Category: survivor borneo

Having been a target since day one, Ramona was voted out in Survivor: Borneo Episode 4.

Greg has an ear infection, which isn’t helping the spirits of Pagong any.

Kelly is growing tired of Sean and Dirk, who are going out fishing but not catching anything. The rest of the tribe is considering their efforts useless as well. Dirk and Sean mostly just want to have fun and enjoy their life on the island. If Dirk stops having fun, he’ll vote himself out.

The reward challenge is weapons: blowgun, slingshot, and spear tossing. They’re given a day to practice and choose who they want to represent them, as only three people will participate. Reward is food. Any fruit they hit goes into a basket that goes into the next round. Jenna and Sean compete in the blowguns. Hatch and Gretchen compete with slingshots. Then Joel and Sue compete, and we finally find out what the goal of this competition is. Regardless of what happened in the prior rounds, whichever spear comes closest wins reward. Sue hits the target on her first attempt. Joel gets one ring closer. Sue’s second shot ties them. Joel hits the bullseye. Sue comes close, but Pagong wins reward. In addition to the fruit, they get a mystery box, which contains three live chickens, to be named Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.

Richard Hatch is okay with the other team having chickens. He catches his first eel, which they’re hoping tastes like chicken. It doesn’t. The eel tastes terrible. Good to know.

Greg is slipping into a leadership position, quite by accident. He doesn’t want to be a leader. He just wants to play with Colleen from the looks of it, but they insist there is no romance.

Hatch’s fun for the day: piss off a deadly snake.

Tagi is worried about Dirk, who is losing weight quicker than the rest of the tribe.

Kelly and Sue have decided they hate Dirk and Sean less than they used to, not that it matters since the alliance controls the votes anyway. At least they’re trying now, even if their tapioca hunting efforts aren’t much more successful than their fish hunting efforts have been.

At the immunity challenge, one member from each tribe will rescue the other members from the water using outrigger canoes. Since Kelly is a whitewater rafting guide, she will row for Tagi. Since Gervase can’t swim very well, Pagong has no choice but to put him in the boat. Ultimately, they find out that it doesn’t matter because the people in the water are just waiting in life jackets and don’t have to do any what you would call swimming. Despiter her alleged training, Kelly is getting crushed. Pagong goes up 3-1. Then 6-2. As much of a crushing defeat as this was expected to be, it sure was. Just with the opposite anticipated result. Pagong wins immunity.

Jeff has noticed Dirk spending a lot of time alone. Hatch plays dumb about alliances.

Votes
Dirk
Sue
Rudy
Dirk
Dirk

With three votes, Dirk has been voted off the island. He thanks the lord for that because everything’s all part of his plan.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Survivor: Borneo episode 6.

Unable to organize the others against the ornery old Rudy, Stacey was voted out in Survivor: Borneo Episode 3. The good news for Tagi is that they’ve now got plenty of food with Richard Hatch having a new toy.

Back at camp, the tropical storm continues. Aside from the miserable conditions, Gretchen finally takes this as a sign that she’s right. BB’s insistence that the camp be on the beach has to be ditched once and for all, and she’s moving to the woods, with or without her tribe. They agree to move with her.

As for Greg, he couldn’t care less. He’ll do whatever she wants. First, he’ll have to make some phone calls on his coconut telephone.

Sean wants Sue to slow down for a little bit and to stop working. His version of slowing down: build a bowling alley on the beach.

The challenge is to build an SOS on the beach for a plane flying overhead. Whoever builds the best signal will win a crate of supplies. To add to their boxes, Jenna requests a spice rack, while Dirk wants a filet knife. Tagi can’t agree on anything, leading to a tribal split. Mostly, they’re against Sean and want to argue with him. Richard sees this as an opportunity to form some alliances and guarantee his long-term safety. Ramona continues to struggle with the island in general, as well as with her fellow castaways. She’s been given a second life on the island, but it doesn’t look like she wants it. Despite that, she says she’s starting to feel like she’s more part of the group as they begin the task. Tagi has written a message in the sand, and they’re wearing their yellow panchos while moving on the beach. Pagong has a smiley face and is waving their team flag. Tagi’s signal is more clear because they have moving bodies colorfully dressed, so they win reward. They receive pillows, hammocks, spices, and a knife to strap to Hatch’s thigh.

The alliances have begun. Sue, Richard, and Kelly are together. They would like to target the doctor. Rudy thinks that maybe at the end there could be alliances. Yeah, maybe sooner. He doesn’t believe in alliances anyway, so they’ll leave him out of the loop.

Gervase believes Ramona’s redeemed herself. Jenna believes that Ramona’s work ethic has changed, but her attitude has not yet gotten there and it’s too little too late anyway.

The immunity challenge is divided into separate responsibilities. The first leg is the swim, then a run across a floating bridge, then paddling, a sprint through the jungle, and lastly to dig for the buried treasure. Sean and Colleen take the first leg to swim out and grab the bottle underwater. Sean gets off to a strong early lead for Tagi. Greg and Kelly run across the bridge, joining Joel and Sue in their respective boats to paddle. It’s still Tagi’s race to lose. Dirk and Gervase run through the jungle, with Gervase seeming to take his time with it. Richard and Rudy dig for their team, while Jenna and Gretchen do their digging. Dirk is obviously the first to return from the jungle, and Richard and Rudy pull up their treasure chest. They built a lead on the swimming leg, which Pagong was unable to erase, and Tagi wins immunity.

Ramona’s the clear choice when they go to tribal council, but Colleen is worried that her challenge performance may be a problem.

Votes
Ramona
Jenna
Colleen
Colleen
Ramona
Ramona
Ramona

With 4 votes, Ramona has been voted off the island. As for the left field Jenna vote, that came from Greg, trying to protect his girlfriend Colleen.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Survivor: Borneo episode 5.

BB drove his tribe crazy for 6 days by bossing them around and telling them they didn’t do enough, leading to his demise in Survivor: Borneo Episode 2.

Over on Tagi, they’re still trying to get some fish. They’ve still got empty traps. When the girls go on a fish run, they complain about Rudy, who’s not contributing but is eating more than his share of food. Despite her complaints about Rudy, Sue plans to vote Stacey out, a point not lost on Stacey.

On their tapioca run, Greg, Gretchen, and Colleen stumble upon a mud volcano. Then they bring the rest of the tribe back to have a bonding experience.

Dirk is not afraid to share his preaching. That’s an easy way to alienate people. Sue’s had enough already.

Stacey thinks that Dirk has a little crush on Kelly, but that he doesn’t have a chance in hell, as if Kelly’s out of his league or something. All that aside, he’s heard she has a serious boyfriend, so he doesn’t plan on pursuing her. This leads to talk of how Dirk’s waiting until marriage, and how he doesn’t much care for Richard Hatch since he’s gay. He doesn’t like how Richard talks about his sexuality all the time, as if preaching to people all the time is any more socially acceptable.

When they get treemail, Hatch is thrilled to find out it’s an underwater challenge.

The reward challenge places a big emphasis on the tribe. They must swim under, grab a chest, and bring it back to the beach. Reward is fishing gear. They can’t dive under to get their chest until all members get out to the raft. Tagi gets off to an early lead. Pagong waits for Gervase to finally arrive, which he knew would happen because he’ll drag on any swimming challenge. Hatch and Dr. Sean take control on Tagi, and it’s not even close. For their reward, Tagi receives a fishing spear, mask, and snorkel.

Richard Hatch is the king now. He gets back and will be going fishing. Sean thinks he’s not going to catch anything, so he and Dirk go out with the superpole and a raft. They won’t have to waste their time on that much longer. Hatch returns with a ray. Sean is unimpressed. He gets another ray. Sean’s still unimpressed. Then he returns with a third. Okay, maybe they’ll eat them now.

Pagong’s worried that Tagi will catch fish now that they’ve got the gear, but they’re turning their attention back to rats. Greg has made a rat trap to catch them. Tastes almost like chicken. Ramona says they don’t eat the rats in the ghetto, but she’s willing to try now. They’re surprised by how good they taste.

The tribes will build a stretcher before they go to immunity. They have to carry their smallest member, but that’s the extent of what they know. Tagi has selected Kelly, while Pagong will go with Colleen. Not only does Pagong have a really light member, but they’ve got a good looking stretcher, one that they can rotate upside down without her falling off.

The two lightest people have been placed in the jungle. There’s been a plane wreck. They have to go rescue them from a tree and take them back to the beach, then to the first aid tent. Pagong takes the lead and is the first to rescue their member. They are also first to the beach. And they arrive at the first aid tent first. From the beginning of the challenge, Tagi was never even in this, and Pagong wins immunity.

Tagi doesn’t have a lot to think about. It’s either Rudy or Stacey, and most of them have made up their minds already. Hatch wanted to chat about it before leaving for tribal council, but nobody wanted to talk.

Tribal council is a brief one, as they get caught in the middle of the worst storm they’ve seen yet.

Votes
Stacey
Rudy
Stacey
Rudy
Stacey
Stacey

With 4 votes, Stacey has been eliminated. She knows Sue Hawk didn’t keep her word, but it doesn’t matter since Stacey’s game ends here.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Survivor: Borneo episode 4.

After falling and costing her team the immunity challenge in Survivor: Borneo Episode 1, Sonja was the first person voted out of the game.

Stacey’s already talking about eating a rat. It’s day 4. There’s nothing in the fish traps, so those rats are looking better and better.

Stacey believes that Rudy voted for her, which she told Richard, the guy who actually voted for her.

BB continues to take control of Pagong, which they’re starting to appreciate to a point, but they’re still tired of him. He only notices people who work, which means he likes Gretchen, Greg, and Jenna.

The rest of the tribe knows Richard is gay. He hopes Rudy doesn’t because he can’t imagine he would take too kindly to it. Rudy has found out, although he doesn’t want to talk about it. He’s still a bigot, but he likes Richard nonetheless.

Ramona says that she’s finicky. They give her some papaya, but she knows she won’t be able to keep it down, so she doesn’t eat it. She’ll compensate by drinking more water. At some point, water’s not going to be enough. BB’s upset with her because she’s not working. He says he’s not trying to win a personality constest. That’s good.

Colleen and Greg are hanging out a lot. They say they’re just friends.

Gretchen and BB started arguing when they first got there about where the shelter should be. He got his way, and now they see that they’re close to being washed away. He agrees that maybe she was right, but he refuses to move it as high as she wants it to go.

Sean’s built himself a fishing pole, but he hasn’t caught anything with it. Sue tells him this is a stupid idea.

Pagong is ready to make some food. First thing BB does when he gets back, though, is to wash his clothes in their fresh food container. The sun’s going down, so they don’t have time to go get more water. This leads to a major blow out that’s been building up. BB believes he can do as he wants because he’s building the shelter. He hasn’t learned his lesson from this argument and will continue to do as he pleases.

BB wants to throw the immunity challenge. He’s not going to “quit” but rather is going to lose on purpose so he gets sent home. Sounds like quitting to me. Everybody else wants to win, but it’s obvious who they’ll vote out given the chance.

The immunity challenge is a gross eating challenge. The first person to refuse to eat something loses immunity for their tribe. They will be eating beetle larvae. After much freaking out from Gervase, he manages to eat it. Everybody else seems okay with those bugs. The tiebreaker round is to choose whoever from the other team they want. Pagong picks Stacey. Tagi picks Gervase. First person to finish two beetle larvae wins immunity. Stacey finishes first, and Tagi wins immunity.

That leaves Pagong with two choices: sick Ramona or bossy BB who wants to go home anyway. BB would also like to get rid of Joel, perhaps their strongest team member.

Votes
BB
Ramona
BB
Ramona
BB
BB
BB

With 5 votes, BB has been voted off the island. The tribe would have been better off to have lost Ramona, but BB isolated himself from the rest of the tribe, leading him to want to quit.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Survivor: Borneo episode 3.

With summer upon us, the TV schedule’s pretty bare as usual, without much showing up for at least another month when America’s Got Talent 4 and Big Brother 11 help to fill out the schedule. With that in mind, I decided to dip into the archives and take a look back at Survivor: Borneo, the season that began it all. I was apparently one of the only people in the country who didn’t see Survivor: Borneo or Survivor: Australia when the series premiered 9 years ago. At the time, I was watching The WB… until I moved to a place that didn’t have that, so I stumbled upon Survivor: Africa and have been hooked ever since (the handful of seasons from a few years ago notwithstanding). Years later, I ended up catching about 80% of the first two seasons when OLN (now Versus) bought the rights.

The original Survivor cast of 16 survivors consisted of:

B.B. Andersen
Colleen Haskell
Dirk Been
Gervase Peterson
Greg Buis
Gretchen Cordy
Jenna Lewis
Joel Klug
Kelly Wiglesworth
Ramona Gray
Richard Hatch
Rudy Boesch
Sean Kenniff
Sonja Christopher
Stacey Stillman
Sue Hawk

The unique thing for the first set of castaways is that they had no idea what to expect, so it was a new experience unlike anything they can throw at them today (regardless of how many lame twists they come up with). That said, I for one would like to see them go back to basics like this at some point again and stop experimenting. No twists. Just Survivor.

The contestants are given two minutes to salvage whatever they can off the boat. Then they head to shore.

Tagi: Sean, Kelly, Rudy, Sonja, Richard, Susan, Dirk, Stacey
Pagong: Gervase, Colleen, BB, Ramona, Gretchen, Greg, Jenna, Joel

Rudy’s making enemies from the beginning on the boat ride over. He doesn’t like how the others are transporting the boxes.

Ramona is already getting sick on the boat ride over. She doesn’t like the motion of the ocean or the outdoors.

With Richard Hatch already looking down on them from his perch in the tree, Tagi is looking to build a shelter and a latrine first. They don’t seem overly concerned about fire.

Dirk is annoyed by Richard, who he says is trying to bring the team together and has some good skills. People like that are annoying to Dirk. Richard wants to get all these people on the same page so that they’re not just running around like chickens with no heads.

Over on Pagong, they’ve found a water map, so they send BB and Ramona to go get it and hopefully not get lost. They’ll be taking their water back to camp, but they need to get a fire going before they can drink it.

That night when everybody goes to sleep, the rats see it as a chance to play around in their camp.

Rudy’s tired of all the young kids. He’d rather have them listening to just one person, him if needbe, because that way they’d be a lot better off.

Sonja is already injured. Her leg has a gash in it. Dr. Sean patches her up.

Tagi has three or four fish traps. With a rat in each, they’ve got some bait.

Pagong hasn’t slept at all. The rats crawled on/around them all night long. BB believes he’s the leader of building the new shelter. Nobody else particularly wants to help him out, and he’s not giving them much reason to be around him either. Gretchen wants to help him, though, and doesn’t want him to spend all day in the sun. He refuses to listen to her when she says he’ll be worn out and burned.

Because BB has some bifocals with him, he and Gretchen manage to get a fire going. Tagi, however, is doing it the old fashioned way. Where there’s smoke, there’s no fire.

The very first immunity/reward challenge is to get a raft back to the beach and light all the torches. Each tribe member must have one hand on the raft at all times, and they must light every torch. Reward is 50 waterproof matches. Tagi gets off to an early lead. Pagong catches up and has a slight lead when they reach the beach, which they extend as the other tribe drops their raft. Pagong wins immunity, also denying Tago from fire for a little longer.

Dirk disappears on his own after the challenge. He’s off to read his bible.

Rudy has decided he likes Richard. He’s fat, but he’s good. Rich in turn likes Rudy and isn’t bothered by his directness, which others are finding rude and arrogant.

Hatch has narrowed it down to 4 possible nominees, of which he is one. Sonja feels responsible for her team’s loss. It was her falling in the challenge that cost them any chance they may have had otherwise.

Stacey and Kelly are already bonding. They don’t like Rudy, so they go to Sue and ask her to vote him off with them. She agrees, but she lies.

The good news when they arrive at tribal council is that they will get fire.

Votes
Sonja
Sonja
Stacey
Sonja
Rudy
Rudy
Rudy
Sonja

With 4 votes, Sonja has been voted off the island. The odd vote out was Richard Hatch’s. He voted for Stacey, though he didn’t know why.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Survivor: Borneo episode 2.