The Ice Cream Hath Melted.

What an interesting episode tonight.  Let’s begin shall we?

The one thing I like about NuBikal is the constant trianwreck of a tribe that they are.  Corinne doesn’t like Phillip, much like most people, Julia is not talking, and Michael and Corinne are BBFs.  Phillip also is able to prove his skyhigh Challenge Beast level by beating Cochran in arm wrestling.  I’m 5’3” I’m pretty sure I can beat up Cochran with the way he’s been going on about how weak he is.  He really just plays to Phillips ego, but it’s a great idea in the long run.  People with big egos tend to annoy other people.  The annoying people tend to get voted out earlier, even if you have no protection because you can’t win anything, ever.  Cochran is doing a great job of puffing up his ego, just like Vecepia did to take the heat off of her.  Although it’s not the flashest strategy, but it works.

The Reward challenge has been used three times, the first time was in Palau.  Aside from Brenda dancing around and being the cheerleader of Gota, it was fairly predictable that Bikal was going to lose.  It sure didn’t help that Phillip pretty much ruined their chances by being useless.  He should have dropped out when he had the chance, but his ego prevented him from that.  I thought it was beyond funny that Cochran ditched at the last second, and the perfect capper to Phillips ego trip was when Erik touched his back, signaling that he was the easiest to catch.  And thus Gota won the reward, which was a Diarrhea feast according to Dawn.
Back at the Bikal camp, Corinne talks about Phillips ego.  I’m fully on the Corinne boat.  She wants to vote him off, but she doesn’t want to worry the other favorites.  Another good choice, because in another Marquesas reference John voiting out Gabe alerted the old Rotu members on the other tribe that something was up and that is part of the reason why Kathy didn’t go along with the Rotu four.  While a lot of viewers annoyed by Phillip hate Corinne’s decision, it was a good one and it was the smarter move.  Also, it seems like the only person to take to Phillip is Julia, the poor girl lost Sherri and know she’s fighting to stay in this.  Even though Phillip promises protection, the wording did seem to indicate that he was only going to look out for himself.  She goes to probably the person that one would more easily trust (as opposed to the other two fans, best known for Bitchy Jury Speech and Screwing his entire tribe) however wanting to keep this alliance afloat, Dawn throws her under the bus with Phillip.  A really dirty move on Dawn’s part, but probably a smart one.
  
Back at Gota, Reynold, Eddie, Erik, and Malcolm team up to form the anti-Black Widow Brigade.  I know people would rather call them The Case, or something to that affect, but I think that Erik is still traumatized by the events of Fans vs Favorites.  I don’t think he would have gotten through Samoa and Redemption Island due to the existence of a contestant named “Natalie”.  However Reynold does stupid move that Queen Sandra would look down upon and showed Malcolm the Idol.  Smart move.  The problem with all-male alliances is the fact that they do fall apart eventually.  The Boran Boys got the farthest, but you can’t underestimate a female no matter how weak they look, because Mama Kim broke them up.  Time will tell if the boys don’t sell themselves out. 

The Immunity Challenge was pretty fairly matched, except that Phillip blows it again because tossing a grabbing hook is way too hard.  Then he claims later that he was trying to throw the challenge.  Phillip, look at your tribe they didn’t need any more help.  Phillip wants to split the votes to insure that no idols will be played, and then to vote out Julia.  Corinne hates that idea, and then next few minutes we get back and forth Phillip vs Corinne.  Corinne knows that Malcolm has the idol, so she knows that plan is unnecessary, but she can really do a thing without it.

As they start up tribal council, both Julia and Michael know that they were in hot water.  Just like many, many Survivors before them, they were screwed by a tribe swap and can’t do a thing about it.  While a tie vote did happen, a #Revote followed and just like that Julia is voted out.  Her bowing goodbye to the Bikal tribe was pretty cool and her Survivor journey is ended.  

Well, and just like that, Julia is a part of the Survivor Club of people just missing the merge according to the Pre-veiws!  

It looks like the new buff shall be a nice GREEN color.  One of my favorite colors myself.  <3

Okay, I really wish I could update this at the time, but I've been busy with various things lately.  I'm planing to keep on top of my Tocantins recap (I'm having some problems with iTunes) and I'm doing more writing projects.  

So sorry for the short break, but we'll keep this going in April!

~Heather~

Beard Vs Bread

Fun Fact- I've been on Vacation this past week.  So, yeah.  I suck.  Tocantins recaps will be normal by at least Monday.  Sorry folks.  I've been busy playing Super Smash Bros Brawl Watching more Guatemala  Spending time with my family that I haven't seen in forever. :)

THE BLURB

Okay, I can't really do an amazing recap on this episode.  I wan't able to watch it live like I do all the time.  So, it's not going to be long.

However, let's get to the switch.  The egg thing is not a favorite choice in my opinion.  Although it's cool on paper, it pretty much spelled doom for the fans, as it would always turn out into a 3-4 split in favor of the favorites.  Also I love that we finally get the tribe names spoken out loud.  BIKAL and GOTA. I finally know that those are the names.

As soon as the tribe switch settles, I get flashbacks from Marquesas in the uneven tribe split.  On new Bikal, we have Phillip, Corinne, Dawn, and Cochran staying, while the three newcomers are Matt, Michael, Julia.  However, New Gota has Sherri, Reynold, and Eddie while getting, Malcolm, Brenda, Andrea, and Erik.  I'm already seeing Rotu and Maramuu or, even better, Malakal and Airai. However, I doubt that we'll see anything like 100% physical challenges.  For one, the Puzzle came back.

It's from the season that we're reviewing too!  Survivor: Tocantins a crate idea is back!  Remember that one time that Timbira lost it because Brendan was arguing with Erinn, and that time that the Heroes lost it because Stephenie was arguing with JT.  Love this challenge.  <3  Unfortunately, Julia blew it for Bikal in the puzzle part.  Oh, yes Puzzles are back.  Complaining will now be null.

All throughout the episode, it was clear that a past fan is on thin ice.  Julia suggests Dawn because she burst into tears for the 5,000th time at the challenge.  However the other two knew that they have to save their asses by sending her off to loser lodge.  Corrine also doesn't like her because she's boring or something.  Corrine obviously doesn't follow her on twitter.  So basically the next minutes is basically a Julia bash fest.  I thought she was done.  Airtime + Bash fest = bye. The Blurber is out.

WRONG!  The editing is the best thing with this.  One vote for Dawn, Two for Julia, and the rest is for Matt.  And thus, they guy with the beard, is gone.  I was blindsided with that vote.  Matt's a cool guy, and he's a pretty nice guy on twitter.  But that's what you get for getting out Laura.  YOU CAN'T HAVE JULIA!

I don't have a tweet of the week, because I took forever doing this.  FAIL.

~WEEKLY NOTES~

~ I missed the episode, so I can't really give out many but here are some post show notes.

~ The Gay and The Girl would be an awesome alliance name.  I'll pretend to be gay just to use said name!

~ Matt is sounds just like Chris, except Chris got a little farther than him.

~ I hate how the swap was set up that Sherri and Julia would be separated   Sherri is in a pretty good spot, but Julia is pretty screwed.

~ The color splats from the eggs love. <3


That's all for right now, no weekly rankings because I'm without my board of names to adjust them.  I'll be back with rankings.  I'll get out of my small vacation on Monday with a Tocantins recap.  In the meantime, I have a ranking thread on Sucks!  I'm ranking my favorite seasons (excluding Caramoan) including a write up!  Here's a link---> Here.  Of course everyone knows my favorite season, but the others are a bit of an unknown. :)

Love you guys, see you next time!
~Heather~

THE Meltdown

So, Brandon's crazy.  Anyone surprised?  Hands anyone?  No?  Okay.

Sorry! For the lack of updates.  I'm not down being very, very sick so I didn't put up the Tocantins deal.  Sorry again.  Also, this was very, very late because I had to transverse across Oklahoma.  I'm finally back in the place that I call home.  Wonderful, Tulsa. :)

~THE BLURB~

This day in the Caramoan, Gota is pleased to be finally to get rid of the dead weight on their tribe.  Reynold then starts getting an inflated ego about himself.  It's nauseating now.  Reynold talks wayyyy too much about himself to much for it to make me like him even ironically.  I mean, he talks about how because they "need" him to win challenges (That they are so far NOT winning with him) that they wont get rid of him.  Logic bro, use it.  Ugh.  I'm glad they aren't showing Julia involved in this mess.  They aren't showing her much really, she's just the designated idol bearer, if they do win any challenge that is.

Not much to say about Bikal, except that Brandon is once again, crazy.  Well, he's pretty cooled own at first.  He's talking about his family and stuff like that.  Even though it's giving the perception of quitting, I feel like it's some of the only time we are getting a hint of emotion from anywhere in Survivor these days.  I like scenes like this for that only.  However, people just whine about the quitting part.  *sigh*

#Rewardchallenge time- Rehash of Survivor Micronesia that's been rehashed before- challenge "Nut Basket".  They throw nuts in a basket for meat, veggies, spices, and other food not found in the OU cafeteria.  Brandon wants to hold the rope thing so they don't sit him out, then he is the first person to drop  his net filled with nuts.  However, Michael, because neither Eddie or Reynold are strong enough to hold a rope apparently, drops it before Phillip can winning it for Bikal!  Yay! Food, food, food!

So, Gota goes back to camp sad. :(  we also get a close up off Matt's feet, thanks editors.

Now, here's the fun part.  ANOTHER IDOL.  Now, I'm usually non-caring about these sorts of things, but multiple idols after someone wastes one/is voted out with one is a huge pet peeve of mine.  They didn't rehid the idol in Guatemala, they shouldn't do it now. I was hopping someone on Sherri and friends would find it, but unfortunately for me, it was Reynold, AGAIN who see it first.  Then he shows Eddie and stuff, but with no Laura to call his ass out, nothing comes out of it.  *sigh*

Now, here's the top of the roller coaster, back to Bikal.  Brandon is still boiling (his words) over Phillip.  See, he said to agree about keeping Brandon in the loop, or something, but Andrea said that he still plans to vote him out.  Brandon keeps forget that is a part of the game.  He then flips out after talking to Phillip.  He dumps out, well, does it need to be said? :)  Dawn trying to calm him down was my favorite part of this.

Now to the #ImmunityChallenge (The hashtag was shown right?)  Seems like a cool challenge, blocks and stuff!  Yay, it's a rehash of season-

Wait, Corrine says that they will give up Immunity to vote out some tonight?  Okay.  That, uh, helps.  Brandon though knows it's him and just blows up on Phillip.  Wow.  Probst separates him from the rest of the his tribe, after he declares the tossing of the food was for the Fans.  After heated exchanges, the idol is officially passed from Erik to happy Julia and the Fans witness a Survivor Second* in non tribal council voting, and everyone aside from Brandon votes for him.  With a vote of 8-1 Brandon goes home.

Please stop casting people with the last name of  "Hantz" or mentally unstable people.  It'll look bad for the show.  Thanks.

Today's tweet of the week is from good'll Malcolm- If there was ever a time for CBS to resurrect the hash-tag #SurvivorBreakdown, it's tonight

~WEEKLY NOTES~

~ The lack of #SurvivorMeltdown did cheese me off to some extent.

~ The lack of Julia, Dawn, Brenda, and Erik did cheese me off to some extent.

~ This makes Guatemala Brandon the sanest Brandon ever.  Africa Brandon's sanity is still in question.

~ Brenda randomly did something to her knee.  Poor dear.

~ Malcolm also seemed to screw up his hand too.

~ Wonder if they go the "All Stars" route and reuse the challenge next week as reward?

~ Cochran could have just done a throwaway vote as well.  I would have just to be a jackass.

~ Corinne gets confessionals!  Added "s" as more than one too.  Awesome.

~ According to the internet, Brandon quit the game.  According to me, he internally blew up and needed to leave.

~ "Do the hand thing!" :D

~ I'd do more, but I'm totally spent guys.

~POWER RANKINGS~

Okay, I don't have the scraps of paper in front of my to figure this out.  I learned almost NOTHING from the past week.  So, here we go...

1. Dawn

2. Matt

3. Cochran

4. Michael

5. Julia

6. Malcolm

7. Corrine

8. Sherri

9. Andrea

10. Phillip

11. Erik

12. Brenda
13. Reynold
14. Eddie

So, long story, the rankings stay the same.  Err, Dawn, congrats on being the CSB Power Ranker this week two weeks in a row.  Maybe next episode we'll see some shifts.

CSB UPDATES ON HEATHER

Ugh, look at this mess I made of this blog.  I can't be so ill anymore.  To summarize, I was sick with a fever Sunday to Wednesdayish and I wasn't able to eat food and not feeling like throwing up.  I also was very tired due to lack of the food that I needed to do anything else.  So, I think I may have lost quite a bit of weight after all of this fun stuff.  Ugh.

Also! I'm back in Tulsa!  Yay!  I missed Danni when she was in town, but I'm finally back home for a week. However, for as far as I know, I'll unable to live tweet for next weeks Survivor and the recap may be delayed do to a later watching that I need to do on the CBS website.  My Aunt doesn't have cable because of Netflix.  Yeah, thanks Netflix...

Thanks for reading all of this.  Join you next time! :)

~Heather~

* Survivor: Palau was the first time.

The Flaw in Timbira

PREVIOUSLY ON

Coach is shown to have an ego problem, Brendan starts a friendship with Taj on Exile "Island" (It's not an Island) and Candace is voted out because Coach said so.

Hey guys welcome back to Heather re-watches stuff.  Sorry this was delayed, but it's up now.  Sorry :)

So, we get back into the minds of the Timbira Tribe.  Erinn finds out she's up the river without a paddle,  so she explains that she was never aligned with Candace.  Sierra of all people starts trashing her.  Coach also weighs in that Erinn's days are numbers, and that he would have never wanted to be in an alliance with her.  THIS IS IMPORTANT btw.

So in the morning we are treated with a scene of Jerry coughing.  Basically, this next part is divided into three parts.  Jerry is sick, Erinn is screwed, and the beans are fricking disgusting.

Erinn is also confident that she could out preform a model and a tiny old woman in challenges.  This will be fun.

Now, back to Jalapao!  They start to figure out on how to use a net.  Stephen is wondering if that really is a throw net because it's too big for one person.  It's pretty simple really, if you know how to use a net, you'll get yourself a fishy soon enough!  However, they get enough minnows to try and catch some bigger fishies!  And soon enough, they have more fishies than they could dream of.  In fact, while gazing upon his fishy, Social Mastermind Joe announces that Jalapao will be a force to be reckoned with at the challenges! 

Speaking of- It's time for a #REWARDCHALLENGE :D

Today is the customary blindfold/caller challenge- which gave us gems like Big Tom getting rammed it the face with a block, Danni getting hid in the head by a pole because of Judd, Scout leading Eliza into a puzzle piece, and Michelle almost killing herself by falling off of a ten foot platform.  Can't go wrong with this challenge.

So are callers for the day are...

SOCIAL MASTERMIND JOE FOR JALAPAO!

and...

DEBBIE WHO JEFF CALLS DEBORAH FOR TIMBIRA!

As far as blindfolded races go, this one was kind of a tame-ish one.  Although it funny moments include...

Jerry and Brendan failing at locating a bucket

Tyson running into Sydney and is about the most contact he gets with a woman anywhere near his age

Social Mastermind Joe making JT and Spencer slam into each other.

And JT mistaking the word "Bucket" with "face"

Well, anyways Jalapao wins and Coach is pissed off that they miss out on blankets.

So, Brendan gets picked to go to Exile Strip of land and takes Taj with him.  Jeff asks Spencer if this is worrying   Spencer is reviled to not care.

So, back on Timbira, Coach is pissed about losing.  He then tells people to not go off in groups to blame each other, because it's the last thing that they need to do.  He then goes off with Tyson and complains about Sierra's yelling during the challenge.  Coach is such an odd person.  He then calls Tyson his assistant Coach. Love it.

Social Mastermind Joe take a moment into poking fun at Timbira, saying that Moral problems will soon affect that tribe.  Oh, this will be fun.

So at Exile, we form the greatest idea for an alliance ever.  The Exile Alliance.  Taj plans to get Stephen in the fun, while Brendan would get Sierra, and then they shall take over the game!

Okay, back at Jalapao, They are glad that it rained, because they knew that Timbira would get wet.  Also, are we 100% sure that Spencer is gay?  He looks like he is getting in with the Ladies of Jalapao.

Spencer X Sandy :3

Also we get this gem from Sandy. Such an amazing character.

Strung out old lady love.

To the Immunity challenge- it's the stack blocks challenge that caused James to yell at Stephenie in Heroes Vs Villains!  Yay!

Also- Jeff still calling Debbie "Deborah" is funny.  I know that it's her real name, but everything else including the intro calls her "Debbie".

Anyways, Jerry also gets smacked with a block.  Timbira gets there blocks first because Stephen and Sydney suck at rolling blocks.  Erinn leads Timbira into building that staircase!  Too bad Brendan slows everyone down by arguing with her.  Thus Jalapao wins Immunity! 

Jerry also gives up because of his illness. :(

So yeah.  He's done.

Erinn figures this out and gives this face-

Coach get pissed and gives this face-

He also can't exist around Erinn, because he's so true and stuff and she smiles evilly.  Wow.
Sierra is still going to vote out Jerry because she isn't stupid.

Brendan finds the idol in the totem thing.  It's kind of a cool spot to hide it. IMO.  Not in a tree or buried.   

Tyson wants to blindside Erinn because it would be funny to see her cry.  Oh, this is fun.

So- To Tribe Council

Jeff calls out Timbira for not listing to Erinn.  Jerry things that Brendan should be the leader, but Coach should be the leader because he led everyone just using his eyes.

I think everyone had this reaction to his BS-

Erinn calls out Coach on his BS, saying that Brendan would be the better leader.  Coach claims it to be a personality clash.  This starts one of my favorite Feuds of all time, my 8th favorite in fact.  Erinn wasn't even aware of this clash. 

Jeff calls out Coach on his Ego.  What a fun tribal council. 

Okay so the votes are in...

Jerry is gone. :( 

Let's relive the best moment Jerry gave us...

Next time on Survivor

Tyson is crazy- Sydney is cute- and Taj is awesome.

Thank you for reading!

~Heather~

It's the Strong that falls Apart

The Blurb

Wow.  What an episode!  It is an interesting one that is for sure.  Let’s take it one step at a time...

The episode opens up at Gota, were Eddie and Reynold are none too happy.  Eddie and Reynold are mad at them keeping the “weak” players over the “stronger” ones.  I don’t really recall Hope and Allie being challenge beasts.  In fact at the first reward challenge, Shamar and Julia were the only two fans to score a point and they are a part of the “weak” player group.  Also, they complained about keeping Laura, yet she got zero votes the last time.  I love this tribe, what a train wreck.  It's better than Airai that is for sure!

Now, let’s move on to Bikal.  Phillip gives out more cool nicknames.  True Grit is still the best, but Brenda’s of “Serenity” is pretty cool too.  Erik’s as the “Silent one” describes his edit pretty well.  Even though it’s generally a great idea to get as much people on your side as possible, someone is going to suspect something in the fact that Phillip is going around doing this and Andrea already sees something is up.  Not a good idea to broadcast this to everyone.  Even though Phillip is probably doing this to calm Brandon down.  Brandon is a basket case just waiting to happen.  He tries to give the impression that he's trying to fool Phillip, yet every Bikal member is in Stealth-R-Us.  Lame name btw.

I love the challenges this season.  This one is a rehash of one that was also used in Micronesia: the first Fans Vs Favorites, just instead of poles they use boards.  No surprise that Shamar wasn’t the guy that had to get carried across, but Julia and Laura, and Andrea and Brenda are all the ones to get the stepping stone treatment.  In the end, Bikal wins the reward in a close challenge.  Their reward is a one of the natives, who kind of reminds me of a male version of Lydia from Guatemala, to teach them how to live off of the land and to improve the shelter.  This is a similar reward to one in Vanuatu were the women won the help of Da, who was amazing.  Sadly, this guy isn't Da, but a rather weird little man.  He still provides a comical little scene while Cochran is jealous that he isn't as loved.  Aww....

Back to tribe train wreck, Shamar has something in his eye.  I knew right there and then that this was bad, although it is hard to feel sorry for him because he has a demanding personality that is wearing on everyone.  Then the wind and rats come.  The wind looked harsh, and the first thought when I saw the rats was “Where’s Natalie White when you need her?”  I thought that a great moment, because fans of the show don’t know what they are getting in to.  People don’t realize that this is harder than they realize, and only those that are out there can understand that.

Now, about Shamar.  Shamar was an interesting character for sure.  I’m kind of glad that he’s gone though; someone like him isn't a good guy to overuse for more than three episodes.  Also, I do feel for him with his eye.  I've been through my share of eye problems as I’m pretty much stuck with glasses, and it’s no fun with impaired vision.  So I don’t think he deserves any of the hell that fans will put him though.  I would never wish an eye infection on anyone.  

Despite this, they still had a challenge and Tribal Council.  Seeing as this was a twenty person season, it makes sense to me.  This is another reused challenge first seen in Cook Islands but was also in Micronesia.  Gota however lost due to the fact that Sherri slowed them down in the beginning, and that Laura wasn't the best in challenges, so back to Tribal Council for the Gota tribe where they must lose another person.

From the get-go it looked like Reynold or Eddie would be gone.  Sherri and friends discussed this.  Matt however wants to win challenges so he tries to suggest Laura to go.  He blurbs this to Sherri who talks to Julia about this.  Basically we have a choice, keep a strong challenge competitor over someone loyal to your alliance or ax someone that is in the minority.  This is the main question as Gota slinks off to Tribal Council for the third time in a row.

Right away, Jeff asks them about keeping the strong over the weak.  He names Reynold and Eddie as strong players but as they are on the outside they are in trouble.  As always, Jeff displays his man-love for the strong tough guys.  Eddie fights for a good cause though, aside from Julia, he names the girls as challenge liabilities.  However, they get to the vote and it looked to be between Reynold and Laura.  Reynold, not completely trusting Matt that he would vote for Laura, plays the idol that everyone knows he has to save himself.  With that the sole vote cast against him was negated, and Laura was sent home in a 6-0 vote.

That was a pretty shocking vote, I was so sure that one of the guys would be packing.  I’m not sure that that was the smartest thing that Sherri and friends could have done, but they still have the numbers.  Sometimes, you do have to cut your losses and move forward.  I think that Laura was a smart player, she kind of reminded me of a weaker Brooke Struck for some reason.  I think that the Gota is desperate for a win, but time will tell if it was worth axing someone loyal to gain in the game.

I'll miss Laura, but I think this proves that they should cast more non-blonds, maybe some more redheads ;)

Today's Tweet of the Week comes from Laura once again!  Man she has some pretty epic tweets :D


Laura Alexander ‏@lauraashleyalex
i guess this is the time to tell @MattBischoff where to shove his gnarly beard? #survivor

~Weekly Notes~

~ I still love the fact that Reynold and Eddie Implied that Hope and Allie were forces in the challenges.

~ I still love the fact that they also tried to imply that they are protecting Laura, aside from the fact that even they didn't vote for her!

~ Look!  Bikal is learning!  Malcolm did NOT throw anything this challenge!

~ I find it funny that people are complaining about throwing things in challenges- the same ones that whined about all of them having puzzles.  Survivor Fans are my favorite form of entertainment sometimes.

~ Laura was at number FIVE last week on my power ranking.  I can pick them can't I?

~ I still don't like Reynold.  I like his buddy so much more.

~ Why did the medical team give us a close up of Shamar's eye?  I so didn't need that.

~This boot order is kind like Fiji's. Four women and then Gary got medivac'd.  Only difference is that Sylvia isn't young.

~ Some post interviews with Laura changed some of the rankings around for a few people.  

~ I'm surprised with Phillip's challenge performance.  Doesn't mean I like him though.

~ #StealthRUs.  Yup.

~ Laura retweetted one of my tweets!  This is the one "Complains about keeping Laura, doesn't vote for Laura. #Survivor"  Love her! <3

~POWER RANKINGS~

1. Dawn- True Grit is only back at number one because I don't really know who else to put up here.

2. Matt- Despite leading the charge to take the knife to Laura's back, he's still safe.

3. Cochran- Still has that damn sunburn.  

4. Michael- Good with Matt, not would be in danger

5. Julia- According to Laura's post game interview, Julia is close to Michael.  Plus she was singled out for being a badass.

6. Malcolm- Not a lot from Bikal this week.  So around the same as last time.  Also didn't tank a challenge.

7. Corrine- *See Malcolm*

8. Sherri- Huge drop for her.  She lost a loyal ally in Laura.  let's see where that will take us.

9. Andrea- The complainer never wins

10. Phillip- Everyone seems to be handling with kid gloves.  Not going to go as far.

11. Erik- I think he's smart enough to appease everyone.  He's the Silent one after all.

12. Brenda- She's so DANGEROUS!
13. Reynold- I do not like his smugness.  He's down the river without an idol.  Hope it's you.
14. Eddie- Less annoying then Reynold, but still annoying at the moment.  Still on the outs.
15. Brandon- #SurvivorFu**ingMeltdown

NEXT TIME ON SURVIVOR!

Brandon's head explodes because he is crazy.  Let's see it.

NEXT TIME ON THE CSB!
Tocantins rewatch!  Talking about a different Vet.

See you next time!
~Heather~

All about Coach's Ego

PREVIOUSLY ON...

Sandy doesn't go home! Some annoying bartender does instead.  Oh, and Sierra was sick.  Awesome.

So, welcome back to episode two of Survivor: Tocantins. We start off with Sandy being all happy because Carolina messed up.  Yay!  Until Spencer says in a confessional that Sandy's going home next.  Boo...

The next morning, Social Mastermind Joe is hungry.  So he goes with a few others to go eat termites.

R.I.P Termite mound :(

They find this awesome looking grub thing at the bottom once Social Mastermind Joe was done tearing up the mound. 

SIGN ME UP! lol  Stephen tried to eat it and made this face-

This is my new favorite picture by the way.  I love it.  Sydney didn't want to eat it after she saw his face.  She did say that she'd eat grubs and stuff in a challenge.  Too bad there was none.

Okay, TO TIMBIRA!  Sierra wants to find the idol.  She tells Brendan that she needs his help because he didn't write her name down, but Erinn's shirt color and description down.  They find it faster than Sandy AND they knew what a pace was.  But Mama Debbie was worried about them so she went to make sure something didn't get them.

BUSTED!  Luckily Sierra just threw out that they are building a kickass fire pit.  Fun loving Debbie bought it.  I love Debbie, what an underrated star of Tocantins.

So Back at Jalapao, Taj tells everyone she's married to a football player.  Spencer, Joe, and JT can't believe.  Stephen had this look on his face.

He doesn't know who Eddie is.  Surprise.  

At Timbira Candace and Coach fight about food.  Candace says that ego will be the reason he lost South Pacific Death of him.  They resolve their issues for now...

Next we have a combined Reward/Immunity challenge.  It's one of my favorites ever.  It's basket ball, but without dribbling, you can run with the ball, and you can beat the living tar out of anyone.  No surprise that Timbira sits out 80 lb Debbie.

You know what's sad?  I think I'm either the same height or Less than Debbie.  I went by Heather Short for a reason.  

So, we get people beating the tar out of each other, but let's stop and ponder why the Idol looks so creepy.

WHY DO WE NEED A CLOSE UP EDITORS?!  Yeah, this was the real reason Tocantins isn't my second favorite season anymore.  I mean, it looks really weird.  So the first two rounds, Timbira is in the lead.  My favorite moment had to be Mama K and Erinn moments.

Right away, Sandy  pretty much just went after her.  Fuck the ball.

#SurvivorMoments  In the end, it didn't matter because Timbira scored anyways.

The next round Taj and Erinn drown Sierra.

*blub* 

Erinn's trying to help!  But Jalapao score the next two and tie it up.  Challenge Beast Coach is shown to be pretty pathetic in this challenge here.  JT spent about five minutes scoring with his lame ass in the challenge.

Fail.

So the last round, and nerdy, New York Jew scores the winning point for the Jalapeno tribe!

No love for Sandy. :(  They get immunity and fishing gear.  Oh, and to send Brendan to die in exile.  Bye :D

... Just kidding, the twist of the season is to pick another person to go with him.  He chooses Taj.  Bye :)  The two decided to share the clue.  It takes Brendan an unhealthy amount of time to figure out what "Tribal Homelands" were.

Jalapao enjoys their fishing gear.  Stephen isn't very good with the spear, but this was important bonding man date time with JT.  Isn't that cool. :)

Back at Timbira they are licking their wounds from Jalapao.  Erinn was shocked at that Little Old Lady, while Sierra said she almost drowned.  Candace agrees but she knew that Coach has useless.  Her calling Coach a "Church lady" was gold for instance.  

Typical Church lady.  Coach doesn't like that Candace was plotting against him, because sweet little Debbie told on her.  How dare she...

Brendan gets back on day six.  He lies about Taj getting the clue.  What a player.

So, Coach has to insure Sierra that she isn't going home the only way he could.  

Meanwhile Erinn and Candace plot against Coach, then they decided to go after Sierra instead.  Awesome.  Except that Erinn never really like Candace because she was a horrible person.  What a star.  

So, we go to Tribal Council.  This is the famous Erinn/Debbie fight about trust.  TAKE NOTE THIS WILL APPEAR LATER!

Also- we have another Sierra was sick line.  Why was she that popular again? I mean I loved her my first watch but every time I see her in these beginning episodes she looked like a sad puppy dog Brian shot.  Kind of lame.

Oh, and today's vote of the day goes to JERRY for his wonderful spelling of the word Candace.

CANDANCE!

Although everyone except for Erinn and Coach messes it up.  All of the Candice votes were obviously hints that Candice Woodcock-Cody would return as a SUPERSTAR in Heroes Vs Villains. <3

Anyways, the poison apple left the game.  Bye!

Next time- BLIND CALLER CHALLENGE!  And Taj is plotting a scheme that could change the game.
THIS SUNDAY!

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Love you guys! *evil Erinn grin here*
~Heather~

The Adventures of the Strung-out Old Lady

I said I was going to- Here is my Survivor:Tocantins rewatch notes.  Beware- May contain snark and insults to America's sweetheart, Coach.

So- we started off with Jeff's usual long comments about how amazing Brazil is, and that they are in the most desolate part of Brazil ever.  Tocantins.  Oh, and everyone's on a truck and making confessionals about them.  Erinn says Tyson is a great guy to be around, Tyson thinks that Erinn's "The bitch".  Although my personal favorite is when Stephen calls Sandy the "Strung out old lady".  

Not Strung out at all

Sandy then calls Stephen a geek and says that she probably can led him around.

Sierra doesn't trash anyone, she goes on about the fact that she's been sick.  Coach says that he has the unfortunate feeling that she will crumble.  How boring.

The Truck stops in the middle of nowhere to drop everyone off, but then Jeff tells them to grab as much stuff as they can.  Jalapao mishears this and just grabs all of the watermelons and even tries to go for the sticks tied to the sides of the truck.  While they are doing that, Timbira grabs everything else.

Timbira gets most of the things because Coach led them with his eyes tribe unity.  Spencer say that the rest of them will live off of watermelons.  Jeff then tells them that they have a four hour trek to camp.  While Jeff drones on about how hot and hard it will be, every Guatemala contestant is thinking "easy".  He then throw the map and compasses to Sydney and Erinn and almost kills Erinn.

Good one Probst.

Oh, and he also says that someone isn't going to make the journey with them so hears some paper write down who needs to GTFO.

Fun fact- this is the first written vote of the season-

I loved how Jeff asked him who was that and Joe said,"Grammy is the older lady".  Clearing things up like a boss there.  So, after a couple of votes we have our winner!

Okay, so Sandy's pissed.  Let's see which Timbira member is going to get pissed!  Isn't this awesome!  

Check that out!  Coach knows what a zebra is.  Isn't that cool.  So Sierra see this and is a sad panda, err, zebra.  She says that she's sick.  However, that doesn't change a thing so the big winner of Timbria is...

Sierra says that she's sick again. Three times so far, someone do a drinking game.  Wait, they don't leave the game, they get a fricking helicopter ride.  The rest has to do the hike.  Kthxbye.

Stephen is already playing the game by stripping.

New York's pride and joy.  JT also has to help out Joe in reading a compass.  

I cannot believe that these people don't train to read a map and compass!  I taught myself how to do one before I get on Survivor! (/Eliza)
Stephen is also worried about bonding with JT, as the New York nerdy Jew would have problems bonding with the good old southern boy. (His words, not mine)
While Stephen builds up his fanbase, we cut to Timbira and we are shocked that Erinn hasn't been camping since the sixth grade.  Debbie also almost kills Erinn by suddenly dropping her end of the flag.  They rest up for a bit and Coach tried to lead and then tries to make a pact with Brendan because he is a strong male.  So in other words Coach is playing exactly like Probst would.

Back at the helicopter, Sandy gets dropped off first, and we get an emotional scene ending with her declaring that she will bleed Jalapeno red.  She then tries to find the Hidden Immunity Idol.

Sierra decides to be useful and build the shelter.  After we have the "I'm sick" proclamation number four that is.

Jalapao gets to their camp before sundown.  Sandy then hids her clue in the only place she knows no one will look.

Then she asks us if they look even.
Carolina whines that Sandy didn't start on the shelter.  Then everyone shares a watermelon and wonders how to say their tribe name.

Meanwhile at Timbira, Coach's amazing leadership skills got them to their camp a few hours after sundown.  He then says that despite Sierra's awesomeness at already building an eight person shelter she has to go.  Thanks Coach.

The next day, Jalapao is already putting together a cute little shelter.  Carolina is being annoying though because she wants to build some other things.  Oh, and Sandy slips off to find the idol again.  People, if they didn't have the HII we wouldn't get gems like the fact that Sandy doesn't know what a pace is.  Please cut some loses.

At Timbira, they already drank their water. :( So Sierra, Debbie, and Tyson decides to go get more! :D

Tyson strips because he's not a typical Mormon.

What an All-Star.
So, now we get the #ImmunityChallenge.  Meanwhile Eliza complains about how she misses the days when they have a Reward Challenge despite it being the first challenge.
During his expatiation- the editors decides to highlight the puzzle planks, just in case we forgot what they looked like.

Thanks!  I didn't know about that!

Also- the idol looks pretty pathetic if you ask me.

The challenge starts and right away Carolina is proving to be a challenge beast!

During the puzzle, Sierra tries her hardest to distract the other team, forgetting that the puzzle workers are Taj and Sandy.

Sierra has to have seen Survivor before!  She's taking lessons from Amanda after all.

Jalapao get to the maze part first where Spencer and Sydney work together in the best way ever.

Timbira catches up, were Erinn and Brendan prove to be the shining stars of teamwork.

And Timbira wins the challenge! Coach praises Brendan in the most non-homosexual way ever.  While Tyson hugs The Bitch.

Timbira is such a weird tribe.

Meanwhile Jalapao is getting so annoyed at Carolina, that the best Hero of all time says this-

I love that they used subtitles.  Also Joe proves to be a social master by messing up Carolina's name every time he says it.

To Tribal council!  Highlights include Jeff asking Sandy if she was crazy.  Wonder why he asked?

Now to the votes Sandy votes for Carolina in one of my favorite full circle votes of all time.

When Jeff reads off the votes, Carolina looks on smugly.

However, when the next few turn up Carolina, or some butchering of the name Carolina we get these reactions-

The best vote of the night goes to social mastermind Joe, with this awesome vote.

According to Stephen, he asked Carolina how to spell her name, and then he still screws it up!  Winning.

So, that's a 7-1 blindside towards the generic bartender and token minority.

Next time on Survivor!  People get beat up in a water challenge!  Join me next time to review episode two of the Tocantins!

~Heather~