Post by BCandScott on Dec 8, 2005 11:06:01 GMT -5
Episode 11 - Food, Glorious Food.
Return to camp after Jamie's eviction was strained. Judd was totally blindsided and though he keeps saying "I'm fine," he is still confused and stunned. Stephanie says they didn't tell him because they didn't want to put him in the position of keeping it from his friend, Jamie. Gary passes out hugs to everyone, grateful to have survived another tribal council.
Gary and Lydia are the early risers. Amid doing various camp chores, Gary takes this early morning opportunity to broach the subject of "who is next" with Lydia. Unfortunately, Judd overhears Gary working Lydia. Judd immediately passes that on to Stephanie. They determine that Gary needs to go. Judd feels that Gary, on their reward trip, was saying that Lydia and Cindy needed to go because they weren't the strongest and he wanted the strongest in final four. Now he's approaching Lydia. Judd says this is a "lie".
Reward challenge is one of those "bust the other guys pots" things. Everyone has three pots with their name on it. Questions are asked and correct answers give you the right to smash a pot. Last person with a pot still hanging wins a reward trip to a natural wonder in Guatemala, a hot springs waterfall cascading down into a pool of cool water that creates a spa like environment....also food...and a massage. Stephanie doesn't know what sanskrit is...heh...and misses the first question. Lydia immediately whacks one of Stephanie's pots. Steph isn't pleased. Steph also thinks it's ok to look at the other people's answers. On a true false question, she leans over, looks at what everyone else has said and changes her answer....to the wrong one. She is then the first eliminated and she is NOT pleased at all. Lydia says, "I am HUNGRY and want to win." She explains she hasn't eaten and Steph has. Steph is smiling, but you can almost hear her gritting her teeth.
Judd is not also leaning over to check everyone's answers...and gets one wrong as a result. These people don't cheat good. In school, if you were going to look at someone else's paper during a test, you looked at the SMART kid's paper.
Everytime they show one of Lydia's pots getting smashed, we see Stephanie grinning grinning grinning. Then it's down to Rafe and Cindy. Cindy gets a true/false question right and Steph goes "wow" as if she's amazed that Cindy was right about something. The last question was about when crocodiles were most active and Cindy... gets that one right as well, saying it's false they are most active in the morning. As a zookeeper, I'd expect her to know that one...and apparently so does Steph since she doesn't go "holy crap" or "Oh my God" or "wow". And with that Cindy wins the reward and Jeff tells her she can pick a companion. She chooses Rafe.
Stepanie lays down the law back at camp. She says that the challenge shows her where loyalties lie. She pitches a virtual hissy fit saying that everyone has had some food reward and that from now on they need to consider them equal and she wants to hear no more about it. She apparently is able to get away with this. Judd backs her up with "everything is personal," in response to Lydia saying it was not personal, she was just hungry.
Cindy and Rafe seem to really enjoy the reward. Loads of food and fruit and chicken skewers with veggies. They love the hot waterfall. Rafe enjoys the opportunity to bond with Cindy, saying he's a touchy feely person and Cindy really is not. During this reward they swam together and he helped her up to sun on a rock and he enjoyed that human contact. I really like Rafe, and maybe this is why...he's able to look at something as not just a reward, but an opportunity to get some of the human warmth he needs to stay strong.
When the two reward winners return to camp, everyone asks them about the food. They discussed the food. Lydia sits and eats something from a cup and fumes saying it was insulting to listen to them talk about how great the food was. This did not go unnoticed. Everyone is beginning to see her whining and pouting as a big problem. Her private chats with the camera are really venomous. She really needs to learn to suck it up and be more congratulatory with the winners of the challenges. She doesn't wield the kind of power Stephanie does and can't stand up and lay down the law to her tribemates and declare the subject closed.
Cindy, Judd, Steph and Rafe sit, a foursome, on the pyramid having morning coffee. Gary and Danni note this...that they are looking at the planned final four. Gary and Danni think Lydia would turn for them because of feeling like an outsider....and they decide to talk to Rafe to try and get a fourth person on their side.
The immunity challenge is the story and stations challenge. Jeff tells a Mayan story, there are 7 stations....they have to go to the station, solve a puzzle that gives them a question, answer that question and open the box that corresponds to the answer. If they are right, they will get a flag that they come and hang on a flag rack back at the start. If they are wrong, they get a stick they must run back to the start and burn in a fire. I like the way survivor makes them read the questions aloud and answer them aloud. This challenge is all about listening to the story carefully and retaining that story under pressure. Plus, you have to compete for a chance at a station....if you end up having to wait for someone else to finish at a station (which is a lot like a rustic voting booth) it costs you precious time. Judd gets sticks a lot. gary is breezing through getting all the questions right. It ends up Gary and Rafe, neck and neck. Gary has to wait for a station and Rafe wins immunity, AGAIN. Rafe, the gay mormon, is just killer on these immunity challenges...GO RAFE! He says when he was little, he never saw someone who acted gay who was also athletic and good at competitions like this. Hah, I think maybe Rafe just wants to accessorize and what better than that immunity necklace. I'm definitely finding myself in Rafe's corner.
Everyone is worried about tribal council. Gary suspects he is going because he's a threat in challenges. He goes to Rafe and reminds him that he and Rafe and Steph were tight in the first Yaxha. He tells Rafe that Danni is strong and trustworthy. Rafe admits he doesn't trust Judd. Gary sees this as an opening. Judd says that Gary is running around like a "d**n lunatic" trying to get anybody on his side. Well, duh, Judd...see there there is this GAME, it's called SURVIVOR, and you try to not get voted out...maybe you've heard of it.
At tribal, Jeff hones in on the food issues. Lydia says that Steph wins and Steph is also very well liked and gets chosen to go along by winners. Lydia says Steph is running the show. Gary says he likes Steph but that some people are star struck seem to put her on a pedestal...it's not her fault, but "they are all invited to get her autograph after the show." This makes Steph roll her eyes big time and the jury (Bobby Jon and Jamie) literally crack up.
Jeff asks about ethics and are they happy with how they played and Judd decides to make a little speech about lying and how he hasn't lied about anything. Judd adds that he thinks he needs to start lying, now. He says he's a bad liar, but he really needs to lie. He points out that Gary "lied" about thinking the four strongest should go to the final four and then trying to align with Lydia. Gary says, THAT was playing the game, not a LIE and if you want to hear a lie, how about this...."The idol is on the ground." He explains how after Judd said that the clue was that the idol was on the ground he saw Judd in the jungle looking UP. He says the idol was UP in a tree. Judd obviously lied about that. Jeff says, "Judd you got caught." Judd says, "yeah, I told you I was a bad liar."
Judd isn't kind when he vote, telling Gary to "do me a favor and get the hell out of here."
It was a done deal as of last week, probably. Gary is voted out. The quarterback is sacked.
Return to camp after Jamie's eviction was strained. Judd was totally blindsided and though he keeps saying "I'm fine," he is still confused and stunned. Stephanie says they didn't tell him because they didn't want to put him in the position of keeping it from his friend, Jamie. Gary passes out hugs to everyone, grateful to have survived another tribal council.
Gary and Lydia are the early risers. Amid doing various camp chores, Gary takes this early morning opportunity to broach the subject of "who is next" with Lydia. Unfortunately, Judd overhears Gary working Lydia. Judd immediately passes that on to Stephanie. They determine that Gary needs to go. Judd feels that Gary, on their reward trip, was saying that Lydia and Cindy needed to go because they weren't the strongest and he wanted the strongest in final four. Now he's approaching Lydia. Judd says this is a "lie".
Reward challenge is one of those "bust the other guys pots" things. Everyone has three pots with their name on it. Questions are asked and correct answers give you the right to smash a pot. Last person with a pot still hanging wins a reward trip to a natural wonder in Guatemala, a hot springs waterfall cascading down into a pool of cool water that creates a spa like environment....also food...and a massage. Stephanie doesn't know what sanskrit is...heh...and misses the first question. Lydia immediately whacks one of Stephanie's pots. Steph isn't pleased. Steph also thinks it's ok to look at the other people's answers. On a true false question, she leans over, looks at what everyone else has said and changes her answer....to the wrong one. She is then the first eliminated and she is NOT pleased at all. Lydia says, "I am HUNGRY and want to win." She explains she hasn't eaten and Steph has. Steph is smiling, but you can almost hear her gritting her teeth.
Judd is not also leaning over to check everyone's answers...and gets one wrong as a result. These people don't cheat good. In school, if you were going to look at someone else's paper during a test, you looked at the SMART kid's paper.
Everytime they show one of Lydia's pots getting smashed, we see Stephanie grinning grinning grinning. Then it's down to Rafe and Cindy. Cindy gets a true/false question right and Steph goes "wow" as if she's amazed that Cindy was right about something. The last question was about when crocodiles were most active and Cindy... gets that one right as well, saying it's false they are most active in the morning. As a zookeeper, I'd expect her to know that one...and apparently so does Steph since she doesn't go "holy crap" or "Oh my God" or "wow". And with that Cindy wins the reward and Jeff tells her she can pick a companion. She chooses Rafe.
Stepanie lays down the law back at camp. She says that the challenge shows her where loyalties lie. She pitches a virtual hissy fit saying that everyone has had some food reward and that from now on they need to consider them equal and she wants to hear no more about it. She apparently is able to get away with this. Judd backs her up with "everything is personal," in response to Lydia saying it was not personal, she was just hungry.
Cindy and Rafe seem to really enjoy the reward. Loads of food and fruit and chicken skewers with veggies. They love the hot waterfall. Rafe enjoys the opportunity to bond with Cindy, saying he's a touchy feely person and Cindy really is not. During this reward they swam together and he helped her up to sun on a rock and he enjoyed that human contact. I really like Rafe, and maybe this is why...he's able to look at something as not just a reward, but an opportunity to get some of the human warmth he needs to stay strong.
When the two reward winners return to camp, everyone asks them about the food. They discussed the food. Lydia sits and eats something from a cup and fumes saying it was insulting to listen to them talk about how great the food was. This did not go unnoticed. Everyone is beginning to see her whining and pouting as a big problem. Her private chats with the camera are really venomous. She really needs to learn to suck it up and be more congratulatory with the winners of the challenges. She doesn't wield the kind of power Stephanie does and can't stand up and lay down the law to her tribemates and declare the subject closed.
Cindy, Judd, Steph and Rafe sit, a foursome, on the pyramid having morning coffee. Gary and Danni note this...that they are looking at the planned final four. Gary and Danni think Lydia would turn for them because of feeling like an outsider....and they decide to talk to Rafe to try and get a fourth person on their side.
The immunity challenge is the story and stations challenge. Jeff tells a Mayan story, there are 7 stations....they have to go to the station, solve a puzzle that gives them a question, answer that question and open the box that corresponds to the answer. If they are right, they will get a flag that they come and hang on a flag rack back at the start. If they are wrong, they get a stick they must run back to the start and burn in a fire. I like the way survivor makes them read the questions aloud and answer them aloud. This challenge is all about listening to the story carefully and retaining that story under pressure. Plus, you have to compete for a chance at a station....if you end up having to wait for someone else to finish at a station (which is a lot like a rustic voting booth) it costs you precious time. Judd gets sticks a lot. gary is breezing through getting all the questions right. It ends up Gary and Rafe, neck and neck. Gary has to wait for a station and Rafe wins immunity, AGAIN. Rafe, the gay mormon, is just killer on these immunity challenges...GO RAFE! He says when he was little, he never saw someone who acted gay who was also athletic and good at competitions like this. Hah, I think maybe Rafe just wants to accessorize and what better than that immunity necklace. I'm definitely finding myself in Rafe's corner.
Everyone is worried about tribal council. Gary suspects he is going because he's a threat in challenges. He goes to Rafe and reminds him that he and Rafe and Steph were tight in the first Yaxha. He tells Rafe that Danni is strong and trustworthy. Rafe admits he doesn't trust Judd. Gary sees this as an opening. Judd says that Gary is running around like a "d**n lunatic" trying to get anybody on his side. Well, duh, Judd...see there there is this GAME, it's called SURVIVOR, and you try to not get voted out...maybe you've heard of it.
At tribal, Jeff hones in on the food issues. Lydia says that Steph wins and Steph is also very well liked and gets chosen to go along by winners. Lydia says Steph is running the show. Gary says he likes Steph but that some people are star struck seem to put her on a pedestal...it's not her fault, but "they are all invited to get her autograph after the show." This makes Steph roll her eyes big time and the jury (Bobby Jon and Jamie) literally crack up.
Jeff asks about ethics and are they happy with how they played and Judd decides to make a little speech about lying and how he hasn't lied about anything. Judd adds that he thinks he needs to start lying, now. He says he's a bad liar, but he really needs to lie. He points out that Gary "lied" about thinking the four strongest should go to the final four and then trying to align with Lydia. Gary says, THAT was playing the game, not a LIE and if you want to hear a lie, how about this...."The idol is on the ground." He explains how after Judd said that the clue was that the idol was on the ground he saw Judd in the jungle looking UP. He says the idol was UP in a tree. Judd obviously lied about that. Jeff says, "Judd you got caught." Judd says, "yeah, I told you I was a bad liar."
Judd isn't kind when he vote, telling Gary to "do me a favor and get the hell out of here."
It was a done deal as of last week, probably. Gary is voted out. The quarterback is sacked.
