Month: April 2010

Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina Episode 4

Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina Episode 3 was the first episode of the season not to feature a crybaby quitter. Craig, whose tribe has not liked him since the beginning, ended up being the one to get the axe.

Lady Lea is worried that perhaps her tribe is not noticing that she’s bringing something to the table. She’s hoping that she can be a fisherperson, but it’s not working.

The reward challenge is beach golf with catapults and coconuts. Both tribes start off pretty terribly but improve quickly. Sort of. They both score at the same point on their first play through. Chibudu takes the lead 1-0 on the next go. Timbila then scores the next point to tie it 1-1. On the final point, Chibudu wins reward. Darren will be going to exile. Okkert will be joining Chibudu for the night. Their reward is Hein, the bushman who was the first person in the history of Survivor to start a fire without anything manmade. He’s got with him a tool and some fishing gear.

Gys feels threatened by Hein, who then decides to go off on his own to catch them some fish. He manages to catch 5 fish for them for breakfast. All of a sudden, their treatment of him becomes much more warm.

Darren’s looking forward to a day of chilling without the social stuff that’s going on at the other island. Now he, too, has a clue to the hidden immunity idol.

Both tribes will navigate their way across the water to a platform with a hole in it. At the bottom, there are puzzle pieces, which they must grab and bring back with them to the beach. Izak, Sandi, and Darren sit out for Timbila. Chibudu’s got a bit of a lead as they head to the platform. This lead grows pretty rapidly as Timbila aimlessly rows their boat around, unable to get it to the platform. This is quickly becoming a pointless challenge. Timbila finally makes it to the platform, but it’s all irrelevant. By the time Timbila makes their way back to the beach, Chibudu has already won immunity.

Despite the win, Okkert’s already planning ahead. He’d like to break up Gys, Hanna, and Sade by getting rid of one of the two girls.

Knowing his neck’s probably on the line, Darren goes to search for the idol. He finds something, which he assumes is immunity. He wants to target Louw, Ashley, and Izak. He suggests this to Lea, who is getting tired of him. This move would be in her best interest since it’s probably either going to be him or her, with the other one following next time.

The consensus of the tribe seems to be to vote for Darren. Unfortunately, in the South African version of the game, the idol gets played before the vote, so all they have to do is have a backup in mind, without the worrying about how best to split the votes. That said, Darren has decided to play his idol. Would have been far more interesting if he had played it afterward and took out one of the top guns with his lone vote.

Votes
Lea
Sandi
Lea
Lea
Lea
Lea

Unable to get rid of Darren, the tribe has to settle for the elimination of Lady Lea. The completely out of the loop Lea tossed a vote ProVerb’s way.

Stay tuned to dingorue for another recap of Survivor South Africa: Santa Carolina Episode 5.

The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 16

Elena began the hunt for Isobel, her mother who also happens to be Alaric’s wife, in The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 15.

Matt would appreciate it if his mom Kelly wouldn’t bring the party home, and so would the neighbors. She might also consider getting a job. What she won’t consider is pretending to be nice to Caroline.

Anna’s showing her new vampire friends how to use cell phones and switch the TV channel.

Caroline suggests a double date. Stefan thinks that sounds like a great idea. He’s probably alone in that.

Since no invitation is necessary due to the lack of a living resident, Anna’s easily able to get into Damon’s home. If he agrees to help out Pearl and the other vampires, he can get what he wants most: Katherine. Plus he gets to live, so to speak.

Jeremy wants serious answers to questions about how to become and/or kill a vampire. So he goes in a chat room. Somehow, he does seem to manage to find someone to help.

Nursing his wounded eyes from Pearl’s fingers gouging them, Damon heads to a bar, where he meets Kelly and Jenna. They decide that drinking is good for the soul. This happens to be the same place Matt, Caroline, Elena, and Stefan decide to go for their oh so awkward double date.

Frederick’s tired of the rules. He decides to go into town. Nobody there knows him anyway, except for the Salvatore brothers.

Anna goes to visit Jeremy. She’s thinking of going back to school. Speaking of which, he’d like to do another paper on the vampires from Mystic Falls. His theory is that maybe they’re normal and good.

Frederick recognizes Elena, or at least he thinks he does. She’s not Katherine, and alerts Stefan by typing a warning on her phone.

Matt and Stefan are getting along just fine now, but that’s not doing Caroline any favors, as she increasingly regrets having suggested this double date.

As Damon’s interest in his visit to Cougartown increases, Jenna takes that as her cue to leave. Stepping outside, she meets Frederick, and she tells him where Damon lives. His pick up line falls on deaf ears thanks to the vervain.

While making a sandwich, Jeremy “accidentally” slices his hand with the knife. Anna shies away, but he invites her to go ahead and drink his blood.

Matt asks whether he passed the double date test. No, not really, but knowing that it was a test should earn him an acceptable grade. After their chat, Caroline seems to be somewhat over her issues. When they return home, new issues are waiting when they run into Damon and Kelly making out.

Before Stefan can give Damon a lecture, Frederick barges in and attacks. His unsuccessful attack gets him nowhere, but it does let Damon and Stefan know that some of those in the tomb are out.

Anna’s waiting for Jeremy in his room. He can’t tell anyone about her. He’d be surprised who would believe him. So why didn’t she kill him? Whatever the reason, he’d like her to make him a vampire.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Vampire Diaries Episode 17 Let the Right One in, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on The CW.

Survivor: Heroes Vs. Villains Episode 7

Both tribes went to tribal council in Survivor: Heroes Vs. Villains Episode 6. After Boston Rob pieced together the correct strategy, bonehead Tyson went off on his own and got himself eliminated. Then James got voted out due to his injured leg.

Russell wants to work on Jerri next. Well, good luck getting Jerri and Parvati to not hate each other.

Colby realizes it’s put up or shut up time for him. Wouldn’t hurt for someone else on the Heroes tribe to step up either.

The reward challenge involves a race through the water to get a ball and score a basket. The winning tribe will go to an outdoor waterfall with lunch. Courtney, Sandra, and Parvati sit out for the Villains. Colby misses twice. Then Coach misses twice. Then Colby finally makes a basket to lead 1-0. On the next point, an aggressive Heroes tribe takes the 2-0 lead on a score by Candice. Colby scores again to take win reward 3-0.

In addition to the food, they get a clue telling them there’s another immunity idol at their beach. They pretend like they’re going to ignore the clue. For a few minutes. They agree to use it together against the other tribe.

Russell tells Jerri and Coach that he wants to be in the final three with them. Coach thinks this is all bunk, but that Jerri is buying it. While these two may say they’re allies, they don’t seem to be on the same path.

For the immunity challenge, three members of each tribe will race relay style across a net, then climb up a rope web to retrieve puzzle pieces. Once they’ve collected all six bags, the two remaining tribe members will solve the puzzle. Jerri, Danielle, and Russell sit out for the Villains. JT and Amanda are on the puzzle for the Heroes; Boston Rob and Sandra are on the puzzle for the Villains. Parvati gets a slight lead over Rupert for the Villains. Courtney extends that lead over Candice. Coach continues the lead over Colby. Parvati loses some of the lead. Then Courtney completely loses it with her slow climbing and fear of jumping off the net, falling way behind Candice. Colby then runs with it to give the Heroes the early start on the puzzle. For a change, it looks like the Heroes may actually win on a puzzle, and they do.

Coach says that they need to get rid of the weak link, which would be Courtney following that challenge.

Russell is talking to Rob, Courtney, and Sandra. He wants to get rid of the weak. Either Courtney or Sandra. At least he’s not hiding his plans.

Coach agrees with that logic. They have to be too careful at the challenges because Courtney and Sandra are weak.

Rob’s plan is to get rid of the threat, Russell. His theory is that the thing most important to Coach is his loyalty. Either he sticks to the alliance, or it will be known he’s a liar.

In turn, Russell would like to get rid of Rob. This is going to be a harder sell than Courtney, who clearly blew the challenge.

Coach says that the elimination of Tyson removed the bridge of the gap between the sides. He begs Rob and Russell to stop being at each other’s throats.

Votes
Rob
Russell
Rob
Russell
Rob
Russell
Courtney
Rob

By a vote of 4-3, Boston Rob has been voted off the island. That pretty firmly establishes Russell’s control of the game.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Heroes Vs. Villains Episode 8, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.