Night 27: Rupert says he tried to tell the Heroes about Russell. Candice is kissing the villains’ butts, saying it was a great move. Russell is pissed Poverty didn’t tell him about the second idol. She “lied” to him apparently. Poverty defends herself with her high pitch voice that she must think guys find attractive but it doesn’t make Russell any less angry. Poverty says it is because he thinks he’s the godfather of this game and I’m shocked she didn’t call herself the godmother.
Amanda and Rupert strategize and Rupe says he is going to work on Sandra and try to get her on board with them. The Heroes know she is pretty much their last hope. Ooooh they don’t even show the intro/credits. That means they needed that extra 45 seconds. I’m excited.
Day 28. Stock footage of those darn whales again. Candice is stroking Russell’s ego about a move he had nothing to do with (-5 Candice). Russ starts working on her to jump ship. When someone from the other tribe is saying there is a strong possibility you could wind up in at least third place, I think that’s when you should call shenanigans.
If you switch to be with us, I promise I will tell you how LOST ends. I'm the king of Survivor. Don't you know I'm omisent... omniscent... all-knowing?!?
Reward challenge: Glorified version of shuffleboard: Three teams, two turns each, and closest to the X wins. This was boring to watch so I will not bore you with words. After the first round, Rupert is closest. When Sandra’s doesn’t get close to the X, Probst gets catty and says, “That’s a wasted shot right there.” Thanks for the input Jeffrey. On the/his last shot, Colby wins reward for himself, Amanda, and Danielle. A trip to Robert Louis Stevenson’s (wrote Treasure Island) home which is now a museum, a showing of the film and a good night’s sleep in a real bed.
Hey, I stepped up for once! YAY!
The trio is chillin on the bed, watching the movie but Amanda is scanning the room for the clue. Danielle and Colby are chomping on popcorn and Danielle finds it in the bowl and drops it on the floor under her spot on the bed. Amanda gets suspicious and heads over to Danielle’s side.
Oh nothing. Just your last chance at million bucks.
She finds the clue and a catfight ensues. LOL. Danielle is calling Amanda “psychotic” and they wrestle for the clue. They argue who has rights to the clue and Colby is asked for his opinion. “I didn’t even see what happened, I was watching Treasure Island.” LOL. Colby, stupidly, tells Amanda to give it back to Danielle. -10 Colby. And Amanda even more stupidly, ends up giving it back to her. -20 Amanda. These Heroes, you really make it hard for me to root for you when you are continually STUPID.
Gimme it, you psychopath!
The three head back to camp and it doesn’t take long for the catfight story to come up. Danielle exaggerates that she “wrestled Amanda down to the ground”. I didn’t see that happen. Danielle and Russell take off to search for the clue. And of course, Russell finds it and stashes it and Danielle has no clue (even though she had the clue). This is Russell’s petty attempt at revenge. Wouldn’t Danielle have gotten suspicious when he just stopped searching all of the sudden even if it was so "the heroes won't get suspicious"? Nah, that’s giving her too much credit.
Russell tells Candice he has the HII. She says she wants to see it so they head off into the jungle. Russell says again that this is their key to the final three. I’d like to know who the third person is. Poverty? Danielle? They hug, there is talk of trust, and blah blah blah. Candice, I wanted to root for you. I wanted to like you. But you are now dead to me unless this is an elaborate rouse to rid us of Russell.
Sandra is breaking down what happened on her tribe (RIP Boston Rob) to Colby. The two assume Danielle has the HII so they should go after Russell or Poverty tonight. Cut to Sandra and Russell chat chitting and I’m actually shocked at how poorly Sandra seems to be lying to Russell. He tells her they have six votes. “Wait hold up, you’re doing math wrong,” says Sandra. LOL. He then says a Hero is with them and Sandra suspects Candice or Amanda.
Immunity Challenge: Build a house of cards using 150 wooden tiles ten feet tall, and the first one done wins. Another challenge where I don’t have to write a lot. YAY. Right as Jeff comments on Colby’s stack, it all comes crashing down. That pretty much sums up Colby as a whole. Just when you want to root for him (winning the shuffleboard game), he sucks and collapses (not helping Amanda get the clue). It’s pretty much neck and neck between Jerri and Russell.
I bet they had to put in the stool for everyone so they couldn't be sued for discrimination.
Russell runs out of cards in his hands 10 feet up and that pretty much costs him the win because Jerri finishes first. She freaks out about winning since it is her first in three seasons and I don’t think she should be bragging about that. It’s kind of like advertising how much you suck at challenges and shouldn’t be perceived as a threat. Man, Immunity challenge over at 35 minutes. There is either going to be some scrambling or an EPIC TC. I’m giddy!
Surprise! I'm mediocre!
Sandra gives us the best quote of this episode: “I’m voting for Russell because I have been waiting to take him down for thirty days- thirty days too long. It’s time for revenge. This is for Courtney, Boston Rob, Tyson, and even Coach who I don’t care about but I’ll stick him in there too.” +100 for Sandra.
Jerri says she is “swimming in yay” since she won her first immunity. -5 Jerri. Russell tells Candice to vote for “Boston Rob in a girl’s body”: Amanda. Candice is so boring. I wish she wasn’t the focus of this episode. Her plan is going for “the plan that is most solid”. The Heroes & Sandra talk about the plan to vote for Russell.
Russell asks Candice who are they planning to vote for and she mumbles “I don’t know” which might as well be code for “You but I don’t want to say it to your face.” Russell isn’t an idiot and says “Me?” Candice also admits that Sandra’s on board with the heroes.
Russell stalks down the beach to Sandra (all five foot one of him) while Candice chases him like a little kid trying to beat the sibling to their parent to explain why they shouldn’t be the one in trouble and that they didn’t do anything wrong. Sandra does another not so great job at lying to Russell saying that Amanda is going home. Later, Sandra says they are back to square one (book title! so she gets +100 points from me!) because of Candice. They think Russell will now “get the idol” (since they don’t know he has it and Candice isn’t fessing up. #1 indicator of the way she is gonna vote) so they plan for Poverty. Colby says, “If this thing doesn’t work it’s Candice’s fault” which makes me laugh. But if it doesn’t work it doesn’t really matter whose fault it is because you’ll be next Colpster.
Sandra is practically begging Candice to go along with the Heroes’ plan and makes a good point that if they're already talking like this then they are done. If you flip, no one is going to trust you. If you don’t flip and Sandra is lying, you’re out the door next anyway. What do you gain by flipping Candice?! A few extra days? Come on! I swear, if I were on the heroes and my one chance to get out Russell or Poverty fell through because of my own tribemate, I would vote them out myself at the next TC since my chances would be over anyway.
Sandra is all kinds of awesome this episode and tells Russell and Danielle to go away while she is trying to talk to Candice and surprisingly they oblige. Candice tells Sandra she wants Amanda out (must be personal).
Seriously, Candice! How are you this dumb?!
TC in the TH: Lots of talk about jumping ship. Sandra clearly does her best lying at TC. She acknowledges that she is on the outside of her own group. Russell then tries to explain that they might keep her around since she isn’t a threat in challenges and she’d be easy to beat in the final vote since she’s already won. Again it becomes an episode of Dr. Phil and Sandra says she doesn’t feel wanted and that makes her frustrated. Russell then goes on to list the important characteristics of his alliance and leaves out Sandra. She calls him out and he says she is “just there”. Look at the little man’s poor attempts at jury votes (his lack of social game and inability to keep his mouth shut are his true kryptonite). Colby and Rupert again state their assumptions out loud that Danielle has the idol. When will you two learn?
Time to vote. If looks could kill, JT would have just murdered Russell three times over. Russell even has to brag in his little voting confessional that he found the idol, not Danielle. Someone has a Napoleon complex. We see votes for Amanda and Poverty. Time to tally. Andddddddd, Russell stands up and plays the idol. Another reason he sucks: He cannot read people! This is the second time he has done this and received NO votes. Seriously, the dude finds HIIs (with clues this time around) and bullies people. That’s it. He’s AWFUL.
Two votes for Amanda. Poverty panics when she sees two votes for herself. “Damn it” says Russell when he see he was not the target of the heroes. Yup, you suck. I’m REALLY going to enjoy watching him cry when he makes it to second place again (merely a guess, no spoilers here). And with 5 votes, Amanda is out and gets her torch snuffed for the first time in three seasons. “Okay Jeff I know you’ve been waiting for ever to do this.” Haha +5 for being funny when you’re out Amanda.
Oh look, it's my third chance to suck at the finale TC sailing off into the sunset.
Russell catches Poverty’s eye and says, “I had to. I’m never that nervous” and that’s a lie since this is the second time this has happened. And Poverty says, “You wasted one” and rolls her eyes. Don’t worry Poverty, the producers have basically heaped the game onto Russell so they will be tossing it back in tomorrow and I’m sure you, he or Danielle will find it. Maybe Jerri if the producers don’t want to blatantly show favoritism/ manipulation. But I will still give you +5 for giving Russell sass.
At this point, I want anybody but Russell to win. Mainly Poverty and Sandra though since they are showing signs of intelligence. And interesting that they are the last remaining winners in the game. Because they actually think to outwit, outplay, and outlast. Not outluck, outtalk, or outbrag like SOME people who shall remain nameless.
Next week: The Villains start to crumble: Russell threatens Poverty, Poverty bullies Jerri, and Annie is excited.
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