Great episode! As expected, poor, sad, hungry Malcolm & Denise were split up into the other tribes. Malcolm went to the yellow Skupin tribe, and Denise went over to the red Penner tribe. There was a reward challenge off the bat for coffee & muffins & cookies that team yellow won, thanks in part to Malcolm. Denise did fine in her part of the challenge too, fyi, but overall her team lost out. (As an aside, there was a particularly good part where Abi was up against Dawson - the challenge was to knock the other person's idol off a thingy that they held in one hand. Can't remember who won, but somehow Dawson pulled Abi's hair, which caused a tsunami of whining and accusations of "Don't play like a bitch!" Really? How much more can I not stand Abi? She's horrible. End rant.)
Both Malcolm & Denise were fantastically happy to be with a group of (potential) winners and to be in a camp with a tarp and other essentials. Malcolm is especially sitting pretty with the immunity idol in his possession. Soon, everyone wanted to be his best friend. As he put it, "It's like being the star quarterback from the other school..." and he's going to enjoy every bit of it while he can.
Right away, Pete approached Malcolm and told him the lay of the land, who is allied with who, that he's got his own immunity idol and that he wants to vote out Skupin. Nice, right? RC, who's on the outs with her tribe since Abi turned into a lunatic, is not giving up either. She figures she might as well try to be nice & flirty with Malcolm - can't hurt.
Over on team Penner, things weren't quite as effervescent, but Denise did manage to get herself in an alliance right away as well. Jeff pretty quickly asked her if she wanted to be the 4th member of their alliance & Denise jumped on that bandwagon, no problem. So, happily (I think), both our former team-Russell-mates are doing just fine, thank you very much.
Not true for Dana (the old Denise, but the real Dana) who got sick. And by sick, I mean not just some sniffles, but full-on fever, barfing, feeling miserable kind of sick. Can you imagine how bad that would feel at home on your couch and then imagine being somewhere where you couldn't get warm or dry? I don't blame Dana one bit for packing it in, and neither did her teammates. It was her decision in the end, as the medics told Jeff that she could continue if she wanted to... but man, I don't know about you, but I think I'd want to get the hell out of there. It was super nice to see how supportive her teammates were (even Katie, who was devastated by her exit, alliance-wise) and especially Penner. He's the Alan-Alda-Dad of the group.
The only funny part of the Dana situation was when Jeff came in with the medics, we discover that Dawson has a huge crush on him. I mean, being my former boyfriend, I totally understand it. But the girl sounds a little bit nutso. She says something like, "All of a sudden, Jeff's there and I want to go hug & kiss him, but it just wasn't the right time." Ummm.... you think? Let's all be thankful for her restraint. Cut to shot of Jeff taking the sick Dana out of the game on a boat, rubbing her shoulders. Cut to (imaginary) shot of Dawson watching the show later at home, desperately wishing she was Dana.
So right away, team Penner is down a person for the immunity challenge. (I didn't think they'd still vote a person out if someone left voluntarily, but apparently they do!) In the challenge one team Skupin person has to sit out. Abi right away throws up her hand. Jeff: How many challenges have you competed in so far? Abi: Two. Then Jeff, 'cause he's awesome at drawing attention to the obvious, must have mentioned 5 times how Abi was sitting out AGAIN. Heh heh. I know they haven't been to Tribal yet, but how she could not be the first one voted off is beyond me. We can hope.
Anyway, the challenge was super close at the end, but between Katie being slow off the start of the obstacle course (again, Jeff must have rubbed that one in about 5 times... "the team has caught up, no thanks to Katie's struggle at the start".... etc.) and Dawson's inability to cooperate well with Penner at the puzzle part, the red team came up short. It was obvious that the choice would be between the two girls. Would it be the former Miss Delaware or the future Mrs Probst?
I think Katie won out over Dawson for a couple of reasons. She's probably somewhat less annoying. Aside from the last challenge where, yes Jeff, we know - she struggled.... she's overall been better at challenges than Dawson. She right away talked about it calmly to her tribemates, said she was sorry for her poor performance and truly felt pretty bad about it. I think the tribe wanted to give her another chance. And then there's Jeff... the baseball guy, not the host. Dawson was the only one who knew that Jeff's a former baseball star. Jeff didn't know for sure that she knew his secret, but he had a feeling she might. At one point, she's taunting him with, "I'd like to date an athlete, you know a football player or maybe a basketball player.... but not a BASEBALL player... they're just a bunch of grown men standing around doing nothing...." etc. Which made him laugh, but also gave him a hint that she might know about him. So, we didn't see it go down, but my bet is that Baseball Jeff made a pretty good case to Penner and Mute Carson that Dawson should be the one to go, and why the heck wouldn't they go along? Then the three of them just tell Denise, and bam! No more Dawson.
When Jeff the Host snuffed Dawson's torch, she looked deeply into his eyes... and latched on. Gave him a huge hug and a kiss (on the cheek, thankfully) and off she went into the night. I'm guessing that this is her reward anyway, and that she didn't care that much about the million bucks in the first place. If I'm Jeff, I'm watching my back at this point and not answering my hotel room door late at night. Stay in and read my blog, Jeff! For her last words, Dawson went on about how Baseball Jeff now owes her a bunch of the money if he wins (and a house and a car and a pink gun??? What the....?) Ummmm... that's idiotic. Not entirely sure why she wouldn't try to save herself by outing Baseball Jeff (not that it would probably matter at this point, but she could still cause some trouble!) except that for some reason she thought she was totally safe and Katie would be the one going home. Dumb. Probst likes his ladies smarter than that, girlfriend.
Final point... have we all noticed that Katie is wearing mascara? What the....? Was this her one luxury item that she had to have? Who the #@*& thinks that they should wear mascara on Survivor? I guess the former Miss Delaware does. Thing is, she gets rained on 17 hours a day, so mostly, it's running down her face giving her raccoon eyes. Not especially flattering. Cut to imaginary shot of Katie watching the show, thinking, "Dammit, I should have brought WATERPROOF mascara as my luxury item!!"
Next week it looks like we're going to see a monumental mud-fight! Woo hoo!
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