Month: April 2014

Spencer used his idol on himself in Survivor: Cagayan Episode 9, which was expected by the rest of the tribe, as they voted out Jeremiah instead.

Their first task for the night is the Survivor auction. Popcorn, candy, and soda gets a $80 bid from Trish. Jefra bids $100 for a covered item: quesadilla, guacamole, salsa, and a margarita. Kass bids $20 for the next covered item, which she passes up for another covered item, a steak sandwich and iced tea. Trish buys another covered item for $60, but it’s a bowl of rice and glass of water. Woo buys ribs and a beer for $40 somehow unopposed.

Tony, Spencer, and Tasha acknowledge they’re not bidding because they are waiting for an advantage. Tony yells out $500 before Probst can even finish his sentence. Spencer joins him for a shot at drawing rocks for the advantage, while Tasha bows out. Tony draws the black rock, which gives him an advantage in the game, as if he needs one considering he has the ridiculous and stupid idol he already has. And now the auction is over. Tasha should have drawn rocks.

Having decided before the auction that he wanted to forgo everything else, Tony is bitter at his alliance once the auction is over because they forced him to sacrifice on his own. Anyway, what’s his advantage? A clue to another hidden immunity idol. Oh, now this is just plain pathetic.

Tasha seems to want to form an all female alliance. Spencer sees them talking and spreads this as far as he knows baseless information to Tony, knowing that he is the season’s most paranoid player, who plays hard but not necessarily intelligently.

Unsurprisingly, Tony has received a blatantly obvious clue to the idol, and he ends up finding it. This one he shows to his alliance.

For the immunity challenge, they will dig up bags from the sand then use the balls inside on a table maze. Tony is the first to dig up all the bags, but it doesn’t help him much. Tasha is the first to the maze. She has two balls in before anybody else even gets to the table. Woo eventually catches her at three balls. Jefra, Trish, and Kass are completely pitiful and are out of it. Woo makes things interesting, but Tasha wins immunity again.

Though Tasha has no actual agreement with the women, she hopes that mere paranoia can drive the vote. They can’t get rid of her, and the alternative of Spencer would reduce the female-male ratio down to 4-2. So Tony wants to blindside Jefra. Once again, Tony will not be telling his alliance of this plan. Rather, he is going to use the other side plus Woo to decide the vote. These people are idiots and deserve what they get.

Not trusting Tony, Spencer goes to search for the (already found) idol anyway. This is not lost on the rest of the tribe.

At Tribal Council, Tony says that Spencer told him that Jefra plans to blindside him. He takes out his idol, but it’s just for show.

Votes
Spencer
Jefra
Spencer
Jefra
Spencer
Jefra
Jefra

With 4 votes, Jefra has been voted off the island. I bet that final four that lasted for about five minutes of last week’s episode is looking pretty good now.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Cagayan Episode 11, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

LJ was blindsided by Tony and the opposing alliance in Survivor: Cagayan Episode 8 because, well, I don’t really know why.

For some reason, Trish still trusts Tony, even though she had no idea how he was going to vote last week.

Speaking of Tony’s inability to be trusted, he builds a spy shack by the water hole. The first thing he learns from this is the obvious that Jefra does not trust him any more.

For the reward challenge, they will race out on the water to collect paddles then use them to solve a word puzzle. Reward is a barbeque in a cave. Kass, Trish, Tony, and Woo (orange) are against Tasha, Spencer, Jeremiah, and Jefra (purple). The purple team seems to be better at paddling, but they are not so good at retrieving paddles. When Tony drops a paddle, it allows the purple team to catch back up, but they fall behind again. After wasting time trying to steal the answer from the other team, Spencer finally thinks for himself and comes up with the obvious puzzle solution, “worth playing for”.

Tony’s paranoia returns. And I thought it was gone when he was not panicking for about three minutes. He considers the results of the reward challenge dangerous because Jefra’s going to a reward with the three people from the other side. This time, his concern is warranted. It does not take much for her to begin plotting his demise along with the others. She takes it a step further and makes a final four deal with them.

At the immunity challenge, they will balance on a beam while holding a ball on a platform. This is supposedly an endurance challenge, but the wind could make it short-lived. Jefra, Tony, Trish, and Kass all fall within three minutes. After 10 minutes, they move to another round on a narrower beam and also move their hands down on their poles. Jeremiah falls. The remaining three move to the third and final round. Woo falls. Spencer outlasted Tasha last time they faced off, but this time Tasha wins immunity.

Nobody else seems particularly concerned, but Tony knows he made an unnecessary stupid big move way too early. He knows now he needs to find the idol, and he does indeed find the special idol, which he must use for himself and can play after the votes have been read. Lame. I’m okay with idols that require some thought and add an element to the game, but this is just… lame. It’s not like it was any harder to find than a normal idol either.

Remember Jefra’s final four deal? Yeah, that’s over already.

Jeremiah reveals a secret that he’s a model. For some reason, he felt that was an important secret or for that matter something that would surprise anybody. Spencer then reveals something that actually matters, telling Jeremiah and Tasha about his idol.

Spencer plays his hidden immunity idol.

Votes
Woo
Woo
Woo
Jeremiah
Jeremiah
Jeremiah
Jeremiah
Jeremiah

With 5 votes, Jeremiah has been voted off the island, as they correctly predicted who had an idol.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Cagayan Episode 10, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

Morgan was voted off the island in Survivor: Cagayan Episode 7 because she was dead weight. Yeah, let’s not worry about getting rid of a threat. Let’s go after the wannabe princess who can neither win anything nor strategize.

Tony is trying to create a reason to get rid of LJ. He does not have any actual reason, so his plan is to put words in his mouth and pretend he is going after Woo.

For the reward challenge, they will toss sandbags through a tunnel then bounce them into baskets. Reward is a trip to a spa. Jeremiah releases his bags almost immediately to take a lead, which he retains through the tunnel. Tony continues this success on the trampoline, winning reward for himself, Jeremiah, and Spencer before anybody else even makes one basket.

Before Tony can start talking about LJ, LJ does the talking. Unlike Tony, LJ is actually telling the truth about Tony’s paranoia. Despite it being apparent that doing so is stupid, LJ still says he trusts Tony. While LJ chats back at camp, Tony tells Spencer and Jeremiah that he does not want to get rid of them yet.

Tasha invites LJ to discuss strategy. He’s not willing to talk, but he is willing to listen… until he’s not. LJ is too afraid of Tony getting suspicious, so he refuses to even go take a walk to meet her elsewhere.

The immunity challenge is one of memory in which they will repeat colored patterns. Trish is the first one out. Woo is next. Both in the first round, which consists of four colors. This is pitiful. Jefra, Kass, Spencer, and Jeremiah make it through several colors in the next round before all being knocked out. Tony and LJ are out on the next color, and Tasha wins immunity.

LJ’s plan is to split the vote 3 votes for Jeremiah and 3 votes for Spencer.

Meanwhile, Tony’s target is still LJ. In his warped mind, he seems to have convinced himself that LJ really did suggest getting rid of Woo. Woo believes Tony’s story right away. Trish is not sure who to believe, but she does not want to break up the alliance just yet, nor does Kass.

Votes
LJ
LJ
LJ
Jeremiah
Jeremiah
Jeremiah
Spencer
LJ
LJ

With 5 votes, LJ has been voted off the island. The reality for Tony’s alliance is that he did not need them to support his delusion. The other tribe all voted with him.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Cagayan Episode 9, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

In the second most interesting Tribal Council I saw last week (sorry, Kass, but Shane and Marian make for better TV than you do), Kass inexplicably flipped on her alliance in which she was toward the top of the totem pole, helping a bunch of strangers get rid of Sarah in Survivor: Cagayan Episode 6 instead.

The drama has not ended yet. Spencer is particularly bitter, but the reality is that he’s right that Kass has been playing like an idiot the whole game. Meanwhile, Morgan thinks Kass is just a bitter, ugly old lady.

For the reward challenge, they will go through a series of obstacles, untie and drag a chest, and bring it up a wall where they will solve a puzzle. Reward is a trip to a Survivor Outback Steakhouse. The purple team is up the wall first with a bit of a lead, but they lose it on the puzzle. Spencer, Jeremiah, Morgan, and Jefra win reward.

Nobody really trusts Kass, but they are willing to use her for a vote for now. Tony’s concerned that he cannot tell whether she is lying or not.

At the reward, a piece of paper falls out of Spencer’s napkin that he had been ignoring throughout the meal. Of course, this paper is a clue to the hidden immunity idol. He disappears right when they get back to camp, so Woo follows him because it’s just too obvious that something is up. They bump into each other, and Woo picks up Spencer’s pants. Out falls the clue, which Woo grabs and proceeds to run. Woo returns to camp and recruits some help, and Spencer does the same.

Eventually, everybody is looking for the idol. Despite the drama, Spencer is still the one to find it. He finds it right in front of Kass, but she does not notice. After reading the instructions, he realizes he just found a normal idol, not the one with special hidden powers.

For the immunity challenge, they will balance on their toes with a block wedged between their head and a board. Kass lasts a few seconds. Jeremiah and Trish follow. This is going pretty quickly for an endurance competition. Tony follows. The others have lasted 25 minutes now. Morgan drops. Woo is next. Jefra follows. Then LJ. That leaves Tasha and Spencer. They keep going and going. For an hour and a half. Though Tasha seems largely unphased as her opponent struggles, Spencer wins immunity.

Kass wants to get rid of Tasha, who is actually a threat. Tony would rather get rid of Morgan because she’s dead weight.

The only hope the other side has is that Kass will flip yet again. So they will not be doing a revenge vote but instead will target Tony. Of course, considering Spencer’s hidden idol, they could still get rid of anybody regardless of how the majority votes, as long as they can predict the target. I doubt anybody logical would think Morgan is the target, however, because voting Morgan out is just dumb. I guess that would be par for the course for this season. These people do the dumbest thing every time.

At Tribal Council, Morgan acknowledges that she doesn’t do anything. She never does anything in real life either.

Votes
Tony
Tony
Tony
Tony
Morgan
Morgan
Morgan
Morgan
Morgan
Morgan

With 6 votes, Morgan has been voted off the island. I don’t think anybody will miss her, but I don’t understand the concept of getting rid of a non-physical, non-strategic, non-liked player who is the perfect person to ride further in the game because she can’t get any votes, win anything, or think for herself.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Cagayan Episode 8, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.

First Lindsey quit in Survivor: Cagayan Episode 5 because Trish is a lunatic, then Alexis proved to be out of her depth as the Beauty tribe imploded and almost made the Brains look smart by comparison.

When they return to camp, they discuss being the top six. Kass is overly honest in her opinion, telling Sarah that she is worried about her and Jeremiah. She will not trust her until she takes out a former tribemate. Well, then, how about she just gets rid of you instead?

They receive treemail telling them about the visiting each other on the same island. They’re counting their chickens already, but nobody used the word merge. Upon arrival, however, they do indeed read that word. They name their new tribe Solarrion, a combination of the two previous tribe names.

Tony realizes his tribe is outnumbered. His only hope is getting Sarah back onboard. Yeah, the one who is not part of his top five that he was shouting about last week. He no longer has any intention of taking her to the top, and I’m not sure he ever did.

Sarah’s under the impression she’s in the best possible position. Oh sure, for this week. In either situation, she’s on the bottom. Despite the fact that Sarah is in power for now, Kass insists on arguing with her about how to vote. Why does it matter so much? Do what she wants. As long as it’s not you. Later, Tasha steps in to be the mediator, but rather than just taking a deep breath, Kass still refuses to shut the hell up.

Their first individual immunity challenge is one of endurance. They will balance on platforms in the water. Everybody survives the first 15 minutes on the first set of footholds before climbing higher. Then another 15 minutes at the next set of footholds before moving to the top of the structure. This one seems like it will be a lot easier on the feet, though it is very narrow. Spencer, Kass, LJ, Sarah, Jefra, Tasha, Trish, and Jeremiah all fall on or shortly after the transition to the top. Morgan gets blown off next, and then there were two, likely among the top targets. Tony falls. Woo wins immunity. He was Sarah’s main target.

Despite Kass, Sarah wants to remain on that side because she considers them weaker. She wants Tony out, and she guarantees he does not have an idol (he does). Rather than just lie to him, she tells him she has to think about it and will decide at Tribal Council.

Trish approaches Kass, who tells her she would get rid of Sarah given the choice. That will make Sarah their vote.

Tony’s no longer keeping it secret. He does indeed have an idol, and he pulls one out at Tribal Council. This promptly leads to talk about how they’re voting for “the other one”.

After the vote, Tony passes his idol to LJ. LJ, in turn, wants to cover Tony, turning in a second hidden immunity idol.

Votes
Jefra
Sarah
Jefra
Sarah
Jefra
Sarah
Jefra
Sarah
Jefra
Sarah
Sarah

With 6 votes, Sarah has been voted off the island. Everybody knows Kass flipped. It’s not even a question. She just pissed off 4 people to please a bunch of people she does not know. It’s not even like she was on the bottom of her alliance or anything that made sense. She was in the dominant sub-alliance of her alliance, and despite their utter incompetence, the Brains actually had a chance at taking control of this game, though she had no prayer of beating Spencer. In the end, Kass was right. She went about it the wrong way, but the vote for Jefra was so completely unexpected by the other side that they just blew two idols with neither hitting its target.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Cagayan Episode 7, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.