Survivor Cagayan - Episode 1 Discussion Thread - No Spoilers please on future episodes
Greetings fans of Survivor. Welcome back to another back-stabbing filled season of Survivor. In case there are any newbies seeign this, I try to do a discussion thread every Thursday. If anyone else beats me to it, or wants to do one, feel free. I like to get these together to talk about what happend. I do a little recap and throw in my thoughts and what I loved most about the episode.
The rules are easy, discussion threads are limited to only opinions about the castaways, the episode that aired or the clips about next week's show that aired after the episode. No spoilers that CBS has not already aired. If you know who wins or who goes out next, good for you, but many of us have no desire to know this, so please don't spoil it.
I enjoyed blood v. water, but am glad there are no returning players this season. While we have one sports celeb, so far ti does not bother me. best of all NO REDEMPTION ISLAND!!!
What we learned this week is that the Brawny tribe is really realy brawny, but has some smart people too. The beauty tribe has some cute boys and girls, but so far not any real good players, and the brain tribe has some of the dumbest players ever.
So, we get three tribes, all arriving as little groups. The brawny tribe trucks in, beauty arrives by boat and the nerds fly in. Probst tells each to pick a leader and then for that leader to pick the weakest member of the tribe. The beauties choose LJ as leader, the brawn go with a girl named Sarah who seems strong and smart while the nerds pick the oldest male, David, because he's wearing a blazer.
LJ picks Morgan, who is most likely to fall out of her bikini top this year. Trish is picked by Sarah, who was just standing up for her a moment ago. David gets the blessing of goign last, but makes a HUGE mistake right off the bat. He chooses Garrett, which might have been the best move, but then he actually tells the truth as to why. Garrett is by far the strongest ont heir tribe. David migh tbe right in trying to get him out first, but I would have covered it by saying, look, whatever he has to do against these two girls, he is smarter, faster and stronger than them. He is goign to win and return to us and this makes the tribe the strongest because it is the least likely way we will lose someone. Sadly, he showed he is not all that smart.
Of course the surprise is, those three get to go to camp early and get to make a choice about the game. What no one else knows is that the choice is, a second bag of rice or a clue for the idol. Garrett is already feeling bitter about picked, he wants a clue to the hidden immunity idol. He goes to the waterfall and finds it before the others even get to camp. Great move for him, he is sure to be a great player on this tribe. Well, maybe not.
When the brains arive, they start to work on their shelter. J'Tia the nuclear engineer and the self-proclaimed "smartest person" on the tribe is clearly not a shelter builder. It sucks. She has the ides, but it will never work. Not only was it a bad idea, but she is great at telling others what to do, but not great at workign herself. She is quickly hated.
Over on brawn, Cliff Robinson tells everyone his secret, that he is an NBA player. He forms a good bond with Woo, a martial arts teacher. Best play on fame ever. He did nto hide it, and everyone just took it in and moved on. Instead, the crazy lie comes from Tony who lies to fellow cop Sarah that he is not a cop. She recognizes that he's a cop, but he tells her he is a construction worker. Odd choice. Tony might be fun to watch, because batshit crazy is always fun.
On the hotties tribe, Morgan was picked because she loioks slutty, while the other two girls look cute. Wow, odd choice LJ. He never considered a male, which tells you where he will be putting his trust. Morgan who is not only hot, but also smart, takes the idol clue, but doesn't find it. Still, she tells them she decided to take rice and tools over comfort items for the good of the tribe. then the hotties start a fire without flint. Love when that happens. I am pulling for the hotties now, that Morgan looks great in her undies has nothing to do with it.
Double eviction tongiht, with two ICs. The first immunity challenge is CRAZY. They take a cart through an obstacle course to get keys to unlock three chests and take the chests full of puzzle pieces with them on the way, then take the cart apart, get it and the chests through a barrier. Once everything's through re-assemble the carts and get it and the chests to the end then solve a puzzle.
Cliff and his height give brawn a big advantage. The nerds suck. They are all acting without thinking of th eteam. Beauty does a great job and moves to the end with the jocks. The hotties even do the puzzle faster and win first. Brawn gets second, so its Brains to Tribal.
Garrett organizes a group to out David. Kass says the better one to oust first is J'Tia. Then Kass messes it all up. She tells J'Tia. Who does this. J'tia gets in a group with Garrett and Tasha, and now have three to oust David. Spencer is the needed 4th vote. He has no love for david though. At ribal, its clear its J'Tia in the crosshairs. But its not, David goes 4-2. Kass is on the outside. Bad move Kass. But now she is on th epower position since the girls want her on their side to vote out a boy and the boys want her with them to keep the tribe physically stronger.
There is some fighting at camp jock when Trish tells the AWESOME dread-locked Lindsey she is lazy. Sarah steps in and seems to settle it for now. I like Sarah. Then crazy tony tells us he is building a "spy shack" where he can listen to plans. He is a bit nuts.
At beauty is really all about Morgan's underwear and its fight to contain her boobs. That thign does not stand a chance. It really is all CBS plans to show us on that tribe, so I guess nothing else went on there.
For the second IC its a water event. The tribes have to swim to a bamboo cage, climb up and over the outside of the cage into the center of it. Then they have to dive down and untie knots to release a gate and move giant fish traps out of the cage and back to the beach. then its a puzzle. The prize, fishing gear and immunity.
J'Tia is a slow swimmer, so the Brains can't start till she gets to the cage. Does anyone help her, no of course not. Would have been better to have David there. I remember Tyson helping Gervase in the water last season. Good players see the big picture.
At first, it seems the nerds have this. They get the traps back to the beach without any help from J'Tia, but she is the puzzle master. The jocks get there second, but the nerds had a big lead. The hotties a terrible and can't move teh traps still out in the water.
Right away, its clear J'Tia is a bad choice. Despite the huge lead, she gets only one piece in first. Sarah is doing the puzzle for the jocks and rocks it. Hotties eventually get to the beach and J'Tia still has only one piece! What the F??!
Long story shirt, Sarah dominates. the hotties catch up and get second and J'Tia blows the whole lead and loses. She HAS to go, right?
Well, back at camp Garrett tries to play Rob and control the strategy talk. He wants an "open forum" and no side conversations. He says to vote J'Tia because she done messed up the challenge. What an idiot. Did he not see what happened with David. Tellign someone they are going is crazy. Tasha isn't happy either. So Tasha and Kass go off to talk. Garrett and Spencer come along and Garrett wants to preclude strategy talk. But leaving the girl you just told is going home was not smart. J'Tia goes nuts and dumps all of the tribe's rice in the fire.
At Tribal J'Tia admits to throwing the rice in the fire saying it was not her best moment. Tasha calls out Garrett and the "open forum." Kass aslo blames Garrett. Garrett then confirms that Kass is at the bottom of the alliance. Bad move. He is so dumb. So Garrett is blondsided and goes home, with the hidden idol back at camp. so, they kept the bad swimming, bad puzzle solving weak girl who sucks and camp and is crazy/ Good move nerds.
As a proud member of the nerd fraternity, I object to these people being nerds.
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Excellent summary as usual. The cop is dealing with some issues (imagine that - 'roids/shortman/small-something else 
and it will be fun to watch him implode. Kinda sad to see David leave, I think he could have gone far except for the amazing blindside, but the BEST blindside was Garrett. For a professional poker player he looked like a real dumbass....can you imagine not even taking the idol with you to TC just in case?
The Brains are in trouble with any future physical challenges, the Beauty's seems to be gelling much better, and the Brawn's will eventually rip each other apart...
And the best part? NO REDEMPTION ISLAND!!! When you're gone, you're GONE!!!
Looking forward to the rest of the season now...could be epic!
