Post by BCandScott on Mar 10, 2006 22:56:43 GMT -5
Highlights from last week let us all relive the fun that was Lake Casaya, Cirie standing in the water still makes me smile. We see flip flopping as they decide to vote off Bobby. Note: Shane wants to vote Bobby off, but Aras convinces him and the others that Bruce must go. Then, the women get together and decide it must be Bobby. REMEMBER: Shane started out wanting Bobby to go. So, the women actually returned to Shane's original pick for banishment.
The commercial break makes me want to ask everyone...is it just me, or does everyone hate that icky Nasonex bee. It has teeth. Bees don't have teeth. And I hate the accent. Sorry, but I needed to get that off my chest.
Eleven are left and the game continues to twist and turn. It's nighttime at Casaya, tribal council is over and Bobby is gone. The tribe is trying to sleep. Suddenly Shane announces, "We made the wrong decision tonight.....Danielle.....and we made that decision because of your personal feelings. Period. And it's a bad bad bad thing. Bruce is falling apart. It's not his fault, but he's 58 and nervous."
Danielle tells him to shut up.
Shane continues, "I know Bruce is in here. I'm not worried about it. Listen, what do I have to worry about anybody."
Danielle tells him she is not willing to discuss this now. They can discuss it tomorrow. Shane says he wants out of their alliance, but that they must give him back his son's name. He says that he can't trust the alliance to make good decisions because they are too young to think things through and make decisions based on personal feelings.
Danielle responds by telling Shane she is tired of him bashing her and having these little manic crazy spells where he makes them all miserable. She says she is sleeping and she doesn't want to deal with it. Shane says "Oh, you're such a victim, Danielle." Danielle says, "I know."
The next morning Cirie fills Courtney in on what was said in the shelter last night. Apparently Courtney was sleeping on the beach. Cirie explains that Shane wants out of the alliance. Courtney says she wants Shane out of the game. Cirie is getting a big kick out of the antagonism between the "alliance" members. Danielle joins them and the three women pretty much agree that Shane needs to do. Courtney says they should keep it on the down low so when it happens, it's quick and deadly, like a guillotine.
At La Mina, Dan watches the sun come up and says it's another beautiful day in paradise. He says he has been within 200 miles of that spot many times, but straight up. The tribe munches on the left over beans. Sally laments that the guys are forming a "boy's club" and that they need to realize it might not go just like they think it will. Austin laments their lack of food and says that the whole game could turn around if they just had some food. At this point, they are catching minnows in tide pools and eating them for protein. They are salty and apparently not very tasty. Austin says they certainly aren't Chicken Nuggets.
Nick and Dan are out on the raft trying to fish, I suppose. Dan decides to share his secret with Nick and tells him that he flew on three shuttle missions. Nick is bowled over that he is living with an astronaut. He says he never thought he'd ever even meet an astronaut. He adds that Dan is very humble about it and that he's just a great guy. Nick says he needs to come up with something and Austin agrees saying, "yeah, man, we got nothin'." Sally watches this male bonding and frets. Dan says people always told him he could never be an astronaut, but it happened for him. Austin laughs and says it's time for him to come clean, his real name is "John Grisham".
Back at Casaya, Courtney and Danielle are tending the fire, Bruce is out at the rock garden, and Shane is sitting on a log running his hands through his hair and looking frazzled. Shane approaches the girls and says "usually, in a normal alliance, I could just say I want out and that would be it, but this is different because I swore on my kid's life. They ask him why he is so upset and he says he just needs them to let him out of the alliance because he says he can't get along with them and they make bad decisions. He has apparently forgotten that HIS original decision was to get rid of Bobby.
Danielle and Courtney says they are tired of him lashing out at them. Cirie just smiles. Courtney says that Shane was horribly disrespectful to them the other day and that he is mean to them. He says they are the only ones that have a problem with him.
Aras is more than willing to dissolve the alliance with Shane because he is rude and mean and treats people badly showing no respect. Oops, I guess Aras also has a problem with you, Shane. Aras says that the alliance is a paper tiger with no power. He tells Shane privately that he has no problem with him wanting out of the alliance but that the way he did it was bad and that he has pretty much sealed his own fate. Shane runs his hands through his hair some more.
He's looking really crazy with long thick black hair that's stiff from the salt water and it stands up all over his head like Helena Bonham Carter's hairstyle at the oscars which someone said looked like she was wearing a live possum. I think Shane's hair critter may be a live badger which could account for his wild moods. I remember in Survivor Amazon there was a guy they all thought acted crazy because he sat around sharpening the machete all the time. I'm hoping they are keeping the camp machete away from Shane because he seems to be fraying at the edges.
Tree mail at La Mina is a wooden tile shaped like a skull with the following written on it:
WITH STRENGTH AND SMARTS TODAY WE'LL SEE
HOW HARD YOU'LL COMPETE FOR IMMUNITY
THE WINNERS GET AWAY
FOR A TREAT YOU'LL DIG.
TODAY THE STAKES ARE HIGH
AND THE REWARD IS BIG!
Thus, they now know they have both immunity and reward in a combined challenge. La Mina vows to win today because they need to even up the tribe numbers to go into the merge. If they win, it will be 5 to 5. They compare it to the 7th game of the World Series.
Three tribe members must run along an intersecting path to collect 4 puzzle pieces, skull shaped flat tiles. The remaining two tribe members must wait until all four pieces are collected and then fit them into their appropriate spots on a big "revolving" puzzle. The tricky part is that there are 9 shaped disks on the puzzle grid that turn. They must be turned the correct way for the skull shaped tiles to fit into the four spaces created in between the turning disks.
Thus: Using an 0 as the shaped piece that turns (it's not round, but jagged but the O works as a symbol) and X as the skull shaped puzzle piece:
becomes:
The first tribe to complete the puzzle, wins. That tribe wins immunity, a reward barbecue at a Panamanian village where they will give toys to the children, and eat chicken, beef and other barbecue items and have beer, wine and soft drinks. They will also choose a person to go to Exile Island. This time, however, exile island isn't so bad....because the person who is at Exile Island will not be at tribal council and therefore cannot be voted out.
Casaya is sending Shane, Danielle and Aras to get the puzzle pieces and then Bruce and Cirie must solve the puzzle. Courtney will sit out. La Mina chooses to send Terry, Nick and Austin to retrieve pieces while Dan and Sally solve the puzzle. Terry and Shane start on the paths and collide at the first intersection. They have to untie the puzzle pieces that are suspended by rope.
Once you untie the knots, the piece is lowered to within arm's reach and can be unhooked and hauled back to the starting line. The pieces are obviously very heavy. Terry is back to the start with the first piece for La Mina while Shane is still untying knots, using even his teeth. Austin in on the course for La Mina.
Aras is next out for Casaya. Austin is back with his piece already, one piece ahead of Casaya. Aras makes up a little time, but not much. Nick is back with his piece while Danielle chews on the knots on her piece. Terry it back out for the final La Mina piece. Danielle gets back with the third Casaya piece as Terry brings back the final piece for La Mina. Dan and Sally start trying to solve the puzzle. Shane is still out trying to untie the last piece for Casaya.
I have to pause here to mention that Dan is a very smart man. Seriously, he is brilliant. He holds a number of doctorates, patents, has flown in space, is an engineer and on and on. Sally isn't stupid either. Now looking at the puzzle as a bystander, I realize that I'm not under the pressure that these people are, but they KNOW they are putting the four identical skull shaped pieces into this thing and they know how they are supposed to face. If they look at the shape of the puzzle piece and turn the rotating pieces so that a curved side matches the round part of the skull, as an example, and then the curved side on the next piece over to match the other side of the skull, mindful only that another curved side is necessary on the other side of the puzzle in order to fit the northeast corner piece in there, well, this puzzle is extremely SIMPLE. Just needed to mention that because what happens next just flat out makes no sense.
La Mina has a full one piece lead on Casaya. They can even dawdle on the puzzle and still win. What they cannot do is panic and look at one another blankly. The pattern of this thing should be so obvious, and yes, Bruce and Cirie seem to get it very quickly. Dan and Sally, start looking at what Casaya has done in order to copy from them. Casaya walks away with this. Cirie and Bruce finish the puzzle easily while La Mina resorts to working the puzzle like Eva Gabor worked jigsaws on Green Acres...by pounding on them trying to make them go into a spot where they
really don't fit at all. Casaya has immunity AND reward.
Casaya now gets to send someone to Exile Island making them safe. They choose to send Sally. This is important because Sally was a sure goner at this point without this little gift from Casaya. The alliance of four, Terry, Dan, Nick and Austin, the boy's club as it were, must be broken and one of them must leave the game.
Sally is rejoicing in her exile. She knows that without Casaya sending her to the island saved her from being voted out. She receives another clue to the immunity idol which we know has already been claimed by Terry. She spends some time looking but says she is thinking of this as a little vacation or girl time. She naps on top of the big wooden skull.
The Panamanian village is full of cute little kids. Casaya arrives to pass out toys. There is a huge barbecue feast. They stuff themselves. Shane (who does not drink alcohol at all) enjoys a big orange soda. Everyone is thrilled with the food and to be around other people. Cirie says that seeing the kids made her day because they remind her of her family. She says this was much needed.
A villager comes over to offer Shane a beer, but Shane doesn't want the beer. He does want something that the villager has, however. The villager is smoking a cigarette. Shane says he would have given him his shirt, his shoes, even his underwear for just one cigarette. It's been 15 days since Shane has had a cigarette. That's probably smoking hit him like a ton of bricks. He says it was probably a really bad decision. He is stunned at how he feels. He says it shows him how truly devastating nicotine is in the body.
Cirie says this was all a double edged sword for her because now Shane is trying to be all friendly with Danielle. Cirie says that they are all lovey dovey again and she's afraid that Danielle and Courtney will be fooled by Shane's apologetic behavior. She says she almost wanted to lose this challenge because she felt Shane would have gone next, and then probably Bruce and that she would be safe for a while. If the alliance heals, she might be back on the hot spot.
Bruce entertains the village with a martial arts demo. The looks on the little kids faces is priceless....sort of a "what the hell is that crazy man doing?" kind of look. The tribe ends up dancing with the villagers and everyone is, as Cirie puts it "in love again....d**n." Shane says it's one of the top five experiences of his life. They had a great day.
Back at La Mina camp, things aren't so happy. Dan is going on and on about how they KNEW where the first piece went but they laid it down and it wouldn't go in. He feels terrible about it.
Austin and Terry are out swimming alone and Austin says, "how do you LOSE something like that when you have a NASA engineer on your team?" Hmm, Austin, if you wanted to put that puzzle into orbit, he might have been able to do that for you, but solving it was another matter. Austin tells Terry that this is a young person's game right now and that physically Dan is the weakest and that Nick and Austin can take Terry further in the game.
Dan is still rehashing the whole thing with the puzzle and predicts that the vote will probably be 2 vs 2 because Terry and Dan will vote together and the two younger men will vote together. Terry is quickly making a managerial decision with the younger men that Dan will be the one to go. Terry says he feels bad about this. Dan continues beating himself up over losing the challenge and says point blank that he messed up and understands he should go. He says it's his fault and he must take responsibility for it and as much as he wants to stay, he realizes that makes the
most sense for the others.
This tribal council was hyped as "like you've never seen before!" Well, I guess that has to do with them all saying that if Sally was there, they would vote her off but since she's not here, they are voting Dan off. They think Casaya knew that they would be ready to send Sally off and they wanted to get one of the guys off so they sent Sally to Exile Island specifically to target one of them. They say they are very tight as a tribe.
Jeff says he can't tell by their faces who is going. Dan raises his hand and says "It's me." He tells Jeff that two people blew the challenge today and one of them is not there and the other one is sitting right there and therefore he's going home. Dan says he would be lying if he didn't wish the vote would be 2 vs 2, but that he knows that isn't going to happen.
Jeff asks Austin if it was obvious that one of them was ready to go, was holding the tribe back. Austin responds that he would NEVER use those words to describe Dan. There is nothing about him that needs to go, they are just in a position where someone MUST go and Dan is the weakest at this point. Dan tells Jeff that they will miss him in water challenges and that he did a lot around camp. He says he wishes it could be 2 vs 2 with some sort of challenge determining who would go but that he knows that won't be the case.
They vote. Dan votes for Austin. The others all vote for Dan. He leaves with complete dignity, taking it like a man and without rancor. It's kind of sad to me that Survivor thinks that a departure that isn't rife with bad feelings and sour grapes is one "like you've never seen before!"
Previews for next week (on a special night...WEDNESDAY) show Cirie eating snake with a little squeal of horror, and we are told we will find out more about the personal lives of the contestants and see new scenes that will "shock" and "amaze" us. Well, I'm taking that with a grain of salt.
Then two weeks later (apparently the next week there's no show) we are told the rewards are getting bigger...and we see a big helicopter...and the risks become greater...and then we see a bunch of guys cutting ropes with machetes and Shane saying "I'm turning the whole game." Why do I think Shane has delusions of grandeur? Then we see a boat racing through the water and a voice says "we have a medical emergency." The announcer tells us that one castaway could be forced from the game. We have to wait 3 weeks for this episode wondering whether someone let Shane play with the machete or someone got bit by a snake or what. Tune in next week to see Shane turn the whole game....snort.
The commercial break makes me want to ask everyone...is it just me, or does everyone hate that icky Nasonex bee. It has teeth. Bees don't have teeth. And I hate the accent. Sorry, but I needed to get that off my chest.
Eleven are left and the game continues to twist and turn. It's nighttime at Casaya, tribal council is over and Bobby is gone. The tribe is trying to sleep. Suddenly Shane announces, "We made the wrong decision tonight.....Danielle.....and we made that decision because of your personal feelings. Period. And it's a bad bad bad thing. Bruce is falling apart. It's not his fault, but he's 58 and nervous."
Danielle tells him to shut up.
Shane continues, "I know Bruce is in here. I'm not worried about it. Listen, what do I have to worry about anybody."
Danielle tells him she is not willing to discuss this now. They can discuss it tomorrow. Shane says he wants out of their alliance, but that they must give him back his son's name. He says that he can't trust the alliance to make good decisions because they are too young to think things through and make decisions based on personal feelings.
Danielle responds by telling Shane she is tired of him bashing her and having these little manic crazy spells where he makes them all miserable. She says she is sleeping and she doesn't want to deal with it. Shane says "Oh, you're such a victim, Danielle." Danielle says, "I know."
The next morning Cirie fills Courtney in on what was said in the shelter last night. Apparently Courtney was sleeping on the beach. Cirie explains that Shane wants out of the alliance. Courtney says she wants Shane out of the game. Cirie is getting a big kick out of the antagonism between the "alliance" members. Danielle joins them and the three women pretty much agree that Shane needs to do. Courtney says they should keep it on the down low so when it happens, it's quick and deadly, like a guillotine.
At La Mina, Dan watches the sun come up and says it's another beautiful day in paradise. He says he has been within 200 miles of that spot many times, but straight up. The tribe munches on the left over beans. Sally laments that the guys are forming a "boy's club" and that they need to realize it might not go just like they think it will. Austin laments their lack of food and says that the whole game could turn around if they just had some food. At this point, they are catching minnows in tide pools and eating them for protein. They are salty and apparently not very tasty. Austin says they certainly aren't Chicken Nuggets.
Nick and Dan are out on the raft trying to fish, I suppose. Dan decides to share his secret with Nick and tells him that he flew on three shuttle missions. Nick is bowled over that he is living with an astronaut. He says he never thought he'd ever even meet an astronaut. He adds that Dan is very humble about it and that he's just a great guy. Nick says he needs to come up with something and Austin agrees saying, "yeah, man, we got nothin'." Sally watches this male bonding and frets. Dan says people always told him he could never be an astronaut, but it happened for him. Austin laughs and says it's time for him to come clean, his real name is "John Grisham".
Back at Casaya, Courtney and Danielle are tending the fire, Bruce is out at the rock garden, and Shane is sitting on a log running his hands through his hair and looking frazzled. Shane approaches the girls and says "usually, in a normal alliance, I could just say I want out and that would be it, but this is different because I swore on my kid's life. They ask him why he is so upset and he says he just needs them to let him out of the alliance because he says he can't get along with them and they make bad decisions. He has apparently forgotten that HIS original decision was to get rid of Bobby.
Danielle and Courtney says they are tired of him lashing out at them. Cirie just smiles. Courtney says that Shane was horribly disrespectful to them the other day and that he is mean to them. He says they are the only ones that have a problem with him.
Aras is more than willing to dissolve the alliance with Shane because he is rude and mean and treats people badly showing no respect. Oops, I guess Aras also has a problem with you, Shane. Aras says that the alliance is a paper tiger with no power. He tells Shane privately that he has no problem with him wanting out of the alliance but that the way he did it was bad and that he has pretty much sealed his own fate. Shane runs his hands through his hair some more.
He's looking really crazy with long thick black hair that's stiff from the salt water and it stands up all over his head like Helena Bonham Carter's hairstyle at the oscars which someone said looked like she was wearing a live possum. I think Shane's hair critter may be a live badger which could account for his wild moods. I remember in Survivor Amazon there was a guy they all thought acted crazy because he sat around sharpening the machete all the time. I'm hoping they are keeping the camp machete away from Shane because he seems to be fraying at the edges.
Tree mail at La Mina is a wooden tile shaped like a skull with the following written on it:
WITH STRENGTH AND SMARTS TODAY WE'LL SEE
HOW HARD YOU'LL COMPETE FOR IMMUNITY
THE WINNERS GET AWAY
FOR A TREAT YOU'LL DIG.
TODAY THE STAKES ARE HIGH
AND THE REWARD IS BIG!
Thus, they now know they have both immunity and reward in a combined challenge. La Mina vows to win today because they need to even up the tribe numbers to go into the merge. If they win, it will be 5 to 5. They compare it to the 7th game of the World Series.
Three tribe members must run along an intersecting path to collect 4 puzzle pieces, skull shaped flat tiles. The remaining two tribe members must wait until all four pieces are collected and then fit them into their appropriate spots on a big "revolving" puzzle. The tricky part is that there are 9 shaped disks on the puzzle grid that turn. They must be turned the correct way for the skull shaped tiles to fit into the four spaces created in between the turning disks.
Thus: Using an 0 as the shaped piece that turns (it's not round, but jagged but the O works as a symbol) and X as the skull shaped puzzle piece:
O O O
O O O
O O O
O O O
O O O
becomes:
O O O
-X-X-
O O O
-X-X-
O O O
-X-X-
O O O
-X-X-
O O O
The first tribe to complete the puzzle, wins. That tribe wins immunity, a reward barbecue at a Panamanian village where they will give toys to the children, and eat chicken, beef and other barbecue items and have beer, wine and soft drinks. They will also choose a person to go to Exile Island. This time, however, exile island isn't so bad....because the person who is at Exile Island will not be at tribal council and therefore cannot be voted out.
Casaya is sending Shane, Danielle and Aras to get the puzzle pieces and then Bruce and Cirie must solve the puzzle. Courtney will sit out. La Mina chooses to send Terry, Nick and Austin to retrieve pieces while Dan and Sally solve the puzzle. Terry and Shane start on the paths and collide at the first intersection. They have to untie the puzzle pieces that are suspended by rope.
Once you untie the knots, the piece is lowered to within arm's reach and can be unhooked and hauled back to the starting line. The pieces are obviously very heavy. Terry is back to the start with the first piece for La Mina while Shane is still untying knots, using even his teeth. Austin in on the course for La Mina.
Aras is next out for Casaya. Austin is back with his piece already, one piece ahead of Casaya. Aras makes up a little time, but not much. Nick is back with his piece while Danielle chews on the knots on her piece. Terry it back out for the final La Mina piece. Danielle gets back with the third Casaya piece as Terry brings back the final piece for La Mina. Dan and Sally start trying to solve the puzzle. Shane is still out trying to untie the last piece for Casaya.
I have to pause here to mention that Dan is a very smart man. Seriously, he is brilliant. He holds a number of doctorates, patents, has flown in space, is an engineer and on and on. Sally isn't stupid either. Now looking at the puzzle as a bystander, I realize that I'm not under the pressure that these people are, but they KNOW they are putting the four identical skull shaped pieces into this thing and they know how they are supposed to face. If they look at the shape of the puzzle piece and turn the rotating pieces so that a curved side matches the round part of the skull, as an example, and then the curved side on the next piece over to match the other side of the skull, mindful only that another curved side is necessary on the other side of the puzzle in order to fit the northeast corner piece in there, well, this puzzle is extremely SIMPLE. Just needed to mention that because what happens next just flat out makes no sense.
La Mina has a full one piece lead on Casaya. They can even dawdle on the puzzle and still win. What they cannot do is panic and look at one another blankly. The pattern of this thing should be so obvious, and yes, Bruce and Cirie seem to get it very quickly. Dan and Sally, start looking at what Casaya has done in order to copy from them. Casaya walks away with this. Cirie and Bruce finish the puzzle easily while La Mina resorts to working the puzzle like Eva Gabor worked jigsaws on Green Acres...by pounding on them trying to make them go into a spot where they
really don't fit at all. Casaya has immunity AND reward.
Casaya now gets to send someone to Exile Island making them safe. They choose to send Sally. This is important because Sally was a sure goner at this point without this little gift from Casaya. The alliance of four, Terry, Dan, Nick and Austin, the boy's club as it were, must be broken and one of them must leave the game.
Sally is rejoicing in her exile. She knows that without Casaya sending her to the island saved her from being voted out. She receives another clue to the immunity idol which we know has already been claimed by Terry. She spends some time looking but says she is thinking of this as a little vacation or girl time. She naps on top of the big wooden skull.
The Panamanian village is full of cute little kids. Casaya arrives to pass out toys. There is a huge barbecue feast. They stuff themselves. Shane (who does not drink alcohol at all) enjoys a big orange soda. Everyone is thrilled with the food and to be around other people. Cirie says that seeing the kids made her day because they remind her of her family. She says this was much needed.
A villager comes over to offer Shane a beer, but Shane doesn't want the beer. He does want something that the villager has, however. The villager is smoking a cigarette. Shane says he would have given him his shirt, his shoes, even his underwear for just one cigarette. It's been 15 days since Shane has had a cigarette. That's probably smoking hit him like a ton of bricks. He says it was probably a really bad decision. He is stunned at how he feels. He says it shows him how truly devastating nicotine is in the body.
Cirie says this was all a double edged sword for her because now Shane is trying to be all friendly with Danielle. Cirie says that they are all lovey dovey again and she's afraid that Danielle and Courtney will be fooled by Shane's apologetic behavior. She says she almost wanted to lose this challenge because she felt Shane would have gone next, and then probably Bruce and that she would be safe for a while. If the alliance heals, she might be back on the hot spot.
Bruce entertains the village with a martial arts demo. The looks on the little kids faces is priceless....sort of a "what the hell is that crazy man doing?" kind of look. The tribe ends up dancing with the villagers and everyone is, as Cirie puts it "in love again....d**n." Shane says it's one of the top five experiences of his life. They had a great day.
Back at La Mina camp, things aren't so happy. Dan is going on and on about how they KNEW where the first piece went but they laid it down and it wouldn't go in. He feels terrible about it.
Austin and Terry are out swimming alone and Austin says, "how do you LOSE something like that when you have a NASA engineer on your team?" Hmm, Austin, if you wanted to put that puzzle into orbit, he might have been able to do that for you, but solving it was another matter. Austin tells Terry that this is a young person's game right now and that physically Dan is the weakest and that Nick and Austin can take Terry further in the game.
Dan is still rehashing the whole thing with the puzzle and predicts that the vote will probably be 2 vs 2 because Terry and Dan will vote together and the two younger men will vote together. Terry is quickly making a managerial decision with the younger men that Dan will be the one to go. Terry says he feels bad about this. Dan continues beating himself up over losing the challenge and says point blank that he messed up and understands he should go. He says it's his fault and he must take responsibility for it and as much as he wants to stay, he realizes that makes the
most sense for the others.
This tribal council was hyped as "like you've never seen before!" Well, I guess that has to do with them all saying that if Sally was there, they would vote her off but since she's not here, they are voting Dan off. They think Casaya knew that they would be ready to send Sally off and they wanted to get one of the guys off so they sent Sally to Exile Island specifically to target one of them. They say they are very tight as a tribe.
Jeff says he can't tell by their faces who is going. Dan raises his hand and says "It's me." He tells Jeff that two people blew the challenge today and one of them is not there and the other one is sitting right there and therefore he's going home. Dan says he would be lying if he didn't wish the vote would be 2 vs 2, but that he knows that isn't going to happen.
Jeff asks Austin if it was obvious that one of them was ready to go, was holding the tribe back. Austin responds that he would NEVER use those words to describe Dan. There is nothing about him that needs to go, they are just in a position where someone MUST go and Dan is the weakest at this point. Dan tells Jeff that they will miss him in water challenges and that he did a lot around camp. He says he wishes it could be 2 vs 2 with some sort of challenge determining who would go but that he knows that won't be the case.
They vote. Dan votes for Austin. The others all vote for Dan. He leaves with complete dignity, taking it like a man and without rancor. It's kind of sad to me that Survivor thinks that a departure that isn't rife with bad feelings and sour grapes is one "like you've never seen before!"
Previews for next week (on a special night...WEDNESDAY) show Cirie eating snake with a little squeal of horror, and we are told we will find out more about the personal lives of the contestants and see new scenes that will "shock" and "amaze" us. Well, I'm taking that with a grain of salt.
Then two weeks later (apparently the next week there's no show) we are told the rewards are getting bigger...and we see a big helicopter...and the risks become greater...and then we see a bunch of guys cutting ropes with machetes and Shane saying "I'm turning the whole game." Why do I think Shane has delusions of grandeur? Then we see a boat racing through the water and a voice says "we have a medical emergency." The announcer tells us that one castaway could be forced from the game. We have to wait 3 weeks for this episode wondering whether someone let Shane play with the machete or someone got bit by a snake or what. Tune in next week to see Shane turn the whole game....snort.
