SURVIVOR 7: PEARL ISLAND

14 Aug, 2003 | Cuz_it_aint_their_money

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There is now officially no one left to root for on Morgan. The three most interesting people are gone. I say let them lose every challenge, I want them all gone.

Rupert rules!

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Worst move of the evening: Morgan voting Lill off and keeping the worthless Darrah.

Worst showing by a Morgan: Andrew, point blank asking Christa who Drake's leader is, and who they would vote off. This guy is Morgan's leader?? I bet all of his law clients are doing serious jail time.

[MomwithHope]

Rupert does rule!

Good show last night. Had to watch it on tape. I'm getting really sick of the lawyer. He is critical of everyone EXCEPT himself. He is coming across as such a loser and a leader of a tribe of losers. I wonder how fast he is losing clients as this show is being broadcast.

Drake really has it together. I am starting to get a little worried Rupert will be the first pick to go on Drake because he is such a good player. He should have formed an alliance - hope he did. That skinny blond guy is a jerk, he can go next as far as I am concerned. See you all next week!

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Those two are my favorite girls on S7, but Rupert is far and beyond the greatest.

[luckystarmom]

I'm hoping that they don't change the teams around. I'm enjoying seeing Morgan disintegrate.

I also think it would be fun to see if one team makes it to the merge without losing anyone, how would that impact the game.

However it sounds like Drake may throw next weeks challenge. We'll see.

[luckystarmom]

The nice thing is that this survivor there are people to be enthusiastic about. Last time, there was no one. I'm still can't believe Jenna the loser won. Yuck!

[ksen]

Worst move of the evening: Morgan voting Lill off and keeping the worthless Darrah.

Yep, although I think Osten or Andrew should have been the ones to go. Osten lost the Morons the challenges last night. In the reward challenge his boat was off to the side letting Andrew's boat get double-teamed by Drake. Only after Andrew's boat is 3/4's sunk does Osten move in to try and help.

In the immunity challenge he just gave up. Like someone said above, as soon as he had to stand on his own he just let go of the rope. Later he tried to say it slipped, it didn't, he just dropped it.

Worst showing by a Morgan: Andrew, point blank asking Christa who Drake's leader is, and who they would vote off. This guy is Morgan's leader?? I bet all of his law clients are doing serious jail time.

I can't stand Andrew and cannot wait for the day he gets booted off. Of course if he lasts until the merge I bet his oily lawyerliness will allow him to insinuate himself in with one alliance or another that saves his butt.

He is the sorriest excuse for a tribal leader that I have seen. IMO, he is the reason the Morons are doing so poorly, not Nicole, not skinny Ryan, not Lil, but Andrew is the anchor around the leg of the Morons.

Looking forward to next week. ;^)

[luckystarmom]

I went to the CBS Survivor site. Next week looks hilarious. This is what the preview said:

"Andrew and Ryan go in search of a good fishing spot, but instead they find themselves in a dangerous situation: lost in the jungle without water."

Andrew must be the biggest doofus in Survivor history. I can't wait to see him voted off.

[PoisedWoman]

Yo ho ho, Capt. Cuz. Thanks for the summation. I watched part of Survivor, part of Threat Matrix, running at the same time here. The Moron tribe is making Survivor dull and predictable. Let's hope Jeff & Co have something truly unusual up their sleeves for next week

Why is everyone down on Dara? She did hang in, litberally, until the end of the immunmity challenge. Not an easy feat. Andrew is a wuss. I wonder what would have happened had they voted Osten leader . LOL. Maybe something.

PoisedWench

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

BEWARE! HERE BE SPOILERS A FOLLOWIN’!!!
IF YA DON’T WANT T’ BE KNOWIN’ WHO GOT T’ BOOT,
THEN TURN BACK NOW!
YA BEEN WARNED!

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AVAST YA MATEYS!
This here be yer Survivor PING from Capt’n Cuz!
Har! Har! Har!

The Pirates Drake:
Burton, Christa, Jon, Michelle, Rupert, Sandra, Shawn, Trish

The Pirates Morgan:
Andrew, Darrah, Osten, Ryan O., Tijuana

Gone t’ Davy Jones’ Locker:
Nicole, Ryan S., Lillian,

Now heave to ya swabbies! Shiver me timbers n’ strike the mainsail. It’s time for:

Capt’n Cuz’s Survivor recap! Har! Har! Har!

Ah Lil’ me beauty, we hardly knew ya!

The show opens pretty much like the last show did, with the Morons bein’ morose, and whinin’ about their sorry lot in life.
Meanwhile over at the Drake island, life is good. The Drakes are happy, well fed, and lookin’ fer buried treasure.
Everything is peaceful and serene until Jon tries to convince the tribe that Sandra should sit out the next Reward Challenge, claiming that Sandra isn’t too proficient a swimmer, and she would hinder more than help the tribe.
This leads to a shouting match between Jon and Sandra that would put some cat fights to shame. Arrgh! Methinks that Sandra came out the winner in this verbal swordfight!

The tribes meet for the Reward Challenge. Each tribe is given two boats and a grappling hook. On Jeff’s mark, each tribe tries to sink the other tribes’ boats by either pulling the plugs located at the boats’ waterline, or in general sinking the boats by any means possible. The last tribe to have a boat afloat wins reward.
Jeff says GO and the Moron boat captained by Osten immediately flees to a neutral corner. The two Drake boats seize this opportunity by double-teaming the other Moron boat. Osten tries to get back into the battle, but ends up sinking his own boat by standing up. Dumb Osten! Just plain DUMB!
The second Moron boat sinks and Jeff declares “Drakes win Reward.” He then presents them with the second piece o’ the map, the reward of blankets, mattress, and pillows, and reminds them that they get to pillage one item from the Morons’ camp.

The Morons slink back to camp while the Drakes congratulate each other.

The next morning, over at the Moron island, Lillian wakes early and decides to go fishing. She doesn’t catch any fish, but looses the tribes last hook. This leads Ryan O. (btw, his own tribe has taken to calling him RINO, so who am I to argue.) Rino to chastise here about “doing things on her own and not being part of the team.” Yes me hearties, we can see the writing on the hull now; Lil’ yer days are numbered.

Meanwhile, Christa is picked to “plunder” the Morons’ camp. When she finds out that they have more than one pot for boiling water, she doesn’t hesitate to take the bigger of the two pots. The Morons are even more morose than before.

The tribes meet for the Immunity Challenge. The “strongest” member of each tribe will anchor one end of a rope, which suspends the “smallest” member of each tribe in a tripod structure over the water. The remaining tribe-mates take up position in front of the strongest member and the “tug-o-war” begins.
After 5 minute intervals Jeff removes a castaway from the front of each rope until, after 20 minutes, only Osten and Rupert remain to hold up Darrah and Michelle. Both are flat on their backs with their feet up on a “hitching post” like structure for leverage.
After another 70 minutes Jeff informs both Osten and Rupert that they must now stand and remain on their feet for the remainder of the challenge. Both stand but still use the hitching post for leverage.
After another 30 minutes (2 hours total) Jeff informs Osten and Rupert that now they cannot use the hitching post for leverage in any way. Rupert immediately lifts his rope free from the post and stands like a rock. Osten however cannot free his rope from the post and after a couple warnings from Jeff, drops the rope and in turn drops Darrah in the drink.

Drake wins immunity again!

The Morons slink back to camp while the Drakes congratulate Rupert on a job well done.

Andrew, lets slip that his alliance consists of himself, Rino, Osten and Tijuana. That leaves Lillian or Darrah to be the bootee. After a very little amount of discussion, it is decided that Lillian will be the one to go. No surprise there. They meet Jeff at tribal council where Jeff informs the Morons (with a gleam in his eye) that they are the “losing-est tribe in Survivor History!” Snicker, Snicker, Snicker!
Actually, at this point, they are tied with Marramuu of Survivor; Marquesas for the losing-est tribe in Survivor History. If they lose this weeks reward challenge, which they will thanks to Osten’s unique ability to sink like a rock, then they will become the Losing-est Tribe In Survivor History.

“Blah, Blah, Blah,”
“It’s time to vote.”
“I’ll go tally the votes.”
“And the third Survivor voted out of the Pearl Island is…Lillian.
“Lillian, you need to bring me your torch.”
Jeff tries to snuff her torch but it remains lit. He tries again and finally, it goes out.

The final vote: One vote for Darrah, five votes for Lillian.
Bye, Bye Lil.

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Now, without further pause, here be:

CAPT’N CUZ’s WEEKLY WEAKLY SURVIVOR PICKS

The See-B-S website offers up these here tasty tidbits as clues:

Andrew and Ryan go in search of a good fishing spot, but instead they find themselves in a dangerous situation: lost in the jungle without water.
Arrgh! Excuse me fer pointin’ out the obvious, but these two landlubbers are on an island. And it’s a mighty small island at that! How can they get lost, when all they gots to do is start walking in a straight line and pretty soon they comes to a beach! Then they just picks a direction and follow the beach to their camp!
Problem solved! Leaders o’ the Morons indeed!

One tribe recovers a buried treasure. But will it have been worth the search?
Now some say that the Drake tribe finds their treasure since they has two parts o’ the map.
Some say that the Drakes win the reward challenge and finds the treasure with all three parts o’ the map.
Some even say that the two inept landlubbers, Andrew & Ryan, stumble across their treasure while they are lost in the jungle without any parts o’ the map.
As for Capt’n Cuz, I thinks that the Drakes win reward challenge and with all three parts o’ the map find the treasure easily. In addition, I thinks that the treasure be all the possessions o’ t’ other tribe what were confiscated on day one. Namely, Osten’s Canadian Club Whiskey.

The Immunity Challenge shocks the tribes with an unexpected reward.
Arrgh! Since the title o’ this episode is “Pick a Castaway, Any Castaway”, methinks that the unexpected reward be the winner gets t’ swap one o’ their own tribe for one o’ the other tribes castaways. In this case, the Morons win t’ ugly idol and decide t’ swap Darrah fer Rupert. Arrgh! If any o’ ya swabbys think ya can come up with a better idea, then here’s yer chance. Post away! Har! Har! Har!

Lubricated by whiskey, one Survivor creates a spectacle at a Tribal Council that is not to be missed.
Arrgh! Since the Moron’s take possession o’ t’ ugly idol, the Drakes make their first trip to Tribal Council. Liquored up w/Osten’s Canadian Club (from the buried treasure remember), Jon make an even bigger fool of himself than normal, ticks Jeff Probst off by consistently interrupting him, tells “the greatest lie ever told by a Survivor” and gets himself booted all in one night.

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So there ya have it mateys, Capt’n Cuz’s picks for episode 4.

Reward Challenge – Won by Drake
Immunity Challenge – Won by Morgan
Bootee – Jon Dalton

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I’ll be back next week with me recap & picks.
So till then, enjoy the show and remember!

Keep yer powder dry,
yer cutlass razor sharp
and don’t take any wooden doubloons!
Har Har Har!

P.S. Remember to Freepmail me if you want on or off the Survivor Ping List.

[ken5050]

G'day cuz....the question I thought I asked you last week was that if one tribe continues to win everything, wouldn't the producers be expected to mix the tribes up somehow, far earlier than planned...otherwise there's no challenge, no drama...BTW..Osten "drownin" perpetuates the myth that while, "white men can't jump, black men can't swim"..dare we expect Jesse Jackson to boycott the show?

[WI Conservative 4 Bush]

In the spirit of piracy, Cuz, let me say this:

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect!!

I think you might be on to something with your predictions. I've been thinking that this is the perfect time in the game for a shakeup.

[girlscout]

Ahoy Matee! Me thinks you may be hitting the nail on the head. It's time for a shake up to wake up this show. Don't know about the rest of you mates, but I feel this show has been a real yawner compared to the others.

Go Jon, go. Go far, far away you slush puppy.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

the question I thought I asked you last week was that if one tribe continues to win everything, wouldn't the producers be expected to mix the tribes up somehow, far earlier than planned...otherwise there's no challenge, no drama...

Sorry matie, must o’ slipped past me one good eye! Har! Har! Har!

To tell the truth, I’ll bet the producers never thought they would come up with another tribe as bad as the Moo-Moo’s from Marquasas. Even then, during the forth episode, when they mixed up the tribes, they made it a point to say that the mix-up was planned before any people were cast or even before one foot of film was shot.

In fact, I don’t think the producers are capable of changing things around at the last minute. It would be a logistical nightmare. Let’s face it, when it sometimes takes them 6 days in advanced to build and set up challenges, they can’t just up and change things on the fly.

No, I think they just try their best to come up with the best mix of contestant’s for each tribe and hope for the best. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it don’t.

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I'm buying into the rumor that Osten will quit, and that Lillian re-enters the game.

The majority of people on the Survivor boards seem to think that Christa will be booted tonight. I'll go with that.

[baseballfanjm]

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect!

Why did you have to quote The Princess Bride? Now I'm forced to say "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!"

And I also have to say "You've just committed one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less than that is never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!"

Now you've done it, I can't stop! Help!

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

Thank you all for your kind words.
I only do this to open discussion on Survivor, and your feedback is helpful.

What about the rest of you Ping-ees? How bout telling us who you think will be booted.

[WI Conservative 4 Bush]

My guess is that slacker/lush Jon gets the boot tonight. Doesn't look like he brings much to the table for that tribe.

Hey baseball fan: When I was your age, television was called books.

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Man, I love that movie.

I must say, the wife and I have been very pleased with this version of Survivor, actually. The maroon tribe is a bit much to take, but the piracy angle has been well-presented.

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

Well Ping-ees here is a new item I’ll start posting for your enjoyment. A consolidation of the “Across the Board Picks” as of 3:30pm EDT.

The across the board picks are a listing of 17 Major spoiler websites and of course our very own. Why they don’t include FreeRepublic? Who knows? But I’ve included it here! My picks of course!

Reward Challenge winner: None listed 33%, Drake- 67%, Morgan– 0%

Immunity Challenge winner: None listed 33%, Drake-0%, Morgan-67%

Bootee: None listed –11%, Burton-39%, Jon-33%, Christa-17%

Enjoy & I’m outta here!

Capt’n Cuz

[ksen]

What about the rest of you Ping-ees? How bout telling us who you think will be booted.

If Drake goes to tribal council then my money would be on Jon leaving.

If Morgan goes I'm thinking the black chick gets the heave ho because the two white guys will like looking at Dhara(sp?) some more.