“The Knives Come Out At Drake After Morgan Cuts Them Down To Their Size---Five Tribe Members Each!”
Posted by Grimme on 2003-10-24
Poor dead Balboa and “Pelican Pete” were the lucky ones in Episode 6. The little snake (and I mean that in the kindest way possible) Balboa had his injuries tended to by a loving Rupert and, though he died, never knew the pain of betrayal by a friend---like Rupert did at the hands of Trish.
And “Pelican Pete” found himself very popular with most of his tribe who saved his neck, again similar to Rupert, from an irritated and threatening Osten who pointedly sharpened a machete, shades of Matt’s maniacal machete sharpening in Survivor:Amazon.
Rupert’s burial of Balboa brought back memories of Jan burying various dead animals in Survivor:Thailand. Indeed much of Episode 6 seemed to recycle events and challenges from past Survivors. Destroying a rival’s targets (the Reward Challenge) and holding an increasing weight on a pole (the Immunity Challenge) were just variations on a much-used theme. Been there, done that, time for something new, Mark Burnett…..
But it was really not to be. We saw Jon and Shawn bicker about Shawn’s laziness around camp. Again. We saw Osten’s tribe complain about his finickiness around jungle life. Again (instead of bugs it was the invading “Pelican Pete”). We still see everyone suffering from bug bites (Hey, Jeff, how about some bug spray/repellant as a reward which could lead to more pleasing skin tones on the TV screen). Again.
Did anyone else think that Christa looked just like a grown-up Pippi Longstocking [img]http://www.pippi.nu/bilder/pippihead.gif[/img]with her braided pigtails, hat and “freckles” (the bug bites)? (Hey, Jeff, another good reward would be a handkerchief so Christa can blow her nose and get rid of that irritating nasal “stuffed-up” twang of hers.) And Pippi was also a strong girl like Christa showed herself to be in the Immunity Challenge. [img]http://www.pippi.nu/bilder/box_sv.gif[/img]
And we saw Rupert catch fish. Again. And we did not see Ryan, who supposedly learned how to spearfish during Rupert’s visit to their tribe, catch fish for Morgan. Again. And we saw Jon “prance-dance” to cast his vote at Tribal Council. Again. And we saw yet another person misspell a name when voting. Again. This time it was Trish who voted to evict “Rubert”. Sheesh, Ru[u]p[/u]ert was only one of her closest allies for over two weeks now.
“Was” is the operative word. Like so many before her, in this Survivor and in previous ones, Trish made a strategic move to eliminate a real threat but she made it too early and without being absolutely sure of who was on her side. Not only did this backfire on Trish and get her eliminated from the game but it left her tribe only as big as its previously much weaker rival. Again, as we’ve seen on previous Survivors.
Rupert is undoubtedly the most popular person on both the Drake and Morgan tribes so Trish was right to sound the alarm about him. But “Loose Lips” Sandra feared Trish more than Rupert and from the way Sandra had rhapsodized about how good the Reward Challenge steak was, Trish’s “For a million dollars, would you be willing to starve for 19 days?” probably wasn’t the best strategy in dealing with Sandra.
Sandra promptly told Christa about the “Get Rupert” plan who was no doubt miffed that Trish and Jon had left her out of the loop. They told Rupert who then scrapped his plans to get Shawn “off of my island, off of my adventure” and turned the tables on Trish who was evicted 4 to 2, leaving Jon stunned and truly “little” on the Drake tribe.
Jon was already little in the eyes of the other tribe, Morgan, when he, as his tribe’s Reward Challenge looter-representative, took their cooking pot, brazenly asked to use their shampoo (Morgan gave it to him for “diplomatic” reasons) and arrogantly corrected Morgan that they had lost 7, not 6, contests, because Drake had purposely thrown one challenge in order to get rid of Burton.
To his face, the Morgan tribe called him “Big Jon” while among themselves it was “Little Jon” and “piss-ant”. “Little Jon” may be going home, unanimously, in the much larger merged tribe which is coming in a week or two, if he survives until then. From next week’s previews, Rupert is really brow-beating him. His future is shaky, shaky, shaky (Hi Dundee!! Hi Hakeedohn!!)
Observations from tonight’s episode, actually most of them are questions……Not only does Ryan have a beautiful, sweet smile, he is super-kind to animals. If I didn’t already have a partner, I’d make a play for Ryan!…….Why does Jeff and everyone else call Andrew “Savage” (his last name) while it’s first names (Shawn, Jon, Rhino) for everyone else?…..Why did Rupert act surprised (“I can’t believe they wrote down Michelle’s name.”) when he also wrote down Michelle’s name to vote her off last week?…..When did Sandra and Jon become so buddy-buddy?……..How did Drake choose Christa over Jon to be one of Drake’s three Reward Challenge “pole-holders” (and doing a superb job at it even beating Osten at the same weight level)?…….Finally learning [u]something[/u] that Osten is good at---shooting and hitting a target!
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