Enough Chocolate to Make Your Head Spin - 
by J-Unit
There was a lot of action last week on Survivor, and I am sure they weren't going to be able to repeat the amount of excitement that was in an episode that had two double tribal councils, but quite honestly, I was expecting a little more than what we received this past week. I haven't seen Survivor lay an egg like this one in a long time, but with a merge imminent and with it an emphasis on an entirely different type of physical challenge and politicking, we won't have to sit through something like that for a long time.
From the first shot of the episode, I knew that we were in trouble It's more of those marching ants in NightVision. Do you ever wonder that there hasn't been any new ant shots since the first season of Survivor? I bet the footage could have even been an accident. One lazy cameraman left his rig in the jungle, pointed at a tree, and it ran for a while. The producers noticed it, used it, and now it's a staple of "we're back from commercial intros". But do you think anybody is paying attention at what kind of ants they have been using? No, of course not. I demand proof that the ant footage is not recycled. The people demand justice!
Well, if you are wondering why I wasted a paragraph on ants before anything else, well, you have an idea of what kind of episode we are dealing with. Nakum has had some good momentum, and although they were forced to go to tribal council, it seemed like everybody wasn't that upset because they had a chance to get rid of Margaret, and she seemed to be the biggest cause of problems in the tribe. It wasn't because she was actually that huge of a bitch, but she was enough of a bitch to piss of Judd, and if Judd is pissed off in even a small way, he has no problem mixing it up and causing a lot of problems.
I think Judd is pretty stupid, but even he was able to realize that he might have shown a little bit too much of his temper with Margaret at tribal council, and he tried to assure everybody that his bark is worse than his bite. The main problem, he said, was that Margaret "pushed his button". Now, personally, I don't get mad at a person unless they push my buttons, if they only push one button, I can usually live with that. If Judd gets upset when only one button is pressed, I guess his fuse is shorter than we thought. Then again, maybe he just doesn't have multiple buttons like most people. After all, it seems like he has been working fine with less of a brain than your average person, so maybe he is working with fewer buttons than a normal person, and pushing that one button really pisses him off.
Judd went on an on about how Margaret was bringing everybody down because she was upset that she wasn't seen as the mom in the new Nakum and she was upset. He admitted he was a loose cannon and he did blow up, but insisted that he was a big teddy bear around camp, and there was nothing for people to be afraid of. Jamie put it another way. He admitted that Judd was a big guy, has a big voice, scares other people (and probably likes that he does), but Jamie was happy that Judd was all of those things. He knew that Judd would be a good ally after the merge, and if he took Judd to the final two, there was no way that people would vote for Judd because of how much he was pissing everybody off.
Yaxha had an entirely different problem. Yes, they also had to vote off a member of their tribe, and although Bryan was not hated around camp, it didn't look like they were crying that he was gone. What they were crying about was the marks on their body from the big balls they were pushing around in the reward challenge from day before. I am not sure why they suffered so much more than Nakum, or maybe the producers simply left Nakum out because they had were bitching about Margaret enough to fill a segment. Whatever the reason was, every single member of Yaxha had these huge blister-like things on their shoulders and faces, and they had scabbed over and were turning into open, festering sores. Not even the pharaohs had seen things this bad, and none had it worse than Bobby Jon. When I first looked at one of his shoulders, I thought that he had placed it in a deli slicer.
Mmmm. Tasty.
The two teams came together for the reward challenge, and we figured that it would be some sort of feast, but we weren't sure. Well, in honor of the Mayans, who discovered chocolate, the winners would win a lot of the sweet stuff as well as a zip line canopy tour of the rainforest. In order to win, the teams completed in a challenge that looked a lot like one that we saw in the Real World/ Road Rules challenge with Veronica and Jodi wrapping themselves in toilet paper. The twist on this was that there would be four people who wrapped themselves up in succession. That means that the first person would wrap themselves in fabric, would unhook themselves from a post, run to the next survivor, and then at that post, the fabric had to be wrapped around two people. The third post, it would wrap around three people, and the fourth post, four tribe members would have to work in synch with each other to wrap themselves up. The players would then unwrap themselves in succession, and the first team to have all four players unwrapped at past the finish line would win.
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