Survivor Insider: Episode 3
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Survivor Insider: Episode 3
Joan | Saturday, October 27, 2001 - 01:30 pm   Reliving the lions—Tom asks Ethan and Mama Kim what happened last night. He said he heard ppl hollering about alligators, lizards, lions, everything. Tom seems kinda foggy about it all. He looks at Ethan and says “You woke me up!” They tell him it was lions and that they all were woken up. He asks “What was its deal?” and they tell him it was hungry and Tom was keeping the lion awake with his snoring. Kim says at first she honestly didn’t know whether it was an animal or just Tom snoring. Kim says she heard hyenas, zebras and she could have sworn she also heard an elephant. Tom said he thought it may have been a dream but it sounded like more than one to him and Ethan and Kim confirm that it was. Cuts to Kelly. She and Clarence were on watch dozing off by the fire when Clarence woke her up. They heard a snorting sound really close like a pig and thought it might be a water buffalo. She said the lion roared all night and other beasts made noises along with it so it got their imaginations going and it was a long night. They screamed and banged cans to try to scare it off. Cuts to Lex talking around the fire. He remarks that “That sucked last night!” and Mama Kim says she is afraid it is going to be like that regularly. Lex said when he heard Kelly screaming he jumped up, whacked his head, got caught in the mosquito netting and put his shoes on the wrong feet in his effort to go help. He didn’t even know what they were screaming at. Cuts to Tom and Lex. They both say their first reaction was fear. Tom said once he got through hugging Ethan, he settled down. Lex says he could hear them and they sounded like girls. Tom said he called Ethan “Sandy” (his wife) but once his fingers got stuck in Ethan’s curly hair he said “Uh oh! Excuse me!” and knew it was not Sandy. The Young and the Ruthless—Silas is talking about how he told the younger people he was with them and that if they were not together, they wouldn’t make it, not just him but all of them. Depending on their loyalty, they could determine who goes to the merge. He says how they vote will show him where their loyalties are (Sounds like he wants to see if they will vote for his choice?). Cuts to him talking to someone but it doesn’t show who. I assume from the way he is sitting that it is 2 or more of the young ones laying in the hut. He wonders what would happen if one of them got voted out and they had to stay with the old people the whole time. He says “Not that that would be bad…No, it would be bad. That would suck!” Cuts to Silas and Brandon around the fire. Silas says “They’re all good people but heck, we’re better people!” Brandon says “None of us would be this manipulative and awful in real life but it sure is fun here!” Cuts to the 4 young ones cooking while the adults are at the river. They admit that it isn’t over yet and Kim says they could be down there unifying right now! Silas says he is so proud of this team. Lindsey says Theresa and Doc are the 2 ppl they cannot let out of their sight before tribal council. She cautions them never to let either one be alone with anyone ever. Silas says he has not heard the adults laugh or joke yet while their group laughs and jokes a lot. They mock the hugs. Silas doesn’t want to give the adults much time alone so they decide to go to the watering hole with them the next day. Silas justifies them all saying they are not being evil, they are being careful and they are “outwitting.” They want to be the final four. The old play with integrity—Frank and Carl walking somewhere with Theresa and Linda a few yards behind. There are bits cut out and they fade to different parts of the conversation. Carl says he will play with integrity, let someone else play with deceit. Frank says if Silas wants to come along, he knows the older ppl have 4 strong individuals. Carl says no, he thinks Silas wants one out of their group, maybe two. Carl remarks that suddenly everyone is concerned about water. “What have we been bitching about for 3 friggen days?” he says and Frank tells him not to worry about it. Carl says he thinks the only reason Lindsey got heatstroke was that she spent 2 days sunbathing. “She has her period and she’s sunbathing?” he says as he smacks his head as if to say “Duh!” Theresa tells them that Silas admitted that it is just a game and they kinda talk over one another and say that at least they know where they stand now. Linda remarks that looking at her body, people would say she was one of the weaker ones yet she could have gone for another 5 hours out there (dunno where she means). Carl says he has been on every water run every day and boiled water and started fires every day. They say Silas is probably worried right now. Carl talks about integrity and that’s what he’s all about. Frank says “us 4 stick together all the way!” and if they lose someone, they will just win one or two of the young ones over and make it to the merge. Carl says the young ones don’t understand the word honour, they don’t know what hard work is, Linda says they don’t know what integrity is. Carl is surprised Lindsey didn’t collapse sooner since she lays in the sun all day without hydrating and then goes into a physical and mental challenge. Frank tells him Lindsey could have just been playing a game to get relief. A scorpian finds Ethan—Kelly has a book open and explains that they are looking through their survival guides to try to go over things they may have ignored so far. They think Ethan was stung by a scorpian so they are looking up symptoms. Kelly reads them off and Ethan says whether they fit. She says paralysis for 12-48 hrs and discomfort certainly fit the bill. Cuts to Ethan who explains he woke up to a sharp shooting pain and a hard tender ball on his arm. He shows a large lump on his forearm. It was a huge Charlie horse in his arm and he couldn’t make a fist. Kim Johnson’s stability—Kim talks about Boran. She says there are 5 of “us” who get along pretty well, 4, make that 3 of “us” who are on the same wavelength, the same line of thinking, and 1 who appears that he is sharing in the dynamics of the group but she is not so sure that that is reality. She says Clarence is still on the fringe of the group although he is making a huge effort to be a part of the group and not being so overbearing. Kim relates to Kelly and Lex but she is crazy about Ethan. She says Ethan is very “anti-trusting” or maybe he is afraid to make a commitment to trust and she thinks he may be wise. She, Lex, Kelly and “90% with Ethan” are on the same wavelength. She is confident about her status in the group even though she is not the “stand-up comic” that Tom is. She feels she did well on the boulder challenge and Lex remarked that he was impressed that at her age she was still up there with the rest so she felt good about that despite having messed up on the earlier challenge. Kim Powers and Brandon sit out—Kim volunteered to sit out because Samburu was having so much trouble deciding who should sit out that she was worried that they were not concentrating on strategy. She also said she knew sitting out the reward would ensure that she was in for immunity because “I think they need me.” She is very upset that they lost because she is having a hard time drinking the water but it also makes her feel good in a way because it was the first challenge that they lost and the first challenge she was not a part of (as if she would have make the difference?). She then explains the sitting out rules to the camera, nothing new. Cuts to Brandon who says Doc chose to sit them out even though they wanted Linda or Theresa to sit out and maybe just one of “us” (I assume he means the young people). He thinks that this worked out great though because now they can sit out two of the “weakest players” for the immunity challenge today (what is this guy smoking?). He thinks the older people probably saw that they made a mistake in sitting out 2 stronger people for the reward challenge since they lost but again, he figures it will be an advantage in the immunity challenge. Cuts to the young people, Carl, Theresa and Linda around the fire. Brandon complains that “they” took up all the time before the reward challenge bickering about who was going to sit it out while Boran had time to strategise. “No one is going to volunteer to sit out” he says as if this is totally a given so they need to designate a pair beforehand and, if the challenge looks different than they had anticipated, they can switch at the last minute. Carl agrees that Brandon makes a good point and that they did waste a lot of time. Brandon wants Theresa to sit out immunity and they debate who else. Linda says if it is a “major upper body” thing, that she will sit out for sure. Carl says he will sit out if it is something Linda wants to do. Lindsey announces that there is no way she will sit out if it involves endurance and running. Brandon says she can’t anyway because she is the strongest person. Linda brings up the fact that there may be challenges that are both mental and physical like mazes. Kim says if there is a maze, they need to have an appointed leader. Kelly tells all—She did duty with Lex and they chatted. She says she chats with everyone but not as much individually anymore as in the beginning. People are “quieting down” now and taking more “alone time.” She figures that this is because there is no more “OMG I’m from Iowa! Do you swim? I like asparagus too!” type chatter because “we live here now” and they are just settled into doing chores and chatting when that is done. She says the gender politics are getting quite fascinating with two girls left because the first two challenges they lost were very physical and the men are reluctant to get rid of any of the males “and rightfully so” because they need to win 2 immunity challenges to be comfortable now. Whereas Clarence was the next target for everyone, now it is up in the air. Tom spearheads the gender divide. She says it is like when you get to a new job and everyone seems so nice and “quaint” for the first 5 days and then you realize they are “absolutely, totally annoying and you start to go crazy.” She finds Tom’s “sexism” “rude and crass and untasteful” and it is really grating on her. She says she knows for his “demographic” that he is normal but she gets pushed out of doing work all the time and she gets bored. She tries to carry firewood and he says “Don’t hurt yourself!” “Whatever!” she says. Lex the leader—Lex tells unseen people including Kim, Clarence and Tom that he hopes no one has the impression that they are lounging around on vacation because they need to fix their fence for the next 3-4 days and get water. Tom suggests they beef up the inside as well as the outside of the fence and Lex agrees. Lex says it isn’t because they are lazy that they have been losing challenges, it is because they have been “so darned busy.” Water should be their next priority he says because the challenge will probably be in the afternoon leaving them no time to gather water. The young oust the Doc—Silas, Brandon and Kim are sitting around. Brandon says they are so “f***ed” and Silas says they are “screwed.” Kim says “she’s coming back, she’s coming back.” (Perhaps they mean Lindsey is coming back from being sick?) Brandon whispers that they need to win 2 more immunity challenges and they cannot do it without Frank. Silas agrees. Brandon says Doc is sick and Silas says that T is too. Silas makes fun of the older people for the importance they are placing on their “word.” Brandon says they need to vote Doc out because he doesn’t need the money and he is sick. Silas agrees because Doc drives a Porche, Kim rolls her eyes and says “and that’s only the beginning!” They all start naming off things Doc has told them that he has—4,500 sq ft home, pool, hot tub, etc. (He obviously has been bragging or at least giving in to their questions.) They all agree that Doc is the way to go because it will throw the older group off since they are assuming Frank is the target. Silas starts to say Linda. Silas then says that the adults know that Lindsey is the weakest right now and that that has totally screwed up their game plan. Silas is annoyed because they were counting on the adults being the weak ones and now they have a weak one in their group. “I’m here to win this!” he announces and says they should take it to the final four. Again he makes fun of the older people saying “our word is our word” and says “I was born at night but not last night.” He thinks they must think he is stupid if they expected him to go along with them and cut the other young people out. He says he is not being nice to them anymore. Kim says if anyone sees her being nice to Frank, they will know something is desperately wrong. Regarding Doc, Brandon says “Why the f*** is he here?” and Silas says “No idea, B.” Extra crispy—Kim, Brandon and Silas are cooking “crispies.” They call Lindsey over to eat and she makes a remark about them being the “cool kids” clique like in 5th grade (How old is she supposed to be again?). Brandon decides that leaving the older people 2 scoops in the bottom of the container to cook with is worse than leaving them none so they may as well eat the rest and just make more for the others. (They seem to be trying to justify their pig out) Tribal Council voting—Kim votes for Doc and says she hopes he gets his margarita and shot of Midori really soon. Silas votes saying he hates doing this because he “loves the guy, he’s awesome” and makes him laugh but… One day he says he’ll go get a margarita with a shot of Midori with Doc. Lindsey votes silently. Frank votes silently. Brandon votes saying how much he likes Doc and how he hopes Doc gets his margarita with a shot of Midori after this but he has a family, a great career and a lot of money and everyone else needs the money more than him so…”sorry.” Linda votes silently. Theresa votes and says “Thanks for making me laugh but I gave my word.” Carl votes saying this is not a “Barbie world, this is Africa” and it isn’t about making beads and chilling, it is about responsibility and work ethic and those don’t seem to be a part of her vocabulary at this point even though he likes her. |
Lancecrossfire | Saturday, October 27, 2001 - 01:47 pm   Thanks Joan--it's great to hear what they leave off of the show. There is at least a hint of consistency in what they show you and what they put on the show. |
Kep421 | Saturday, October 27, 2001 - 01:51 pm   Thank you very much Joan...you are the bestest!!! |
Blonde | Saturday, October 27, 2001 - 02:21 pm   Thanks again, Joan. You are so awesome!!! |
Smileeys | Sunday, October 28, 2001 - 06:04 pm   Thank you, Thank you very much, Joan. |
Sawheel17 | Monday, October 29, 2001 - 07:19 am   Thanks Joan!! It helps me realize I don't dislike Brandon as much as Lindsey and Kim. |
Sunshinemiss | Tuesday, October 30, 2001 - 12:23 am   Thanks again Joan, I really appreciate the time and effort. |
Twiggyish | Tuesday, October 30, 2001 - 05:55 am   Ok, that clears up the scorpion! Thanks Joan. |
Ark | Thursday, November 01, 2001 - 07:02 pm   Thanks for doing this. Please don't stop. |
Bracken | Thursday, November 01, 2001 - 07:13 pm   Thank you so much Joan. You are so generous to do this each episode. |
Muse | Thursday, November 01, 2001 - 08:11 pm   Thanks, Joan! I really enjoy reading your summaries. |
Sallycat | Friday, November 02, 2001 - 08:13 pm   Joan, We hang on your every word. Thanks |
Kep421 | Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 05:27 am   Joan, I'm not trying to rush you or anything, but will there be a "Survivor Insider: Episode 4"? I'm looking forward to your reviews as much as I did Bunny's on BB2. Thank you for taking the time to do them... |
Sawheel17 | Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 08:29 am   Please Joan. I need my fix. |
Joan | Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 09:37 pm   lol I hope all you junkies are ok now. hehehe I usually watch the Insider clips on Saturdays. |
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