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Survivor: Cook Islands: People That You Like Want to See You Suffer

by Deidre Woollard, posted Nov 17th 2006 10:04AM
(S13E08) I have a tendency to root for the underdog. Usually it's deeply frustrating. Cheering on Aitu, however, is the most transcendent underdog experience I have ever had. Sure, they are outnumbered but they are adorable and they have this amazing tendency to win even though the usual laws of Survivor mean that they should be slowly picked off. And maybe, just maybe, Yul is the perfect Survivor contestant (provided he doesn't blow it in the crucial coming weeks).

Adam and Candice are happily reunited and we get to see the most boring snuggling ever. Reality romance reaches a new low with these two. Jenny expresses worry over their alliance as if there was any shot that Candice and Adam weren't officially joined at the hip.

The challenge involves digging up chests in the sand (using coordinates). Anything involving thinking and coordination seems to stump Raro. While Team Underdog (Aitu) work tremendously hard. The Raro team aren't tremendously supportive to one another, there's lots of non-supportive instruction from the non-digging duo. Aitu wins while Raro glowers. They send Candice back to Exile Island, keeping her away from her beloved doofus.

The fun thing about the reward challenge for Aitu is watching the usually stoic Yul loosen up and dance with the natives at the banquet. Meanwhile Jonathan thinks he can bring the Aitu way of hard work and fresh fish to Raro. Good luck, buddy.

The immunity challenge involves swimming, diving and a bit of a geography quiz. If you don't know how to swim this season you are pretty much an anchor.The losing tribe will take back to camp a bottle with a note that contains "significant information" to be opened after tribal council. Aitu takes an early lead and manages to hold it. Why does it seems that when Raro cheers on their team it seems like they are being critical whereas Aitu's cheering seems supportive? Aitu wins again sending Raro back to tribal.

Over at Raro there is much talk of the bottle. At tribal, the talk is about Raro's losing streak. Adam admits his frustration, Jonathan trumpets his fish-getting abilities and Rebecca pretty much looks ready for the inevitable cut.

And the note? It's a double elimination night! The tribe has to immediately get rid of another tribe member. With no time to strategize, it's impossible to guess what the votes will be, the easy pick is Jonathan, the unknown quantity. Instead the team votes for strength, choosing to oust Jenny (with only the ever clueless Nate voting for Jonathan). Jenny is not a happy camper. I think she saw this coming and realized there was no way to avoid the gradual coalescing of the white tribe.

Will Raro pick itself up and be better, sleeker, faster? Given the clips of next week's show (including super disgusting Adam and Candice smooches) all signs point to no.

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Jennifer Baker

Wonder how the game would have been affected had one tribe, given the chance, al jumped? That would have been an instant merge, wouldn't it?

November 25 2006 at 2:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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November 20 2006 at 11:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LC

Good point Greg. As it stands, Raro has 5 and Aitu has 4. One is already on the jury and two were just voted off. Which leaves us with two finalists and 10 jurors. Aren't their normally 9 or another odd number of jurors? Maybe Jenny isn't on the jury. Perhaps she may be brought back in.

November 18 2006 at 11:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
greg

Jeff never said that Jenny will be come a juror member

November 17 2006 at 9:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
NavStar

Great show. Loved the surprise double elimination! I can't imagine the other team being knocked down to two people if they lost.

November 17 2006 at 2:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jimmy

if they merge, be sure the whole AItu tribe will be after Candice. Thats already 4 votes.. against her

November 17 2006 at 2:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
doug

Ugh. On one hand, I loved the surprise elimination, even though I was sorry to see Jenny go. But way too often in this game there are consensus votes, as there is plenty of time for the group to pick a loser before they go to tribal. To have them pick another without all of the lobbying and caucusing? That was great!

On the other hand, perhaps I missed it, but what was the penalty if they had come to tribal with the bottle uncorked? Would they have done a triple elimination or something? It seems that they were at a huge disadvantage for *not* having uncorked it.

You never know with this show, but now that we are at nine we should be soon to the merge. I wonder if the rest will be smart enough to pick off Adam and Candace before their two votes get too strong?

Also, the larger jury - there is no way that they will have an even ten people with only two finalists (or nine jurors with three finalists, or eight jurors with four finalists - none of these would work, no matter what the finalist twist could be), so I am wondering if there will be some sort of jury competition to knock off jurors just before the vote?

November 17 2006 at 10:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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