Minus One Blonde

Sorry for such a late blog. Friday just got away from me....

Sooooo.... let's see what I can remember. Will try to give you the important parts. Here's what you need to know:

1. THE FOOD CHALLENGE! Hurrah! I was quite happy they brought back the food challenge. It's always fun to throw a bit of Fear Factor into Survivor, non? You knew Ashley was going to be a problem when she bragged to the camera, "I'll pretty much try anything." Well, missy, have you watched the show before? There's a pretty big difference between trying anything, and chugging a pint glass full of barely blended up sea snail guts and water. Anyways, she lost it (literally) and the purple team won. They got a bunch of steaks & sausages & stuff to BBQ. Then we got to see Master T trying to light the fire & Danger Dave getting super annoyed with him because he couldn't do it. As Danger said to us later, I can't believe how many people go on Survivor & don't know how to start a fire!! Seriously. A bit of an ego-match of sorts ensued with Danger & Master... this will be a problem later on. Is Master T annoying the heck out of you?

2. Russell & Liz. So Liz mentions to Russell that she's pretty sure he's got the immunity idol. He says no, and she pushes him on it asking why he's lying to her. Bad idea, Liz. Now Russell's got it out for Liz and you can bet that if a) it hadn't been raining and b) Ashley wasn't such a massive turd at the challenges... Liz would have been the one to go home. Liz better hope for a merge sooner than later. Russell's knocking the smart ones out who figure out his nonsense.

3. Ashley was a massive turd at challenges. Sorry, but it's true. Don't lie - you thought so too. She messed up the food challenge and then didn't do anything in the immunity challenge either. The challenge was to throw coconuts into a net that was being held up by the other team. Ashley couldn't get a single coconut in the net. Liz was holding the net for their team and held out longer than Russell. She was a star! They lost, but there was no way you could say Liz didn't hold her own. Ashley on the other hand... turd.

4. The rain. It rained and rained and rained. And when I say rain, I mean monsoon-like pouring rain. No rest. No reprieve. What the heck happened to Shambo's hands? She's got some sort of trench-foot type thing going on... on her hands! Jaison's in bad shape too. Jury's out on whether or not he's just going to quit. Thoughts? Anyways, it's miserable out & all the teams can do is to huddle in their shelters. So that means no strategizing or going off with other teammates... nothing to be done. Poor Russell looked so sad that he couldn't work his Russell magic. Team yellow just had to go and vote how they felt.

5. Oh yeah... Shambo. So when purple team won reward, they had to send someone to the other camp. That person wouldn't get reward. They sent Shambo. She was MAD! "I needed that protein!" Like no one else did or something.... People can't get along with others & then wonder why they're sent away? And as Master T put it... "That's for losing the chicken." Fair enough, your honour. So Shambo goes over to annoy team yellow & promptly reads them all the immunity clues & digs through that tree again. Hee hee. The look on Russell's face was delightful.

6. Back to the vote. So it was Ashley, naturally. Everyone voted for her... even her BFF Natalie, who earlier said something about them being like sisters. Hee. As far as I'm concerned, it's one less blonde to keep track of. Now just two interchangeable blondes to figure out... And I'm still baffled by Brett. Dude apparently has no personality, as he's never given more than one line per episode and it's always pretty generic... I'm hoping he becomes interesting soon.

This week it looks like medics show up again, which means we'll likely lost another 2 survivors in one go. Any guesses on who goes?