Survivor: Cook Islands Episode 11 Thoughts

An open letter to Adam, Candace and Parvati.

Dear fucktards,

Stop it. For the love of god you are all stupid, nasty, superficial hypocrites. (Yes even you Parvati. You might be hot and all, but that doesn't stop you from having the personality of a rabid rat. Oops, there's that word.)

Way back about, oh, 4 days ago, you really had no problem with Jonathan. Sure, he had just betrayed people, but it wasn't you, so what's the problem? But now that he's betrayed you, he is the devil incarnate. Who cares if it is better for him in this game? He just screwed over your god given right to coast to the final 4, so it's time to be as nasty as humanly possible. (Let's ignore that you didn't vote him out when you had 3 chances to previously. It's rather inconvenient for you current story.) Whether it be traitor or rat, no word was out of bounds to use to describe Jonathan. But to call him vile while calling him the words that you were? Rather hypocritical.

And then there's your actions after Nate got voted out. While consistent with previous actions, you would think that you might do something to help out at camp. But instead, you chose to lie around and cuddle, further separating yourself from the people who could save your sorry asses. Once they decided to eat without you (since you had done nothing to help with getting the fish or preparing it), you got rather angry and complained about everybody not thinking of you, along with (shockingly) blaming Jonathan for not sharing. (Nevermind that when earlier Jonathan went to share some coconut, you chastised him for taking Adam's coconut.) Hey, I'm just going to throw a thought out here. If you want to save yourselves for another few days, it might make sense to not insult anybody who can help that process. Also, it would be of great help not to hitch your cart to the idea that (a) you would appreciate not being voted out before Jonathan and (b) if you don't make it longer than Jonathan, you might hold out your jury vote from Yul. (a) There's absolutely no reason for Aitu to give up their dominating position just to satisfy your desires. (b) is stupid because there are 3 other people who need to vote out Jonathan, and they would rather see Yul not get jury votes.

Just one more thing. When Aitu had their backs against the wall, they battled back and came up with a strong plan, pouncing on an opening when they saw it. When you had your backs against the wall, you whined about it, and when Jeff gave you the opportunity to get "a lot of power" in the auction challenge, you choose not to even put the full effort into tgetting the power, instead throwing it away and Candice once again getting sent to Exile Island.

Well played, indeed.

Yours truly,
JayRo

(Check back here later, as I include my lists, predictions for next week, and some more thoughts about how things went last week.)

December 4th entry:

So, what about everybody else? Yul had almost a perfect episode. He was in control of what was happening, and managed to deflect a bit of heat from himself to Jonathan. And heck, I've even come around on the hidden immunity idol stuff - ultimately it doesn't matter because the only way for Yul to have any worry about using the idol would have to involve somebody who knows he has the idol. So why not tell the world that he has the idol just to cement that he should not be fucked with in any sort of scenario?

(The answer of course, is that it could be perceived that he was rubbing the idol in Team Jackwad's face. Hell, I'd guess that they are already practicing their snake and rat speeches for Yul.)

So what was the mistake, beyond the schadenfreude? Yul discussed jury strategy with Becky. That wasn't a mistake per se, but the way he went about it was horrible. "If we vote Jonathan off, I guarantee myself 3 votes. Maybe we should dump Jonathan to cement my votes." Did it not occur to Yul that maybe, just maybe, Becky might face him in the finals and if she did, she probably wants Yul to lose those votes?

The Aitu tribe sticking together and not feeding Team Jackwad was pretty entertaining, and their half-hearted attempt to defend Jonathan (okay, Yul's half-hearted attempt) was a touch bit touching. And I would be remiss nto to note the disappointment of the day, which especially affected Mike: With Candice getting the boot, there is no more comedy in Candice automatically being sent to Exile Island. The real question is, will Aitu answer Candice automatically if they get to send somebody to Exile?

Let's be honest here, a contentious and bitter tribal council is a lot more fun than the normal tribal council. And Jeff Probst? On fire this tribal council. First, he calls Yul the UN becuase of his "not going to rock the boat" answers, and then he gives us the line of the show, after Candice and Adam spend 5 minutes making out once Candice gets the boot:

"A kiss is nice, but if it was really love, he would have given you the immunity necklace."

Jeff Probst: Just as tired of Team Jackwad as the rest of us.

And now, the lists:
Most likely to win:

LW TW Name
 1  1 Yul
 2  2 Ozzy
 4  3 Becky
 3  4 Sundra
 5  5 Adam
 6  6 Parvati
 8  7 Jonathan
 7  - Candice

(Congratulations to Jonathan on moving up the list!)

Who I want to win:

LW TW Name
 1  1 Yul
 2  2 Ozzy
 5  3 Becky
 3  4 Jonathan
 6  5 Sundra
 4  6 Parvati
 8  7 Adam
 7  - Candice

My predictions for this week? Parvati is gone, after Adam saves himself for a second week in a row with an immunity challenge victory. Don't worry though - Adam's time is coming.