Episode 3 and the focus is still on a handful of characters: Jeremy, Baseball John, Josh, Baylor, Natalie. We don't get to hear a lot from folks like Dale, or Missy, or Alec. Kelly and Jaclyn are essentially this season's mute blondes that we don't hear anything from at all.
Drew continues his quest to be the most awesome mimbo ever. He gets a big idea in his head that the rains are coming and his tribe should get to work fixing up the roof of their shelter... which actually is a good idea. But then he gives up weaving palm fronds after about a minute and lies down for a nap, while everyone else works. Seems Drew is in for a career in politics? Perhaps. And scenes from next week look like Drew continues on his rampage... cannot wait! I hope he stays around for a while, just for the comedy factor.
The other best part of the night was that Keith had to go to Exile after Wes beat him in a challenge. After the loss, Keith got all emotional and said how proud he was of Wes, causing Wes to then tear up when Jeff asked him if this kind of emotion was normal back home. Nope. Such good TV, right? That's why this Blood vs. Water thing works. Then, Wes sent Josh to Exile with his dad because, "I click with Josh, so I think my dad will too." And they did. Duck Dynasty and the gay Broadway performer got along great, though Keith noted, "There won't be any spooning going on tonight." Ha! Again - why Survivor is great, right? Two people, so different, but finding common ground.
The big story, though, was that huge drama happened around Baseball John. Baseball John has trouble finding common ground with anyone. First, he pissed off Jeremy (as predicted) when Jeremy found out about Val getting voted off. John hadn't bothered telling anyone on his team about his deal with Jeremy, but then goes ahead and announces it in front of everyone at the reward challenge. That kind of stuff doesn't sit very well with your teammates. On the blue team, Jeremy went ahead and told everyone about John's past indiscretions. The racist stuff especially got to Natalie. Poor Julie, who you can't help feeling a bit sorry for - just left and went off and cried by herself. Now, I haven't heard Julie actually defending her boyfriend to her teammates. That's the weird thing. Remember when everyone hated Brad Colpepper and his wife Monica was taking heat for what her hubby was up to? Monica stood up for Brad and told her teammates that he's just playing the game - here's what he's really like... I wonder if Julie's doing any of this and we're just not seeing it? Or is she not bothering to defend him because she knows he's kind of, well... a dick? Discuss. I felt a little less sorry for her when she said something about how surprised she was that Survivor was this difficult and that she didn't think her bf would get her in so much trouble! Seriously?
At the immunity challenge, things got heated right up. The blue tribe won (again) and Natalie started beaking off at the orange team that they should vote off John because he's a horrible racist. The team stands up for John and tells John to just ignore her. Instead, he opens his mouth. Says that if Natalie was a man, he'd knock her (his?) teeth out. Then says, clear everything away and let's fight! Seriously. John Rocker has anger issues. Possibly women issues. Violence issues? Check. I'm not saying Natalie was particularly awesome for opening her mouth either, but she would have ended up looking like the crazy one if he would have just not taken the bait. But, he did. And you have to wonder how he deals with people in real life if he loses his temper at a girl that quickly on national TV. What happens when Julie pisses him off? If I'm Julie, I'm getting a bit concerned. Hopfully Julie is getting a bit concerned. Right?
So John's plan is to tell the girls to vote for Dale, but then vote for Baylor with the all-dude alliance. Everyone goes along and John thinks his plan is solid. Josh, however, decides that John is too much of a wild card, given his secret plans with Val/Jeremy, and together with Baylor, Jaclyn, Wes and I think Alec vote off John instead. They kept it so hush-hush that John did not even consider playing his immunity idol. Jaclyn almost blew it by saying that she thought that different plans were going down (she speaks!) but why would he believe a girl? Pffft. Oddly, no one thought to tell Dale, which makes me wonder why the dudes think they can't trust him? Dale should be worried and should hope he makes it to the merge.
In other news, here's a fun article from 2008 that I have only just stumbled across about the behind-the-scenes stuff that goes on filming the show. It's pretty interesting - you likely know lots of it already, but it's a fun read:
http://www.today.com/id/26726792/ns/today-today_entertainment/t/last-secrets-survivor-revealed/
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