In this tale of now two teams - one gets along famously and is full of pretty nice people, while the other has some nice people and some that are simply insufferable. Guess which one wins? Sadly, it's the one with the insufferables. Team yellow - Skupin's tribe - are self-destructing and full of crazy. Have they ever been to Tribal Council? Nope. So sad, because there are some people who need to go away.
Skupin is one of them, maybe? As much as we may like Skupin for his accident-prone hijinx and wild pig killing, he is apparently not aware that he is difficult to live with. Dude has been eating all of the team's rice... raw. Yes, uncooked, by the handful, like it's popcorn. He figures that it'll 'cook' in his belly because our body temperature is 'close to 100'. OK, well I hate to get all sciency on you, but you are also smart people and you, dear Survivor fans, know that Skupin needs a bit of a shake in the brain department. Sure, body temp is 98.6 Farenheit. That's 37 degrees Celsius. Uhh... the last time I checked, water boils at 100 degrees Celsius... which is about 212 Farenheit. So, you see where this is going, right? Not only is the rice not 'cooking' in his stomach, but it's actually not very good for you and can cause all kinds of unfortunate gastrointestinal issues.... not really what you're after when you're on an island in the Philippines. See...
http://www.livestrong.com/article/415189-what-are-the-effects-of-eating-raw-rice/
Anyway, so we've established that killing pigs, not science or self-awareness, is Skupin's forte. What he isn't, however, is mean. He seems like a pretty decent guy (unless you're opposed to the whole pig killing thing, but that's another debate entirely.) This puts him at odds with the folks on his tribe who are not at all decent people. Tops on that list are Pete and Abi, with Artis as a possible runner-up. Pete and Abi are bullies. They figure they are running the show... and maybe they are to an extent - it's hard to tell when they've never been to Tribal Council. Pete does have the idol. Abi, meanwhile, is continually negative, bossy and just weird. As RC put it after they forfeited a win at the reward challenge, Abi is like a little Brazilian bomb just waiting to explode.
If you missed it, there was a Survivor first, where there was a stalemate at a challenge and the teams themselves decided on a compromise. It was 3 teammates pushing a huge ball in the mud trying to score on the other team. After an hour, neither team had moved the ball more than a foot or two either direction. They were exhausted and muddy (and can we talk about how awesome Lisa was at holding back Denise?) and to win, would have had to score THREE times! So Skupin and Penner come up with a plan. Penner's team will take the reward in exchange for giving Skupin's team the rest of their rice supply... which as we know, was pretty low because it's all sitting in Skupin's belly waiting to cause vomiting, nausea and indigestion. Both teams reluctantly gave their blessing to the deal.
Artis was the most angry about it on team yellow. He wanted the win. However, he was not the one competing - he was sitting out with guess who? Abi. Yup. That girl is useless. Artis and Abi combined to be the biggest complainers about the rice deal - go figure. Over at team Penner, the group enjoyed a good reward picnic and a morale boost of letters from home. However, once they got back to camp, they realized that oh yeah, we're going to be kind of hungry now. No worries, says Penner, I'll go fishing. He tried & tried and only came up with 2 teensy fish. Again, the ones who weren't doing anything about it were the first ones to complain. Carter - who we really haven't heard from as of yet - is now not shutting up about how hungry he is and how his body can't take it and how he'll lose if he has to starve...blah, blah, blah. Sure enough, he dropped the ball - literally - in the immunity challenge.
The challenge was where one person shoots a ball with a sling-shot thingy and the team has to catch them in these lacrosse-type nets. Jeff should KILL at this, right? Well, he did... just not as much as Malcolm, who kills at everything. Sadly, team yellow took it yet again. Carter wasn't the only one to suck at the challenge. Katie, once again, also didn't perform very well and Jeff-the-host was sure to point it out to everyone. "Katie, once again, not performing very well." Yeah, we got it Jeff.
So it's got to be Katie, right? She's the weakest link. (For a sec, I thought, why don't they get rid of Carter instead 'til I remembered that he'll do whatever he's told, which is his selling point. Katie has more of a brain, therefore more of a chance to make her own move or come up with an idea.) But then, it looked like Jeff was going to make a big move and take out Penner. After chatting about it, Jeff and Carter were sitting there when Penner came up to them. Carter says, "What do you think? Katie or Penner?" Heh heh. He covered it up pretty well... and went, ".....errrrr, Katie or Denise?" but it still made Jeff shake his head.
So were you all yelling at the TV like me for Penner to play the idol? Well, the clever editors pulled a good one on us, because clearly Penner knew what we didn't - that he was safe. Though, he did shoot Jeff quite a look when his name came up on the vote (Katie's)... and then immediately realized that oh, he was OK after all. Did Jeff-the-baseball-guy seem pissed to you? Was he pissed at Penner for the slip, or was he pissed that they didn't get rid of Penner when they had the chance? Or, was he pissed at Jeff-the-host for constantly prodding him about his former career secret. "Hey Jeff, have you ever played any other games that involve strategy?" Heh. So, yeah, as you can tell, Miss Delaware was the one who had to go.
You know what will stop team yellow? A merge. It looks like it's going to happen next episode. All of a sudden Pete, Abi & Artis will not be in a majority. Hopefully. There's a good chance Malcolm will stay true to Denise and vice versa. Do Skupin and Penner have a bit of a bro code? I think maybe. Folks on the outs of team yellow like Lisa and RC will hastily hop over to another alliance that'll have them. The strong guys always get targeted once the merge happens, so if I'm Pete, I'm thinking about a good way to use that idol, or deflect towards cranky old Artis.
So let's review...
Needing to go away: Pete, Abi, and possibly Artis, but I still haven't heard enough from him. I'm on the fence about Artis.
Needing to quit whining: Carter.
Needing to cook his food and keep his mitts off everyone else's food: Skupin
Strongest under the radar players and possible swing votes: Lisa & RC
Looking the strongest right now: Penner, Jeff, Denise and Malcolm.
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