Yellow-Skupin tribe:
RC figures she's in tight with the Shakira (Abi-Maria), so when she finds a clue to the immunity idol, she shares it. The Shakira on the other hand, is nutso. To her, she "caught" RC with the idol, thus "forcing" her to share it. See where this is going? Then, when Shaki "catches" RC chatting up Skupin, she starts to lose her mind. She confronts RC, who says, hey, we were just chatting. Shaki: "Yes, well it freaks me out. You know we are friends and everything, but if you go behind my back you are dead to me. Dead!" Ummmm... OK. You can see the wheels turning in RC's brain, and the thought bubble says, "Oh dear lord, did I just make an alliance with this?" You see, first you're all mesmerized by the hips and the accent, then it's all rabbits in boiling pots of water....
Then there's Lisa! Oh, I want to give Lisa a hug! She's just not fitting in. She's well aware that she's a shy person, who's not great at "chit-chat" and she's stuck with these young morons who are being mean to her. One (RC, I think... or maybe Shakira) says, "I just don't think she's making enough effort to fit in." Ugh. So, she goes off by herself a bunch... which, in life is probably an OK idea. In Survivor, it's like painting a big target on your back. Even Skupin is not really being her friend, probably because he's just trying to ride the waves of the game, which is his strategy. Fine. At one point, one of the stupid girls (RC again?) said, "She's like a dog that just runs off on you all the time & sometimes you have to face facts and just put the dog down." Something like that. Dog lovers and Facts of Life fans everywhere gasp! Well, I think Blair Warner is tougher than that and that she'll bounce back. In the challenge she took on a pretty tough role, as caller during a puzzle challenge. She was confident and awesome and helped her team win it. Woo hoo! This gives us more time for Lisa to endear herself to her tribe and more time for Shakira to show her true, paranoid colours.
Finally, there's Skupin. They keep cutting to him checking out small injuries. A scrape here, a cut there. Well on the 'scenes from next week' he appears to be bleeding out of his eyeballs! Perhaps our man is a little on the uh.... accident-prone side? Is it wrong that I laughed out loud when I saw him bleeding out of his eyes? (In fairness, I'm not sure yet what the exact nature of the injury is - will have to watch next week to find out!)
Red-Penner tribe:
Who else is even on this tribe except Penner? Oh yeah, baseball guy... and some other people. Yeah, the only interesting thing that happened over here is that Penner found the hidden immunity idol! Yay, Hawkeye! He came pretty close to getting caught, but made up a pretty lame story about losing a contact lens and having to look for his glasses... and I think it actually worked. Hee hee. Penner's tribe came in second in the challenge, so no need for the idol this time. Phew!
Blue-Russell tribe:
(Heh heh... My hubby reminded me that I used to call Russell "Master T," which you'll find funny if you're of a certain age & used to watch Much Music in Canada. Otherwise... just work with me.)
So it's cold and rainy for quite a while. Malcolm & Angie snuggle up at night. Well, this isn't new on Survivor - happens all the time. However, Roxy decides to make a big deal of it. On one hand, she's totally right. Especially in a small group, a solid pair can do a lot of damage. On the other hand, she kind of just sounds jealous of Angie's boobs, she talks so much about them... and maybe she finds it sinful? I don't know, she is a seminary student. We've had lots of Christians on Survivor, but this time it gets shut down instead of turning into an NFL worthy prayer session. Dana, the sex therapist, isn't big on the God stuff and finds Roxy's praying (ummmm.... what WAS that she was doing? Anyone? What the heck language was that anyway?) a bit weird. Roxy admits that she thought it would give her more strength of character, which it clearly doesn't. She's one of those girls who apparently has never seen the show, and doesn't get that there are pretty much 3 things you need to do:
- Get along with people.
- Work in camp, at least as much as the others, and
- Step up (at least a little!) in challenges
Back to the couple for a sec... Malcolm knows he's being a bid dumb. He admits to the camera that he has to keep reminding himself not to get "booty blinded"... heh heh. But he doesn't think he's doing anything all that wrong. Later at Tribal, instead of just owning up to it, he says that Angie's like "a little sister" which Roxy calls "creepy". I'm with Roxy on that one. I saw those hands on Angie. That's not a big brother move, dude. Ew.
However, the rest of the tribe saw Roxy as the bigger problem. It really would have been a toss-up for Angie or Roxy, right? Both of them SUCKED at the challenge. One of them had to go twice.... Angie didn't want to, and then when Roxy was asked, she kind of whined, "I really haven't had much water today...." Really? 'Cause everyone else is apparently on a different island than you? So Angie went twice, but the two of them were awful at the challenge, which involved pulling a sled-type thing, picking up puzzle pieces and pulling it back. Both Angie and Roxy figured dropping their rope and pushing was the better option, though they ended up just really pushing the thing down into the sand. Then Angie went and collapsed in the shade after they were done and both girls entirely checked out and did not help with the puzzle at all. Roxy fought to stay by trying to deflect blame onto Angie's boobs, and Angie... well, she kept having those boobs. At Tribal, Jeff asked the question, "What one thing would you change about this tribe?" A couple people give pretty good answers. Angie: "That we could have cookies." Oh, honey. Jeff, bless him, just about fell off his seat. Way to buck that stereotype that you're just a young, dumb blonde, Angie. Ay-yi! Jeff didn't let it go. I like that Jeff is staying punchy and not letting people off when they say stupid things. "Really? Cookies?" Ugh... (while we're at it, can we talk about how annoying it would be to be stuck around those girls in the yellow tribe who just talk about what food they like all the time. There are always 'those girls' on Survivor.) I appreciated Roxy's fight, and the fact she kept referring to the sleeping situation b/tw Angie and Malcolm as a "booby trap." I believe the tribe is not a huge fan as a whole of either Roxy or Angie but that they saw Roxy as the bigger problem. (See above.) Angie and her boobs are at least trying to accomplish item #1, and maybe when you remove the downer from the group, they'll perk up (The tribe! What did you think?) and pull it together for a win. Or not. We'll see.
There's still a lot to happen. There are people we've barely heard a word from yet. Artis? Most of the entire red tribe? Yesterday I actually said out loud, "Who's that blonde guy?" Seriously, who is it? Carter maybe? Anyway, it's all been about a few people so far which makes me think we should keep a close watch on those folks who they're NOT showing. (Remember Sophie?) These are the ones who could go far precisely because they're not doing anything that interesting. They're just going about their business, working at camp and getting along. This is how you play Survivor, not sulking and wishing for cookies.
