In Survivor: China episode 8, we saw yet another genius plan get flushed down the drain, as the group opted to kick out Jean-Robert instead of the highly dangerous James, doing so in a manner that allowed James to know he better watch his back.
Since he’s got two idols and a great shot at winning immunity, James isn’t particularly concerned, but he’s more likely to use those idols given the chance.
Courtney’s excited to have Jean-Robert gone. Hopefully now she can stop obsessing about him and start obsessing about someone else.
Not surprisingly, Denise is even more upset at her old tribe, as nobody decided to tell her that plans for the last tribal council. Any time someone’s intentionally left out of the loop like this, they become a big risk to flip.
Courtney’s getting closer and closer to Frosti, and she’s already proved her allegiance to her old tribe is not of a great deal of importance to her. They’re getting scared, and they should be. Courtney’s been a very emotional player thus far.
Reward challenge is a balancing act, where players will balance balls on drums. The reward is an overnight dinner cruise down a river. Peih-Gee and Erik are captains. Peih-Gee chooses James, who picks Todd, who picks Denise. Erik chooses Frosti, who picks Amanda, who picks Courtney. Erik’s group gets off to an early lead, scoring their first point before the other group even gets past the starting gate. Frosti and Erik are essentially a two man team and take a 2-0 lead, followed by a third point for the win.
Peih-Gee and James get into an argument over their group’s pitiful performance at the reward challenge. She realizes this probably isn’t the smartest way to stay in the game.
Todd says the four people he gets along best with are off on a boat. Interesting observation considering that group only consists of one of his close allies, Amanda. On the reward, all of the four get along really well, so it would make for an interesting alliance. However, Frosti’s not thinking that way. He’s afraid of Erik.
Completely unrelated to the game, Amanda seems to have made a rather unfortunate swimsuit choice. She’s got a blur covering her throughout much of the episode.
The immunity challenge is a memory game. They will have symbols in front of them that they must get in the correct order. It’s a temptation immunity. People can sit out and instead eat burgers, fries, and drinks. Courtney’s eating (good), as are Todd (who’s probably the safest of the bunch), James (I’d go for it if I were him, just to save the hidden ones, unless he really is feeling completely safe despite the three votes last time), and Denise (who knows she’s not safe with these people). Peih-Gee, Frosti, Erik, and the person taking the bullet for her team, Amanda, will participate in the challenge. Erik’s first out. Amanda is out in the next round. Peih-Gee wins immunity. Easy target’s off the options list. Now it’s time to scramble.
Erik and Frosti think they’re the targets tonight. Frosti’s obviously willing to sell Erik out to save himself. I’d think they would have the pull to be able to at least try to get something together on their own and take out someone else. Todd’s afraid of Erik being such a nice guy, but he’s also concerned that Frosti continues to be one of the top performers in both physical and mental challenges. Todd wants to try to convince Courtney to vote out Frosti. Nobody thinks she’ll do it, so he suggests maybe they should get rid of Courtney instead.
James is as comfortable as he let on and doesn’t use his hidden idol.
Votes:
Frosti
Erik
Frosti
Frosti
Frosti
Frosti
Frosti has been voted off the island. While I do think the plot to get rid of James should have been raised again, Frosti has proved to be one of the biggest threats there, so his boot does make sense. Do you think they made the right choice?
But it’s not over yet. They have more business to attend to at tribal council. Whatever that means, we’ll find out next time.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: China episode 10 It’s Been Real and It’s Been Fun, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.
I think you missed a vote there boss. But there was only one vote against Erik.
I thought this was another limp episode. The reward challenge was poorly designed – they had no rule about how long anyone could control the ball. From what I saw, Denise never touched the thing, and Amanda only got contact with it when she was playing backboard to the basket. Nope, I would have said no more than 10 hits, then you have to pass it. And peegee blew it, totally. Bouncing the darn ball 10 feet in the air, holding the drum up above eye level. DUMB.
The cruise was pretty neat, and it looked like some hooking up could have been going on, but Erik and Frosti are weiners and too afraid to make a move. And they were both in! Or so it looked to me.
The immunity challenge was interesting with the food temptation. Good for James for snarfin down 7 of the 10 burgers. Eat!
After that it just fell apart. Is there some dynamic I’m missing? Why did both Erik and Frosti feel so vulnerable? Both seem well liked, both are non confrontational, both seem to be making headway with the ladies. But they both felt weak, and did nothing. They could have allied with Denise, who was not hiding her own feelings of weakness. And then all they’d have to do was influence Courtney (Frosti) or Amanda (Erik) or James (Denise) … and how can they not realize that little stinker Todd acts like ringmaster, pulling ALL the strings EVERY time? They could have taken him out, total blindside. Nope, they acted like victims so they became victims. Courtney, 2 faced little bitch, was just too much with the little bye-bye kissy huggy bit at Council.
At least there will be some action next week. Finally! It looks like a double tap might be in play at the extended Council the episode opens on, and from the previews it looks like folks get scraped up doing something physical … which means … Go JAMES!!
And James will be laying down some truth, causing mini-boy to get all uppity! Woohoo, reminds me of a chihuaha barking at a Great Dane. Is James smart enough to play the hate card and wind up all the little baby losers, then pop an immunity idol at Council to vote off Todd with only 1 vote? I hope so; can’t wait for next week to find out!
I don’t know that they could have complicated the challenge any more than they did without it taking three times as long. But it was obvious Denise and Amanda were largely useless.
That’s exactly the issue. Todd’s calling all the shots. I don’t get the very dangerous path he’s taking himself down, though. Denise doesn’t seem to trust anybody, Courtney was willing to throw her alliance away just to vote against Jean-Robert every time, and James is pretty much guaranteed final four. I can’t see Amanda turning on Todd, though, so if someone wants to take him out, they’ll have to do it without him. Meanwhile, everybody else trusts him. It’s like Boston Rob. Nobody will know he’s not with them until they get the knife in the back.
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