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~