At Tribal, Jeff asks a few questions but the important thing is that Val throws Baylor under the bus and spills that she was going to vote with the girls’ alliance and vote Dale, and then flipped. Regardless of whether or not Val has an idol…or two…the tribe is clearly divided. Rather than draw this out, Jeff sends them off to vote. However, we’re only 51 minutes into the show, so there’s got to be something else crazy that happens.
In the voting area, we see a couple votes for Baylor and a couple for Val, so I’m hoping for something crazy…
When Jeff asks if anyone wants to play the immunity idol, Val remains still, so the cat is out of the bag. This seems to catch Rocker a little off-guard, even though he knows she’s been playing him. Since he seemed straight up with Jeremy in wanting to protect her (so Julie is protected) his reaction seems disingenuous. Or, this was just an editing thing and he reacted that way to something else. Who cares, let’s read the votes…
Val
Baylor
Val
Baylor
Val
Baylor
Baylor (uh-oh!)
Val!
Wow. 4-4. I guess that’s the crazy thing I was looking for. Looks like they’re going to revote and I’m hoping that Val goes home. Don’t really know why, but I think it’s because everyone thought she was a favorite to win and I want to see everyone explain why they were wrong.
So now that everyone knows Val doesn’t have an idol, I’m hoping she gets a ton of votes. The votes are recast (sans Baylor and Val voting, of course) and Jeff reveals…
Baylor
Val
Val
Val
Val
Boom! Second person voted out. Take that all you predictors! I was right! And now it looks like Jaclyn’s game will be going south as well. However, with the dynamics of Blood vs. Water, it could mean she’s not viewed as a threat. But that’s a bunch of hooey. She’ll be gone the next time Coyopa comes to Tribal…
Next week’s tease shows us that Rocker’s past is going to come out with a vengeance. Jeremy reveals it to his tribe, maybe after finding out that Val is gone and John didn’t live up to his promise to Jeremy? Either way, the Hunahpuans are all chirping at John and you know how he’ll respond to that. Big, tough guys don’t like to be challenged, and even if it’s to their detriment, they’ll push back twice as hard. Good luck next week Hunahpu…
That’s all for this week. I hope you’re enjoying the season, and the recaps, so far. I wish I had more time to prepare, but that’s just not the way this works. As always, I appreciate all your input, comments, tweets, and emails. I’m still endeavoring to bring you something new this season, but I need to put some more thought into what that might be. Last season, it was Survivor: Sabotage and my Rankings of Every Survivor Player.
Great recap, thanks so much!
I didn’t like Val or Jeremy to begin with, and I have no doubt that he will absolutely blame JRock for not somehow saving his poor, defenseless wife. There’s going to be a testosterone explosion for the ages when those 2 face off.
I’m not really connecting with any of the players yet, so I’ll need another few episodes to pick out my preferences. They always show up eventually.
Ok, first I have to pat myself on the back just a little for calling it last week that Josh was going to run to Baylor to do damage control for his vote. Maybe that was a no brainer but I still congratulated myself! 🙂 Moving on, I think Val was an idiot for lying to Rocker that she had 2 idols. He comes clean to her that he’s going to protect her so she lies and says she’s overprotected already! Seems so stupid. If she’d just been honest with him, he maybe would have given her his idol (not that she knew he had one but she should have suspected it was possible). And hey, I can’t see what happens next week but Jeremy shouldn’t expect Rocker to keep Val 100% safe. Me thinks Jeremy’s “I don’t give a crap” about Rockers’ past comments was a bit disingenuous. (did I spell that right?) For some reason, Dale is starting to annoy me, Jon looks like a cartoon character (and kind of like Shoney’s Big Boy), and I swear—Rocker’s girlfriend’s boobs look like 2 balloons about to pop. My final complaint–Jeff’s dumb grandstanding about the other team asking if they could make a deal. I don’t get his point. Of course they wouldn’t ask unless they won and you showed everyone what the prize was before the game is even played. He acted like he was so offended. I like Probst but sometimes he is WAY too arrogant. Ok, I’m done.
Thanks, angelfish, I’m glad you found some humor in it. Sometimes I don’t even know if I’m connecting on some of my jokes. And I agree about Jeremy/Rocker. I think Jeremy will turn on him and reveal his past to everyone on his own tribe, but I wonder how Julie will fare because of it.
Sometimes your dumb wife’s lies are more than one man can overcome…
For some reason, I’m liking Baylor, but I get that she could be on the outs. And look what I found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGdMgJ-OREk
Looks like our little crybaby has some hidden talent. Although, I have to say that’s one poorly written song…
Kinb!…my biggest fan 😉 Yeah, Josh HAD to say something, right, or did he? Could he have just denied it? IDK… And I don’t know if Rocker would have ever given her his idol, he doesn’t strike me as a generous guy… Dale is “meh” but so are a lot of players this season. It’s still early, so let’s see what develops. You recall all the drama with Trish/Lindsey, and the Kass flip, and the shit with X’XXX happened a few episodes in. The real show doesn’t begin until they merge, and by then, we’ll be invested. Thanks for mentioning Julie’s boobs, so I didn’t have to… ;-))) They do look amazing… And might this be our little girl…? http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/22060312_last-vegas-stacey-julie-mcgee-advertisement
Jeff’s just creating some drama. Maybe he thought there isn’t enough yet so he’s gotta get involved. I see he’s been asking on Twitter for one-liners to improve his dialogue so at least he’s open to new ideas… Thanks!
I’m sorry this has been driving me nuts. Why do you keep referring to this current season as season 28?? This is season 29, and both seasons 29 and 30 have already been filmed since they go with the format of filming 2 back to back, but they won’t be showing 30 until the spring. So casting going on now wouldn’t be for season 30, it’d be season 31 at the earliest.
Thanks, angelfish, I’m glad you found some humor in it. Sometimes I don’t even know if I’m connecting on some of my jokes. And I agree about Jeremy/Rocker. I think Jeremy will turn on him and reveal his past to everyone on his own tribe, but I wonder how Julie will fare because of it.
Sometimes your dumb wife’s lies are more than one man can overcome…
For some reason, I’m liking Baylor, but I get that she could be on the outs. And if you wanna see something “amazing,” just go to YouTube and search for “Baylor Wilson, Sticky Situation.”
Looks like our little crybaby has some hidden talent. Although, I have to say that’s one poorly written song…
Kinb!…my biggest fan 😉 Yeah, Josh HAD to say something, right, or did he? Could he have just denied it? IDK… And I don’t know if Rocker would have ever given her his idol, he doesn’t strike me as a generous guy… Dale is “meh” but so are a lot of players this season. It’s still early, so let’s see what develops. You recall all the drama with Trish/Lindsey, and the Kass flip, and the shit with X’XXX happened a few episodes in. The real show doesn’t begin until they merge, and by then, we’ll be invested. Thanks for mentioning Julie’s boobs, so I didn’t have to… 😉 )) They do look amazing… And might this be our little girl…? http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/22060312_last-vegas-stacey-julie-mcgee-advertisement
Jeff’s just creating some drama. Maybe he thought there isn’t enough yet so he’s gotta get involved. I see he’s been asking on Twitter for one-liners to improve his dialogue so at least he’s open to new ideas… Thanks!
Pattyc! What have I done?! I see that I called it Season 28 a couple times in my first column. Whoops. Not sure how that happened since I do a lot of Wikipediaing as I write the recaps. All I can do is blame the vodka… Terribly sorry. And I hadn’t heard officially that Season 30 has already been shot, so that’s why referred to getting casting tapes in for Season 30. I did qualify that by saying “quite possibly Season 31” so I’ll use that as my excuse. I don’t want to spoil too much, so if they’ve already shot Season 30, I don’t wanna know about it… Kinda ruins the fun a little, don’tcha think?