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Survivor: Exile Island: Perilous Scramble
(S12E12) This season has caused me to
reevaluate what I think of as successful Survivor strategy. Terry, who is by all accounts one of the toughest
players ever to play the game, is struggling in this game where none of the usual rules apply. The lunatics are running
the asylum which is ably demonstrated by Shane who plays with a wood Blackberry and busily emails his imaginary friends.
As Danielle says "he's nuts." Or is he? Is Shane's craziness actually a form of strategy? There's something
about him that reminds me of Richard Hatch (not just the nudity). He is good at catching his teammates off guard and
maybe he really is running this whole thing.At the reward challenge, Terry, Danielle and Courtney easily win and ship Aras off to Exile Island. But first the
remaining three play for a GMC Yukon. If Terry were smart, he would throw this challenge and let one of the girls win.
Terry is too competitive to let this happen. It always amazes me during the car challenge that people routinely fight
tooth and nail for the car, rather than using it as leverage to try and get in good with the tribe and possibly be
closer to the big prize. He is savvy enough to know he should bond with the girls and he gets right down to business
offering the girls an alliance. Still his approach is so transparent and he seems to have such little respect for
anyone else around him that he's not exactly Captain Charm. The Big Daddy paternal act that made him leader of the pack
in his old tribe has faded and been replaced by a bullying join-me-because-I'm-winning-all-the-challenges bravado.
Back at camp, Cirie catches Shane a birthday fish. Funny how he acts a lot more sane without Courtney around.
Cirie is hard to figure out. Sometimes she seems to be just coasting along but other times there seems to be some deep
strategy going on here.
I was talking with a friend about this season's challenges and we agreed that they
seem more physically challenging than in other seasons. This week's immunity challenge, which involves holding up your
body weight on ropes, is no exception. Poor Cirie, she has to hold up as much as the men without as much upper body
strength. She isn't the first to go though, Shane is the first one out but Cirie quickly follows. It's amazing that
someone who is not super skinny has made it this far, but in challenges like this, her weight works against her.
Courtney's yoga training is an advantage in this challenge but Terry wins yet again.
The flippy-floppy
Danielle is the wild card going into tribal council. Cirie pushes her to vote for Courtney. The votes are between
Courtney and Aras (except for Shane who votes for Danielle). Terry's plan is to get Aras, his only real physical rival,
out of there. But it's not meant to be, Courtney gets voted out. Will this usher in a new saner Shane?
At
least it was great to see Bruce at the jury.
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