And, because of Skupin not wanting to partake in the game with those three, he tells Jeff Kent that he and RC will switch over to his side to shift the power of the game over to the Kalabaw side. Although, if I’m Skupin, I don’t know so much about trusting Jeff Kent, since he JUST TOLD YOU that he doesn’t want Penner to win the game because he doesn’t want a returning player getting farther than him. I’m guessing Jeff forgot that Skupin is a returning player just like Penner is. Or, maybe Jeff just knew that Skupin was an idiot and wouldn’t think anything of it when he told him that. I mean, come on Skupe, he just told you he doesn’t want a returning player getting farther than him, and you’re going to entrust your life in the game to him?!? Enjoy the flight home. Without a check for a million dollars. But, hey, at least you didn’t faint into a fire this time around. Yet.
We move our @sses on to Tribal council, where Abi and RC continue their fight about who betrayed who and why. I’m guessing, if Abi was a normal, sane person, she’d feel like a complete @ss when she watched this show back and realized that she was the one who betrayed RC by finding the idol with Pete and not telling RC about it. And, then finding out that it was Pete who dug up the clue and “hid” it in the bed for everyone to see. But, Abi is nuts and thinks she’s always right, and is never willing to admit error in any situation, so even when she’s shown that she’s the @sshole in the situation, she’ll still pretend that she doesn’t realize it and still will hate RC for betraying her. Can we just move on from these two idiots? We already know that RC is going to go home before Abi, and that’s going to increase Abi’s ego even more, even though it means nothing.
Lisa says that if you switch alliances, you weaken yourself in the game because you show you are disloyal. I’m not so sure she’s right, because the person would be showing their new alliance they are loyal by voting with them. I do get where she is coming from, but if a person is on the outer rings of their alliance, it’s not as if they’re holding any power, so they’re not really showing that they are disloyal, they are just showing that they are strategic enough to find a way to stay in the game longer, and not just remain a sitting duck, waiting to be taken out once their alliance rids the other alliance of all of its players. Survivor is just a damn tricky game with no real strategy to it. Just luck of the draw type stuff balanced with a popularity contest.
Penner ends up playing the idol, which turns out to be a great idea because he would have been going home had he not done so. Because of that, RC goes home in what ended up not being anything of a split vote. Penner got six votes, RC got three, and Pete got two. So, it just goes to show that I don’t have an issue with paying attention, those morons just really were confusing as f*ck when they were talking. I wish I wouldn’t have deleted the show from my DVR, because I would go back and see who voted for who. I do know that Jeff and Carter voted for RC, and I think Penner and Denise voted for Pete, which means that all of Tandang voted for Penner except for one person, who then voted for RC. So, the whole split vote talk was just rubbish. They didn’t even need to talk about splitting the votes, because they never planned on working with the Kalabaw tribe?!? I don’t know, I guess that’s what it was. Maybe they’re smart and decided to just get them to vote against Penner so that Penner would then know his tribe was against him. I don’t know. All I do know is that it’s going to get ugly. And quick.
Ok, we’re down to 10 now. Quite a bits to go, so hang in there.
Until next week,
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I could have this wrong, but I’m pretty sure RC voted for Pete, and Skupe voted for Penner. And i think Denise voted for Penner. I think.
okay – found it on another site. I thought there were only 5 votes for Penner….
“Voting Recap: For Penner (voided by the Immunity Idol): Abi, Lisa, Malcolm, Denise, Skupin. For RC: Jeff, Carter, Pete, Artis. For Pete: RC and Penner. RC voted out 4-2 (five additional votes nullified).”
So, because Skupin voted for Penner, they didn’t have to do a re-vote. I would have thought Skupin and RC would have voted the same way, so I don’t know what happened there.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one confused by the votes and that whole discussion about them! So has Denise abandoned her alliance with Kalabaw? Or was that shown and I just missed it? It looks like Penner is going to make things worse for himself next week–in the previews he seemed convinced that his alliance had betrayed him and was lashing out at everyone, but actually only one person from his alliance voted for him.
Does anyone know what Jeff’s problem with Katie is? She wasn’t even around on this episode, and he was still talking about how bad she was at challenges. I don’t remember him ever being so fixated on one person before.
I think I understand what happened with the votes if anyone is interested.
The 4 votes for RC, 4 votes for Penner plan was supposed to go like this:
RC votes: Jeff, Carter, Pete, Artis
Penner votes: Abi, Lisa, Malcolm, Denise
Everyone was in on this plan except Skupin, RC and Penner who thought that their alliance of 6 were all voting for Pete to go home. Skupin probably heard what was going on and changed his vote from Pete to Penner in a last minute attempt to save RC in case Penner didn’t play the idol.
I hated the way this vote turned out. I actually really liked RC and I don’t understand why Jeff, Carter, Denise, Malcolm, Skupin, Penner, and RC didn’t just band together and get rid of Pete/Artis/Abi and whoever the hell else is on their side. I am sick of Abi.
Denise is the person I want to win this game. I am so impressed with her athletic ability and plus, she was at every tribal council and then finally got immunity for herself…I hope she can win!
Completely agree with everything you said, JacklynT. At the beginning I thought I’d like Abi but I can’t stand her. Like Scott said, even when she looks back and sees she’s been the one completely in the wrong, she’ll still find a way to say it like it wasn’t her fault. I hope Probst calls her out on that at the reunion show.
Maybe she took issue with RC’s breasts, since I imagine Abi’s badonkadonk is use to taking centre stage.
I think I am one of those people who would have freaked out if Lisa had gone through my private items, that’s just not cool. Hey, who doesn’t want to bone Penner!?! He would have to keep his eyes open the whole time though because I subscribe to the PBEC (I think that’s what Scott named the Pretty Blue Eye Committee). Scott had a point about CBS not showing us who thought up the name Dangrayne, which I didn’t actually get until I read it here, because hell, we know Boston Rob name his tribe after one of Amber’s stuffed animals! Whatev. I hate when people don’t finish words. If we really want people to get mad and punch each other I think CBS should buy Oxygen and do a Bad Girls Club Survivor, there would be some beatdowns plus most of the Bad Girls could stand to lose some weight, just saying.