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Tables turn, as do allies, on 'Survivor: Micronesia - Fans vs. Favorites'
Hello everyone! As the new blogger for Survivor: Micronesia - Fans vs. Favorites around here, I don’t want to make any waves, despite the pressure I feel to do so. So never fear, the format that you’ve come to know and love will be maintained. However, I cannot promise that my angry, young man complex will not rear it’s ugly head when one of the boring Fans wins this thing…
Pour the whine. The show opens with dissension in the Favorites camp. Jonathan and Cirie seem not to have noticed the fact that a week has gone by, as they have readily picked up the argument featured in the closing moments of last week’s show. The two seem at loggerheads, which will make the eventual alliance that sweeps them into the final two all the more dramatic. Or so one might hope.
Muscling up on the minorities. Dawn breaks with breakfast at team Fans, where the topic of discussion is who the Faves might have voted out. Focus quickly shifts to tastier fare, a nearby eel, who is dispatched with the savagery we’ve come to associate with the bloodthirsty Fans. The eel appears to not be up to the task of slaking the Fans bloodlust, and they quickly turn on the local whipping boy – Chet, who receives a round of tongue-lashing from the cool kids.
Back at the Faves camp, Eliza appears to be succumbing to the ravages of the wilderness. James shows some concern, but perhaps he is just sizing her up for a glorious return to his gravedigging past. The rest of the cast appears to agree, as Eliza’s death is a hot topic. For some reason, Eliza appears to object. I’m with you James, I can’t figure her will to survive out…
(Coco)Nuts to that! I’ll have some eggs! A combination of letters and coconuts secreted underwater, with chickens at stake, appears before our heroes. Unsurprisingly, the fans don’t trust Chet around chickens, and they leave him out of the competition. Ozzy, not needing to breathe like all of us mortals, dives long and deep to corral the elusive nuts for his team, giving them an insurmountable lead. The Faves win the chix, saving the lucky chunks of poultry from the machinations of the Fans. Kathy continues her unbeaten streak in the unpopularity contest, and is sent to Exile Island. Ozzy shines his divine countenance upon her by agreeing to accompany her to the land of the lonely.
Ozzy is a GOD! In typical Survivor counterpoint, the Fans speculate on Kathy’s misery – cut to Kathy living it up with Oz. Ozzy, sensing a competition in the offing, takes this opportunity to find the Exile Island immunity idol with relative ease. Forgoing the obvious hiding place near the more gentlemanly regions of his swim trunks, he sticks it in his hat.
Ozzy, in a snap decision to pay homage to the devious nature of his former teammate Yau-Man, fashions a false idol to place in the stead of the genuine one he carries close to his highly-evolved brain.
Smart Patrol! Put the poles in the holes! Back at the Faves camp, Eliza makes her play on Team Showmance, chumming it up with Parvati. Jonathan sees two people talking by themselves and naturally makes the assumption that all that is needed to complete the conversation is him walking up behind them to eavesdrop. Seriously, who is this guy? Mr. Nosy Neighbor (‘Ello! What’s going on over here!?) This guy overhears more conversations than Harry Potter.
Ozzy and Kathy are reunited with their tribes for the day’s immunity challenge. Once again, the spirit of Rube Goldberg is channeled by the show’s producers, and a souped-up competition of push me-pull you ensues. The Faves’ experience with people attached to poles and spelling words prevails, and the Fans are awarded the honor of reducing their number by one.
Chet makes a last stand. Or Tracy makes it for him, rather. Chet’s hours appear to be to be numbered among the Fans. Chet seems ready to go, despite Kathy and Tracy’s efforts to buck him up. Tracy makes a valiant effort to shame Joel into rebelling against Mikey. She makes a convincing argument, but do the nerves in Joel’s ears stretch all the way to his brain? Only time will tell.
Tribal council comes, and the topic of discussion again is the strength of the tribe. It seems there are as many opinions as to how best to bolster the tribe as there are members in it. Jason, his aspirations of debating at the presidential level quite apparent, delivers a rebuttal that one can only assume everyone will have present in their minds when they pick up the over-sized novelty marker of doom. Tracy’s efforts to penetrate Joel’s cortex are successful, as Chet wipes the sweat from his brow and changes his suddenly damp pants -- Mikey gets the axe.
Next week – THE MERGE, VIOLENCE AT CHALLENGE, BODY PARTS AT RISK! I'll be there, will you?
Fantastic show! Couldn't believe how FAST Ozzy found the idol. Will any one be able to stop him now? Why does that fan Kathy just roll over and not even TRY to find it? Get that chick out of there and keep some PLAYERS!
gretchen | Feb 29, 2008 4:33:19 AM | #Ok you did a fair job of your blog for a new guy, but we will see!! You did forget the most memorable line ever. James to Eliza: You are sick AND you have an atitude?? Followed by a laugh. Great stuff. Kathy the fan, has she ever watched the show? she seems so shocked by the conditions, the lack of food and the competitive nature of her fellow players. Go Home Kathy. and take Chet
pam | Feb 29, 2008 5:58:50 AM | #I thought the best line was when James figured out the word was "triumphant". He was like, "Man, if i figured this word out..."
James rocks.
Also, preseason Jeff Probst said that last seasons immunity idol blunder was nothing compared to this seasons immunity idol blunder. So, does that make Ozzy the blunderer?
nisleib | Feb 29, 2008 6:23:02 AM | #Nah - not Ozzy. It's probably Kathy, for going back to Exile island time and time again and not even WANTING to find the thing!!
Can't decide who is cooler - Ozzy or James. Kudos to Tracy for a great move to save the senior citizen alliance for a while longer.
Cirie was quiet this week. Hmm. Just biding her time.
I am LOVING this season.
Lil | Feb 29, 2008 6:36:21 AM | #i cut kathy some slack as i think it's hard for us survivor fans to fathom the rather terrible conditions. but her abandoning the search for the immunity idol takes all that slack back.
as for joel, he's making way too many moves way too early in the game. and commenter pam was right about james' very blunt talk to eliza
nitish | Feb 29, 2008 6:57:34 AM | #Great re-cap. Welcome to the tribe Andrew.
Tracy is one of my "Faves" now. She turned it around and has Joel eating out of the palm of her hand. He has no choice now but to stick with her and her crew.
Ozzy is very smart and if the others don't vote him out soon, they'll be sorry.
Looks like the tribe mix-up next week is going to be interesting. Good show.
Peace.
JVice | Feb 29, 2008 7:52:46 AM | #I think you did a good first shot here, but we need memorable quotes and you left out a lot of detail on the challenges.
A Good Start | Feb 29, 2008 8:05:53 AM | #I think you did a good first shot here, but we need memorable quotes and you left out a lot of detail on the challenges.
A Good Start | Feb 29, 2008 8:05:55 AM | #Next week is not the merge. Jeff said there would be a switch.
Along with all the other great lines that have been mentioned, I would add another of my favorites: "Triumphant? Is that a word?"
Beth | Feb 29, 2008 8:33:29 AM | #Kudos to all of you and your comments. Yes, JAMES DOES ROCK, muscles and a brain with humorous comments too! Who does Eliza think she is fooling about the FLIP threat? Everyone there knows SHE's famous for flipping. She'll be gone soon too. As a swimmer, I was so impressed with Ozzy for bringing the coconuts forward in the cage so the others wouldn't have it so tough. Fan Jason or whoever, seemed pretty fast in the water, but he only took care of one coconut at a time, which resulted in more work as the cage emptied. Good job OZZY, YOU rock too dude!
gretchen | Feb 29, 2008 8:44:58 AM | #Nisleib, I'm guessing the immunity idol blunder is going to be someone using the fake Idol that Ozzy carved out and left on the island. At least, I'm hoping that's what it is. I don't want Ozzy's flawless image to be tainted that way, and I think it would be awesome to see someone play a fake immunity idol again.
Survivor Nutcase | Feb 29, 2008 8:57:06 AM | #Great episode. Good recap too. Funnier than usual. Some references might be over some people's heads.
I don't get the idea for voting out Mikey. You are getting killed in challenges so you vote out a stronger guy? Joel really wants to be in alliance with the feeble folks?
I could see the favorites banding together to dessimate the fans if they come in with bigger numbers. Of course if Cirie could stir up trouble to ruin her safe position I'm sure she'll try.
I don't get the logic in creating a fake idol. When somebody finds it they will probably know it's fake and then know that somebody got the real idol. Then they'll likely be able to figure out its superhuman Ozzy. Makes a lot more sense to just take it and leave nothing...thus others don't know what has happened with the idol.
A great episode, and Ozzy, no one has played the game better! Love him! I sure hope he has the real idol. I would love for him to win it all, I'm sure he'll get voted off though, he's just too strong. And James, love him too, who would have thought he'd be the one to guess the word first! I didn't want to see a tribe switch up, but I hope Joel gets Chet, Eliza and CIRIE, now that will be good tv. He deserves them. If one of the FAVS win I'll be very disappointed.
Jo | Feb 29, 2008 9:39:54 AM | #Joel & Mike's Alpha/Beta power struggle allowed The Weaklings to divide and conquer. Ape-like Joel was too easily tempted by the oldest Survivor argument in the book -- cut out your competition now because you'll never get the chance again AND he'll do it to you first. Duh! Now that you've done that, you are the next most obvious target, meathead. Not that I credit the Fans with being smart, but it seems like if they play their cards right, The Weaklings can move into a position of power. It shouldn't be too hard to sway the Hair Twins because they'll be afraid to get voted off themselves.
As for the Favorites, of which only Ozzy is truly one of my favorites, would it be too much to ask for Jonathan and Parvati to fight each other to a bloody agonizing death?
The previews next week indicate Jonathan is so injured he might lose his leg. Please, TV Gods, have pity on us and send him away from our screens.
Chris | Feb 29, 2008 10:09:19 AM | #The Only person I have ever rooted for before now was Colby Donaldson. This season I am rooting for Ozzy. Sure hope he goes to the end.
Trupen | Feb 29, 2008 11:22:14 AM | #Whenever I watch Ozzie in the water I think he should be called Ozzie the Fish.
I think he deserves to win more then anyone.
sac | Feb 29, 2008 12:53:46 PM | #Good comments!! Ill be back..
hope Ozzy wins...he looks the part..wins all the games..swims like a fish..and i havent heard him
say too many evil things about anyone yet!! and I too loved James' comment..You're sick AND you have an attitude?
great line..will use it asap.
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