lifeonearth

I see now finally a swing vote person that is at the bottom
of the pecking order of a dominant alliance does the smart move.
Crystal and Ken once again get a weak competitor woman to play
Eve and get Adam with an apple and get him cast from eden.
Crystal whispers in Sugar’s ear and she stabs Ace. He is gone.
Crystal whispers to Susie that Corrine and Randy hate her so
Susie stabs Marcus and he is gone. Crystal and Susie were
gone last week and both survived while the two strongest
male competitors for each tribe were cast out of eden.
Summary: Sugar cries, Randy is obnoxious, Crystal performs like a
carebear in a challenge, survivors are given food, another
strong person voted out. Just another normal night of survivor!

So sad to see Dr. Marcus has left the Gabon Operating Room!  “Poor
Charlie” he is just going to be soooo devastated…who is he going
slobber over now???  The vote was pretty stressful for Kenny. I think
for Susie she made a good move to lengthen her stay in the game.
Nice to see the underdogs ganging up and playing the game.  Once Kota
sees that Marcus is missing can you just imagine what the look on their
faces will be like.

I could not believe that Matty and Sugar had that quick chat over Ace’s
demise and Sugar was crying about it!  I wonder what they must be
thinking now watching tonight’s episode as of now. I liked the merge
twist, but it was not really a merge. I was surprised about the decision to
throw the idol in the water. I really wonder who is going to go back
and look for it?  Oh yes, and Randy King of Gabon, more wine please?

One has to wonder what bar he is hosting in while this show and
seeing how the editing is made him look is playing on the big
plasma TV there!!!

Pass the bottle and a razor!

Kota ~ a tension rose among the campers after Tribal Council.
They were upset with each other about their voting off plans
of Susie and Dan.

Fang ~ Crystal was upset with Matty for writing her name on
his ballot.  Matty said he had to keep his promise to Ace.
Sugar was glad she was safe.  She said she trusted Kenny
and she had to get ride of Ace before he threw her under the bus.  

Kota ~ Corrine complained about Susie.  Tree mail!  They
were excited that they could go to the feast!  

Reward Challenge ~ feast of different foods.  Kota & Fang
members met and hugged each other.  They were eating
heartily.  They were not to open the sealed box until they
finished eating.  Ken spotted a note under the box.  It
was a clue to a hidden immunity idol!  Then the group
decided to look for it.  Randy found it.  He announced
that he was a king of Gabon!  Nobody wanted to become
a target if took a hidden immunity idol.  So the group
decided to throw the idol out in the open ocean!  Randy
threw it out and called himself the king! The box was
opened.  A note was read.  Another Tribal Switch!
The castaways were shocked as they expected the merge!
Crystal and Ken got new buffs and joined Kota tribe.
Randy returned to Fang. Corrine & Charlie got new buffs
and joined Fang tribe! 

Kota ~ Crystal and Ken were happy to be in Kota camp
since most members were formerly Fang.  Crystal and
Marcus made a pact!  Crystal said she made same
promise to Ace and he got blindsided.  

Fang ~ Matty told Sugar Ace was gunning for her and
never played her.  Sugar realized that she was duped
by Kenny and Crystal.  She felt some regret for believing
Kenny and wished she would keep Ace.  

Kota ~ Marcus and Susie argued a little about staying in
the game as Susie pleaded to stay in the game longer. 

Fang ~ Randy & Corrine talked about getting rid of Matty.
Matty and Sugar got tree mail.  

Immunity Challenge ~ each person had to hold poles by
back of hands.  Dan and Bob were left.  Bob couldn’t hold
the poles, he gave up.  So Fang won immunity!

Kota ~ Marcus talked Crystal into getting rid of Kenny and Susie.
Crystal confided that she didn’t fall for Marcus’ schemes.  Marcus
approached Susie and asked her to vote off Crystal!  Crystal talked
Susie into voting with them to oust Marcus!  Susie was not sure
what she would do.

Tribal Council ~ Marcus & Bob showed Ken ballots.  Crystal & Ken
showed Marcus ballots.  Susie’s ballot was not shown.  Jeff pulled
a final vote - Marcus.  This sent him out as 9th person from Survivor: Gabon.  

I am a little disappointed that the tribal switch happened for 2nd time.
I wish Kenny would go instead of Marcus.  The show was interesting, though.

Next Week ~ Randy and Matty get in the verbal fight at Fang camp.
Kenny catches a half body of a large fish.  African Natives dance!

A common misconception about Survivor is you have a better
chance of winning the whole thing if you do great at the
challenges. But it doesn’t really matter how you do in challenges.
The top athletes have been getting picked off by the weak the
past seasons. The top female competitor Jacquie bit it
and the top men Dan and Ace already got the boot. Susie
and Crystal had something Ace and Dan didn’t - allies.

Having a strong alliance is the most important part of survivor.
Earl, Yul, and Tom were good at challenges but each had strong
alliances and sidekicks. Ozzie, Yao-man, and Ian, Todd and Parvati
both had  “girl power” (Todd with Courtney, lunch lady and Amanda
and Parvati with Natalie, Cirie and Amanda).

It’s all in the perception. Crystal is a big woman, an olympic
gold medalist in sprinting, and therefore more is expected of
her from the survivor viewers. We do not expect as much of
Sugar so her stinking horribly at challenges is expected and
accepted. Sugar is never at camp and lives on luxury exile
island eating fruit so she never contributes at camp.

When they re-picked tribes Sugar wasn’t picked. Sugar is
horrible at challenges and gives up but since she is cute,
sweet and cries she is not mentioned as a horrible player. GC
quit or Sugar would be gone. Sugar has been sent to exile all
but once because no one sees her as a threat. Sugar was
given immunity to keep her in the game to hurt her tribe.
Sugar is sweet and nice. Crystal is moody, and negative.

I am really getting tired of Crystal. But upon reconsideration
to be fair I guess she is average at challenges and not totally
useless. I believe that in the team challenges Marcus, Dan,
Matty, Ace, Jacquie and Randy have really shined the most.
Crystal shined at first team challenges and thus was first
woman picked when they re-drafted teams.

Crystal is the only woman remaining that has not yet sat out
on a challenge and the only one that has directly contributed
to her team winning a challenge.

In the boat lacrosse Jacquie and Ace for Fang were just average and Randy, Marcus and Dan were excellent. Everyone else on both sides couldn’t even move their boat. Charlie, Susie and Bob didn’t have to move or do anything since their three kept the ball on Fang side.

Lo and behold the newest commercials are now saying that there
might not be a merge, but last weeks previews saw them all
enjoying food and nakedness in water, so it must be a merge.
I am getting very tired of Crystal and her inabilities to do anything!
I really hope that she is first to go after merge.  She is just truly
useless in the challenges and around camp as well. The other
thing that ticks me off about Crystal is that she only gets
along with Ken.  Crystal is surely not the player I thought
she was going to be when this season first started! In fact
Crystal may be the worst Survivor player ever!!!

I love the idea that Survivor should do this with the individual
immunity for a couple of episodes.  It would really throw the
castaways off and not let them feel comfortable with their
teams and alliances.  Just feeling like your not a threat would
not be good enough.  After all these seasons they really do
need to figure out how to keep the ‘Drama Level’ high for us
loyal viewers.  We get bored with the ‘Same Ole, Same Ole’
all the time.

It seems like the male players being perceived as cocky and
jerks while the women gets away with the their so called “strategy”.
Women can manipulate a man either using her sexuality or
weaknesses to get her way.  As children, boys are made to
feel they need to protect women, and face it that feeds
their needs as well.  And a woman using her sexuality?  It’s
the oldest trick in the book. Does it work?  Heck yeah it does.
Fair?  Nope, but once again it’s feeding the male ego.

After re-watching Thursday’s Survivor Gabon episode I must
say I’m glad to see Ace go. I really didn’t like him.  He was
at least interesting.  I really didn’t think Sugar would vote
him off but I think it was in her best interests because he
would have stabbed her in the back.  Sugar rules the game!
Who would have guessed that? What were they thinking in
giving Sugar the immunity necklace?  She already has one.
If she had gone to exile island that many times and did not
find it, that would be sad.  You would think they would want
to flush the necklace out so it can be put back in play.
No chance of that when they gave Sugar the necklace.

They wondered if Dan had the necklace.  He wasn’t smart
enough to find it.  I don’t think they should have voted him
off though because he just wanted to be liked.  He would
have done anything they wanted him to do.  Crystal is so
annoying.  Doesn’t say much for being an Olympic athlete.
She’s lame.  I wished they had voted her off.  Her spilling
the rice, refusing to eat, then getting mad because they
didn’t save her any was stupid.  She is so whiny. Corrine
is just a plain Bi***!  Saying Dan might be a former fatty
was so mean.  I can’t stand her. Susie is crazy in telling
Corrine she was going to write her name down.  Did she
think that would make them friends?

They have had hidden immunity idols at each camp instead
of Exile Island. They have replaced the idol after it has
been used or eliminated (person with idol eliminated
without using it). The China season had the “kidnap a
member of losing tribe” and that person had to give
the idol clue to a member of the capturing tribe.
Todd got the clue from James. Todd found idol and
gave it to James and told James where to find the
idol at his camp when he returned to it.

So much for having immunity idols floating in both tribes.
So much for Exile island being temptation this season.
Dan went and Sugar has gone every time since. Exile
island was paradise island. If it was not comfort  (food
and hammock) Sugar would have went crazy without
food, shelter, or companionship; basically spending
most of her survivor time alone on exile.