Post by BCandScott on Dec 9, 2006 13:42:48 GMT -5
Arranging A Hit
As for last week, remember that Jonathan sounds way to much like Alan Alda in his nasty smarmy roles, and his attitude irritates everyone and Yul told everyone he had the immunity idol from exile island. Candace went home after major kiss with Adam, prompting Jeff's greatest line ever..."if it was true love, maybe he would have given you the immunity necklace."
Jonathan heads back to camp, not particularly happy about being called "rat" and "cancer". He feels he made the right decision and now he just has to keep his chin up and keep punching to stay in the game.
Day 34 Aitutonga. Ozzy is fishing and the girls are chopping coconuts and Parvati manages to hack into her finer rather well with a machete, slicing through the nail. She lays down and holds her hand up wrapped in a buff and they call for medical attention. The doc tells her the good news is that she won't have to trim her thumb nail for a while, but she will need a stitch to hold her thumb together. Jonathan sits and offers support, saying "it's ok Parvati, you're very brave." Parvati is horrified that they will stitch her thumb right where she is, giving her a shot of something to numb her hand and then stitching her up. Adam says there is something about fingernails that freaks him out so he can't watch at all.
At reward, Jeff asked what Parvati did to her thumb and asks her if she can get it wet. She replies that she can. The challenge requires getting water from the ocean in a small bucket and using it to fill a large bucket. When enough water is in the large bucket it will lower causing a flag to raise. First person to raise their flag wins. But it's more complex than that.
The winner will go to another island and go to a sacred cave and have a fantastic picnic. Winner will send one person to exile island. Then Jeff says, "there is one more element to the challenge, Jonathan...say hello to your wife, Stacey."
Stacey is followed out of the jungle by Parvati's father (Mike), Adam's father (George), Becky's sister (Sarah), Yul's brother (Paul), Ozzy's mother (Tina), Sundra's mom (Jeannette), who are to be their partner's in today's challenge. The survivor's must dip water from the ocean and then stand behind a rail and try to hit a small bucket held by their family member who is some distance away. The family member dumps the water into the large bucket that must be filled. Further, the survivor's are BLINDFOLDED and their family member must guide them verbally. The survivor who wins will share their reward with their family member, taking them to the sacred cave celebration and the picnic.
It's mayhem at first, but everyone seems to be having fun. The women family members start wringing their shirts into their buckets trying to increase the volume any way they can. Jonathan and Stacey are close, but Mike and Parvati are also very closes...neck and neck. Stacey is wringing her hair into the bucket but Parvati manages to hit Mike's bucket really well one time and their flag goes up for the win.
Stacey slams her bucket down saying, "Dammit." as Jonathan says, I'm sorry baby. Parvati immediately sends Jonathan to exile island so he kisses his wife (without asking permission) and leaves. Mike is given the opportunity to choose two other pairs to attend the cave ceremony and the picnic. He chooses George and Adam, Sundra and Jeannette. The three pairs and the remaining survivor's return to camp as Yul's brother Paul, Ozzy's mom Tina, and Becky's sister Sarah are sent back off into the jungle. They have a few hours before a boat will pick up the group for the picnic, so the survivors have time to show them their camp.
Adam calls his father "George" because he's his best friend. Sundra is glad her mother will get to really see what it was like there. Parvati shows her father around and they all have a pretty good time. Ozzy says that since Parvati and Adam are thriving on food he provides them, he feels like he made them strong enough to win this challenge and he's not thrilled having that group in camp with their family members. Yul, ever the optimist says that he is personally glad that he, Ozzy and Becky have some time with just the three of them, no Jonathan or the old Raro people.
The celebration begins with the group being met by a group of indigenous people of all ages. They go to the cave and inside the cave is a large pool of fresh water. The water must be anointed as part of the ceremony, something that is done twice a year as a part of the island religion. They pour the oil in and then jump in from a ledge in the cave about 15 feet above the water. Sundra says that after 30 some days the fresh water felt so cool and refreshing and that the oil poured into the water made her skin smell wonderful. Everyone seems to enjoy the physical factors of the water and also being able to learn something new about the culture of the people of the island.
They move on to the picnic consisting of chicken, biscuits, sweet potatoes, and a myriad of other foodstuffs including corn on the cob. They eat until they are stuffed and kick back to relax. Sundra also feels she gets to know Adam and Parvati better.
Back at camp, Ozzy brings up the idea that they have been feeding Adam and Parvati and they are winning challenges. Ozzy suggests that they start hiding some of the food that they obtain and reduce the amount of food intake available to those outside their alliance in order to weaken them for challenges and to keep themselves as strong as possible. I don't have a problem with this. I don't doubt for a moment the others would have done this same thing at one point, IF they had been as proficient at getting food as Ozzy, Yul or even Jonathan. They proceed to toss the coconuts into the trees.
In life, or Survivor, there are always moments I call "oh crap" moments. This is one of those. Parvati, Sundra and Adam return from the reward. Ozzy is shown telling his theory that Adam is the biggest eater and that if they can't manage to get their own food by this time they shouldn't be out there. Then Adam and the others reveal they have brought back piles of leftovers from the picnic to share with Ozzy, Yul and Becky. Yep, "oh crap" sums it up pretty well. Becky tells the camera that the "hide the food" plan is pretty much over at this point.
Jonathan returns from exile at the Immunity challenge where Adam surrenders his immunity necklace. Nobody seems to be thrilled to see him...and I mean nobody.
The challenge is to run out to the water and swim out to a series of obstacles. The obstacles are arranged as follows:
two platforms connected by planks to
two boats sitting lengthwise which connect by planks to
a single platform between
two platforms that connect by planks to
two boats crosswise connected by four planks to
a large wide floating platform connected by rope to
a series of floating boxes, three, then two, then three joined to
another floating platform connected by rope to
two barrels floating lengthwise connected to
a final platform from which they must dive into
the ocean to reach a buoy.
Connected to the buoy are two bundles of sticks tied with rope. They must retrieve one bundle of sticks and return over the course back to the starting mat on the beach and then repeat and rinse. Well, no rinsing, but you get the picture, they have to do it all over again. Remember there are seven players and in many cases the pathway is only two or three can go at a time, so passing one another coming and going will be tricky. All of the obstacles are floating and unstable to stand on. Once back with the second bundle of sticks tied with rope, they must use the sticks to create a long pole by tying them together with the rope. Then using the pole, they must retrieve two rings that are hanging some distance away and place them on two pegs at their starting point. First one to hang both rings wins immunity and a 1 in 6 chance to win a million dollars.
And they are off. Ozzy takes a quick lead, diving into the ocean and popping up close to the first platform. Yul and Jonathan are close behind, but Yul falls and must start over. Ozzy literally just dances across the obstacles, not pausing long enough to slip or fall. He is starting back with his first bundle of sticks without a single hesitation. Ozzy refastens his pants and starts out again. Ozzy is halfway through the course for the second time by the time Yul is halfway back with his first bundle of sticks. The barrels give everyone problems. They try crawling and they roll them off, they are being way too cautious. Ozzy is still flying through the course Some of them realize that Ozzy's being so quick is the technique to follow and start to copy him, falling HARD a number of times. Ozzy is making his pole from the sticks as Parvati gets back with her first bundle. Yul is now also working on his pole, but Ozzy is ready to retrieve rings which he does with ease and Ozzy wins immunity. Ozzy needs to realize now that he can win this game just doing what he does. He can handle any challenge thrown at him, be it endurance or water challenge and he needs to be calm and just keep going to win this thing.
The tribe returns to camp. Ozzy says it was hilarious watching the others "eating it" all over the place. The challenge was right up his alley. Everyone is very quiet around Jonathan and he's beginning to worry. He says people are uncomfortable and there was some sort of shift in attitude. He says if they still plan to vote Adam out he has only a few days to get things back so he is safe. If they have decided to vote for him, he only has a few hours and almost no chance to save himself. He begins asking about the vote, feeling paranoid.
Yul says he almost feels like he's arranging a hit on someone like a Godfather type. He says he's not comfortable with it. Jonathan talks to Yul and tells him that he feels a change in the attitude at camp and he reminds him that he feels like he saved the hide of the Aitu tribe group. He tells the camera he can't believe they are thinking of voting him out because "Parvati is smiling at them now."
Ozzy and Yul discuss that they do not want Adam or Jonathan around much longer but that they can get rid of Jonathan this week without losing the number advantage.
At tribal, Candace shows up decked out very pretty and she and Adam grin at each other stupidly.
Jeff asks about food and does it help in challenges. He also asks Parvati why she sent Jonathan to exile island and she says it was to keep herself in the game as long as possible. Jeff then asks Ozzy if camp was more pleasant while Jonathan was gone and Ozzy says that it was because Jonathan has a very strong personality and that sometimes he is difficult to be around.
Jeff questions Jonathan about this, asking if he is learning things about himself he has never heard before. Jonathan sort of sidesteps the question and says he is surprised that Adam and Parvati had as much influence as they did while he was gone to exile island. He says he hopes that his alliance doesn't't throw out the trust he put in them. Adam says it's obvious that nobody wants Jonathan around and that Jonathan doesn 't deserve to be there. Jonathan objects to this asking why he doesn't deserve to be there and Adam says it's because he has no integrity (which is stupid, this isn't a game about integrity) and that there are people on the jury that should have never been voted out before Jonathan.
Jonathan says that he is not the only person who voted those people out and that he has only done what he has had to do to stay in the game, which is mostly true. Some things were obviously mistakes, such as his mutiny in the first place. Jonathan admits to Jeff that he feels there is a debt owed to him because he jumped to his alliance to save some of those people. Jeff asks Yul if he thinks Jonathan saved them or whether they saved Jonathan and Yul, ever the diplomat, says he thinks they more or less saved each other.
They vote. Jonathan votes for Adam. Everyone else votes for Jonathan. His Alan Alda impersonation (complete with the same head movements and everything) has worn thin on the tribe and he must take the walk of shame. As he leaves, he looks back to say "I want my hat back eventually." Candace mouths "Good job," at Adam.
Jeff says, "Now you have voted out someone who thought they could trust you. From now on, trust should be an issue in this game.
Next week, Parvati and Adam start trying to get Ozzy on their side and Becky and Yul consider turning on Ozzy. This would be terrible for Ozzy and just as bad for Yul and Becky.
Jonathan carries on about how they are all big liars and he can't believe how they lied. He says he wishes they had said something to his face. They always say that after they are voted off, but you know, they really don't want to know. He should just buy a new hat.
As for last week, remember that Jonathan sounds way to much like Alan Alda in his nasty smarmy roles, and his attitude irritates everyone and Yul told everyone he had the immunity idol from exile island. Candace went home after major kiss with Adam, prompting Jeff's greatest line ever..."if it was true love, maybe he would have given you the immunity necklace."
Jonathan heads back to camp, not particularly happy about being called "rat" and "cancer". He feels he made the right decision and now he just has to keep his chin up and keep punching to stay in the game.
Day 34 Aitutonga. Ozzy is fishing and the girls are chopping coconuts and Parvati manages to hack into her finer rather well with a machete, slicing through the nail. She lays down and holds her hand up wrapped in a buff and they call for medical attention. The doc tells her the good news is that she won't have to trim her thumb nail for a while, but she will need a stitch to hold her thumb together. Jonathan sits and offers support, saying "it's ok Parvati, you're very brave." Parvati is horrified that they will stitch her thumb right where she is, giving her a shot of something to numb her hand and then stitching her up. Adam says there is something about fingernails that freaks him out so he can't watch at all.
At reward, Jeff asked what Parvati did to her thumb and asks her if she can get it wet. She replies that she can. The challenge requires getting water from the ocean in a small bucket and using it to fill a large bucket. When enough water is in the large bucket it will lower causing a flag to raise. First person to raise their flag wins. But it's more complex than that.
The winner will go to another island and go to a sacred cave and have a fantastic picnic. Winner will send one person to exile island. Then Jeff says, "there is one more element to the challenge, Jonathan...say hello to your wife, Stacey."
Stacey is followed out of the jungle by Parvati's father (Mike), Adam's father (George), Becky's sister (Sarah), Yul's brother (Paul), Ozzy's mother (Tina), Sundra's mom (Jeannette), who are to be their partner's in today's challenge. The survivor's must dip water from the ocean and then stand behind a rail and try to hit a small bucket held by their family member who is some distance away. The family member dumps the water into the large bucket that must be filled. Further, the survivor's are BLINDFOLDED and their family member must guide them verbally. The survivor who wins will share their reward with their family member, taking them to the sacred cave celebration and the picnic.
It's mayhem at first, but everyone seems to be having fun. The women family members start wringing their shirts into their buckets trying to increase the volume any way they can. Jonathan and Stacey are close, but Mike and Parvati are also very closes...neck and neck. Stacey is wringing her hair into the bucket but Parvati manages to hit Mike's bucket really well one time and their flag goes up for the win.
Stacey slams her bucket down saying, "Dammit." as Jonathan says, I'm sorry baby. Parvati immediately sends Jonathan to exile island so he kisses his wife (without asking permission) and leaves. Mike is given the opportunity to choose two other pairs to attend the cave ceremony and the picnic. He chooses George and Adam, Sundra and Jeannette. The three pairs and the remaining survivor's return to camp as Yul's brother Paul, Ozzy's mom Tina, and Becky's sister Sarah are sent back off into the jungle. They have a few hours before a boat will pick up the group for the picnic, so the survivors have time to show them their camp.
Adam calls his father "George" because he's his best friend. Sundra is glad her mother will get to really see what it was like there. Parvati shows her father around and they all have a pretty good time. Ozzy says that since Parvati and Adam are thriving on food he provides them, he feels like he made them strong enough to win this challenge and he's not thrilled having that group in camp with their family members. Yul, ever the optimist says that he is personally glad that he, Ozzy and Becky have some time with just the three of them, no Jonathan or the old Raro people.
The celebration begins with the group being met by a group of indigenous people of all ages. They go to the cave and inside the cave is a large pool of fresh water. The water must be anointed as part of the ceremony, something that is done twice a year as a part of the island religion. They pour the oil in and then jump in from a ledge in the cave about 15 feet above the water. Sundra says that after 30 some days the fresh water felt so cool and refreshing and that the oil poured into the water made her skin smell wonderful. Everyone seems to enjoy the physical factors of the water and also being able to learn something new about the culture of the people of the island.
They move on to the picnic consisting of chicken, biscuits, sweet potatoes, and a myriad of other foodstuffs including corn on the cob. They eat until they are stuffed and kick back to relax. Sundra also feels she gets to know Adam and Parvati better.
Back at camp, Ozzy brings up the idea that they have been feeding Adam and Parvati and they are winning challenges. Ozzy suggests that they start hiding some of the food that they obtain and reduce the amount of food intake available to those outside their alliance in order to weaken them for challenges and to keep themselves as strong as possible. I don't have a problem with this. I don't doubt for a moment the others would have done this same thing at one point, IF they had been as proficient at getting food as Ozzy, Yul or even Jonathan. They proceed to toss the coconuts into the trees.
In life, or Survivor, there are always moments I call "oh crap" moments. This is one of those. Parvati, Sundra and Adam return from the reward. Ozzy is shown telling his theory that Adam is the biggest eater and that if they can't manage to get their own food by this time they shouldn't be out there. Then Adam and the others reveal they have brought back piles of leftovers from the picnic to share with Ozzy, Yul and Becky. Yep, "oh crap" sums it up pretty well. Becky tells the camera that the "hide the food" plan is pretty much over at this point.
Jonathan returns from exile at the Immunity challenge where Adam surrenders his immunity necklace. Nobody seems to be thrilled to see him...and I mean nobody.
The challenge is to run out to the water and swim out to a series of obstacles. The obstacles are arranged as follows:
two platforms connected by planks to
two boats sitting lengthwise which connect by planks to
a single platform between
two platforms that connect by planks to
two boats crosswise connected by four planks to
a large wide floating platform connected by rope to
a series of floating boxes, three, then two, then three joined to
another floating platform connected by rope to
two barrels floating lengthwise connected to
a final platform from which they must dive into
the ocean to reach a buoy.
Connected to the buoy are two bundles of sticks tied with rope. They must retrieve one bundle of sticks and return over the course back to the starting mat on the beach and then repeat and rinse. Well, no rinsing, but you get the picture, they have to do it all over again. Remember there are seven players and in many cases the pathway is only two or three can go at a time, so passing one another coming and going will be tricky. All of the obstacles are floating and unstable to stand on. Once back with the second bundle of sticks tied with rope, they must use the sticks to create a long pole by tying them together with the rope. Then using the pole, they must retrieve two rings that are hanging some distance away and place them on two pegs at their starting point. First one to hang both rings wins immunity and a 1 in 6 chance to win a million dollars.
And they are off. Ozzy takes a quick lead, diving into the ocean and popping up close to the first platform. Yul and Jonathan are close behind, but Yul falls and must start over. Ozzy literally just dances across the obstacles, not pausing long enough to slip or fall. He is starting back with his first bundle of sticks without a single hesitation. Ozzy refastens his pants and starts out again. Ozzy is halfway through the course for the second time by the time Yul is halfway back with his first bundle of sticks. The barrels give everyone problems. They try crawling and they roll them off, they are being way too cautious. Ozzy is still flying through the course Some of them realize that Ozzy's being so quick is the technique to follow and start to copy him, falling HARD a number of times. Ozzy is making his pole from the sticks as Parvati gets back with her first bundle. Yul is now also working on his pole, but Ozzy is ready to retrieve rings which he does with ease and Ozzy wins immunity. Ozzy needs to realize now that he can win this game just doing what he does. He can handle any challenge thrown at him, be it endurance or water challenge and he needs to be calm and just keep going to win this thing.
The tribe returns to camp. Ozzy says it was hilarious watching the others "eating it" all over the place. The challenge was right up his alley. Everyone is very quiet around Jonathan and he's beginning to worry. He says people are uncomfortable and there was some sort of shift in attitude. He says if they still plan to vote Adam out he has only a few days to get things back so he is safe. If they have decided to vote for him, he only has a few hours and almost no chance to save himself. He begins asking about the vote, feeling paranoid.
Yul says he almost feels like he's arranging a hit on someone like a Godfather type. He says he's not comfortable with it. Jonathan talks to Yul and tells him that he feels a change in the attitude at camp and he reminds him that he feels like he saved the hide of the Aitu tribe group. He tells the camera he can't believe they are thinking of voting him out because "Parvati is smiling at them now."
Ozzy and Yul discuss that they do not want Adam or Jonathan around much longer but that they can get rid of Jonathan this week without losing the number advantage.
At tribal, Candace shows up decked out very pretty and she and Adam grin at each other stupidly.
Jeff asks about food and does it help in challenges. He also asks Parvati why she sent Jonathan to exile island and she says it was to keep herself in the game as long as possible. Jeff then asks Ozzy if camp was more pleasant while Jonathan was gone and Ozzy says that it was because Jonathan has a very strong personality and that sometimes he is difficult to be around.
Jeff questions Jonathan about this, asking if he is learning things about himself he has never heard before. Jonathan sort of sidesteps the question and says he is surprised that Adam and Parvati had as much influence as they did while he was gone to exile island. He says he hopes that his alliance doesn't't throw out the trust he put in them. Adam says it's obvious that nobody wants Jonathan around and that Jonathan doesn 't deserve to be there. Jonathan objects to this asking why he doesn't deserve to be there and Adam says it's because he has no integrity (which is stupid, this isn't a game about integrity) and that there are people on the jury that should have never been voted out before Jonathan.
Jonathan says that he is not the only person who voted those people out and that he has only done what he has had to do to stay in the game, which is mostly true. Some things were obviously mistakes, such as his mutiny in the first place. Jonathan admits to Jeff that he feels there is a debt owed to him because he jumped to his alliance to save some of those people. Jeff asks Yul if he thinks Jonathan saved them or whether they saved Jonathan and Yul, ever the diplomat, says he thinks they more or less saved each other.
They vote. Jonathan votes for Adam. Everyone else votes for Jonathan. His Alan Alda impersonation (complete with the same head movements and everything) has worn thin on the tribe and he must take the walk of shame. As he leaves, he looks back to say "I want my hat back eventually." Candace mouths "Good job," at Adam.
Jeff says, "Now you have voted out someone who thought they could trust you. From now on, trust should be an issue in this game.
Next week, Parvati and Adam start trying to get Ozzy on their side and Becky and Yul consider turning on Ozzy. This would be terrible for Ozzy and just as bad for Yul and Becky.
Jonathan carries on about how they are all big liars and he can't believe how they lied. He says he wishes they had said something to his face. They always say that after they are voted off, but you know, they really don't want to know. He should just buy a new hat.