With the rest of the tribe falling in line to keep the couples in power in Survivor: Millennials Vs. Gen X Episode 2, gamer Mari was the first person voted out of the Millennials tribe.
Hannah, who was both confused and not paying attention at Tribal Council, believed Michelle that they had the numbers and voted with them. That belief was correct, but it doesn’t help her make nice with Zeke and Adam in one of the oddest post-vote conversations.
Ken is baffled that he’s on the bottom because he doesn’t really see what those who are in power are offering, a fair complaint seeing as he is the tribe’s brawn and provider.
Treemail contains a bag of rocks. Whoever draws the orange rock will go for a summit with members of the other tribe. Taylor, Figgy, Will, and Jay go for the Millennials; CeCe, David, Paul, and Chris go for Gen X. Seems a little early for this. Sides have formed, but they have only voted out one person each. How the rock draw worked is different for both tribes, though. The Millennials send just about a whole alliance, while a pair of outcasts join a power pair for Gen X. That is a potential opportunity, if CeCe and David can survive long enough. Paul and Chris go for a swim and are outed as being in control.
For the immunity challenge, they must carry heavy bags under and over obstacles, cross a balance beam with the bags, knock down a puzzle, and then complete that puzzle. Millennials just make Taylor their ox on the balance beam, while Gen X want to all do their own work, arguably a parallel to the tribe generations, but the Millennials have the far more effective strategy, which Gen X eventually adopt after losing a lot of time. Zeke and Michelle are the first to start on the puzzle. Ken gains some ground on the throwing as Sunday and David take over on the puzzle, but it’s not enough. Millennials win immunity and comfort reward.
Jay has a request. He would like to switch comfort for fishing gear, which they passed up for chickens. Gen X is unwilling to agree to such a trade, a requirement that Jeff sets before he will allow it, so they will have to settle for the comfort items.
After her performance in the challenge, CeCe gets the blame, but it is just like the first challenge. Aside from Ken and Chris, the whole performance was poor, not just one scapegoat, though there is an argument to be made that CeCe should have just given up and let someone faster do it. It’s not like she will suddenly become strong in some other challenge anyway.
In an effort to assure the women in his alliance that there is no plan for the boys to get together, Paul tells them not to worry that has happened because he would tell them they are on their own if that were the case. Well, I didn’t believe there was any merit to this Paul vote, but he is not helping his case by suggesting to the women that he would drop them if the others thought it was a good idea. Given that he is the oldest and has already had a medical emergency, his potential to be a strong contributor is not so high that they can’t afford to lose him.
Votes
Paul
CeCe
Paul
CeCe
Paul
CeCe
Paul
Paul
With 5 votes, Paul has been voted off the island. Chris and Bret are surprised to find out they are not in control like they thought.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Millennials Vs. Gen X Episode 4, which airs Wednesday at 8/7c on CBS.