Janu is a cry baby and has been for a while. She’s been laying in the hammock while everyone else is living life. She starts this one out by complaining to everyone. No one likes her, just like no one liked Coby, because they had attitudes. You can’t piss off the entire tribe and expect to be on the tribe for long.
The first reward challenge divided up the tribe randomly, into 4 person teams. The producers had a challenge left over from when there were still two teams. They each had to drag peices of scaffolding out into the water to build a tower, climb up it and grab a flag, then race back to the beach. Janu, Caryn, Gregg, and Tom were the team that won. They were taken off to a Puluan celebration and feast. (Wait? Tom was on the winning team? I’m shocked!)
While they were eatting, Janu got sick and went outside to throw up. Always good TV. This girl has no meat on her bones, so she is probably used to eatting and throwing up… They took a bunch of food back to everyone else where Janu and Caryn both proceed to eat a little bit more! “Here’s a gift that you desperately want, but wait, I’m taking a little bit back for myself”. How gracious. Things are not looking good for Janu at this point.
The immunity challenge was to go under this frame set up in the water with a grate across the top. The water was deep enough that they had to hang on with their hands to keep their heads above water. They could duck down and swim out from under it at any time. The tide was coming in and the water was getting higher. First person to bail had to stay the night on an island by themselves. Last one to bail got immunity.
Janu, with all of her body fat to keep her warm, started to shiver after 6 minutes and bailed. She wanted to be by herself for the night anyway. She was fed up with the tribe. The tide came in and after almost an hour, it was down to Ian and Tom. Tom, used his hands to make a little funnel shape so he could breath, while Ian bailed out. Tom wins immunity! Again! after wining the first challenge! And every other one he’s ever been in! Series gets predictable!
After the challenge, Janu is boated off to her island, which was really small. It was her all alone, by herself, oh, except for that camera man again. It must have been a drag to be that guy. Couldn’t help her make fire, but had to stay there with her. Could you imagine if they really left her alone, then went back to get her in the morning and she was gone! That’d be good TV.
She makes fire after two and a half hours and does a little dance. She’s SOOooo happy to be away from those backstabbing phoneys who are all against her. This is the first time she’s really happy. When she goes back to the tribe, they are all amazed at how happy she is, whcih insults them all the more.
At this point, you know they are going to vote off Janu, but talk around the camp is that they will vote off Steph, the “Strongest woman”. Everyone is talking and agreeing that it will definately be Steph, purely on strategic grounds. This makes total sense, to vote off the strong first. Steph is talking to people too, but no one lies to her very well and she totally picks up on the fact that it’s going to be her. Ah, well. We’re stuck with crybaby Janu for another week.
Or are we? Tribal Council seemed to go on and on this week. Janu breaks down and says she wants to be voted off, she hates it here and she doesn’t care any more. Steph breaks down because she really wants it bad, but she’s getting voted off because she’s “strong” and a threat. Crying women is, again, good TV. So, everyone talks about it and talks about it some more. It gets down to “Janu, if you don’t want to be here, then don’t be.” Steph cries some more. We’re all in suspense. Waiting. More talking. Going to bathroom and getting something to drink. Coming back to see Janu pick up her torch and quitting the game on her own. There is no vote. Steph is safe for another week.
This is all very dramatic, but it blows the boys plans. Steph is still here. The threat remains. It also pissed off Steph, so in previews of next weeks show, you see her say “You want to think I’m a threat? I’ll show you how threatening I am”. She’s trying to get the women to gang up on Tom.
We’ll see if she can pull it off. She’s done some stupid things in the past and this would be a good move, if she can pull the women together. I hate most of them though, except for Steph. Everyone, no matter what side they are on, would be stupid to not vote off Tom if he ever loses an immunity challenge. As soon as he loses, everyone should gang up on him and beat him senseless. I still think Ian will win. He’s under the radar, a nice guy, pretty good at challenges. He’s still my bet. If Steph can get her gang together, she’ll be a threat to win it all too, though.
What do you think? Who will go next? Will Steph get an alliance together against the men? Will Tom EVER lose a challenge?
