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choke102006Last night's episode of Survivor had twice the Tribal Councils... and yet somehow half the drama. After a series of strong episodes, I found this latest installment a little on the "eh" side. There were no surprises, barely any suspense, and not much by way of scheming. Cao Boi did attempt to stir things up, but his strategy was so full of holes and logistical problems, we knew it would completely fall apart. The one bright spot of the episode came from the reward challenge that Jeff Probst promised would be just like an Olivia Newton-John song: physical. He did not disappoint. Survivors clawed, choked, and wrestled their way towards a savory lamb feast. After all that tussling, I kind of felt bad that the victorious team had to send someone home at all, but alas, Survivor is a fickle game, and not everything works out the way we want it... like the quality of the episode.

This week's show started off with what else? Rats digging in coconuts! Looks like rats are totally cooler than crabs this season (and lets not overlook the occasional octopus cameo). Anyway, after having sent Stephannie home at Tribal Council, the Raro tribe returned to their campsite full of tension. You see, it had come out that people thought Cristina was kind of very controlling, and Adam in particular had singled her out for being annoying. Even though she played it off in Tribal Council, she was pretty offended by this attack, and she called out Adam for being rude. Adam? Rude? Now I've heard it all! He's been nothing but the pinnacle of maturity this season, you know, when he wasn't complaining about building floors and whatnot.

Sure enough, Adam tried to defend himself from this accusation of being rude, but his man-bitching resulted in nothing but awkward silence. I did feel badly for Cristina. I liked her, and there's probably nothing worse than hanging out with people for two weeks, only to suddenly discover that they all can't stand you. With tears in her eyes, Cristina lifted her head high and said that if she could get through being shot in the arm, she could get through this. I should hope so! Let's see, what's worse? Someone shoots you with a gun and your arm is almost amputated, orrrr.... someone calls you annoying. Gosh, it's too close to call.

Over at Aitu, Ozzy was busy catching half the fish in the ocean again (although, he overlooked the giant scallop that was effortlessly belching out bubbles!). Apparently, the cranky castaway had his own special fishing spot, and since he could hold his breath for like two and a half minutes, he usually came away with around ten fish in about an hour. Not bad. But could he have your lenses ready in about an hour also? No. BECAUSE ONLY LENSCRAFTERS CAN DO THAT.

Jonathan then babbled something about Ozzy being really valuable to the team (which meant he wanted to get rid of him as soon as they hit the merge). Before we could really explore those simmering tensions, tree mail arrived. I kind of wondered what would happen if tree mail and Tyra mail somehow got mixed up. I think I would love that. Anyway, the tree mail mentioned something about a feast, but said nada about immunity. The question remained: bring the immunity idol or no? You'd think the answer would be no, considering this wasn't an immunity challenge, but Cao Boi had different intentions. He wanted to bring the idol to all challenges. To him, the idol was like a guardian angel or something like that. "I believe a Tangaroa is an ocean god of fertility, and he came to us as immunity idol. He's our extra member," Cao Boi said. Assuming Tangaroa existed, why would he be hanging out on a reality show? Wouldn't he have bigger fish to fry (pun very intended!)?


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