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It's a whole new ballgame.
A terrible cliché,
I know, but it's true. All the ads said 'After the first 15 minutes,
it'll be a whole new Survivor." And they were right.
Here's where things were.
The six remaining people
on Boran had pretty much merged into one solid unit. There's Clarence,
the big black guy who ate 7/8ths of a can of beans and two cherries
for everyone else's one (thus earning him some votes in an earlier
council). There's puffy-haired Ethan the soccer player, who became
everyone's friend. Pretty Kelly, one of the under-the-radar types.
Kim J. (MamaKim) who falls in nearly every physical challenge, but
they have all bonded to her. Lex, the tattooed team leader (if they
have one), and Tom the dirty-old-man and goat-herder.
On the other side is Samburu,
the bitter place. Four youngin's and two oldsters. This team polarized
very early on, directly down the age lines. The first vote was a
tie, eventually lost by the older side. Since then, the Bitter Bunch
has been voting off their older comrades one by one. The only ones
left were Frank the army guy, and Teresa the incredibly quiet. The
Young Bunch was composed of incredibly gay Brandon, invisible Kim
P., snarky Lindsey, and conniving Silas.
I'm sure you can tell I
don't like them that much.
Tonight, they changed evenything.
Each tribe was instructed
to send three people to meet with Jeff, the host. When they got
there, Jeff informed them they were switching teams. Frank, Teresa
and Silas were sent off to join Boran, and Kelly, Lex and Tom went
to join Samburu.
Oh wow.
Frank and Teresa immediately
found kindred spirits in the remaining Boran tribe members, while
Kelly, Tom and Lex didn't take long to discover how lazy and useless
Samburu was.
So Lisa and I sat and tried
to figure out what would happen next. We were busy calculating that
is the new Samburu lost, how our favorites would manage to survive
and bump off the Young Bunch, when someone on screen suggested something
drastic.
Boran would throw the immunity
challenge.
This sounded like insanity
to us! Lose the challenge and risk someone being bumped? Upon reflection,
this was pretty clever thinking. Let me explain.
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Boran |
Samburu |
| Okay, you've got the
two teams: |
BBBBBB |
SSSSSS |
| They shuffle: |
SSSBBB |
SSSBBB |
| We can count on Frank
and Teresa siding with the old Boran members, so it's more like
this: |
SBBBBB |
SSSBBB |
| If they win the challenge,
there's a fair chance they will lose one of their allied people
on the Samburu side, but if they throw the challenge, they can
get rid of the one remaining holdout from Samburu: Silas. So: |
BBBBB |
SSSBBB |
| Which is exactly what
happened. Now, if they win the next immunity challenge, at worst
they could lose one of their people: |
BBBBB |
SSSBB |
| If they lose, they
chuck out Clarence, the cherry-picker (who is also their biggest
challenge when they get to single immunity challenges), for
pretty much the same result: |
BBBB |
SSSBB |
Either way, they get to
the tribal merger with at least six people on their side, and only
three on the other.
Pretty smart. Plus they
don't have to work so hard in the challenge and get all pooped out.
Our predictions for next
week: If Boran loses (or throws it), they dump Clarence. They never
forgave him for eating those beans. If Samburu loses, we're hoping
the old Boran players hear that Lindsey has four votes against her.
Yippee!
Either way, we win. The
viewers, that is.
"Destiny dressed
you this morning, my friend, and now fear is trying to pull off
your pants! If you give up, if you give in, then you're gonna end
up naked with fear just standing there laughing at your dangling
unmentionables!" - The Tick, from the pilot of the new
live show.
- Mom
Rating: 1 out of 5. Mom still doesn't like Survivor. She's
probably wondering why I waste so much time on it.
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