Yep, We still don't get Jenn.

Welcome to my World in this Worlds Apart write up.  Now, I lied last week when I said I’ll be watching this live.  Oops. Oh well.

Anyways, not much to say about this week, just be mindful to not hold on too tightly to past events.  It’s unhealthy. I figured that out recently.  I’ve moved on.

Anyways, spoilers everywhere coming up.

Oh, you’re still here?  Good.  Good.

Ahem, well the decimation (GAWN) of no collar keeps on with Joe.  Here’s the huge thing on guys like Joe, they tend to not last long in this game.  Physical threats that are that wide open?  Nope.  Outside of Jenn actually getting up and quitting Joe was leaving.  Sorry to everyone who thought that he was going to be the second coming of Ozzy or Malcolm. 

This is the part where I say, now this season will get interesting.  You have Jenn who wants to go home, Shirin who doesn’t want her to go home, Rodney and his actions, and what looks like the complete falling out in Blue Collar.  I’ve been calling this for a while, but this episode makes it pretty clear that Rodney doesn’t like Mike’s idea for an alliance.  They’ve been building up Blue Collar as the cocky people, Dan gloating to Shirin and Mike with the confessional about the idol.  They don’t have a grounding element, and things that don’t have grounds get bolted when they get too high.

Shirin is getting built up as the plucky underdog really.  I mean, she’s this season’s Erinn or Eliza, and they changed the fate of the ones with numbers and further their own placing just by placing their coins behind the ones that wanted to do these shake ups.  However, there is one good reason why I don’t have a good feeling with Shirin.

What did you think of Carolyn this episode?  What?  She wasn’t shown that much?  Yes.  I agree.  However, I have a strong feeling that she’s going to win this game.  Rarely do I actually make full blown winner picks.  I really don’t think that I am now in fact.  However, one think that keeps getting brought up is Flippers.  Flippers is become the Survivor’s answer to the term “Floaters” of Big Brother.  Also known as a phrase that gets thrown around so much that it really holds little weight anymore.  Truth is, that playing a game that involves turning on allies is really hard but it has paid off before.  Vecepia is probably the best example I have.  In reality, this is really a game of “Anyone but me”.  The reliable traitor. 

Why do I bring this up?  Carolyn has, by all accounts, flipped.  She flipped on the No Collars.  She has the blood on her hands just as much as Kelly did but Kelly was the one that got targeted.  She had Kelly take the heat on that.  Now, she’s flying by and is not getting uttered by a possible vote out by anyone not named “Shirin”.  Now the scene with Mike discussing a vote out on her seems iffy, but I’m not yet holding out.  The storyline is perfect for a Carolyn win.  Now, I’m hoping I’m right.

Of course, I can be wrong.  I fully expect her to get voted out next week.  That’s exactly what happened to Kelly after all.

The last thing I have to say, keep watching Shirin.  I’m willing to bet money that whatever happens next week will have her in the center of it.  I don’t think she’ll win the game exactly, but she’ll be in the middle of everything.

Everything Wrong With

Worlds Apart Episode 9

~ Jeff makes it seem like Rodney lead the original Blue Collar team, not Mike.

~ I’m now 100% convince that huge fan Dan has never watched Marquesas.

~ If I hadn’t made this clear, flippers can win.  Just because it didn’t work out for Kass doesn’t mean anything.

~ I’m sure that Jenn’s going to quit.  Wait, never mind.  I’ve watched Amazon.

~"I'm in the Passenger's seat backseat driving"  Look I’ve been told that’s a real phrase that people use but I don’t buy it.  It gives me a headache just staring at it.

~ Shirin’s super secret weapon is basic math.

~ This challenge was design by someone who loves slapstick and possible head injuries.

~ Wilhelm Scream

~ Nothing in this challenge looked as painful as what Dan and Will did to those obstacles.

~ Carolyn tries to out due Shirin’s constant Survivor references by doing a Chris Daugherty impression on that balance beam.

~ The blue team gathered up the most rings and I’m the only one that made the Sonic the Hedgehog joke.

~ People are confused to why Jenn might be disappointed on not going on a reward that involves a truckload of chocolate.

~Color coordinated M&Ms.  Seriously.  They all taste the same.

~ This is where Mike gets hired to be Snickers new Spokesperson.

~ People are confused to why Jenn might have a problem with them killing chickens.  Like, did you see what happened in the forth episode?

~ In spirit of Sierra’s involvement in this episode the editors cut out Rodney’s impression of her.

~ Joe forgets that his alliance still has Jenn for some reason.

~ They look like they were scaled by height but the “Draw for spots” comment is shown.  Um?

~ Dan almost takes out Jenn and Tyler, who turns out to be the final two people in this challenge.

~ Jeff obviously has such a huge hard on for Joe that Jenn tells him to shut up.

~ You could probably stop watching as soon as Tyler won and still would have figured out who went home that night.

~ This fake Immunity Idol has little bearing on this plot, which is disappointing because it is hella pretty.

~ Jeff implies that the No Collar way is to Quit.  Um, I would think that the No Collar way is to not give a F*ck, which correct me if I’m wrong is exactly what Jenn is doing.

~ Absolutely no one can get Jenn, which to me it’s obvious why.  She was on No Collar.

~ Jenn gets Shawna’d.  And if you don’t know what that means you should figure it out by yourself.

~ Rodney and Tyler shared my same confuse on the events that’s going on.  They’re on the show!

~ This preview is giving me high hopes for my Blue Collar crumbling prediction and that’s bad because I actually have no idea if it will actually happen.

TOTAL- 27

All in all, this episode seemed to lack really.  Obvious boot was obvious, although Jenn is still in so who knows what will happen.  Same time same place?

*sigh* “Start a web blog”, they said, “It’ll be easy” they said.

~Heather 

Insane and Off the Rails- This World

So, just a reminder half of this article is to sum up the voted out castaway, the other half is a very humorous way to sum up what happened.  Just want to get the record straight.  If you want a full episode summery, I’m sure you’ll find one over the next few days. :)

Also, if anyone out there have been self publishing their own write-ups, send me a E-mail, PM, or whatever and I’ll add a link to it.  You people are my people.

Anyways, don’t read if you don’t want spoilers.  Don’t say I didn’t warn you, but if you’re reading episode write ups without watching the show first you’re doing it wrong.

First off, we are going to cover Hali.  Hali was always a weird one for me.  She was the “pair” to Jenn.  A big theme this season is watch the pairs.  Mike, Carolyn, and Tyler have verbalized this, so really this shouldn’t be as big as a shock as I thought it was.  Hali was shown to be close to Jenn since episode two at the least.

Okay, I won’t blame you if you were surprised.  Hell, I was.  I thought that Kelly was what was holding Blue Collars together.  Okay, I might still be right in that for a bit.  I thought Blue Collars as a “Casaya” and Kelly as there “Aras”.  A “normal” person who on any other season would be shown as weird as can be.  You know, Kelly the one who freely admits to using Pepper Spray in her house.  However, the problem with this comparison is that this enters probably my least favorite part of Survivor discussions.  The “Should’ve, Could’ve, Would’ve” part.  What happens when Casaya lost Aras?  Who knows.  So for all we know, the second most “normal” person might hold on to this group until Sierra or Rodney just strays away.  And Mike, someone who doesn’t have the same sway over Rodney and Sierra as Kelly, is left to struggle over this alliance.  Mike needs a lot more than a fractured alliance and a Hidden Idol that he told no one to save his friends.

This is where I get to Hali.  Now, as bad as the attempted Jenn vote went, it was actually the best idea to target Jenn.  Just from what I’ve seen, Jenn was a lot more involved in targeting Kelly in the last episode.  Maybe I’ve giving her too much credit to say that perhaps that she’s actually the one that’s behind most of No Collar’s direction, but I strongly believe that she would be the better choice.  Of course, they didn’t, because Idols man.

Oh, and think that Joe would be the number one person to vote out… well, they’re right.  Joe’s winning stuff.  That’s easy.

The jury's out, and this law student is in.

Back to Hali, just like Kelly, a lot of people think that she would win by the fabled Ethan way.  Be the nicer second in command to someone who could take a good amount of bullets for that you.   Of course, the problem with this is ditching your first in command unless they were really that bad, which might have been something Kelly could have pulled off (I like Mike, but Kelly just seemed more well liked) but I don’t really know if Hali could.  I do know is that she seemed to have a lot of people rooting for her.  I was one of them in fact.  Said to see her go but at least she has a nice spot on Jury, which is something I couldn’t say about Kelly.  Go Merica.

As closing to this part of this write up, I urge you guys to watch these people.  Two pairs in fact.  Watch Jenn and Mike.  They have a lot more in common than you thing.  And watch Carolyn and Tyler.  They are also some sort of a pair, but they seem to be keeping it on the down low.  So far, this narrative is centered around pairs, and Jenn and Mike both lost their other half to each other.

Everything Wrong With: Survivor

Worlds Apart- Episode 8

~ The episode title is “Keep it real”. I’m not sure what needs to be kept real nor do I really want to know because they took that quote from some rant from Rodney.

~ Rodney forgets to watch every single Survivor involving rice amounts. 

~ Salami is f*cking gross and I’d only eat it if I was on Survivor

~ Rodney tried to Blue collar No collars.

~ This really shouldn’t count, but in the 30 facts for this video they called Jonathon Penner “John Penner” and no one in this history of this show has ever called him that.

~ Dan fails at balance.  Yes Hali fans the law of gravity hates Dan too.

~ Jeff says that “A lot of people” are in this game.  Jeff apparently can’t count to eleven.

~ None of the White collars made it to the final part of this challenge, instead they paid Hali to be their rep and decided to chill out in the big office instead.

~ Joe picks the White collars and Will to go with him, while smart stragicially it is also F*cking boring.

~ Jenn is clearly pissed off at being left at camp with all of the blue collars with only Hali to prevent her from actually harming anything but we get zero footage on this because IDOLS ARE AWESOME.

~ Shirin is like me when I am very bored.  That scares me.

~ Instant drama add stupidly high dangerous Ziplines.  I’m with Amy O’Hara this height stuff is for the birds.

~ Joe doesn’t eat the idol clue, which would have given us a better episode because it would have cut out the useless idol hunt afterwares.

~ Tyler becoming more important.  It’s like one of those tools for us to remember that there is probably a reason that he’s still here but we’d rather watch Blue Collar emotionally wear on each other or Vince being creepy but they didn’t show us for some reason.

~ I do question the sanity of someone who stays up until twilight to wait on an idol clue in a game where sleep is a luxury.

~ Cue what is basically a piss break.  Seriously.  I just saw an Easter egg hunt Sunday between my cousins and was bored why would I want to watch people do this on Survivor?

~ Also what is really the point of suggestion that Joe has the HII aside from you not having it?  Joe wins Immunity so soon and that’s not going to stop them from targeting him anyways and they don’t know who has the Masaya idol.  It just seems rather pointless to me, at least not with Joe.  So I’m sure this will come up later and now I have to remember this.

~ Dan.

~ Let me elaborate, Dan insults Shirin for being a puppet to Joe, despite it was Hali who was shown to interact with her on the swapped tribe.  I’m sure we’re probably missing something but for right now it’s sexist to imply that Joe is leading over three ladies.  Which, it is.

~ Of course, he has such a high opinion of himself despite Blue Collar losing probably their most pivotal person in their alliance. 

~ That he was a puppet for.  (Of course, it may have been more Mike and Kelly together, but let’s say Kelly just for the irony of it shall we?)

~ Shirin can’t count but Dan can’t remember the name of someone whom he shared a camp with for at least what, five days now?

~ Shirin is shown as annoying while being inspirational at the same time. 

~ On thing I was giving credit was that when Carolyn and Jenn found their idols it was basically “Oh hey this is cool” and done.  Not Mike.  Mike has to have a montage with trees and such because why not.

~ Also Mike’s Happy dance.

~ Because you didn’t like the Puzzle’s at the end of the challenges we’re using them in the entire challenge.

~ Joe tried to pander to me by using shenanigans in a sentence.

~ I hate slide puzzles because I suck ass at them.  I’m not even allowed to make fun of Dan’s incompetence in this because I would be worse.

~ However, I will say that I know that the words in Survivor isn’t “Outwijwat.....Oblaltay...Owtlstr” or whatever that was.

~ Joe the challenge threat wins immunity so natural the target shits to the person that was in second to dead last for the majority of the challenge.

~ This all girls alliance doesn’t happen.

~ Dan doesn’t get voted out.

~ This revolution doesn’t happen.  I wonder if Blue Collar even taxed their tea yet.

~ And Jenn probably won’t quit in the next episode and the teaser is probably lying.  Just a reminder that it was strongly hinted in the third episode one that Jenn or Hali was going to run into something that causes them to bleed and get Medivaced.  Instead Dan drops a lift on Kelly’s head.  So calm down.

FINAL TALLY- 34

Anyways, next week- Am I still wrong?  I don’t know, but I’ll be tweeting live this week (Hopefully) so come join me east coasters.

I am Heather and this is me signing off.

Kelly is the Duct Tape of Blue Collar

Hey guys, I have decided to try and get back into writing episodes so my skills stay sharp.  What better way to start than with the episode that saw the end to one of my favorite players this season.

I’m not going to gloss over a lot of stuff, but I will say- spoilers.  Duh.

Let’s start this episode with a farewell to Kelly.  This kinda hurts.  Kelly was a favorite of mine in this season.  I picked her out Preseason mostly because of her job.  Anyone who knows my Survivor likes and dislikes knows about a certain Cop from Guatemala who is my current favorite Survivor since I was eleven.  I’m 20 years old right now.

Kelly, who started on a blue tribe, got injured in a challenge that her tribe lost, lasted seven episodes and just missed an important Survivor milestone… I knew she wasn’t going to last long.  I had that feeling.  However looking back on everything, it’s easy for me to see why so many people picked her out as a winners pick after episode 4/5.  Also after the shock at everything was gone, it was easy for me to see why Kelly and not, say, Mike.  Why, yes, it probably was personal on Jenn’s end, but outside for personal interest, Kelly is the best choice to vote out to dismantle the Blue Collars.  She was their glue.

Alright, so how can we tell Kelly was the glue? Well, in all of the dysfunctional BC arguments, who was the one who kept out of it? Kelly. She compared it to the Bar fight calls the Troopers get. They hang out on it a bit, and then turn up.  She knew that it wasn’t worth getting her hands bloody in those fights, because they were going to sort themselves out.  She knew how to deal with BC’s dysfunction, and how to sweep up after it.  Also telling was the Challenge thrown, not only Mike threw the challenge, but Sierra and Rodney did too. You could argue that Rodney did so to get Joe out, but Sierra may have not shared that same interest.  As for Rodney, she was the only BC who was included in Rodney's four people group.

Kelly, the one who got hit in the Fricken head, got six stitches (one for each of us!) whom in retrospect I am surprised that she didn't have blue blood because she was that blue collar tribe, and currently I would be shocked as hell if any BC make it to the end now.  They’ll fall apart without her.  She’s also not on the jury, so they better hope that the other votes will be just as well.

Still a Trooper :)

My point, they loved Kel. They would have thrown a challenge for her. Hell, they did. Kelly would have probably even won but she made such a huge mistake and that was that she didn't try and keep appearances with the No Collars. She tipped off Jenn, and that is why she was gone.  That’s the one thing that she really messed up on. 

My final words on Kelly, her head injury… wow. I had a similar one when I was ten, but it was not nearly as bad.  It bled a lot (head injuries are really famous for bleeding a lot but not being that serious) and I had a check for concussion, but I didn’t need any stitches much less six.  Although the scar is still there, right above my left eye brow.  Also I have Hemophobia.  I have panic attacks if I see a large amount of blood.  Congrats to Kelly, who is the only Contestant I’ve ever had that reaction too.  Hopefully the last because that was a lot of blood.

Okay, now time for-

Everything Wrong with Survivor: Worlds Apart

Episode 7

- Kelly is apparently so deep undercover but couldn't fool the surfer girls of the season

- Subtlety is probably something that Kelly doesn't remember how to do because of the head trauma, but I’ll give up a point because come on. 

- Foreshadowing of the couples splitting leads to minor irony latter

- Dan peed on his own foot.  Even in the correct context it’s a stupid sentence that I don’t really want to hear.

- Jenn aggressively throws hot water on people’s feet again.  Let’s hope this time Dan doesn’t have warts.

- Shirin forgoes Jenn the Lifeguard’s suggestion that peeing on Dan’s foot was stupid to make a John Carroll shout out.

- They name the Tribe after a stereotype.

- Okay, the flag is badass, but they use no hint of the purple that's in the buff.

- Also Shirin is the one they went to on complaining about the name.  Yes, she’s justified and such but wasn’t she the one who randomly burst into singing “Merica’s” national Anthem?

- I can't even keep track of all of this, alliance stuff, but I'm sure it's all important.

- Joe's Face in this picture

- Jenn asks if Rodney is smart an episode later after hearing about him from Kelly and deciding that he's a "Tool".  Go with your gut girl.

- So, the No Collars vs Blue Collars and random White Collars doing whatever.  Ten minutes and we're back to whatever we concluded at the start of this episode?

- The Pole challenge is brought back so the internet can have a field day.  Again.

- The necklace has a compass on it.  Lady Antebellum approves.

- Jenn is assaulted by a bee in a place where Jeff is probably unaware existed.

- Also Jenn, you are still probably not a huge character in Jeff’s eyes

- What’s with this season and everyone getting hurt?  You have Mike throwing up in the first episode, Kelly, Max and the Stingray, Dan and the Jellyfish, and now Jenn?  Did they cast a bunch of Skupins or something?

- Rain where Drama needs it to be.

- Carolyn's children didn't see her win that challenge.  Nothing like saying "My mother won the pole challenge!" am I right.  Damn, now I'm doing it.

- Blue Collars want to test Will's loyalty instead of covering their asses with a safer split vote.  Like serious.  Either way if Will flips you’re screwed.

- Random alliance of Kelly, Rodney, Will, and Carolyn goes absolutely nowhere and dies in this episode

- Random alliance is made important but goes along with Mike anyways.

- We are randomly remained of Jenn's idol.  Must be important.

- Jenn blames Idol found on "Magic".  No Jenn that’s how Russell found his Idol that blindsided Kelly.  Hey wait.

- Will makes the comment that Jeff could get voted out but we all never see it.  I can only dream.

- Will makes an ass of himself by voting for Hali.  And the only one to vote for Hali.

- Jenn and her friends laughing at Kelly, while probably harmless, has a lot of internet people calling her out on poor jury management.  While I get where that’s coming from I’d think some of the jury people would understand the fact that she just narrowly missed getting voted out.  Come on.

- Also Idol plays are still rather silly and not a true substitute for a real shock vote.  Come on guys. 

- Joe draws a band aid on his Kelly vote, giving a Jenny Guzon-Bae tribute in voting for a Cop while drawing an image in reference to an injury of theirs.  Way to be a jerk Joe.

FINAL COUNT- 30

Might I remind everyone that that is for pure comical reasons only. :)  Don’t take it too seriously.  

Join me next week to see the fallout of Blue Collar’s losing their glue.

 Also Bonus, my take on this challenge.

Thank you and have a good [insert time of day here]