Tonight’s episode of Survivor: China is a special clip show, with 14 new never before seen scenes. The show will continue with the final 7 Survivors next week. For full recaps thus far and continuing live blogs, check out our Survivor: China section.
Before the season even got started, their first task was to climb and climb and climb up to the temple. Chicken was content to just take his time, which is not entirely surprising. The girls are covered up because their clothing was too short for a temple. After this ceremony, they were divided into tribes.
Todd nominated Aaron to be the leader. I think it’s a misconception that being a leader is bad, though. It’s being bossy that gets you in trouble.
A hungry Zhan Hu had no problem eating worms, but Ashley’s disgusted. An improvement to the worms comes when they get frogs. Leaves and roots from the water were fair game as well. They had no clue whether half this stuff was bad/poisonous, but most of them didn’t care.
First person out of the tribe after Fei Long’s win was Chicken, a well deserved boot. He played the dumb role quite well. Too well.
Todd and Amanda quickly formed an alliance. Then Jean-Robert came up with his brilliant strategy of being lazy. For the so-called leader, Aaron’s not acting much like one. So James put him in his place.
At the next reward challenge, the entirely lame Exile Island was replaced by the only partially lame kidnapping twist. And the stupid hidden immunity idol that’s killed the last few seasons was still not dead. Fei Long kidnapped Jaime. Not getting any luckier after the loss, Zhan Hu returned to a flood that they needed to figure out how to drain.
Jaime gave the idol clue to Leslie, the weakest member of the team. Leslie told Todd because she trusted him, like everybody else has.
Aaron got tired of making decisions. He didn’t want to be a leader any more and relinquished that position.
Before the challenge in which Dave embarrassed himself and ran out of steam, he insisted that they don’t eat before the challenge. For that matter, he wasn’t eating that much to begin with. Due to his clash with Ashley, she was the game’s second victim.
Zhan Hu finally got it together and won immunity. By this time, Courtney was already hating Jean-Robert. Despite Jean-Robert’s personality, voting against him didn’t make any sense, so they decided to send Leslie home instead.
Sherea was a bitch because she could be, but despite that, Zhan Hu ultimately got rid of Dave.
With a tribal shakeup, Sherea and Frosti moved to Fei Long, while James and Aaron moved to Zhan Hu.
The new Fei Long was joking and doing impressions of the other castaways. But Peih-Gee and Jaime had to figure out how to survive at the new Zhan Hu. So they plotted to throw the challenges, which they did and voted out Aaron.
An overly impatient Todd got the immunity idol right in front of Frosti (along with Todd’s partner in crime Amanda, odd considering he said he’d never tell anybody), forcing them into trusting him. So he then came up with a new plan, giving the idol to James and asking him to throw the challenge and use it to get rid of Jaime. To go along with this, they threatened Frosti, telling him he needed to win or go home. Regardless of this well orchestrated plot, Denise was unable to eat the chicken fetus, allowing Fei Long to lose, and Sherea was sent home.
Following the failure of this plan, James not only kept his first idol but got the second one as well.
Not being able to be saved by her fake immunity idol, which was a completely anticlimactic moment that I was hoping would be a lot funnier, Jaime was the next person voted out of the tribe.
James feels he’s the glue holding the alliance together.
Jean-Robert came up with Todd’s plan to get rid of James, which was a brilliant plan, so Todd instead came up with a stupid plan to vote out Jean-Robert, which of course worked.
Peih-Gee got herself into more danger by arguing with James, and an apology fell on deaf ears. But because she won immunity, they couldn’t take the easy way out and instead had to make a tougher decision, which meant voting out Frosti.
After that immunity challenge, we were told they wouldn’t be going right back to camp because they had more business to attend to at tribal council. And that cliffhanger is where we now stand.
Next week, in addition to the end of the tribal council, Amanda goes to Peih-Gee with a plan and tells us that Fei Long is not together any more. 7’s a great time to flip and pull in a swing vote.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: China Episode 11 Ready to Bite the Apple, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.