The Immunity Challenge is one we have seen before (I can't quite remember what season), but the Survivors all wait under a metal grate in the water as the tide comes in, giving them less and less breathing room as the water slowly takes their space away. The last person standing wins immunity. Amanda is the first out as she dozes off and accidentally ends up with her head out from under the grate. I hope that is not a metaphor, right there. One by one, everyone else bails (including Eliza, unfortunately), until only Jason, James and Ozzy are left. The three of them use their hands to create little funnels for air, and the water ends up completely submerging their faces. They all have to spit water out of the blowholes like whales. It is fairly intense and cool to watch. James ends up dropping out, and you can see Ozzy struggling pretty profusely. I have no idea why he stays in the game this long, since he doesn't need the idol. Oh, wait, yes I do: He has an ego the size of Jeff Probst's hat collections. He finally relents, emerging from under the water looking like he just swallowed an entire Great Lake. He seriously looks about twenty years older. So, Jason wins the first individual immunity! Number of challenges (including tribe ones) that Ozzy's team/Ozzy himself has won: less than half of the total. I do believe that the myth of Ozzy is slowly being destroyed, which is good for everyone at this point.
Relax.
Back at Tribal Council, Jason makes me hate him some more by telling us how satisfying it will be to beat Ozzy at Tribal Council and then to be able to sideswipe him tonight and vote him out. It is a good plan, because it will probably reorganize the alliances. If only the idol weren't a complete, obvious fake. Douche! Parvati hates on Eliza all over the tribe, telling us how sick she is of all of Eliza's wheelings and dealings. Pot! Kettle! The consensus is pretty much Eliza, so she slinks across the camp to find Jason and have him go get the immunity idol. "It's in your bag." He tells her as he leaves to go find wood or something. Eliza goes to her bag, excited to be able to get a leg up on all of these obvious douchebags. As she unwraps the idol and sees the obvious fake, she slowly realizes what's happened. "Shit, this is just a fake!" she says. It's obvious that she thinks that Jason is playing some sort of trick on her, so she storms across the beach and demands to know what the hell he's thinking. "This is NOT the idol!" she tells him. And what follows is one of the greatest conversations in Survivor history. Jason is all "But it has a face on it!" and Eliza can't believe what she's hearing. "It's just a fucking stick!" she says, hilariously, and I love her. Then, you can see it in her face, she has another epiphany, which is that Jason actually thinks what he has is the real thing. Eliza, who is no dummy, immediately puts two and two together. "Well, then Ozzy found it and he made a fake one for you to find. That's what happened." Jason: "You think so? But...it has a face on it!" It's awesome, he thinks anything with a face on it has to be the immunity idol. We're lucky he didn't run into a poisonous scorpion or something and be all "Immunity Idol!" because then Eliza would need medical treatment. Eliza, immediately figuring that she has nothing to lose and thinking maybe the budget has been tightened a little bit this season, is like "Well, should I play it anyway?" Which is not dumb at all, but the smartest move you can make at this point, because you have nothing to lose by doing it. Well, except your dignity. But who gives a pants? Getting voted out by the likes of Parvati is embarrassing enough, might as well try whatever you can. Everyone has lumped Eliza in with Jason as dumb because of all this, but I am telling you that she is one of the smartest people ever to play the game if you think about it.
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I also liked Eliza and was sorry to see her go. The exchange between her and Jason over the fake immunity idol was awesome and I don't think she was dumb to play it at all. I'm sure she knew it wasn't real, but knew it would flush out the fact Ozzy had the idol if she did play it.
As long as she stops mooning over Ozzy and gets her head back in the game, I would be ok with Amanda winning. And even though I don't like her as a person and she sucks in challenges, Cirie has made some strategic moves and power plays subtly over the course of the game.
1 of 10 | Posted by Snackycakes420 | Posted on April 19, 2008 3:10 PM
I actually really like Erik. I find him adorable in a naive, little puppy kind of way.
I hate Parvati. So much. Actually, I pretty much hate all of them except Erik. I don't mind Cirie or Amanda either.
I serious ROFL'd for about 5 minutes when Jason said, so earnestly, "But...it has a face!" Seriously dude. It looks like it was whittled by a 5 year old.
I don't really know who I want to win this season. I find James amusing, but I don't want him to win. Natalie and Alexis are totally forgettable, Jason's an idiot, Parvati's just horrible, Ozzy is annoying, Amanda is playing a stupid game, Erik is just Ozzy's little lapdog and Cirie. Well, I think I want her to win, out of all of them. At least she has brains. Sort of.
2 of 10 | Posted by georgiababe | Posted on April 19, 2008 9:38 PM
I try not to be critical because I'm sure there's plenty of time spent putting together these recaps but why do the Survivor recaps take so long? Most of the other shows are posted within 2-3 days of being aired but the Survivor ones are usually posted a few hours before the next episode. Not to mention the recap from the March Madness 2 week layoff was still posted the day of the next new episode and this one was put up the day after a new one was aired.
Besides this, I love the recaps.
At least Ozzie is gone. Nice blindside! I loved his bitching afterward.
3 of 10 | Posted by Anonymous | Posted on April 20, 2008 11:53 AM
I am with you there "anonymous". Big Brother is on 3 nights a week and is usually posted that same night, if not the next day. I mean, this was posted after this week's episode even. I know I don't post things, but it just seems so late compared to other shows...
4 of 10 | Posted by JustJesse | Posted on April 20, 2008 1:40 PM
I gotta go with the two above me. I know someone will say that we should appreciate the recappers for doing what they do since they don't get paid and whatnot...but if you can't post a recap in a timely fashion- then don't volunteer to be a recapper.
A lot of times I don't get to watch the actual shows and the recaps are what I go by. I didn't even know ozzy was booted until I went to another site.
5 of 10 | Posted by serjen | Posted on April 20, 2008 2:28 PM
Schoonie, your recaps are always worth the wait, but I'm REALLY looking forward to your recap of last week's show. One of the best "Survivors" ever.
6 of 10 | Posted by JasonR | Posted on April 21, 2008 7:41 AM
I'm not entirely sure what Eliza has done that's made her so smart or awesome. She formed poor aliances that didn't pan out. She performed well at challenges and didn't do enough to toot her own horn.
When the tribes were mixed up she didn't do anything to get in with alexis or natalie (a clear option for a new aliance). From what we saw (which is highly edited and therefore misrepresentative), she simply relied on her tribe to continue winning challenges.
If her tribe had lost a challenge, she'd have been one of the first picks to go after Kathy, who lucky for her, removed herself from the game.
I mean Jonathan is only one man.
I'm still on the Cirie bandwagon--have been all along. She's so subtle, I love it--she quietly plants seeds in people's minds and then moves along. After last week's episode, I think there's no question that Cirie is the smartest one out there (eliza included).
7 of 10 | Posted by lawyerjenn | Posted on April 21, 2008 7:50 AM
All I can say about Eliza is, she's studying to be a lawyer!? What kind? There's no way I'd want someone that annoying and grating representing me.
As for her "playing" the fake idol, she didn't. She knew it wasn't real, therefore, the whole idea was to 'out' Ozzy. Which is FINE WITH ME. Saint Ozzy deserved it, and deserved what he got last week, too.
So she wins points for craftiness I suppose.
8 of 10 | Posted by Memememe | Posted on April 21, 2008 11:10 AM
schoonie, please post soon! i can't wait to read your recap on the last one.
9 of 10 | Posted by chibby | Posted on April 22, 2008 2:22 PM
So what language do people from Micronesia speak?
10 of 10 | Posted by smaile | Posted on April 22, 2008 3:43 PM