Watching Survivor

-:10 Just setting up the post here before the show gets started. Hope you got all your picks in for the Pool Party! Will you be the one toppling the leaders off the board tonight? Good luck!

:00 Last time on Survivor… It’s recap time! 18 are left, who will be voted out tonight?

:02 We rejoin the Fans right after Tribal Council on day 6, where Mikey B says he can only assume that Joel stuck a knife in his back ALREADY - and Joel is playing a long term game, when you have to play short term and keep your strength until the merge. Joel says Mikey thinks he has everyone in his pocket, and Mikey B says that he didn’t have to do it yet. Joel adds he’d like to see his face when the baseball bat hits him in the face and he realizes that he doesn’t have the tribe in his pocket.

:03 Commercial

:06 At the Favorites Tribe, they’re starting a fire, and they’re talking about who they hope was voted out. Amanda Ozzy James and Parvati go down to the beach and invited Eliza with them, and she says they were working her, big time. They tell her they distrust Johnathan, and says they need to get rid of him and Cirie. Eliza says she listened but doesn’t trust them.

They go back and talk to Cirie, who admits they’ve been trying to get her to join them, and she tells us she’s juggling and trying to decide which side is better for her. She says it’s all about who she thinks she can trust. She’ll go all the way with someone she trusts - if she doesn’t trust you, you can’t believe a think she says.

Day 7 - Tree mail with the Fans, and it’s a big one - says war paint, three choices for the reward, and be ready to tackle, but lose and you take a beating. There’s the reward book too, where they get to pick three things out of it.

The Fans are looking through to figure out what they want as well, and everyone starts painting themselves for war. Dundundun! Yau-Man still looks cute. Hahah. Eliza says there is NO way they’ll lose the challenge. Joel says their moral is a little bit down, but logically if someone invades his home, they’re going down.

Reward Challenge time!
Both tribes will start at opposite sides in the apponants endzone. You’ll charge carrying three canvas bags - goal is to get three bags from your tribe, and two from the other in the end zone at the same time. Faves are playing for Shelter Lighting and Survival kits, Fans have Fishing, Kitchen, and Shelter. Let’s get it on!

:11 Little bit of Rain to make it fun - survivors ready, GO! Joel knocks Yau=man and takes down Amanda, it’s physical QUICKLY. James pulls Kathy off Cirie - Faves have 2, Fans have 1 - but have to get 5 at once. Yau-man into the endzone. Jole and James go at it - Joel tosses the bag and people COLIDE! Faves 2, Fans 1, Amanda is pulled down hard. It’s tied, 2-2!

Alexis is on the run, but is SLAMMED hard and she’s pulled back HARD. James just busted up the whole pile, Erik pulls Eliza into the endzone to steal her bag, Erik steals a bag, and James goes running in. Alexis runs THROUGH ElizA with a stolen bag, and then James steals another one and ties it up again 3-3. Amanda tosses the bag to James and its 4-2, they need just one more and have their hands on it - FAVORITES WIN REWARD!

They send Kathy to Exile again, and she isn’t happy, and Ami heads off to Exile with her. They’ll be back for immunity later. Fans head back empty handed, and are told they made it one hell of a battle. The Faves head back to camp with their loot.

:15 Commercial!

:19 And we’re back with the Faves who are rehashing the challenge, laughing at the flirting that was going on during the challenge. Cirie wanders off, and wonders if they feel relaxed because of alliances, but she doesn’t feel relaxed at all, and scrambles to make sure everything is in her favor for sure. Parvati is flirting with James and how proud she was of his throwing people left and right, Cirie says that if she was in THEIR position, people could do a little more for her to try to woo her vote. She should be carried on the chariot! (she’s laughing - clearly thinks it’s a joke!)

They head out fishing, and Cirie tells Parvati and Amanda that she makes it nervous, and Parvati tells her that she made James no promises, and Amanda says the same thing. Eliza asks Jonathan if he’s nervous about Cirie - and she’s like Eliza, needs reassured all the time, and He says “So reassure her!” Cirie makes a promise with Amanda and Parvati that it’d be them three to the end, even if Ozzy proposes or something. Eliza says she hopes she doesn’t forfeit her courage.

On Exile Island, they’re looking for the Hidden Immunity Island again. Ami reads the clue at the top of the tree, and Kathy says she was too tired to go Island Hopping again. The waves are starting to get choppy, and they headed back because of weather.

:23 At the Fans beach, the storm hits in earnest, and everyone huddles together to try and stay dry. Alexis says the shelter sucks, everyone is freezing, and wet. They’re bemoaning not having won the tarp.

At the Faves camp, they’re cuddled under blankets, and the rain is hardest since they’ve een there, but they’re totally sheltered. Ozzy feels kinda bad for the Airai Tribe, knowing they’re probably not doing too well right now. Jason says yeah, they’re probably laughing at the Fans, as he hides in a cave and hopes no spiders or rates get him. Aww..

:25 Commercial!

:28 We rejoin the Fans the morning after, and their stuff is strewn around everywhere - Joel looks pretty beaten down. Says it was the worst night since they’d been there, the shelter didn’t do a bit of good. They feel like they’ve been beat up twice yesterday - by the other tribe, and by nature.

It’s not the sort of night they want to have before an Immunity Challenge, and Alexis points out the obvious - they can’t lose today.

:30 Immunity Challenge!

Ami and Kathy return from Exile Island, and are welcomed back with hugs. Immunity is now up for grabs! Each tribe will choose 2 men and 2 women, who will hold onto a heavy rope net - while everyone else tries to shoot coconuts into the net. Tribe that holds on the longest wins Immunity.

Ozzy and Mikey B shoot first, and miss. Jason connects for the fans, it’s harder to throw the coconut then you think. Alexis connects, Eliza misses, Jason keeps showing it how it’s done while Yau-man puts the Favorites on the board, and no one on the Fans is missing for a while. Jonathan, James, Crie and Amanda are holding for the Faves, and they’re talking a lot of trash, which Jeff says reminds him of Cook Islands.

The nets are getting heavier, James says “I’m just chillin.” as Jeff asks him how it’s going. The Fans are readjusting, as everyone starts to connect to the ‘basket’ and the weight is starting to take it’s tole - Favorites are starting to pull back.

Natalie, Tracy, Joel and Erik are struggling to hold up that net, while everyone ties to hold on for the Faves, and they’re losing it! The rope slips and FANS WIN IMMUNITY!!

:35 Commercial

:38 We’re back, as the Favorites head back to their camp, and Ami says it SUCKS that they lost, and coming back from exhile was bad enough, but it doesn’t get worse then this on Survivor. Yau-man asks if they’re good on Parvati, and Jonathan says she’s sleeping with James and they have to stick with the plan and break that out. The couples foursome say Yau-man. James doesn’t want too, and says he can’t let Parvati go home. Cirie says they thought they were solid with Yau-man, and Ozzie and Amanda and Cirie says Yau-man, and Jonathan breaks up the party. On purpose, of course, and the girls say they were talking girls stuff.

Jonathan asks who Cirie is voting for, and Ami says she doesn’t know. Jonathan says he’s starting to feel a little antsy and he hopes that Cirie is happy enough to stick with them. They approach Cirie and tells them that she is NOT a target, they need to get rid of Parvati. And Cirie says the same argument that Yau-man is using the other group used. Jonathan starts to try to use common sense, and she says that getting in her face is not the way to get her vote. She says “How far did YOU go?” She says she’s been watching everything - she knows there’s no way she’d not be a fifth wheel. Jonathan tries to assuage her doubt, and she says she’s trying to keep it real.

Cirie says she’s gonna change and think and needs five minutes without all the stuff.

Jonathan and Ozzy talk about Eliza vs. Yau-man and try to figure out where they’ll be going. Ozzy says he’s voting for Eliza, and that’s what they need to do. Parvati says that Cirie is voting Yau-man, and Parvati says that it’d be a bad move to vote against Cirie. Jonathan is close by, trying to listen in as they talk. The couples go and talk to Cirie, who is like oh man. Here we go.

They try to get her to vote Eliza, and they try to get on the same page. She says she doesn’t want to change her vote, her vote has never changed - they have. James tells us you just can’t be the boss of everything, that can’t happen - the others are being a bunch of dumbasses! (LOVE HIM)

Jonathan says its crazy for the vote, the four are gonna vote for Parvati because the other group is split, Eliza and Yau-Man, so their four might be enough if they can keep them split. That’s what he’s hoping for.

Time for Tribal Council!

Jonathan says today was a tough day, and James says that the fans earn some big respect, they’ve got a more hunger in them, they might be a little soft, and he don’t like it. Yau-man says they need to be hungry for the win, but he feels vunerable when they lose. Jonathan says they’d like to stay together, but some are making moves already to eliminate threats to them to try and control the game. Cirie says he’s looking at it for tribe and herself. Jonathan Cirie is making a lot of moves, and he accuses her of flopping on the alliance, and Cirie says she came in as a fifth person, and how could she trust that - she doesn’t trust him period. She says everyone came to a decision, and Jonathan swears he’s trying to make the tribe strong, and Cirie says she can’t trust him at all. Jonathan says to vote their conscience, so they have common ground, to strengthen the tribe. Cirie rolls her eyes. Parvati is looking like I just wish this’d go away, and she says people think she’s just flirting and she knows her name has been brought up but it doesn’t surprise her at all. It’s time to vote.

The votes: Parvati, Yau-Man, Yau-man, Parvati, Cirie, Yau-man, Yau-man, Yau-man.

(That SUCKS!)

He leaves with a “Good luck, you guys, have fun!” and Jeff says the problem with the tribe is their divided, question is - what are you going to do about it? Head back to camp…

:54 Commercial

Next time, on Survivor - It’s Cirie vs. Jonathan, and Joel vs. Mikey B and an Exile Island that can’t be missed…