Well, he had a good run, our Malcolm. And how much do you love Cochran? Seriously, now that Malcolm's gone, I think Cochran should win this thing, non?
Backing up... our Survivors were hungry and cranky. For real, if Sherri turns sideways, you can barely see her. Brenda - normally so even keel - lost it and had herself a little cry. I don't judge. We females need food and rest or we A) get angry or B) cry. It's just the way it is. Don't act like you don't do this, other girls. You do. We all do.
Then good news - it's the Survivor auction! This puts Brenda in a weird place again where she can't quite get it together. Everyone else is getting food. Malcolm sells out for beer & pretzels. Dawn spends her whole $500 on a chicken (cooked, mind you.) (Which makes me think, "She is going to feel that in about 6-8 hours... and she would, giving us the memorable line, "I wouldn't be so paranoid if I didn't have diarrhea.") Malcolm eventually gets a clue to the hidden immunity idol. Cochran gets an advantage in the next challenge. Andrea gets spaghetti but gets to choose to keep it or trade it for beans & rice for the whole tribe (she does). Most of them get letters from home. Brenda gets pig brains. How sad did you feel for her? I liked how she at least tried it and said to Jeff, "It's good for me, right?" and "I just remembered I don't eat pork." I love her.
And this is why I'm liking this season, even though I was crabby about bringing all these people back in the first place. I guess, as a Survivor fan myself, I am enjoying watching how these people have changed since they were last on the show and how they have learned to play the game. I love that I love Brenda now, where the last time she played, I really didn't. I liked Cochran the first time, but now.... seriously... we've talked before about how much more confident he is, but he's kicking some serious butt (more on that later). It totally makes a difference of course who's playing the game. If say, Phillip's idol, Boston Rob was there, maybe things would be different. But I'm enjoying this particular group of fans and how SMART they are all playing. Erik is working both sides brilliantly under the radar. Dawn has been playing a really great game and not so worried about the stuff she worried about the first time out ("lying" and whatnot.) It's so fun to watch. Even Andrea, who I'm not a huge fan of.... she's playing a heckuva game.
As mentioned, Malcolm got a clue - more than a clue really... a map with a giant red arrow on it pointing to where the hidden immunity idol was. And he couldn't find it. How frustrating for a guy who found two idols already without any clues. Part of the reason he couldn't find it was that Andrea stuck to him like glue. She followed him out to the water well where the idol is hidden somewhere and just sat herself down, didn't say a word. Malcolm just stands there as well, silent. Finally she says, "Is this a stand-off?" Heh. And so they just sit there. He says she's "like a little sister he just can't get rid of." Finally they decide to go together back to camp. Delightful.
In the meantime, Malcolm & his other amigos decide to try to make people think he found it. Also, they do their best to pull in Sherri and Erik, who are the most 'on the fence' of the alliance. It could work. They need to win immunity....
But no. Cochran wins immunity!! The challenge monster has won more individual immunities than anyone else. I love it. The challenge was holding a giant pole up using a rope with knots on it and every so often Jeff will tell them to move down another knot. Cochran's note that he won at the auction allows him to at any point move back up two knots, giving him an advantage in the challenge. Cochran brilliantly chose to use it at the right time, which was earlier vs. later. Later he might have been too tired to hang on. Using it earlier gave him more time being less tired. Smarty pants. (Someone mentioned to me recently that Cochran is kind of Woody Allen. I agree. But a more confident Woody Allen. Kind of Woody Allen meets Tom Hanks, but younger.)
Oh... and I forgot to mention that at the auction, they all got to share a bowl of peanut butter. (Who comes up with these things? Remember last time it was they had to all eat a whole chocolate cake with their hands?) Yeah, watching a whole bunch of dirty people eat a bowl of peanut butter with their hands is enough to make you want to not eat peanut butter any more. Oh who am I kidding? I love peanut butter. And Cochran once again gets to lick the PB off of Sherri's hands. "How often does this happen to you, Cochran?" asks Jeff. "More often than you'd think." Awesome.
So it's a bit of a toss-up whether Erik and/or Sherri will flip to the dark side, but it doesn't happen. They are smart enough to know that these are now jury members and it's better to play nice and go along. They split the vote between Reynold and Malcolm (just in case Malcolm somehow did find an idol) and the three Amigos vote for Andrea. On the re-vote, everyone votes for Malcolm. Reynold - again somehow - gets through. And how has Eddie made it this far? Eddie does not win challenges. He's not EVER come up with any ideas or strategy. He is there to meet girls.
So, I'm a little sad for Malcolm. He's a great player and makes for good TV. But, it paves the way for Cochran to win, so that makes me happy. Plus, ladies, he's going to go get all cleaned up and be back on the jury now, so that's good right?
Friday, April 26, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
The Three Amigos Defeat El Specialisto (Disclaimer: Probably that is not an actual Spanish word.)
Note: It has been pointed out to me since posting that it was actually Malcolm who found the immunity idol, not Reynold. Whoops. See? They're sort of the same. In all fairness, I WAS drinking before I watched the episode last night.
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I missed blogging last week. I did watch the show, but I was packing at the time and had to check out before island-hopping. You feel sorry for me now, right?
Anyway, all you needed to know from last week was that Malcolm got Reynold to give him his idol, and then it turned out that neither one of them needed it because everyone voted for Michael. Kind of a wasted vote, really. They could have split their vote and gotten one of those strong boys out... AND Michael probably would have worked with them at some point... but no. The good thing I guess for Stealth-R-Us was that Reynold's idol was gone.
Until last night.
One of the best Tribal Councils ever, right?
Hmmm... but I'm skipping ahead a bit. Some other stuff probably happened. Oh, yes. Dawn had a bit of a freak-out. I guess she's got a partial denture piece for her lower teeth and it got knocked loose at some point and she lost it in the water when she went to take a sip. (Ummm, is she sipping water right out of a pond?) So she kind of lost it. She yelled for Brenda to come & help her and was sobbing so hard that she couldn't breathe. Poor Brenda probably thought Dawn had cut off her foot or something... but who am I to say. I think that Survivor messes with people's heads a bit, and we know Dawn is a pretty emotional gal to begin with and just did not like the idea of finishing out the show with no bottom teeth. In between sobs, she was saying, "I'll pull myself from the game if I can't find them..." Yikes, right? But you know, she wasn't getting any sleep, she was paranoid about getting blindsided and everything else. I know that on a regular day when I'm tired and hungry, I don't always deal well. So, yeah, I don't think we ladies can judge Dawn too harshly. I'm not sure I'd do well either in the same situation. I've cried over stupider things and thankfully there was no TV camera on me at the time. Well, Brenda was a star and dove down to the bottom of the pond (lake? sea?) and found them. Dawn was happy again. Plus, she got some sleep and food, and all of a sudden she was back to her usual self again. Yay! I love Dawn and I want to give her a hug.
In other news, it occurred to me yesterday that Erik could be the one to win this thing. Have we thought much about Erik? He's kind of amazing in that he's playing in a way that we DON'T talk about him at all. He doesn't do anything crazy, he seems to get along with everyone - the girls, the strong dudes, even made himself a Stealth-R-Us member, though not sure what his 'name' is. And he's pretty good at challenges. He doesn't seem to be leading the way, but that'll probably get him far. Could happen. I sorta think the same way about Brenda too. Both are playing excellent 'under the radar' strategies and both have clearly learned a lot since they last played.
The reward challenge wasn't super exciting. It ended up with Phillip, Cochran, Dawn, Erik and Reynold getting to go to a resort and hang out, shower and eat. The reward involved jumping from a mud pit into rice, so they were all pretty dirty... so you'd think you'd have a shower before jumping into a pristine swimming pool, non? Not if you're the Specialist. He just hops in, grossing out his teammates and I'm sure the pool boy. The awesome Survivor editors made sure to include an awesome crane shot showing the Pigpen-like cloud of dirt coming off Phillip in the pool. Ew. Thing #758 that has annoyed his teammates.
The immunity challenge was easy to call. They had to jump in the water swim underneath a platform by pulling themselves along with a rope and then hop back up on the platform, get a ring, bring it to another platform, rinse, repeat. This challenge clearly favours the boys. It takes a lot of upper body strength to pull yourself along like that and then pull your body weight up to the platform, over and over. Even fit girls who are really great swimmers like Brenda & Andrea couldn't keep up to the boys and it was pretty much between Malcolm and Reynold, but Reynold just hopped up out of that water like he was being shot out of a cannon. Seriously, it was quite impressive. So he won immunity and he needed it, because he was on the chopping block. Oh yeah, and Phillip did not participate in the challenge at all - didn't even TRY - because of "an incident" when he was a boy. Apparently he got caught under a dock or some such thing and someone had to pull him out. Frightened him enough that he wouldn't even TRY to do it for a million dollars. I mean, if it's me, I'm at least going to give it a go.... I might not win and I might have to stop, but as someone said (was it Malcolm? Cochran?) that's kinda weird for a guy with a gorilla and a lion tattooed on his arms, right? Thing #759.
Without Reynold to vote for, the 7-strong alliance was either going to vote for Malcolm or Eddie, so they decided to just split their votes. Easy, right. Nope. The clever boys went out looking for a hidden immunity idol. And, right in front of everyone, Reynold pulled one out of a rock. Yup, the dude is either SUPER lucky with the immunity idols, or else SUPER talented in finding them. So, the S-R-Us alliance thinks, it's ok, still split the vote and it'll all work out. Wrong.
No one knew about Malcolm's idol that he found way, way back. At Tribal Council, first Malcolm revealed that he had an idol, then Eddie pulls one out and there are "The Three Amigos" as Jeff called them... all of a sudden all free from the vote. Now, they didn't all have to play them. The looks on the Stealth faces was priceless. Now what? Just for fun, Reynold (I think) says, "The 3 of us are voting for Phillip, just so you know." Now, the Stealth group is scrambling. Some are whispering names right there in front of each other. Someone (was it Brenda?) kept saying 'Andrea?'... which I'm pretty sure is going to make Andrea a little cheesed off later on. In the end only Erik flipped and voted for Phillip (spelling it "Fillup") which was kind of stupid, considering he didn't have to change his vote. All of them could have kept the same plan, Phil would have gotten voted off, and none of them would have to vote against their alliance. It's actually kind of a brilliant thing - unless you're Phillip.
So now there's still an alliance of 6 that has the numbers over the 3 Amigos. (Sidebar: Have you ever seen that movie, with Steve Martin & Chevy Chase & Martin Short? It's very funny. Go watch it now. Do it.) However, those 3 dudes are all VERY good at challenges and have a good chance at outlasting the other bunch. As always, it'll depend on the challenge. If there are lots of strength ones or anything to do with throwing something at a target, Malcolm & Reynold are golden. If it's a puzzle, Eddie will be out immediately. (Can we talk about how much I can't stand Eddie? Ugh. He's a mimbo. Reynold is a bit of a jerk in certain situations, I think, but seems to also be smart. Even after he won the immunity, he said how much 'mad respect' he had for everyone in the challenge (note: Not Phillip). Eddie - not so much. It just doesn't seem like there's much going on upstairs except finding food and flirting with girls. Wait, that's downstairs.) Right. Where were we? Oh yeah, the 3 Amigos are going to have to win and remember they can still look for an immunity idol, because they were all played. And Reynold, as mentioned earlier, is like an immunity idol bloodhound. And next time we get the Survivor Auction, so remember there's always a clue or an advantage that people can win if they save up their money and don't buy the hamburger. Eddie will buy the hamburger. Reynold & Malcolm - probably not.
In the end, The Specialist was pretty gracious in defeat and I do think he played a pretty good game. I'm not saying I'd want to hang out with him for a month on an island, but I think it was ballsy to be the leader of Stealth-R-Us, and that most people in that position end up going far earlier. Also, really, did any of you think Philip would make it to the jury this time or to the final three last time? Give the man some credit. He's one part pink panted lunatic and one part game master. If he wasn't such a lunatic, he probably wouldn't have been the target this time, but it was an easy vote for the Amigos knowing that they were really sort of doing everyone else a favour. I'm glad The Specialist is on the jury and I can't wait for his final questions to whoever is a Stealth member about how they felt they "completed their mission"... Trust. It'll be gold.
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I missed blogging last week. I did watch the show, but I was packing at the time and had to check out before island-hopping. You feel sorry for me now, right?
Anyway, all you needed to know from last week was that Malcolm got Reynold to give him his idol, and then it turned out that neither one of them needed it because everyone voted for Michael. Kind of a wasted vote, really. They could have split their vote and gotten one of those strong boys out... AND Michael probably would have worked with them at some point... but no. The good thing I guess for Stealth-R-Us was that Reynold's idol was gone.
Until last night.
One of the best Tribal Councils ever, right?
Hmmm... but I'm skipping ahead a bit. Some other stuff probably happened. Oh, yes. Dawn had a bit of a freak-out. I guess she's got a partial denture piece for her lower teeth and it got knocked loose at some point and she lost it in the water when she went to take a sip. (Ummm, is she sipping water right out of a pond?) So she kind of lost it. She yelled for Brenda to come & help her and was sobbing so hard that she couldn't breathe. Poor Brenda probably thought Dawn had cut off her foot or something... but who am I to say. I think that Survivor messes with people's heads a bit, and we know Dawn is a pretty emotional gal to begin with and just did not like the idea of finishing out the show with no bottom teeth. In between sobs, she was saying, "I'll pull myself from the game if I can't find them..." Yikes, right? But you know, she wasn't getting any sleep, she was paranoid about getting blindsided and everything else. I know that on a regular day when I'm tired and hungry, I don't always deal well. So, yeah, I don't think we ladies can judge Dawn too harshly. I'm not sure I'd do well either in the same situation. I've cried over stupider things and thankfully there was no TV camera on me at the time. Well, Brenda was a star and dove down to the bottom of the pond (lake? sea?) and found them. Dawn was happy again. Plus, she got some sleep and food, and all of a sudden she was back to her usual self again. Yay! I love Dawn and I want to give her a hug.
In other news, it occurred to me yesterday that Erik could be the one to win this thing. Have we thought much about Erik? He's kind of amazing in that he's playing in a way that we DON'T talk about him at all. He doesn't do anything crazy, he seems to get along with everyone - the girls, the strong dudes, even made himself a Stealth-R-Us member, though not sure what his 'name' is. And he's pretty good at challenges. He doesn't seem to be leading the way, but that'll probably get him far. Could happen. I sorta think the same way about Brenda too. Both are playing excellent 'under the radar' strategies and both have clearly learned a lot since they last played.
The reward challenge wasn't super exciting. It ended up with Phillip, Cochran, Dawn, Erik and Reynold getting to go to a resort and hang out, shower and eat. The reward involved jumping from a mud pit into rice, so they were all pretty dirty... so you'd think you'd have a shower before jumping into a pristine swimming pool, non? Not if you're the Specialist. He just hops in, grossing out his teammates and I'm sure the pool boy. The awesome Survivor editors made sure to include an awesome crane shot showing the Pigpen-like cloud of dirt coming off Phillip in the pool. Ew. Thing #758 that has annoyed his teammates.
The immunity challenge was easy to call. They had to jump in the water swim underneath a platform by pulling themselves along with a rope and then hop back up on the platform, get a ring, bring it to another platform, rinse, repeat. This challenge clearly favours the boys. It takes a lot of upper body strength to pull yourself along like that and then pull your body weight up to the platform, over and over. Even fit girls who are really great swimmers like Brenda & Andrea couldn't keep up to the boys and it was pretty much between Malcolm and Reynold, but Reynold just hopped up out of that water like he was being shot out of a cannon. Seriously, it was quite impressive. So he won immunity and he needed it, because he was on the chopping block. Oh yeah, and Phillip did not participate in the challenge at all - didn't even TRY - because of "an incident" when he was a boy. Apparently he got caught under a dock or some such thing and someone had to pull him out. Frightened him enough that he wouldn't even TRY to do it for a million dollars. I mean, if it's me, I'm at least going to give it a go.... I might not win and I might have to stop, but as someone said (was it Malcolm? Cochran?) that's kinda weird for a guy with a gorilla and a lion tattooed on his arms, right? Thing #759.
Without Reynold to vote for, the 7-strong alliance was either going to vote for Malcolm or Eddie, so they decided to just split their votes. Easy, right. Nope. The clever boys went out looking for a hidden immunity idol. And, right in front of everyone, Reynold pulled one out of a rock. Yup, the dude is either SUPER lucky with the immunity idols, or else SUPER talented in finding them. So, the S-R-Us alliance thinks, it's ok, still split the vote and it'll all work out. Wrong.
No one knew about Malcolm's idol that he found way, way back. At Tribal Council, first Malcolm revealed that he had an idol, then Eddie pulls one out and there are "The Three Amigos" as Jeff called them... all of a sudden all free from the vote. Now, they didn't all have to play them. The looks on the Stealth faces was priceless. Now what? Just for fun, Reynold (I think) says, "The 3 of us are voting for Phillip, just so you know." Now, the Stealth group is scrambling. Some are whispering names right there in front of each other. Someone (was it Brenda?) kept saying 'Andrea?'... which I'm pretty sure is going to make Andrea a little cheesed off later on. In the end only Erik flipped and voted for Phillip (spelling it "Fillup") which was kind of stupid, considering he didn't have to change his vote. All of them could have kept the same plan, Phil would have gotten voted off, and none of them would have to vote against their alliance. It's actually kind of a brilliant thing - unless you're Phillip.
So now there's still an alliance of 6 that has the numbers over the 3 Amigos. (Sidebar: Have you ever seen that movie, with Steve Martin & Chevy Chase & Martin Short? It's very funny. Go watch it now. Do it.) However, those 3 dudes are all VERY good at challenges and have a good chance at outlasting the other bunch. As always, it'll depend on the challenge. If there are lots of strength ones or anything to do with throwing something at a target, Malcolm & Reynold are golden. If it's a puzzle, Eddie will be out immediately. (Can we talk about how much I can't stand Eddie? Ugh. He's a mimbo. Reynold is a bit of a jerk in certain situations, I think, but seems to also be smart. Even after he won the immunity, he said how much 'mad respect' he had for everyone in the challenge (note: Not Phillip). Eddie - not so much. It just doesn't seem like there's much going on upstairs except finding food and flirting with girls. Wait, that's downstairs.) Right. Where were we? Oh yeah, the 3 Amigos are going to have to win and remember they can still look for an immunity idol, because they were all played. And Reynold, as mentioned earlier, is like an immunity idol bloodhound. And next time we get the Survivor Auction, so remember there's always a clue or an advantage that people can win if they save up their money and don't buy the hamburger. Eddie will buy the hamburger. Reynold & Malcolm - probably not.
In the end, The Specialist was pretty gracious in defeat and I do think he played a pretty good game. I'm not saying I'd want to hang out with him for a month on an island, but I think it was ballsy to be the leader of Stealth-R-Us, and that most people in that position end up going far earlier. Also, really, did any of you think Philip would make it to the jury this time or to the final three last time? Give the man some credit. He's one part pink panted lunatic and one part game master. If he wasn't such a lunatic, he probably wouldn't have been the target this time, but it was an easy vote for the Amigos knowing that they were really sort of doing everyone else a favour. I'm glad The Specialist is on the jury and I can't wait for his final questions to whoever is a Stealth member about how they felt they "completed their mission"... Trust. It'll be gold.
Friday, April 5, 2013
I Had To Eat a Beak & All I Got Was Voted Out
Apologies for the late blog. Am on holidays and keep looking for Jeff Probst to drive up the beach on a jet ski, but so far no luck. In my travels I have been eating interesting things, but nothing as good as what our Survivors got to eat on this week's episode! Seriously, how much did you love that they brought back the food challenge? It was a mainstay for years on this show, but disappeared for quite a while. A lot of people who don't watch the show often criticize it because they're not really surviving... they're given rice, blah, blah, blah. But seeing them suffer the elements this season and then having to eat those grub larvae or whatever the heck... yeah, that was surviving.
The best thing about the food challenge, aside from the fact that it's just fun "Fear Factor" style TV, is that it levels the playing field. Anyone can win. It's truly mind over matter to get those live, wiggly bugs into your mouth and eat them up without barfing. I'm not sure I could do it. It's the wiggling for me. Anyway, in true Survivor fashion, the underdog won the day. Cochran went up against Malcolm and took home immunity for the first time. He danced around like he was Muhammed Ali and no one really minded 'cause he deserved it. That stuff was gross. I loved when Eddie said that he didn't want to eat that stuff because girls would find it gross & then Cochran said no, for him, if he could eat all that stuff girls might actually find it more manly. Yes. He was the man indeed. The worst part of the food challenge for the folks who lost must have been having to do it but losing. Why did I just put bug larvae in my mouth again? *shudder* They also got to eat some sorta brain cake and the ol' unhatched baby chicken... beak, feet and all. Yum!
OH! Haha - and another important thing happened. The Merge! I was so excited by the food challenge I forgot to tell you about the merge. Oh well. That's it really.
Here's where the merge did get interesting. Having to vote someone out. Malcolm & Corinne had their six: them, plus Ednold, Erik & The Gay. (Oh come on, you know that's his name now). They plot to take out Sherri first, then Philip later. Seems like an ok plan, right? Corinne unwittingly became the author of her own fate (Baby would be proud) when she told sweet, mom-like Dawn about it. Dawn thought about it for a sec & then remembered how things went down last time she got voted out. She decided to make things happen for herself (I LOVE the new Dawn...) and she went back and told smarty pants Cochran about it. If this Sherri plan were to go through (and it probably would have had these not been seasoned players) then all of a sudden Stealth R Us would be on the wrong side of the numbers. So the obvious play is to vote off Corinne... she's the brains of the operation, it breaks up her & Michael, and Philip will be immediately on board with it. They did manage to get the extra vote, though, and I'm not sure who flipped. I think it was Erik, as he wasn't exactly solid on the other Malcolm alliance anyway. So yes, Corinne got the boot - super surprised by the blindside. And I will miss her snarky comments, but I loved the play. Brilliant.
Now Malcolm's going to have to wiggle himself out of the boys' alliance and get back on board with Stealth. No one knows he has an idol now that Corinne's gone, so he'll still be ok for a while I think. If I'm Ednold, I'm a bit worried... again. And Sherri could find herself in an interesting position now... does she switch over & help the other guys like her old bud Michael? Or does she try to stay tight with Stealth and get herself a name? The eyeliner queen? The Blindsider? Maybe.
The best thing about the food challenge, aside from the fact that it's just fun "Fear Factor" style TV, is that it levels the playing field. Anyone can win. It's truly mind over matter to get those live, wiggly bugs into your mouth and eat them up without barfing. I'm not sure I could do it. It's the wiggling for me. Anyway, in true Survivor fashion, the underdog won the day. Cochran went up against Malcolm and took home immunity for the first time. He danced around like he was Muhammed Ali and no one really minded 'cause he deserved it. That stuff was gross. I loved when Eddie said that he didn't want to eat that stuff because girls would find it gross & then Cochran said no, for him, if he could eat all that stuff girls might actually find it more manly. Yes. He was the man indeed. The worst part of the food challenge for the folks who lost must have been having to do it but losing. Why did I just put bug larvae in my mouth again? *shudder* They also got to eat some sorta brain cake and the ol' unhatched baby chicken... beak, feet and all. Yum!
OH! Haha - and another important thing happened. The Merge! I was so excited by the food challenge I forgot to tell you about the merge. Oh well. That's it really.
Here's where the merge did get interesting. Having to vote someone out. Malcolm & Corinne had their six: them, plus Ednold, Erik & The Gay. (Oh come on, you know that's his name now). They plot to take out Sherri first, then Philip later. Seems like an ok plan, right? Corinne unwittingly became the author of her own fate (Baby would be proud) when she told sweet, mom-like Dawn about it. Dawn thought about it for a sec & then remembered how things went down last time she got voted out. She decided to make things happen for herself (I LOVE the new Dawn...) and she went back and told smarty pants Cochran about it. If this Sherri plan were to go through (and it probably would have had these not been seasoned players) then all of a sudden Stealth R Us would be on the wrong side of the numbers. So the obvious play is to vote off Corinne... she's the brains of the operation, it breaks up her & Michael, and Philip will be immediately on board with it. They did manage to get the extra vote, though, and I'm not sure who flipped. I think it was Erik, as he wasn't exactly solid on the other Malcolm alliance anyway. So yes, Corinne got the boot - super surprised by the blindside. And I will miss her snarky comments, but I loved the play. Brilliant.
Now Malcolm's going to have to wiggle himself out of the boys' alliance and get back on board with Stealth. No one knows he has an idol now that Corinne's gone, so he'll still be ok for a while I think. If I'm Ednold, I'm a bit worried... again. And Sherri could find herself in an interesting position now... does she switch over & help the other guys like her old bud Michael? Or does she try to stay tight with Stealth and get herself a name? The eyeliner queen? The Blindsider? Maybe.
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