Survivor

[Parker]

They do this almost every time they "change things up" for a new season - I remember when they had women vs. men last time, it lasted until there were 14-15 people left and then they mixed it up like this ... same for when it was old vs. young.

For those who dont know wth we're talking about, there were 14 people left in Survivor at the beginning of the episode last night - 7 women and 7 men. Before the reward challenge, Jeff told them to drop their buffs and everyone took an egg - half had blue dye, the other half had orange dye and the new tribes (with the same names) were formed.

Then whoever won the reward challenge got to stay on the "One World" beach with everything they had there and the losers would go to another beach and start over.

Coincidentally, the 3 strongest men were teamed up with 3 of the 4 strongest women (plus one not-so-strong female), while Colton was left with 2 ok guys, the old crazy dude, 1 strong woman, and 2 not-so-strong women. I dont remember all of their names, but if you arent watching, names wont make a difference to you anyway.

The next immunity challenge saw the strong tribe winning and Colton's team lost -- instead of aligning with the women as he had been promising all this time, he convinced one of the 3 women to stick with him as they all voted out the strongest woman - possibly the strongest person, since she was the only one to score at the immunity challenge - off the island.

It's weird to watch people follow a man they know is screwing them over and who they all dislike but they are afraid of how much power he has and of crossing him - when they dont realize that if they banded together, they could vote his ass out and not have to worry about him anymore.

Here ends last night's re-cap ..... lol

[Parker]

Short re-cap from tonight's ep (dont read if you havent watched it yet & dont want to know!):

Colton had an acute appendicitis attack and had to be medevaced out to have surgery. The 2 tribes were told they were going to tribal so everyone on Colton's weaker tribe was scrambling, trying to figure out who to vote off next; while the stronger tribe speculated that since it was "One World," maybe that meant they could vote off someone from the other tribe.

At tribal council, Jeff updated everyone on Colton and then after chatting about how that can change the game, he told them all to drop their buffs because they were going to merge into one tribe and all head back to the "One World" camp.

So the 2 tribes have merged into one tribe of 12 --> 6 women and 6 men.

Game on.


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While I feel badly for Colton, I am glad he is gone. He showed his ass there at the end and I think what happened to him was karma - not just because I didnt like him but because he was nasty to Christina, telling her that she could either wait 2 days to be voted out, quit and leave now, or jump in the fire and be medevaced out .... and then he was medevaced out the next day.

Also, I didnt see the merge coming so soon - that was a fun surprise.

[gaea]

Originally Posted by Parker

Short re-cap from tonight's ep (dont read if you havent watched it yet & dont want to know!):

Colton had an acute appendicitis attack and had to be medevaced out to have surgery. The 2 tribes were told they were going to tribal so everyone on Colton's weaker tribe was scrambling, trying to figure out who to vote off next; while the stronger tribe speculated that since it was "One World," maybe that meant they could vote off someone from the other tribe.

At tribal council, Jeff updated everyone on Colton and then after chatting about how that can change the game, he told them all to drop their buffs because they were going to merge into one tribe and all head back to the "One World" camp.

So the 2 tribes have merged into one tribe of 12 --> 6 women and 6 men.

Game on.


~~~~~


While I feel badly for Colton, I am glad he is gone. He showed his ass there at the end and I think what happened to him was karma - not just because I didnt like him but because he was nasty to Christina, telling her that she could either wait 2 days to be voted out, quit and leave now, or jump in the fire and be medevaced out .... and then he was medevaced out the next day.

Also, I didnt see the merge coming so soon - that was a fun surprise.

appendicitis is NO fun...been there done that....

karma is a funny thing

that dude...was just plain a nasty fella, im glad he is gone.

what cracked me up was the young one...whats an appendix? *giggles*

all in all don't be a jerk to people karma will kick you in the ass!

I was left in shock when they merged...Alicia she is just plain nasty as well...her and colton's words are going to hurt her i believe...Christina has the 2 guys that were there listening to all that crap she has numbers where i don't think Alicia really does.

[Parker]

The sneak peak for next week looked like Tarzan left the men's alliance, so that might open the door for the women to gain the numbers - meaning they need Alicia, at least for now .... but I'd love to see her go as well. She was nasty to Christina from day one and once she got with Colton and had the numbers, she just let the nastiness fly.

Jonas pointed it out - he said them having the numbers and knowing they would vote Christina off next wasnt enough for them, they had to twist that knife in a little further and make it personal. Not cool - people like that dont win and they dont always last very long either.

And yeah, Kat wanting to know what an appendix was and how she could avoid hurting it was classic. lol - the look on her face as each person said they had theirs out also ... omg.

[firegal]

Yanno the ONLY bad thing about colton,s organ issue

was that his antagonistic arrogant ways were never given the opportunity for a SMACK DOWN!

He was being a real fuck head.

But I love that the dynamics have changed again.

More will be reveiled

Terry

[gaea]

Originally Posted by firegal

Yanno the ONLY bad thing about colton,s organ issue

was that his antagonistic arrogant ways were never given the opportunity for a SMACK DOWN!

He was being a real fuck head.

But I love that the dynamics have changed again.

More will be reveiled

Terry

yep..i so agree

[Parker]

Last night wasnt nearly as good as I was expecting it to be - but then again, I dont really know what I expected, so ... maybe just more back stabbing, blindsides, scrambling, etc. lol

After the merge last week, the tribe went back to the camp and had their merge feast and a few people did a bit of conversing and scrambling; but the overall feel for us, the viewers, was that the new Salani tribe (originally, all women, but then 4 women and 3 men) would stick together and vote off the new Manano tribe (originally all men, but then 3 women and 4 men), even though those in the new Manano tribe thought they were in the same original Manano alliance - meaning, all the men together.

They had a reward challenge where Jeff separated them into to groups of 6 and the winning group got to go have pizza and beer and learn that there was another immunity idol back at camp (keep in mind that Kim found a hidden immunity idol a few days ago and told only Chelsea).

The next morning, Troyzan, who said he is usually up a couple of hours before everyone else, went looking for and found the other hidden immunity idol - and, smartly, imo, told no one.

The immunity challenge was standing on a log, holding a tray with first 1, then 2, then 3 balls - last one left standing was Troyzan and the scrambling started.

The new Salani tribe decided to stick together and vote off Jonas, who was on the new (and old) Manano tribe, because they felt he was the biggest threat on that tribe. The women of the new Salani tribe liked this idea because (a) it's voting off a man and (b) it's voting off a new Manano tribe member so whether they stick with their new Salani alliance or their older female alliance, they were good.

During all of this, Tarzan wanted to wash his nasty-shit-stained (he claimed it was "dirt") drawers. While he was wandering around trying to convince people the stains in his drawers were dirt stains, Chelsea was off in the ocean cleaning her clothes and then adding a pot of water to the fire so she could then boil her clothes.

Tarzan decided to toss his nasty drawers into the the pot of water with Chelsea's clothes that she just scrubbed in the ocean which made mer remove her clothes from the pot - but not before offering to go wash Tarzan's clothes in the ocean for him before adding them to the pot.

This whole exchange irritated me because (a) Chelsea acted like it was her job to clean the dude's laundry and (b) Tarzan acted like it was anyone's job but his to clean his own damn drawers. Nasty nasty man.

Anyway at tribal, the shit hit the fan when Jonas talked about being a provider (he's good at fishing and is a chef, so he was able to cook some good food for them) and not a huge threat in immunity challenges and then threw Mike under the bus because he is a large and muscular man who could be a threat - he also mentioned how the new Manano tribe's plan of voting off Kat wasnt a good idea, which made his tribe/alliance raise their eyebrows at him.

This all pissed off Tarzan, who then decided he wanted to vote off Jonas since Jonas threw their plan to hell & he also went off, Tarzan style.

So basically, Jonas and Leif (the little dude) voted for Mike, but everyone else voted for Jonas. Jonas told Tarzan no hard feelings, but Tarzan said he still had hard feelings. After Jeff snuffed Jonas' fire, Jonas told them all good luck with the food and left.

Next week's preview looks like the women might be re-banding together to re-form their all woman alliance to vote off the guys ... we'll see.