There were 19 castaways left on Survivor right? Well from Thursday’s episode, who could tell? I certainly only saw one contestant and his name is Russell H. And I’m sick of him!
But I’ve gotta admit, man he’s good. I hate him. I despise him. But he’s a great character and so far a great player. He thinks there just might be an idol hidden in his camp, so he looks for it. And he FINDS it! With no clues whatsoever. Now this is amazing enough, but the truly extraordinary thing about it is when Mick asked him what he was doing, what did he say?
“Looking for the idol”
He TELLS his tribe exactly what he’s doing, he finds the idol right in front of them and casually sticks it in his pants and walks off. And none of them suspect a thing! From the editing it’s hard to tell why his tribe believes him so much, but he’s got to be doing something right. People trust him and they definitely shouldn’t.
Well, not everyone trusts him. Betsy, the “cop” of Foa Foa, saw right through him and realized the snake Russell truly is. And what does Foa Foa do with the only level-headed person on their tribe? Oh that’s right, vote her out. Betsy became the second person voted out of the game.
But I’m jumping ahead of myself here. Before the challenge, we got to see a little bit from the Galu camp which had Sassy Yassy (Yasmin) complaining about the harsh conditions of living in the woods. According to her, “the Hood is not the Woods!” You’ve gotta love her.
On to the challenge. This challenge really offended me, and whoever thought it would be a good idea clearly wasn’t thinking straight. Every recent year on Survivor, the castaways have some sort of wrestling challenge which is always extremely physical but they always use mud or water or sand so the contestants don’t get too badly injured. This season production thought of the brilliant idea to have people tackle other people on flat dirt. Come on now! How can you not expect severe injuries when basically the only rule in the game is you can’t kill the other person? The castaways had to tackle each other to take control of three balls, then throw them to their other teammates who threw them into a basket. The first team to three baskets wins reward (fishing gear) and tribal immunity. After a series of harsh tackles and Ben actually being thrown out of the challenge for playing too dirty and tripping/kicking Russell S, Galu won their second challenge in a row and sent Foa Foa back to tribal council.
But before they could go to tribal and vote out Betsy (STILL sad about this!), Mike, the 62-year-old personal chef on Foa Foa, was medically evacuated from the game. He just couldn’t take it out there and the challenge made him have a high risk for a heart attack. Great job production team! You’re genius idea for a challenge got Mike evacuated! I personally don’t think he would have lasted much longer anyways, but by him being evacuated it meant ANOTHER person had to be voted out from Foa Foa. Had he stayed, Betsy would have been spared.
By winning the challenge, Galu’s leader (Russell S.) had to choose one member from Galu to go spy at Foa Foa’s camp and listen in at tribal to pick up information, and he chose Yasmin. Yasmin quite possibly could have been the worst choice, but she certainly made for some great television. Only minutes after arriving she went into a rant about how much she wants to help Foa Foa so that it’s a “fair fight” and it’s not like “taking candy from a baby.” Hold on there girl, you’ve only won 2/3 challenges and you’re already that arrogant? Sure you’re in a better position than they are, but don’t make them even angrier at you than they already are!
Then she said to Ben, “I would like to talk to you in private.” Oh this is going to be good. Yasmin doesn’t disappoint.
She wanted to talk to Ben about how he was tackling her like she was a man during the challenge, and basically caused a huge chaotic argument between the two. And it was great television. Ben isn’t someone you want to mess with if you don’t want to cause a ruckus. The whole thing was so ridiculous but as a viewer it was great to watch.
Foa Foa was on the screen about 80% of the time which makes me think that Galu gets much more screen time next episode, meaning they lose the next challenge. So personally I think Foa Foa is going to lose their losing streak next episode and finally send Galu to tribal council. Hopefully this will end up happening, because honestly I still don’t know the names of a few from Galu. About four of them haven’t even had a confessional yet! That’s ridiculous.
She sure didn’t go down without a fight, but Russell H. managed to extinguish another of his competitor’s torches. When are people finally going to realize he’s scum? Who knows! But I have a feeling it won’t be for a while.
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