In Survivor: China Episode 6, we saw yet another strong strategic play, this time by Todd, but the net result of it was just that James got himself a hidden immunity idol and a way to find the second one. However, despite the use of their brains by some people on that island that day, Courtney went completely braindead (not a big change, I know) and told her allies she didn’t trust them, then she voted against one of them. But it wasn’t enough to prevent Sherea from getting voted off. Not that I know why anybody would want to prevent something like that.
Courtney starts off episode 7 by saying she hates everybody. While I’ve heard that before in prior seasons, it normally comes from someone with the personality to make it amusing.
Peih-Gee tries to convince James she’ll be loyal to him. In her confessional, she backs this up, saying her gut instinct is to trust him. It’s one episode too late for that, but there will be some post-merge scrambling.
Since the second hidden idol is “hidden” in the same exact spot as the first one, James gets that one as well. Jaime notices something’s missing. What they grab, though, is the second one on the opposite side, the one that’s not actually an idol. Later, Jaime looks in his bag and finds the actual hidden idol. They find not one but two.
Courtney continues to whine. Todd asks whether they can patch things up, which doesn’t happen. He gets concerned, which he should be, that she’s going to vote against Jean-Robert every time, thereby creating problems after the merge. The way Jean-Robert’s been treated in general in itself has been blatantly problematic for quite some time.
James notices the piece of wood that looks like an idol is missing. He knows somebody took it, and he hopes it’s Jaime. This is the kind of thing we were hoping for when Yau Man made a fake immunity idol.
The tribes are now merged. They will go to Fei Long’s beach because they sucked less. As they head off to a feast and traditional Chinese entertainment, Jeff warns them: this game never stops.
Amanda comes right out with it, telling us it’s still two tribes.
Jean-Robert’s not smart enough to realize his tribe hates him, so he’s not even thinking about switching sides.
Jeff comes to the island and brings the immunity idol. As he warned, the game didn’t stop. The challenge is about events that happened during the feast and the celebration. James, Amanda, Courtney, and Peih-Gee are eliminated on the first question. Everybody gets the second question right. Todd (who had the correct answer but changed it), Jean-Robert, Denise, and Erik are eliminated on the next question. On the final question, Frosti wins immunity. I’m not so sure about this win. He probably wasn’t in any danger and may have painted something of a target on himself.
They want to get rid of Jaime, but they’re still concerned about Courtney. Jean-Robert, however, insists he wants to vote for Peih-Gee.
He then tells Todd if he gets screwed he’ll blame Todd, not Amanda, and says he’ll campaign harder than any juror ever has. Todd promises he’s watching his back, but he’s just playing him. Yeah, Jean-Robert’s definitely a big sore loser waiting to happen.
Peih-Gee thinks Jean-Robert is probably going to get votes, so that’s the way they’re going to go.
At tribal council, Jean-Robert says he doesn’t think Courtney will be considered a threat any time soon. James is concerned that Jean-Robert talks too much. Before Jeff reads the vote, Jaime pulls out the fake hidden immunity idol and asks if it is an idol, but Jeff tells her no. Darn. That was far less funny than I’d hoped.
Votes:
Jean-Robert
Jaime
Jaime
Jean-Robert
Jean-Robert
Jaime
Jaime
Jaime
Jaime
Jaime has been voted off. Not a surprising vote. It may take some time before we get some actual drama here. Though the previews for next week’s episode certainly do look interesting.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: China episode 8 High School Friend Contest, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.
This was the best episode so far. I was really wound up that Jaime went digging in James’ bag, making this the second Survivor where your personal possessions are not sacrosanct. I thought for sure she’d either stolen the idols or swapped one for the dud. It was great when she got her comeuppance at Council but it would have been better if she’d been mortified about the false idol or the vote went against her 7-2.
I’m glad at least Todd is finally seeing that Courtney is a problem with her JR hating. Her little soliloquy was very telling – “I hate those two less than I hate everyone else, and they’re mistaking that for friendship”. She’s mental. And I think JR’s comment at Council – that she’s just going to cruise along for a long time because nobody is seeing her as a problem – is very insightful. I don’t think JRs as dumb as folks think.
Pleez vote that hater off. Then peepee, then Todd. I’m hoping the next 3 immunity challenges are heavily physical so James can win.
I don’t know why the heck she didn’t search his bag more and make sure what she had was real.
Jean-Robert definitely has his moments. Though I don’t get his strategy all the time, he has moments of being very perceptive.