SURVIVOR: PHILIPPINES – 10/17/12

When Malcolm firsts gets to the camp, he’s worried that he’s the odd man out, but that worry is instantly buried when Pete slaps him high five and gives him his swag back!! RC now knows she’s screwed because she was bullied as a kid, and she sees similarities in how this game is playing out to how her childhood played out. Eh, I’m not so sure about that, because it is just a game, but I understand how the alliance on the bottom may look at it like they are being bullied out of the game. Either way it swings, she is screwed, but she’s not the first to go so she still has a shot in the dark to make it to the merge, as long as they keep on winning challenges. To solidify Malcolm’s newfound feeling of belonging, Pete tells him that he has an Idol, sharing with him an instrumental piece of knowledge that can gain him power in this game. He teams up with Pete, and agrees to go after Skupin, which Pete now feels is the right move since Malcolm is just as strong, if not stronger. I disagree and think that RC would be the best person to let go, because girls with boobs that stick out of their chest as far as hers do tend to be able to sway some decisions if they make it to the merge. I’d get rid of her first and worry about Skupin later. I think it might be best to continue winning competitions, and I think Skupin probably gives you a better chance at winning than RC does. Although, in Survivor, sometimes it does pay to lose.

Holy sh*t, Katie can actually talk! I don’t think we’ve heard her talk at all this season, outside of the first episode, so it’s good to get to actually see her pretty face for a minute or two. She shares her excitement that Denise drew the Kalabaw buff, because on the Kalabaw tribe, it’s guys vs. girls and she’s hoping to bring over another girl into their alliance, giving them the numbers and the power.

But, hold that thought, Katie (maybe think about the answer to your next pageant question). Dana is dying. She’s in pain enough to have Probst come give his medical opinion on the matter. Jesus, Jeff, they asked for medical, not for you to come tell her she was hiding under a blanket!! Anyway, the doctor’s highly educated opinion is that “her tummy is irritated.” Really? You don’t say. You needed to go through 27 years of schooling to figure that out? That was like the one time I went to the doctor because my wrists wouldn’t stop cracking and the doctor told me, “They’re doing that because you’re doing that.” I sh*t you not, those were his exact words. I paid $80 for that. And, I wasn’t “doing that.” My wrists seriously crack every time my hands move and it’s quite annoying. I figure maybe he could have suggested we take a look and make sure my bones are ok, or if my ligaments are torn or whatever, but no, they’re cracking because I’m cracking them. Thanks, doc.

Anyway, Dana leaves the game. She decides it’s too much for her and the irony of this being the season of second chances has finally been hit upon.

And, just as I expected, nobody truly cared that she was sick, they just were pleased/disappointed in how it affected their standing in the game. Just like Katie said – she’s screwed now because Dana left. That dropped the girls down to 3, again, and back to square one, except not really square one, because one of those girls JUST joined the tribe and is a loose cannon/wild card.

Over at the Immunity challenge, I love how Probst kept calling out Katie and ripping on Abi for sitting out every single challenge (well, they have been winning, so it’s obviously a smart decision to sit her tiny, or should I say huge, @ss). Although, I will say that it’s not all Katie’s fault that they were behind the whole time, and in the end ended up losing. They caught up to Tan Dong when they were untying the ropes, but fell behind again, and Katie had nothing to do with untying the ropes. Ok, well that’s not completely true, because she did have a part in untying the bottom section of ropes. So, hell, maybe it was her fault they lost. Who cares. It didn’t help matters that they lost by two seconds, either, because had she not fell so far behind earlier on, they may have actually won. So, yeah, let’s go ahead and call a square a square. She lost the challenge for them. But, in the bathing suit section, she scored a 9.26.