Friday, November 8, 2013

Blood v. Water: Ep 8

The merge is here! The merge is here! As Hayden appropriately said, this is when Survivor really becomes Survivor. Hard to believe you have to get through half the season to see the best stuff.

Overall this episode made me start to dislike this season. There are SO many stupid people on this show, and I'm getting sick of watching them make the obvious blunders over and over again. How could no one else figure out that the tree with the giant vine on it was where the hidden immunity idol was? The only explanation I can come up with is that they were afraid to have it because it would've put a big target on their back, so they decided not to look for it. But I doubt that's right because it means giving them credit for actually thinking about the idol, which I feel like they didn't.

Also think it was a bad move for Laura M. to take the clue & burn it. She's just returning to a group that voted her out in the first place & historically speaking had a huge chance to be voted out. She got lucky that she didn't and it was certainly no credit to her. MVP of the episode has to be Ciera for keeping her mother in line.

And Aras & Vytas being all chummy & cocky, thinking that they were the only people on the islands with brains... well they were half right, I guess. Still, how do they not think "wow, I can see I'm such a big threat, maybe I should make sure my alliances are secure & start building in a back-up plan."

And Tina & Katie for bringing this whole mess on themselves with their terrible decision making over the last 3+ episodes.


The Teams:

51st State: 71 pts
1. Aras (28 pts)
2. Rupert (0 pts)
3. Marissa (3 pts)
4. Caleb (15 pts)
5. Laura M. (25 pts)

AhhhhFUCKthat: 67.5 pts
1. John (6 pts)
2. Laura B. (16 pts)
3. Candice (4.5 pts)
4. Gervase (28 pts)
5. Ciera (13 pts)

MooMe: 59.5 pts

1. Vytas (11 pts)
2. Tyson (33 pts)
3. Monica (14 pts)
4. Brad (1.5 pts)
5. Rachel (0 pts)

Mind Under Matter: 48 points
1. Katie (5 pts)
2. Hayden (15 pts)
3. Colton (-2 pts)
4. Kat (14 pts)
5. Tina (16 pts)


Power Rankings:

1. MooMe - Vytas is obviously on the hot seat now, but he's such a charmer that he might be able to re-direct attention to another perceived threat. Honestly, if they majority alliance really knew who they were up against they would have known that Vytas was a bigger threat than Aras. Tyson is in great shape with his idol & Monica, despite her annoyingness is a part of the majority alliance too. MooMe is only widening the gap of awesomeness between their team & the rest of us losers.


2. 51st State - Not a great week for Doug & Bri. They aren't getting to secede from the rest of Colorado AND they lost their best player. On the plus side, it would've sucked to have been from "the great state of Eastern Colorado" and they got a player back.

3. AhhhhFUCKthat - So much for that "pending merge is an advantage" opinion. But while AndBag lost 2 players in 1 episode, Ciera really stepped up & impressed me. She has a game plan & is working it well so far. Hopefully her mom ends up being a contributor & not an anchor.
4. Mind Under Matter - My best shot is if Tina & Katie just get forgotten about while the rest of the tribe turns on each other. Probably not going to happen, though, so now I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Hayden is ready & capable of making some big moves. Maybe he & Vytas will put their heads together & start voting out some returnees.

Douche of the Week:

Aras. Anyone who says "I'm clearly the favorite to win this but everyone else is too dumb & scared to make a move against me" deserves the DOW title when they get voted out in the same episode.

3 comments:

GnightMoon said...

If Vytas gets out of this one, it will be his greatest Houdini act yet.

Tempting to go with him for DoW cause of the overconfidence, but I'll say his brother Aras cause he actually got voted out.

Melissa said...

I agree. Aras.

TheGraveWolf said...

Aras is DoW.