Survivor: What a Tribal!!

Hello and welcome to the recap of this week's outrageous episode!  I am really liking this season, as the people seem different in some way.  More 3 dimensional and mostly likable.  With the exception of Angelina that is.  Whoooboy what an obnoxious woman! I can only imagine that her co workers at whatever financial company she is consulting at are overjoyed at her taking a month off.  

We start off this week with her realizing that she got caught lying to everyone.  So she runs around lying some more. giving all kinds of new explanations for telling Elizabeth that she was going home.  People are like, OK.  Alec thinks she is a slimeball, Alison isn't buying it and even DAN says that if she's not willing to own what she did he can't trust her.  

Mike thinks Angelina is "defanged".  I doubt that.  Mike talks to Christian about their 6 strong alliance - "strike force" but questions why Gabby is acting like she;s not fully on board at tribal-especially the last one.  Mike is getting on my nerves a bit already.  He's a complainer and a second guesser.  

Davie and Nick to out looking for an idol.  They find a clue with the picture from the merge feast of a tree on a cliff in the wind.  They decide to look for such a tree.  They see the tree but everyone is lounging on the beach so Davie distracts them all while Nick finds the advantage-it's a steal a vote.  Davie tells Nick about Carl's vote nullifier advantage.  "Now we here, baby!!"

Reward Challenge:  I think this is the first of these?  They are divided into 2 teams standing under a trough of water, with sandbags tied to their wrists.  They have to hold the sandbags up although they can change them around between them.  Periodically one person gets to leave but the others have to carry the weight.  Wanna know?  12 pizzas for 6 people.  

Gabby picks: Christian, Alison, John, Alec and Nick for her team.  Mike picks Carl, Davie, Dan, Angelina and Kara.  Ultimately Dan drops his sandbags and Gabby's team wins reward.  Angelina blames Dan for the loss and says she "can't wait for it all to catch up with him".

The pizzas, breadsticks and soda arrive and the winners take their feast away from the rest of the group.  Mike is all "oh, I'm not here for the rewards I just want the million $$" bitter.  He is beginning to second guess the strike force, saying "if I go with the Goliaths I might get screwed by the Davids".  Mike talks to Alec-has decided that Christian is the riskiest.  Says he's the true player that could win.  Alec hears his point but Alec has something against staying with the Goliaths.  

Mike decides to stick with his original Goliath alliance and is lobbying for Christian to go.  Which makes Angelina furious, because when she suggested that last week no one wanted to do it.  She feels like now that a man has suggested it everyone suddenly likes the idea.  They decide to go for Christian but tell everyone that the vote is for Angelina.  Ang is mad about being the decoy in case something goes wrong and she gets accidentally voted off.  

Immunity Challenge

Balance a buoy thing (it's a ball with 2 sticks) while standing on a balance beam.  It goes pretty fast and comes down to Dan vs Angelina.  Dan wins immunity and I hope Angelina goes to Ponderosa.  

Mike is set on blindsiding Christian.  Dan tells everyone that it's Christian.  #brochacho blindside

Angelina is still seething about being the decoy, going on and on about it.  Dan promises her his idol if it comes down to it.  

Dan tells Nick that it's Christian because he doesn’t't want him surprised.  Nick wants to know what happened.  He turns around and tells Christian that they're lying to him.  Christian thinks that he is screwed. Nick asks him to not do anything and trust him.  

Nick approaches Davie and asks him if he would save Christian.  Davie isn't 100% sure he wants to use his steal a vote.  He wants to stay under the radar a little longer.

Tribal

Angelina tells Jeff that she wanted everyone to know what really happened last time and to forgive her

Nick points out that the Goliaths don't even care what she does as long as they keep the numbers

Mike says that the Davids really are involved, and were last week as well.

Davie says he hopes that they still do have input

Carl says that's bullshit, they have the #'s and don't care about the Davids

John says something about "you get what you give", implying that the David's are responsible for their position in the game

Nick points out to him that you don't gain trust just by telling people how to vote

John says he is interested in voting out threats

Christian says he's worried.  Says he put a target on his head from the first day when he was trying to show that the David's were strong.  He points out that he has also built brochacho relationships.  

Angelina says pointing that out is stupid because it shows that he is an EVEN BIGGER THREAT.  She points out that last week was the last time they were all mellow.  Tonight there will be happy and unhappy people

The vote.  

Anyone have an idol??  Davie gets up and plays his for Christian

Angelina almost has a fit telling Dan he has to play his for her.  He plays his and she yells out DID YOU SAY FOR ME?????  Yes. 

The vote is 7 Christian-doesn't' count, 2 for Angelina, which sadly don't count and out of NOWHERE, 2 for John who gets to go to the Gym on Ponderosa.

Survivor: OMG IT'S THE MERGE!!

Hello and welcome to the lazy girl's Survivor update!  I apologize for missing last week but I was still dancing on tabletops celebrating the election.  Basically it came down to a decision between Angelina and Lyrsa and Lyrsa was sent home.  

So this week we are having a lazy morning on the beach drinking what's left of the coffee when.....the other 2 tribes arrive and OMG IT'S THE MERGE!!!  It's finally time to start playing!!!  

And there is food and drink!  John is happy because he was starting to lose his Stretch Armstrong "macros and guns".  Everyone is inhaling the food and Gabby is looking around for some kind of clue or advantage.  And if there was one nobody found it, even though the cameraman zoomed in several times on the sign that say EVERY THINK YOU NEED FOR THE REST OF THE GAME IS RIGHT HERE.  

Angelina is sitting next to Carl who is inhaling the beer and he tells them that Alec flipped against Natalia.  Angelina is spreading the rumor and doesn't trust Alec now.  There's a 6 David/7 Goliath split right now and one person can change the game.  

Carl is a bit drunk and telling all the other men that he can't stand Elizabeth because she's totally annoying.  He want to git her gone.  

Christian and Nick meet and confirm that they are still the Mason to the other's Dixon.  Nick tells him that Dan has an idol.  

Dan and Kara meet back on the beach and, as he sucks his formerly fat stomach in, Nick breathlessly tells Kara he found another idol.  He wasn't going to tell her but he is apparently powerless around a hot blond.  

The Goliaths strut on the beach and crow about how they are all totally a unified group.  They discuss Elizabeth but Angelina want Christian gone.  Nick argues that Christian is a cool cat but Angelina is all power hungry control freaking that is HAS TO BE CHRISTIAN.  

Alec has a bond with Christian.  Alec is loving the merge and wanting to start trouble.  "There's gonna be tears shed and idols flushed".  

Overnight Dan and Kara chat for about 2 hours and Elizabeth is annoyed and troubled about the duo.  

Mike is looking for an alliance outside of just Goliath as well.  He talks to Alison who tells him she and Alec are tight and are planning to vote with Goliath for maaaybe 2 votes.  Mike also likes Nick and wants to bring him along.  Alec tells him he is in a thing with Christian and Gabby so now they have a 6 under the radar alliance.  Christian calls it the counter insurgency, and says Alec is ready to move by spearheading the 6 group and waiting to take out a Goliath target when they see fit.  

Elizabeth is still annoyed by Dan and Kara is is lobbying Carl and then Alec to get rid of Dan.  Dan is still playing double agent so he goes and tells Kara and Dan that Elizabeth wants Dan out.  Which sends Dan, who has 2 idols in his pocket (and probably little else...) into crazy land.  Kara is like, dude, get a hold of your baby self!  

Challenge:  Jeff tells them this is the first individual immunity challenge and he shows off the new necklace.  it's a new challenge I think where they have to swing a pendulum through a metal frame which is around a statue.  If you lose momentum or drop the statue you are out.  It comes down to Elizabeth and Alison, and Alison ends up with immunity.  

The Goliaths go back to camp and again stroll on the beach like royalty discussing who is going.  Angelina wants Christian and she goes into some military lingo to make her point and "fire up my troups". She's all cocky about getting them to follow her.  Dan is annoyed because 1) he also likes Christian and 2) Elizabeth said his name.  He's annoyed at Angelina for thinking she is in the military just because she learned a few phrases from her husband.  

Gabby is upset that they are just sitting around waiting to see which one of them is being voted off.  "We are just so pathetic that we are basically telling them we will vote off one of our own just to go a bit farther".  

Alison and Alec talk and discuss that Angelina is annoying.  The don't want to vote for Christian because they will lose trust with the rest of their new alliance. They talk tot he Goliath bro's sitting around the beach drying out their muscles and they all decide they want Elizabeth instead.  Dan and one of the other bro's talk to Angelina and tell her they've changed their minds and it's Elizabeth.  Which makes Angelina nuts.  She's pissed, and then she cries, and then she calls Elizabeth over and tells her it's her and she doesn't want her to be blindsided.  

Elizabeth goes over to Gabby and the other Davids and tells them she is the one going.  Gabby suggests they tell the Goliaths that Angelina is telling their plans.  

 Tribal

Alison agrees that the first vote after the merge sets a tone.  "I'm glad I'm immune because there is a ton of relationships to manage"

Alec also agrees that there are a lot of different alliance variations people can take now and there are many conversations going on.  He says everything is shifted, which is a surprise to Angelina.  

Angelina says it's still a David vs Goliath split and that the Goliaths want to be more conservative with their vote and she agrees

Elizabeth pipes up that they are in fact not all in agreement and that there is a fracture.  She points out that Angelina told her that she was being voted off.

Angelina tells Elizabeth that she is showing bad strategy in telling people that, and goes on to suggest that she didn't really tell her she was non committal.  

Alison points out that Angelina is starting jury management.

Angelina restates that she was non commital in her talk with Elizabeth

Gabby refutes that because Elizabeth specifically told them what Angelina said

Alison points out that she is trying to pocket her vote by telling her she is sorry to see her go.  

Stupid Jeff asks if this isn't just playing the game and Angelina jumps in to say that yes, she is just doing what a good player does and Elizabeth is just trying to save herself

Gabby gets upset and points out that the David's SHOULD be doing whatever they can to save themselves and the Goliaths are expecting them to just roll over.  

Everyone is up and talking to each other.  

Angelina says she should have lied but she is trying to play the game AS A LOVING PERSON, which is fucking hilarious.  

Jeff points out to her that now people have a perception of her...

Elizabeth says that her goal is that some of the Goliaths would join the Davids side (meanwhile lots of discussions still going on)

Angelina says that she's now excited to vote for Elizabeth.  

Vote

Angelina 1, Elizabeth 7.  "Good luck, I love you all".  Ang:"funny way of showing it....."