I am a huge Survivor fan and with the exception of a couple of episodes I've seen them all air on TV. This episode is one of those that is an exception, I only saw half the episode due to the need to do work around the house. So having turned on the TV right in the middle of the immunity challenge I can't give my thoughts on the entire episode but I saw enough to have something to say. Basically my thoughts are that the blue tribe got screwed.
Whenever there are more than two tribes on the show, one tribe inevitably got screwed when tribes where divvied up. The only other time that there were three tribes was Survivor All Stars, during this season Saboga got screwed. This tribe couldn't win any immunity challenge, in fact probably the only reason why they won any immunity challenge is because Jenna M. quit and Chapera potentially threw the challenge or at the very least wasn't good at puzzles.
This season's screwed tribe is Matsing. Matsing seemed to start out so good. They had a fit guy, a couple of fit girls, a man who lost one challenge the entire time he was in Samoa. The tribe also had a wild card guy who reminded me of Russell Hantz, he just overplayed from the beginning. Then the first challenge comes and because of bad strategy, they lose. This can happen to anyone, you put the wrong people at the wrong station and you lose. Then the next challenge comes and some tribe members can't do a part of the challenge. The same thing happened with this episode's challenge.
The odd part about this tribe is that they have made some good decisions as to who should get voted out. Zane made a 'brilliant' strategy play by telling the tribe he wouldn't last in the game. Yeah smart move Zane, tell your tribe-the people who have the power to vote you out or keep you in the game that you can't make it the whole 39 days. This move might work in Big Brother but in Survivor not so much. Voting out Roxy was a toss up, if she didn't work around camp that's not good with the added mark against her that she wasn't that good at the challenges, she did need to go. However, with the coupling up or seemingly coupling up of Angie and Malcolm, mixed with Angie not being the best at the challenges-Angie needs to go too. It really is a toss up and who knows whether or not Roxy could have done the water challenge today. So it really was a toss up between who needed to go first.
The other tribes seem to have their problems too, but at least they know how to work together. Tandang seems to have more problems than Kalabaw. I believe that Tandang's problems come from the "5 minute" alliance that Skupin calls it. Really while competing for $1 million you trust someone right away, really!?! I should say a disclaimer right now: I have never been on Survivor I have just seen every episode with one or two exceptions. Now back to Tandang, the other problem is more like a disadvantage.
This disadvantage comes in the form of Skupin, now don't get me wrong I love Skupin and I think he should have been on Survivor All Stars, but this is a completely different game now than it was during Survivor Australia. Also if my memory is correct Skupin never really played the game, almost like Russel Swan. Skupin was a leader whose tribe rarely lost. When either's tribe did lose, the person to be voted out was an obvious choice. So no game play from either Skupin or Swan was really ever shown. Penner is the only returner that we have seen go deep into the game. Penner placed 7th on Surivor Cook Islands, we have seen his strategy before and we saw him play again in Fans vs. Favorites. Returning players would be wise to be cautious with Penner on their team. Penner is a gamer, entertaining to watch, but most likely not that fun to play with, as you never know if you can fully trust him. In fact I think that Penner is Kalabaw's only problem, at least as far as we can tell now.
Keep in mind, we see 60 minutes of footage for every 3 days. We can't see everything and therefore are subjugated to the story that the editors, and producers want to tell. So to sum up: Matsing got screwed, Kalabaw has the best chance to go far, and Tandang makes interesting strategy decisions.
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