Recap: Survivor: Seriously, This Show Has To Stop Being So Awesome. - 
by B-Side
What is up with Survivor? Every week it keeps getting better and better. I tell you, that mutiny has to rank as one of the best twists ever for this franchise because ever since Probst & Co. employed it, the show has been totally engrossing, culminating in last week's triumphant coup of strategizing. All week long, I couldn't understand why CBS had aired the best episode of the season on Thanksgiving, a night when most people were probably busy with their families. Why not air the clip show instead? Of course, the big assumption there was that last week's show was the best episode of the season. Little did I realize that Thursday's episode would so swiftly take the "OMG! Did you see that?" watercooler throne. Yes, Cook Islands is white hot right now, and if we're lucky, it won't implode under the weight of the do-gooder Aitus and their lovey-dovey alliance. But as long as Jeff Probst continues with the zingers (like his brutal torch-snuffing dis this week), we know we'll be in for good times...
Before this week's show even began, I was excited. There was gonna be some crazy fallout for Jonathan. For those of you who missed last week's merge episode, Yul revealed to Jonathan that he had the immunity idol and that if Jonathan didn't join their ranks to vote off Nate, Yul would use the idol and send Jonathan packing. Placed between a rock and a hard place, Jonathan flipped on his new tribe and joined the former Aitu members in voting off Nate. This led to many a stunned face at Tribal Council, and while I felt badly for Nate, it was his own damn fault for not campaigning harder to get rid of Jonathan. Nate, dawg (heh), couldn't you tell the whites were all tight? You should have been the swing vote, not the victim! Fight the power!
Anyway, with Nate bitterly ejected to the jury, we knew the whiteys would not be happy with Jonathan. At all. Hence, my excitement entering this episode. Sure enough, Jonathan began his damage control immediately, telling Candice that he had to vote against Nate or else he might have been going home. "Okay, I know," Candice said, just barely containing the urge to grab Jonathan's head and tear it off.
Parvati was less reserved with her rage. She snapped at Jonathan, "You pissed everyone's game off; so hope you're happy with second place!" Yes, shame on Jonathan for ruining Parvati's game! Surely he realized he was playing this to help her win. Selfish bastard!
Well, Parvati continued to rant to us, saying, "It's vile to me. It makes me, I feel sick to my stomach." Never mind that she surely would have stabbed Jonathan in the back first to get him off the island. Clearly only she's allowed to make such bold moves, not Jonathan. Of course, we all knew the only reason why Parvati felt sick was not because Jonathan was disloyal but because he'd played her like a fiddle. And no one plays Parvati! Except, you know, everyone.
Nevertheless, I couldn't begrudge Parv her bulimia-inspired fantasy as she complained, "All I wanted to do is take Jonathan's face and throw up all over it!" Quite honestly, I would have loved to have seen that. It would have been a new frontier for reality TV.
The best part of all this, however, was that when Jonathan tried to explain his actions to Raro, they refused to believe him. Parvati even balked, "Yul doesn't have the idol!" Hahaha. IDIOT. She's so the type in comedies who holds up a gun and laughs, "This thing ain't loaded!" as she then shoots a hole in the ceiling. Silly Poverty!
After the opening credits, we then found Sundra making her mark in the episode by routinely gutting a fish. Never having partaken in such a lovely activity, Parvati decided now might be a good time to take some notes, you know, just in case she was ever called upon to employ some sort of survivor skills -- as crazy as that might sound. Well, Jonathan was nothing but dismayed that Parvati had lasted so long without the slightest hint as to how to gut open a fish. "She's a lazy, selfish girl," he sneered, and for good reason! Like duh! Everyone knows how to gut a fish!!! I just gutted one three minutes ago. Tasty!
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