Post by babybear on Nov 8, 2005 9:07:43 GMT -5
Survivor Guatemala
Episode 8
As Survivor always does, this episode began with a recap of last week's episodes culminating in Amy being sent home and the two tribes merging into one at the end of tribal council. This time, the tribe at the council was told to just go on over to the other camp, pass out the new buffs and settle in. This sort of reminds me of one of those National Lamthingy "Vacation" movies where Cousin Eddy shows up with his family to hang out with the Griswald's. Yaxha approached the Nakum campsite with trepidation, and Nakum greeted them about as warmly as a glacier. I liked Gary's quarterbacking though as he told the Yaxha, "Just go in there and act stupid for a little while."
Bobby Jon evidently has some sort of Stephanie phobia. He lets us know that he can't be around her for more than five minutes without wanting to "vomit" and he can't be around Jamie for long without wanting to punch him out. Oh, this is going to be a fun merge, I can just tell. Nakum isn't any more pleasant. Within minutes of the arrival of their new tribemates, Jamie is informing them that there isn't enough room in the shelter for any more people so he hopes they don't mind sleeping outside...and he chuckles.
Howler monkeys YAWN! Plus they have fangs.
The next morning Yaxha starts gathering wood, grinding corn. Nakum watches them. This tribe may have merged in name, but they are definitely two tribes, 4 old Yaxha's and 6 Nakums. They get paint and stuff to make a new flag. They have to come up with a new name. They also learn there is a hidden immunity idol in the jungle. It's about 6 inches tall and it will be in addition to the individual immunity earned in challenges. Everyone starts looking. I particularly liked the part where Cindy (I think) reaches up into a hole in the side of one of the pyramids and feels around. I flashed back to the scene the night before where a snake was slithering down the steps of that pyramid. Hmm, I thought to myself, would I put my hand in a hole up above my head that I can't look into in snake country?
Uh, no. I would not. Survivor cleverly shows us the little idol tucked into a crevice in a tree.
Bobby Jon and Stephanie meet and talk and NEWSFLASH: Bobby Jon does NOT vomit. He does however beg her to help him make it to the jury. He seems to know that his little tribe group of 4 is doomed and Stephanie pretty much confirms this by telling him that unless Brandon wins immunity, she will do her best to keep him around another week so they can be on the jury together. I don't think Bobby Jon even gagged. Hmmm.
XHAKUM is the new tribe name. Lydia is way too happy about the name and flag. I got to give that gal credit....who would have thought the old woman who needed hip replacements would be around this long. Judd has given up looking for the hidden idol. It's making him crazy, he reports. Uh, Judd, you were made crazy when Survivor was just a gleam in your eye. Rafe proves my theory about sticking one's hand in a hole you can't see into when he slams his hand into a hornet's nest and dances and flails about as he runs from the furious little buzzers.
The division between the two groups becomes more severe as they begin to realize that the customary survivor feast that usually accompanies a merge hasn't materialized. Everyone is hungry. Nakum seems to be complaining constantly about the boredom, the hunger, etc. Finally, just to get away the old Yaxha's go fishing which Jamie declares is a "slap in the face." Apparently telling them there's no room for them, and laughing about them sleeping outside was friendly in Jamie's mind, but daring to go off to fish (which might garner some food) is an insult because they obviously don't like the Nakumians they left behind or something. Jamie is flat out, one of the worst Survivor players ever. While winning challenges and getting rewards and immunity and keeping the numbers in one's favor is the thing with Survivor, the way one actually achieves the final two and is voted the winner involves diplomacy. From last week where he went to swim with the others and was churlish the entire time because "they are the enemy" and he didn't think they should mingle (passing up a great information gathering opportunity) to this week's nasty attitude, he has made himself likely to get to the final two only as the person everyone knows they can beat. He keeps saying it's about business, but I can't imagine him having a successful business unless it is in one of those Monty Python departments, Arguments and Insults.
Rafe is beginning to feel bad about the way the Nakumians are treating the Yaxhas. He admits they are treating them like slaves. He actually says, "I kind of had this really sad realization...am I a member of the axis of evil." Rafe is seriously uncomfortable with all the bashing going on. They plan to vote them out in the following order: Brandon, Bobby Jon, Danni.
The swimming pool is moved to the Yhakum camp, but is moored out in the middle of the lake because their beach is mostly like quicksand and it couldn't be anchored there.
There is sort of a backhanded reward/immunity combo competition in one of the more cruel Survivor twists. They report to Jeff on the merge and Jamie, pretty proud of himself, told Jeff about his "sleep outside" comment. He's extremely smug. Jeff explains that part of the tradition of merging is the merge feast. However, the twist is that you must choose to eat OR compete for immunity. As Johnny Cochran would probably say, If you eat, you don't compete.
The following choose to compete: Gary, Bobby Jon, Judd, Cindy, Brandon, Danni
The following choose to eat: Rafe, Jamie, Stephanie, Lydia
The challenge is to stand on a little block of wood with a clay pot balanced on your head. Last person standing wins. If after 1 hour, there is a tie breaker of racing up the pyramid with your pot, and the first to reach the top or the one to get farthest, wins.
The eaters have to eat in full view of the competitors. Jeff asks them if they expected there to be 4 people eating and not competing and Jamie explains that Bobby Jon and Brandon know one of them is going home tonight and that Judd is competing just looking out for his tribe. Bobby Jons says he thought they were one tribe and Jamie says he knows better. Jamie is really being mouthy while he stuffs his face. Now one thing about this, I don't care that Jamie chose to eat. He felt secure, so he didn't care to compete. He didn't have to rub everyone's nose in it. Plus, he more or less just blurts out all the plans that his "tribe" have made. I would not want this guy around me, because he cannot be trusted not to tell everything in one of these testosterone rants he does.
Throughout the standing portion of this thing Jamie continues to taunt Bobby Jon. Jeff even asks him if he's deliberately trying to rub it in. Rafe and Stephanie are obviously uncomfortable with their alliance mate and his behavior. But will it be enough to vote out one of their own and keep the Yaxhas around another week?
Danni is the only one to lose her pot. The hour ends and they go racing up the pyramid. Gary and Brandon run neck and neck, but the winner is Gary. Perhaps Gary has decided to "come out" a bit and start showing some athletic ability, the ability he has kept under wraps through the first part of the game. Brandon has only two avenues of hope, the hidden idol, and the obnoxious behavior of Jamie.
Everyone is pretty much disgusted with Jamie, and for a while it looks like there's hope, but apparently, they are all afraid to break the trend, so they to tribal and Brandon is sent home. Of course Bobby Jon and Jamie exchange more words at tribal council where Bobby Jon tells Jeff that Jamie "has no class." It's a real shame that Brandon couldn't turn this around, because Brandon's interview on The Early Show and his appearance on Survivor Live proves him to be a super nice guy who just really liked playing the game and a man with integrity. He said that at one point Jamie tried to tell Brandon that he would try to get them to vote out Danni instead and Brandon said he told him, don't sacrifice her for me, she's like my sister. Maybe Jamie IS trying to plan for jury votes.....but then, nah...that would require him being smart and I'm not willing to give him that. Brandon thinks that there's some sort of deal between Stephanie and Judd. I think I agree.
One of my dear friends, Sally, asked me last week who I wanted to win. I think if I had known then what I know now, I would have picked Brandon. He has completely won me over in his post eviction interviews. Of the group that is left, I think at this point I might pick Rafe, because he at least realizes he is in an alliance "with the devil" as he puts it.
Next week promises more fireworks between Jamie and Bobby Jon, and apparently it's Judd who actually vomits...IN THE SHELTER...and I don't think Stephanie had anything to do with it. So until then, may we all survive!
written by BCandScott
Episode 8
As Survivor always does, this episode began with a recap of last week's episodes culminating in Amy being sent home and the two tribes merging into one at the end of tribal council. This time, the tribe at the council was told to just go on over to the other camp, pass out the new buffs and settle in. This sort of reminds me of one of those National Lamthingy "Vacation" movies where Cousin Eddy shows up with his family to hang out with the Griswald's. Yaxha approached the Nakum campsite with trepidation, and Nakum greeted them about as warmly as a glacier. I liked Gary's quarterbacking though as he told the Yaxha, "Just go in there and act stupid for a little while."
Bobby Jon evidently has some sort of Stephanie phobia. He lets us know that he can't be around her for more than five minutes without wanting to "vomit" and he can't be around Jamie for long without wanting to punch him out. Oh, this is going to be a fun merge, I can just tell. Nakum isn't any more pleasant. Within minutes of the arrival of their new tribemates, Jamie is informing them that there isn't enough room in the shelter for any more people so he hopes they don't mind sleeping outside...and he chuckles.
Howler monkeys YAWN! Plus they have fangs.
The next morning Yaxha starts gathering wood, grinding corn. Nakum watches them. This tribe may have merged in name, but they are definitely two tribes, 4 old Yaxha's and 6 Nakums. They get paint and stuff to make a new flag. They have to come up with a new name. They also learn there is a hidden immunity idol in the jungle. It's about 6 inches tall and it will be in addition to the individual immunity earned in challenges. Everyone starts looking. I particularly liked the part where Cindy (I think) reaches up into a hole in the side of one of the pyramids and feels around. I flashed back to the scene the night before where a snake was slithering down the steps of that pyramid. Hmm, I thought to myself, would I put my hand in a hole up above my head that I can't look into in snake country?
Uh, no. I would not. Survivor cleverly shows us the little idol tucked into a crevice in a tree. Bobby Jon and Stephanie meet and talk and NEWSFLASH: Bobby Jon does NOT vomit. He does however beg her to help him make it to the jury. He seems to know that his little tribe group of 4 is doomed and Stephanie pretty much confirms this by telling him that unless Brandon wins immunity, she will do her best to keep him around another week so they can be on the jury together. I don't think Bobby Jon even gagged. Hmmm.
XHAKUM is the new tribe name. Lydia is way too happy about the name and flag. I got to give that gal credit....who would have thought the old woman who needed hip replacements would be around this long. Judd has given up looking for the hidden idol. It's making him crazy, he reports. Uh, Judd, you were made crazy when Survivor was just a gleam in your eye. Rafe proves my theory about sticking one's hand in a hole you can't see into when he slams his hand into a hornet's nest and dances and flails about as he runs from the furious little buzzers.
The division between the two groups becomes more severe as they begin to realize that the customary survivor feast that usually accompanies a merge hasn't materialized. Everyone is hungry. Nakum seems to be complaining constantly about the boredom, the hunger, etc. Finally, just to get away the old Yaxha's go fishing which Jamie declares is a "slap in the face." Apparently telling them there's no room for them, and laughing about them sleeping outside was friendly in Jamie's mind, but daring to go off to fish (which might garner some food) is an insult because they obviously don't like the Nakumians they left behind or something. Jamie is flat out, one of the worst Survivor players ever. While winning challenges and getting rewards and immunity and keeping the numbers in one's favor is the thing with Survivor, the way one actually achieves the final two and is voted the winner involves diplomacy. From last week where he went to swim with the others and was churlish the entire time because "they are the enemy" and he didn't think they should mingle (passing up a great information gathering opportunity) to this week's nasty attitude, he has made himself likely to get to the final two only as the person everyone knows they can beat. He keeps saying it's about business, but I can't imagine him having a successful business unless it is in one of those Monty Python departments, Arguments and Insults.
Rafe is beginning to feel bad about the way the Nakumians are treating the Yaxhas. He admits they are treating them like slaves. He actually says, "I kind of had this really sad realization...am I a member of the axis of evil." Rafe is seriously uncomfortable with all the bashing going on. They plan to vote them out in the following order: Brandon, Bobby Jon, Danni.
The swimming pool is moved to the Yhakum camp, but is moored out in the middle of the lake because their beach is mostly like quicksand and it couldn't be anchored there.
There is sort of a backhanded reward/immunity combo competition in one of the more cruel Survivor twists. They report to Jeff on the merge and Jamie, pretty proud of himself, told Jeff about his "sleep outside" comment. He's extremely smug. Jeff explains that part of the tradition of merging is the merge feast. However, the twist is that you must choose to eat OR compete for immunity. As Johnny Cochran would probably say, If you eat, you don't compete.
The following choose to compete: Gary, Bobby Jon, Judd, Cindy, Brandon, Danni
The following choose to eat: Rafe, Jamie, Stephanie, Lydia
The challenge is to stand on a little block of wood with a clay pot balanced on your head. Last person standing wins. If after 1 hour, there is a tie breaker of racing up the pyramid with your pot, and the first to reach the top or the one to get farthest, wins.
The eaters have to eat in full view of the competitors. Jeff asks them if they expected there to be 4 people eating and not competing and Jamie explains that Bobby Jon and Brandon know one of them is going home tonight and that Judd is competing just looking out for his tribe. Bobby Jons says he thought they were one tribe and Jamie says he knows better. Jamie is really being mouthy while he stuffs his face. Now one thing about this, I don't care that Jamie chose to eat. He felt secure, so he didn't care to compete. He didn't have to rub everyone's nose in it. Plus, he more or less just blurts out all the plans that his "tribe" have made. I would not want this guy around me, because he cannot be trusted not to tell everything in one of these testosterone rants he does.
Throughout the standing portion of this thing Jamie continues to taunt Bobby Jon. Jeff even asks him if he's deliberately trying to rub it in. Rafe and Stephanie are obviously uncomfortable with their alliance mate and his behavior. But will it be enough to vote out one of their own and keep the Yaxhas around another week?
Danni is the only one to lose her pot. The hour ends and they go racing up the pyramid. Gary and Brandon run neck and neck, but the winner is Gary. Perhaps Gary has decided to "come out" a bit and start showing some athletic ability, the ability he has kept under wraps through the first part of the game. Brandon has only two avenues of hope, the hidden idol, and the obnoxious behavior of Jamie.
Everyone is pretty much disgusted with Jamie, and for a while it looks like there's hope, but apparently, they are all afraid to break the trend, so they to tribal and Brandon is sent home. Of course Bobby Jon and Jamie exchange more words at tribal council where Bobby Jon tells Jeff that Jamie "has no class." It's a real shame that Brandon couldn't turn this around, because Brandon's interview on The Early Show and his appearance on Survivor Live proves him to be a super nice guy who just really liked playing the game and a man with integrity. He said that at one point Jamie tried to tell Brandon that he would try to get them to vote out Danni instead and Brandon said he told him, don't sacrifice her for me, she's like my sister. Maybe Jamie IS trying to plan for jury votes.....but then, nah...that would require him being smart and I'm not willing to give him that. Brandon thinks that there's some sort of deal between Stephanie and Judd. I think I agree.
One of my dear friends, Sally, asked me last week who I wanted to win. I think if I had known then what I know now, I would have picked Brandon. He has completely won me over in his post eviction interviews. Of the group that is left, I think at this point I might pick Rafe, because he at least realizes he is in an alliance "with the devil" as he puts it.
Next week promises more fireworks between Jamie and Bobby Jon, and apparently it's Judd who actually vomits...IN THE SHELTER...and I don't think Stephanie had anything to do with it. So until then, may we all survive!
written by BCandScott