Watching Survivor

(Part one, part two)

Immunity Challenge Time!

Aaron makes no bones about having to put up or shut up to win the challenge or one of them is going home. Immunity is back up for grabs. Today’s challenge, two members swim to a platform and pull the sticks to free the disks that represent the signs of the Chinese zodiac by alternating turns diving. They put them all in the boat, the other tribemembers will arrange the puzzle to put them in order, winner is safe from Tribal council.

Erik and Aaron swim for Zhan Hu, Frosti and Jean-Robert for Fei Long. They all get to the platforms pretty quickly, they can pull as many sticks to free the disks as possible in one breath, then get back to the mat before the next guy can go and do the same thing. They are neck and neck at first. Courtney cheers for Jean Robert, then tells Amanda it hurt a little in her heart to say that. The deepest stick is about 12 feet down, and Jaime tells them to take their time and James gets upset as he waits for them to bring them in. They try to figure out how to work it, and the girls tell James they’ll work on the puzzle he should just place it for them. Frosti was done for a long time and got all the remaining tiles. Erik and Aaron have a big lead, it’s a race to shore, Aaron is swimming with the rope in his teeth, and Jean-Robert is completely spent!

Jaime tosses one of their pieces over the puzzle table, then saunters back where she and Peih-Gee are in slow motion, as James works around them and tries to get them into the lead. Jeff Probst says that Jaime is unconcerned and “You’d never think something is on the line!” Fei Long is working hard, no one wants to go home. Jeff asks Peih-gee a question, and she answers and James tells her to pay attention! Feih Long wins Immunity!

He tells Zhun Hu it was he worst performance in a challenge yet, they had a big lead and the girls and James completely blew it. Aaron looks worried, and James looks PISSED.

Back ag Zhan Hu, James tells the ‘puzzle girls” they can’t handle pressure, and Peih-Gee and Jaime are trying (and failing) not to laugh as James goes on and on and asking them why they weren’t focusing, and they need a strong team, and that’s all he’s gonna say. He don’t wanna babysit a bunch of children that won’t try, so they may as well send him home! The girls walk off and start giggling and cannot stop laughing. Erik follows to talk to them, and finds out they did throw it. He’s not happy, but what can he do? He can’t believe that they threw it, but it worries him, clearly. They talk about James and Aaron, but Jaime feels they should vote off Aaron first, feeling like Aaron probably has more ties in the other tribe. Peih-Gee talks to James, and try to get them on their side, and she discovers that he doesn’t trust them at all after what happened that day. Aaron talks to Erik who says the girls are voting against James. Aaron decides to vote for James so he doesn’t end up with hard feelings should he stay.

Tribal Council!

They talk about the switch first, and Jaime tells Jeff that they wanted to break the other team by taking their strongest members. Aaron says it was hard, and to lose immunity was still harder. Jeff says that Jaime is smiling, and it’s odd. She just says she’s not trying to pissed off. Jeff says he’s been around, and he had no concern about winning. She says flat out that they threw the challenge and James is UPSET. Peih-Gee says the big assumption they are making is a numbers game, and it’s driving James nuts. He says it does drive him insane, and they aren’t winning anything, even when Peih-Gee says it’s not winning the battles, but winning the war. He says he can’t work with them if this is the way they’re going to be. They know how he is about not going 100%, and he loves being there and he can’t take another loss like that. Aaron says he wants to be there as long as possible, and says he feels comfortable he’s going to still be there tonight, but he brought his bag anyway.

Jeff says it’s pretty clear that it will be James or Aaron, so lets end the suspense and see who gets the guietine.

The Votes: Peih-Gee, James, Aaron, Aaron, The fifth person voted out of Survivor: China, Aaron.

Jeff closes Tribal Council by telling Jaime, Peih-Gee, Erik are making a strategic gameplay. If they’re assumptions about the game are right, it was a good move – but if they are wrong…

Next time, on Survivor: China! The search for the Idol gets warmer and warmer, and the Survivors get a first hand taste of some local Chinese cuisine.

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What did you think of the episode? I can’t believe they risked throwing a challenge this early in the game, and blindly trust that the other members of their team won’t be working hard to be part of the other tribe instead of sticking with the originals. have these people never WATCHED this show? UGH!