Category — Survivor Heroes Vs Villains

Well what would the kiddies have learnt from this undeniably fantastic season of Survivor, that to be a baddie will get you further in the game, with the final three all being from the villains tribe.

However as Rupert said the lines were blurred between the two groups.

I wasn’t unhappy with a Sandra win, and I think they edited the show to make sure we were satisfied with the result. She showed that she tried to make strategic moves to get rid of Russell a lot of times, but no one came to the party. She said everytime people were running off telling him. Something we saw Candice do.

She also said to Rupert they could get Russell off just the two of them but not let Colby in on the plan, because she had been done over so many times. Her plan was to give Rupert the immunity necklace she had found.

I think if that move had panned out she would not be sitting there with a million dollars.

Russell was always going to be taken to the final three as who wouldn’t want him sitting there with him. His social play is far too poor and it is an important part of the game. Also his strategic play is a mixture of intimidation and lies, something that does not really garner much admiration.

However to be fair to him, he did play back to back Survivors and when he was on Heroes V Villains he did not know whether he had won or not as the Samoa live finale had not occurred. He may have thought he had been put on the subsequent season because he had won. Therefore why he looked so disappointed when he lost that time.

In Jeff Probst blog on the  final episode he said if he had been on the jury he would have voted for Parvati. She had a strong case to win,her tribe had wanted to vote her off week one, she gave away two immunity idols, and she is a strong physical player. But she had aligned with Russell which made her halo slip somewhat. I don’t know why Russell thought by telling her he was taking her to final three and then blindsiding her was going to make her vote for him.

But at least Jerri did not win, as I thought she did not play any strategy at all, and really did ride Russell’s coat tails. And Colby was pretty mediocre, and I am not sure whether Sandra’s theory that he was doing badly on challenges as a strategy was true. He just never looked like he was mentally or physically in it.

JT won the dumbest move in Survivor history for when he gave Russell the idol, and surprisingly Russell won fan favourite. Which for some reason gave him some validation that he was the person that should have won the season. In fact Russell came across as a complete egomaniac at the reunion show, and did not look like there would be many people wanting to stay in contact with him.

The other person in the running for the $100,000 was Rupert, and I was glad he did not win. He seems to start believing the hero crap and what a great guy he is. His game playing was not fab except for putting the rock in his pocket to pretend he had the idol.

Survivor is the third highest rating show on TV here with over 10 million viewers, so there will be another season and it will be in Nicaragua, which will be hard to live up to this season.

Tonight on Survivor it looked like Russell Hanz was in the middle of a physical, emotional, and spiritual breakdown, will he be able to overcome his paranoia and survive?

For someone who thinks he is the greatest player of Survivor ever, tonight he proved he will never win as his social game is just so poor, and that is an important element of the game.

But first I don’t think I will ever be able to watch another series of Survivor again, as I cannot see how they can top this series.

Each of the eliminations were just so left field.

Firstly Rupert whose position was exceedingly perilous at the start of the episode became even worse when he had a fight with Russell about his integrity which meant he was going to be eliminated at the next tribal council if he did not win the immunity challenge.

And he did not as Parvati won it in the balancing on a block whilst your hand is in the air tied to a large bucket full of paint. Think the green gunge at the Nickolodean awards and multiply the colours. Apparently when Parvati had previously done the challenge she last six hours. Something which made her go up in my estimation. But this time she did not have to last that long, as Jeff Probst was using food temptations to get people to step down.

I found it interesting that Sandra was so secure with her position that she stepped down in less then a minute for biscuits and milk. Russell also stood down.

In the end it was Rupert desperately trying to hang on but he slipped and Parvati won.

The Jeff revealed there was another immunity idol back around the camp. I must say I am starting to get over the immunity idols, however this one could prove to be very interesting, maybe because Russell did not actually play it.

Sandra found it and points to her for not standing around trying to read the note with it, and just shoving it into her pocket, and not telling anyone.

Then Rupert for once decided to play some games and pretend to have the idol by putting a rock in his shorts. It was pure gold when Russell starting to begin his freaking out stage said to Sandra that he was sure Rupert had the idol.

I am really starting to like Sandra. She is assertive to Russell and her other tribemates. On the alert to make a move, but sensible enough to pull her head in once she worked out her plans were not going to work out. Also managing to survive without any firm alliances.

Once the rumour went around that Rupert had the idol, the girls decided they wanted Candice out, because if she flipped on her tribe last week it meant she could not be trusted not to turn again. So it was decided that half were going to vote for Rupert and half for Candice. At tribal council with Rupert and Colby also casting votes for Candice meant she was eliminated. That was gold. I never could understand why she flipped on the heroes when Sandra was about to turn.

Anyway Karma is a bitch.

Then the second elimination for the night just when you thought Rupert was going to go again, Russell started flipping out about the closeness of Danielle and Parvati. I don’t think he likes it when he feels that the girls were actually more in control of the game then he is.

So he decides he needs to split them now, but he does not realise that this pair are not as stupid and Jaison and Dr Mike from the Samoa series.

He tells Danielle that Parvati wants her out, he then tells Parvati that Danielle wants her out. Then Parvati tells Russell she will be discussing this with Danielle, and that’s when he starts flipping out. “No you cannot do that” he screeches.

Of course Danielle and Parvati work out what Russell is up to and tries to stop the people from voting her out. As Rupert and Colby will vote for anyone but themselves. Russell had the immunity idol so he could not be voted out now that he had basically threw a grenade through the villain’s alliance.

Jerri who swore to Danielle she would not vote for her, turned her vote at tribal council and sealed Danielle’s fate and she was gone. Rupert and this stage could not believe his luck, and the previews from the next episode shows that he may make a deal with the devil – Russell to continue to advance in the game. However the issue is that Russell could be safe as I know who I would want to take with me into the final three, as he would get no jury votes!

By the way in the US on the official website you get to see what occurs at “Ponderosa” the place the jury members stay once they have been eliminated. Needless to say no one spoke to Candice when she arrived.

Here is Jeff Probst’s blog on the episode, and it is a very interesting read.

Also here is an exit interview with Candice, and here is an exit interview with Danielle. The issue of Parvati knowing something about Russell prior to the series is also raised, and they plead the fifth.

I have to be honest I thought this episode was going to be a cracker but it wasn’t, OK we got to see Russell’s paranoia in full swing, but there was little suspense and enough of the immunity idols there used to only be one, now it appears there is alway one in play.

Some of the highlights of the episode were:

• Russell’s petulance over Parvati’s giving away the Idol was entertaining he was like a lover scorn, however I could understand him being pissed as he had given her an Idol previously which had saved her.
• Danielle and Amanda wrestling over the immunity idol, Colby must have thought the girls were trying to tittilate him while he lay there and watched;
• I thought Colby was piss weak by not supporting Amanda, the immunity idol was on the floor, as far as I was concerned it is anyones.
• I loved the way Danielle embellished about how she had to “wrestle Amanda” to get the clue back off her.
• Everyone following each other around so they could work out who was voting with whom.
• Candice (well she was actually a low light) with her swinging to the villains alliance, I am not sure why she thinks Russell would take her to the top three.
• Sandra trying to make a move, but when she realises it is not going to pan out pulls her head in and sticks with her alliance.
• Also Sandra not giving a damn that Parvati gave her an Idol the other week and was still prepared to vote her out.
• Colby finally manning up and winning a challenge.
• Former alliance partners in all stars Parvati and Amanda being up for the vote on the same night.

Amanda lost and was eliminated, but did not seem to mind.

“There has been a reason why I have been doing Rupert’s strategic play thus far, as he needs to be told how to vote by someone he really trusts and let that be done,” boasts JT after Rupert was telling his fellow hero tribemates about what Sandra had told him about Russell, and how in fact it was him was leading the villains tribe and not an all girl alliance.

Personally I don’t think the two words strategy and JT really go together, he was concocting all this crap about how Russell and Parvati both played the immunity idols and then that is why Courtney went home. I also don’t get why JT so firmly believed Russell was on their side. Maybe because he was in complete denial about how dumb it was to give Russell (someone not even in your own camp) your immunity idol.

I agree with Rupert anyone that swears on their kids lives is a douche and should not be trusted.

Oh by the way if you did not watch the episode the merging of the tribes occurred tonight, so it is seriously game on.

Also how dumb is Amanda? Pavarti told Amanda she had an immunity idol, and she doesn’t twig that would mean that Parvati had not actually played the Idol at the previous tribal council as they had been told.

And I agree with Parvati, Amanda was obviously lying to her.

I would liked to have known why Russell wanted to vote JT out, was because he thought once he realised he had been taken for a fool he would become a target.

Tribal Council was a cracker. Parvati played to immunity idols, one Russell gave her and the one she found. Jerri will be forever grateful to her I am sure. Sandra probably won’t be as she is really starting to play the game and I am really starting to admire her strategy.

Next week it appears she makes a big move it will be interesting to see if it pays off.

Russell looked put out when Parvati played the idols and dolled them out to Sandra and Jerri, hopefully off camera to him she said “I am nobody’s bitch” just to let him no she was not “riding on his coattails”.

It was a gutsy move by Parvati.

Anyway JT was voted out as Jerri was now safe. So he was eliminated because of his own stupidity I had no sympathy whatsoever.

I cannot wait to see next week’s episode. Will Russell and his ego turn on Parvati? Will Amanda and Parvati have a scrag fight? Will Rupert be saying I told you so? And who will Sandra be aligning with?

Here is an exit interview with JT from UGO.

Infamous Survivor villain Russell Hantz has been arrested for Battery according to gossip website TMZ.

And no he was not having a rumble with Boston Rob to find out who really is the alpha male.

TMZ said:
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ Russell Hantz - the runner-up from “Survivor Samoa”– was partying at the Festival International de Louisiane, when he allegedly “shoved” somebody to the pavement.

Cops say Hantz was immediately arrested by Lafayette City Police — and taken to a nearby jail.

Hantz was eventually released.

He is currently one of the contestants on  Survivor – Heroes V Villains which is shown on Channel 9 on Tuesday nights.

Does Russell have some jedi mind tricks to ensure the people he is playing Survivor with turn into dumbfucks. In Samoa the supposed brains of the contestants followed him like they were members of some Russell Haines cult.

And here on Survivor Heroes V Villains it appears the same thing is happening, but now it is with people that are currently not on the same tribe as him.

JT had decided that Russell was about to become the next victim of the all girl alliance and secreted his Idol over to him in the hope that he would use it to vote Parvati out and once the merge happened align with them. Now JT obviously cannot work out that you don’t get on the villains team if you have a high moral code. Except if you are Coach and you delude yourself about your moral integrity.

Highlight of the episode was Russell with the Idol in his hand sniggering saying “I don’t even have to look for the Idol’s anymore they are now handed to me”. Another great line was when Parvati was told about JT’s move she asked “How did he win the game?”.

It was interesting that Parvati did not tell Russell about her finding the Idol, and let Danielle in on the secret. I liked her logic, she wanted to ensure Danielle’s loyalty. But if Russell finds out he will not be happy.

Needless to say Russell was not going to use the Idol, and they ended up voting Courtney out. Not a big loss to the game either in physical dexterity or personality.

Next week the merge, and things should get interesting then. I am curious to know what Jerri is going to do. Will she flip or remain loyal to the Russell alliance? I don’t need to ask that same question about Sandra, she will be finding a new alliance and fast.

“I did not want Boston Rob out,” whined Coach at the beginning of the episode. Huh his random vote for Courtney helped cut his throat. Clearly he is suffering some sort of starvation amnesia.

And then Jerri chimed in by saying she had not wanted to vote him out either. She seems to be implying that it was not her fault that Rob was eliminated. Well why did you vote for him – she had the swinging vote. Well it did not take long for karma (yes Coach I know spiritual words too) to come and bite them on the arse.

The look on Jerri’s face was priceless when she realised Coach’s fire was being snuffed out at tribal council.

Oh yes and I would give my left arm to have seen Boston Rob’s face when Coach schleped into base camp with his tail firmly between his legs.

Ok lets have a quick overview of the episode to see if it gives us any clues as to why some people voted the way they did.

The reward challenge was a tiki bowling  with the prize being a pizza feast. The villains sat out their two weakest players Sandra and Courtney, something I thought was a bit foolhardy considering the lack of physicality of the challenge. Courtney should be able to pick up a coconut,  but Coach wanted to win, but at one stage it did not even look like he was going to get a roll.

The Villains inevitably lost the challenge, and missed out on carb loading.

Jerri has a whinge about it the strategy ONCE she is back at the camp.

Sandra was quick to fire up and say “So it is my and Courtney’s fault that we lost the challenge?”

I found it amusing the heroes thought it was a female alliance in the villain’s tribe. Russell’s nose was put out of joint by that remark by Rupert, which will probably put a target on Rupert’s back once the merge occurs.

Speaking of targets Sandra who was in danger of being voted out managed to put one on Coach’s back by working on Russell’s paranoia. She told him Coach wanted him gone, and he believed her.

The immunity challenge was another icky mud challenge, and I am sure the male viewers were loving the images of Candice and Amanda rolling around in the mud.

And yes Courtney and Sandra were duds in the challenge, with Courtney also injuring her ankle. Though I think she may have pretended to just so she had an excuse for being completely crap. And the Villain’s unsurprisingly lost. They did not strategise well and they should have made two strong teams and one weak team of Courtney and Sandra seemed like a no brainer. Russell would have loved being chained to Parvati.

Then this is where it all becomes confusing. Sandra swings Russell to vote for Coach.

Danielle thinks this is a bad idea and will further weaken the tribe and wants Courtney gone, Russell had a minor brain explosion and tells her to pull her head in.

Next is my favourite shot of the episode where Russell is standing at camp with the axe in front of him as Danielle is talking to camera how he was flipping out. Give those editors a pay rise now.

Then he comes back to Parvati and Danielle and tells her she is right and that they should vote Courtney out.

Then Coach is voted out with four votes, and these were Sandra, Courtney, Parvati, and Danielle. Russell had voted for Courtney. If someone can explain that please tell me.

I don’t know whether Russell voted for Courtney so people in the Heroe’s tribe would continue to think it is an all girl alliance, however they don’t find out how they voted. So that does not make sense. And why was Danielle now voting for Coach.

But Russell didn’t look too upset about the outcome. Problem for Russell is that Coach is the first person on the jury and chances of him voting for him are zero.

The only interesting thing that occurred on the Heroe’s tribe was JT finding the immunity idol and being busted by Amanda and Candice. And it looks like in next weeks episode he is about to make a dumbarse move and give it to Russell, because he believes he is in danger of being voted out.

Here are some exit interviews with Coach where he defends his fuckwittery the week Rob was voted out.

The first one is from E Online and here is another from Reality Wanted, and Inside AOL TV. As Sourkraut pointed out be careful reading comments as there are some rumours floating around about the final three.

What is it with the guys in the villain’s team, they are bunch of dumb fucks. Last week Tyson, and this week, The Coach. Both times they voted in a totally random way which resulted in the wrong person going home. Ironically for Tyson he voted himself home, unfortunately this was not the out come for Coach.

I blame Coach for the fuckery that went on tonight. He who prides himself on loyalty, runs off to Russell to tell him that Boston Rob is gunning for him. Clearly he did not get the memo that you cannot be in two alliances at once and consider yourself loyal.He obviously has a very different definition of loyalty then I do.

Oh and can someone destroy his Art of War book, with the crap that was spewing out of his mouth at tribal council it was clear that this is his favourite bed time reading.

At one stage in the episode he showed some insight by  saying “With all the gullible people here Russell is empowered” . Not realising that he also was one of the gullible people.

Now can we talk about “I’m not a good villain,” Jerri. Of course not sweetheart you are too stupid. She believes that Russell is going to take her to the top three. Why would he do that? Of course you would take someone like Parvati who has won $1 million before someone like Jerri. Jerri has decided to make an alliance with Parvati – someone she despises. This will end in tears, probably Jerri’s.

“I don’t want Boston Rob to go home.” said Coach, but then ensured his noble vote for Courtney sealed Rob’s fate. And he thought he was going to get a hug from Rob? He got a scathing “Your a little man” and he is.

Other highlights of the episode were:

• Rupert looking like he was going to clock Russell after the reward challenge was over after they had had a particularly torrid tussle in the water;
• Courtney first time ever looking athletic in the immunity challenge on her first run through the obstacle course, but that thought was shortlived when she stuffed up the second run through;
• Russell saying it was a pitiful performance by the tribe in the immunity challenge, when I don’t think Russell has ever been a strong athletic performer in any challenges in the two seasons he has been on (I did laugh though); and
• Boston Rob being gobsmacked when Russell told Sandra and Courtney to their faces that he wanted to vote for one of them out.

I suppose it was inevitable that Rob and Russell have a showdown, it is just a pity it happened so soon in the series, as they are both charismatic and clever players of the game.

Anyway  this what Jeff Probst had to say about the episode here on EW.

And here is what Boston Rob had to say in an elimination interview.

Or maybe I should rename the post the guys who THINK they are the Alpha males.

 The episode opened with the capital A Alpha’s Boston Rob and Russell trying to mind fuck each other. Russell was doing a fake conciliatory chat  to “show” there was no hard feelings, and Rob was trying to ramp up Russell’s paranoia, by telling him people were pissed off that he went searching for the immunity idol and his head was on the chopping block.

Boston Rob also spoke to camera saying that “Russell is not playing with amateurs now”.

Over in the heroes tribe it was James V Colby, with injured James vulnerable, against Colby who has lost his Survivor mojo.

It was a combined immunity and reward challenge, with the bad news being both tribes will be going to tribal council, which meant individual immunity was up for grabs in both team. The good news the winning team got to eat hotdogs and watch the other teams tribal council.

Each tribe’s competitors had to compete amongst themselves for immunity then the winner of each team competed to see who would win the reward challenge.

For the heroes the injured James was leading at one point, however Candice ended up winning  individual immunity.

It was Tyson, Russell and Boston Rob battling it out in their challenge with Rob showing who was the Alpha male in this situation. He then beat Candice to win hotdogs for his team.

And then the scheming was on. The villains wanted to force the idol out of Russell.

Coach was his usual flip flopping self. I don’t know why he thinks he is such a ethical person, he has had his foot in both alliances.

Rob was a bit obvious with Russell about the idol and the blind side. And obviously  someone must have tipped them off that Parvati was on the chopping block as he decided to give the idol to Parvati, and vote Tyson out.

However Rob had done the maths and said write down three and three.

However Russell told Tyson he was cutting strings with Parvati and was voting for her and looking after himself. And Tyson bought it.

I thought it was interesting Parvati was saying Tyson is funny and charming – which is interesting as we have barely seen any of him on the show. In fact I find him to be a little dull.

 After the vote Russell took out the Idol and gave it to Parvati. Tyson at that point realised he had been fucked over by Russell, but funnily enough it was Tyson did it all to himself by switching his vote from Russell to Parvati. Karma baby karma.

As Tyson said “Oh man, I have nobody to blame but myself,” and  ”I was the victim of my own stupidity.”

Rob looked confused when he realised four people had voted for Parvati when there was only meant to be three.

Anyway Coach did vote for Parvati which meant Rob was the last person he spoke to  before they got to tribal council.

I think to be fair it was Russell -0ne, and Boston Rob -Zero in this week’s contest, but hopefully that will be rectified soon.

The villains then got to watch the heroes tribal council whilst eating hot dogs, and just to rub it in it was raining and the tribe was getting soaked. Sometime it is tough being a hero and they must be wanting to merge soon.

On the other team Colby  was being magnanimous about being voted out. But there was a bit of groundswell to get rid of James because of his leg injury, and his lack of banana etiquette. Also Colby’s heart had appeared to have gone out of the game.

It looked like James had convinced everyone he was good to keep in, but in the end it was unanimous and he was voted out, and looking at the voting footage, by James body language it appeared he knew he was about to be eliminated.

Here  is an hilarious exit interview with Tyson where he reveals why and when he decided to switch his vote.

And here is an interview with James.

Coach needs to throw away all his self-help books, so he will stop spewing new age verbiage from his mouth. Having said that I am enjoying watching him and still cannot decide whether I like him or not. If I was on that island with him  he would probably irritate the hell out of me.

He was having a slight nervous breakdown after last week’s tribal council, where Sandra accused him of not doing enough around camp. But a debrief with Tyson who told him to tone down the weirdness and a back slap from Boston Rob did the trick, and he was back to giving himself some self love. No not like that there are camera’s around.

Speaking of villain’s  is Courtney anorexic? She is just so bony. Also she is doing a very good job of flying under the radar again. I am not a fan of hers.

The reward challenge was a mix of baby oil, slip and slide, and basketball. James looked like robocop all oiled up.

The villains won the baby oil challenge, and took home the rewards, or equipment to make life easier on the island courtesy of Sears.

It was hilarious when Russell nearly hyperventilated when he realised he had dropped an immunity idol clue in front of the whole tribe. The villain’s tribe made an agreement that anyone who went looking for it would be the first one voted out.

Of course an immunity idol to Russell is like smack to a junkie he could not resist. He said he was going for a walk, however he did not fool Rob, who sent Sandra out on a recce who busted him.

With the heroes tribe it was a different matter they all went looking for it, and Tom found it. He was not subtle enough and Amanda saw him put it in his sock.

When they lost the immunity challenge it was either Colby or Tom to go. Tom thought he had created a new alliance when he suggested Candice should go.

Cirie quickly slapped her alliance around to ensure the targets were still firmly on Colby and Tom’s backs.

Tom and Colby then stitched up a plan to play the idol and vote Cirie off all hinging on JT’s vote, and it worked. It was the show’s first blindside and Cirie was voted out.

Meanwhile Coach was forming a cult over on the villains tribe, indoctrinating his team mate with his dragonslayer chi.

Whilst this was going on Russell was looking for the immunity challenge, and he found it. “Here we go again” he crowed.

The reward challenge was interesting. James was dominating in collecting the “balls” until he did his knee in.

In fact I thought the heroes were the villains  in this challenge with JT upending Coach nearly landing him on his head, and Rupert ramming Jerri’s head into the wood. I really don’t like these wrestling challenges as they are so unsafe.

The reward was a chocolate feast, I don’t think the male members of the team were as excited by it as the girls were.

Russell told Parvati about finding the immunity idols, who was pretty excited about it. He told her he would let her ride on his coat tails, she promptly said “I don’t ride anyone’s coat tails.” They then decided to rope Coach into their alliance, who is a such a douche. He was so honoured that they are trusting him to be loyal he played Sir Lancelot to Russell’s King Arthur, and bent down before him much to Russell’s enjoyment.

Another immunity challenge, another Heroe’s lead blown when they get into the puzzle part of the challenge. So it was off to tribal council again.

James was gunning for Tom, and Tom was going for James. TJ and Candice looked like they were going to back Tom, but chickened out in the end and voted Tom off.

I think the heroes have made a big blunder, because if James knee does not improve he will be a liability in the challenges.

Next week it looks like the inevitable Rob and Russell showdown is going to occur. As Rob said ” “Russell, he’s like a Hobbit on crack. Somebody like that, the thing to do is get rid of ‘em right away.” However, Russell has the immunity idol which does give him the advantage in this tussle.

Here is an exit interview from Cirie from Inside TV and Social Entertainment

Also here are exit interview with Tom from Inside TV and Social Entertainment