I have been thinking of starting a blog about Survivor so I guess this is my first entry. I love reading Dalton Ross' and Jeff Probst's because it gives me a good perspective of what others (well, not really others since they are part of the show one way or another) think of the episode that was just shown. I have been a fan since I was 15, which was way back in third year high school. I will tell of that story some time later because I prefer about the last episode for now.
I expected Survivor Nicaragua to be a bit of a bore after having seen the best moves done by the best players last season. Currently, I do not feel that I am bored with the show but it is pretty disappointing in terms of the players' moves. Please note that I feel bad because I have not thought of starting this blog back when Nicaragua was just starting.
Anyway, let's start the show with Dan contemplating about quitting. Ironically, he aired this bit of his emotions to Holly who also contemplated about quitting some ten days ago. Of all people, Holly was the only one who encouraged the old man with the bad knee to stay. She was then on to declaring "You've signed up for something. Suck it up and finish." To me, she was like saying "been there, done that and it's moronic." And wait, wasn't it Holly who threw Dan's $1600 pair of shoes into the sea? I thought Dan was never going to forgive (or was it just forget) her? Are they tight now? Pardon me if I consider a conversation about quitting intimate. Remember the conversation between Alina and NaOnka? Hmmm. How sweet...
Back to Jeff Probst's recap, he mentioned that Yve was the only other player who did not vote Tyrone out during the last tribal council (aside from Tyrone of couse, duh!) and we knew it was going to be part of a storyline somewhere in the episode. Voila! It happened early in the show with Yve asking Holly about being in the dark and Holly immediately explained that they thought Yve and Tyrone were close. How come Dan knew about the plan? Again, something is telling me that Holly and Dan are getting a little cozy now (not in a romantic kind of a way because that would be gross but a first, if ever, in Survivor history). She now thinks her head is on the chopping block, which is true, and the editors were leading us to believe that Yve was going to claw her way just to kept in the game (more screen time for Yve! Yay!).
Then the scenes shift to La Flor's camp where Jill was noticing that the "young tribe" was their complete opposite. Hello! That's why they're young and you're old. Usual Survivor drama where almost always, the older people are much more hard-working than the kids.
Brenda went on to lay out her plans in front of the one-on-one interview. And off to the challenge!
When Jeff Probst announced to La Flor that Tyrone was voted out the previous night, I seriously expected that some jaws were going to drop. But guess what? La Flor was ecstatic, especially Marty. It sure is at the other end of the "expected" spectrum, but it just was not in me.
The challenge, which was part individual, part team (courtesy of the winner from each team), was not that exciting but I thought it was one of those games where anyone could win. I was rooting for Yve when it was Espada's turn to play, a feeling that probably the producers wanted us to have right from the get-go. But it was from another old lady in the form of Holly where we saw victory. Who knew that an unstable woman from the second episode could get this stable?
Jill won from La Flor. Gosh I wish it was Kelly B and I am sure that most people also wanted her to win that challenge considering the alliance of Jill and Marty who also has the hidden immunity idol by the way. Jill and Holly then faced off on a very quick and not so thrilling part of the challenge. Then Jill won a banquet of kebab for her team, which they were going to eat in front of Espada during tribal.
Since Jill has the individual immunity and Marty has the hidden immunity, Brenda, who is the show-runner of the younger people, devised a plan to vote off one of their own, Kelly B, in case Marty takes out the hidden immunity and use it. Well, thinking about it, Kelly B has never really been their own. They even now consider Jane as more of their own.
Marty devised a plan to tell Fabio, and probably everyone who still was not born in the 70s, about him being a grandmaster and beating out another grandmaster from Argentina, Guillermo Vilas. Guillermo Vilas turned out to be a tennis player. I play chess but I do not follow the lives of these grandmasters so after a little soul-searching, I realized that I would also have been fooled by Marty's story should we ever had that kind of conversation. It was just funny though how they play these with Fabio.
Back at Espada, Alina was so determined to weed out the weakest link and if it was still not obvious who she was referring to, it was Dan. But then, Yve pulled her and NaOnka aside to tell them that she would be a great asset to an alliance if ever they would bring her with them to the merge. And her key point: I am closer to the alliance of Jill and Marty so I can tell you what their secrets are. This was the same mistake Danielle did in Heroes vs Villains which assured her of her ouster. If Yve was too focused in doing everything she can to stay, she should have not done this. What's frustrating is that Dan was the strongest ally of Marty and we have seen Marty doing all his might to make Dan stay. Yve should have directed that argument towards Dan, not towards her. This was what sparked Alina's decision to change her vote to Yve in a heartbeat.
La Flor came to tribal council first. This was where the weirdest thing has happened. Jeff was asking Jane first if she was on the outs considering her position as part of the older tribe and being outnumbered by the younger tribe. Jane coolly answered Jeff that she definitely felt such. But wham! Brenda suddenly attacked Marty exposing his tight alliance with Jill and putting Jane in middle of the two existing (or perceived) alliances within La Flor. I personally thought that Brenda's attack was going to make Marty very nervous and would force him to show the idol to protect himself. But no, he did not. Instead, he kept his cool and stayed. I also don't know what went through his mind when he whispered to Jane, and most likely Jill also heard and complied, to vote off Brenda. Probably he really wanted to vote off Brenda because she was smart and conniving, but on his confessional, it was apparent that he knew she was not going to be voted off. What a waste of vote! Then the group of six (Brenda, Sash, Purple Kelly, Benry, Jane and Kelly B) split their votes between Marty and Kelly B (who thought the other three was voting for Jane). This was obviously a trap to vote Marty out or at least flush his idol out. But after the tie-breaker, they voted off Kelly B? Where's the sense in that? Was it all a show to make us just too excited and make Survivor "unpredictable"? Sigh.... NaOnka now does not have anyone to pick on.
Then La Flor moved to the opposite side to feast on their kebab, which NaOnka could not make herself look. Jeff asked her why, then directed the question to Fabio, which irked Nay a little bit. Marty could not stop himself from wishing Dan good luck as if the gods of Survivor will hear this (which I guess they did) and as if this would encourage Dan to strategize a little more.
Yve was clearly desperate and it was obvious in her face and the words coming out of her. She was definitely putting up a fight just to stay in the game but her tribemates had already made up their mind that she was just to smart. I am going to miss Yve. I have been rooting for her since day one, but I guess it is just not meant to be. She's one hot momma and I know a lot of Survivor nerds would agree.
This is my first entry so Yahoo! Looking forward for my next article next week.
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