Thursday, May 07, 2009
Survivor: Tocantins - 1810
The episode starts off with a puzzler and the biggest ass-kissing I've seen in a long time. Coach and Debbie, obviously stunned that Tyson was booted just agree with everyone. Can Stephen and JT actually believe Coach when he says "Great blindside . . . I appreciate you not telling me" No one appreciates being left in the dark like that.
Reward Challenge
I usually like the challenge where they have to share opinions about who is doing what in the game. That may be just a holdover from the first time they ran this challenge where it caused a major shift in the game since people were voted out directly down the pecking order at the time. This time really wasn't too compelling, nothing really surprising came out and the people were mostly okay with the results. I also don't like taking people out of challenges but it's much better for reward then for immunity.
Major strategy problems in this challenge. First, Coach is talking about building the Timbira alliance and then the first thing he does is go after Sierra. Good plan. Then Debbie hits Erinn right after that. Terrible bridge building. Second, why are people taking their shots at people who haven't taken their shots for the round yet. For example if you get to attack someone after me, I shouldn't pick you out of the 5 possible targets to attack. That just sets you up for immediate retaliation. That happened about 5 times in this challenge, though? Just dumb.
Then with the choice of people for the reward. Stephen picks his two closest allies: Taj and JT?! You have to switch it up some and try to curry favor with people who might vote for you on the jury. Also you leave someone from your alliance at camp so that you can control the flow of information. Just plain bad game play. The reward was really great, that spring was so cool. The food looked delicious too.
Immunity Challenge
Not an especially interesting immunity this week. Basically throwing a grappling hook and then playing Marble Madness. Then Coach finally won something that didn't really involve a lot of physicality or intellect. And yells out "Dragonslayer". Yeah he's the man.
Strategy Analysis
I already touched on the poor job of alliance building that Coach and Debbie did when they were at the reward challenge and attacked the two people they were trying to pick up for their team. Then it continues with Coach and Debbie vigorously attacking Sierra when they are at camp during the reward. How can Coach play a guilt card on Sierra when he was just trying to get her out of the game the night before. Why would she just blindly agree with anything he said? Then when he argues that point they just got in a huff and pissed off at Sierra. Way to form a strong alliance.
It was great to see Sierra call Coach and Debbie out at Tribal council for lying about their message. I went back and watched that scene again and Coach and Debbie were totally lying to JT and Stephen. They definitely asked Sierra to be part of their side to get Timbira back together and she said no. Sierra didn't come to them. Coach was also terrible lying to JT. He changed his story in the middle of the conversation. Initially he said that Sierra came up with the idea, then when Stephen showed up all of a sudden Debbie and Sierra were both coming up with it. I want to hear Jeff ask Coach especially about that during the reunion show.
My Prediction
Debbie. Probably would be the best move, there's no way Coach, Sierra and Erinn could come together on anything. It's like I'm not even watching this show.
Season total: 3-7 (.300)
Spell Check
Right: 4
Wrong: 3 (Debby, Debbi, Stephan)
Other: 0
Season total: 49-14-2 (.778)
Quick hit thoughts
Reward Challenge
I usually like the challenge where they have to share opinions about who is doing what in the game. That may be just a holdover from the first time they ran this challenge where it caused a major shift in the game since people were voted out directly down the pecking order at the time. This time really wasn't too compelling, nothing really surprising came out and the people were mostly okay with the results. I also don't like taking people out of challenges but it's much better for reward then for immunity.
Major strategy problems in this challenge. First, Coach is talking about building the Timbira alliance and then the first thing he does is go after Sierra. Good plan. Then Debbie hits Erinn right after that. Terrible bridge building. Second, why are people taking their shots at people who haven't taken their shots for the round yet. For example if you get to attack someone after me, I shouldn't pick you out of the 5 possible targets to attack. That just sets you up for immediate retaliation. That happened about 5 times in this challenge, though? Just dumb.
Then with the choice of people for the reward. Stephen picks his two closest allies: Taj and JT?! You have to switch it up some and try to curry favor with people who might vote for you on the jury. Also you leave someone from your alliance at camp so that you can control the flow of information. Just plain bad game play. The reward was really great, that spring was so cool. The food looked delicious too.
Immunity Challenge
Not an especially interesting immunity this week. Basically throwing a grappling hook and then playing Marble Madness. Then Coach finally won something that didn't really involve a lot of physicality or intellect. And yells out "Dragonslayer". Yeah he's the man.
Strategy Analysis
I already touched on the poor job of alliance building that Coach and Debbie did when they were at the reward challenge and attacked the two people they were trying to pick up for their team. Then it continues with Coach and Debbie vigorously attacking Sierra when they are at camp during the reward. How can Coach play a guilt card on Sierra when he was just trying to get her out of the game the night before. Why would she just blindly agree with anything he said? Then when he argues that point they just got in a huff and pissed off at Sierra. Way to form a strong alliance.
It was great to see Sierra call Coach and Debbie out at Tribal council for lying about their message. I went back and watched that scene again and Coach and Debbie were totally lying to JT and Stephen. They definitely asked Sierra to be part of their side to get Timbira back together and she said no. Sierra didn't come to them. Coach was also terrible lying to JT. He changed his story in the middle of the conversation. Initially he said that Sierra came up with the idea, then when Stephen showed up all of a sudden Debbie and Sierra were both coming up with it. I want to hear Jeff ask Coach especially about that during the reunion show.
My Prediction
Debbie. Probably would be the best move, there's no way Coach, Sierra and Erinn could come together on anything. It's like I'm not even watching this show.
Season total: 3-7 (.300)
Spell Check
Right: 4
Wrong: 3 (Debby, Debbi, Stephan)
Other: 0
Season total: 49-14-2 (.778)
Quick hit thoughts
- How pissed would Coach be if hears someone say that he's weaker in every aspect than Sierra
- The rain out on Exile would be the worst.
Labels: bad gameplay, liars exposed
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