also, this episode made it pretty clear that either Terry can’t think ahead (unlikely) or he’s willing to burn his alliance members to improve his own chances. Consider what would have likely have happened if Terry had allowed Nick to win the Immunity Necklace. The Casaya would most likely have targeted him, while the Lamina’s went after Shane. 6 votes Terry, 4 votes Shane – but Terry whips out the Idol and the votes against him go away. Result: bye-bye Shane AND the count goes to 4 vs. 5. Then they’d only have to swing a single vote instead of two. Okay, maybe Casaya would have been alive to that option and go for the safety of voting off Austin…but by insisting on winning, Terry didn’t give Casaya a chance to make the mistake. So now he’s in an alliance of 3. And from previews, trying to bargin with immunity for someone’s vote. My guess is this means he’s won the Individual Immunity again, because I don’t think he’d dare voluntarily go into a Tribal Council bare. But – who would gain from getting use of the individual immunity? None of the Casaya bunch: they are all safe so long as they keep pagongin the Laminas. And giving it either of his Lamina’s is pointless, they’re already voting his way. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/16 "2006-03-31T04:51:30Z")
I’ve watched every season of Survivor but this one is painfully boring. It’s mostly a buch of pricks I’d be miserable having to be around. Shane is a nutjob, karate man is so clueless I wish I had a used car to sell him and beyond that no one else is interesting enough to comment on. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/17 "2006-03-31T06:39:32Z")
The best news of the night were the commercials announcing that Amazing Race was moving to a better timeslot. Wednesday at 8pm/7 Central. Yay! Hard to understand Terry’s game at this point. He should have let his tribe know that he had the idol and thrown the immunity challenge. He then serves as the obvious target for the other tribe. He gets voted out, pulls out the idol, and Shane goes home. He’s obviously only looking out for himself, which I can’t see working in the long run. But hey, we still have the “medical emergency” to look forward to. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/18 "2006-03-31T08:28:23Z")
Terry’s strategy was non-existent. He didn’t need to win just this week and next. He needed to protect his allies as well. And he blew it huge. He should have thrown the challenge and then sat there as a target. Aras had already told people they were going to vote against him (which was also a stupid move - they should have gone for Nick or Austin who they know don’t have immunity). Terry would have been safe with his immunity and Shane (or whoever else they wanted out) would have gone. Then it would be 5-4 and they would have only needed to convince one person to jump. Now they’re down 6-3 and they have no control of their fate. And I agree that beyond his immediate stupidity in this episode, Terry’s misogyny is getting real old. Cirie was right to call his negotiating style laughable. Meanwhile, the Casayas are acting like they can walk all over these people. Good thing they’ll never have to see them again. Wait a minute - they’ll be on the jury picking who wins a million dollars. D’oh! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Big\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@The\_Big\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Big_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/19 "2006-03-31T11:01:47Z")
> [@The Long Road](#): > > karate man is so clueless I wish I had a used car to sell him and … I need to use this line… So Shane got the boot?? I missed it again, and I don’t even care anymore. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568/20 "2006-03-31T12:13:22Z")
Nah, InShane is still there, strutting his weird 5-year-old-boy torso around. Apparently, there’s been a guy named…uh…Rick?..no, no…Dick?..no, wait, it’s…oh yeah, Nick! Yeah, there was a mute named Nick who learned to talk this episode, just a leetle bit, and he got kicked off after Austin told everybody his strategy was to appear weak and fool them all. Good luck with that, Austin - they’ll never figure it out now! And this Nick fella apparently sees a future in motovational speaking when he gets home to his _van_ down by the _river_! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-exile-island-ep-8-an-emerging-plan/350568.md?page=2)