“Drop your buffs” is the theme of the week, since we all know it’s coming tonight. Those 3 words can either be the best or worst things a player wants to hear, depending on their standing in the game. If you’re in a strong alliance in good standing (Jeremy, Jon, Wes, Alec, Josh) it’s the worst; but if you’re on your last leg (Dale, Julie, Jaclyn, Keith, Natalie) it’s exactly what you want to hear to provide a new footing in the game.
I don’t want to compare the tribe swap to other reality show twists, because I don’t like to compare Survivor to anything, but my feeling on the tribe swap is it’s the most unfair thing that Survivor does. You take players who are cruising along, having built up solid alliances in the first 10 days of the game, and you throw them this curve ball that only John Rocker could appreciate (see what I did, there?).
I can only wonder how many players’ games were totally ruined by it. My memory is selective on past seasons so I haven’t committed EVERY single twist in the 28 previous, but I’m sure there were a few times when someone’s game totally got screwed by the tribe swap. Just saying we may be in for some serious drama tonight. So we got that going for us…which is nice…
But first, let’s review what a crazy week it’s been!
-Still got Ebola haunting us, to the point where we now have our own Czar…
-A crazy extremist in Canada is out to prove he’s just as stupid as our American ones…
-Three dumbass teens from the Denver suburbs think they can just go find ISIS and fight for them (yeah, how’d that work out?).
-An idiot game developer thought he could (sarcastically) threaten the life of the head of Steam and get away with it…
-But yay! Jon and Jaclyn got engaged today!
So all is right in the world again now that we’ve retreated to our Survivor bubble and shunned the real world. Thank god…
“Previously on Survivor…”
Jeff reminds us of the biggest story lines thus far: loved ones are separated, Hunahpu is kicking ass, Coyopa is sucking, both tribes are not getting along within their camps, and then we’re given a reminder of how dumb Drew was last week (I still haven’t fully digested that one). But the notable fallout from last week is that Drew’s closest ally, Jon, had no idea it was coming and could now find himself in a bad place. I think a few people will find themselves in a bad place, shortly, but we’ll cross that bridge later…
Well I couldn’t ignore the visual about Josh “going deep” in the game. Thanks for that Mr. Fish! I also noticed the muddy boob shot of Julie, who had that sour puss fish face going for the entire episode. Notice, no boob shots of Natalie….Also, Baylor and her mom are really annoying. I also don’t get why they voted out Kelly and not Dale. Maybe the old theory that you keep the more annoying person around and if Missy and Baylor hate him, then that helps Jon-Klyn (get it Jon + Jaclyn)? The whole rice thing is really stupid too. Like you said, Isn’t the show called survivor? Aren’t they supposed to be hungry? Maybe they should have a food reward challenge? It better be a good punishment otherwise teams will eat all the rice from now on… We better get a good rain storm soon too!
Hi kinb! Glad you appreciate the same things as I do… Yeah, they don’t seem to play up Natalie’s sensuality, do they…? And I’ll agree with you on Missy, but not Baylor. They finally showed Missy in a bad way and she just came across as nasty to me. I can see why she’s thrice divorced. However, there’s something about Baylor that I find very appealing. IDK, just an innocence, longing, simple girl who isn’t pretentious. I could be way off, and judging by her music videos I’ve seen on YouTube, while she may be photogenic, she’s no songwriter. Why doesn’t anyone offer any help with that…? Whatev… I watched the Survivor Live with Jeff when Kelley was on, and it makes sense now. Evidently she was trying to get rid of Jon on Hunahpu, so now I understand why he didn’t want to work with her. And…Jon evidently was super close to Missy on Hunahpu (he used to call her “mom”) so that makes sense. Funny they didn’t show us any of that… BTW, I’ll refer to them as “Jonclyn” from now on… And regarding the rice trade, I’ve heard/read a couple possibilities: either the tribe will need to draw purple rocks to see who goes home or they’ll have to give up all their comfort items. Whatever it is, a precedent needs to be set that future seasons will need to abide by. If you ask for more food, someone goes home… However, you know that would get abused by a tribe with an unfavorable tribemate. We’ll see next week. Have a nice weekend!