Survivor: Cook Islands Episode 1

Some quick thoughts about the first episode (being done as the second episode finishes...):

- The whole grand "social experiment" stuff? Nothing of note. You basically had tribes saying "we have to represent our race". The Hiki (African-American) tribe actually made a point about them being city slickers and how that might be perceived as a slight against their race. I honestly don't think that anybody will go that route at all. And Cowboy bringing old-school homeland medicine to the Puka tribe was actually interesting.

- In danger: Jessica (how do you lose two chickens?), Cowboy (stop talking so much), Billy (do some work) and Nathan (being on the outside of an alliance is not good).

- Nathan and Sekou messed up so much with the Exile Island selection. First, choosing Jonathan seemed odd. Why not somebody from the challenge winning Puka tribe? Maybe weaken them? Then, just to make things even better, they made the decision themselves, without asking any of their tribemates! This is why it came as no surprise that Sekou was one of the people who had never watched the show before. If he had, he might have played things a bit differently (and maybe he would have done a bit more work around camp).

No predictions for who goes in Episode 2 because, well, I just watched it. But one of Jeff's comments seems to come to fruition in it.