Water Cooler Talk from Two Guys Wearing Sweaters
- Week 2 -
Time for our weekly insight into the latest episode of Survivor II!
Let's see -- where to begin! Well, at the beginning of the show we saw Mike making some early morning rice, which put everyone into a bit of a tizzy since they didn't vote as a group to make some. Later, in an effort to become "The New Richard," Mike caught some fish to provide for the group.
Later yet, in an effort to become "The New God," he said a prayer with the group, thanking God for giving him "such incredible leadership capabilities, the ability to catch food for his tribemates, and an enormous quantity of modesty."
Amber comments about Keith's inability to cook rice.
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In our first chance to hear Amber speak directly to the camera, she noted that Keith can't seem to cook rice very well, considering that he's a chef and all. Considering what they had to eat for the immunity challenge, I can't imagine that it was all that bad after all!
Of course Amber is our favorite person in the Outback, but it would appear that the camera crew and editors at CBS have some sort of a thing for Jerri. We couldn't help but notice that Jerri was shown in her little bikini numerous times during the sequence where the Ogakor Tribe thought that Kel was sneaking around with beef jerky in his pants.
The camera tended to find Jerri this week.
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In fact, by our count, Jerri was shown lying in their tent 18 times in 4 minutes and 19 seconds -- including a shot that slowly panned from her feet to her head. Being guys, it's not like we were saying "C'mon -- enough with the skin already!" But still...
The Reward Challenge said a lot for Rodger this week. The groups had to jump off a cliff into a river where they had to grab a box of blankets, and race for the finish line. For a guy who couldn't swim and was afraid of heights, he did quite a fine job of jumping off a 45-foot-tall cliff where he had to swim to the rest of his tribe! Kudos!
That brings to mind a cool idea for a strategy. Imagine that you wanted your team to think you couldn't do something -- like swim, or tolerate heights -- even though you could handle them just fine. Then you went and kicked butt at the challenge. Your team would love you, and you'd be snickering to yourself, thinking "Ha! Suckers." Not that I'm suggesting that Rodger did that, but that would be a slick idea for someone who thinks they're vunerable!
In an apparent effort to show someone throwing up on each episode, the Immunity Challenge involved eating some incredibly disgusting stuff. Individuals from each team had to face off against someone from the other tribe to eat something horrible. Cow brains, intestines, worms and other glop were on the menu.
Our Amber made us proud! She calmly ate some sort of crunchy bug thing, and she looked like she was going to hornk it back up for a minute, but she kept it down.
Despite her heroics Amber's tribe still lost the challenge, sending them off to the dreaded Tribal Council. Since Kel had been repeatedly testing the trust of his tribe, he got the boot this week in another unanimous vote (with the exception of Kel's vote, of course). So much for his early alliance with Marilyn and Tina!
Did you catch Marilyn's reference to Susan's famous last speech at the final Tribal Council in the first Survivor? She noted that if he was lying in a desert, dying of thirst, every one of them "would give him a drink of water." We were surprised to hear this comment since producer Mark Burnett has stated that they have been making efforts to keep the new cast from referring to the old group.
We'll look forward to the show this coming Thursday -- and we'll hope that nobody adopts the Sean (of Survivor I fame) "Alphabetical Voting Strategy." That wouldn't be good for Amber!
One final note, for what it's worth... while we were watching a tape of the show this weekend, my 2-year-old daughter looked at the TV and said, "TRIBAL COUNCIL!" Could we be watching this a little too much?
Oh, and PS... we're planning to take a better picture of ourselves for this page. We've both been told that we're much better-looking than this particular picture would indicate. Alan has been told that he looks somewhat like a female, and Sean allegedly looks a little disturbed. So we'll definitely have to do something about that soon.
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