Post by BCandScott on Nov 12, 2006 14:00:10 GMT -5
Mutiny
As usual, we rehash last weeks episode and see Jessica sent packing. Jonathan seems to be under the assumption that he is running the tribe. He even talks as "we are really doing well", "we are in a good place". He kind of lays out what he thinks is the boot order, indicating that Ozzy would be the next to go if they lose an immunity challenge before the merge. Candace doesn't really want to keep with the six after the merge because she is anxious to rejoin Adam and Parvati, her friends from her original tribe. She doesn't seem to be as tight with Jonathan as Jonathan seems to believe.
Heavy metaphor time as a spider is weaving a huge web.
Candace talks to Jonathan and tells him that she may want to flop alliances if she has the opportunity to be with Adam and Parvati. Jonathan says he has trusted Candace all along and he plans to be with her at the end. She nods politely as if this is her thought as well, but she admits later that she really doesn't have any strong ties to Jonathan and would like to see him go because he seems to only care about what will advance himself further in the game.
In the Raro camp, the tribe is also talking about the merge. They are all saying how they will stick together. Then Brad comments that after the merge it's "every man for himself". What he thought was just an offhand comment makes eagle ears Nate angry. He says he no longer trusts Brad since he thinks it's "every man for himself." Of course, we survivor fans know that after the merge, it's really every man for himself, but apparently saying that is an outrage. Parvati jumps on the comment as well, saying it's not an individual game yet. Jenny says they need to still be a team.
Reward
The tribes arrive and Jeff notes that Jessica is no longer on the island. He then makes a stunning announcement. Each person is being offered the opportunity to mutiny and join the other tribe. They have 10 seconds to make the decision. Everyone looks around at one another, wondering if anyone will make the move. At the 3 second mark, Candace steps forward to join the Raro tribe. Two seconds later, Jonathan follows her. This leaves the Aitu tribe with four members.
Aitu:
Yul
Ozzy
Sundra
Becky
Raro
Brad
Nate
Parvati
Adam
Rebecca
Jenny
Jonathan
Candace
Jeff asks the Aitu tribe what their reactions are and Yul says he is absolutely stunned. Ozzy says that it's fine, the mutineers will get what they deserve sooner or later.
The reward challenge consists of putting two tribe members into a barrel. Then two other tribe members must roll the barrel through a series of obstacles collecting four floats that are attached along the way. They must use the floats to float the barrels across a lagoon. In the center of the lagoon, they must dive down and collect four flags that they must take with them the rest of the way across the water. Once they reach shore, the flags are attached to a flagpole. Below the flagpole, the tribe digs down into the sand to recover an ax that they use to cut a rope raising the four flags to the top of the pole. The first tribe to raise their flags wins reward.
The reward consists of coffee and pastries in a comfortable setting like a jungle coffee shop with soft chairs and perhaps more importantly, letters from home.
Two women and two men from each tribe will compete. The entire Aitu tribe will be up against Jenny, Candace, Nate and Adam from the Raro tribe. The girls climb into the barrels and they begin by rolling down a long rap into the sand. Ozzy gets the Aitu floats first. they put them into the barrel with the girls and continue on, Raro close on their heals. They must then cross over logs thumping and thunking the barrels hard as the girls grunt inside Ozzy again is quick with the floats, but Raro hangs on close behind. Ozzy and Yul get their barrel into the water first and Raro is not in enough water to get the thing to float.
Ozzy, who is obviously part dolphin and cute as a button, is amazing in the water, swimming, pulling the floating barrel by hanging on to it with his feet!!!! and swimming with his arms, long powerful strokes. He covers ground (or should I say lagoon) quickly and dives down to retrieve the flags. Note to self: Best place to be on Survivor is anywhere that Ozzy is. Raro is still struggling to get to the middle of the lagoon when Ozzy gets the last flag. Raro is being pulled off course by current. Ozzy and Yul have been workhorses according to Jeff, and he's right. Becky joins the flags to the pole and they all dig for the ax. Yul chops the rope and their flags fly high. Ozzy says "mutineers are the first people to die, man, the first people to die."
Aitu sends Candace to exile island, smugly, I might add. Ozzy is thrilled. Sundra is in tears. She says she wanted to stay true to her tribe and they worked hard together and it feels good. The entire tribe is so happy and I think they feel validated as a tribe, stronger than ever despite their small number.
Whether the mutiny was smart or not remains to be seen, but one indisputable fact is that Ozzy's stock just went up big time. Most of them were talking about cutting him loose pretty soon, because of his potential individual threat in challenges. The fact is, he will be hard to beat at anything involving water or survival skills. The new smaller Aitu tribe is now bonded tighter than ever. Plus, they have the hidden immunity idol.
Candace has rejoined her buddies, Adam and Parvati, right? Oh well, yeah, except she got packed off immediately into exile leaving Jonathan as "the new guy" who shafted his own tribe to join Raro. Without Candace there to ease his way, which she really isn't likely to do anyway, he's in a precarious new position with a whole new group of people to annoy. Candace's move was probably a reasonable one...her first allegiance always being to Adam and Parvati. Jonathan's delusions about how tight he is with Candace may be his undoing.
Aitu is thrilled with the "coffee house" set up for them with comfy seats. Yul tells the tribe he is so honored to be there with the people on his tribe. All of them say they are completely stoked and feel wonderful. Sundra says that they were standing there seemingly so small and deserted by their tribe mates and there was Raro, big strong guys and double the number of people and then, little Aitu won the challenge anyway. She feels fabulous. She says she doesn't think anything has ever made her so happy.
They are given robes to wear and have every sort of pastry imaginable, juice and coffee....and of course, the letters from home. There are pictures of them with their families. No dry eyes in the house. Sundra signs the sign for mother and talks about her son. Ozzy is crying and Sundra says he needs a hug so they all gather around him and they all say "we are family out here." They feel stronger and more solid as a team than ever before.
Candace is whining out on exile island. Her whole thing was to get back to Adam and Parvati. Now she has four people from her old tribe who hate her and she is stuck out in exile out of the game while Jonathan who she doesn't really trust anyway is with her new tribe making friends and getting involved.
Jonathan says he considers himself a loyal person but his loyalty was to Candace. He plans to earn the trust of the Raro tribe by not being threatening and by working really hard around camp. Nate says that Candace coming over makes a little sense, because of Adam and Parvati, but Jonathan must be insane to think he can switch sides like that.
Raro, Day 21. Jonathan is cutting down coconuts, Jonathan is splitting coconuts. Jonathan is tending the fire. Everyone is impressed a bit. Jonathan tells Adam that he and Candace had always planned on getting back in with Adam and Parvati. Adam considers this and says that it's always good to have someone who wants you around at the final four.
Immunity Challenge
Candace finally reunites with the Raro tribe. Four members of the Raro tribe will compete and they can't sit out the same people as before so their choice is made for them. Competing will be Rebecca, Jonathan, Brad and Parvati. The entire Aitu tribe must compete.
The tribes will row glass bottom boats out over three underwater targets. They must align the boats so that the arrow painted on the glass matches the arrow on the ocean floor. Then they will drop cannonballs attempting to hit the target. If they hit the target, two buoys will be released and float to the surface. Once they have collected all of the buoys, they will take them back to shore and use the balls inside the buoys to solve a word puzzle. One buoy has a clue to the word and the other buoys have one letter each of the winning word. The first tribe to solve the word puzzle wins immunity.
They race to the boats and start by pushing the boats out as far as they can and then jump in and start paddling. Raro is immediately off course. Aitu is trying to line up the target and they drop a cannonball but miss the target. It is very hard to get the boats to line up over the targets because of the movement of the boats in the water. Both tribes drop cannonballs. Nobody hits a target. Jeff tells them that this challenge requires that they work well together. Raro finally hits a target and gets its first pair of buoys. Raro soon has two sets of buoys.
Aitu is still working hard, Yul releasing the cannonballs and they finally get their fist pair of buoys. Aitu is not relying only on the cross hairs but is looking through the chute and also over the side of the boat to hit the targets.
Jeff comments that Raro is off course. Jonathan replies "We're fine. We know what we're doing."
Aitu connects with the second set of buoys. Both sides have one target left.
Jonathan drops a cannonball in the chute without setting the release mechanism and Jeff comments that Raro is wasting cannonballs. Jonathan says "Oh please, Jeff." Jeff says, "Jonathan getting frustrated by me." One thing these people need to remember about Jeff...he asks the questions at tribal council. In a way, he is another part of the game that must be dealt with. I wouldn't want to make him mad at me by snapping at him during challenges. It should be noted, however, that while we see this challenge edited down to a few minutes of screen time, Brad said in an interview on Survivor Live that the actually challenge lasted for at least 2 hours which makes the irritation factor a little more understandable, but still unwise.
Yul watches down the chute and releases the third set of buoys. They retrieve them and head for shore. Aitu carries their buoys back to the big mat. They read the clue:
The most famous "MUTINY" in history occurred aboard this ship.
The answer is, of course, BOUNTY. Aitu wins immunity. Out in the Raro boat, Parvati snarls, "Are you kidding me?"
Aitu smiles. A lot.
Raro is bummed out. Candace is welcomed back from Exile. Jonathan is glad to see her back because it takes some of the "new guy" thing off of him, he thinks. Parvati tells Candace privately that Jonathan has been telling them all how tight he and Candace are. Candace refutes that completely saying they are "not tight at all." She says he was always talking to Yul and only tried to solidify something with her over the last few days.
Spider and web again. Adam and Nate are laying in the shelter scoffing at Jonathan believing they might keep him around. Adam points out that Jonathan is doing a lot of the work and that maybe they could keep him around to work while he thinks they are going to keep him around even though he's wrong. I think this particular logic is kind of indicative of the intellectual strength Adam brings to the game.
Ha, ha, he thinks we'll keep him around.
He works a lot and will do the work thinking we would stupidly keep him around.
Hey, we could keep him around and let him do the work and THINK we might actually keep him around, but we'd only keep him around to do the work.
Boy is he dumb.
End result. Jonathan works a lot and gets kept in the game.
Nate says that Jonathan can't really go back to his old tribe when they merge, but Brad COULD jump ship and go with the Aitu group. After all, Brad thinks it will be "every man for himself" so he can just go home. Nate thinks it's important that the person voted off be blind sided so he goes to Brad and tells him Jonathan will go because he was so silly to mutiny.
Candace, in the meantime is welcomed back like she had been stolen from her real tribe as a child or something. She says she can't imagine why Jonathan came with her, but she had wanted to be back with them the whole time. She tells Adam that Jonathan said some things about Adam being intimidating and that it was Jonathan's idea to send him to exile island for the night of horror during the storm. She also said that Jonathan said that Adam would be scared to go. Adam says that's pretty funny since now he is kissing everyone's butt. He says it's OK, he can kiss everyone's butt and they will vote him off after that. Nate and Adam discuss what to do and Adam wants Jonathan gone, but Nate wants Brad to go.
At tribal council, it's raining and wet. Brad tells Jeff he originally thought Candace was very gutsy to mutiny. Jeff comments that Candace and Jonathan have to know that they are the bottom of the totem pole. Jenny says it's OK with her that they came because it gives them a numbers advantage over Aitu and after a merge they can pick them off like zits. Everyone laughs.
Jeff asks Candace how she feels about this tribe coming to council where someone will be voted off and they are all joking and laughing. Candace says that she likes it, that it's one of the reasons she stepped off of the mat and came to this tribe, they are more fun. They have a good time. Jeff is skeptical, "you mean you stepped off of that mat because this tribe has a good time?" Candace says it's not the only reason, that this tribe "wins when it counts." Did she miss the last two challenges or what?
Jeff then turns to Jonathan. He asks him if he's nervous because he would be an easy guy to get rid of. Jonathan says he knows he was the last one off the mat and he'd be silly to not realize it might be him going home tonight. Nate says the tribe is still adapting to having these new people on their tribe. He says the girls could find Candace a threat because she is a strong competitor. Nate adds that Jonathan may try to be too much of a leader. Jonathan says he will just keep trying to provide. Brad says he likes the new members.He also says he does NOT trust the entire tribe.
Jonathan votes Brad.
Parvati votes Brad.
Rebecca votes Brad.
Candace votes Brad.
Adam votes Brad.
Nate votes Brad.
Jenny votes Brad.
Brad votes Jonathan.
Brad is stunned to be voted off but is also surprised to learn that he will be the first member of the jury as is the rest of the tribe. Jeff says "This game is full of surprises.
Next week, Adam and Candace renew their snuggling. A never before seen twist (a little green bottle with a note inside) will provide information that could turn the game on its head.
As usual, we rehash last weeks episode and see Jessica sent packing. Jonathan seems to be under the assumption that he is running the tribe. He even talks as "we are really doing well", "we are in a good place". He kind of lays out what he thinks is the boot order, indicating that Ozzy would be the next to go if they lose an immunity challenge before the merge. Candace doesn't really want to keep with the six after the merge because she is anxious to rejoin Adam and Parvati, her friends from her original tribe. She doesn't seem to be as tight with Jonathan as Jonathan seems to believe.
Heavy metaphor time as a spider is weaving a huge web.
Candace talks to Jonathan and tells him that she may want to flop alliances if she has the opportunity to be with Adam and Parvati. Jonathan says he has trusted Candace all along and he plans to be with her at the end. She nods politely as if this is her thought as well, but she admits later that she really doesn't have any strong ties to Jonathan and would like to see him go because he seems to only care about what will advance himself further in the game.
In the Raro camp, the tribe is also talking about the merge. They are all saying how they will stick together. Then Brad comments that after the merge it's "every man for himself". What he thought was just an offhand comment makes eagle ears Nate angry. He says he no longer trusts Brad since he thinks it's "every man for himself." Of course, we survivor fans know that after the merge, it's really every man for himself, but apparently saying that is an outrage. Parvati jumps on the comment as well, saying it's not an individual game yet. Jenny says they need to still be a team.
Reward
The tribes arrive and Jeff notes that Jessica is no longer on the island. He then makes a stunning announcement. Each person is being offered the opportunity to mutiny and join the other tribe. They have 10 seconds to make the decision. Everyone looks around at one another, wondering if anyone will make the move. At the 3 second mark, Candace steps forward to join the Raro tribe. Two seconds later, Jonathan follows her. This leaves the Aitu tribe with four members.
Aitu:
Yul
Ozzy
Sundra
Becky
Raro
Brad
Nate
Parvati
Adam
Rebecca
Jenny
Jonathan
Candace
Jeff asks the Aitu tribe what their reactions are and Yul says he is absolutely stunned. Ozzy says that it's fine, the mutineers will get what they deserve sooner or later.
The reward challenge consists of putting two tribe members into a barrel. Then two other tribe members must roll the barrel through a series of obstacles collecting four floats that are attached along the way. They must use the floats to float the barrels across a lagoon. In the center of the lagoon, they must dive down and collect four flags that they must take with them the rest of the way across the water. Once they reach shore, the flags are attached to a flagpole. Below the flagpole, the tribe digs down into the sand to recover an ax that they use to cut a rope raising the four flags to the top of the pole. The first tribe to raise their flags wins reward.
The reward consists of coffee and pastries in a comfortable setting like a jungle coffee shop with soft chairs and perhaps more importantly, letters from home.
Two women and two men from each tribe will compete. The entire Aitu tribe will be up against Jenny, Candace, Nate and Adam from the Raro tribe. The girls climb into the barrels and they begin by rolling down a long rap into the sand. Ozzy gets the Aitu floats first. they put them into the barrel with the girls and continue on, Raro close on their heals. They must then cross over logs thumping and thunking the barrels hard as the girls grunt inside Ozzy again is quick with the floats, but Raro hangs on close behind. Ozzy and Yul get their barrel into the water first and Raro is not in enough water to get the thing to float.
Ozzy, who is obviously part dolphin and cute as a button, is amazing in the water, swimming, pulling the floating barrel by hanging on to it with his feet!!!! and swimming with his arms, long powerful strokes. He covers ground (or should I say lagoon) quickly and dives down to retrieve the flags. Note to self: Best place to be on Survivor is anywhere that Ozzy is. Raro is still struggling to get to the middle of the lagoon when Ozzy gets the last flag. Raro is being pulled off course by current. Ozzy and Yul have been workhorses according to Jeff, and he's right. Becky joins the flags to the pole and they all dig for the ax. Yul chops the rope and their flags fly high. Ozzy says "mutineers are the first people to die, man, the first people to die."
Aitu sends Candace to exile island, smugly, I might add. Ozzy is thrilled. Sundra is in tears. She says she wanted to stay true to her tribe and they worked hard together and it feels good. The entire tribe is so happy and I think they feel validated as a tribe, stronger than ever despite their small number.
Whether the mutiny was smart or not remains to be seen, but one indisputable fact is that Ozzy's stock just went up big time. Most of them were talking about cutting him loose pretty soon, because of his potential individual threat in challenges. The fact is, he will be hard to beat at anything involving water or survival skills. The new smaller Aitu tribe is now bonded tighter than ever. Plus, they have the hidden immunity idol.
Candace has rejoined her buddies, Adam and Parvati, right? Oh well, yeah, except she got packed off immediately into exile leaving Jonathan as "the new guy" who shafted his own tribe to join Raro. Without Candace there to ease his way, which she really isn't likely to do anyway, he's in a precarious new position with a whole new group of people to annoy. Candace's move was probably a reasonable one...her first allegiance always being to Adam and Parvati. Jonathan's delusions about how tight he is with Candace may be his undoing.
Aitu is thrilled with the "coffee house" set up for them with comfy seats. Yul tells the tribe he is so honored to be there with the people on his tribe. All of them say they are completely stoked and feel wonderful. Sundra says that they were standing there seemingly so small and deserted by their tribe mates and there was Raro, big strong guys and double the number of people and then, little Aitu won the challenge anyway. She feels fabulous. She says she doesn't think anything has ever made her so happy.
They are given robes to wear and have every sort of pastry imaginable, juice and coffee....and of course, the letters from home. There are pictures of them with their families. No dry eyes in the house. Sundra signs the sign for mother and talks about her son. Ozzy is crying and Sundra says he needs a hug so they all gather around him and they all say "we are family out here." They feel stronger and more solid as a team than ever before.
Candace is whining out on exile island. Her whole thing was to get back to Adam and Parvati. Now she has four people from her old tribe who hate her and she is stuck out in exile out of the game while Jonathan who she doesn't really trust anyway is with her new tribe making friends and getting involved.
Jonathan says he considers himself a loyal person but his loyalty was to Candace. He plans to earn the trust of the Raro tribe by not being threatening and by working really hard around camp. Nate says that Candace coming over makes a little sense, because of Adam and Parvati, but Jonathan must be insane to think he can switch sides like that.
Raro, Day 21. Jonathan is cutting down coconuts, Jonathan is splitting coconuts. Jonathan is tending the fire. Everyone is impressed a bit. Jonathan tells Adam that he and Candace had always planned on getting back in with Adam and Parvati. Adam considers this and says that it's always good to have someone who wants you around at the final four.
Immunity Challenge
Candace finally reunites with the Raro tribe. Four members of the Raro tribe will compete and they can't sit out the same people as before so their choice is made for them. Competing will be Rebecca, Jonathan, Brad and Parvati. The entire Aitu tribe must compete.
The tribes will row glass bottom boats out over three underwater targets. They must align the boats so that the arrow painted on the glass matches the arrow on the ocean floor. Then they will drop cannonballs attempting to hit the target. If they hit the target, two buoys will be released and float to the surface. Once they have collected all of the buoys, they will take them back to shore and use the balls inside the buoys to solve a word puzzle. One buoy has a clue to the word and the other buoys have one letter each of the winning word. The first tribe to solve the word puzzle wins immunity.
They race to the boats and start by pushing the boats out as far as they can and then jump in and start paddling. Raro is immediately off course. Aitu is trying to line up the target and they drop a cannonball but miss the target. It is very hard to get the boats to line up over the targets because of the movement of the boats in the water. Both tribes drop cannonballs. Nobody hits a target. Jeff tells them that this challenge requires that they work well together. Raro finally hits a target and gets its first pair of buoys. Raro soon has two sets of buoys.
Aitu is still working hard, Yul releasing the cannonballs and they finally get their fist pair of buoys. Aitu is not relying only on the cross hairs but is looking through the chute and also over the side of the boat to hit the targets.
Jeff comments that Raro is off course. Jonathan replies "We're fine. We know what we're doing."
Aitu connects with the second set of buoys. Both sides have one target left.
Jonathan drops a cannonball in the chute without setting the release mechanism and Jeff comments that Raro is wasting cannonballs. Jonathan says "Oh please, Jeff." Jeff says, "Jonathan getting frustrated by me." One thing these people need to remember about Jeff...he asks the questions at tribal council. In a way, he is another part of the game that must be dealt with. I wouldn't want to make him mad at me by snapping at him during challenges. It should be noted, however, that while we see this challenge edited down to a few minutes of screen time, Brad said in an interview on Survivor Live that the actually challenge lasted for at least 2 hours which makes the irritation factor a little more understandable, but still unwise.
Yul watches down the chute and releases the third set of buoys. They retrieve them and head for shore. Aitu carries their buoys back to the big mat. They read the clue:
The most famous "MUTINY" in history occurred aboard this ship.
The answer is, of course, BOUNTY. Aitu wins immunity. Out in the Raro boat, Parvati snarls, "Are you kidding me?"
Aitu smiles. A lot.
Raro is bummed out. Candace is welcomed back from Exile. Jonathan is glad to see her back because it takes some of the "new guy" thing off of him, he thinks. Parvati tells Candace privately that Jonathan has been telling them all how tight he and Candace are. Candace refutes that completely saying they are "not tight at all." She says he was always talking to Yul and only tried to solidify something with her over the last few days.
Spider and web again. Adam and Nate are laying in the shelter scoffing at Jonathan believing they might keep him around. Adam points out that Jonathan is doing a lot of the work and that maybe they could keep him around to work while he thinks they are going to keep him around even though he's wrong. I think this particular logic is kind of indicative of the intellectual strength Adam brings to the game.
Ha, ha, he thinks we'll keep him around.
He works a lot and will do the work thinking we would stupidly keep him around.
Hey, we could keep him around and let him do the work and THINK we might actually keep him around, but we'd only keep him around to do the work.
Boy is he dumb.
End result. Jonathan works a lot and gets kept in the game.
Nate says that Jonathan can't really go back to his old tribe when they merge, but Brad COULD jump ship and go with the Aitu group. After all, Brad thinks it will be "every man for himself" so he can just go home. Nate thinks it's important that the person voted off be blind sided so he goes to Brad and tells him Jonathan will go because he was so silly to mutiny.
Candace, in the meantime is welcomed back like she had been stolen from her real tribe as a child or something. She says she can't imagine why Jonathan came with her, but she had wanted to be back with them the whole time. She tells Adam that Jonathan said some things about Adam being intimidating and that it was Jonathan's idea to send him to exile island for the night of horror during the storm. She also said that Jonathan said that Adam would be scared to go. Adam says that's pretty funny since now he is kissing everyone's butt. He says it's OK, he can kiss everyone's butt and they will vote him off after that. Nate and Adam discuss what to do and Adam wants Jonathan gone, but Nate wants Brad to go.
At tribal council, it's raining and wet. Brad tells Jeff he originally thought Candace was very gutsy to mutiny. Jeff comments that Candace and Jonathan have to know that they are the bottom of the totem pole. Jenny says it's OK with her that they came because it gives them a numbers advantage over Aitu and after a merge they can pick them off like zits. Everyone laughs.
Jeff asks Candace how she feels about this tribe coming to council where someone will be voted off and they are all joking and laughing. Candace says that she likes it, that it's one of the reasons she stepped off of the mat and came to this tribe, they are more fun. They have a good time. Jeff is skeptical, "you mean you stepped off of that mat because this tribe has a good time?" Candace says it's not the only reason, that this tribe "wins when it counts." Did she miss the last two challenges or what?
Jeff then turns to Jonathan. He asks him if he's nervous because he would be an easy guy to get rid of. Jonathan says he knows he was the last one off the mat and he'd be silly to not realize it might be him going home tonight. Nate says the tribe is still adapting to having these new people on their tribe. He says the girls could find Candace a threat because she is a strong competitor. Nate adds that Jonathan may try to be too much of a leader. Jonathan says he will just keep trying to provide. Brad says he likes the new members.He also says he does NOT trust the entire tribe.
Jonathan votes Brad.
Parvati votes Brad.
Rebecca votes Brad.
Candace votes Brad.
Adam votes Brad.
Nate votes Brad.
Jenny votes Brad.
Brad votes Jonathan.
Brad is stunned to be voted off but is also surprised to learn that he will be the first member of the jury as is the rest of the tribe. Jeff says "This game is full of surprises.
Next week, Adam and Candace renew their snuggling. A never before seen twist (a little green bottle with a note inside) will provide information that could turn the game on its head.
