Post by BCandScott on Oct 6, 2006 16:54:49 GMT -5
Ruling the Roost
Ozzy is not happy with the way the vote went at tribal council. He was sure that Becky was going to be voted out and instead his tribemate from the original tribe, Cecilia is voted out. He returns to camp with an attitude of one beaten. The rest of the tribe feels bad about voting anyone off, but Ozzy is especially upset, knowing that his plans had been put aside. This puts him, he believes, on the outside. He says that if they are going to vote him out, he hopes it is soon so he won't have to keep getting food for them. My Scott commented to me at this point that he doesn't understand why these guys get all whiny if something, ONE THING, doesn't go their way and think, "I don 't need a million dollars, send me home." I agree. If he feels "on the outside", make a friend, feed everyone and wiggle your way INSIDE.
We get to see some beautiful scenery as Candace is brought back to her tribe. She wonders why they sent her to exile island. There are two theories bandied about. 1) She is young and weak and so if she is on exile island someone stronger will be sent home or 2) her old tribemates that are on the other tribe now are protecting her. She doesn't want her new tribe thinking she has some pre-merge advantage so she says she never even considered that at all and thinks that it was because she is youngest and not strong in challenges. Secretly she thinks her ex tribemates are protecting her. She says she felt it in her best interest to just play dumb. She says she did not find the immunity idol, which is true since Yul has it already.
On Raro, the big strong guys seem to be sitting around drinking a lot of coconut milk and doing very little. The women are working and Parvati admits this isn't sitting with her very well. JP says that a four guy alliance will really work because the women NEED them for manpower.
Reward Challenge. Cristina seems surprised that Cecilia is gone. Jeff describes the challenge. Two members of each tribe will be attached to a rope that is wound around a group of obstacles. The rest of the tribe will push, pull and drag the two members attached to the rope along that rope and over and under the various obstacles to get to a table where there is a coded message. One tribe member must run out and dive down into the ocean to retrieve a decoding wheel that is anchored to the ocean floor and bring it back to the table where it is put into place and used to decode the message. This is done by finding the correct position of the wheel so that the right letters and numbers correspond. This means sort of guessing a few letters until you get the right combination and then the rest will fall into place, much like a cryptogram for you puzzlers out there. First tribe to complete the message wins reward which consists of pillows, blankets and a hammock. They also send one of the opposing tribe to exile island, but that person will return for the immunity challenge and will not be safe from tribal council.
Stephanie is sitting out for the Raro tribe since they have one more member than Aitu. Becky and Candace are attached to the rope for Aitu and Jenny and Cristina are attached for Raro. The first obstacle is a fence with the rope wrapped around various rails, and the next is a log where they have to dig out a space so the two attached tribe members can be pulled under the log. The next obstacle is a sort of high bar. In their haste Raro gets them tangled up a bit and seem unable to agree on strategy. Aitu finishes the course and Ozzy is quick to retrieve the decoder wheel. They are deciphering their message while Raro tries to untangle themselves from the last obstacle on the course. Finally Brad is in the water swimming after the Raro decoder wheel. Aitu is stuck on the decoding.
Both tribes are working on the puzzle. Aitu solves the puzzle.
LAST CASTAWAYS BACK CAST ONE AWAY
I noticed that this challenge was won on the solving of the puzzle. Despite the physical advantages Raro seemed to have going in with the stronger, younger men on their tribe, they lagged behind because they were unable to agree on strategy. Still, they made up time on the swimming portion and could have still won if they had been quicker to solve the puzzle.
Aitu chooses to send Adam to exile island and takes their reward back to camp with them. They are really pleased to have beaten the other tribe because they have been a little intimidated by the brawn on the Raro tribe. Jonathan and Ozzy go fishing. Jonathan says Ozzy is the mad fisherman. They are eating really well. Ozzy says he is happy being the primary provider to the tribe because it makes him powerful. (I guess he's over his blue funk after the last tribal council.)
Raro is humbled. They are bummed out that they lost and that Adam had to go to exile island. JP is lounging by the fire and telling Jenny where to put logs on it to keep it going and directing how the water should be boiled. According to Parvati, his very posture is indicative of his assumption that he is in charge. She says he is demanding in a sly way. She doesn't like his expecting to be "served." She talks to Nate about it. They are sitting in the dark and Nate picks up a shell and is just rolling it in his hands and suddenly cries out, "Ouch!" He flings the shell away realizing he was playing with a hermit crab. "That was a crab." They laugh. Parvati says that these little moments is how she gets the guys to work to her advantage. She asks Nate if the four big guys have formed an alliance. He says they have, they are tight. Nate admits to the camera that he likes Parvati because she is smart and fun and he feels he can trust her. She is his ace in the hole. He says he thinks there could be some sparks in the future, but he doesn't want to be a dum dum because sometimes guys can't control themselves. He tells Parvati that the others have no idea how close the two of them are. She mentions how JP is calling the shots and Nate agrees. He says "let the king sit pretty" is his motto and Parvati agrees that she does NOT want to upset JP right now. She and Nate both seem interested in JP being unseated as the king of the tribe, but they aren't specific about how they might try to do that sort of thing or if they actually want him gone or not.
I could almost watch Survivor for no other reason than the absolutely gorgeous photography on my big screen TV. The next segment opens with a shot of a rainbow over the palm trees. d**n, that place is pretty, with all the blue blue water, the whales literally flying up out of the water. It's amazing.
Day 11 on Aitu and the men are out walking around and they see a boobie (bird) on a nest. Cao Boi thinks it must be sitting on eggs and so he wants to get up there and get the eggs for the tribe to eat. He takes a stick and knocks the boobie off the nest and the nest falls to the ground. Jonathan is suddenly saying "oh man" over and over. There were no eggs in the nest but there is a barely hatched baby bird, just barely covered with fuzz. Jonathan says he doubts it is 24 hours old. His voice is breaking. He and Cao Boi are both very emotional about what has happened. Neither of them anticipated a baby bird in the nest. Jonathan is holding it very tenderly in his hand. Ozzy looks like he is in shock. Cao Boi says "I'm sorry" over and over. They put the bird back into the nest and hoist the nest back up in the tree, all the while begging the mother bird's forgiveness and expressing their regret. Cao Boi is able to place the nest back in the tree with the baby bird nestled inside. The mother carries on a bit, but they keep telling her that her baby is OK. She returns to the nest and plops down and Cao Boi come back down out of the tree. Cao Boi says he feels terrible and that he did a stupid thing.
Immunity Challenge. Adam returns from exile island. Four tribe members must race to assemble a stretcher puzzle. It is made up of long pieces of wood cut in such a way as to make them fit together only one way to form a stretcher. They must then race to beach and swim out to a mast that is sticking out of the water. At the top of the mast, one of their tribemates is shackled and must be released to swim back to the beach holding onto a life saver. At the beach, the recently unshackled tribemate is put on the stretcher and hauled back through the jungle to the start where the three remaining tribe members must build a rescue fire big enough burn through a rope suspended above the fire pit, dropping the tribal flag and winning immunity.
Aitu puts Candace on the mast, Raro shackles Parvati. Building the stretcher for Raro is Brad, Nate, Adam and JP. For Aitu, Jonathan, Flicka, Yul and Ozzy.
Aitu falls behind putting the stretcher together and Raro is the first off into the jungle with their stretcher. Aitu is not far behind. At the waters edge, JP starts the swim out to release Parvati. Ozzy is in the water for Aitu soon after and he makes up a lot of time by running in the shallow water as long as possible before diving in to swim. Ozzy is a very strong swimmer and he is the first to reach the mast and release Candace from the shackles. JP and Parvati are not far behind. Candace is on the stretcher first and they are off toward the start to build the fire. Raro is not far behind. Now the real challenge begins.
Fire builders for Aitu are, Becky, Cao Boi and Sundra. Fire builders for Raro are Stephanie, Rebecca and Jenny. Both tribes reached this point neck and neck really and now they must build fire. Cao Boi quickly has something going.
Aitu creates a lot of smoke, but no flame, but Cao Boi has his own way of doing this...and it works. Jenny whacks her hand with the axe trying to hit the flint to create sparks but doesn't give up despite the blood running down her fingers. Cao Boi dances about and Jeff says that he will either be a hero or very silly. Cao Boi blows into the kindling. He has a big flame going now and Raro has nothing. The rope begins to burn and it's almost like everyone holds their breath for a moment and then it's over, the rope snaps and Aitu's flag falls. Raro will go to tribal council.
Again, the bigger, stronger, younger guys couldn't win this one, but the little old guy from Viet Nam won the day because he could build fire quickly.
Raro returns to camp solemnly. Stephanie is really down because she knows that her failure to start fire was a big part of losing the challenge. Jenny refers to Cao Boi as the "Zen fire master". Stephanie is upset saying that she feels that she is the weakest link. Brad mentions that when he was on the tribe with Cao Boi he was always making the fire so no wonder he's good at it. Nate says "That fool's been making fire since he was two, so I ain't trippin'." Stephanie tells them that she knows that she caused them to lose and she is the weakest link. Nate says that Stephanie is his girl, but that if she is having doubts this early, then maybe they should let her go. Stephanie seems to have given them an easy out...she has acted like she wants to go.
Rebecca and Jenny are not happy about sending Stephanie home because they feel that will make them, as women, weaker. They decide to talk to her. Rebecca also says that she thinks JP has something up his sleeve and that he "thinks he has it all figured out." They are toying with the idea of the women all going together and voting out JP. Cristina goes to talk to Stephanie who says she is not ready to give up, that she just spoke from a moment of frustration. Jenny comes along and says to Stephanie, "we are here to save you." She explains they are going to vote JP out. They discuss with whether or not they can talk to Parvati and whether she will stick with the guys or not. Jenny talks to Parvati but she is hesitant to commit. They talk to Brad and he says "wow".
Raro arrives at tribal council and Jeff asks Nate how he is feeling in general. He says he's good but being careful not to open up too much until he knows who to trust. Jeff asks Jenny if there is a leader. She says "JP don't hate me, but JP likes to be in charge." JP denies being in charge. Jeff asks if it would be fair to vote one of the fire builders off tonight since they lost the challenge for the tribe and she says no because they should be looking at the big picture and not one challenge. JP agrees. He says he got his butt kicked on the swimming part but that he shouldn't be judged for that.
They discuss trust and they all say that there is a certain level of trust but nobody completely trusts everyone. They talk about how hard it is to vote anyone out. JP comments that this will probably be the hardest vote he has to make in the game.
They vote. JP and Nate vote for Stephanie. Jenny, Rebecca, Adam, Cristina, Stephanie and Parvati vote for JP. JP is completely shocked.
He says "wow". Jeff snuffs his torch and he looks back and says to his tribe "That was pretty good." Jeff says they just voted out one of their stronger members so he hopes they have a plan for getting themselves together to win challenges.
Next time, Cao Boi is aggravated about the women not working. Raro gets unexpected company?
JP in his closing words says that you have to really watch your back and there are no hard feelings, that's the way the game is played. He does go on a lot about how you can't trust anyone. I'm not sure he really has "NO" hard feelings.
Ozzy is not happy with the way the vote went at tribal council. He was sure that Becky was going to be voted out and instead his tribemate from the original tribe, Cecilia is voted out. He returns to camp with an attitude of one beaten. The rest of the tribe feels bad about voting anyone off, but Ozzy is especially upset, knowing that his plans had been put aside. This puts him, he believes, on the outside. He says that if they are going to vote him out, he hopes it is soon so he won't have to keep getting food for them. My Scott commented to me at this point that he doesn't understand why these guys get all whiny if something, ONE THING, doesn't go their way and think, "I don 't need a million dollars, send me home." I agree. If he feels "on the outside", make a friend, feed everyone and wiggle your way INSIDE.
We get to see some beautiful scenery as Candace is brought back to her tribe. She wonders why they sent her to exile island. There are two theories bandied about. 1) She is young and weak and so if she is on exile island someone stronger will be sent home or 2) her old tribemates that are on the other tribe now are protecting her. She doesn't want her new tribe thinking she has some pre-merge advantage so she says she never even considered that at all and thinks that it was because she is youngest and not strong in challenges. Secretly she thinks her ex tribemates are protecting her. She says she felt it in her best interest to just play dumb. She says she did not find the immunity idol, which is true since Yul has it already.
On Raro, the big strong guys seem to be sitting around drinking a lot of coconut milk and doing very little. The women are working and Parvati admits this isn't sitting with her very well. JP says that a four guy alliance will really work because the women NEED them for manpower.
Reward Challenge. Cristina seems surprised that Cecilia is gone. Jeff describes the challenge. Two members of each tribe will be attached to a rope that is wound around a group of obstacles. The rest of the tribe will push, pull and drag the two members attached to the rope along that rope and over and under the various obstacles to get to a table where there is a coded message. One tribe member must run out and dive down into the ocean to retrieve a decoding wheel that is anchored to the ocean floor and bring it back to the table where it is put into place and used to decode the message. This is done by finding the correct position of the wheel so that the right letters and numbers correspond. This means sort of guessing a few letters until you get the right combination and then the rest will fall into place, much like a cryptogram for you puzzlers out there. First tribe to complete the message wins reward which consists of pillows, blankets and a hammock. They also send one of the opposing tribe to exile island, but that person will return for the immunity challenge and will not be safe from tribal council.
Stephanie is sitting out for the Raro tribe since they have one more member than Aitu. Becky and Candace are attached to the rope for Aitu and Jenny and Cristina are attached for Raro. The first obstacle is a fence with the rope wrapped around various rails, and the next is a log where they have to dig out a space so the two attached tribe members can be pulled under the log. The next obstacle is a sort of high bar. In their haste Raro gets them tangled up a bit and seem unable to agree on strategy. Aitu finishes the course and Ozzy is quick to retrieve the decoder wheel. They are deciphering their message while Raro tries to untangle themselves from the last obstacle on the course. Finally Brad is in the water swimming after the Raro decoder wheel. Aitu is stuck on the decoding.
Both tribes are working on the puzzle. Aitu solves the puzzle.
LAST CASTAWAYS BACK CAST ONE AWAY
I noticed that this challenge was won on the solving of the puzzle. Despite the physical advantages Raro seemed to have going in with the stronger, younger men on their tribe, they lagged behind because they were unable to agree on strategy. Still, they made up time on the swimming portion and could have still won if they had been quicker to solve the puzzle.
Aitu chooses to send Adam to exile island and takes their reward back to camp with them. They are really pleased to have beaten the other tribe because they have been a little intimidated by the brawn on the Raro tribe. Jonathan and Ozzy go fishing. Jonathan says Ozzy is the mad fisherman. They are eating really well. Ozzy says he is happy being the primary provider to the tribe because it makes him powerful. (I guess he's over his blue funk after the last tribal council.)
Raro is humbled. They are bummed out that they lost and that Adam had to go to exile island. JP is lounging by the fire and telling Jenny where to put logs on it to keep it going and directing how the water should be boiled. According to Parvati, his very posture is indicative of his assumption that he is in charge. She says he is demanding in a sly way. She doesn't like his expecting to be "served." She talks to Nate about it. They are sitting in the dark and Nate picks up a shell and is just rolling it in his hands and suddenly cries out, "Ouch!" He flings the shell away realizing he was playing with a hermit crab. "That was a crab." They laugh. Parvati says that these little moments is how she gets the guys to work to her advantage. She asks Nate if the four big guys have formed an alliance. He says they have, they are tight. Nate admits to the camera that he likes Parvati because she is smart and fun and he feels he can trust her. She is his ace in the hole. He says he thinks there could be some sparks in the future, but he doesn't want to be a dum dum because sometimes guys can't control themselves. He tells Parvati that the others have no idea how close the two of them are. She mentions how JP is calling the shots and Nate agrees. He says "let the king sit pretty" is his motto and Parvati agrees that she does NOT want to upset JP right now. She and Nate both seem interested in JP being unseated as the king of the tribe, but they aren't specific about how they might try to do that sort of thing or if they actually want him gone or not.
I could almost watch Survivor for no other reason than the absolutely gorgeous photography on my big screen TV. The next segment opens with a shot of a rainbow over the palm trees. d**n, that place is pretty, with all the blue blue water, the whales literally flying up out of the water. It's amazing.
Day 11 on Aitu and the men are out walking around and they see a boobie (bird) on a nest. Cao Boi thinks it must be sitting on eggs and so he wants to get up there and get the eggs for the tribe to eat. He takes a stick and knocks the boobie off the nest and the nest falls to the ground. Jonathan is suddenly saying "oh man" over and over. There were no eggs in the nest but there is a barely hatched baby bird, just barely covered with fuzz. Jonathan says he doubts it is 24 hours old. His voice is breaking. He and Cao Boi are both very emotional about what has happened. Neither of them anticipated a baby bird in the nest. Jonathan is holding it very tenderly in his hand. Ozzy looks like he is in shock. Cao Boi says "I'm sorry" over and over. They put the bird back into the nest and hoist the nest back up in the tree, all the while begging the mother bird's forgiveness and expressing their regret. Cao Boi is able to place the nest back in the tree with the baby bird nestled inside. The mother carries on a bit, but they keep telling her that her baby is OK. She returns to the nest and plops down and Cao Boi come back down out of the tree. Cao Boi says he feels terrible and that he did a stupid thing.
Immunity Challenge. Adam returns from exile island. Four tribe members must race to assemble a stretcher puzzle. It is made up of long pieces of wood cut in such a way as to make them fit together only one way to form a stretcher. They must then race to beach and swim out to a mast that is sticking out of the water. At the top of the mast, one of their tribemates is shackled and must be released to swim back to the beach holding onto a life saver. At the beach, the recently unshackled tribemate is put on the stretcher and hauled back through the jungle to the start where the three remaining tribe members must build a rescue fire big enough burn through a rope suspended above the fire pit, dropping the tribal flag and winning immunity.
Aitu puts Candace on the mast, Raro shackles Parvati. Building the stretcher for Raro is Brad, Nate, Adam and JP. For Aitu, Jonathan, Flicka, Yul and Ozzy.
Aitu falls behind putting the stretcher together and Raro is the first off into the jungle with their stretcher. Aitu is not far behind. At the waters edge, JP starts the swim out to release Parvati. Ozzy is in the water for Aitu soon after and he makes up a lot of time by running in the shallow water as long as possible before diving in to swim. Ozzy is a very strong swimmer and he is the first to reach the mast and release Candace from the shackles. JP and Parvati are not far behind. Candace is on the stretcher first and they are off toward the start to build the fire. Raro is not far behind. Now the real challenge begins.
Fire builders for Aitu are, Becky, Cao Boi and Sundra. Fire builders for Raro are Stephanie, Rebecca and Jenny. Both tribes reached this point neck and neck really and now they must build fire. Cao Boi quickly has something going.
Aitu creates a lot of smoke, but no flame, but Cao Boi has his own way of doing this...and it works. Jenny whacks her hand with the axe trying to hit the flint to create sparks but doesn't give up despite the blood running down her fingers. Cao Boi dances about and Jeff says that he will either be a hero or very silly. Cao Boi blows into the kindling. He has a big flame going now and Raro has nothing. The rope begins to burn and it's almost like everyone holds their breath for a moment and then it's over, the rope snaps and Aitu's flag falls. Raro will go to tribal council.
Again, the bigger, stronger, younger guys couldn't win this one, but the little old guy from Viet Nam won the day because he could build fire quickly.
Raro returns to camp solemnly. Stephanie is really down because she knows that her failure to start fire was a big part of losing the challenge. Jenny refers to Cao Boi as the "Zen fire master". Stephanie is upset saying that she feels that she is the weakest link. Brad mentions that when he was on the tribe with Cao Boi he was always making the fire so no wonder he's good at it. Nate says "That fool's been making fire since he was two, so I ain't trippin'." Stephanie tells them that she knows that she caused them to lose and she is the weakest link. Nate says that Stephanie is his girl, but that if she is having doubts this early, then maybe they should let her go. Stephanie seems to have given them an easy out...she has acted like she wants to go.
Rebecca and Jenny are not happy about sending Stephanie home because they feel that will make them, as women, weaker. They decide to talk to her. Rebecca also says that she thinks JP has something up his sleeve and that he "thinks he has it all figured out." They are toying with the idea of the women all going together and voting out JP. Cristina goes to talk to Stephanie who says she is not ready to give up, that she just spoke from a moment of frustration. Jenny comes along and says to Stephanie, "we are here to save you." She explains they are going to vote JP out. They discuss with whether or not they can talk to Parvati and whether she will stick with the guys or not. Jenny talks to Parvati but she is hesitant to commit. They talk to Brad and he says "wow".
Raro arrives at tribal council and Jeff asks Nate how he is feeling in general. He says he's good but being careful not to open up too much until he knows who to trust. Jeff asks Jenny if there is a leader. She says "JP don't hate me, but JP likes to be in charge." JP denies being in charge. Jeff asks if it would be fair to vote one of the fire builders off tonight since they lost the challenge for the tribe and she says no because they should be looking at the big picture and not one challenge. JP agrees. He says he got his butt kicked on the swimming part but that he shouldn't be judged for that.
They discuss trust and they all say that there is a certain level of trust but nobody completely trusts everyone. They talk about how hard it is to vote anyone out. JP comments that this will probably be the hardest vote he has to make in the game.
They vote. JP and Nate vote for Stephanie. Jenny, Rebecca, Adam, Cristina, Stephanie and Parvati vote for JP. JP is completely shocked.
He says "wow". Jeff snuffs his torch and he looks back and says to his tribe "That was pretty good." Jeff says they just voted out one of their stronger members so he hopes they have a plan for getting themselves together to win challenges.
Next time, Cao Boi is aggravated about the women not working. Raro gets unexpected company?
JP in his closing words says that you have to really watch your back and there are no hard feelings, that's the way the game is played. He does go on a lot about how you can't trust anyone. I'm not sure he really has "NO" hard feelings.
