The show is filming, or soon to wrap up Survivor: Samoa, the 19th season of the show, and thanks to Jeff Probst, we know that Season 20 will be filmed right afterward, and the casting director mentioned that the casting for 19/20 was being done simultaneously. They’re doing them both in a row to save on production costs. This means that Survivor 20 will be in Samoa as well… filming between August 1 and September 20.

The last time that happened? Allstars, baby, in the Pearl Islands.

So - is this going to be another allstars? All signs point to yes - and the “secret twist” has already been revealed. This time, it’s Heroes vs. Villians - confirmed by a cast member that wasn’t asked to return.

Someone else who won’t be returning? Richard Hatch, though he was invited. The email confirming the Heroes vs. Villians allstars was revealed as part of Hatche’s petition to be released from his halfway house stint early so that he could go on the show. His big argument was that going on the show would stand in for his needing a job now, and enable him to pay the 2000 and 2001 taxes he owes - for not paying taxes after winning the first season. *Snerk* Irony at it’s best.

Of course, that email was supposed to be kept quiet, in order to keep the twist a secret, but the request was denied, as everyone and their brother is talking about it.

Coby Archa, from Palau, is spoiling everything he can get his hands on at the Survivor Suck board, though he didn’t spoil the cast other than to say that “most of it irritates the shit out of me” but mostly just because he was jealous.

Coby suggested around 35 went to LA for interviews, and of that 10 hadn’t been on the show twice (Their season/Allstars.)

So what do you think? Ready for another Allstars season? Will it be better than the Fans vs. Faves that didn’t really get good until the second half? Who do YOU want to see return for a second (…or third…) stint on the show - hero or villain? My only request is - no Fairplay. He had his chance. No more Fairplay.

Sound off - and let me know what you think!

The TV Guide channel si doing a special this Sunday on the TV Guide Network, focusing on the winners of Survivor, and catching up on what’s happening in their lives since they won the show. Jenna Morasca is on hand to host, and here’s a sneak preview and clip of what she’s been up to!

She mentions dating Survivor: Africa winner Ethan Zohn, but the interview was apparently before he was diagnosed with Stage 2 non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. Ethan is currently undergoing chemotherapy, and is using his experience to teach his fans about it, and reach out to other cancer sufferers and survivors. “This is the ultimate game of Survivor,” he told People magazine, “and there’s really only one outcome, and that’s to win. There’s no other option.” He even shared the cutting of that curly mop of hair we’ve loved so much with People Magazine, as he got a fauxhawk - which Jenna reportedly loves. “I look like a bad-ass now, and not a preppy!” We wish Ethan the best as he continues to fight!

Another Millionaire recently in the news is of course the very first one - Richard Hatch. As we all know, he was in prison, serving out 4 years of his sentence for Tax Evasion, as he never paid taxes on his Survivor winnings - something he blamed CBS for. Umhm. He left prison early last month, being released early for good behavior - though he will have to lodge in a Pensylvania halfway house until October 7th before he’s free for good. He, of course,s till maintains he’s completely innocent - but was upbeat as he was released, even shaking hands with his lawyers. Awww.

I’m sure there will be loads more good things in the TV Guide special - so be sure to check it out!

Anyway.

So what were your thoughts? Are you happy JT won? Do you, like so many others, think Taj was robbed? Were you shocked at the questions? do you REALLY love coach? What about that lie detector test? And his “Lady friend” who said she slayed the dragon nightly? Is this some sort of kink we don’t really want to know about? Dish, my darlings!

While you get ready to - as Coach would say - pontificate on these things, take a look one more time at the preview for the nineteenth season of Survivor: Samoa!

At least this season is one I can spell - AND say!

If it holds true to form, they should start filming around July, for a September Premiere, after the end of Big Brother 11.

When the spoilers start trickling in, I’ll try to get them here to you asap! While we wait -check out the Survivor charity auction that Jeff mentioned last night. If you want a piece of Survivor: Tocantins, be sure to check it out - all proceeds go to the charity, and that’s just good Karma right there!

Also - it announced today that winner of Survivor: Africa (season 3), Ethan Zohn has cancer. He’ll be fighting for the biggest Survival of all - so spare him a good thought or 10, hm?

I can’t wait!

Awww, don’t they all clean up pretty?!

Welcome to the live Reunion show - JT are you crying? “YES!” JT says he’s happy and created the best friends he ever had, his parents are crying, it’s the happiest he’s ever been, and Jeff tells him he’s one of the most loved players they’ve ever had. Peoples ay hate coach, love JT. What’s the reaction been at home? JT says it’s hysterical, they LOOOOOOOOVE me, I love them too, they’ve been very supportive, and he says he didn’t even tell anyone, even his parents thought he was fourth at best. Ha!

Jeff asks if it was easy for him being outdoorsy? He says it was very hard, even day 12 he was questioning what the hell hew as doing, he was starving, and couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, hardest thing he’s ever done.

Why Stephen? He said that he was the only guy he doubted the most - day three of four hew as working harder than anyone and hs the best heart of anyone he knows. Stephen, what was the key to the alliance? He says they always clicked, it was always about bein there to win a game, work together constantly to make sure they were there at the end. He had an inside mole in the game - and Stephen says yeah,Coaches relationship with JT, he’d tell JT everything. Tyson would tell Coach, and Coach would tell JT, and coach laughs and says “I’m the gift that keeps on giving!” and Tyson jokes “He owes me a million dollars”

What did it feel like to let JT know he wouldn’t have lived up to taking him in the end, and Stephen says that Debbie was seeking an answer, her question to JT was “isn’t it true your the greatest person that ever existed” (hahahha!) And it felt horrible to say it. JT admits that his disappointment was put on, he was playing for the votes, he knew it would have been hard for Stephen or anyone to take him.

Brenden - what happened? He says too much disfunction and a power struggle between him, coach and tyson, they set themselves up for it. Jeff says he gives erinn credit, because he says that to win you have to make a big move - and she did it. She says that you have to look at what you’ll do to stay longer, and if you can be 6th or 4 - clearly your gonna be 4. She was still at the bottom, but was higher then it was wen she jumped tribe alliance.

Taj - did anyone ever talk about taking JT out?! She says no one ever discussed it, because going into the merge, it was them three to the end, and she didn’t want to make that final decision, but no one ever talked about JT…

Jeff pulls out the TOOTH! Brenden found it, you didn’t want it, and Jeff says “I want it!” and says he kept it all this time - JT says it’s useless to me, but my mom probably wants it, and Jeff goes to say hi to mom. Marie says she’s extremely proud, and she knew the whole way he could win the game, she told him for 3 years he could. Hows it feel to have a son with a lot of money and she says that she don’t have to worry about him anymore. Jeff gives her the tooth. Awww.

:18 Commercial!

:24 Welcome back! Taj - of all the seasons, she was one of the biggest surprises, he never would have guessed that people would love her like they do, he was wrong. They show a picture of her as a pop star - how cute! It’s a glamerous life, how much of a culture shot was Survivor? She says that it was hard to adjust to outdoors life, she is used to a gas stove, and to drink from a river and it was a huge shock and once she caught on, she was building fires for JT and it was cool. She’s got some wear and tear on the arms - there’s a lot of bite scars, and she says her back and legs, and her skin was her biggest asset and she ws chewed up and is just crushed, she felt it was time to go home.

Jeff asks her to relive the moment she heard “I see you back at camp” cuz Jeff still has a little bruise - she says it was completely out of her control at that point OMG HE WAS HERE! Jeff says it was only 30 days, people say that all the time, that it’s not that long, and she says that she neeeeeeeded him, that day couldn’t come fast enough, it’s a lot of contact to zero over night and it’s hard.

They go out and talk to Eddie George, ya made your living getting beat up, how proud of her are you? He says he had no idea what was going on and when he saw her.. she’s the rock of the family, she keeps him in check. They said Eddie George started fire like THAT - he was a royal ranger, and Jeff says “Next season, Eddie George!”

Jeff says everything needs a balance - to offset the lovely Taj, there was the nasty Tyson! hahah! Tyson, what has been the reaction from the Morman community? Tyson says that public loves him, but people in their hearts probably don’t hold that much love for him and he says great men are loved or hated - Jesus, Joseph Smith, but I’m not like them, but you hate me at first, love me, then can’t live without me.

Sierra - first impressions, they wanted you gone, it never rally left, and universally despised. Was it a shock to you? Tyson, Coach, Debbie? She says it was really hard to start out and get voted out and make the right choices - she knew that she was honest and making the right decision, but it doesn’t take a good person to win this game, maybe if not for my morals I would have won. She learned that she’s been dependent on other people, and when they moment they turned on me, she says she found herself, she figured out after days of ruthlessness, she fought to the death and “I SLAYED THE DRAGON! I SLAYED THE DRAGON!”

Up next - he was the most colorful, memorable character ever -the Dragon Slayer, Coach is next!

:36 We’re back with a clip of Coach. Ha! Jeff says it’s been a while since having everyone as contriversal and colorful as Coach. He figures a lot of people missed him once he was voted off. What has been the reaction from folks he doesn’t know? He says that people are a lot o wow, they watched because of you, but in the back of their mind might be thinking they hate me. Friends and family understand - he loves making his mark on the game, which he did with his outfits, feathers, exile…

Jeff brings up the Amazon story, and he gives a little rundown - when he told the story, did he think they were glad I told it, they don’t buy it. Coach says it doesn’t matter, when you speak the truth, but there was something nagging about telling that story. Jeff says he offered a lie detector test, and he refused. Everyone says “i wonder why?! I already proved him a liar!” Coach says what would that have proven. Coach says “Here’s the thing, you guys have handled my reputation for the last 3 months, I wanted to handle it myself. You have never been blindsided - I did take that lie detector test and I have the sealed envelope here.

Jeff says that he loves it. Jeff says He wants to open it. It has the guys name, and you can call John Groagan which he will be calling, and Coach says he has a video too. Sure, he took the test with no one knowing - Will be be proven to be telling the truth? The audience believes.

QUestion two - ON your Trip down the amazon, were you captured by natives? the answer is YES and it says that he telling the truth. The audience isn’t buying it. He says he believed him the whole time. Hahaha!

Debbie - going back to school as principal, was she worried? The reaction has been amazing and positive, and everyone understands that lying is part of the game, they liked seeing her look filthy and gross and the kids loved it.

Back to Coach - who does he have with him - Coaching staff, book author, and a special lady friend. LAdy Friend Melinda…. question - simple answer, is the coach we saw on the show, is that the guy you know? She says “You only saw Coach, not Ben Wade who I know and love.” Jeff says “Does the dragon slayer make it into the bedroom?” and she says “I slay the dragon!”

Awesome. *LOL*

:43 Commercial!

:48 And we’re back! Since thrusday, people have been voting for the Fan Favorite - one is about to go home with an extra $100k The top three are: JT, Taj, and in the biggest surprises - Sierra! Who is it? The winner is JT! It’s a big night for JG, that’s $1.1 million.

Joe - how’s the leg. Joe says he hasn’t been asked that at all (hahah!) he’s doing fine, but it was hard to come out like that.

Sydney - modeling career? Clients are inviting him back, and she wasn’t too scarred up.

Spenser - youngest guy on the show, biggest fan, have fun? Of course! I had fun on the truck coming in, it was a blast.

Jerry - do you hear from the guys in the service? They say yeah “What happened!” He just thanks god for it, and they all came back safely, but the guys rag him all the time.

Candice - just saw you in a commercial! Candice says yeah, she does a lot, she works in modeling and acting as well as consulting and sometimes law, life is Awesome.

Carolina, whenever your the first off, can you still enjoy watching the game? She says it sucked, should have kept her mouth shut, but Survivor is a gift, she made it over a lot of others and she’s proud of Jalapau making it all the way, no regrets.

Sandy - something crazy. She says that you never get a second chance to make a first impression but she did, and is very glad - though she went for the idol instead of helpin. Jeff tells her she looks good all dolled up.

Where is Survivor headed? Find out next!

:53 Commercial!

:55 And we’re back - but where are we going? But first (julie?!) Any plans JT for the money? He says he’s not sure just yet but will be working with Stephen in the future.

Season 19 - Survivor: SAMOA!

18 strangers, a tropical paradise straight from Treasure Island. Rain forests, Warrior Culture will be the Castaways home - Samoa! WHOO!

See you next fall for Survivor: Samoa!

:11 FOUND A WORKING LINK! WHOO! Alright, here we go. Just in time for the first Immunity challenge for today. Once again, Immunity is back up for grabs - today they’ll race through a tarantula shaped obstical course for puzzle pieces to solve web shaped puzzle. Nice!

Survivors ready - Go!

JT flys through and gets his first bag first, Erinn working on his first, stephen and Taj too, as they race back toward the puzzle - JT heads out for number two… the rope will tear you up, says Jeff, and says they’ll lose skin - JT has his second bag, and no one else has their first until now - Taj then Stephen, then Erinn… JT with his second. Go JT! He has one bag left! It’s going to be a showdown - JT and Taj ion the same leg - she lays down, he crawls over, and TAJ is out with her second bag, and here comes JT with number three and he’s starting to work on the puzzle - Stephen is on his way, he’s got his final bag too. The puzzle looks like hell! Erinn and Taj on the way back with their last bag - the puzzle is HARD, and will take a long time. Taj and Erinn make it to the puzzle table, and JT has a head start, Stephen is hot on his heels, and Erinn is the last to get there. 1 piece in the center, two in the second, three in the third… WIll Stephen prove himself a wiz with puzzles too - JT has 5 pieces left, but is he right? Erinn making up a LOT of ground… The last to start, and she’s catching up fast! It’s JT stephen and Erinn! JT has one piece, but can’t find a spot… one is in the wrong spot… ERinn has closed the gap, it’s all Erinn and JT! Who will get it! JT WINS IMMUNITY! WOW that was close! Awesome challenge!

They head back to camp - and Erinn says she had it, one piece to go, and JT won. It’s frustrating, and she’s sitting next to people who have been together since day one, she’s very aware they could take her out…

:18 Commercial!

:23 Day 37, and we’re back at Forza camp, as they congratulate JT. Taj tells us that any one of the Jalapau members would have won it would have been good, it works out in their favor. She figures Erinn will via for a spot, but she wants her to realize that the guys are loyal to her.

Erinn tells us all she’s thinking about is what her net move is, what does she do, what does she say - she joins JT and Stephen in the water, and points out Taj’s social game is awesome and she has friends with everyone. They think she could win the jury vote. JT says that she makes a good point, everyone loves Taj, it’s a game for a million dollars, and he wants to make sure he has a good shot.

Erinne leaves, and the boys talk about being sure they can beat Erinn, but not so much with Taj. JT tells Stephen as long as they’re solid, it doesn’t matter what they do. Stephen says it won’t look good if he betrays taj, but how does he get to the final, how does he win? IF they vote out Erinne - Taj has a stronger chance in a final immunity, and she’d take JT… rather than him, so it’s a difficult decision.

Back at the fire, they solidify it should be Erinn, and Taj makes sure they’re not voting for her..

:27 Tribal Council time for the first time tonight!
Jeff starts with Stephen - going back to the merge, it was 6 Timbira, 3 Jalapau, now only one Timbira sits with them, how did that happen? Stephen says that they chose to stick togethr, and Erinne says it’s true she’s the lone Timbira member left, and all her tribe is on the jury, and she says it’s amazing, her decisions had been right. Did she scramble? Erinn says she’s learned that scrambling doesn’t work. Jeff says if history is true to form, she’s going home, and Erinn agrees and says she wouldn’t be surprised at that at all. Jeff asks how bit a threat would it be to let her get to the end? And Taj says it’d be dangerous, she could get all their votes. Stephen says there’s that to consider, but its individual, and you have to figure out who they can win. He respects Coaches philosophy, but hopes he’s not in the position to make such a decision - Jeff says you just showed up and its his first day here, he can only vote for Erinn or Taj - what is it? Stephen says it’s about better assuring himself in the finals. JT says that he trusts Stephen and Taj and they’ve made promises and kept them. The thunder crashes, lightening flares, and Taj says that she can’t put her faith in Erinn the way she can the boys, and she’d be shocked if it was her, but there’s no rules. If Erinn is still there, would she be shocked? She sayss urprised, but not shocked, anything could happen. What odds does she give herself? She says a 33% chance of sticking around. So, will the Jalapau three stick together?

It is time to vote. And those votes are…
(GAH SNAKE!)

Taj, Erinn, Taj, Taj! OMG! The jury is shaking their head, the boys just look at each other, and Yaj leaves without a word… and Erinn is certainly surprised as she pushes up her glasses. Tomorrow -the final immunity challenge. They head back to camp, as Taj says she was blindsided on day 37, and for them to do that blows her mind, it’ll be hard to choose… but if Erinn finds a way to weasle herself into the end, she has her vote…

Coming up - Erinn pits Stephen and JT against each other… who will claim the million dollar prize? find out tonight!

:35 Commercial!

:38 Forza, night 37 - and it’s the final three. Erinn says crazy, crazy, and the boys say it was hard. JT tells us they made a decision based upon how easy the next challenge would be able to win, and they could beat her better. Erinn tells the boys she seemed to know, not surprised, and JT tells us they’re already suffering the consequences, because Erinn is so annoying and won’t shut up.

Stephen tells him not to worry, they are the final three, and tells us it’s tainted by the fact they voted out Taj nad it hurts and Erinn is annoying, and it’s emotional, but right now you have to see how your going to get to the finals, and can’t always be nice.

The next day…day 38. Everyone is up, and Erinn promises Stephen that she’ll take him. She says if she wins, she’ll take Stephen, its the best chance of winning. Even if she doesn’t win, neither of the guys want to go up against each other, if they don’t want to fight it out, it puts her in a really good spot. They know JT will fight like hell, they agree they have to win. Stephen says he’s a little afraid to win, because the choice is hard - take JT, his closest friend, his ally since the beginning, o Erinn who he has a shot against.

JT and Stephen talk and JT gives his word he’ll take STpehen - he wanted to make sure they were good. JT says he’s sitting in a good spot, but he’s a little worried. They don’t think she can beat both of them - and JT knows if Erinn wins, he won’t go to the final two, and never know about Stephen, he’d like to trust him, but… And JT says no doubt about it, he’s taking Stephen, and Stephen says “Me too.”

JT says you can trust them in day to day life - but this is a game. It all rests on this challenge. They check treemail - and it’s time for the traditional Walk of the Torches, paying their respects to their fallen comrades. Stephen says it’s a rite of passage, everyone they’ve had to beat, the dragons they had to slay to coin a phrase. He feels it’s about paying respects, and they owe it to them to show they matter, they value them as people, as fellow combatants.

Carolina - so much trouble in such a little body.

Candice - Erinn says she may have been her only friend, but she liked her a lot.

Jerry - Erinn says if you could pick your own dad, you’d totally pick Jerry.

Sandy - JT says She was a bit crazy, and provided Erinn with one of the most humbling moments (flash to the riding Erinn like a pony. *L*)

Spenser - JT says he knew the game better then anyone, Stephen says he was a great strategist and super fan.

Sydney - a beautiful girl, and a lady. JT says it was tough to choose between her and Taj.

Joe - The most decent guy out there, med-evac not the way anyone wants to go.

Brenden - First dragon to be slain. They agree he was a great athlete and competitor.

Tyson - a funny guy who was sincere, and taking him out was the turning point of them game.

Siera - Surprisingly honest and really sweet, it wasgreat getting to know her.

Debbie - Lil Debbie, she was easily the person Erinn was closest too, the hardest vote for sure. Stephen says she was super strong, one of the biggest threats of the game.

Coach - Erinn’s most satisfying blindside to date. He changed the game in his own way, being purely honest, and a great story teller, the boys have a lot of respect for them.

Taj - The hardest vote so far the game. She’s an incredibly strong woman, and so fun and loving, they count her as friend for the rest of their life.

Erinn says that on the other side of the rite of passage is the Immunity Challenge, she has to fight like hell to win. Stephen says the person that wins this gets final 2 and gets to control who he takes with him. He’s going to give his all - this is for a million dollars.

:54 Commercial!

9:00! Time for the final Immunity Challenge!
FOr the last time, immunity is back up for grabs - it’ll require concentration and cordination. They place a ball int a chute where it spirals down, then they have to catch it and will alternate left and right, they’ll ad balls - last person to keep all their balls in play wins. Oh, and one hand will be tied behind their back. This could be a million dollar challenge.

Here we go - Survivor’s ready? Go.This challenge is under way, they start with one ball to let them get the hang of it.the balls will alternate left side to right side, they’ll go to two balls in a second… now… everyone has two balls in play, it makes it a little more complicated, spacing - when do you place it? Don’t get them too close together… time to add a third ball - get ready… now.

Erinn amlost drops one, saves it - this challenge is more mental then physical - who has enough mental to last? One slip and it’s over - ERINN IS OUT! Stephen and JT are battling it out - Stephen is on his knees, JT is braced on his feet, they keep going and going… SPacing is important.. when do you place it? Make sure they’re spaced as far as possible to give you reaction time. Stephen has a lucky save! Then Two! It’s time to add ball number four!

Everything ramps up, stay focused…. JT is going strong and steady - stephen saves another barely… Keep the concentration…. don’t let your mind drivet… Stephen DROPS ONE HE’S OUT! JT WINS FINAL IMMUNITY!!!!

Tonight, JT alone will decide who will sit next to him in the final tribal! He says that Stephen and he have a promise, but knows promises come cheap.. he has a big decision to make.

:06 Commercial!

:10 Stephen tells us that when JT won, she had an enormous relief, because he was dreading the decision, the person he was closest too, or Erinn - taking her would have been a scumbag decision, he’s glad he doesn’t have to decide.

Erinn talks to JT, and JT says he doesn’t know how the jury thinks, and she says that they all hate the fact she’s still there, she might get Taj, but that’s it. JT thinks about it, and she says there was a lot of talk about how it would have been suicide to go against JT - and he ask her if Stephen would have taken Erinn, and Erinn says yeah. JT says he’ll never know if he’d have kept up his part of the deal. Erinn says Stephen could talk his way into a win, big time. JT tells her she’d be logical. Erinn tells us it would be nobel for him to take Stephen, it’d be honorable, but it might be a draw, it’d be a close battle. Erinn says if he wants to win, he’d send Stephen home tonight.

She wanders off - and Stephen asks if Erinn was presuring him, and JT says she has a good case. He tells Stephen that she said he would have taken her, and Stephen says no, but it’s a hard decisions, he knows that. JT says there’s always a question mark, and Stephen says he understands, they both question decision, that’s why they were a good team. Stephen says that they know it’s a lot of money at stake, and it’ll be a difficult decisison, but he doesn’t think that JT will take Erinn. Stephen tells him “You have to know you’ll win this - I’ve always known it.” JT says that he doesn’t know it, and tells Stepehen he’d be scared if it was him.

JT tells us his mom told him when they left that he can win, just don’t do anything stupid - he doesn’t want to lose because o a stupid decision.

:15 Tribal Council time!

Aw, Taj looks pretty! Stephen even gives her a double take!

JT has earned his way by winning the past three ICs, now he has a big decision, what was Erinn’s pitch? She says they talked votes, and how Erinn may only get a couple, but STephen might beat him. Erinn says that she won’t go down without kicking and screaming, but he has a better chance against her. Stephen says taht he and JT made every move in the game together, and his pitch was based on their long standing promises, and enduring friendship. It’s loyalty vs. easy money - how does it work in his head. JT says there’s two different approaches and he needs to figure out what’s most important, beating Erinn would be easier, but which is more important, the money, or loyalty. JT says if he brought the best to the end, then he’d be sticking to his word. Jeff asks why make the moral choice? And JT says what would Stephen have done? and he doesn’t know for sure, he’ll enver know, and he feels like taking STephen is a big risk.

Stephen says that hey, there’s also Breakfast on day 39 - there’s more to a relationship to a million dollars, but he thinks they’ll be friends even if he doesn’t take him, but it won’t be the same. He knows he’s broken promises, but up and down… he’s just hoping. Jeff points out that Erinn might be best not to say anything, Stephen is making a good case for her. Stephen laughs and says I’ll shut up.

JT says he’s not 100%, but he feels like he could beat Erinn, they don’t want to give her money, there’s a huge reason to take her. It’s time to vote. The only vote will be JT - if he chooses right, this time tomorrow, he’s a millionaire. Make your vote.

And that vote is….
ERINN!

Good boy, JT! Coach cheers, a couple clap, Stephen looks shocked and relieved. Jeff tells them they’ve gone as far as they can go - the power shifts to the jury. Tomorrow night, they will decide who they feel is most deserving. They have one more night in Brazil, enjoy it.

Erinn says she was a little bit surprised, but deep down she knew that was the decision he’d make. It was live changing and she was glad to have stuck around this long.

:23 Commercial!

:Forza, the morning of day 39, and our heroes are waking up. JT says he feels great, day 39, it’s a beautiful morning, and Stephens there with him just like they planned and it’s hard to believe. Stephen says that it’s hugely satisfying, they’ve been talking final two sine the beginning - regardless who wins it can’t be taken away from them. They made it through the entire game - and TREE MAIL - Eggs and bubbly and pancakes and bacon - a huge breakfast… yuuuuummy!

JT says it’s the best meal ever - and Stephen says it was their reward, successful - and they even break out the bubbly and toast each other. Stephen says it tastes like victory - and it’s a perfect ending. First impressions, JT says his of Stephen was strong, and maybe religious he’d have to watch his mouth. He tells us outside of country guy vs. city guy, they’re a lot of like. Stephen admits he was totally wrong about him, his mind has worked the most like his own, they were totally in sync.

They head off to the final Tribal Council. JT says that he’ll have to lay it all aside and do everything it takes to win a million dollars - he’s never had any doubts, until tonight. Stephen says he won’t go in undefeated, he’s going to fight for that million, he won’t just lay down.

:32 It’s time for the final Tribal Council!
(GAH SNAKE!)

Stephen, JT - congrats! After 39 days, they’ve gone as far as they can go. The power is in the hands of the Jury. They get to make an opening statement, the jury addresses them, and they they’ll vote.

Stephen says it’s hard to talk JT now, and compare himself, but if you were making the decision on who’s got the most charming southern drawl, you could have made it day one. They worked togehter and talked through everything and shared a brain - but he wants to focus on what they’ve taken from the game. His road has been harder, never having been even camping and the transformation has made him more confident and a better person, and he owes it all to them, and hopes they respect their journey.

JT says that it’s going to be hard to follow that - he never graduated college, but he don’t want a pity vote, he worked very hard to get where he is, and no one has ever voted against him. It was hard to vote anyone out, and had they not have gotten rid of them, they’d switch places. He could have brought Erinn, but everyone loves Stephen, he doesn’t feel he’s outwitted, outplayed, or outlasted him, that’s up for them to decide.

:36 Commercial!

:40 Time for the Jury Questions. Brenden is up first. He congratulates them both, and asks Stephen, he spent so much time talking about how he grew, no game is who grew the most, can you think of a game? Stephen says that Survivor may be that game. He outlasted. JT was an amazing outdoorsman, but he wasn’t he survived. JT says that growth isn’t irrelivent, but at a football game, just because it’s hardest for you to catch a ball, don’t mean you deserve it more - but JT says he outplayed him. Stephen says hiding in the shadows is a strategy, and JT says someone who puts their neck on the line deserves it more.

Erinn - She’s seen Stephen play 3 alliances, but everyone one in them is on the jury, should she vote for JT then? Stephen says the game involves creating structures, and he zigged when he had to and did it really well - respect that. JT - there’s been a lot of talk about bringing the best to the end - why Stephen? JT says he was the most honest, and Jalapau was the best, and Stephen was the best of the power alliance, no doubt about it.

Debbie - She starts saying she’s undecided still - JT, honesty is most important to her, she was immediately drawn to her, but she thought he may have misjudged him. Was her first instinct right, or was lying his MO? JT says that his mama told him not to believe what other people say, he’d have to lie to win this game, he had to do it to et there, and even she lied to Coach. Stephen - if you had won Immunity, honest answer, would he have taken JT. Stephen says, he doesn’t know. He never made the decision, Debbie stops him, and she wants an answer. He knows, and she feels she knows too - make a clear answer and be honest. Stephen says he thinks it would be Erinn, his fear is he would ahve done that in the end, but hopes he would have taken JT.

Coach - Last two remnants of the power alliance - he’s proud to see the Warrior and Wizzard up there. Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. JT, honesty and integrity, it’s hard to to that in the end. Give me an example of honest and being a noble warrior. JT says there were times he couldn’t have told him what was going on, but he swore he wouldn’t vote for him and he didn’t. He said he would take the strongest, he could ahve taken the easy way out with Erinn, but he risked his million to bring Stephen, it’s hard to mix morals and millions. He’s a warrier as he’s never given up. Same to Stephen - he voted for every one of them, he never took the weasel way out. He wanted to bear the moral burden of voting each of them out. He’s never said anything negative about JT tonight, and that’s a warrior stance.

Sierra - She says she’s heard her answer from Stephen already, thinks he’s a sweetheart. JT, why did he take two weakest players with him in Taj and Erinn - how does he explain Stephen? Stephen was the strongest left. Sierra says that she lost a lot of respect because he wasn’t taking the strongest competitor with him to the end, in Tyson or Debbie or herself.

Tyson - They both talk about sharing a brain, Stephen says JT was an asset - JT did Stephen help you? JT says he could have made it without him, but it wouldn’t have been easy. Stephen says the partnership was unique, and it hurts that he devalues it, and he doesn’t think it’s true for either of them. JT asks Stephen if someone else had won immunity? Stephen says erinn and taj would ahve taken him, so yes.

Taj - “Crushed, betrayed, extremely disappointed” she feels the way she was sent to the jury was uncalled for. JT, you said it was so hard to write down Coaches down, it seemed effortless and JT says the hardest thing he ever did was write her name down. Stephen, she says she saw things in him she didn’t recognize because they were ight from day one, was it so important to blindside him? Stephen said the truth was that JT had been talking about taking her out for a while (JT’s jaw drops) Stephen says that he got nevrous she wouldn’t take him and agreed. JT says he’d like to add that it was just his idea, and it’s not true at all! He made himself sound like he was protecting him, that’s not how it went down. Stephen says that there have been other times, but he talked him out of it, eve back when they had the idol. JT says “You told me! “I have the idol! We could take her out”‘ and Stephen says no - there’s times when I wanted to help you, and JT says way to slander him - And Stephen says “Come on you’ve been slandering all night! Our friendship means more to me!” JT says his were accurate though, and adds “You’d have brought Erinn? I feel like a fool.” Stephen says “come on!”

It’s time to make a very big decision….

:54 Commercial!

:59 Tonight they’re voting for a winner, the name they write down is the one they want to win, for the last time, it is time to vote.

For the last time, Jeff goes to tally the votes…. Thanks for a great season, he’ll see them in NYC for the reading of the votes, and it’s time for Jeff’s walk out, and we rejoin them in NYC - where everyone’s all cleaned up and pretty! It’s the LIVE finale read (I’ll open up another post for the reunion portion after the winner is announced!)

:03 Jeff likes the live audience, and Jury - nice job. Stephen and JT, great job, it’s a hard game to play. 39 days in the middle of nowhere with strangers in a game that’s physically and mentally taxing, the winner deserves a million dollars. Let’s get to it. TOnight you want to see your name on the parchment. It takes 4 votes to win. Let’s read the votes.

JT, The Warrior JT, JT, The winner of survivor 18 is JT! WHOOOO! For the first time, My favorite from day one WINS! WHOOOOOO!!! For only the second time in survivor history, the vote was UNANIMOUS - question is, is he and Stephen friends still? Why did they hate sierra? and Jeff offered Coach a lie detector test, did he take it?

It’s time for the reunion - new post coming!

Forza, Night 33, we rejoin the final five as they return from Tribal Council and Debbie’s ouster, which had Coach shocked to the core. JT tells Coach that his number one ally was gunning for him, that Debbie wrote his name down. He looks shocked, says he’s the lamb lead to the slaughter, and they tell him if they told him ahead of time, they wouldn’t believe him. Coach tells us that he knows he’s dangerous, and is shocked that they protected him. He says the lesson is the game is still being played with truth and honesty and it’s the first time in the game he’s almost speechless - almost. Now he wants to talk to Stephen and JT and find out when he’s going because he knows that Coach Wade is no longer in control of the game.

Roll title sequence!

Day 34, and Coach thanks JT and Stephen for saving his ass, and knows he’s at their mercy. He asks them what they want to do about Exile, and JT says they should send the girls over and over, and Coach says that he feels like he scarred his lungs yesterday, and like for him, it’s whatever they want. Coach tells us taht he wants to go to Exile, and he hopes that his asthma doesn’t act up, he’s losing it, his asthma is kicking his ass, and his back hurts worse every day. Coach says that he wants to go, but the cold calculating part of him wants to send taj or erinn.

Stephen tells us that they are DYING to send Coach to exile because he’s so skittish about it, and think he’s scared. Stephen and JT shrug it off, decide they’re not going to tell him that he’s going - JT tells us that he’s ready to test him and send him to exile, it’d be nice for him to be weak in the next immunity challenge.

Reward challenge!
They must race through a maze that says “Survivor”, construct a pole, get the sandbag, and use it to knock down three poles and raise their flag. Oh yeah, they have to do the whole thing while their ankles are shackled. Yippy! They’re playing for an overnight stay at the governors retreat - including a shower, a bed, and a feast. Winner sends one to exile.

Survivpr’s ready? GO! JT is in the lead, and everyone follows him, except TAJ - she hits a dead end, and Coach just follows JT, who’s been right so far. It’s follow the leader. JT has no problem making his way through the maze - and coach has no trouble following him. It’s JT, than coach - followed by Taj, Erinn and Stephen.

JT and Coach are working the poles, Coach would love to win a reward “Damn right” he says. JT puts his pole together first, as everyone gets to work on it. JT has the lead and hasn’t looked back - and his pole is strong. He grabs his sandbag on the first try, coach is still trying as JT knocks down the first target, the second, and the third - JT WINS REWARD!

JT asks for volunteers to go to exile. Jeff says exile is the one place you don’t want to be on day 34. And JT says “you’re the only one who hasn’t been” and sends coach. Coach says he’s gonna take the “monastic” approach, no fire, no sleep, no food. And Erinn rolls her eyes and says he’s taking the Martyr approach, so that he’ll have an excuse when he’s weak for immunity, and he wants to minimize everyone else’s experience. Coach says he wants it to be tough on him, and she’s just trying to cut her down - his body is *this* close to disaster, but he makes no exuses, he’s not trying to make himself look weak. (everyone rolls their eyes, but none so much as me!) He even quotes Pat Benetar “Hit me with your best shot” and then he heads out. JT gets to pick someone to go with him, and he - unsurprisingly - takes Stephen, because he’d taken him on reward. They head off, and Erinn and Taj head off to camp.

JT tells us people are so dumb in this game, they talk too much, Erinn’s rubbing exile in Coach’s face was stupid.

Back at Camp, Taj and Erinn enjoy the quiet, Taj says that she’s fine with the guys going out to have a good time together, she’s confident they’ll go final three. Erinn tells Taj that she feels a little guilty for saying what she did. Taj says “gimme a break, you’re not gonna eat? come own.” He’s always talking smack how he’s all broken down, but he was hot on JT’s heels and had he won “The warrior would have been back!”

Erinn tells us her strategy is to go as far as she can.
All the world says “duh.”

She admits she’s paranoid and stuff, at this point in the game.

CUE DRAMATIC MUSIC! It’s Coach’s walk to Exile, along the sand dunes. The music swells, and it is perfect, though I have to be careful, I’m going to hurt my eyes rolling them like this.

Coach tells us it’s a vacation, he’s not with people who have no character. Coach Wade’s foundation is built on a rock. The hawk calls as it soars through the sky. Inside here, Unbreakable, unbending unyeilding immeasuralbe, immoveable, invincible. Stay out here for a week without food. Mak me a better stronger person, they won’t be able to get rid of Coach Wade now. He’s not going to eat, going to be like his Native American ancestors who would go out for 48 hours and commune with the Creator of the Universe and they would become men.

“Well, I’m already a man,” (Silence as the music stops dead.) “This will just make me more of a man. This will be an adventure.” He goes to stand on top of the dunes, and pray - Thanking for his own creation, asking forgiveness for those back at camp, for Erinn for thinking negative thoughts. He makes himself a “Dragon cane, and Erin will certainly get his vote. “Coach Wade’s body may be failing in many ways, but he has the mentality to outlast anyone there still.”

(This is TRULY a brilliant piece of editing! - they HAD to have been laughing hysterically at the finished product…)

We flash from that to the reward, where JT and Stephen are living to good life in a private plane on their way to the governor’s retreat, and JT says it was really awesome, always a dream of his to have a private plane, it was awesome.

They laugh as they see themselves in the mirror for the first time in a month. JT hits the shower right away, and “it was like heaven!” They then hit the feast, where they’re told they get barbeque and re told to eat as much as they want - there’s several kinds of meat, and it’s a disgustingly delicious display of their gluttony as they keep eating and eating. Steaks, pork, grilled pineapple, and they were stuffed by the time they were done with the meats. THey toast each other as the final two.

JT says that Erinn going at Coach is enough to make him want her gone next, as there was no reason to rub salt in his wounds, and it’s enough for them to want to keep her less since she can’t control what she says.

We flash back to Coach laying in the water, partially, and sleeping. He says that his exile experience was mostly starving, no food, very little water, and it was “Frickin awesome!” - he says it was a great experience, the Amazon, the Congo, chalk another one on his list. Yes he’s walking slower, yes his asthma is in the forefront, yes it will take him longer to get to the challenge. He’s not hungry, not tired, he’s incredibly mentally focused, and we see him walk oh so slowly down the path - he plans on winning immunity.

(…oh. mah. GAWD. Srsly? *L*)

Immunity challenge time!
They take their place, and Coach limps in with his cane, and Taj says he’s such a DRAMA QUEEN, and any 37 year old man who believes himself to be the dragon slayer belongs in a mental institutions. Jeff asks him how it went, and while everyone rolls their eyes, he says no food, no drink, it was euphoric and the best experience of his life. (…rolls eyes with the rest of them.) He ask Stephen for some water, than they hear about the challenge. Balance on progressively smaller pegs - fall and your out, last person standing wins Immunity.

They take their spots, and they’re braced with their arms, inside the frame, standing barefoot on the pegs. The challenge begins. ONly their arms can touch the wall, it’s a game of mental toughness. At 15 minutes, Jeff counts them down to the next smaller foothold. Jeff asks Coach if the meditating in exile prepared him fo this, and Coach says that putting himself in the extreme situation he could was to get his mind in control of his body. Jeff says this challenge is mind over matter, it will get difficult.

At 30 minutes, Jeff counts them down to the final tiny foothold. Erinn drops before she can get steady, and takes a seat. JT looks strong. Taj and Stephen are shaking, and stephen drops first and joins Erinn on the bench. Taj digs in, but can’t do it, and falls.

It’s JT vs. Coach. The Listener and the Talker, the Young Buck and the Warrior battling it out for a spot in the final four. JT asks if there’s food, and he might step down for a steak and beer. Coach says might as well step down then, and JT says “Can’t believe you don’t trust me” and Coach says he trusts him implicately, and Jeff points out it’s a battle against the best, just how Coach wanted it. He’s been talking about it for 36 days, and here it has it. No way tor ecover if you are voted out, but the feet will recover.

At 50 minutes, Taj tells Coach not to hurt his back any more, and JT still looks absolutely solid, even balancing on one foot part of the time. Coach lets out his “primal yell” and the MUSIC SWELLS! AND he falls, and falls to the ground and curls up into a fetal position and cries, as JT steps down easy and says “Good job” and JT WINS IMMUNITY!

It’s overhsadowed by Coach’s antics and dramatics, though, as they help him ‘hobble’ to the bench and whimpers that his back was spasming for the last 10 minutes and he felt something go, but don’t let medical look at his back because than they’d take him out of the game. (Yes, that’s MORE EYE ROLLING! OMFG.)

Everyone heads back to camp, with Coach leaning on JT on the way back. Stephen says Coach is still the dragon slayer, and to win he needs people to stay in that he can beat in the finals.

Back at camp, Coach tells JT that he wouldn’t have stood down for steak, he never would have won that challenge and Erinn says he was ridiculous today and I agree. He’s walking around an not seeming to be in pain at all, ‘all he had to do was massage it and be fine?’ Taj says he’s full of it, and Erinn tells us it’s time for him to go home, he is not as broken down as he wants people to believe.

Coach asks JT how much longer he could have gone, and JT says “oh, 30 minutes” while Coach tells us that he was honored to be bested by the best, he takes honor in the defeat. JT reassures Coach that Erinn was going because of how she talked to him, trying to kick him while they’re down. Stephen joins and says that they were pissed off at the tasteless and classless way she spoke was uncalled for. Stephen says he doesn’t know what he’s gonna do, he knows JT won’t vote for Coach, because he promised, but Stephen is still considering, and the boys both assure coach there won’t be a surprise at TC. COach tells us the warrior alliance is still strong, he’ll be the last Timbira member left, the last of the Mohiecans.

Tribal Council Time!

Jeff asks coach about exile, and how he made a big thing about doing it the hard way, and Erinn didn’t like it. Erinn says it rubbed her the wrong way, it minimized the entire experience that everyone else had. It felt like he was going to say there and it was awesome, it sucked. And Coach says his past experiences to draw on made it easier for him, he wasn’t trying to minimize their experiences, quotes Mark Twain. Erinn says she isn’t secure, and she says someone will be surprised. Coach says that it won’t be, based on women’s intuition, it’s already been said tonight if they listen…

Jeff calls for the vote - and Coach stops him. He wrote a poem - and quotes it…

With friend and foe we march to the battle plain
Some to seek success others to seek fame
We play with honor for the love of this game
And with armor or without we will toil in vain
So that someday someone somewhere will remember our name.

Oh my. And with that, JT keeps his idol, it’s time to Vote. Once the votes are tallied, it’s the last chance to play the HII, no one does. Coach leans on his cane as the votes are read.

The Votes:
Coach, Erinn, Erinn, Coach, Coach.

Coach then tells everyone it was an honor, and walks slowly down the trail after his torch is snuffed, with the swelling of the music. Jeff says that it’s clear with the number of blindsides -it’s going to be a fun finish. Goodnight!

Next time on Survivor:
It’s COMING! The SURVIVOR FINALE we’ve been waiting for! 4 castaways remain! 3 tribal councils, 2 explosive hours, 1 ultimate Survivor!

see you SUNDAY!

:00 Forza, night 30. And everyone is happy and congratulating themselves on the final 6, but Coach is pissed that Taj wrote down Stephen’s name, Debbies name, and is talking to Debbie about it and Coach says he’s pissed off at people not even playing the game as he is. Debbie says to let it go, and Coach says that he’s upset playing with the coward alliance.

Debbie tells us that it gets old, he doesn’t let things go. and he’s off to the side saying “cowards cowards cowards” and says he doesn’t care about the money, he cares about changing the game start to finish and his honesty and integrity and he said that from day one.

:03 Commercial!

:05 Day 31, and Debbie is telling us that she’s been with coach from day one but it’s no longer working for her since he’s been a downer and not doing anything around camp, and it came to her last night that she needs to sep up. Debbie talks to Taj and JT and says that if Coach doesn’t want the money, why is he here? they have to do something. JT says that she’s playing a stragetical game, and is scared right now, and maybe she’s up to no good. JT goes to talk to Stephen and she joins and says they must be talking about her, and she doesn’t want Coach speaking for her. She says she gives a pinky swear word, god strike her down she’s in with them two. They shake on it, and hugs all around.

Stephen says she’s strategic and people doesn’t give her credit cuz she’s sweet, and that worries him.

:07 Reward challenge time! It’s time for the Survivor Auction - they each have 500, they cannot share money or food. The first item is french fries. Bidding goes up and Debbie gets them for $120.

Next up - Chicken parma, with red wine, and it’ goes nuts, the bidding. Coach gets it for $320.

NExt item is covered - and JT gets it for $160 - they crossing fingers, it’s NACHOS! JT says it’s no steak but it’ll work.

The next one is covered as well, and he lets stephen get it for $100 - It’s a brazil delicacy, chicken hearts - and he munches it down without a problem, even given thumbs up.

LAst item - it’s a CELL PHONE! It does a lot, and it can bring love from home - loaded are messages from loved ones, and Taj is crying. Only one can buy it, ad they can pool money if they want too. Taj is crying - JT, gives her the rest of her money, as does Debbie, everyone is giving their money t Taj. Jeff asks what it says, and Erinn says Taj has had it rough, she left her baby at home, and Taj doesn’t have to bid even - she has everyone’s money, she gives him all the money - Jeff says just takes 20, and lets her see her message. She’s in crying, and I’m a giant sap cuz I’m a lil sniffly too. They tell her to focus on he game, they’re holding it down at the George household.

There’s one line, Jeff says - maybe had been hard to hear - and she realized they said “See you back at camp” and she starts jumping and asks if they can go now. He says here’s how it works - he says it means what you think, and he gives her a choice. If she goes to exile, with Eddie, then everyone gets to see their loved ones - and she screams “I’LL DO IT!!!” and she heads off to Exile, and everyone else races back to camp.

:14 Commercial!

:17 Exile Island, day 31 - Taj is greeted by Eddie, and it’s all hugs and tears and kisses even. So cute! He says she looks good - and she tells us he looked like an Angel with big ole muscles and she wanted to take him aside for a conjugal visit. Eddie tells us she looks great and happy, and doesn’t look worn down, something about the wild makes ya sexy, it’s a turn on, it’s ah-ight (*L* he’s awesome)

Back at Camp, everyone greets their loved oncs, Debbie is picked up by her hubby, there’s mass amounts of hugs all over the place, and sniffles and tears, and Stephen says he’s gross, as his brother is standing there in shock, and Stephen says it was the warmest hug they’ve ever shared. Debbie’s husband can’t believe they’ve been tehre 31 days, and JT tells us that he just couldn’t belive it. They Erinn says her dad was proud of her just for coming, and was like “what the hell” cuz she’s always secret girlly. And Coach tells his friend tht he’s the Dragon Slayer, that’s what they call him, and that he’s running the game, and his Assistant coach gives him a bit of a back alignment.

JT and Erinn feed their family some snack - and they can’t eat it, which makes everyone laugh.

Meanwhile at Exile, Taj is teaching George how to get firewood and he’s laughing as he tells us about the spiders and such, and Taj is excited when he starts the fire “Lookit mah MAN!” And he tells us that he’s so proud of her, for stay here and enduring and staying strong as he gives her a foot rub. Awwww…..

Taj says that this really helped her, he’s her fire, the love of her life, nothing else hurts after this.

Stephen and his brother talk, and Stephen is emotional, and as is JT, and Debbie, and it’s a giant sob-fest. Debbie says it was the most emotional day for her and her hubby, it means the world that he came out to support her and didn’t want him to go. Erinn tells her dad she’s a total badass, and she’s glad that she doesn’t have to explain it to him when she gets home, just to have someone that won’t use anything against you is an amazing thing. Teary goodbyes and the family members had to go…

awwwww…

Eddie George says “Don’t let the bedbugs bite” and taj yells “too late!” and laughs.

:26 commercial.

:Forza, day 32. Debbie is talking to JT about Coach again, and JT says that she’s got her game face on and is throwing coach under the buss right now, and they’ve been tight since day one, gotta watch out for people like that.

Coach joins them, and has the gut feeling that if Taj plays the immunity idol, one of them goes home. And Coach says he doesn’t wanna push Taj down their throat and JT says yeah, we’ll talk to Stephen. JT says that Coach’s strategy isn’t his, he feels like he’s a few steps ahead, but he tells him what they want to know.

They talk to Erinn after Coach leaves, and everyone agrees that Coach needs to go soon. And they know it has to be a blindside - it has to be every one of them writing down his name. Debbie says that the talk is for Coach to go next and she knows it’ll break his heart and he’ll think that they betrayed him, but everyone’s had it.

Erinn leaves, and Debbie says that JT and Stephen are the ones they trust, she swears, and honestly, she says that if she’d give the immunity idol to one of them so that she can be voted out, she’s happy with third. JT says it’s awesome, she’s an incredible person. Stephen says you can’t trust anyone’s promise out there, but it’s a lock for sure that way. Stephen and JT talk to Erinne and tell her what she says, and then tells us that it makes her wonder what other promises she’s made, she’s shown she’ll do whatever she has to in order to move forward, and no one is happy withthird. They agree they can’t allow her to win immunity.

:33 Immunity challenge time!
Taj rejoins everyone to mass hugs - and she’s wearing her man’s t-shirt. Aww.

Today’s challenge a series of obstacles, into a field where they will find 10 spinning math symbols they’ll have to write down in order back at the start in order to solve a math equation, first one done with the correct answer, wins Immunity.

Survivor’s ready! GO!

First stage is to dig a hole in the sand to go under a log - JT is the first to try, but gets stuck halfway through. TAJ gets stuck and JT is through, and it’s on t a blanace beam, ad then to the crawl through - a big lead as he tries to memorize the symbols as he can in one shot - Debbies trough, everyone is stuck, Debbie starts memoriesing - and JT is back and heading through the hole again to start writing. Coach is through, Taj, then Stephen -0 who falls off the balance beam.

JT heads back once again, to get more and Stephen can’t get across the balance beam, JT and Coac are headed back as Erinn gets through the first time, and JT is back for his second trip,working on the math portion and Jeff says the symbols have to be right for the math to e righ - Coach is back, and stephen is ehaded back for the first time. Debbie back for her second trip. Coach heads back out. Debbie orks on the math, as does JT… Stephen was out tehre a long time, how many symbols can his brain hold?

Taj heads back out and Stephen is doing all of it on one pass with the symbols! Is he right? He starts working it - it’s JT and Stephen neck and neck…. STephen asks if it’s right…. if he did it he did it with ONE LOOK AT THE SYMBOLS!

STEPHEN IS RIGHT! STEPHEN WINS IMMUNITY!

Wow! Jeff asked how he memorized all 10 of them, and he says he worked a 7 digit number, so he converted the symbols to numbers, divided it into two numbers and that’s how it worked. JT says that seeing that necklace around his neck, it’s just like he has it - and he knows, they’ll just keep battling it out, they can do this. He can’t help but look at him and smile.

:40 Commercial

:44 Back at camp, everyone congratulates Stephen, and they head to the water to get some sand off. And Stephen says that he and Taj and JT have stuck tight, and they feel pretty good bout it. They fill Taj in on what Debbie said, and everything else. And that Debbe says it has to be Coach then Taj. And JT says that it’s good that she’s still sticking with it, but the only two that know really what’s going on is Stephen and JT.

Stephen says that he thinks Debbie might step aside - and then Coach joins them, and they talk a little. Stephen says that if they get rid of Debbie, they’re stuck with coach anotehr couple days. Coach checks to make sure that they’re solid getting Taj out, and JT says yeah. JT tells us that he’s always trying to amke sure things are going his way and it’s hard to deal with sometimes. He hates lying to anyone, and the sooner he gets someone eh’s lied too out of the game, the better.

Stephen and JT are talking, and they agree they trust each other 100% and they have played an awesome game and no one wants to vote them out. Stephen says it doesn’t matter who’s delusional, who’s stratigic, as long as they’re tight they can pick them off one by one.

:48 Tribal council time - the members of the jury join, Brenden, Tyson and Sierra.

Jeff talks to Coach first - you want to go to the end with the best players, who in the 6 are deserving? And Coach says deserving means something different to him, Stephen reads books about adventure, and now he’s going forward with HAVING an adventure and is a warrior, and he says that Debbie would never lie to him in this game. He trusts her completely sine day three. Taj says it’s risky, he’s a warrior, he’s a dragon slayer, that’s what he says, that’s what he calls himself.

Coach says “I didn’t come up with that..” adn jeff says some chief in some village, and Coach says that everytime they try to cut him down, he loves it. And He talks about Taj and how incredible it is se left her son to make this sacrifice to be here, and he says it’d be difficult to want to vote Taj off tonight after her sacrifice.

JT says that anyone who says that anyone who says he hasn’t told a lie (Coach) deserves to go as far as possible. Debbie asks if not lying can last the whole game, she doesn’t know. Erinn says there may be surprises in tonights vote. Debbie says that she thinks this vote will change the way the tribe behaves. It’ll be a surprise.

Stephen keeps the Immunity Necklace, and it’s time to vote.

:53 The Votes - no one plays the HII.
Taj, Coach, Debbie, Debbie - she looks surprised, as does Taj - 11th person voted out, Debbie! That’s 3, that’s enough.

Coach looks a little shocked - and Jeff says there is no doubt that the best players will make it to the end. Question is, of the five of them, who is the best of the best?

Next time on Survivor - Erinn loses ground with her new alliance, and Coach digs deep to stay in the game.

Previously, on Survivor… Tyson was sent packing and Sierra survived. Ha!

We rejoin Forza right after the Tribal council, and Sierra tells us that she couldn’t have asked for another tribal. Stephen says that they didn’t tell Sierra and Debbie because they knew how their vote was going, while Coach tells everyone he didn’t see it coming and JT tells him they hope that he didn’t blame them. Stephen tells us that everyone was trying to smile saccarine smiles at him as Coach tells them there’s no hard feelings at all.

Roll Title Sequence!

Day 28. Debbie asks what the next move is, and Stephen and JT tell her Errinn and Sierra. Debbie tells us she’s recoiling like a snake to see what her next move is… does she beleive them? She goes and talks to Coach and says that they blindsided them and she’s pissed, they’re sitting ducks. She tells us she’d have bet that Tyson would still be there, but if Errin and Sierra go like planned it takes Timbira down to two. She tells Coach that she won’t be happy with 5th, or with Coach as 4th. She tells us they need to pull Timbira tribe back together, and maybe gain control of the game again.

Reward challenge time! It’s the old “talk shit about your tribemates challenge. They get questions, answer them in private, then whoever guesses what the group says as a majority, will get to cut a rope on another members rope. When it’s been cut three times, it smashes their statue, and they’re out. The winner will be taken to a natural spring and get to join a family for a feast.

Who has not lived up to their potential? Coach.
Debbie, Erinn, Sierra, Coach and Taj got it right. Erinn hits Sierra, Debbie hits JT, Taj hits Debbie and says she just wants to eat, Coach hits SIerra a second time, to no one’s surprise, Sierra hits coach in return.

Round two: Who would squander the million the fastest? Sierra. She looks surprised/hurt. JT, Debbie, and Erinne got it right. Debbie hits Erinn, JT hits Sierra and takes her out - and she says a lot of people are beign hard on her, and Erinne hits Debbie.

Round three: who would never survive on their own. Debbie - Steven, Debbie, Erinn and Taj get it right. Taj hits Coach, Erinne takes out Coach, Steven takes out Debbie, and Debbie hits Erinne.

Round four: WHo would you trust with your life? JT. Everyone gets it right and JT tells us that he doesn’t understand why, cuz in the game he’s not so trustworthy. Taj hits JT, JT takes out Erinne, Erinne takes out JT. Stephen hits Taj. It’s down to them two.

Round Five: Who is the most likely to stab you in the back. Sierra (she looks hurt again.) Taj hits Stephen, and he hits her, if Steven gets the next question right, he wins reward.

Round Six, who would you most like to see win? Stephen says Sierra, Taj says Coach. The correct answer was Sierra - and Stephen wins reward!

Stephen sends Erinne to exile. H tells us that he sent her to keep Exile under wraps, in case a new idol pops up. He chooses Taj to join him on the reward, and then they choose JT as well. Debbie, Sierra and Coach head to camp, while JT, Stephen and Taj head off to reward. Coach tells us hes’ afraid that Stephen and JT will stick with Taj and he’s at their mercy.

JT says that they were greeted by the father and son of the family, and taken to the kitchen. Foot arrives, and Stephen says that dishes started to get piled up - eggs, the freshest he might have had in his life, and the local cousine is very good. The baby girl falls, and Taj runs over and picks her up. She says that she went into mommy mode right away, she reminded her of her own there year old, and she just held her tight and it made her realize how much she misses them and she won’t be aaway that long ever again.

They go to the spring, and JT says it feels wierd - you see sand, but there’s no bottom, you’re kinda pushed up by the water, as the sand is bubbled up - there’s a lot of laughter going on, as they enjoy the scene. They do a bit of power talk - and decide Sierra is next. Debbie is shrewd, and Stephen says it’s a good opportunity to go for debbie, they just have to figure out who goes first.

On exile, and Erinn is upset there’s not a new clue to a new idol. She says it’s hard be out there, and she couldn’t get a fire started before it rained - no food, no water, no warmth, and she slept in constant pouring rain. It’s the kind of thing that breaks a person down. She says she’s as girly as they come, so in her personal tally, this is a big thing she’s overcome.

Day 28 at Forza. Coach says that it’s time to make a move, and they ak Sierra if she’d go with whatever coach decided. He says “I thought you were gonna be loyal” and she points out that he put her name down, and he tries to push it and get her to commit, and Sierra won’t. She says they have tow people, and Debbie gets defensive and says that she didn’t know anything, and Sierra says well.. and Debbie gets irate and says she doesn’t need to hear the thoughts in Sierra’s head, that she’s done talking and stalks off. And Sierra says You brought it up! And then Sierra tells us she’d rather go with the smart people, while Coach and Debbie go on to bitch that she’s next, and they ahve nothing to worry about.

Coach says that the line is drawn, and he needs an answer from JT on who he wants in the final four, then he’ll make his vote.

Coach goes to JT and says the convo has to be between them - is he ok with Sierra, then Erinn, then Taj. JT says yes, that’s the way to go. Coach tells us that he’s worried about how they blindsided Tyson, and he wanted to confirm that he was the one to go and LIES and says that she went to him to try and bring Timbira back. He tells us that JT was receptive and he trusts him.

Sierra tells Stephen that Coach and Debbie came to her, and that it went bananas and they are freaking out. (TRUTH) Stephen says that his immediate thought was complete panic, ultimately they know they will have to betray debbie and coach. Sierra says that she isn’t playing Stpehen, she’s the least of anyone’s worry. They head back to camp.

STephen joins JT and Coach, and Coach says again that it was Debbie and Serra again, and he thought about it and says he couldn’t do that, it makes him sick to his stomach to think of a Timbira alliance, and Sierra is behind it all. Stephen says it makes it suspicious, because he can’t figure who’s lying.

Stephen and JT compare stories, and JT tells us a lot of stories and and Coach may be a pathological liar - they don’t have to get rid of Sierra he could be a viable option. They eventually need to see that coach goes.

Immunity Challenge Time!

It’s in the rain again - Taj looks so cold! THey each have 3 bags that they have to catch with a grabbling hook and rope. The first three to retrieve all three bags go to the final round - navigate a ball through a table maze. First one that does wins Immunity. JT snags one first, with Taj right behind her, as Debbie says “Debbie with her first bag” and reels it in, as Sierra and Coach get their first too, and Erinn is having problems and syas its cuz she hasn’t eaten in three days. Coach gets number two, as does JT, they’re neck and neck.Coach and JT both get their final bags at the same time and move on. Erinn gets her first bag, and everyone else is even, than Debbie snags her second, Sierra just misses, STephens rope is in a knot, then he gets his second bag… he gets a nice toss, as Debbie nails hers, and the first one to get it across moves on - DEBBIE is moving on!

They go to work on the mazes, and JT is off to a quick start with Coach right behind him. JT has to start again, Coach is in the lead, moving slow and cautious, as debbie goes backwards - and Jeff mentions it, and the ball falls and she says “JEFF!” and he admits it’s his fault with a laugh. Coach is still in the lead, Debbie has to start over again, JT hot on his heels, taking some risk, and catches Coach, though his cautious work payse off and Coach wins Immunity! “You better believe it baby - DRAGON SLAYER!”

Coach is safe tonight, after 30 days, someone else is headed home.

Sierra says she’s gonna do everything she can to get them to go after Debbie instead of her.

Back at Camp, Coach says “Guess there won’t be a blindside of Coach Wade tonight!” He tells us that this win justifies his place here. The meditation and such paid off.

Sierra tells them that she’s telling the truth and Coach and Debbie came to her, she has no problem confronting him. She says that she’ll go out with a big bang if he wants to go out dirty, tis fine. She says he lied - he says he hasn’t lied in this game. And He continues to say Debbie said that wanted to talk about an allignment, and that Sierra got into Debbie’s face and Debbie cried. Coach says they didn’t ask her, and Sierra says quotes them - and she says look me in the eye, and he does and says bye bye! And Debbie asks who she is, this isn’t the person she knows and the drama has tos top, she’s done, she’s too old for this and cue waterworks.

Debbie tells us she’s 35 years old and she doesn’te ven remember waht she said, it won’t change the vote, but she can’t believe she’s listening to some 25 year old.

JT and Stephen says it sounds like Sierra caught them out in a lie, adn they have the numbers to take out Debbie. Stephen says Debbie is willing to make devious moves, and taking her out might be a good thing. Problem with taking out Sierra keeps drama. Taj tells Sierra she believes her, and Stephen tells us that taking out Sierra takes out a nutty variable.

Tribal Council!

Brendan and Tyson join as the Jury
JT says that now he’s scared to go fishing, because of what might be going on behind his back. Debbie sys the happy little family isn’t happy aymore and this craziness is stuff she doesn’t enjoy. Coach says there is a catalyst, but he’s standing firm in what he said, he won’t eliminate anyone in case they beat him alter. Jeff pointed out that Sierra does a perfect eyeroll, it went all the way around. He asks her what was going on, and she says that Coach has been exposed on his less than honesty, that he and Debbie came to her about making Timbira strong agian, then told JT that it was her, and she’s happy to have proved that Coach is not as honest as he portrays.

Coach says that “in Sierra’s warped mind she thinks she’s telling the truth, she’s attacking his integrity and courage. He says then that he forgives her, he’s not a coward or a liar, and he felt the verse where Stephen was being stoned to death, “Forgive them” and he was going to ask for an apology, but she keeps attacking her two best friends, this 23 going on 5 year old girl throwing temper tantrums is the catalyst.

Other threats - Debbie she’s likable, and a challenge winner, so does that make hr a threat. Debbie says seh likes everyone, and it gets hard. JT says you have to start thinking physical threats, mental threats and who your gonna take to the end and get rid of everyone else wihtout making them mad. Stephen agrees that there has to be blindsides, but you hve to balance your personal feelings against the goals in the game.

Time to vote! Coach keeps the immunity necklace. No one plays a Hidden Immunity Idol.

The votes: Sierra, Debbie, Stephan, Sierra, Debbie, Sierra, Sierra.

Jeff says it’s clear the 6 of them are struggling to trust each other. head back to camp!

Next time, on Survivor: Emotions run high - Taj gets a video phone message from home, and Debbie Turns on Coach…

Hey guys! Sorry to be so late AGAIN, but alas, I had previous commitments and couldn’t rearrange my schedule, so we’re getting a day after recap in my fabulous snarky style. Ready? Let’s do it!

8 are left - who will be voted out tonight?
It’s night 24, and Forza is back at camp and they start right in on Sierra, tyson saying “You have to admit Sierra, that we’re bad ass.” She asks to talk to Coach, while telling us that she’s not a bad person for writing his name down. She tells him that she never meant to write down his name and he said that she could have done anything but put his name down, since he’s the only one that hasn’t lied. He tells her that in love and war it’s kill or be killed - Brenden put himself against him, as did she, so who deserves to go next?

(Wait - what? It’s kill or be killed in LOVE too? Oh Coach. Oh my, dear sweet Coach. You are an idiot.)

The next morning, day 24, and it’s another sweeping view of Coach doing his little celebration of his victory over Brenden. He tells us that there was a feeling of peace that just settled over him - to pit himself over someone younger, and maybe stronger - cept that Coach can bench 300lbs, and Brenden cant do that. He says the battle is won, victory is his. Ha.

Sierra is talking to everyone, and JT says that he and Stephen could have decided who went home, and they’re looking to see Sierra go next. Sierra tells folks she didn’t make decisions, Brenden had an idol, so she played around. She tells us that she’s not gonna roll over and die. She talks to Tyson again, and says that she wasn’t going to go on a massacre against him and Coach. Tyson snaps “But you did.” and then tells us that he can’t stand her, and that he figures that her parents “probably” love her, but he can’t imagine her boyfriend is that cool.

(…oh, so we’re back in high school! Nice Tyson.)

He tells Sierra that the most important thing is trust, and he gets alone with everyone and she keeps scrambling and backpeddaling and she can just scramble all she wants. She says she wasn’t the mastermind, and he tells her “I know you weren’t. You aren’t smart enough.” Damn, dude. Then he asks her what she would have done if he hadn’t have won the Immunity, and she said JT, and he says “Wrong, Brenden would have said to take me out” and she said if that were the case she would have done it, and he railroads over her some more. “Straight up 100% honest with you right now, you’re the next to go, You’re not going to be able to change that.”

Ouch. Again. Ass.

Reward Challenge Time!
They’re divided into 2 teams of 4 - two members at a time will collect puzzle boards, which need to be arranged in specific spots, then flip and twist them until they line up to see the vowels, which will be added to the constanants to solve a puzzle. Winning team gets local entertainment, and a feast, and to send one member of the losing team to exile.

Coach is excited again - his eyes light up at the thought of seeing Brazilian Capailla (sp?) martial arts. Whenever he looks like that, it’s almost a surity he’ll be on the losing team, if history repeats itself… right?

The teams are: JT, Debbie, Errinn and Tyson on red, and Coach, Taz, Sierra and Stephen on black. Survivor’s ready? GO!

The first two are out and running to get their boards - JT and Errin are in the elad, Coach and Steven are right behind them. Taz and Sierra head out for black, Debby and Tyson for Red - Taj and Sierra are back, Taj puts her head through a hole and carries it on her shoulders - The other pairs are back out on the course as Jeff tells Taj to be careful, she doesn’t wanna snap her neck.

Red team is in the lead - as Taj ad Sierra head out to try and make up some lost time, Tyson and Debbie are headed back with the fourth board and while Taj and Sierra struggle a little. Red is flipping and looking down the line to see what’s in the way - they have to line it up to see the vowel clearly - Red team gets them all - and grabs their letters and starts to solve the puzzle.

Black is still trying to get their boards lined up - and Debbie figures out the puzzle as they solve the puzzle and makes it look easy - and Red Team Wins Reward! Black team never even got started! They send Stephen to exile. JT tells us that if there’s a new idol in play - he wants Stephen to find it. Jeff tells Coach “You continue to lose challenges! All that life experience isn’t helping you here.” and I fall in love with Mr. Dimples all over again! Coach’s great reply? “I didn’t line up boards in the Amazon.” Honey, I bet you dind’t do ANYTHING in the Amazon. Just sayin’.

It’s reward time! Erinn is super excited since she’s never been on a reward before, and they all start to dig in and yum - it look yummy. Debbie tells us that she misses her kids, both as a mother and her middle school kids at the school she is the principle at. She says she’ll never take her job for granted ever again. She bonds with a cute little boy, then they sit down for the entertainment - which JT calls “Dueling banjos! that’s cool! The brazillian form of martial arts start and then they taught the survivors - Debbie does a back handspring ad everyone cheers, and Erinn laughs because they had eating so much, and then were dancing, and she says she as the little kid who eats candy and ice cream then plays and doesn’t understand why they throw up - it was terrible. Hahah!

Meanwhile on Exile, Stephen is hoping that there’s a clue to a new idol, so that he’d have two. Unfortunately it’s clue number 7, no new idol, and who wants to feast anyway, right? Poor Stephen!

Day 26 and Sierra talks to Debbie, and asks that she and Coach an Tyson have an alliance, is that bad? And Debbie tells here there are reactions and actions, and Sierra tells her that later down the road she’ll regret it, and tells us that she’s in limbo. Erinn says that’s the choice she made, and Sierra says the conversation is over. Debbie is offended, Sierra says that it’s because she wanted a conversation without people jumping in, and it’s like being kicked in the head, and bring on the waterworks….

Sierra says that there are other liars, and Erinn demands to know, and Sierra says she’d be the last person that she’d tell. Erinn says that “oh, it’s like that. your saying the same thing over and over and they’re tired of hearing it” Sierra walks off and says she won’t eat dinner. Erinn says that hey, what she says is totally true, but one Sierra leaves, Erinn will turn the game on it’s head - guilty as charged!

Day 27 and OMG SNAKE UGH! Sierra talks to Coach and asks him if he expects her to roll over and die, she was never going to hurt anyone she really cared about. Coach says “Except for me.” And she doesn’t answer, but if it sounds possible, give her another chance she’d prove loyalty. If she gave up on herself, like she wants too, she doesn’t want to be around a bunch of people that she hurt, but she doesn’t want to go out like that. Coach says that he’d like to give her a second chance, but he won’t give her one. A samari warrior would fall on his sword - death before dishonor. SHe made her bed. She makes a good point - would she be strong sierra if she didn’t have this conversation? no. Don’t get mad at her for having the conversation with him. Coach tells us that he, as COach is always looking for someone who needs encouragement, and his heart goes out to Sierra. It kills him to have this kid here to throw him a bone, it breaks his heart. She asks him if he’d give up, and he doesn’t answer. She feels that immunity is her only hope. Which means -

Immunity Challenge Time! And it’s pouring down rain - which Mr. Dimples Loves. Everyone huddles together to try and help warm Stephen up when he returns. Will Tyson win a third immunity?

It’s the survivor version of Shuffleboard.
Wait, what? Shuffleboard? Oh dear.

Not only that - but if you feel confident, they can eat pizza for the duration of the challenge instead of playing for immunity. Everyone is given a rock, if they show the rock, they eat, show an empty hand, they compete. Shockingly, COACH decides to eat, and is joined by Stephen and JT. Tyson says “thanks man” and tells us that so he’s going to eat, and leave it to Tyson to seal the deal to get rid of Sierra.

There’s a learning curve to the game, and everyone looks miserable as they start shooting at the X, where the closest one will win. Down to their last shot, Taz nothing but a sand dune - she says she shoulda ate. Erinne knocks out Sierra’s closest puck. Tyson is the mark to beat, and it’s Sierra’s turn. She knocks Tyson out and puts herself in winning position and she’s pacing and hoping and Coach thinks he may have messed up - then Debbie knocks Sierra out and Debbie Wins Immunity!

Sierra says that she needed the immunity, and it didn’t happen, so maybe it’s her fate - but part of her is praying for a miracle.

Back at Camp, it’s still raining, and Tyson says that if he had known she would win he would have sat down and eaten. Debbie says she’s excited, and she had to win and Tyson says tehre’s nothing “awesomer then seeing someone celebrate before the game is over” and that, my friends, is irony at it’s best.

Stephen and Taj and Erinn talk, and start to talk about taking Tyson out, because he doesn’t have immunity, opportunity is knocking. They say to talk to JT and Erinn says she’s absolutely with them. She tells us that they have too, they got lucky today, this may be their only chance to get rid of a strong player. She knows there’s no way she can win by letting people make her decision. The others just hope she’s solid.

Stephen talks to JT, and JT says that it’s a big move, an he doesn’t want to be stuck with Sierra but they agree Tyson could go on a challenge run, and they’d be safer without him. Sierra is watching them, and JT says she’s a lying bitch. JT tells us that if they get rid of Tyson they don’t even have to tell her, but it’s going to go against the “Warrior alliance” and it’s a big decision. Coach talks to JT and says that it would be sutpid to make an alliance, gave it a name, and talk about being Warriors then chicken out and JT tells him he has his word, Coach says he can trust him and that’s important. JT says he isn’t sure what he’s going to do, it’ll crush Coach if they vote out Tyson.

Tribal Council time - Brenden comes out, and Jeff asks if she was stunned by his blindside and she says that yeah, she was, and she’s probably next to go. No one will blindside her tonight. Tyson says that he feels comfortable, and is glad that someone he loves won immunity. Jeff asks who he loves, and he says everyone but Sierra. Jeff asks her if they’re telling her so that they’ll consider them at the end on the jury, and she says no. She starts to explain, and Jeff says that he doesn’t understand Tyson says no one does and he can explain it, and she says that he’s a smartass and not been nice to her and that’s fine. Tyson agrees and says that he never felt a bond and when he’s done listening to her talk, he’s done. And Tyson says he gave her five minutes, and then she kept going, and he wasn’t happy with what they could do. And Sierra points out that it’s the way the game works, he’s really strong. Jeff asks if Tyson is a threat - and why not take him out? Coach says that he’s always said he wanted to take the path of the warrior and take the strongest - Jeff interupts and says “And then you took out Brenden.” and everyone starts to laugh.

Coach says that he’ll explain it, Jeff “I’m sure you will!” and continues that Brenden pitted himself aginast him and Jeff asys that he wanted that and Coach said yeah, and I won, I outfoxed him, and now I’m outleading him. And he wants the rest to know that they’ll battle in honorable battle, and that he gives his word he sticks with it. JT says that he knows that if Coach gives his word, that he’ll believe him. Coach says that he shook his hand and looked in his eyes and he knew that he’d be honest to the end.

It’s time to vote. And no one plays the idol, so the votes are:
Sierra, Tyson, Sierra, Sierra,(tyson looks smug - for half a second, until) Tyson, Tyson (Sierra looks shocked), Tyson (Coach looks pissed…) And the 9th person voted out - Tyson!

Sierra is Stunned, Brendon over on the jury is nearly giggling with glee - and applauding as he meets Sierra’s gaze. Jeff says this is shaping up to be a battle to the end. Goodnight!

Next time, on Survivor….
Timbira tries to regroup, but find themselves at Sierra’s mercy - and Coach demands to know where her loyalty lies….

We start out at Forza, on night 21. Everyone is up late, around the campfire, and Coach tells us that it sucks that Joe left and there was a funk, and he decided to lift their spirits, and share a piece of his life with them, show them that no matter how bad things get in your life, there’s something that will make it worse. Nice.

He tells them that only 3 people know the story, and goes into this tale of being in the rapids of the Amazon and being captured by indigenous people, tortured and beaten with a club, and they were going to kill him and he managed to escape, and how he can’t describe the feeling of being stalked..

Debbie tells us that no one said a word, no one offered a reality check, until Brendan asks the simple question “how do you get a military drop off for free?” to which Coach says he pulled strings, and he turned down National Geographic who wanted to go with him because the trip was about him.

Brendan doesn’t believe him anymore.
(Neither do I. But that’s some comedy gold RIGHT THERE people!)

Roll Title Sequence and Commercial!

Day 22 at Forza, and Coach is doing his little meditation Tai Boa thing in the water, and I gotta say these sequences make give me the LOLz big time. Those watching mock his warrior poses, and say don’t bother him, he won’t bother them. JT tells us that he’s in the power alliance, and brenden is going home, even though they’re targeting him.

Coach rejoins and says he’s doing “Chau Ram” and if you google it you won’t find it, because it’s only passed down verbally, at a monestary where he studied it. Seirra tells him he looked ridiculous. Coach then tells us once again that Brendan is the dragon, he is the dragonslayer, and that Sierra is next to go because she is - wait for it - the bowel movement that comes out of the dragon.

…oh my.

Coach is certain he’s in charge of the game, like hes been born to do. Oh Coach, how I will enjoy your downfall!

It’s time for some fishing, and Erinn chats it up with JT, talking about Joe and how she liked him and they miss him, and she likes everyone - she likes his tribe better than her own. She says she has no alliance, anymore, she only had Joe. She tells us that in her tribe, she knew she was the first one out, but now there’s new kids that need her vote, and being able to have some manuevering room is really nice. JT tells us that Erinn’s vote would be huge - Taj, Steven, himself and Erinn can turn things around now if they need too.

Challenge time!
They will be divided into teams of three - each team has one row of 8 tiles, and on his go, one team member will toss a ball tot ry and bust out the tiles of opposite team. Last team standing gets to go white water river rafting, and a picnic with sandwiches, brownies and chicken wings, and the winner chooses one member to go to exile alone. Coach is excited, feels he has it made.

The teams are:
Red: Coach, Taj, Tyson
White: Sierra, steven
Black: Debbie, brenden, jt

Steven and Coach take out two tiles on the black team first, up. Brendan asks why they’re going for black, and Taj says the team is stacked - Brenden points out they’re throwing underhand at tiles, no one’s done it before. Coach says, naturally “I have!”

They keep tossing and breaking, and Sierra is on fire, connecting, Taj is happy when she finally takes one out, until it’s 1 red, 2 black, 2 white left. Erinn tries to take out the last red tile, and does so - and Coach is UPSET. Brenden smiles. Sierra tries to put the black team out - but is short, as Brenden takes out another white tile. Black vs. white with one tile left. Erinn and JT toss and miss, Debbie and Steven are up, and both miss again. Sierra and Brenden are up, and sierra misses, Brenden only chips the tile, doesn’t knock it off. Errin and JT are up - Erinn breaks the black tile but it does not fall! It cannot get any closer then this. Steven and Debbie are up, and both miss…Coach is looking pissed off by the minute, as Brenden knocks out the white team, and Black team wins reward - JT, Debbie and Brenden!

Coach. Is. Pissed.

They send Steven to exile and Coach tells him to “be the wizard, Steven, be the wizard.” Mmmmmkay. The reward is the next day, everyone else goes back to camp. Coach bitches about wanting to be on the river since he’d go there, and Tyson tells us that it worked out well, Brenden won’t be able to scheme with his two strongest alliance members by his side. They just have to win Immunity.

At Exile Stephen is alone and gets the final clue to the same idols that they know about, so he knows there isn’t a new one in the game. He’s concerned about being there, because he hasn’t managed to make fire yet at camp, he’s embarassed to have failed. He knew here he’d make fire, make food or die. It looked like he might die, but after a couple of hours, he finally gets a flame, and makes fire! He’s so excited, it’s cute! He tells us it was like giving birth to his first child, and was so proud of his little fire he wanted to stay out there and tend to it for the rest of his life. It’s like winning his own reward. Awww.

Speaking of rewards - time to watch the winners do some white water river rafting. JT looks like a kid on Christmas morning! He tells us that it was a blast, it’s something he’s always wanted to do forever and he “felt jus’ like a little kid!” Brenden tells us it was so much fun and the pure joy on JTs face was awesome, he has qualities that you want in people surrounding you. They find a sandbar where their picnic is set out, and Debbie is all kinds of excited about the chips and brownies, and says it’s the best food in the world. JT says it was a really good day - he thought it mighta been dull with Brenden, but it wasn’t. While Debbie washes up, Brenden says that he has some ideas to keep JT in the game. Brenden says that if he takes JT to the finals, JT would beat him, and he says he wants to be satisfied, and even if JT wins it, it will satisfy him. So he needs to get him there.

Day 24 at Forza, and Brendan says he stayed up all night thinking about how to get JT to the finals, and the pieces fell togethe. He takes Sierra off, and talk about keeping JT, how they had fun and he’s amazing. She agrees, and he says that it should be them, taking out Tyson, Coach and Erinn. Sierra tells us that she respects JT too, and they want to get Coach and Tyson. Brenden says he knows how to keep him, no problems.

Brenden takes Taj out next, and asks if she wants to change the game, and works it out - he wants her to trust her. Taj says that Timbira might mean confused, cuz Coach and Tyson want to blindside Brenden, and Brenden wants to blindside them, so they don’t have to really do anything, just let them take out their own members. They agree they want to keep JT, cuz he’s Teh Awesome.

Immunity Challenge time!

Steven rejoins, and says that he had a couple days alone, but it wasn’t that bad, he made big fires, not much sleep but alright. Today’s challenge - tyson says the necklace is too gaudy, but he’ll take it back again soon. They’ll be attached to a long rope and thy have to manuever around, over, under the obstacles. First three to finish the first set move on to the 3 story high set, first one to finish wins.

Survivors ready? GO!

Jeff tells them there is a learning curve to the challenge, but no shortcuts. JT is off to a quick start, as is Tyson, and Debbie isn’t far behind, doing very well. Coach starts off well, sierra hangs in there, Taj is in dead last, Stephen not much better. Tyson and JT are battling it out right now, Sierra following, with Brendan right behind. Coach is stuck and frustrated “Nothing prepared him for the rope-a-dope!” BEST LINE OF THE NIGHT! HAHAH!

Tyson and JT are in very good shape, flinging themselves over and under and around, Brenden onto the last obstacle, as is Sierra, who will finish? Tyson and JT are close - Brenden takes a bit of a lead over Sierra - JT is across first, Tyson net, and in a final push, Brenden beats out Sierra to take the last spot and move on - even as he lost a shoe!

Tyson, Brendan and JT take on the larger obstacle for Immunity. There’s bodies being launched everywhere, tyson is off to an early lead, JT right behind him, moving neck and neck, until Brenden takes the lead! Tyson makes up some ground, and it’s neck and neck, Brendan and Tyson, and tyson overtakes him and flies through to win immunity again!

Coach says Tyson saved the day, making sure that Brenden goes home - they’ll split the votes, 3 for Sierra, 4 for Brenden, he’s the dragon, Coach is the dragon slayer. Brenden says that it’ll be nice to have Coach outa there, he thinks.

(I think so too - though WHO WILL WE MOCK if that happens?!)

Fora, day 24. Everyone congratulates Tyson, and Stephen brags about getting his fire started, and that it was awesome and a big step for him. Coach says the Wizard is coming to the Man in the Mountain - or something. Weird. Tyson verifies that he has the votes to get Brenden out, he’d set it up days ago. He quickly tells everyone around the fire who to vote for Brenden and who’s Sierra, and that everyone is in. Tyson tells us that if Brenden plays his idol, then Sierra’s gone and Brendens gone in three days - but he wants him gone first so that he can boss Sierra around and tell ehr to shut up - won’t win her vote, but probably win everyone elses vote so it’s win win.

Brenden talks to Sierra, Steven and JT, and that they’re going after Coach along with taj. They tell him it’s awesome and will go well. Brenden says that it’ll be the biggest blindside of the game. JT takes off and talks to Stephen and how Brenden and him bonded and he wants to take him to the finals, and they think that it’s the time to get to Coach, and JT says that he’s crazy, that story was crazy, and he’d go back with a gun and see what they do then. JT and Stephen say they’re in control of the game now. JT can go with Brenden, or he can get rid of Brenden, the ball is in his court.

Brenden says he doesn’t like misleading people, but that its ok now. There is a quick gathering at the fire, and passing it around that it’s JT, and everyone standing there is lying to everyone else, and it’s a beautiful Survivor Moment. Coach tells us he’s happen, Leaders are born, and when it comes head to head, who is the chosen one - it’s gonna be Coach Wade.

Tribal Council time!

Jeff asks who keeps the tribe laughing, and Erinn says Tyson, he’s the class clown. Who tells the best campfire stories? JT says Coach, and Taj tells the amazon story, and it was so unbelievable, and Jeff asks if it was real or the movie version of what he wanted to happen - and Coach says he TONES IT DOWN because he doesn’t want to tell them the tribe was looking at his ass to eat his ass - and then goes on tos ay he doesn’t care what they think, he’s had 5, 6, 7 or 8 life or death situations, and it doesn’t bother him if theyw ant to question, he’s playing the game with integrity and honesty, that’s how he plays his life too. HA!

Coach says he is confident in tonights vote, and Tyson says that everyone will rethink strategies if Timbira member goes hom. Steven says he just hopes he has enough time to get to know people. Taj says the most physically threatening are the biggest challenge, adn JT is a triple threat. Coach says teh 7 layers of heaven of Vikings were determined by how they died in battle, and he wants to surround himself with warriors, it’s the honorable way. brenden says just because yours trong doesn’t mean you go far.

Tyson figures everyone who’s been to the island has the idol. Jeff asks everyone if they have it and Brenden says yes, I have it! Thanks for clearing that up, Brenden!

It’s time to Vote. Cannot vote for Tyson, everyone else is fair game.
Coach says the ancient samari used to say that to win the war you had to cut off the head of the dragon, brendan is the dragon and (ALL TOGETHER NOW) Coach is the dragon slayer. Goodbye.

Stephen says “This is my wizard lightening, shooting you back home. Kapow!” Ok…. Time to tally the votes. Brendan reaches for… his water, and does not play the idol. STUPID.

The votes: Coach, Coach, Brendan, Brenden, Brenden, Sierra, Sierra, Sierra, and the first member of the jury is… Brenden!

Coach smugly smiles, as does Tyson, and Branden says good luck, and walks off. he didn’t even bring his bag with him. Jeff says that by the look at the smiles, it was a big blindside, so much for old tribal loyalties, this is clearly an individual game.

Next time, on Survivor - Sierra fights for her life. She talks to Tyson and tries to explain she wasn’t the mastermind - tyson says “I know you weren’t, you aren’t smart enough.” Ouch. Can she save herself? Coach says it kills him to have the kid there asking to throw her a bone, it breaks her heart.