Survivor Insider: Episode 8

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Joan

Wednesday, December 12, 2001 - 10:14 pm Click here to edit this post
FINALLY, eh? :) I will warn you that these clips are cruder than a lot of them they have put up before. Sorry for the delay! This weekend should be back to normal.

Brandon sounds off about Frank, sex and food—Brandon says he cannot stand Frank because Frank is a “f**ckhead, prick, c**ksucker.” (Tell us how you really feel Brandon! Hold nothing back!) He says he cannot wait to vote for Frank but honestly if Frank doesn’t go, Brandon needs to because he cannot stand him for another 3 days. Cuts to Tom, Ethan and Tom in the boma. Brandon is tying his shoe and Tom comes up and pats him on the back. Brandon asks playfully “Are you coming up behind me?” Tom backs off and makes a comment about Brandon looking good to which Brandon replies that he always looks good. Cuts to Brandon being interviewed. He says “I am sorta the gay Greg but I’m not hooking up with anybody.” The cameraman is cracking up in the background. Brandon whines at him asking why they didn’t give him a hot stud to go to town with instead of Frank and Big Tom. Cuts to Brandon, both Kims and Kelly around the fire. Brandon notes that they are 3 days short of having been gone a month since they left on the 4th and today is the 1st. He says he was never a food addict, he would eat up to 10 times a day but all small portions and he never sat and craved it because he would just go get what he wanted. He thinks it is really odd now that last night he spent 2-3 hours going through his grocery store in his head thinking of what he was going to buy. MamaKim says that what you miss and what is important is different once you are out there. Brandon says yeah but he would have expected to miss his favourite TV show, his friends and family or something and not food.

Close encounter with a large “Cooter Critter”—Tom and Theresa are staring at this gigantic black bug sitting on one of the torches. MamaKim and Brandon come over to look and Tom tells them that it came out of T’s “bloomers.” MamaKim says she saw the same kind of bug under one of the beds last night and stepped on it. Brandon asks what it is and Tom says it is a “Cooter Critter.” (Now, I don’t think CBS knows what a “cooter” is but I do. Let’s just say it is a reference to where on T it came from.) Kelly comes to look and is disgusted. Brandon says they had them all over at Samburu, a whole family. Tom keeps talking about the Cooter Critter while MamaKim starts walking out of the boma with the torch it is on. It falls off and Tom picks it up on a stick and puts it in the chicken coop. MamaKim is worried it could hurt the chickens but the chickens peck at it immediately and seem to win the battle.

Frank’s got (Tree)mail—Frank gets some treemail consisting of a little drum and a note saying to get your mind in tune with the world around you and be prepared to box it. He carries it into camp and Kelly and MamaKim exclaim that it looks like the drums they had to fling into the baskets. Frank wonders out loud if he can read the clue like a joke and everyone groans. He reads the poem and Kim says immunity is gone for her because it is a mental challenge. Cuts to Kelly sitting on the cart. She is excited because she has a fighting chance at winning this one as it is mental. She figures that the word “box” is important and guesses they may have to identify things in a box. She figures it will be something Africa-themed because of the mention of “your surroundings” and says it is probably not sports trivia. (What a genius, eh? Lol) She says again how excited she is to get the day rolling because they have TC tonight and immunity will play a big part of somebody! She says to the cameraman “Should be good huh?” Cuts ahead a bit and she responds to a question that is not heard saying that yes, immunity tonight would be important to her but how important is hard to gauge because everyone is “a big fat liar right now.”

Two on the town: Lex and Ethan in Wamba—Ethan introduces himself to Amingo (the guy who took them all around town). They go with Lex to the market we saw on the show. Inside they tell Amingo they would like to look at some jewelry and they stroll around picking up various beaded pieces. They find 2 bracelets they like but Ethan tells Amingo he doesn’t have enough money and would like to go someplace else with more selection of the same. They leave and stroll down the street stopping to look at some more bracelets someone is carrying. By now Lex has the box of cookies. Ethan buys a bracelet for 60 and Lex and the seller squabble for a minute about whether it is broken or whether it is supposed to look the way it does. Someone has walked off with one of the hats Ethan brought and a villager calls the person back. He says something to Ethan to which Ethan objects (probably asking to keep the hat). Lex remarks that Ethan is being swarmed. People keep asking about one of the hats but Ethan refuses to trade it because it belongs to a friend and he promised to get them something good but the things he is being offered for it are not good. Ethan shows them two other hats plus his Reebok shirt. The people recognize the Reebok name and Ethan makes a deal to trade the shirt for a bracelet and some kind of beaded stick looking thing. A few people comment about his shirt being very expensive. A man tries to sell Ethan a necklace for 2 bucks but he explains that all he has is a hat to trade and no money. Someone else asks Lex to trade for his shirt but Lex explains that he has no other shirt if he gives his away. Amingo leads them on again. Ethan is showing Amingo what he got when Amingo spots the hackey sack. He takes it and kicks it around saying that they used to play with them a lot when they were young. Ethan tells him he is pretty good. They go into a shop and try to find some cookies but the owner wants more than they were originally quoted. They come out and find the truck waiting for them. They climb aboard saying that the business was insane. Lex tries to remember how to say “Goodbye” in the native language. They ride off as a lot of the villagers gather to wave wearing the hats they traded. Lex and Ethan start eating something which Ethan says tastes like a donut. They both hope they didn’t make asses of themselves on their trip.

Kelly’s perfect plan to remain in the game—The cameraman asks how today was. Kelly says today Lex and Ethan went on “their little goat bartering trip” and “while the cats are away, the mice will play.” Brandon came up with the idea of having the original Samburu people vote against Lex provided he doesn’t get immunity. Brandon assumed that all the old Boran will vote Frank except Tom who loves Frank and will vote Brandon. Brandon thinks that when this happens, Frank and Lex will be tied and Lex will be voted off for past votes. Kelly says that this makes it obvious that Brandon was the one to vote against Lex last time but she still appreciates the whole scenario because everyone on Boran thinks she voted for Lex. She thinks they have a plan to vote her off 5th and that wouldn’t be “the end of the world” because she was worried she’d be next. It still pisses her off “on principle” to be “misjudged and mistrusted.” She says that she doesn’t like Lex and maybe they could vote her off for that but she didn’t vote against him. She then looks mischevious, grins and says “I did get Clarence to vote against him but anyway…” She says she is going to win either way tonight because if Samburu gets Lex off, she’ll still be 5th because they like her better than the rest of the Boran people and if they don’t get Lex off, her name will be cleared regarding the prior vote and the Samburu people will look like “jerks” and get “screwed.” “So I win either way! I love it! I think it’s a great plan!” The best part about it all is that she votes with Boran and no one is the wiser about her knowledge of Samburu’s plan and “I look like a little angel.” She reaps the benefits and can still come in 5th at least. She figures if Lex does get immunity, they can always vote against Tom who has more votes against him than Frank. She says she is not exactly excited to “see Boran crumble” but they betrayed her and she is a “free agent” now and “I like to see these fireworks!” Siding with Samburu is still to risky especially since the heat is still on her for the last vote. She is not against shifting over ultimately but not for at least 2 more votes. She wants to be sure that whatever ground she chooses to stand on is stable. Her plan is to lay low and let the heat on her go away naturally and wait for Boran to shoot themselves in the foot or pull something off in which case she still benefits.

Lex and Ethan’s perfect plan to oust Kelly—Lex and Ethan are with the goats in the van traveling down a road. Ethan asks who he thinks will go next and Lex says he would “love the luxury of being able to vote Kelly off this time” but he is not sure they can afford it yet. Ethan asks how “bulls**t would Kelly be?” (I have no idea what that means but he repeated it twice). Lex mumbles something but the squeaking of the vehicle makes it hard to hear. He says voting for Kelly is certainly not something they could talk about ahead of time with her. Ethan says they could always just give Kelly two votes tonight and vote Kim off instead. Lex says that is risky because they would be watering their votes down and that has potential to screw them up. Lex says the possibility exists that they would be wrong about Kelly but that is just something that happens in this game and it isn’t as if they are voting her out because of malice, they are doing it because they have to watch their backs. (Really Lex?) Lex says maybe whoever cast the mystery vote was trying to get Kelly kicked out but he doesn’t really think that is the case. Lex offers to hold the goat if Ethan gets tired. The goat then starts pooping and Ethan holds his hands underneath as Lex laughs and laughs. Ethan says they need to find a guy with a lot of stuff in his store to trade the goat to so they can get a lot for one goat or they can trade it for money. Lex says whatever they do, they need to find someone who can speak the language so they don’t get ripped off since they are essentially “sheep walking into the wolves’ den.” Ethan laughs saying the people in the village will wonder who the hell they are and why they are walking around with goats trying to make money. Ethan says they could always go to a restaurant with the goats and get a good meal made out of them. Lex figures the goats will be worth quite a bit. He says the typical herd out there is about 20-30 goats so they can probably get a lot. The trick will be to figure out how to take one goat and get a variety of different things and not just a bunch of the same thing. Lex wonders if you use the goats like currency, buy something with a goat and what you bought costs less than a goat, do you get change? Maybe a smaller goat? They both laugh. Ethan says you get “2 chickens and a snake.” The goat then pees and Ethan says he’d like to join him. Lex reaches down and shakes the goat’s genitals saying “I had to shake it off for him.” (Oh what starvation can do to the mind, eh?)

Fame and fortune for Moto Maji—T asks if they had a choice between walking away now and the 9 of them splitting the million or continuing on so that only one person wins the million, what would they do? Brandon says to save that for her jury question (I guess this means he doesn’t see her in the final 2, eh?). T looks surprised and asks if it is really something they would have to think about. T says she knows what she would do but people keep interrupting her with “Oh my God T!” etc. She tells them it is almost $100,000 each and MamaKim says “It is not even close to that!” (I guess she wasn’t a math teacher.) Lex says it isn’t about that, it is about the game and the competition and if you took a split, you’d never get to experience what it is like to really get down into it. Brandon agrees and says he wouldn’t take a split. For Brandon, part of it is having the title “Survivor: Africa or Survivor: wherever.” Lex agrees and asks what the point of everything would have been if they ended the game early. T says to think of the Lotto when the jackpot is really big and one person wins it. When someone wins $50 million, she thinks “Fifty people could have won that! Fifty peoples’ lives could have been changed.” (I like the way this girl thinks!) Lex says this isn’t some scratch game, here you have people actually working their butts off to survive and get the prize and ending it early would be “such a let down.” He says this with a lot of conviction. Brandon mumbles his agreement. Kim P. asks whether they think the hard part is done now and that this is the fun part. No one really answers. MamaKim says their lives are going to be somewhat changed anyway depending on how much they want them to change, even monetarily. Brandon says “You can make it into anything you want to make it into.” He says that if you want to stay in one place and not let your life change, you can do that.

Dish about Silas and Jesse—This appears to be the same little gathering as the above clip. Theresa says that when they went to TC the first night as the newly-formed Boran tribe, Silas was saying how he already loved everybody. Kim P. snickers and does an impression of Silas saying “I love you guys!” Brandon says Silas was a big politician too, especially when Jeff would ask him a question. Silas would always start out with “Well Jeff, let me tell ya…” and then never answer the question but “he would say Jeff’s name five times and talk in a circle about nothing.” Lex says Silas was a “hand-shaking baby-kisser” and Brandon agrees saying he would “shake your hand and pee on your leg at the same time.” Kelly says she cannot believe he was her age because he seems so “cheesy” for so young. T says she thinks Silas acted older than 23. Brandon says he was a “cheeseball” and Kelly says she would have thought it’d take years to “build up that much cheesiness.” Lex says that more than a politician, Silas was a salesman because he had “that slickness.” Kelly and T nod and Kelly mentions his grin. MamaKim says that that sort of stuff for her is a turnoff and Lex nods saying he wasn’t meaning it in a good way. MamaKim says the shame is that he is such a good looking guy and that if he took half of his charisma, smile, etc. he would be “just wonderful.” The other girls mumble their assent. During all this, we see only a view of Ethan eating from a can with the voices in the background. Kim P. says she would like to see him outside of the game because he is probably a “very good guy” but just got “extremely competitive” there and wanted to win. Lex says he thought Jesse was beautiful with her glasses and Brandon agrees that she was beautiful. (Anyone else seeing a pattern here with Lex and Brandon?) “I don’t think it hurt her looks at all” says Lex with this weird dreamy expression on his face. Brandon says he thought the glasses were cool and Kelly agrees. Lex keeps on going saying Jesse is a girl who would “have a really hard time looking anything but beautiful.” Big Tom says “you could put a baboon face on her and she’d still turn ya on.” Kim P. keeps saying things like “OMG, she’s gorgeous!” (Does she EVER say anything negative?) Brandon says she is the big shocker of Survivor because if he had picked people based on looks along, he would have picked Jessee to be in the final two. (So astute!) MamaKim says that even if she hadn’t been sick, she doesn’t think Jesse would have gone very far. Lex chimes in saying she was in over her head. MamaKim says she was good at challenges but she really was in over her head and she thinks it was rougher than Jesse had anticipated. Brandon wonders why she did do it then and Lex says she didn’t think it was going to be this hard. Kelly said she didn’t get the impression that Jesse really wanted to change her life because she kept saying how hard she had worked to get where she was in her police force and she was really worried that if she got far in the show, she would have problems back home. Lex asks why would you even apply then? Brandon says that that is what he is curious about too. MamaKim says maybe she applied thinking it could never really happen. Lex speculates that maybe that is true but then once she got to the final cut, she wasn’t about to sabotage herself since she is pretty competitive and then got to the actual game and said “This is NOT what I thought!”

Tribal Council voting—Lex votes for Kelly saying he’s sorry if he’s wrong but he smells a rat. His gut tells her she is playing both sides “and if that’s the case, good riddance!” Brandon votes for Kelly then does this weird thing where he sticks the marker lengthwise into his mouth or maybe it is under his chin, hard to tell. He says that this is a “kicker” but he made a promise to Lex to vote this way against his team but they will get Lex off next time and be back in power. He is doing this to make it at least to the final four even though he knows his team will never forgive him for this. He says she tried to get rid of him when she was at his tribe so “My turn!” Kelly votes for Lex pointing to her little symbol and saying that when it is her, he’ll know it. She could not be more excited to be casting this vote. She never wanted him to win and she hopes he won’t. If this is the last vote she casts, at least she got to vote for him whom she finds “not fun to be around.” She is sure he is decent, he seems like a good guy but she hopes he loses. Theresa votes for Lex saying her vote is because he is “so strong and such a wonderful person and such a wonderful leader that you are a threat to all of us. I think the world of ya.” Kim P. votes for Lex saying she is not sure if this is the right thing to do or not but she is going with her gut here and he is definitely a threat in challenges and Ethan has immunity. She is just going to play the game and see what happens. Tom votes for Kelly saying this is his hardest vote yet but “you is a rat” and they cannot have a rat in the tribe. It is a majority vote, it is hard for him and he hopes they are right on the “rat deal.” Frank votes for Lex saying it is not personal but…then he says something like “the MTO and he only has one slide allocation for one of us.” (Nothing in my experience with the Army is making this sentence make sense so maybe someone else has an idea?) Ethan votes for Kelly staring at the camera and saying nothing. MamaKim votes for Kelly saying she trusted her so much in the beginning but now it really “pains” her to see Kelly going around “pitting one person against another, trying to manipulate the game.” This makes her really uncomfortable and she is unable to trust her at this point as a result.

Urgrace

Wednesday, December 12, 2001 - 11:42 pm Click here to edit this post
Hoorah! My first chance to read the insider. Thanks again Joan!

Looks like littleKim is cruisin' for a bruisin' talking about voting for Ethan. MamaKim may be the betrayer if she wants all the strong players voted off, since she is definitely not one herself. Tom is not going to be happy with Lex when he finds out about Kelly. Maybe the secret alliance is between Frank and Tom, hence the MTO might mean 'move Teresa out' - I know, I know, it's just a way-out-there wild guess! Ha! Brandon was agreeing with Lex to get Lex's approval, but at the same time hopes Lex will be next - hmmmm!

Kep421

Thursday, December 13, 2001 - 05:38 am Click here to edit this post
Thank you Joan, as usual a great job!!!!

If Lex smells a rat, it most probably is the one closest to him. Could Brandon get any further up Lex's butt? Ew, that guy makes my skin crawl....

Tksoard

Thursday, December 13, 2001 - 09:19 am Click here to edit this post
Great job again, Joan!! Thanks, not that it even came close to giving me an idea about voting, but very interesting read!!

Nessietessie

Thursday, December 13, 2001 - 09:22 am Click here to edit this post
Thank you, Joan! You are doing a wonderful job. Have you thought about writing for a living?

Joan

Thursday, December 13, 2001 - 01:06 pm Click here to edit this post
I'm flattered Nessie! :) My mom would love for me to make a living as a writer although I am not sure my little Insider updates would be my best work. *wink* My undergrad degrees would certainly set me up to do something like that but right now I work for the Church. I do get to do quite a bit of writing there though but only internal things.

Smileeys

Thursday, December 13, 2001 - 02:34 pm Click here to edit this post
Joan, thanks - love your comments, too. I was impatient and read someone else's summary but yours was much better - more detailed and understandable :)

Okay, so maybe it is possible that Brandon did overhear Kelly say she was a freeagent. I thought the whole thing was a lie on his part about hearing it - but she said it so maybe he overheard it. Anyway, Lex is creepy. There, I said it and I feel better :)

Sabbatia

Thursday, December 13, 2001 - 06:27 pm Click here to edit this post
Was Brandon insulting Frank?I wish I had read more of the boards before the deadpool vote. I didn't realize just how strong the dislike was between those two. ANyway, I agree, the kissing up to Lex is disgusting. BTW, I used to like Lex, but the man makes me sick now. Besides being paranoid,the man thinks he's king of the hill. I'm glad Theresa voted for him. It let us see what he's really about....though I have to wonder how she's feeling about Kelly taking the fall for her.

Peachie

Thursday, December 13, 2001 - 07:18 pm Click here to edit this post
Thanks for the insider edition Joan, you are great and I think I speak for us all when I say "Glad to have you on our team" ;o) Happy Holidays to all.

Mygetaway

Friday, December 14, 2001 - 12:08 am Click here to edit this post
I want to take the time {this time}to Thank You also Joan. I look forward to your Insider posts. I don't post much of my own here, but I always check in and see what you guys have come up with. Having these little updates, definitely adds to the show.