Premiers Thursday, September 17 @ 8PM EDT/PDT on SeeBS
20 new contestants will compete for the $1 million prize on the islands of Samoa
Who will be the sole Survivor?
Posted on 09/09/2009 6:47:07 PM PDT by JillValentine
Premiers Thursday, September 17 @ 8PM EDT/PDT on SeeBS
20 new contestants will compete for the $1 million prize on the islands of Samoa
Who will be the sole Survivor?
Neither team has really gotten into building a good shelter.
Members of both teams have noted that fact but nobody seems to be interested - YET!
With the bamboo, leaves and vines that they all keep playing with both teams could have built a bang up shelter in an afternoon. Oh, well - the rain is coming.
Ben made the reply about the girl from the other tribe being close to being a hooker.....I bet that loser knows all about hookers...I am glad he’s now gone, and I can only hope that “the snake” is gone next. It is a shame that the good people on the yellow tribe got cursed by getting placed on that tribe.
During this episode we saw Jaison under the shelter basically say if Ben didn't go he was thinking of quiting - and then later in the rain - dumbasses still haven't made a good shelter - he seems to be having a real bad day.
Could Jaison mindgame himself out of the game after a week of rain.
My quick favs after 3 shows: Jaison—respect for his opinion and swaying the vote away from Russell for Ashley, Mick—intelligent guy with his hands full with a severely disfuntional tribe; Galu—Russell—probably one of the better placed leaders from the beginning:strong, personable, and assertive, Laura—very good at assisting with team morale, and that is very important to hold a tribe together when trying to win team immunity.
Now to my personal dislikes, in order: Russell, this bald fat guy has the potential to ruin the possibility for some good players to win the game; Ben, thank goodness this @ic@head got voted off tonight; Liz, she has no good intentions and hides in the sand; Shambo, cannot get along with anyone from her winning tribe, but can instantly get along with everyone from the opposing tribe?
I hope for anyone of my favorite picks to win or anyone other than my dislikes to win
Russell H. 23
Shambo 10
Mick 8
Ashley 7
Jaison 7
Ben 5
Betsy 5
Mike 5
Elizabeth 4
Russell S. 4
Marisa 3
Monica 3
Dave 2
Erik 2
John 2
Laura 2
Yasmin 2
Brett 1
Kelly 0
Natalie 0
As of right now, Mick is the only one on Foa Foa that I like.
Russell S. made a poor decision choosing luxury over camping equipment - and a worse decision with the way he tried to justify it ("taking care of the women"). That's going to divide the tribe and make the men resent him. No matter what he picked, he should have said, "I chose what I thought would be best for the tribe as a whole" and left it at that.
Glad to see Shambo getting along with somebody, even if it's the other tribe.
WARNING: SEVERE POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS BEGINS HERE
I was very disappointed with Jaison's actions at tribal council. Yes, Ben is a jackass and yes, he deserved to go, but Jaison simply could have said, "Look, guys. Ben's causing trouble, he's a drag on morale, he's weakening us as a tribe, so let's vote him out." Instead, Jaison made it personal and played the race card. Unnecessary. And I also didn't like the way he tried to make Yasmin look like an innocent little lamb. She and Ben were both acting like idiots during their argument last week. And remember what a witch Yasmin was to the entire Foa Foa tribe with her attitude? But he still felt like he had to defend Yasmin's "honor." Jaison is, sadly, one of those guys who puts racial loyalty ahead of all else.
The worst part was when he started in with the "historical treatment of blacks" part. What does that have to do with Survivor, Ben, or any other player? And did you notice the self-righteous-sounding music that started to play when he got to that part of his speech?
Yeah, I do have personal feelings about this - because I've been on the receiving end of speeches just like Jaison's. I got several of them in the months before the 2008 election. Got called a racist repeatedly, simply for opposing Obama. Luckily it was just dipshi'ite Ben getting the lecture now. What if Jaison decides to make the same attack on Laura after learning that she's a conservative? I can easily see him doing that.
END POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS
Re: Shambo, et al
Please explain mullets to me. They are plug ugly on men. They are plug double ugly on women.
WTF is the appeal? Style, my ass.
LOL, don’t ask me. Look at my hair, I don’t do that.
The closest we came was Vanuatu.
Burnett was relentless. He didn’t merge the tribes even when they had 10 players remaining, as I recall. He waited until the other tribe was down to one player before he let them merge.
Foa Foa Tribe: Ashley, Elizabeth, Jaison, Mick, Natalie, Russell H.
Galu Tribe: Brett, Dave, Erik, John, Kelly, Laura, Monica, Russell S., Shannon, Yasmin
Losers: Marisa, Mike, Betsy, Ben
BEN VOTED OUT
At first light of day seven, Mick and Jaison of the Foa Foa tribe discuss Ben’s antics, and agree to oust him next. “Did you see how he laid into her? I mean it wasn’t just an argument. It got really personal and I think inappropriate,” says Mick, in reference to Ben’s heated spat with Yasmin the previous day. “Ben’s outta here if we lose another challenge, and that’s the way it’s going down,” fumes Jaison. On another end of the beach, Russell approaches Natalie about where she stands with whom to vote out next. When Natalie responds that she would like to wait and see how things go at the next challenge, Russell is stunned. “Nobody is playing the game but me on my tribe,” Russell comments. “This might be the worst group in history, and I might be the best. I’m gonna have them all under control like zombies walking around,” he jokes.
BEN THE PROVIDER
Later in the morning, Ben instructs his tribemates on how to properly use the flint in order to preserve it for the thirty-nine days. After realizing that his tribemates are incompetent when it comes to surviving out in the wilderness, Ben becomes frustrated and takes a cocky stance towards their inadequacies. “Without my help, these people will die,” says Ben. After successfully starting a fire using the flint, Ben warns Liz that he is the only person capable enough to use the flint. “Ben is trying to tell everybody they can’t survivor without Ben, which hey, I applaud him – he’s trying to save himself, but that’s not how you do it,” Russell comments.
GALU GETS CENTERED
After back-to-back immunity challenge wins, Galu is filled with bliss, as Laura leads Erik, Brett and Kelly in a stint of yoga. “We don’t have to always be in game mode, and that’s a huge, huge advantage that we have over Foa Foa,” says Laura. As the foursome close their eyes and slowly stretch, former Marine Shambo observes in disgust. “Are you freakin’ kidding me? We got four people doing yoga this morning?” Shambo complains. As the Yoga practitioners perform their morning routine, Shambo takes on her role as the provider, chopping wood and collecting water. “Screw yoga, man!” she says.
THE RUSSELL SEED
Back at Foa Foa, Russell warns Ben that Ashley was gunning to vote him out, and deems her a threat to their alliance. Russell instructs Ben to not tell Ashley who was his informant, but simply stir the pot to get everyone to blindside her. “You plant that little seed in their head, in their little brain, and then it grows, and it’s called a Russell seed. It takes over their whole mind, so that makes it easy for me to manipulate every single one of them,” boasts Russell. Just as Russell predicted, Ben immediately confronts Ashley for gunning for him, stating that every single tribe member were his informants. Ashley naturally becomes very frustrated and storms off. She meets up with Natalie near the shelter and ponders why every tribe member would do that to her. Natalie assures Ashley that Ben is lying to her, since she did not tell Ben anything. “Yesterday Ben’s name got thrown around by everyone and apparently someone said that I was the one that brought it up, so I do not feel safe,” worries Ashley.
TREEMAIL
Later that afternoon, Kelly and Erik return to the Galu camp with treemail. The tribe is elated to discover that the treemail package contains swimsuits for everyone. “It feels awesome and dry and soft and fabulous,” Monica cheers. The Galu girls strike a pose a la “Charlie’s Angels,” as they prepare to for the upcoming challenge.
REWARD/IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: SEA CRATES
Galu and Foa Foa arrive on their respective colored mats on a lush, tropical beach. Host Jeff Probst explains the rules of the challenge. Two members of each tribe will swim out to retrieve a crate. The section between four flags is a battle zone where a defender from the other tribe will be waiting to try and slow them down. Once both swimmers get through the zone, they will be free to retrieve their crate. When the crate has been returned to the mat, the next two tribe members will go. Once all four crates have been collected, they must be stacked so that there are no repeated colors on any side. The first tribe to get it right wins immunity and comfort in the form of blankets, pillows, and towels. Since the challenge runs six on six, Russell sits out for Foa Foa, and Shambo, Yasmin, Erik and Brett sit out for Galu.
In the first round, Liz and Natalie are up for Foa Foa, and Monica and Laura are up for Galu. The defenders are Kelly for Galu and Ashley for Foa Foa. The defenders get extremely physical with their opponents, making it very difficult for them to get outside of the battle zone. Monica and Laura break free, retrieve their crate, and John and Dave are off with Ben of Foa Foa defending. Liz and Natalie are right behind and make their way back with Foa Foa’s first crate. Jaison and Mick are up next with Russell of Galu defending. Russell engages in a fierce battle with Mick and Jaison, giving Galu a huge lead. The next two rounds repeat the original match-ups, and Foa Foa catches up with Galu. With the two tribes even, they begin untying their crates and assembling them. Foa Foa is the first to assemble their crates, but they unfortunately have a set of repeating colors. Despite Foa Foa’s efforts to correct their mistake, Galu is able to catch up and defeats Foa Foa once again. With their third immunity challenge victory in a row, their leader, Russell, must now make a decision. Russell accompanies Jeff and is given the choice between the original comfort reward, and something else: a “function” reward, consisting of a tarp, pots, and fishing gear. With a mere five seconds to decide, Russell chooses comfort over function. He defends his choice by stating that if he makes the women happy by choosing comfort, the tribe will be happy. Russell also chooses Shambo to join the Foa Foa tribe, where she will also observe their upcoming Tribal Council and return to Galu the following day.
SHAMBO FINDS HER PLACE
After a brutal loss, Foa Foa finds unexpected comfort in Shambo, the outcast of Galu, when she joins their tribe. “We call you McDreamy,” Shambo informs Mick. Shambo continues to butter-up the Foa Foa members one-by-one, showering them with compliments and hugs. “We’d like to adopt her. I mean she’s just such great energy,” says Mick. “I feel like I have more in common with this tribe than people on my tribe,” Shambo reveals. Shambo refers to her tribemates as the “90210 Click,” complaining to Foa Foa that all Galu does is yoga instead of working to help the tribe.
After bonding with Foa Foa, Shambo ventures off on her own to read the second clue to the hidden immunity idol. “There’s a hidden immunity idol at the Foa Foa camp. My tribe is probably gonna try and vote me out sooner or later anyway, so this totally rocks,” Shambo elates. Meanwhile, Russell spies on Shambo from afar and laughs to himself that she has no idea that Russell has already found the idol without any clues whatsoever. “I’m running this whole show right now. I’m the boss,” Russell proclaims.
CLUB MED
Back at Galu, the women make use of their newly won comfort items by laying down the mats and testing out the pillows on their bed. Russell defends his decision of choosing comfort over function at the behest of the males on the tribe, who clearly would have chosen function over comfort any day. Russell states that his reasons were to take care of the women’s needs first. Erik is furious at Russell’s decision. “I would have sacrificed everything on that comfort list for the tarp,” Erik fumes. “The day it does rain over here, every single one of those comfort luxury items are gonna be soaked and all of a sudden not so comfortable,” he continues.
NEXT ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK
As Tribal Council draws nearer, Jaison affirms defends his plan to oust Ben, threatening to quit the game if his tribemates do not vote in his favor. “I have no intention of quitting whatsoever, but I’m willing to do just about anything to get rid of that guy right now,” Jaison reveals. Jaison complains that Ben’s racist comments will not be tolerated and that he is leading a crusade to get rid of him. Despite Jaison’s assurances, Ashley still feels vulnerable due to Ben’s earlier comments towards her. As it turns out, Ashley’s instincts are correct, as Russell and Liz are secretly campaigning with Mick to vote her out. This notion worries Mick, who claims that Ben is bringing the tribe down and Jaison’s heart is dead-set on voting Ben out anyways. Russell is once again up to his wily schemes and, in order to gain Mick’s trust, he reveals his immunity idol to Mick. Mick is stoked at the sight, which enables Russell to gain another vote to get Ashley voted out. “It’s simple. I was born for this. This is what God made me for,” Russell chuckles.
THE THIRD VOTE
In the final moments before Tribal Council, Shambo digs inside of a hollow tree to help the Foa Foa women gather firewood, masking her true intentions of finding the hidden immunity idol. Russell watches from a distance and becomes worried. “I noticed the girls are talking a little more and I will regret not sending Ashley home because there’s no way she ain’t gonna try and get that all-girl thing, or something,” says Russell. Russell begins campaigning with his tribemates to get rid of Ashley, but that fire is instantly put out when Jaison steps in and guns for ousting Ben. Mick and Russell defend their decision by stating that, if Ben goes, Foa Foa will be left with three men and three women, making them susceptible to an all-girl alliance. Jaison laughs at the idea, saying that the girls are too weak to do any harm. Despite Mick and Russell’s many attempts at swaying Jaison to vote out Ashley before Ben, Jaison sticks to his decision, calling Ben the cause of their tribe’s dysfunction. Russell is finally at a Catch-22. “I don’t want them not to trust me,” says Russell before walking out to Tribal Council.
TRIBAL COUNCIL
At Tribal Council, Jaison and Ben engage in a heated argument that becomes far too personal and takes up pretty much the entire council (the part of TC that we see, of course). Finally, the Foa Foa tribe members cast their votes. In the end, Ben was voted out of the game with six out of the seven votes cast against him. Ben Browning, the 28 year-old Bar Manager from Los Angeles, California, became the third person voted out of SURVIVOR: SAMOA.
I am waiting for AR tonight!
Have a great week!
But he’s an entertaining troll, at least.
Coach had no redeeming qualities. He wasn’t entertaining in the least, just annoying. I hated the way every episode had to begin with him doing his phony samurai stuff by the river. UGH.
With all the annoying and/or useless contestants, I think Tocantins may be my least favorite season, even though I liked the winner.
I think we have another two weeks to go before the other personalities start coming out.
Still too many individuals to get a good handle on most of them.
Maybe next week we’ll get a bit more of the other tribe.
Who were the Guidos, I have forgotten them?
I wanted to vomit when they each kept calling each other honey.
The first season of Amazing Race had a gay couple, Team Guido (named after their Chihuahua), who were nice enough guys but were so full of themselves. They had lived in Paris for two years (and mentioned it at least a dozen times), yet didn’t come in first in the leg. They kept thinking every team looked up to them for their superior knowledge.
They had two “come-uppance” moments - one was in Tunisia, where the two bald frat brothers, Kevin and Drew, had actually arrived at the pit stop while Team Guido, confident they were first traveling to the same pit stop, were cackling that “the fatties got lost.” Cut immediately to the “the fatties” dancing with the natives at the pit stop.
The second was they actually got 24 hours behind the lead teams and were still in Alaska when they pulled the clue out of the clue box and it read “Brennan and ____ have crossed the finish line in New York City to win the Amazing Race.”
What really made them villianous was their behavior at the Paris airport, where they got in the security line (even though their flight wasn’t due to depart for hours) and pretended to lose their tickets to try to make other teams miss their flight. There was some shuffling, and they pushed one of the other participants. Kevin and Drew basically took them to task for it, and Team Guido whined on camera that they felt threatened and compared themselves to women who were physically abused. Pissed off the viewing audience quite a bit.
Annoying as the Guidos were (in their first season, anyway - they were a lot better in All-Stars), I’d rather watch two hours of them than two seconds of Reichen and Chimp.
Exactly - that’s what made them such great villains - you really did LOVE to hate them. It’s one thing to see yourself as a villian, and to try to do villian things only to have them backfire on you. Especially at the end, when you saw them trudging through Alaska, still talking about how they were gonna make up time and “zoom right by” and how “people love the underdog.”
Chip and Reichen were just annoying a******s.
And why Russell H. is not a good villian, like Hatch was. You didn’t like Hatch, you wanted Hatch to go down in flames, but you had to give him total props for having a plan and running the game from day one. He was very smart - a four-person alliance that votes as a block, while everyone is voting willy-nilly. Then, at the merge, split the vote and the block votes in unison. When it reaches 4-4, simply find out who one of the others is voting for (in this case, Dr. Sean saying he’d vote for Jenna) and align your block votes. After that, you have the majority and everyone gets Pagonged.
But Hatch did something no one else thought to do. Made himself out to be an arrogant SOB. That way, HE gets taken to the final two because he alienated people. Of course, he almost blew it - idiot Greg and his “pick a number.”
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