SURVIVOR: PHILIPPINES – 11/28/12

And, while everyone else is excited just to have a good meal, Abi knows that she’s in the auction for something a tad more important. She’s going to hold onto the money and wait for the item that’s going to help her in the game. She knows she’s next to go, and having a hot dog isn’t going to make that fact any sweeter to deal with, so she has to bypass all the temptation of food, and wait for what is going to help her win the million dollars. Whereas everyone else is sort of giving up on the game today, Abi is actually playing it. She’s sat out so many challenges that it’s about time she plays in one, right?

Loved Probst’s “You got a weird look in your eye” comment to Penner. He always has a weird look in his eye. Almost as if he’s always standing in front of a person who just let out a loud fart and then pretended as if they didn’t. And, what the hell is up with Skupin and bidding $500 on some crackers and cheese? Why don’t you try the cheap route first? I know you were worried about someone immediately jumping to the $500 mark, but I think you would have been fairly safe starting out a little lower for some crackers and cheese, with some wine you didn’t even care to drink! Maybe you’ve been sleeping too close to the fire again, Skupe? Back it up a few feet tonight, and the rest of the time on the island. Lastly, I kind of felt bad for Carter. When something like that comes up, you almost have to take the beans and rice for your camp. Sure, it’s going to help him later in the game, as well, but he spent the $200 to get himself a good meal, did so, and then has Probst tell him he has “a choice.” No, Jeff, he’d be the biggest douche on the island if he turned that down, and in a game that is 90% popularity contest, you don’t exactly want to do things that are going to potentially tick people off. I’m sure everyone would have understood if he took the meal for himself, but there would have been that angst in everyone for him not doing “the right thing.” And, then, at the end, he gets screwed again, spending more of his money and then having to share the food with everyone. Screw that, I would have ripped that meat off the bone and thrown it into the grass so those little crack fiends could have scrambled on the ground for their food like pigeons under the El train tracks (it’s a Chicago thing, if you don’t know what I’m talking about). Seriously, he has to share his food again? Forget these morons, I spent my own money on it, why should I have to share more food with them when I had to give up my other meal for some shanky bags of beans and rice. I felt bad for him on that account more than the trade option. But, maybe that won him a vote down the road. I’d rather have the $1 million at the end of the day than the veal.

Back at camp, even after winning herself an advantage at the auction, Abi still feels it necessary to needle Penner about an apology. I’m guessing the Tribal council was MUCH worse than what they showed us on the episode, because this chick is taking it superbly bad. I’m guessing somewhere along the line, the words “b*tch,” “wh*re,” “sl*t,” and “c*nt” were used, because what we were shown wasn’t anywhere near something as dreadful as how she’s making it seem. An apology from Penner when we barely heard anything from him, and it seemed to be Denise that was the most “harsh” with her? I just found it ironic that she wanted an apology because she felt people were being mean to her, when all they were doing was being the same thing she was to them: honest. If you’re going to be an honest person, you have to be willing to hear the honest truth back, and Abi apparently is not equipped to hear the truth. Not in the slightest.

And then she finds out she gets to move right to the final round of the immunity challenge. “Very cool.”

But, if that wasn’t enough, someone in Production must have told her that her best move here would be to fake a story that there is another hidden immunity idol, and that she found it with the advantage she bought in the auction. Eh, not a bad idea, but she’s the worst saleswoman on Earth with the whole crap she gives to Malcolm about how she found it already, when they probably had that conversation something like 20 minutes after she read the scroll she was given. Malcolm likening her to a girlfriend who just doesn’t get it, and never leaves you alone, even after breaking up with her is somewhat relevant here. I would take away the girlfriend part, and just say she’s a person who just doesn’t get it, never leaves you alone, and is someone you wish you could break up with and never have to see again. I guess she really has no other play to make, so she might as well go with the fake idol story, but I just don’t think anyone is going to buy it coming from her.