The immunity challenge was cool, too — a nice mix of brains (the puzzle), brawn (bashing through the walls), and drunk former models. When Zhan Hu lost, Dave revealed what is usually a fatal flaw, apologizing to the tribe for a bad performance. But really, what else could he do? Especially after he had acted like such a pompous jerk for six days. But here’s the deal — pompous jerks are fun to watch on Survivor. (Remember Richard Hatch? Boston Rob?)
Meanwhile, over at Fei Long, we got to see lots of dudes in underwear. My episode 1 pick, Todd, still seems like a pretty solid choice to me — making early alliances yet staying somewhat out of the spotlight. He also stumbled upon some insane luck when Leslie got the hidden-immunity-idol clue from the kidnapped Jaime and shared it for no particular reason other than her being an idiot. Letting people know you have the hidden immunity idol is bad enough. Giving other people the clue as to where it might be is downright ridiculous. I blame this all on Fiji, mostly because at this point I like to blame anything Survivor-related that is bad on that horrible season, but also because those knuckleheads kept telling each other about there being an idol hidden at camp, which they then found and used together to even more idiotic affect.
I also don’t know what’s going on with Jean-Robert. He’s using some sort of poker technique, which I gather is to make everyone hate you as much as possible so that when you don’t act like such a jerk, they’ll think you’re even more swell than you actually are. Interesting strategy, but I don’t know how well it works if you’ve already had your ass voted off before you even have a chance to show everyone the other side. But as long as his tribe keeps winning challenges, I suppose that’s not really an issue.
One quick note before I turn this over to you guys and your posts with the mosts: A lot of you wrote in last week bummed about the end of Survivor Live. Thanks for that, and rest assured I’m bummed as well. Because you know — you just know — I would’ve challenged Ashley to an on-set wrestling match. True, there’s the overwhelming possibility that she would suffocate me with her massive floatation devices, but still, I like my chances in that battle.
Okay, your turn: Is Todd the player to beat on Fei Long? Is Jean-Robert living dangerously? And what was up with that dead floating frog? Post on…uh, posters.
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