So last night's episode was the first time we've really seen the Coach start being the Coach. Delightful. You knew it would happen eventually. And I'm having a difficult time continuing to like Russell. And I'm pretty sure I want Jerri to win. Pool schmool.
OK, backing up a bit.... let's see. Basically things turned around a little and the Heroes started working together a bit - even Tom made up with James over the Stephenie thing. And the villains are starting to not work together so well.
Russell and stupid Parvati are all cozy. Seriously, to the point where I said out loud, "Russell, you have a WIFE." Geez. Parvati is a disease. And the disease needs to be stopped. And the boys (Boston Rob & Coach) tried to warn Russell that it looks like they're too close... but he is infected. My absolute favourite part of the show was where Jerri said, "Every time she opens her mouth I just want to punch her in the face." Which, of course, makes me LOVE Jerri SO much. Becuase I, too, feel the same. Parvati's awful. The eyelash batting, and calling Jerri a "sad, old Cougar"... and the worst, which is the LAUGH. That fake laugh makes me so crazy. Ugh. I have her in the pool, and I wanted her to get voted out sooooo badly. Oh, and she called someone else fake... who was it? Coach? Ugh. (I mean, true... but really?)
I did enjoy Boston Rob's comment that for anyone coming on Survivor, just watch who sleeps next to each other to find out who's in an alliance. Hee.
Then Russell got up to his old tricks. Hid the machete. Like literally buried it in the sand so that everyone would freak out & he could cause chaos. It's funny. Though, aside from a passing mention and a pretty funny scene where Randy has to open a giant clam using a rock all caveman-styles.... there wasn't really chaos. Yet. Russell also really wants to steal Boston Rob's Red Sox hat. Hee - now that would be funny. BR would lose his mind, non?
Back in Hero-ville, Candice tells JT that she doesn't trust Cirie. Now maybe she's just trying to scramble a bit and make a second alliance. Problem is.... JT tells Cirie. Heh heh. I kind of like how JT is working the nice, honest, country boy thing again, while ummm... not actually being nice & honest. It's pretty clever. Anyways, Cirie confronts Candice and then rather than just accept it, Candice turns all crazy and goes to everyone and tries to find out who told. How about the person you said it to? Weird that she asked everyone but JT, non? And most people found it annoying, which is death in Survivor. Don't be annoying. You won't last long. And she just isn't as clever as Cirie.... and not very interesting, and who cares really? (Except maybe those of you who have her in the pool - sorry.)
The challenge. I love that they're combining the reward and the immunity challenge. This one was fun - it was using a hard pillow thingy to push your opponent a la Sumo wrestler into the mud. The Heroes dominated. Like not a single villain won. And you'd think that would be their forte, wouldn't you? The heroes were mad having not won anything yet. Between the crazy in James' and Colby's eyes, I'd have sat out. Colby was so amped up, I think I'd have just jumped into the mud myself. Yikes! The best parts to mention were when Coach beat (who was it? Russell? Can't remember. Doesn't matter.) So, Coach beat (Hero) but got DQed because he removed his hand from the pillow, which was clearly against the rules. So what does he do? He flips Jeff the bird. Really? Don't take it out on poor Jeff! So they had to re-do, and (Hero) won because Coach was off his game. Easy. Then the very last match-up was James vs. Randy. Clearly not a fair match. Clearly everyone knows James is going to win. And the Heroes were already up something like 7-0 at this point. So the thing to do really would have been to lightly push Randy into the mud (wouldn't have been tough for James, right?) and then help him up. Or at least acknowledge the mismatch. But no... James pushes Randy in locomotive-style, then throws the pillow-thing at him, prompting Randy to say, "That was classy," and someone else (Parvati?) to say, "I told you you were on the wrong team, James." Word.
So the villains had to go to Tribal Council. It looked like the choices were the old, weak guy (Randy) or the annoying, yet deadly virus (Parvati). The only person who was smart was Tyson, who commented that Randy is weak, but he is not a threat. He'll vote how you tell him and he has no friends on the other team (OK, he has no friends, period.) The smart thing to do would be to keep Randy and eliminate the threat, which is Parvati. (It even SOUNDS like a virus doesn't it? Have you gotten your Parvati shot yet? Sorry, I'm sick at home with the Parvati... can't come in today....) Anyways, amen to Tyson. However, no one is playing very smart. They got rid of Randy and kept that horrible, fake-laughing, eyelash-batting, hip-shaking virus. Which means of course, that unless Jerri can kill it, it will prevail and the Villains will die a slow and painful death.
My final, and hopefully more uplifting bit of writing will be about the Coach. OK, we got to see him doing a bunch of his un-googleable martial arts, complete with chanting. We got to see him flip off Jeff Probst. And then we got to hear a big speech about how he is the only person with any honour in the game, and going so far as to quote Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..... said that to HIS LAST BREATH, he will fight for Randy. Ummmm..... did any of you wait around to see whose name Coach wrote down at the vote? RANDY!! I guess he wasn't specific - he didn't say that he'd fight for Randy to stay on Survivor. Maybe he'd fight for Randy to get the correct change at the Walmart or something.... Oh, the honour of the warrior. And Randy, in true curmudgeon fashion, took off his Survivor buff and threw it into the fire, disgusted. Rightly so. I mean, I didn't see Randy winning this thing & I've said before that he doesn't quite fit in... but it was a dumb move that will come back & bite them all in the caboose in the form of the snake goddess herself. Trust.
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