Well, as you can see, the original vintage world map theme is back on my blog, due to suggestons. Yup it's true, it does suit Survivor more.
The claws come out this week as the long war between The Dragon Slayer and self made multi millionaire Brendon comes to an end. But who was victorious…
Last week, we have seen the Exile Alliance start to crumble amidst the scrambling going on at Forza. Stephan and Taj have found themselves in conflicting alliances between the two war generals- Coach and Brendon. Will they remain loyal to their charismatic ally Brendon, or will they succumb to the polarizing influence of his nemesis, Coach?
Coach once again entertains his tribe mates about his rendezvous with an Amazon tribe- how he was captured and restrained by arrow and club wielding natives and how he escaped. Is he for real? Brendon does not seem to agree and refers to Coach as “the biggest fraud in the game”.
We see a different side of Erinn as she confides in JT that she is upset that her closest ally, Joe, has been removed from the game. If Erinn plays her cards right, she could stay out of the crossfire and position herself as the swing vote, become the invisible woman, and slide into the finals undetected.
Stephan becomes the first person to make a solo trip to Exile Island. In the recap episode, we have seen him struggle through making fire, where even the model, Sydney, could accomplish this. However, Stephan has become more adapted to the outdoors, and has succeeded in making fire.
JT, Brendon and Debbi find themselves on a river rafting trip reward. This not only offers a comfortable place to relax, but as any survivor player knows – it’s a chance to get some time away from camp and strategize with the others on the reward. Brendon is becoming smitten with JT’s country charm and wants to go to the finals with him, knowing that JT would easily win. He is so in awe of JT that he he stays up all night by evaluating various ways to of getting himself and JT to the finals, so JT would win- but he does make a good point that any plan of his that works out is a victory to him. Sierra is also allured by JT who she thinks is awesome .Right now, it looks like JT may have enough charm as the front runner of the social game, Parvati Shallow (Cook Islands, Micronesia, and Heroes vs. Villains) and if he is sitting in front of the jury at the end, he could convince them to vote for him, and the million dollars will be as good as his. .Sierra is also allured by JT who she thinks is awesome. If I was playing survivor, JT will be next on my boot list because socialists can be more fatal that cold blooded strategists, and they can easily accomplish the same as the latter, but with a smile.
Taj has put in a lot of effort to put herself in a safe position after the merge. And her efforts seem to have paid off because whilst the old Timbiras are butting heads with each other and plotting to take each other out, she is comfortable by staying out of hot water.
At the immunity challenge, we see Tyson dominate yet again and win his second consecutive immunity. How long can his reign last? ***Spoiler Alert!!!*** In a future survivor season, Tyson will once again compete in the same challenge. He will come up just short, and his vulnerability at that night’s tribal council will cause him to do something that will raise a few eyebrows and will consequently change the course of the entire game. Just wait and see :)
Brendon decides to try and throw hisold tribe mates of his trail by suggesting that they vote off JT. But does he know that Jt and the old Timbiras(Less Erinn and Sierra) are plotting against him?
At tribal, Coach’s stories about his Tales in the Amazon are brought up and ridiculed a bit, even by Jeff Probst. Be warned readers and survivor fans, we have not heard the last of Coach’s Tales.What impresses me most about Coach is that e does not let the quirps of others affect him and always tries to maintain a high degree of honesty and integrity, even in this brutal game.
Stephan does a good job at deflecting the plan to take out Brendon by shift some light onto JT by saying that he is the biggest threat. The art of blindsiding is something that every survivor needs to study…Something that i thought made me laugh a lot thos episode was Coach constantly refering to Stephan as a wizard. Is it because he wear glasses like Harry Potter? What made me burst out laughing even more was Stephans witty one liner when he cast his vote- something abbout using a magic spell or lighting right back at you. Well, Iguess when you spend so much time with Coach, you start to use his phrases as retaliation. But i think it's cool being known as the wizard.
Brendon declares that he possesses the Hidden Immunity Idol. In my opinion, I think he did to try and scare anyone who may be targeting him into changing their votes. This reminds me a little of Bob Crowley’s (Gabon) strategy, which I want to tweak a bit that one does not know that the other will be pulling the trigger, all they have to do is see the gun holder. Brendon is basically trying to threaten his foes that he has the idol, he will play it and he will be safe, but as it turns out, this is just an empty threat.
Three votes are dumped onto a shocked Sierra from JT, Tyson and Erinn. Coach receives two votes from Brendon and Sierra, and ultimately Taj and Stephan betray Brendon by throwing their votes onto him, and add to that Coach and Debbi’s vote onto Brendon…and just like that Brendon’s torch is snuffed.
Well its no brainer that the votes were split between Sierra and Brendon, as a safeguard in the instance of Brendon playing the idol. Be wary that splitting the vote is the best way to neutralise the power of the idol (that's if everyone goes along with the plan- lol a hint for about Tysons blunder in a future season)
Well Brendon is not the first person to be blindsided with the Idol. James Clement was blindsided with two idols. He certainly won't be the last person that we will see being blindsided in this way..
I am a bit disappointed at how the vote went. I was hoping that the Exile Alliance of Brendon, Taj, Stephan and Sierra and JT and Erin would make it all the way to the end. Brendon is now the first member of the jury and it’s safe to say that he won’t be voting for either Taj or Stephan due to their betrayal.
Sierra is now on the outside once again. Will she be the next person to whose flame will be put out or will she be able to turn her game around and save herself?
Something on the side- Coach calls himself The Dragon Slayer, but what do you call someone who slays The Dragon Slayer? Ha ha, if you saw my facebook wallpost the other day, you would probably have guessed- even though it obviously did not relate to this season.
Until next week...
