SURVIVOR: PHILIPPINES – 10/31/12

Something I’ve always wondered – how do they get the conversations when the people are in the water? They can’t be wearing microphones. I can understand when the people are standing in six-inch deep water and the cameraman can just stand next to them, but like with Penner and Lisa, those two were swimming out in the water, so they obviously can’t have microphones on during that time? And, even if the camera is right next to them, it probably can’t pick up what they are saying as clearly as they make it seem they are picking up on. Hmm…just another thing to think about! Perhaps a reader with technical know-how can explain this to me.

Other than that, it’s become 100% obvious that Lisa wants to bone Penner. Goodness, she sounded quite smitten by the Pen Man…and by his Ballpoint Pen!

Penner is not only trying to work his magic on Lisa, but takes a swing at Skupin, as well. It’s ok for Penner to swing both ways. He talks with Skupin about jumping alliances and brings up the whole returning player aspect for a reason to come align with him and the Kalabaw tribe. Skupin takes this information over to RC, and they talk about how they know they can’t trust their own alliance to keep them past the final 7. They know once it gets down to 7, they’re the two on the bottom, and will be first to go, if not even before then. So, perhaps it will be smart for them to switch up alliances. If I were them, I’d probably switch. Although, it may not hurt to try and poach another member of the Tandang tribe to switch with them, making them a threesome inside of the old Kalabaw tribe, and not as susceptible to backstabbing once they’re over on their side. They may go ahead and assume that Malcolm is going to work with Denise, who is aligned with Kalabaw, so perhaps they could try and get Lisa to switch with them, therefore even making it a 4-on-4 type battle once they got rid of the three-headed sh*thole that is Artis, Abi, and Pete. And, let’s be clear, neither one of those three are winning this game.

Jeff Kent, who is still leery about keeping Penner around, approaches the Tandang tribe about getting out Penner. Normally, when someone from a tribe approaches the other tribe about voting out one of their own, that tribe is typically head over heels, because they don’t need to vote out one of their own. But, seeing how much of a moron Pete is, he’s willing to go ahead and overrule Jeff, and tell him that RC needs to go first. Now, I know that RC isn’t aligned with them, but neither is Penner. Penner is on Kalabaw, who is already weak numbers-wise, so why not just make them weaker? You can always just get RC another week, right? But, instead of just getting one person out, they decide to vote them both out and split the vote, hoping to flush out the idol. And, if the idol is played, RC would just go home. If it’s not played, Penner goes home after the revote. While they were talking, I was having a tough time following along, because they weren’t making much sense, but that may just be because I don’t know how to pay attention to things. Something about splitting votes, and three people voting for whoever else and I don’t know, I’m lost just thinking about what they were saying…

Nothing great really happened at the Immunity challenge. I’m still not keen on the whole two immunity necklaces being handed out, but it’s their show, they can do what they want. Denise wins it for the women (she’s obviously the ONLY capable female competitor out there, so she’s winning every competition if it’s always going to be split men and women). And, Carter wins for the men, but only after Jeff Kent tells him he’ll drop and Carter will just owe him one. Yes, Jeff, I’m sure Carter will live up to that. Geez, what is it with these people and giving up immunity. If you feel you can win it, just win it. It’s obvious that Carter wasn’t going to drop for you to win, Jeff, so why bother dropping for his skinny @ss to win? Just be men and prove who is the best that day by playing it out.

They reveal the new tribe name, and it’s actually quite funny. A nice play on words – DangRayne. Cute. I’m actually impressed, and wish they would have shown us who the person was that came up with it. They’ve showed us that in the past, but when we finally have a group who comes up with something clever, we don’t get to see it. I see how it is, CBS! I got you. If I had to guess who it was, maybe Denise. Or Jeff Kent. I don’t know if I really do see Denise having this type of sense of humor about it, but I think she has the cleverness to come up with something like that. But, using the word ‘dang’ just makes me think of Jeff Kent and all his southern glory. I guess we’ll never know, though…

Oh, and if Skupin had his way, Abi, Pete, and Artis would be shuffled off this island because of how rude they are! They haven’t really shown us too much of either of these three, outside of Abi’s fights with RC, but from the tidbits they have shown us, I can see what he means. Pete seems like he’s the uppity, I’m attractive and know I’m attractive type guy who all the other guys in his high school hated but still acted cool with because he had money and would always supply the parties with alcohol. Abi is just a b*tch. And, Artis is someone we haven’t gotten to see much of, but we have seen his attitude come out to play quite a bit whenever they do show him. He seems like he’s the type who sits in the background and talks a big game about how he knows what to do in every situation, but when it comes time to step up and situate a situation, he’s nowhere to be found. I see where Skupin is coming from, but being rude is all a part of playing the game of Survivor. It’s just how they are as people, not how they’re playing. Sometimes, people are @ssholes, you just have to overcome that and punch them in the face every once in a while…