It's Fabio!!! Did you watch? It was so fun. And let me start by saying that yes, I won my own Survivor pool, which my husband was quick to point out is ummm.... "not done." But, I also have to point out that it was the first time in 21 seasons that I've won. So, I think that if I do the math, I'm probably still coming out on the short end. Anyway, very exciting to win, and I was really pleased that Fabio won.... just 'cause I liked him. He played a good game. He played the likeable goofball to a tee... was probably quite a bit smarter than he ever let on & made friends with everyone. He stayed out of the hard core strategizing and ended up being able to say that he didn't backstab anyone, which we know plays well with the jury. And finally, the dude cleaned up on the final immunity challenges, winning three in a row when he clearly needed the wins to stay in the game. Overall, you can't argue with the win.
Chase came in a close second with four votes to Fabio's five. I was a bit surprised that he got as many votes as he did. I honestly thought he'd pissed everyone off too much with the wishy-washiness, and promising everyone and their dog an alliance to the end. But at the end of the day, he was well-liked, he was a good physical competitor, and darn it, he just has that honesty thing down. It's weird, for a guy who actually backstabbed so many people, he seems to be able to pull out the honesty card when it counts and tell people straight up what he's planning or how his decisions were made. He was honest with Fabio that the three in the alliance (Chase, Holly & Sash) were planning to vote him out next if he didn't win immunity. Holly was also honest with Fabio, while Sash was a weasel.
The weaseliness (is that a word? It should be.) is what did Sash in. No one can argue that he was a good player. He was always thinking strategy. (Sidebar: If I heard one more person say "strategical" last night, I was going to hurl something at the TV. That is not a real word. Not that weaseliness is either, but at least I know that.) Back to Sash... yep, he was good. He had Russell's way of promising everything to everyone, but he was more likeable. Mostly. Until he wasn't. When it came down to it, you could see right through his smile & laugh & attempts to save his own butt. When Fabio had immunity and basically got to choose who was going home (which I LOVED! Didn't you love seeing the alliance scramble & all of a sudden they're all Fabio's best friend? Hee!) as mentioned, Chase & Holly were straight with him & Sash wasn't (no pun intended.) Sash tried telling Fabio that noooooooo, he would have taken Fabio to the final three. Right.
So it was brilliant that Fabio and the others voted for Holly as the first out of the final four. It was smart. Fabio had to decide who to take & his best bets (clearly) were wishy-washy Chase and weaselly Sash. Good move.
It was a great jury question period. The majority of the questions went to Chase & Sash, which tells you something right there. As said, Chase answered the questions quite well & kept pretty honest. He said exactly how some of his choices went down and both he & Sash tried to play up the fact that they were the ones strategizing while Fabio was not always in the loop. Fabio, to his credit, piped up on more than one occasion to defend himself - saying that he knew more than he let on and just let others do the dirty work. When Chase said he'd spend the money on his mom, Fabio spoke up again saying he's going to take care of his mom too.... then he got all emotional (real, I think?) and talked about how he realized that family is the most important thing, etc. Cue jury tears! Heh heh.... Well played!
NaOnka wasn't as hard on them as I thought she'd be. I figured she'd be a bit tougher on Fabio who she always said she couldn't stand... but I think he grew on her. Marty and Dan were both pretty hard on Chase & Sash and Jane was by far the worst/best of the stink-eye crew! I don't want Jane to ever look at me like she looked at those dudes! Yikes! Said something about Sash's mother not raising him right... Oh my. It was lovely! Pretty good questions... none that were to cringe-worthy... and good answers! Well fought!
A pretty good reunion show too. I loved seeing both Fabio & Sash all cleaned up! I loved my boyfriend Jeff asking Fabio if he was playing dumb... and Fabio's answer that was.... ummm... confusing? Seriously... something about coming from a family of artists and something about his grandfather inventing the colour wheel and another grandparent inventing... what was it? Anyway, then something about traveling the world and "joining the dots" and "it's all about communication..." and what the....? Duuuuude! But he's so darned lovable and weird, that you can't help but thinking good for you, weirdo-model-hippie-dude! You go join those dots! Perhaps he'll go communicate with those Amazon dudes who kidnapped Coach Ben Wade?
Sidebar: All those shots of the former Survivors in the audience. I didn't mind really (though, Rupert - really? Still with the tie-dye? Move on.) but would have preferred less talk of Boston Rob & Amber's childbirth experience and more talk from some of the actual Survivors from THIS season who didn't get to talk. Right?
Jane won the audience choice award of $100,000. Yay! Obvious choice. What else...? Yeah, Marty said that he & Jane weren't planning to be pals any time soon. Hee. Jimmy Johnson went on about how hard Survivor was & how it saved his life to try out (and then more blathering by that other football dude. What?) and Wendy Jo is still insane (my boyfriend Jeff: "I have no idea what you just said, but OK." Ha!), and there was some crazy business from Shannon who went on about Sash's sexuality some more. "I was just calling a duck a duck. If it walks like a duck, it's a duck. I mean it might be a chicken, but.... well, I just met Sash's girlfriend...so...." What? And then NaOnka refreshingly talked about how foolish she was and how some of the kids' parents she teaches want her fired. Ha! Funny. And NaOnka's mom "threw her under the bus" as Jeff said, not exactly "so proud".... And no talk from mute Purple Kelly.
OK, so next season (which starts in Feb. after Super Bowl? Right?) is called Redemption Island! So the trick is that once people have been voted out, they get a chance to get BACK! Fun, right? I don't know how that's going to impact the pool... might have to come up with a new twist of my own.... we'll see. I have the Christmas break to think about it. So thanks to y'all for reading and for your comments (you can leave comments... just sayin') and for putting up with all my ranting. If you want, you can just throw out another topic in between Survivor seasons & I'll happily update the blog. Otherwise... Redemption Island it is! Yay!
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