Hey everyone! My name is Nemle! I’ll be taking over the Survivor USA blogging. My style is a bit more spicy than the normal blogger. I have an opinion and it’s not always the sweetest. Ha!
Now, I know Dan has already given a blog about Survivor so far, but instead of catching the next one I want to write some from these past two episodes as well, to give you all a taste of what to expect from me throughout the weeks. I hope it makes you smile and think outside the box! Enjoy!
Let’s have a quick introduction to our cast…
From left to right; top to bottom…Rob, Jerri, Randy, Parvati, Danielle, Coach, Tyson, Sandra, Russell & Courtney.
From left to right; top to bottom…Colby, Stephenie, Sugar, Amanda, Rupert, Cirie, JT, James, Candice & Tom.
In my opinion, Danielle and Candice are random, non-deserving choices to be brought into this game. Probst went on record to say that Danielle is a “villain” for voting Terry out after he helped her learn how to make fire in her original season. Making a single move at the F3 doesn’t make someone a villain, in my eyes. On the flip side, Candice is a “Hero” for wanting to mutiny to be with her friends. I don’t think that makes her a hero. I think it makes her a baby.
I’ve also noticed that Parvati is stacked with possible allies. Parvati has previously worked with James, Amanda, Cirie and Candice.
Then we have Russell. Hands down a villain. But he’s getting a fresh start! Filming for Heroes vs Villains ended on September 16th. Samoa aired episode 1 on September 17th. This means Russell played the entire season of Heroes vs Villains with nobody knowing who he is or why he’s there. Seems a tad unfair to me.
Onto Episode 1…
The episode begins by showing the castaways in helicopters and getting brief introduction confessionals of everyone saying why they’re back and how they’ll play the game. We see Rob being cocky, Sandra admitting she’s going to make up good lies, Russell plugging Google, Coach “feeling electricity”, Cirie comparing herself to a gangster Oprah, and Jerri giving herself the nickname Man Eater Manthey.
They then land on the beach in front of Probst where he badgers them with a few questions that clearly made a few feel uncomfortable. First impressions…Courtney stands there, the twig she is, looking like a chihuahua growling at someone’s ankle. It’s sort of adorable. Sugar’s hair makes her look like a poodle, while Sandra’s makes her look like a doberman. Then I spit my milk out when Colby makes a reference to how he’s heard of people naming dogs after him back when season 2 aired.
They rush into the first Reward Challenge; flint being the reward. To those who watched Surivor: Exile Island, you’ll recall this physical challenge. Two players from each tribe rush out to a sepcific area of sand to dig up a bag. They then fight over the bag and try their best to bring it back to their tribe’s mat. First tribe to 3 points wins.
Round 1 pits Cirie/Steph vs Danielle/Parvati. Cirie literally grabs Parvati by the neck at one point, dragging her to the ground. What happened to Cirie being a good guy!? Danielle scores Point 1, while Steph dislocates her arm!
Round 2 pits JT/Amanda vs Randy/Jerri. JT puts Randy in some sort of country body lock. It’s long enough for Randy to lose focus and JT to score the Heroes tribe a point.
Round 3 pits Colby/Tom vs Coach/Russell. Coach actually decides NOT to dig. Instead to just wait, watch and attack. Russell twists Tom’s leg; Probst yelled to play fair. It quickly becomes a Coach and Colby battle. Colby drags the bag and Coach all the way to the mats, but at the last minute Coach turns it on him, making the win.
Round 4 pits Sugar/Candice vs Sandra/Courtney. Hoping to embarrass Sugar, Sandra purposely unhooks Sugar’s top. However, Sugar runs to the mat and scores the Heroes tribe a point…topless. The doberman attacks the poodle, but the poodle is a scrapper!
Final Round pits James/Rupet vs Rob/Tyson. Rob does the same strategy as Coach, but it fails. James is too much for them and scores the winning point. Rupert walks away with a broken toe though.
Back at the Villains camp, Russell starts the exact strategy as he did in Samoa. Making random alliances with all the females. Danielle and Parvati both agree. The shocking part is that Parvati seems to know who Russell is and how he plays, calling him the devil. How is that even possible!? They were on the island before Samoa even aired!! She even states in her confessional that she KNOWS he’s making these same moves.
The Heroes start by taking a group bath then a discussion on the shelter. Sugar puts her first foot in her mouth by calling Tom and Rupert out as being old. Amanda goes on a rant about karma that I doze off on, but I awoke to Tom catching 4 chickens! What the…! Tom caught a shark in his original season and now 4 chickens. Man, he’s a beast!
Later that night, Jerri and Coach start to get cozy. She flirts. He flirts. They talk about him. I fall asleep. Their tribe later tries to hook them up! OMGerd! Black Widow/Dragon Slayer babies with pointed noses!
Heroes deal with alliances. Past and present. Are Amanda and Cirie working together? Dunno. They seem to avoid each other. Are Tom and Steph? Yes. They don’t even hide it. JT forms a new alliance with James…and then another with Tom.
Randy makes an annoying speech about how it’s pointless to try and make fire without flint. How it’s not possible. Rob must be a miracle worker, cause he manages to do the impossible on his own.
The Heroes have less luck with their fire. Or rather, lack of. Rupert wastes most of their magnesium flint trying and failing. Steph, JT and Colby step in and builds their fire.
At night, Sugar decides she needs a “protector” and tries to cuddle next to Colby. Ohhh Sugar! Did she not learn from Jerri in Outback!? He’s not a Hershey Bar, remember!
Wooo! Immunity Challenge Time!
Six tribe members race to assemble a boat then use it to row out into the water to a torch and back. Once back, the other 4 then complete a puzzle. Once the puzzle is done, the same 4 work to build a ladder to reach the top of a platform.
The Heroes finished their boat pretty fast. They reached the torch before the Villains even finished building their boat.
Despite having a HUGE lead, the Heroes are eventually put on equal ground during the puzzle. Now, they put the blame on Sugar, but I’m not sure why. She tried harder than any of the others. In fact, Rupert wasn’t even helping. He was too busy studying the ladder, stroking his beard like Santa.
So overall, the Villains win…and on cue, Sugar begins to cry.
The 4 names thrown around were Cirie for being the mastermind type of player, Amanda for having allies galore, Sugar for being an outsider and Steph for…not sure why? She’s not that strong really. She’s won what? One challenge her whole career? Ha!
But we do finally learn that Amanda and Cirie indeed are aligned! UGH! So predictable. Then we go to…
OMG!! Tree House Tribal Council
At TC, everyone has a laugh at how Amanda stinks at Finales. Winners are pointed out. Threats are named. Relationships are hinted to. And again Sugar is named the weakest. I still don’t get why. If we look back on the Reward Challenge, she along with JT and James are the only who scored points. I’d think that would put her higher up on the strength scale.
In the end it was 9-1…
In an interview with
Gordon Holmes, Sugar confirms that she and most everyone else had no clue who Russell was or what he had done on his season. Only that he was villainous enough to be brought back after a mere two weeks.
Wait. Parvati made it out in her confessionals like she knew EXACTLY what Russell was like. Down right calling him the devil. Was this intuition? A lucky guess? Well, in an interview with
Zap2it, Sugar hinted to Parvati having inside information on Russell. If true, this gives her a large advantage to this game.
So, that was my run through of Episode 1. Leave a comment, telling me what you guys think. Did Sugar deserve to be the first boot? If so, why? If not, who should’ve been?
I’ll have an Episode 2 run through posted soon. Hugs to all!
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Hey Hey Nemle thats some hot updating look forward to reading all season… FYI total Russel fan Hope he wins.. lots of Love
Squishy
Hey Nice blog! I must admit.
It’s nice to see what happened episode one. Are there any other shows you’d take on? I could give you the Celebrity Apprentice, since I don’t think I’l be able to blog for that show.
Sure! I’ll take it on!