Bernnie Federko
TRIBE Member
the episode begins with the tribe returning after Tony turned on his alliance to vote out Jefra. It’s important to know right up front that with two idols, Tony should be guaranteed to make it to the final four now. He can only use them in the next two tribal councils, and two idols for two councils … well, you can do the math. Kass is angry, and as usual is taking things personally. She and Tony start arguing. What I don’t understand is why Trish is so understanding? How many times does her putative ally have to keep her out of the loop for her to decide they’re no longer allies?
The next morning, Tony, Woo and Spencer are up and discussing Tony’s life as a cop (or a construction worker, I can’t keep track of his lies anymore). At one point, Tony makes a totally innocuous comment about Kass not being up and about yet, because she’s normally an early riser. Kass, lying in the shelter with Tasha and Trish hears her name, and starts talking about how Tony just called her a b|tch. And now we get round 2 of the Tony/Kass debates. Kass says she heard what Tony called her, and Tony is rightfully confused. Spencer interviews that he knows that Kass misheard, but he’s more than happy to leave this misunderstanding alone. Tony turns angry and insists that Kass should vote for him. She says she will and that Tony should play his idol. Tony says he will and that if Kass votes for him, she’ll go home. I do not understand why Kass thinks it’s a good idea to pick a fight with the guy you know is safe, and you’re not.
On to the reward challenge, where Kass, Spencer and Woo face off against Trish, Tasha and Tony. They use beanbags to knock down their opponents’ wall of bricks and then switch to reconstruct their own wall. It ends up being Spencer vs Tasha and although Spencer is way behind early, he catches up and wins. They get to handout school supplies to kids, and Woo demonstrates his martial arts. ‘Good with kids’ is so far his only Survivor attribute. At lunch, Kass suggests that the two of them with Tasha split their votes for Tony and Trish to try and flush out the idol. Which is stupid to label it as ‘flushing it out’ when he’d be playing it at the last possible time. Woo is hesitant to commit, but as they’re returning to the tribe, he tells them he’s on board.
Tony and Trish then interrogate Woo who hides the real plan with a ridiculous story that Spencer suggested voting out Tasha. Tony doesn’t believe it and is now concerned about Woo. On to immunity which involves the survivors counting six different amounts of things and using those numbers to open a combination lock. This degenerates to the survivors running back and forth over and over again as they keep getting it wrong. Ultimately, Spencer wins. As a note, Tasha was very close and if she’d won, she’d have tied Kelly (way back from Season 1) with the most number of consecutive immunity idol wins.
Back at camp, Tasha and Kass are talking and Tasha compares Tony to Russell. And apparently that twigs Kass to reconsider her plan, because nobody votes for the jerk. What she singularly fails to realize is that she’s at least as big a jerk as far as the jury is concerned. On to tribal council where Tony talks about his bag of tricks some more. He also says the game is about ‘trust and loyalty’ which for some reason doesn’t lead to the rest of the tribe laughing at him. There’s yammering back and forth between Kass and Tony, and heaven help us all if both of these two make it to the final. That’ll be an exercise in frustration. They vote and Tony doesn’t play his idol, which is just dumb. But it doesn’t matter because Kass and Woo don’t flip and Tasha is out.
Two episodes left and the preview highlights more arguments, this time between Kass and Trish. Great. (Instructions: Please read that last word with a heavy dose of sarcasm).
The next morning, Tony, Woo and Spencer are up and discussing Tony’s life as a cop (or a construction worker, I can’t keep track of his lies anymore). At one point, Tony makes a totally innocuous comment about Kass not being up and about yet, because she’s normally an early riser. Kass, lying in the shelter with Tasha and Trish hears her name, and starts talking about how Tony just called her a b|tch. And now we get round 2 of the Tony/Kass debates. Kass says she heard what Tony called her, and Tony is rightfully confused. Spencer interviews that he knows that Kass misheard, but he’s more than happy to leave this misunderstanding alone. Tony turns angry and insists that Kass should vote for him. She says she will and that Tony should play his idol. Tony says he will and that if Kass votes for him, she’ll go home. I do not understand why Kass thinks it’s a good idea to pick a fight with the guy you know is safe, and you’re not.
On to the reward challenge, where Kass, Spencer and Woo face off against Trish, Tasha and Tony. They use beanbags to knock down their opponents’ wall of bricks and then switch to reconstruct their own wall. It ends up being Spencer vs Tasha and although Spencer is way behind early, he catches up and wins. They get to handout school supplies to kids, and Woo demonstrates his martial arts. ‘Good with kids’ is so far his only Survivor attribute. At lunch, Kass suggests that the two of them with Tasha split their votes for Tony and Trish to try and flush out the idol. Which is stupid to label it as ‘flushing it out’ when he’d be playing it at the last possible time. Woo is hesitant to commit, but as they’re returning to the tribe, he tells them he’s on board.
Tony and Trish then interrogate Woo who hides the real plan with a ridiculous story that Spencer suggested voting out Tasha. Tony doesn’t believe it and is now concerned about Woo. On to immunity which involves the survivors counting six different amounts of things and using those numbers to open a combination lock. This degenerates to the survivors running back and forth over and over again as they keep getting it wrong. Ultimately, Spencer wins. As a note, Tasha was very close and if she’d won, she’d have tied Kelly (way back from Season 1) with the most number of consecutive immunity idol wins.
Back at camp, Tasha and Kass are talking and Tasha compares Tony to Russell. And apparently that twigs Kass to reconsider her plan, because nobody votes for the jerk. What she singularly fails to realize is that she’s at least as big a jerk as far as the jury is concerned. On to tribal council where Tony talks about his bag of tricks some more. He also says the game is about ‘trust and loyalty’ which for some reason doesn’t lead to the rest of the tribe laughing at him. There’s yammering back and forth between Kass and Tony, and heaven help us all if both of these two make it to the final. That’ll be an exercise in frustration. They vote and Tony doesn’t play his idol, which is just dumb. But it doesn’t matter because Kass and Woo don’t flip and Tasha is out.
Two episodes left and the preview highlights more arguments, this time between Kass and Trish. Great. (Instructions: Please read that last word with a heavy dose of sarcasm).
in the end.