Survivor: Catching up

Hi Survivor junkies! Thanks so much for e-mailing me and wanting to know what's going on. I would like to say that the reason for my silence is due to my skipping off to Europe for some quality time with John Cusak, but alas, it was far more mundane than that.

Thankfully I have had a few minutes to plunk out some quck synopses of what we have missed in the last 2 months (yes, 2 months...I know, I'm such a slacker.) This takes us up to the Survivor that aired on Thanksgiving...which I will post in a few hours.


Episode 2:

Billy, the rotund heavy-metal dude from the Hispanic team was less than beloved by his teammates, and they wasted little time bouncing him from the tribe. The most notable moment coming at the end of the episode when he told everyone that he was having a secret love affair with a cute blonde chick from another tribe. Problem was that this was all in Billy's head, and cute blonde chick spent the next episode writing out a restraining order on coconut husks.

Episode 3:

The hoopla ends. After all of the hysteria about the racial divisions and how it was a sign of the impending apocalypse, it ends after two and a half episodes. I feel so used. The four tribes merge into two, and we're back to the way we're used to. Yul (Asian Tribe) finds the immunity idol, and Cecilia, (Hispanic Tribe) gets the boot.

Episode 4:

Arrogance is the word of the day, and JP (Hispanic Tribe) has plenty of it. It's so bad that his tribe is willing to boot the athletic volleyball coach in favor of smaller and weaker players just to get him to go away. That's saying something.


Episode 5:

Stephanie, from the African American Tribe played the schizophrenic card by telling folks one moment how much she wants to stay on the island, and the next talking about how much she wishes she was enjoying a good home-cooked meal. Their tribe had no room for those not committed, so they gave her one of her wishes and sent her packing.

Episode 6:

It's a two-fer! Cristina the hispanic cop and Cao Boi the Asian Hippie were both incapable of surviving, or getting along with their tribemates. Jeffy offers the chance to boot two for the price of one, they take it, both are gone.

Episode 7:

Flicka is nobody's friend on the island, particularly after she knowingly freed the chickens her teammates had worked very hard to capture in the first place. She had her place when used as a bargaining chip, but when she opted to "go off the reservation" on votes, she was reinstated as the island's weird white girl outcast. Buh-bye!

Episode 8:

During the previous week's Challenge, the teams could choose their reward from a catalog of items. Brad the Asian fashion director felt that his team should choose certain items for strength and stamina. His teammates felt differently, and he took it personally. In fact, he took it so personally that he opted not to participate in the swimming portion of the challenge with the weak cop-out of "I'm better at puzzles than swimming." His team loses, so no one has to worry about rewards anyway. But this led to more than a little bitterness. When the time came to vote, he was atop the list, He left, but in a surprise to everyone, he became the first member of the jury. Oh snap!

And in another twist of a knife, Jeffy allows any member to mutiny and jump to the other tribe if they so choose. after a few sideways glances, Candace (the former obsession of Rocker Billy) jumps ship....and creepy Jonathan is quick to follow. This leaves their former tribe with four people, and gives the other team 6. Using that as the motivation to win, the underdogs shove it down the throat of their former teammates, and both of the mutineers are have gigantic targets on their back.


Episode 9:

Another two-fer. Apparently the season is not ending fast enough for Jeffy and the puppetmaster, so we knock off two more before the hour is up. Jenny the Asian real estate agent, and Rebecca the African American make-up artist (trivia: she's an emmy award winner who does former survivor Elisabeth's make up on The View) were booted. Jenny took the booting particularly hard, saying that if she knew she was going to be booted, she would have worked harder to make sure that wasn't happening. That statement alone was proof that her teammates did the right thing.


Wheeeeewww! Ok, We're caught up to Turkey Day. Will post that summary in a bit. :)