Post by BCandScott on Oct 27, 2006 15:04:45 GMT -5
A Closer Look
It's RECAP time! There are 14 scenes of all new footage. There are highlights of the first 18 days of the adventure. Thrills! Chills! Well, no, it's just a recap.
OK, they started out with the tribes divided by race. Everyone wonders will it make a difference. Cao Boi notes they are all Asian but from different countries and cultures. Jonathan points out that he is a white American but he's also Jewish.
They are given 30 seconds to evacuate the schooner that brought them to the Cook Islands. That was pretty funny to watch as they scrambled to get stuff together. We see Jessica with blue over the knee socks diving into the ocean. Yul talks about how he is very Americanized. Billy talks about being Dominican and says it doesn't mean anything to him.
Are we on the edge of our seats yet? Is this new and revealing? Can you tell I hate recap shows?
Anybody remember Seiku. He emerged as a natural leader for about 15 minutes and then got tired and took a break leaving the women to try to make fire. They found a boat on Hiki too, in a never before seen scene, and they were ready to take to the high seas. They got the boat out in the water and tried to get in and kept flipping it over. They could not keep the boat upright. They talk about how black people don't really do water stuff well. Seiku says there's a lot about boats he doesn't know but he never saw anything like that. Nate shakes his head and says he has no clue why the boat won't work. As he says this the cameraman pans past him and the boat and shows the outrigger part of the canoe laying unused on the beach. Maybe they should have attached that to their boat, ya think?
Does anyone else think that Charlie on "Numbers" is just as cute as can be. But for now, back to Survivor.
Raro's adventurers, Adam and Candace decide to take their boat out and get some fish. While they are out, storm clouds start to come up. They realize they need to paddle back to shore. They paddle and paddle but the current and the waves push them farther and farther away from shore. They manage to beach the boat on a sandbar, but the two of them are wet and cold and they finally conclude they cannot get the boat back to shore so they take off and swim and float back to shore. They abandon the tribe's boat. Candace points out the tiny speck out on the sandbar and tells Parvati that that is their boat. Parvati is concerned about her tribe mates, but she is also concerned about the boat.
Aitu is making a shelter and Billy starts game strategy by going to JP and setting up an alliance and then going to Cecelia and Cristina and talks to them about being allied. He feels that the best way to play the game is to make multiple agreements and play all sides of the fence because the game shifts would make one single alliance too vulnerable.
Hiki loses the first challenge and sends Jonathan to exile island and he is miserable. Back at Hiki, they consider their loss. They don't think they worked together as a team very well. Sundra and Rebecca reflect on the fact that there is extra pressure because of the racial divisions of the tribes. She says doing the best you can isn't enough because other people might judge their race by their performance. They agree they should be able to win or lose without regard to color. Seiku is the first person voted out. He says the sisters got together and got him out. I'm not surprised....oh yeah, it's a RECAP.
At Puka, we relive the formation of the Yul/Becky alliance. They are both Korean and they think they might be targeted because of that. Cao Boi and Yul try to find some kind of common ground. Cao Boi says if he goes to Viet Nam they try to speak Japanese to him. They decide that the Asians must stick together.
Aitu loses the next challenge sending Yul to exile island. We see the "I love you" thing with Billy and Candace again and get to see yet again the really painfully uncomfortable tribal council where Billy reveals he has found love at first sight on the island. We see Jeff completely flummoxed. This was hard to watch the first time!
Commercials...apparently there's a new show starting November 14th called "3lbs" which is all about brains...or brain surgeons. Just thought you should learn SOMETHING new from this summary.
Yul is smart. Yul is very smart. He finds the hidden immunity idol. Not only does he find it, he covers up any indication that he found it by filling in the hole and obliterating any sign of his search. He takes the note that tells him he has found the idol and puts it in a little raft he makes of coconut husks and sends it out to sea. Pretty clever. I wonder what that note would bring on eBay now. Some fisherman or native somewhere could end up with a gold mine find in his net. Or it could come ashore on another island and end up in the hands of the other castaways. Everyone else sent to the island ends up searching in vain until Jonathan finally concludes that it must have been found already.
Adam digs around some but he is not as clever as Yul. It's funny seeing him just wandering around willy nilly nowhere near where the idol actually was.
The tribes are mixed up into two new tribes, Raro and Aitu. Jonathan and Becky are the moving forces on the new Aitu tribe. Yul tells Becky he has the idol.
Oh great, we get to relive the Parvati flirting scenes. Sundra says that she is a happy go lucky adorable girl and she is like the substitute for television for the guys....they just watch her being adorable. Oh, those feminine ways.
Aitu loses immunity and Candace goes to exile island. This messes up the tribe plans and suddenly Becky is on the chopping block. Yul and Jonathan scramble to save her by getting Cao Boi and Jessica to flip and Cecilia goes home. Ozzy is stunned. Cecelia gives a little speech about integrity which bores me to tears. People need to quit the "I was playing with integrity" every time they lose.
Stephanie sings Amazing Grace at the campfire. Now here is my question...where the hell did the strings and organ music come from?
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Aitu, Day 11. Cao Boi almost kills the birdie chick.
On Raro, the men are being lazy because well, they are big and strong and needed so they shouldn't have to work right? Except, isn't one of the reason you want strong people is to do the hard crap around camp? Scott says that this makes some sense, that the tribe should specialize, the strongest tribe members taking it easy and being fed by the others to prepare for the challenges while the weaker members do camp chores. I am scowling at him. Men.
Ozzy keeps his tribe fed and swims like a porpoise and wins the immunity challenge for Aitu. Raro is ready to vote out Stephanie but the women manage get everyone except Nate on board with voting out JP. He flat out refuses and tells Rebecca they are stupid for considering JP a target. JP makes a point to say goodbye to Stephanie because he is confident she is going home that night. JP is kept in the dark and is completely flabbergasted when he is voted off. Everyone but Nate turned on him. JP says that his best trait is loyalty....and it may have been his biggest downfall because he trusted people too much. I think this is a slightly altered version of the "I had integrity" speech. I would like him better if he said "I sat around on my butt and made the women wait on me and so they kicked I disagree off the show."
Aitu loses the reward challenge with the bags of weight held up by one arm thing. Two things I noticed. 1) Jessica held on longer than I would ever have expected and proved herself a strong and fierce competitor. 2) Everyone has really gross armpits at this point.
Raro gets wine and fishing supplies and they all get drunk that night around the campfire. Stephanie apparently does not drink as a rule and only required a couple of sips to be blitzed.
Day 16 and Cristina is getting on her tribe's nerves. None of those people want ANYONE telling them what to do.
Cao Boi is upset over at Aitu because Candace, Sundra and Becky don't want to do anything. He wants someone to go out fishing with him. Candace says she doesn't want to because she gets too cold and then she can't do much of anything. Ozzy isn't happy either. These tribes are eating well. Ozzy owns land in Peru. He spends his time off, his vacations, on his land where he goes spearfishing off the coast of Peru. Cao Boi is also extremely resourceful finding all sorts of crabs and stuff...and not little crabs like the hermit crabs we've seen...these have some size to them. The other tribe does not seem to be starving either. Everyone seems to be getting plenty of protein and there are coconuts and other fruits available in the trees. It kind of takes some of the usual pain out of this particular game.
Miss Manners would probably tell the Raro tribe they should have been more gracious to the surprise guests from Aitu, but then she wouldn't like the Aitu idea of surprise visits either. Of course Aitu didn't KNOW that the other tribe was there till they got there.
Aitu wins immunity and Raro goes to tribal council and ends up sending Stephanie home even after spending most of tribal council talking about how annoying Cristina was. Adam is especially mean about it, I think, and her feelings are really hurt. She just can't seem to let it go and brings it up again the next day, trying to once again make them agree that she is not really annoying.
At the challenge both tribes find out they are both going to vote someone off, someone is going to eat, and there will be other surprises. Oh you remember, this was just last week!
Cao Boi gets voted out. He does another version of the "honor and integrity speech" saying Puka's parent's should have raised them better basically.
Aitu kidnaps Nate from the Raro tribe and foolishly (I think) he eats with them in front of his own tribe. Cristina is sent home.
13 castaways remain. There is something in a funky little bottle that is apparently valuable.
Next week, Nate being there causes some stress because the others talk strategy in front of him and Ozzy catches a boatload of fish. Oh yeah, even the next week thing is also a RECAP.
Thank God that is over.
It's RECAP time! There are 14 scenes of all new footage. There are highlights of the first 18 days of the adventure. Thrills! Chills! Well, no, it's just a recap.
OK, they started out with the tribes divided by race. Everyone wonders will it make a difference. Cao Boi notes they are all Asian but from different countries and cultures. Jonathan points out that he is a white American but he's also Jewish.
They are given 30 seconds to evacuate the schooner that brought them to the Cook Islands. That was pretty funny to watch as they scrambled to get stuff together. We see Jessica with blue over the knee socks diving into the ocean. Yul talks about how he is very Americanized. Billy talks about being Dominican and says it doesn't mean anything to him.
Are we on the edge of our seats yet? Is this new and revealing? Can you tell I hate recap shows?
Anybody remember Seiku. He emerged as a natural leader for about 15 minutes and then got tired and took a break leaving the women to try to make fire. They found a boat on Hiki too, in a never before seen scene, and they were ready to take to the high seas. They got the boat out in the water and tried to get in and kept flipping it over. They could not keep the boat upright. They talk about how black people don't really do water stuff well. Seiku says there's a lot about boats he doesn't know but he never saw anything like that. Nate shakes his head and says he has no clue why the boat won't work. As he says this the cameraman pans past him and the boat and shows the outrigger part of the canoe laying unused on the beach. Maybe they should have attached that to their boat, ya think?
Does anyone else think that Charlie on "Numbers" is just as cute as can be. But for now, back to Survivor.
Raro's adventurers, Adam and Candace decide to take their boat out and get some fish. While they are out, storm clouds start to come up. They realize they need to paddle back to shore. They paddle and paddle but the current and the waves push them farther and farther away from shore. They manage to beach the boat on a sandbar, but the two of them are wet and cold and they finally conclude they cannot get the boat back to shore so they take off and swim and float back to shore. They abandon the tribe's boat. Candace points out the tiny speck out on the sandbar and tells Parvati that that is their boat. Parvati is concerned about her tribe mates, but she is also concerned about the boat.
Aitu is making a shelter and Billy starts game strategy by going to JP and setting up an alliance and then going to Cecelia and Cristina and talks to them about being allied. He feels that the best way to play the game is to make multiple agreements and play all sides of the fence because the game shifts would make one single alliance too vulnerable.
Hiki loses the first challenge and sends Jonathan to exile island and he is miserable. Back at Hiki, they consider their loss. They don't think they worked together as a team very well. Sundra and Rebecca reflect on the fact that there is extra pressure because of the racial divisions of the tribes. She says doing the best you can isn't enough because other people might judge their race by their performance. They agree they should be able to win or lose without regard to color. Seiku is the first person voted out. He says the sisters got together and got him out. I'm not surprised....oh yeah, it's a RECAP.
At Puka, we relive the formation of the Yul/Becky alliance. They are both Korean and they think they might be targeted because of that. Cao Boi and Yul try to find some kind of common ground. Cao Boi says if he goes to Viet Nam they try to speak Japanese to him. They decide that the Asians must stick together.
Aitu loses the next challenge sending Yul to exile island. We see the "I love you" thing with Billy and Candace again and get to see yet again the really painfully uncomfortable tribal council where Billy reveals he has found love at first sight on the island. We see Jeff completely flummoxed. This was hard to watch the first time!
Commercials...apparently there's a new show starting November 14th called "3lbs" which is all about brains...or brain surgeons. Just thought you should learn SOMETHING new from this summary.
Yul is smart. Yul is very smart. He finds the hidden immunity idol. Not only does he find it, he covers up any indication that he found it by filling in the hole and obliterating any sign of his search. He takes the note that tells him he has found the idol and puts it in a little raft he makes of coconut husks and sends it out to sea. Pretty clever. I wonder what that note would bring on eBay now. Some fisherman or native somewhere could end up with a gold mine find in his net. Or it could come ashore on another island and end up in the hands of the other castaways. Everyone else sent to the island ends up searching in vain until Jonathan finally concludes that it must have been found already.
Adam digs around some but he is not as clever as Yul. It's funny seeing him just wandering around willy nilly nowhere near where the idol actually was.
The tribes are mixed up into two new tribes, Raro and Aitu. Jonathan and Becky are the moving forces on the new Aitu tribe. Yul tells Becky he has the idol.
Oh great, we get to relive the Parvati flirting scenes. Sundra says that she is a happy go lucky adorable girl and she is like the substitute for television for the guys....they just watch her being adorable. Oh, those feminine ways.
Aitu loses immunity and Candace goes to exile island. This messes up the tribe plans and suddenly Becky is on the chopping block. Yul and Jonathan scramble to save her by getting Cao Boi and Jessica to flip and Cecilia goes home. Ozzy is stunned. Cecelia gives a little speech about integrity which bores me to tears. People need to quit the "I was playing with integrity" every time they lose.
Stephanie sings Amazing Grace at the campfire. Now here is my question...where the hell did the strings and organ music come from?
?Aitu, Day 11. Cao Boi almost kills the birdie chick.
On Raro, the men are being lazy because well, they are big and strong and needed so they shouldn't have to work right? Except, isn't one of the reason you want strong people is to do the hard crap around camp? Scott says that this makes some sense, that the tribe should specialize, the strongest tribe members taking it easy and being fed by the others to prepare for the challenges while the weaker members do camp chores. I am scowling at him. Men.
Ozzy keeps his tribe fed and swims like a porpoise and wins the immunity challenge for Aitu. Raro is ready to vote out Stephanie but the women manage get everyone except Nate on board with voting out JP. He flat out refuses and tells Rebecca they are stupid for considering JP a target. JP makes a point to say goodbye to Stephanie because he is confident she is going home that night. JP is kept in the dark and is completely flabbergasted when he is voted off. Everyone but Nate turned on him. JP says that his best trait is loyalty....and it may have been his biggest downfall because he trusted people too much. I think this is a slightly altered version of the "I had integrity" speech. I would like him better if he said "I sat around on my butt and made the women wait on me and so they kicked I disagree off the show."
Aitu loses the reward challenge with the bags of weight held up by one arm thing. Two things I noticed. 1) Jessica held on longer than I would ever have expected and proved herself a strong and fierce competitor. 2) Everyone has really gross armpits at this point.
Raro gets wine and fishing supplies and they all get drunk that night around the campfire. Stephanie apparently does not drink as a rule and only required a couple of sips to be blitzed.
Day 16 and Cristina is getting on her tribe's nerves. None of those people want ANYONE telling them what to do.
Cao Boi is upset over at Aitu because Candace, Sundra and Becky don't want to do anything. He wants someone to go out fishing with him. Candace says she doesn't want to because she gets too cold and then she can't do much of anything. Ozzy isn't happy either. These tribes are eating well. Ozzy owns land in Peru. He spends his time off, his vacations, on his land where he goes spearfishing off the coast of Peru. Cao Boi is also extremely resourceful finding all sorts of crabs and stuff...and not little crabs like the hermit crabs we've seen...these have some size to them. The other tribe does not seem to be starving either. Everyone seems to be getting plenty of protein and there are coconuts and other fruits available in the trees. It kind of takes some of the usual pain out of this particular game.
Miss Manners would probably tell the Raro tribe they should have been more gracious to the surprise guests from Aitu, but then she wouldn't like the Aitu idea of surprise visits either. Of course Aitu didn't KNOW that the other tribe was there till they got there.
Aitu wins immunity and Raro goes to tribal council and ends up sending Stephanie home even after spending most of tribal council talking about how annoying Cristina was. Adam is especially mean about it, I think, and her feelings are really hurt. She just can't seem to let it go and brings it up again the next day, trying to once again make them agree that she is not really annoying.
At the challenge both tribes find out they are both going to vote someone off, someone is going to eat, and there will be other surprises. Oh you remember, this was just last week!
Cao Boi gets voted out. He does another version of the "honor and integrity speech" saying Puka's parent's should have raised them better basically.
Aitu kidnaps Nate from the Raro tribe and foolishly (I think) he eats with them in front of his own tribe. Cristina is sent home.
13 castaways remain. There is something in a funky little bottle that is apparently valuable.
Next week, Nate being there causes some stress because the others talk strategy in front of him and Ozzy catches a boatload of fish. Oh yeah, even the next week thing is also a RECAP.
Thank God that is over.
