The Tribe Has Spoken, Bitches
Have you been watching Survivor? What’s up with this hidden immunity idol? For the past few weeks, someone would go to Exile Island and find the hidden immunity idol. If you show this idol at the tribal council, any votes to kick you off don’t count, and the person with the next amount of votes gets kicked off. The catch is that you have to use the idol BEFORE Jeff Probst reads the votes. That means, you have to have a clue that you might be voted off.
Two weeks ago, Ozzie (who has already won Survivor once and is back to play again) found the idol and thought he ran the tribe. However, some of the women decided it was time to kick Ozzie off but they had him convinced he was safe. Therefore, he didn’t even use the idol, so he was kicked off while holding the idol that would have guaranteed his safety. Buh Bye Ozzie.
The next week, Survivor producers hide the idol again, since it wasn’t used. Jason gets sent to Exile Island and finds the idol. He rubs his hands together in glee, skips happily back to camp and informs his tribe mates that he has the idol. This begins the plot to kick off Jason and convince him he’s safe. Again, Jason, who hasn’t learned anything from Ozzie’s ordeal the week before, does not use the idol and is voted off. Buh Bye Dumbass Jason.
This week, the idol is hidden yet again, with the producers saying “Would you people PLEASE try to learn how to play this game and let us take a break from finding new places to hide this idol?” Amanda is sent to Exile Island, where she finds a clue that the idol is hidden back at camp. Amanda, unlike the two men in previous weeks, was not being tricked by women in skimpy bikinis, and tells all her tribe mates that she did not find the idol and how sad she is that it’s still there. She wasn’t lying, because she had not yet found the idol, hidden at camp. There’s only one boy left in the tribe, Leif Garrett (a/k/a Erik) and surprise, he wins immunity. Therefore, the women have to turn on each other and of course, they decide to vote out Amanda. Meanwhile, poor James, who I wanted to win this season, has an injury that is severe enough to pull him from the game. The castaways pretend to mourn for 2 seconds that James is leaving and they are sad they don’t get the pleasure of voting him off.
Luckily, Amanda gets word she is being voted off, but we, the viewers, are not shown whether or not she really finds the idol. However, it’s pretty obvious based on the editing that Mark Burnett is so excited that he FINALLY gets to show us someone playing the game correctly, that he tries to leave us in suspense as long as he can. It worked, because I was sitting there laughing while Amanda played like she was sad at tribal council, saying how she knew she was getting voted off. Probst came back with the votes and read the cue card that tells them if anyone has the idol, which Amanda doesn’t, they must use it now before the votes are read.
I know that Mark Burnett was pissed he couldn’t play music and have special lighting for the moment when Amanda held up her finger, announced that she DID have the idol, and handed it over. The jury members almost stood up and cheered. All the votes for Amanda did not count, so Amanda’s and Parvati’s votes for Alexis blindsided the bitches, kicking off one of their own and FINALLY giving life to this boring season.
The women had wanted to vote off all the men and exhibit a little girl power, but smarter girl power kicked their girl power ass. I still wish they had voted off evil Natalie, but beggars can’t be choosers.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:56 am
I am so into Survivor. I loved Ozzie and was crushed when he got voted off. Loved James and then he left on Thurs. I’m not wild about these women and am like you, wished that evil Natalie had got the boot. The part about “flossing her teeth” with someone’s jugular, ICK!! She’s nothing but mean. I know it’s just a game but I loved Ozzie and James. I even liked Jonathan this time but he got hurt so early. I do have to say I like Amanda. She is my favorite woman on the show. My daughter in law likes Cirie (sp??) but I can’t stand any of them. Leif, I mean Erik probably doesn’t stand a chance, there are to many women left but my heart now is with Amanda.
I was happy to see this post. Yippeeeee….I know I’m not alone with my Survivor fetish!!!!
Joy
http://joyerickson.wordpress.com/
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:44 am
I’m an Ozzie fan, too, and I hated that he let himself be fooled into being voted out. At least it’s getting interesting now, though, with them actually thinking about the game!
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:12 pm
As much as I liked Ozzy when he was on originally, he didn’t win his season of Survivor. Yul won that season with a 5-4 vote over Ozzy. Either one was deserving, but I truly wanted Ozzy to win.
I’m so livid with this season I can’t see straight. I don’t think a single one of those girls deserves $1,000,000. (I say girls b/c as soon as Erik loses immunity, he’s so gone.) They’ve all been dinks and none of them should win. The way they’re going, Parvati will win. Talk about the least deserving.
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Oh, I remembered wrong, I thought Ozzie won. I’m losing my mind!
May 9th, 2008 at 8:22 am
How F****** stupid was Eric last night??? I sat here and couldn’t believe he gave that necklace to Natalie! What in god’s name did he do that for?????