Ride the Workhorse: Pt. 3!
Immunity Challenge!
Dave rejoins his tribe, and once again Immunity is up for grabs. For their protection, everyone is dressed in traditional Chinese armour, they will square off, and throw meteor hammers to try and break vases, while blocking the other team with bamboo poles. At the end of three rounds, whoever has the most vases wins!
They have to sit out a man to make it even, Fei Long sits out Jean Robert. First team, Courtney and Denise vs. Peih-Gee and Sherea. Each team has three throws per round. Denise launches first, misses, but Peih-Gee can’t even get it close. Sherea almost knocks it off. Courtney is short. Denise is blocked by Peih-Gee, Sherea scores for Zhan Hu, they lead 1-0.
Round two - Todd and James vs. Frosti and Dave. Dave launches, just misses, Frosti misses. James and Todd both launch and both connect! Frosti is blocked by James, who replys and scores again! Fei Long leads 3-1!
Amanda and Aaron vs. Jaime and Eric in the last round. Amanda tosses and is deflected. Aaron tosses and Eric stops it. Jaime launches and connects with TWO! We’re tied 3-3! Eric goes low, its deflected, Amanda tosses her last one, and scores! Fei Long has to hit two to win - Jaime misses, Fei Long wins immunity, 4-3!
Back at Zhan Hu, Dave’s already making waves, and he says it feels strange to be back. He doesn’t want to go home, but he’s picking up on strange vibes. He feels precarious, and thinks it might be his slave driver mentality. He asks Peih-Gee and Erik point blank, and he pleads his case, and they tell him no one doubts he pulls his weight. Jame says it’s between Sherea and Dave. They have a meeting, and they know he’s getting on their nerves, but he does a lot. They expected more from Sherea, and she’s not doing much of anything. She’s on the bank listening to them. She’s concerned, and knows her name might be written down tonight. She talks to Frosti too, and she says everyone pulls their weight in different ways and she’s pulling hers in challenges, unlike Dave. Erik says it’s a tossup - dave drives everyone craze, sherea doesn’t work, and it’d be perfect for him if he could send them both home.
Tribal Council!
Jeff asks how the tribe dynamic changed without Dave for the day. She said they kept busy, it was the same, and Frosti says it could be seen as a credit for Dave for establishing the routine. Erik agreed, and says he likes Dave, and it frustrates him not to see Dave’s leadership qualities. Dave says it’d be nice not to have to lead, he didn’t want too, but he fell into it. Sherea says everyone is doing something, and she’s stepping it up and she says she’s been trying to do more, but is saving energy for challenges. Jeff asks if camp life is more important then challenges? David says that Challenges is a short term goal, they have to have a good camp too. Peih-Gee says that you can’t really pick one over the other. Sherea says she lives for the challenges, every day. Jeff says it’s time to adjust tribe dynamics for the better of the tribe - Time to vote!
The Votes:
Dave, Sherea, Dave, Dave, Fourth person voted out of Survivor: China - Dave.
(YAY!)
Jeff says it’s clear that they weren’t happy about the way things were going at camp, he hopes they have a new plan to put in place, as they’ll need it.
Next time on Survivor: Jaime and Erik explore new territory, and a twist turns the game on it’s head!
Dave tells us he gave his all, thought he did well, and if they can’t see parts of him are priceless, well, he can’t force them too.
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So what did you think of tonight’s episode? I am SO GLAD to see Dave gone! He annoyed me like crazy… and Jean Robert pulled out his Chinese at just the right time, huh? I am loving this season so far - how about you?
October 12th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Dave could have gone so much further if he’d have just stayed a workhorse and kept his mouth shut or let other people have their way every once in a while. He got all bunged up any time anyone suggested something other than what he wanted to do.
JR’s Mandarin was awesome. Even though he seemed to have a bit of friction with James, James admitted in the interview that it was cool the way JR stepped up. I get JR’s strategy, but he may want to put a little more effort to move up the food chain.
Courtney needs to get some game going or she is gone. She has no physical assets, so you’d think she’d be working the social game like Todd, but she seems to just be ‘there’.