Just when Dreamz was starting to really impress me, he spoils everything by totally going back on his word. I honestly thought he was going to go through with it. Instead, he got greedy and then made himself look even more like an ass by lying about it. I don't believe for a second that he intended to swindle Yau the whole time like he said. I don't think Dreamz could have won the game no matter what, and he could have had the truck and his dignity. Now he just has a truck.
On the other hand, we have Earl who knew that if he went up against Yau in the end, he'd win second place. He did the only smart thing which was vote Yau out. I was hoping they'd get rid of that useless gasbag Cassandra, but I knew they wouldn't; she's the one you keep so you look good sitting next to her.
Some of the Jury was particularly vicious. Alex, something is WRONG with you, man. Obviously I'm not a Cassandra fan, but I can't wait until he watches the show, sees he's wrong and feels like the assface he is. Mookie and Lisi should get married because they are morons of the same caliber. Rocky made me laugh. Boo is very religious. I don't at all remember what Stacy said. Michelle was very cute. Oh Yau...I will miss you!
Boo is killing me. While he's busy showing us how the sneaky-time portion of the game is about to begin with his secret eavesdroppy path to the watering hole, everyone else took advantage of the fact that he was gone to discuss voting him out. I nearly peed my pants watching him tramp around in the brush.
So! The reward challenge was all about winning a GIANT Ford truck and then using the truck to bring donated supplies to a local school. Yau-Man won that sucker, and then struck up a deal with Dreamz: Dreamz gets the truck if he promises to give Yau-Man immunity in the Final Four. Dreamz really wanted the truck, and he agreed immediately. I didn't know what to think! Then Yau-Man sent himself to Exile Island and got the third clue for the (re)hidden immunity idol so that Earl was able to find it. I love how this man's mind works.
Yau's mind isn't the only one that works. It dawned on Dreamz exactly what his promise meant, and he realized that he had to try to get Yau out of the game before he had to honour it. Dreamz is surprising me, I have to say. He approached Stacy and then Cassandra about getting rid of Yau and they both agreed it was the right thing to do. Boo won immunity, and the three of them tried to pretend that Stacy was the next to go and that she had accepted her fate. Earl totally bought it, but Yau was suspicious. Mostly due to the fact that Dreamz' mouth is as big as his truck.
At tribal council, Stacy dumbed the dumbest dumb of her entire life and declared that the vote would be a big split and a surprise. Yau took the hint and played his idol, resulting in Stacy getting voted out. Cassandra was so pissed...the look on her face was utterly priceless.
Best episode ever.
Alright. It's very late at night and I've taken a sleep aid, so let's see if I can get through this recap in a sensical fashion.
Alex is a sneaky-pie. His big strategy was to pretend to be asleep at camp and listen in on conversations to gain information. Dumbass! No one is going to just suddenly start blabbing while you lay there sleeping. Except this is exactly what they all did! What is wrong with everyone? He's RIGHT THERE!
Anyway. The reward challenge was that gross thing where they hang a big meat, and the people attack the meat like a bunch of armless piranhas. He who bites the most meat wins the prize! Boo won, with Yau and Dreamz pulling up second and third. They took a helicopter ride to rapids ride to a big lunch. Boo couldn't stop yapping not for a minute, and this made everyone dislike him very much! The three winners also got their letters from home, which was nice.
Since Boo won immunity, everyone decided to get rid of Alex. Until Cassandra went to talk to him and then he spread his poison and suddenly everything was totally up in the air. Were they going to vote Yau or Alex? I honestly had no idea going in. I was hoping Yau would use his immunity idol at tribal council but he didn't, and luckily he didn't need it. I wonder how close he came to going home? In the end, every single person voted for Alex.
I'm stepping in to cover Survivor for Maggie today. So, another really fun episode this week! Who'da thunk it. We start off with Mookie and Alex freaking out over Dreamz betraying them. Dreamz tries to play it off and act like he's still in their alliance, but he makes no sense to me and Alex and Mookie sort of just roll their eyes at him and poke around in the sand with a stick.
Later, Mookie gets it in his head that Yau-Man has the immunity idol. I was surprised that Mookie was able to figure that out, actually. When Yau-Man goes out fishing, Mookie and Alex actually go through his personal belongings and confirm the idol is there. Not an illegal thing to do, but certainly a shitty one. They are so pleased with themselves, you'd think they just found a golden ticket to the Final Two. They believe that when they go public with this information, everyone will turn on Yau-Man for being dishonest with them. You think, guys? Really? Let's see how that goes. Anyway, as Mookie and Alex sit in the jungle and pat each other on the back for five hours, they realize that Cassandra and Stacey were sitting nearby, ostensibly overhearing everything. They race back to camp in a panic to confront Yau-Man before the ladies can do anything. What they don't realize is that the ladies heard nothing. So funny.
The two idiots confront Yau-Man about his possession of the idol, and his reaction is one of "WTF, douche, you were going through my bag?" He looks annoyed, although Alex giddily says that "he looked shocked." Yau-Man shrugs his shoulders and says, "Oh well, I don't think it's really going to affect anything, anyway." HE IS A GOD. I love that he remained cool, yet vaguely threatening. He totally took the wind out of their sails. When word spreads about Alex and Mookie going through Yau's bag, the rest of the camp reacts with disgust that the two would stoop to snooping. Not exactly the reaction they were hoping for, eh?
At the Immunity competition, Stacey wins. Everyone (save Alex and Mookie) decide to split the vote between Alex and Mookie, forcing a tie, just in case one of the two have found the newly hidden idol. This made me nervous because you never know when Dreamz is going to throw a wild vote in there. Anyway, the decision was to go for a tie and, in the tiebreaker, vote out Alex.
Then, THEN, Alex makes a GENIUS move during the voting. Alex votes for Mookie. Mookie!!! So, no tie and Mookie is voted out. Did Alex know how the vote was going to go, or did he come up with that strategy himself? He bought himself another week, at least. And how long do you think it will take for Mookie to figure it out?
That's what I'm talking about! Dreamz blabbed at all the right times to all the right people; they tricked Alex into playing the immunity idol and got rid of Edgardo in one easy step. The best part was seeing their faces when they realized that Alex had not gotten a single vote and Edgardo was the real target. Brilliant. Even Rocky was impressed from the jury.
I agree that Edgardo was a better choice than Mookie since Mookie's pretty stupid (although the irony would have been nice), but I feel kind of bad for Dreamz. They should have told him, out of strategy if not kindness. He's totally unpredictable.
Both tribes were instructed to grab water canteens and row out to Exile Island, where they found new buffs and merged into one tribe. They also found a note telling them to return to the Moto beach to spend the rest or their days; how exciting to be returning to the lap of luxury. We were thinking about how funny it would be if Moto's beach was stripped back down to its sand and sure enough, the new tribe arrived to find nothing. Not even a happy drunken merge feast.
With nothing to do and nothing to eat, everyone started flapping their gums and blabbing their strategies. Mookie couldn't take it anymore and suddenly blurted to Dreamz, "We got the idol!" then immediately realized that he'd made a mistake that could cost him a spot in his own alliance. By being the last to know, Dreamz realized he wasn't anyone's favourite so the two of them seemed to be trying to stick together.
Right before the immunity challenge, Jeff had everyone draw rocks from a bag which split the tribes evenly into two teams. He assured them that they are still one, still Bula Bula, but for today the challenge would be played in teams and the losing team would head to tribal council.
The winning team (Yau, Earl, Cassandra, Edgardo and Boo) rejoiced with steaks. The losers continued on to council without even a chance to regroup. Jeff asked a bunch of pointed questions and from the answers it seemed pretty obvious what one had to do in order to stay alive. Alex revealed he was after Michelle. The girls realized it would be down to the two of them, so they voted against each other. Mookie must have recalled a conversation he'd had with Dreamz earlier, about how Alex has way too much control, so he voted against Stacy. He expected Dreamz to do the same, but Dreamz did NOT! And Michelle had to go. I will genuinely miss Michelle.
So, how many times do you guys think Rocky tells Lisi to shut up over there in that jury box? A lot, right?
First, I must profess my love for Yau. I adored how he told everyone he was "all knees" and should be the one to sit out of the dance, then proceeded to kick serious ass in the marksmanship challenge.
Second, I have to say that Earl looked so fine leading Moto in the tribal dance, it seemed like he belonged there. Very cool.
Now, on to business. Lisi, how dumb can you be? As we all suspected last week, telling Alex about the idol clues led directly to the Boys' Club finding the idol behind her back. I was just starting to feel bad for her when she went off about how Ravu were all a bunch of losers and that she was going to quit. No reason to stay when in fact, she's run the gamut in this game. She's been rich, she's been poor, she's been in exile - a statement so nice, she made it twice. Gag.
She told Alex she was ready to go home, then suddenly changed her mind and started campaigning against Dreamz at the last minute. I thought they were going to keep her until she opened her mouth at tribal council and totally outdumbed herself. Dreamz, dare I admit it, absolutely charmed me when he cut her off and said, "Jeff, I'm ready to vote." And Lisi went home.
Yau finally found the immunity idol. Earl enabled this by getting everyone else out of camp for awhile. When Yau found it, he was so excited. He just couldn't stop talking about it and I was sure everyone else would come back while he was still hugging it and showing it to the cameraman. When Earl returned, Yau secretly showed him the idol and the two men pledged to share it. Later in the show, Yau got it into his head to make a fake idol from a coconut shell and buried it while Stacy and Michelle slept.
During the reward challenge, Mookie made fun of how Yau prepared himself for his turn. It was petty and ugly and mean-spirited. Yau landed his shot, but unfortunately he was the only one from Moto to do so and Ravu won their first challenge ever. They got to spend the afternoon at an arcade and play games and eat hotdogs. Rocky was displeased with how much his tribe ate, and voiced his opinion loudly and abusively. This turned out to be a pretty big mistake.
How much do I love Michelle? So much. She was Moto's caller during the blind immunity challenge and she just couldn't stop bouncing! Every syllable was punctuated with a jump, hop or hip grind, and at one point she actually FELL RIGHT OFF HER PODIUM! She didn't even feel it...she hopped back up and didn't miss a beat. We watched it 8 times in a row.
Ravu lost immunity. Alex and Edgardo (I really want Lisi to stop calling him, Edgwardo) plotted against Rocky. Lisi needed an extra brain to help her decipher those vague immunity clues and confided in Alex. At tribal council, Rocky was shocked to find himself ousted before Lisi so he screamed a primal, primal scream against the world.
No reward challenge this week, instead Jeff mixed up the tribes and evened things out. Earl and Edgardo started off the selection process and by the end of it, Lisi was the only one who didn't get picked. She completely short-circuited and started speaking in tongues. She may have actually said words, but I have no idea because I was laughing too hard. Then Jeff said something about Exile Island and started twirling his finger around his ear, because he agrees with us that something is totally wrong with that woman. Later on at Exile Island, Lisi got the 6th clue to the immunity idol. Again, I didn't hear what it was because I was just, you know, laughing a whole lot.
Edgardo won the opportunity to reach into a bag and pull out a buff...but he pulled the wrong buff. His tribe became Ravu and they went back to the no-frills beach. Only men comprised Ravu and they became The Obnoxious Boys Club, left Anthony alone in the kitchen and went off to fish. Rocky said a bunch of things that reminded me he's a total chauvenist ass.
The feeling around Moto was very strange. Earl made himself extremely at home at Camp Luxury and decided he was the King. Cassandra immediately cozied up to him and Yau-Man and seemed pretty happy at the way things turned out. Where Ravu bonded right away and swore to work hard together (except for Anthony because he was busy being shunned), it felt to me that Moto was divided.
The immunity challenge was something completely different. Each tribe's members were attached to each other by long, horizontal poles, and they had to maneuver themselves through checkpoints by sliding their respective poles out of the way. It was close, but Moto won. At tribal council, Jeff let Rocky and Anthony get into it. Rocky was trying to teach Anthony a helpful life lesson by pointing out that he's a total girl. Then they all voted Anthony out.
Next week: The role of Anthony will be played by Lisi. Will Rocky call her a girl?
How freaking nasty are those two? So nasty. For reward, each tribe got to choose two prizes out of a catalog. Ravu chose potatoes and fishing gear, and Moto chose coffee and toiletries. Moto won, and then went back to camp and completely ignored Dreamz and Cassandra. Shame! I'm no Dreamz fan but you cannot deny that both Dreamz and Cassandra really helped Moto win that challenge. No one would tell Dreamz how to use the French coffee press, and the poor man had to make himself and Cassandra some undrinkable coffee, full of grounds, while Stacy moaned over her cup of perfection. Then she explained the French press method as though the only people who didn't know how to use such a coffee maker also eat poopoo. Shame, shame on your horrible behaviour. Lisi and Stacy enjoyed being a mean couple of bitches while Alex and Edgardo got fed up. I love Alex...have I mentioned? I hereby decree that he may win the game if he likes.
The immunity challenge was a match game, and even though Ravu had marbles for brains due to hunger, they gave Moto a run for their money. Unfortunately, a couple of ill-timed mistakes cost them the game, and Moto won. Lisi delighted me by falling flat on her face on her way to take her turn. I laughed a great, big horsey laugh at that, yes I did. Back at Ravu's camp, Rocky felt that it was his fault they lost. I disagree...he wasn't the only one to make a mistake...but for a change he tried to pep everyone up and keep them striving to win instead of acting like a sucky baby and having a tantrum.
Ravu almost came to the conclusion that Anthony be voted out, but Rocky didn't like that idea. He spent the earlier part of the episode being tortured horribly by Rita's inane discussion of makeup and whether or not she is a high- or low-maintenance type of girl (she looks high but is actually low-maintenance, FYI) that he saved Anthony so Rita had to get her lipgloss and go. Lipgloss and go. Lipgloss and go. Because really, lipgloss is all you need.
Next week: Rocky and Dreamz become pals; Lisi and Stacy suck some more.
James is kind of a dick, no? Anthony isn't a "man" because he has "feelings," since "feelings" are for "broads," no offense, ladies. Righto.
Ravu lost another reward challenge, and this time it was really embarrassing since Lisi from Moto did so poorly in the beginning. Moto caught up, kicked their asses and won themselves some fish, spices and a king size bed. Back at camp, Gary just couldn't take it anymore and officially removed himself from the game via the medical boat. Back at Ravu's camp, James had a big temper tantrum, throwing rocks and bitching about losing five challenges in a row. Then he boosted morale by pretending to have breasts before the immunity challenge.
Despite James' coconut breasts, Ravu lost immunity and Moto won the booby prize, a bottle with a note inside. It revealed that in order for Moto to keep immunity, they would have to give Ravu their camp. Alternatively, they could sacrifice one of their own in order to keep their living space. Not surprisingly, Moto chose to lose a member of their tribe before giving up their amenities.
Before tribal council, Dreamz piped up and decided that either Lisi or Cassandra should go, since they weren't of much physical value to the tribe. Not that he's pointing fingers. Both women were pissed, but Lisi wasn't too worried since she's part of an alliance that's five strong. Liliana even approached Cassandra and told her that she was probably going to vote against her since it wouldn't make sense to rock the boat and vote against the tribe. Why no one thought of voting out Dreamz, I can't be sure.
In the end, Lisi's group decided to keep Cassandra in favour of ousting Liliana, because her outspoken character might mean that she'd cause trouble for them later. At tribal council, the look on Cassandra's face suggested that even she thought the tribe was crazy for getting rid of strong Liliana instead of voting for her.
FINALLY! It finally occurs to someone to use their glasses to start a fire. Michelle got first fire for Ravu after a week of dehydration, so Jeff tossed them a flint. Yay!
Okay, I know she's an architect and physics probably isn't her forte, but LADY, COME ON! I still can't stop laughing at the image of Sylvia trying to propel herself across the playing field during the reward challenge, her resting body tending to stay at rest. I wouldn't say it was entirely Sylvia's fault that Ravu lost since none of them were particularly good at making baskets, but lose they did, and Sylvia ended up at Exile Island again. There she learned that the secret immunity idol was buried pretty much at the centre of camp.
The immunity challenge was the gross food eating contest, and Ravu lost. If you were Sylvia, wouldn't you throw caution to the wind at this point and dig openly for the idol? None of this lame tossing about of sand with a coconut shell for me. At camp, votes were pretty much going either toward Anthony or Sylvia, and even though Rita (ineffectually) turned the game on its EAR by tossing a vote to Earl, Sylvia went home.
Next week: Ravu makes Anthony cry; Gary reveals that he may be slightly out of shape.
What a mess! Let's take Boo. The game has just begun and he's already out one eye and one hand, then he falls out of the hammock because his back was feeling too good. This guy works in construction in real life, despite his propensity to seriously injure himself. Tune in next week when he does it again. At least he's on Moto, where they have food to eat and a couch to sit on. Ravu, on the other hand, was exhausted and down, very hungry, very dehydrated. Sylvia arrived after her time on Exile Island and was horrified by the conditions. She tried to gear everyone up to get organized and look for clams, but apparently these people would rather stay hungry than be told what to do.
Which is why I was suprised at how they pulled together in the challenge. They rowed in tandem, got ahead and really seemed to be working well together. But then when they arrived on the beach and began to assemble their flagpole, everything fell apart. Erica had a total meltdown about which piece had to go where, which might have been forgivable if she had been right. Embarrassing. And then, for some reason I do not understand, most of Ravu stopped paying attention to their own flagpole and watched Moto win the challenge instead.
The scramble before tribal council was interesting. Sylvia was sure she was going home, but once she heard Erica was on the chopping block as well, she perked right up and lead the Anti-Erica campaign. Erica went home, and Sylvia lived to fight another day.
This season dropped all 19 Survivors right on the same beach, and they seemed happy enough to spend time together. Watching Yau-Man and Boo introduce themselves to each other made me giggle, but learning that Dreamz gave that name to himself made my head fall off.
Soon they recieved a crate which contained the blueprints for a shelter along with instructions. They found supplies (lumber, pre-made thatch for the roof, tools, toilet seat) nearby in the jungle and they got to work. Sylvia, an architect, took charge of the situation and tried to facilitate the process (and improve Rocky's vocabulary). This annoyed everyone who would rather have built the shelter incorrectly.
Later on during their first audience with Jeff, everyone declared Sylvia their leader, which meant she was about to get seriously shafted in some way. Jeff told her that it was her responsiblity to divide the group into two tribes, and I was impressed by the way she handled it. Jeff named the tribes Moto and Ravu, gave them their buffs and told Sylvia she was going to Exile Island, which would give her a chance to find the immunity idol. Once Sylvia was gone, the two tribes learned that their challenge involved both reward and immunity. The winners, immune, would return to camp and live in the fabulous shelter. The losers would have to live on a new beach with nothing more than one machete and a pot, and vote someone out. Sylvia would return to join the losing team after the vote.
Moto won. They returned to find a couch in their shelter, along with dishes and cutlery. Ravu tried to make the best of their crappy living situation for about five minutes, and then the game was on. Rocky, Erica and Jessica pledged their allegiance to each other and tried to plant the seed that Rita should be the one to go, but Mookie made a better argument against Jessica and she was voted out.
What was up with Dreamz that first night, asking people to raise their hands if they're white? I didn't understand what was going on.
Meet the cast of Survivor: Fiji. There's a guy named Boo and another named Mookie.