Lots to say about last night's episode... Not as good as some of the other blindsides, but still a pretty good one, non? John's face went from pretty confident to eyes looking sideways to mouth wide open. He was pretty shocked. And the beautiful thing was how he still didn't blame Russell for it. Nope. He blamed his Galu tribemates. Heh heh.
What else? Right - it was the Survivor auction. Lovely. Monica ate a whole chicken (making me wonder what eating a whole chicken does to your insides after however many days of eating coconut....) Natalie snapped up a pb&j sandwich, a shower (complete with saxaphone "hubba-hubba" music... Who is editing Survivor this year? It's crazy!)... Mick paid his whole $500 for a burger, fries & a beer. Mind you, it was the biggest burger I think I've ever seen.... John got apple pie and could trade his slice for a whole pie to share between 4 people. He chose HIS OWN slice of pie. Dumb. Why would you possibly not share the pie? Jaison spent his whole $500 on something to help him in the immunity challenge (which he did end up winning - yay!). Smart man. And Russell didn't look like he was even interested in bidding on anything. He is not motivated at all by food or comfort. He's motivated by winning the game... which is kind of the point, right?
Oh yeah, and John got a clue to the hidden immunity idol, which of course Russell already has. So he looks for it, can't find it... and goes to Russell, who finally tells him that yes, he's got it. Poolster Lori hit it on the head when she commented to me today that Russell is like a serial killer.... eventually he needs to tell people how smart he is. Right? He's clever, but he needs peopole to KNOW he's clever. Thankfully he has the cameras, or he'd probably burst at the seams.
But then Russell realizes that John has to go. He knows to much. (See the killer references again?) John is a threat. He's smart (rocket scientist after all) and now he knows about the idol. Meanwhile, Shambo is mad at Dave Ball.
Sidebar - I have been calling him Danger Dave. Dave is not particularly dangerous, but I feel like it's in there somewhere. Perhaps he's got some dangerous yoga moves he's waiting to bust out.... I don't know. But have you noticed that Jeff always calls him Dave Ball? He's one of those guys who suits a first and last name. (There are athletes like this. If you watch hockey, for example, it's just Iginla... but it's always Owen Nolan.... or Luke Schenn. See?)
So Shambo is PMSing (her words, not mine) and she's ticked off at Dave Ball. Dave Ball had the audacity to ask her how she was cooking the soup. (Oh the drama! They killed one of Erik's chickens! Shambo was so sad - she really bonded with the chickens.) Shambo could not let it go. How dare he!
So then Shambo has a dream. And again with the editing. Some staffer at Survivor edits up this lovely dream sequence a la Blair Witch Chicken Project in which the dead chicken seems to visit Shambo to tell her to vote out Dave Ball. Hee. Shambo goes on about how she has these clairvoyant dreams... which pretty much tells us right there that no... Dave Ball will not be voted out because Shambo is full of .... chicken. Correct?
Russell goes to Dave Ball, tells him to vote for John. Dave Ball tells Monica and Brett (who?) to vote for John. Everyone is on board to vote out John instead of Dave Ball except for Shambo who makes up her mind based on emotion and won't change it. Soooo, once again she gets left out of the vote. Jaison points out that maybe that's not a good idea since it's what turned her against Galu in the first place... but we know Russell will sweet talk her and what we know that Jaison misses is that Shambo hated those girls more than anything. Shambo likes Russell, Mick, Natalie and Jaison. No worries.
So John was the choice. John still thought he was voting vs. Mick & that Russell would keep his word. But John doesn't know it was entirely Russell's IDEA to vote him out. And he didn't make any friends with the whole pie thing... and he pissed off Monica by voting off Laura.... and in my opinion, he was off my list on the first day when he swam in his jeans. For that reason alone, John should not win Survivor.
And seriously... how does Brett get this far in the game and on the show without saying anything of interest? How boring can that guy be? I'm starting to obsess over it. It's unhealthy.
Next week it looks like Mick & Jaison start questioning Russell. Mick: "It's like kids playing with a snake and getting bitten. The kids cry and the snake says, "I'm a snake, that's what I do."" Mick gets it. Which means Mick will probably be voted off next.
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