SURVIVOR: MICRONESIA - FANS VS. FAVORITES

Little Ol Me | 01/29/2008 | Cuz It Aint Their Money

[JillValentine]

Yeah, Fairplay’s spot was completely wasted. All-Stars needs villains, but they need villians who have substance and are actually fun to watch, like Ami. Jerks like Fairplay or Dreamz are just worthless losers who bring nothing to the show.

[Right Cal Gal]

There are many who consider Jonathan Penner a type of villian for his season, but the kind of villian you love to hate. Eliza was likewise seen by many as a villian.

I couldn’t for the life of me understand why they didn’t try to draw Cirie into their circle of four initially - that would at least have given them five and Cirie has much more in common and would bond better with Jonathan, Amy et al. than she would with the Chicka-Boom alliance. Fairplay would have been good to use for the “majority” that first TC, but he was easily marginalized. All anyone had to tell the Chicka-Boom alliance was that Fairplay was lying if they brought any Fairplay stories to their attention.

Fairplay’s “lying” came back to haunt him. I think he realized that he wasn’t fooling anyone the way the Chicka-Boom alliance had hoped he would, and the two couples probably came to their senses long enough to realize that Fairplay was not going to be an asset to them.

Also, does ANYONE think Fairplay would have turned on the waterworks if he had actually gotten the immunity idol? Me neither (although his whining about Yau Man shoving him was pure gold!)

I’ll speculate that Cirie goes with Jonathan, et al. at the next TC so that one of the couples is broken up (I’m still wagering on Parvati) and no tie is forced.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Yau-Man got a large applause when he was revealed.

Also, he seems to have learned that being kind doesn't pay all that much in the game.

Still, Fairplay's comments about a scrawny, old, Chinese guy with glasses basically beating him up was ironic.

Didn't watch the season with Fairplay, but have some sympathy for the guy. Guessing that his relationship with his parents weren't that great, which is why he's attention-grubbing and shifty. Do other freepers take his having a child with a huge grain of salt?

The dorky fan with the auburn curly hair seems a decent player (the one who got the immunity statue).

Vote off the sluts.

What about teams without an eyeglassed member? Could a beam of sunlight be focused with a drop of water. The rubbing-a-stick method seems difficult.

Supporting Yau-Man and then the dork.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

And personally not on the computer at 8:00 pm. Hence these hours-later posts.

[A knight without armor]

I took the Fairplay baby drivel with a grain of salt the size of a Volkswagen. I did not see the show with Fairplay in it. I never heard of him. But evidently he was quiet a character since he had all talking. I was so glad to see him go as his reputation, and I don’t even know what he did, was completely taking over. I thought he was trying to get sympathy and pretend that he changed his evil ways. I bet he was shocked it backfired so much.

The only ones I remember are Yau Man, Gravedigger, and Poverty. I am rooting for Yau Man.

I was amazed about starting a fire with eyeglasses and a drop of water.

I just love returning to the beautiful ocean scenery. I feel like I finally have “my” Survivor show back! Plus this bunch is back to the original mode of dress (or undress). The last show they were strangely over dressed I thought.

Can you believe how beautiful those islands are!

[Tazlo]

Jerks like Fairplay or Dreamz are just worthless losers who bring nothing to the show.

I thought I had no respect for Fairplay, but then he quit, and I found that I had even less respect for him. Is that even mathmatically possible?

[MomwithHope]

I got the feeling Johnny was just there to redeem his image.

[Collier]

That’s what I told my husband. That he wouldn’t be going home anyway.
I think Fairplay sided with James’ group and just told the other alliance that he wanted to go home. James’ group, in Fairplay’s mind, was supposed to vote for Eliza and Pavarti would be saved. But Jame’s group backstabbed Fairplay. IMO

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

Greetings all, its time once again for your:

SURVIVOR RECAP!

The Airai Tribe: Orange Buffs
Alexis, Chet, Erik, Jason, Joel, Kathy, Mary, Mikey B., Natalie, Tracy

The Malakal Tribe: Purple Buffs
Amanda, Ami, Cirie, Eliza, James, Jonathon, Ozzy, Parvati, Yau-Man

The Losers:
Jonny Jackass

SURVIVOR'S ULTIMATE VILLAIN FIRST TO GO

The ultimate match-up of SURVIVOR: MICRONESIA -- FANS VS. FAVORITES starts with a bang when the most infamous player in Survivor history, Jonny 'Fairplay' Dalton, the 33 year-old from SURVIVOR: PEARL ISLANDS, convinces his tribe to snuff his torch. Despite the opportunity to control the tribe as the swing vote between two alliances, Fairplay announces that his head is no longer in the game and he wants to go home to be with his seven months pregnant girlfriend. Unsure whether Fairplay is up to his old tricks, his bewildered tribe plays it safe and votes him out nine to one. Fairplay leaves behind his final words: "No regrets at all. Last time I was the biggest bad guy ever and this time I'm a responsible adult that people liked, some even loved. What's going on in the world?"

TWO CANOES

Two traditional Micronesian war canoes plow through the open ocean. The first contains ten Americans from all walks of life. Their only common bond is that they are all Survivor's ultimate Fans. In the second canoe sit ten of the most popular contestants in Survivor's history, the Favorites. These two groups have no idea they'll be competing against each other. The tribe of Fans consists of: Alexis, Chet, Erik, Joel, Jason, Kathy, Mikey, Mary, Natalie, and Tracy. For the Favorites: Jonny Fairplay from SURVIVOR: PEARL ISLANDS, Amy and Eliza from SURVIVOR: VANAUATU, Cirie from SURVIVOR: PANAMA -- EXILE ISLAND, Jonathan, Ozzy, and Parvati from SURVIVOR: COOK ISLANDS, Yau-Man from SURVIVOR: FIJI, and Amanda and James from SURVIVOR: CHINA.

FANS VS. FAVORITES

The Fans touch down on a beach where Jeff Probst reveals they'll be pitted against ten of their favorite Survivors ever. The shocked Fans erupt into cheers as Jeff introduces the Favorites one-by-one. Upon seeing the unbeatable Ozzy from SURIVOR: COOK ISLANDS, Erik Reichenbach, the 22-year-old Ice Cream Scooper from Hell, Michigan, describes the feeling of playing against one of his heroes: "I know a lot about Ozzy simply in terms of competitions. He just came in and he owned almost all of the challenges, but I myself am a track and cross-country runner and I think I have what it takes to compete at that level." Joel Anderson, the mammoth-sized, 32-year-old firefighter from Phoenix, Arizona, sizes up his competition: "When I saw James coming around the corner I got excited because he is, up until this season, the biggest and strongest that has ever played the game. I think I can take him."Last but not least, Jonny Fairplay, the double-dealer from SURVIVOR: PEARL ISLANDS, is greeted with howling and booing from the Fans as he takes his place with the Favorites. From the Fans, Tracy Hughes-Wolf, the 43 year-old Residential Builder from Fredericksburg, Virginia, expresses her disgust: "I wanted to throw up when I saw Jonny Fairplay. He's a pig. I would love just one moment to kick him hard in the shins." Jeff directs the Survivors to their new tribal canoes anchored across the lagoon and tosses the tribes their buffs. The Fans become the orange tribe, Airai, and the Favorites are the Malakal tribe in purple. Then, Jeff surprises the tribes with a twist.

Hidden on the island across the lagoon are two Individual Immunity Idols, one for each tribe. The first person from each tribe to find the tribe's Idol is safe at the first visit to Tribal Council. Jeff tells them, "You can go anytime you want." After a moment of stunned silence, the two tribes sprint into the water.

After fighting against the strong current, the Survivors hit shore, scattering across the island and into the brush. Jonny Fairplay at first grabs the Idol belonging to the Fans. He quickly realizes his mistake, drops the Idol on the ground, and dashes for the Favorite's Idol. He makes a dive for it with Yau-Man close on his heels. Smashing Fairplay's head into the canoe, Yau Man comes up with the idol. "All these idols seem to like me," exclaims Yau Man, the 55 year-old from SURVIVOR: FIJI. "I hope that there will be other idols along the way this season and they will all like me." When Kathy Sleckman, the 45 year-old Golf Course Vendor from Glen Ellyn, Illinois, wanders over, Yau Man directs her to the Airai Individual Immunity Idol. She picks it up, and gains herself Immunity.

FANS, MEET KATHY

Arriving at their new home on the Airai camp, the Fans immediately set about the task of building a shelter. The outspoken Kathy quickly sets herself apart from her tribe when curiosity gets the best of her and she openly questions Chet about his sexual preference. "I hope you can be my first gay man friend," she says excitedly to Chet, "Because I've never had a gay man friend!" Kathy continues to make matters more awkward as she asks Tracy about her breast implants. Jason Siska, the 22 year-old Gymnastics Coach from Barrington, Illinois, laments, "The second the crazy lady found the Immunity Idol, I think everyone was a little worried because we all kinda felt as a consensus that [Kathy] was going to be the first one to go."

DARK HORSE

The Airai tribe receives their first Treemail and excitedly plots how best to take on the Favorites. They grow determined to capitalize on their underdog status as Mikey B., the aspiring writer from Los Angeles, vows to win. "I think the Favorites are chuckling at us right now, saying that we're going to be a piece of cake. They're not looking at us as competitors, but that's good. Underdogs? We'll take that role."

REWARD/IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: REINVENTING THE WHEEL

Fans and Favorites arrive at their first challenge, and Jeff Probst explains the rules to the warring tribes. Both teams will race to assemble four puzzle wheels and attach them to a cart, in which two of their tribe mates will ride. Pushing the cart through a series of obstacles to a finish platform, the tribes will then disassemble the puzzle wheels and use them to complete a turnstile. Finally, they'll wind the turnstile to raise a fire-wok, igniting their tribal cauldron. The first tribe to light their cauldron wins Immunity and fire in the form of flint.

The Fans take a surprising early lead as the Favorites fumble with their puzzle wheels. Joel, from the Fans tribe, single-handedly pulls his tribe's cart through the course, as Jason and Erik clear him a path. The Favorites finally put their wheels together and get their cart moving, only to crash into a tree, sending Eliza, one of the passengers, flying. The Fans reach the platform first, removing their puzzle wheels from their cart, and hurry to reassemble the puzzle pieces to their turnstile. Scrambling to catch up, the Favorites reach the platform and rush to assemble their turnstile, but it's too late. The Fans whoop and holler in elation as they wind their turnstile to raise the fire-wok and ignite their tribal cauldron, winning flint and the first Tribal Immunity in SURVIVOR: MICRONESIA -- FANS VS FAVORITES.

FOUL PLAY?

Returning home, the Favorites are astonished at the loss. Facing Tribal Council, the foursome of Eliza, Ami, Yau Man, and Jonathan targets their votes towards Parvati to break up one of the two couples. Meanwhile, Parvati's alliance of herself, James, Amanda, and Ozzy target the shifty Eliza. Fairplay is left in the middle with both sides eating out of the palm of his hand. "Right now I could go either way and totally change the game in two different directions." But, moments before Tribal Council, Fairplay sends his tribe into a tailspin when he confesses that his game is finished and he wants go home to his pregnant girlfriend. As the Favorites head to Tribal Council, no one knows whether to believe him or not. "All I know is tonight's Tribal Council is going to be crazy," says the skeptical Ami, "because if I know Jonny Fairplay, he's going to pull something out of his hat that none of us are going to expect."

TRIBAL COUNCIL

During a tense tribal council, Jonny Fairplay comes under scrutiny for his alleged desire to leave the game. Some of the tribe believes him; others think it might be a trick. But in the end, the tribe grants Fairplay his wish and they vote him out of the game, nine votes to one. On his way out, Fairplay hugs Jeff Probst and bids his tribe farewell. With his astonishing exit, Jonny Fairplay earns himself the distinction of being the first person voted out of SURVIVOR: MICRONESIA -- FANS VS. FAVORITES.

I’ll be back Thursday morning with this weeks picks. So till then,
Take care,

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[MomwithHope]

Thanks for the recap as always Cuz. It would be interesting to see a fan be the last one standing.

[mtbopfuyn]

What a great episode. Here’s hoping the rest of the season is a good. I’m still not sure why some of the so called Favs are back since they’ve not added to the drama unless the couples thing was planned before contracts were signed.

After getting his head smashed on the canoe, we were so hoping Fairplay would be the one flying head first off the cart. You just knew someone was going to fall out (yes, God will get me for that) but it was still funny. That whole missing his pg girlfriend was so beyond fake that I was happy to see him gone. He’s had his 15 and it’s time to say goodbye.

[Right Cal Gal]

The smart move was to remove him, and I think both sides figured that one out. I wonder if (because I certainly didn’t see it) the Couples alliance played Fairplay for the idiot he is. “That’s right Johnny, you tell the others that you want to go home, and they’ll all vote for YOU and we’ll vote for Eliza.”

Which they didn’t. BTW, I missed it - who did Fairplay vote for? Was it Parvati or Eliza - either one of them would have told the others which side Dalton was really on.

[JillValentine]

According to Wikipedia’s Survivor: Micronesia page, he voted for Ozzy.

[Right Cal Gal]

Boy - that’s a left field vote for sure. Guess he really did want to go home - why the heck would you vote for the guy who’s going to assist best in challenges?

Speaking of that - did you notice the “fan” who was so excited because “I BEAT OZZY!” Dude, Ozzy didn’t need to beat you - he only needed to beat the other people on his team and I doubt Dolphin Boy was going to go full bore to do that. Still, watching Ozzy in a water challenge is a wonderful sight - I wouldn’t be surprised if the dude had webbed feet.

[JillValentine]

James vs. Joel should be great, if it happens.

I remember Tom vs. Bobby Jon from Survivor Palau. Tom (older guy, firefighter) was able to get the best of the younger guy most of the time. Also Stephenie vs. Jenn. Two women who were real physical competitors (not the oh-I-broke-a-nail types) and a good match for each other.

[Right Cal Gal]

Am I the only one that thinks Kathy on the “Fans” tribe is a complete and utter nut job? She’s got the idol, right? So she’ll go SECOND when the Fans go to tribal.

[JillValentine]

Not the only one! Notice how she’s been given a lot of air time. That means she’ll almost certainly go soon.

I was cringing when she was going on and on about the gay guy. People who constantly ramble on about homosexuals, whether they’re making positive or negative comments, are a real pain in the butt (no pun intended).

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

TONIGHT 8:00 PM (EST)

Greetings all, its time once again for your:

SURVIVOR PING!

The Airai Tribe: Orange Buffs
Alexis, Chet, Erik, Jason, Joel, Kathy, Mary, Mikey B., Natalie, Tracy

The Malakal Tribe: Purple Buffs
Amanda, Ami, Cirie, Eliza, James, Jonathon, Ozzy, Parvati, Yau-Man

The Losers:
Jonny Jackass

The title for tonight’s episode is “The Sounds of Jungle Love”

From the website:
The sound of smooching keeps one tribe awake.
The Airai tribe kicks three of its members out of the shelter.
And Exile Island is back - with a new twist!

From the previews, here is what we can expect to see:

We are only shown what appears to be one challenge. Players swim out to a floating platform, climb up the platform, jump off while trying to smash a tile square with a club. Once the tile is smashed it will release a key that the player has to dive down and retrieve. Then the player must swim back to shore before the next player can swim out. Once all the keys are retrieved, the tribes must then unlock a chest that contains puzzle pieces. Once the puzzle is assembled correctly that tribe wins the challenge. My guess is that this is an Immunity challenge and Malakal wins.

We are also shown some hot and heavy make out sessions between Ozzy and Amanda and Parvati and James. Is this the smooching keeping the tribe awake at night? Is this the “Sounds of Jungle Love” on Valentine’s Day? DUH! Is John McCain a Liberal?

Anyway, the “new twist” about Exile Island is that both tribes send one players to Exile Island regardless of which tribe wins the Reward Challenge. Both players get the same clue to the Hidden Immunity Idol at the same time, so it’s a race to see which player deciphers the clue and finds the HII first.

Well, there you have it:

CUZ’S WEEKLY SURVIVOR PICKS!

start highlighting here ->
Reward Challenge: Airai (just a wild guess)
Immunity Challenge: Malakal
Removed from the game: Mary

I’ll be back Monday morning with a recap. So till then,
Take care,

FReepmail me if you want added to (or removed from) the Survivor Ping List.

[YourAdHere]

According to the spoilers, Kathy does not get voted off, but she does leave!

[PeteB570]

Kathy?????

Somebody needs to tell her to just shut up - stop talking - put a cork in it. Of course she would get upset and wonder why they would ever say that.

Her mouth is like a chainsaw - but at least you could get some work out of the chainsaw.