Last week we saw Kendra receive a spiritual
awakening of her aura or something as she realized people can lie on Survivor
about 5 minutes before she was voted out.
What’s in store this week?
Back at merge camp, Jake (AKA your cousin
from Boston) can’t be happier that Kendra is gone because it means he’s
still here (Points for “Reference ‘in this game’ to Carol!). Meanwhile
Drew (AKA
Napoleon Dynamite) thinks he’s only bumming through the game. That’s what
it looks like to the outside when your tribe isn’t a strong unit like Reba is. He thinks Bruce (AKA
Dr. Doom) is more interesting because he has an idol which he wants to flush,
but that damn Doom won’t stop winning immunity!
Reba are as tight a foursome as I
can think of but Julie’s not a fan of the lying and betrayal which makes me
wonder if she ever watched the show before appearing on it. Katurah sees how tight Reba is and tries to
marshal Jake, Doom and Emily to fight back as a foursome but Emily’s only
mouthing the words. She sees that the
former Belo’s as unable to work together. She’s right – they can’t – but she’s
got her work cut out for her if she wants to split Reba.
Meanwhile, Dr. Doom tells Katurah
a story about giving his idol to Kellie before she got voted out. He’s trying
to throw people off the scent of his idol so they can get Reba to vote for him,
he can surprise play his idol and they can pick off someone in Reba. Katurah
buys it until he comes clean. Theory proven,
Doom sells it to Jake with the idea that he’ll leak it to Reba. It’s a decent enough plan but now that Katurah
knows the truth, it requires her keeping her mouth shut to protect Doom. There’s
just no way that’s happening.
At the reward challenge, the
castaways have to race through obstacles to collect balls and then navigate the
balls through a labyrinth maze. Winner
goes to the Sanctuary for some turkey, mashed potatoes and they spend the night
there! Austin is first to the keys but
your cousin from Boston passes him at the knots. Somehow, out of nowhere, Emily catches up and
passes Austin to win her first individual competition! (Points for “Win individual reward” to
Brian!). Emily chooses Julie, Dee (AKA
Queen Dee, the Tenacious) and Katurah to go to the Sanctuary with her (Points
for “Chosen to go on reward by someone else” to Roberta, Jen and Dalphyne!).
At the Sanctuary, Emily admits she
was always taking all the girls on a spa-day. She’s so happy and I love it. Somehow, she’s gone from so completely insane
I drafted her hoping she’d get me a ton of votes before being kicked out to
becoming a fan-favorite I can root for.
I hope it’s a real change and not just clever editing. Anyway, as predicted Katurah comes clean
about Bruce’s idol lie. I get how much
she hates him but the four non-Rebas stand a much better chance united than
separate and she can’t see it. That
said, he is a strong player and this is a good way to get rid of him. I’m not
sure if either option (ally with Bruce or backstab him) is “good” or “better”. The girls then get letters from home prompting
stories, tears are reminders of why they need to win (Points for “Reference ‘in
this game’ to Jen and Dalphyne!)
At the merge camp, it’s total boys time which
naturally includes fart talk. It’s been a guy thing my entire life but I didn’t
get it when I was kid and I don’t get it now.
They show the guys bro-ing out, which in itself is funny, but I am literally
laughing out loud when “Playing
with the boys” (the Top Gun volleyball scene song) starts playing. Perfect!
Doom and Jake talk about taking a shot at Tenacious Dee. While he agrees to Doom’s face, like Kellie before him, Jake can’t wait to unhitch himself from Doom. When they are out of him presence, Jake spills Doom’s idol story to Napoleon and Austin who totally buy it. Emily and the girls return leavingme wondering how long Doom’s story will hold up. She tells Napoleon and Auston (her pseudo-alliance mates) they’re not the targets and the Doom is lying about the idol. There it is. Emily tells Jake if Doom plays his idol, he’s the fallback vote. He tries to move her to vote Napoleon Dynamite but she won’t budge, and neither will Julie. Is he seeing how tight Reba is yet? Napoleon gets wind of Jake’s attempts to swing the vote on him and the two fall out, badly. So much for “Bro-ing out”.
At the immunity challenge, they
get some sun in Fiji lying out on a slide while holding progressively smaller
handholds. Katurah is terrified of falling
into the water which seems like an odd fear at this point of the game. Drew drops amongst all of the girls leaving Austin,
Jake and Doom to battle it out Can he win his third straight immunity? Jake is fighting for his life but his body
doesn’t seem to care. He drops leaving Austin and Doom alone on the slides.
Unfortunately for Doom, his age and determination only go so far – he drops
making Austin the winner (Points for “Win individual immunity” to Marissa!).
Back at camp, Doom is definitely here
tomorrow because he’s playing his idol tonight meaning Jake will be the
ricochet vote. Emily concocts a plan to keep Doom’s idol in his pocket and send
him packing. She tells him what he should
already know: Julie isn’t with him and that the four non-Rebas will all
vote Julie. Your cousin from Boston has
his 2nd falling out of the episode when he confronts Doom’s lie
about giving Kellie the idol. Doom assuages
Jake’s hurt feelings saying Jake is safe because Reba’s going to split the
vote. He’s wrong and it doesn’t take.
Jesus, he’s bad at this. Maybe I
should’ve named him Dr. Doomed.
At Tribal, there’s a different
energy now that Doomed doesn’t have immunity.
Jake feels like a pariah because he doesn’t know what’s happening a lot of
the time. He’s missing stuff and it bothers him but the stuff he’s missing? Maybe
he’s too hungry or sleep-deprived to notice but It’s sitting right in front of
him in the jury box. First Kaleb then Kendra.
He knows he’s a target and that Doomed is too.
It’s clear that non-Belo’s realized they held no alliance to each other,
broke them apart and are picking them off one-by-one. Doomed thinks every word said can affect
something down the road but he’s going to do everything he can to stay (Points
for “Reference ‘in this game’ to Jay x2!). Everyone calls out Doomed’s idol, they know he
has it and he should realize his lie didn’t hold.
At the vote, for reasons known
only to Doomed, production and God, HE DOESN’T PLAY HIS IDOL. When Doomed’s name comes up, the jury jumps in
shock. Jake gets three votes, Julie gets
one and Doomed gets the other four. Doom
is voted out with an idol in his pocket becoming the fourth member of the jury. Emily’s plan worked to the tune of “Christmas
came early today”! She has now attained
the rank of Master! (Points for “Receive
vote against” to Jay, Carol, and Jen!), (Points for “Jury member” to Jay!) and
(Points deducted for “The Tribe Has Spoken!” and “Voted out with an idol in
hand” from Jay).
(Points for “Survive week on
active tribe” to Marissa, Brian, Carol, Roberta, Dalphyne, Jen and me!)
Sweet Jesus, he was one of the
worst players I’ve seen. He had no read on anyone at all. He thought he was
aligned with Kellie, Julie and Jake all of whom couldn’t stand him. Didn’t see Reba’s steamroller at all and
finally let himself get convinced not to play his idol despite his insistence
that he would. It’s a good thing for Jay
there aren’t more “I’m an idiot” categories because he’d likely have found
those too.
But what does this mean to us? Roberta's lead shrinks as Carol
takes a big jump into 2nd thanks to her cousin from Boston’s
constantly being targeted in this game while Marissa, Brian and Jen gained some
ground as well. Doomed’s bonehead
non-idol play leaves Jay only gaining a point due to point deductions. All that
and more in the current scores:
- Roberta: 34
- Carol: 31
- Jen: 30
- Jay: 28
- Marissa: 26
- Kristyn: 23
- Ricky: 22
- Brian: 19
- Dalphyne: 18
- Scott: 15
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