Post by babybear on Nov 1, 2005 8:36:56 GMT -5
Survivor Guatemala
Episode 7
Judd, Judd, Judd...you don't need to keep talking about Margaret, she's gone. Continuing to talk about it just makes you seem petty and arrogant and...oh wait, you ARE petty and arrogant. Go right ahead Judd. That should really make everyone glad they got rid of the person who was the "most negative" and they may decide to do that again one of these days soon.
This weeks reward challenge was one of those thing where you can really get in a bind. (That was a pun, hehehe.) There's one winder on each tribe, and four windees. The first windee goes up to a poll that has a big strip of cloth wrapped around it and hooks onto the end of the cloth and beginds to run around the pole so the cloth wraps around them. Then when wound up, that person goes to the next pole where a second windee is hooked onto and the two of them wind the cloth off of that pole. This continues through a third and fourth pole. The winder is supposed to help with this process but mainly they just run around and go, come on, you guys, come on, while trying to stay out of the way. An effective winder might have kept them from winding themselves up too close to the pole which would have made moving easier, but well, I wasn't there, and I guess it was just too much stress and heat and whatever.
The prize for winning? A zip line tour of the jungle and a feast of chocolate. Now I like chocolate as well as anyone, maybe more than a lot of people, but I have to admit that in a near starvation situation, a big pile of candy would not be my cup of tea. They could have used that chocolate in a number of ways...to make chili, for example, that would have given these guys more sustenance and less need to barf. I mean think about it...you haven't had much of anything to eat for a while and then you plow into a huge pile of chocolate and drink chocolate milk and eat chocolate covered espresso beans. At least there were some strawberries there, but you know, after a very small amount of chocolate, I would have been barfing like crazy. Let's put it this way, I'm glad they got the chocolate AFTER the zip line tour. The "tour" itself consisted of being set off on a zip line and zooming along to the end where the chocolate was. Mostly there was green. Lots and lots of green.
After the reward, we find out it is Danni's birthday and gosh darn it, the group gets together and said let's have a party. Of course if you have a birthday party, you need guests, so that plucky little Nakum hops in the old canoe and paddles over to Yaxha's campsite and does a survivor version of Red Rover, Red Rover, Hey Tribe, come on over, offering a party at the pool. Yaxha agrees but there's grumbling from Judd and Jamie. They say, that's the enemy, why should be be friendly, etc. I guess it never struck them that in a game where the most valuable thing to have is information about the other tribe that this was an opportunity to learn about people who would eventually be merging with them. On the 1 to 10 brilliance scale...Judd and Jamie get 2 wee candles....in the wind.
At the party Yaxha gets chocolate, YUM, and swimming time, Oooh that's good, and conversation with the others, can't hurt, and they get to watch Bobby Jon let little fish pick at his scabs. A word about the scabs. Apparently, everyone who came in contact with the big balls last week (not Judd, silly, the big game balls) ended up with a scrape wound that scabbed over, ICK. Some delightful footage of Bobby Jon peeling his shirt off where it was stuck to his shoulder, and an inspection of Amy's face and neck really made MY day. Bobby Jon seems to be turning a little feral at this point and was trying to catch the little fishies in his mouth. I'm so creeped out in so many ways by this paragraph, I think I'll stop now and move on to...
The immunity challenge. This was a dig up the big pieces of the puzzle and put it together first challenge. Pretty straight forward actually. I'm surprised that some people seem to think that Gary and perhaps other members of Nakum were actually holding back in order to throw the challenge. The theory is they wanted to get Amy out because of her ankle. I don't find this reasonable for a couple of reasons. 1) Amy with a hurt ankle is still a formidable competitor and won the big ball heats she was in even with that injury and that tribe even won reward that day so why lose a tribe member for nothing? and 2) These people strike me as very competitive and I just don't buy that they are throwing anything at this stage. Nakum, however, does lose and goes to tribal counsel and vote out Amy of ankle fame.
Amy's torch is still smoking when Jeff drops the bomb. They are now merging with Yaxha. They will not return to their campsite, but will go to Yaxha's instead. They are told their rewards and stuff will go with them. If that doesn't include the pool, I'd be totally ticked. One has to wonder now, if they had known this was coming, would they have still sent Amy packing.
Reasons for keeping Amy if they knew the merge was imminent:
1) She's got that ankle which may be a liability in team challenges but is easier to beat for individual reward and immunity.
2) She is easier to get along with than some other folks and might make the blend of the two tribes easier.
We have seen in the previews already that there is some discontent and some testosterone ranting going on after the merge. If the Nakum's had voted out Bobby Jon, that would have helped in making the merge a calmer experience.
Still, Amy is gone. The tribes have merged. Scabs abound. So, until next week.
written by BCandScott
Episode 7
Judd, Judd, Judd...you don't need to keep talking about Margaret, she's gone. Continuing to talk about it just makes you seem petty and arrogant and...oh wait, you ARE petty and arrogant. Go right ahead Judd. That should really make everyone glad they got rid of the person who was the "most negative" and they may decide to do that again one of these days soon.
This weeks reward challenge was one of those thing where you can really get in a bind. (That was a pun, hehehe.) There's one winder on each tribe, and four windees. The first windee goes up to a poll that has a big strip of cloth wrapped around it and hooks onto the end of the cloth and beginds to run around the pole so the cloth wraps around them. Then when wound up, that person goes to the next pole where a second windee is hooked onto and the two of them wind the cloth off of that pole. This continues through a third and fourth pole. The winder is supposed to help with this process but mainly they just run around and go, come on, you guys, come on, while trying to stay out of the way. An effective winder might have kept them from winding themselves up too close to the pole which would have made moving easier, but well, I wasn't there, and I guess it was just too much stress and heat and whatever.
The prize for winning? A zip line tour of the jungle and a feast of chocolate. Now I like chocolate as well as anyone, maybe more than a lot of people, but I have to admit that in a near starvation situation, a big pile of candy would not be my cup of tea. They could have used that chocolate in a number of ways...to make chili, for example, that would have given these guys more sustenance and less need to barf. I mean think about it...you haven't had much of anything to eat for a while and then you plow into a huge pile of chocolate and drink chocolate milk and eat chocolate covered espresso beans. At least there were some strawberries there, but you know, after a very small amount of chocolate, I would have been barfing like crazy. Let's put it this way, I'm glad they got the chocolate AFTER the zip line tour. The "tour" itself consisted of being set off on a zip line and zooming along to the end where the chocolate was. Mostly there was green. Lots and lots of green.
After the reward, we find out it is Danni's birthday and gosh darn it, the group gets together and said let's have a party. Of course if you have a birthday party, you need guests, so that plucky little Nakum hops in the old canoe and paddles over to Yaxha's campsite and does a survivor version of Red Rover, Red Rover, Hey Tribe, come on over, offering a party at the pool. Yaxha agrees but there's grumbling from Judd and Jamie. They say, that's the enemy, why should be be friendly, etc. I guess it never struck them that in a game where the most valuable thing to have is information about the other tribe that this was an opportunity to learn about people who would eventually be merging with them. On the 1 to 10 brilliance scale...Judd and Jamie get 2 wee candles....in the wind.
At the party Yaxha gets chocolate, YUM, and swimming time, Oooh that's good, and conversation with the others, can't hurt, and they get to watch Bobby Jon let little fish pick at his scabs. A word about the scabs. Apparently, everyone who came in contact with the big balls last week (not Judd, silly, the big game balls) ended up with a scrape wound that scabbed over, ICK. Some delightful footage of Bobby Jon peeling his shirt off where it was stuck to his shoulder, and an inspection of Amy's face and neck really made MY day. Bobby Jon seems to be turning a little feral at this point and was trying to catch the little fishies in his mouth. I'm so creeped out in so many ways by this paragraph, I think I'll stop now and move on to...
The immunity challenge. This was a dig up the big pieces of the puzzle and put it together first challenge. Pretty straight forward actually. I'm surprised that some people seem to think that Gary and perhaps other members of Nakum were actually holding back in order to throw the challenge. The theory is they wanted to get Amy out because of her ankle. I don't find this reasonable for a couple of reasons. 1) Amy with a hurt ankle is still a formidable competitor and won the big ball heats she was in even with that injury and that tribe even won reward that day so why lose a tribe member for nothing? and 2) These people strike me as very competitive and I just don't buy that they are throwing anything at this stage. Nakum, however, does lose and goes to tribal counsel and vote out Amy of ankle fame.
Amy's torch is still smoking when Jeff drops the bomb. They are now merging with Yaxha. They will not return to their campsite, but will go to Yaxha's instead. They are told their rewards and stuff will go with them. If that doesn't include the pool, I'd be totally ticked. One has to wonder now, if they had known this was coming, would they have still sent Amy packing.
Reasons for keeping Amy if they knew the merge was imminent:
1) She's got that ankle which may be a liability in team challenges but is easier to beat for individual reward and immunity.
2) She is easier to get along with than some other folks and might make the blend of the two tribes easier.
We have seen in the previews already that there is some discontent and some testosterone ranting going on after the merge. If the Nakum's had voted out Bobby Jon, that would have helped in making the merge a calmer experience.
Still, Amy is gone. The tribes have merged. Scabs abound. So, until next week.
written by BCandScott
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