Survivor Insider: Episode 4

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Joan

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 11:24 am Click here to edit this post
Ethan and his Witch, Dr.—Ethan is sitting around talking to Tom, Lex, Clarence and Kelly (who is crocheting) about the first game he played in Zimbabwe. He was the only white guy there so he felt very out of place. The team didn’t have a doctor, they had a witch doctor and were big believers in luck. The night before the game, they went to this little house in the bush for a meal and everyone got a chore. His chore was killing the goat and skinning it for dinner and he got made fun of because he was still a vegetarian at the time (sounds like he isn’t anymore then?). He said “it was fun.” The next day he woke up and everyone was lined up naked in front of the bathroom. 18 black guys calling each other “three legs” and then him. Everyone was laughing and looking at him like “Does that thing work?” They had to get into what was called the Black Sea—a bath of herbs and oils. Ethan was amazed he had to do this just to play soccer, he thought he had joined a hut or something. After the bath people spread oils all over them and they went and had to “smoke a big fat joint” which he then says was not really a joint but it was something you smoked and then blew the smoke all over your soccer equipment. They couldn’t wipe any of the oils off either because it was bad luck. Lex asks if they won and he says they won every game. He said every time they have a game, they go through this except for the goat which is only for the first game.

Kelly’s Frustration—Kelly is annoyed because she was trying to work and Lex told her she really shouldn’t work when other people are resting because it makes them feel like they cannot rest. She says to the camera that they shouldn’t rest when she feels like working…”Idiot.” Mama Kim and Kelly approached Lex and Ethan about taking “more of a leadership role” early on and they both said they didn’t want to but Lex is very “high energy” and so he is always talking or doing something and this has turned into Lex directing the tribe’s daily activities. Kelly says this doesn’t really bother her because he doesn’t take them in a “terrible direction or anything” and she’s glad it’s not her but at the same time… She says Lex is a lot smarter guy than she had expected and she thinks maybe he was downplaying it earlier. She says he is good as a leader but sometimes he treats them all like he’s the dad and they are all 7. This is hard for Clarence. She doesn’t mind him being the bossy one though because it means someone other than her is getting the “ridicule” of the group. Lex makes comments to her like “You think too much” and “You make me nervous.” She feels underutilized and figures this is better than being overworked but “I’d rather be underutilized than gone.”
There is lots of eye-rolling and shrugging in this clip and her tone sounds a lot like she was answering specific questions.

Clarence and Kelly’s Walk of Shame—Kelly and Clarence are out looking for food from the land. Clarence says the more he thinks about it, he doesn’t want Ethan out, he wants Lex out. Kelly says he is bossy and Clarence agrees. Kelly is frustrated because the reward challenge Mama Kim screwed up for them was not physical. Clarence points out that for every time Kim went, 2 Samburu went but if they vote her off they put themselves in a “real precarious position” and Kelly agrees. She doesn’t want to get rid of Kim but she doesn’t want to lose. Clarence points out that Tom can do roughly too and that not all challenges are going to be the kind Kim will lose for them. Kelly says she really wants to win 3 in a row and not worry about it. Clarence says forget the RCs, all he is concerned about is immunity. “If you’re thinking of getting rid of Kim…” he says and she protests saying she isn’t. Clarence says if Boran loses the IC, they should get rid of Lex because Ethan “will pretty much go wherever the ship is headed” and Kelly says he has a good point. Clarence says Lex is an issue for him but he is putting up with it and pretending he is 5 so Lex can do “the whole geeky thing but...” Kelly says if Tom Lex and Ethan vote for Clarence, it wouldn’t matter who Clarence, Kelly and Kim voted for so they have to win immunity. (She doesn’t seem willing to discuss what they should do if they lose). Clarence says Tom isn’t going to vote for him because Tom is so weak he knows they need Clarence. Clarence tells Kelly he enjoys their walks so they can act their age. They then do their impressions of Lex.

Working on the night shift—Lex is up at night by the fire with Kim. He says they determine guard shift changes by their gut since none of them have watches. He says he checks the 2 fires every 5-10 mins he figures so once he has done that 6-7 times, he thinks that is about an hour. There is no way for them to tell time at night because there is no sun but every morning they check and see if anyone had an unusually short or long shift and adjust that way. He says the morning shift is the easiest because you know it is over when the sun comes up. Kim says the first shift is the longest but they are broken down by 8:30 or 9pm-12am, 12am-3am then 3am to 6am. The morning shift is easiest she says because you have had 6 hrs or so of sleep by that time but the first shift is so hard to stay awake for.

Linda and Lindsey work on their differences—Lindsey is sitting on the ground crying and Linda is squatting in front of her stroking her arms. Lindsey says a lot came out last night that surprised everyone and Linda says she was “surprised and sad” but not angry. Lindsey says she has to understand that the older people split off from them just like they split off from the older people. Linda agrees saying, of course. Lindsey says everyone was contradicting themselves saying they should come together yet the older people went off to the watering hole for 3 hrs and “that doesn’t help anything” because the young ones were sitting back at camp with breakfast ready (I hope she doesn’t mean the day they pigged out). Lindsey says it takes an entire team and the more the older ones split off, the more the younger ones split off. She insists she is “very open to constructive criticism” and there is “nothing that cannot be said to me in a constructive way.” She says communication is critical to their survival and last night she was very upset and had to get it out. “I disguised my sadness by anger.” Linda is kind of adding little encouraging noises and “That’s fine” throughout this. Lindsey tells Linda she appreciates Linda bringing it up in the morning because sometimes when someone is so hurt, it takes a “slap in the face to bring them out of it.” It cuts to Linda saying she “didn’t feel it” from Brandon or Kim and later she didn’t feel “it” from Lindsey (maybe she means the rigidity?). Lindsey just wants to know why it was her and Linda says it could have been any one of the young people. Lindsey says it “terrified” her and she was worried the older people had seen a side of her that she doesn’t even have. Speaking of that, Linda says the young people have the wrong image of her. Lindsey says she knows Linda is a good person and a good judge of character. Linda says she wants to deeply apologise for asking Lindsey if her mother ever hugged her, that was “totally uncalled for” and Lindsey says “I would never say that about your kids.” Linda asks Lindsey’s forgiveness and Lindsey barely nods and Linda leans over to hug her. Lindsey cries on Linda’s shoulder and then tells Linda that her parents hug her all the time but when she is angry she clams up and “my brain and my mouth don’t function together sometimes.” Lindsey says to look at the younger group, there are no problems there, they are “wonderful,” it was just that there was animosity and she took it a step further. She apologises and admits she is emotional. They smile and hug and get up.

It’s not over yet for the elders—Frank and Linda are sitting around whispering a bit and Linda is gesturing. The camera comes closer and Frank says Carl was his calendar so now he is a bit confused but they figure out it is July 20th, day 10. Frank tells her “the speech was beautiful” and Linda laughs. Frank says they still just need one person from the young group to have turmoil and “the target is still the same.” Linda talks about how Lindsey’s votes could hurt in the merge so “let him get some votes against him” (obviously Silas) for doublecrossing them. Linda says she will not grovel with them to stay on. She asks Frank if he noticed that last night they kept calling for a “team hug” and she said she was ready to go over there and then realized they didn’t mean the older people. Linda describes them as “power happy” and “greedy” but says they are not secure even now or they wouldn’t be doing all the “team” stuff and getting in the older groups’ faces like Lindsey did. She says Lindsey is “all over the place,” shakes her head and says “Time will tell.” “We would never have come back and done that shit” Linda says.

Saturday in the real world—Silas wants everyone to go around and say what they would be doing that day in the real world. Linda says she gets up and then goes to the gym for 9am Body Pump and 10am Spin Class. At about 11:15am, she goes home and starts the day with the kids but Sat. morning is her time. Lindsey asks what she does with her kids and she says anything, swimming, movies, library, etc. Frank says he gets up at 0530 and makes the coffee, goes out naked to get the paper and reads it. By that time his girls are up wanting cereal. He gets them dressed then he goes in at about 7am to wake up his wife “even though she is 3 mos pregnant.” Then he lets them have some time while he goes out and waters everything including the blueberry trees. If they don’t call him into work he would find something to do—“brushhogging.” Brandon would have slept until noon, had lunch with friends and then gone to a pool party or something fun that night since Saturday is his day off. He would have got “sloshed” and gone dancing all night. Linda laughs at his “tough life.” Theresa says she usually works weekends but on a free weekend, she takes the kids to the Huddle (?) house for breakfast then comes back home, goes to Kelly’s Bait Shop for worms and then out to the lake to fish and swim. In the summer, Lindsey usually has a mountain bike race on Saturdays so she camps with about 5 of her racing partners then wakes up around 6am to warm up and tune up their bikes and “panic and freak out” for 1-2 hrs. On a day when there is no race, she gets up about 9am for breakfast, walks her dog for an hour and then takes off with her partners for an all day ride. Every Saturday she is on her bike. Silas says being a bartender, he stays up so late so on Saturdays he sleeps until 10 or 11am then makes eggs and coffee and reads the paper on the porch. He calls some buddies and they go surfing, sunbathe, play volleyball, ride motorcycles (does every hot young male on every reality TV show have a bike or what? Colby, Hardy, Silas…) then have a cookout at the house. Kim gets up, feeds her cats, eats breakfast then runs to the gym to work out for 3 hrs and runs home. Then she gets on the phone and finds out what is going on, goes out to eat with friends, goes to bars or takes the train into the city.

Theresa is devastated—She says the older group was devastated about “losing the coin toss” even though she says devastated is a really strong word. She felt sick about it and was frustrated. She says Linda’s frustration came out because of Lindsey’s “ugly” comments and Linda started talking about the need to come together which led to all the feelings coming out and all the “How would you have felt?” She doesn’t know what happened with Lindsey and Linda but she guesses when Linda tried to get a hug that “it wasn’t a good hug time right then.” Lindsey said she’d drop it or something to that effect and Linda did a “fancy dancy” bow or whatever (she struggles with how to describe it but it is obvious she found it odd). When she did that, Theresa saw a “fire” in her eyes and Linda gave Lindsey this look that Theresa cannot forget even now. She says if Linda had done that “series of arm motions” to her with that look she would have had a hard time not remembering it. Theresa understands that Lindsey’s feelings were just hurt. She tried to ignore Lindsey but it was hard. Theresa has also been wondering what if she had formed an alliance with the young people first. She says from the minute they got off the Overlander, she just didn’t feel as comfortable with the young ones, probably because she is older and she figures she wouldn’t have been herself as much if she had been in their alliance because of the talk and the language. She doesn’t think that is just a young thing though because she knows she didn’t “use those words for everything” when she was their age. She was not as mature as she is now but their language is “ugly” at times. She lets it all roll off her back but she is not used to hearing that kind of language used so carelessly all the time and the topics they discuss bother her too. She doesn’t know if it is immaturity but she thinks as they get older, their personalities probably won’t change much. They might not be discussing bars and what drinks are best to drink but they won’t change that much according to her.

Kim Powers takes it up a notch—Kim reflects on how much things have changed as she has learned about the game. She used to think whatever chance she had to vote for Frank, she would do it but now she knows she needs him if she personally wants to get further which she knows is selfish but that is how the game is. In the beginning it was all about how she can’t stand Frank but now she knows they need his strength and him bothering her has nothing to do with the game. They are both trying to get along with each other better. He has the one kind of personality that bothers her but she figures dealing with him is a good learning experience. She thinks he is “very condescending toward women” but he made a comment that morning about women which was positive and she is happier. She doesn’t think they would be friends outside of the game. He is too condescending and authoritative for her but she is learning to just say ok because she knows getting in his face will not change his views.

Frank’s concerned about security—He says security has been a “joke since day one” but he is not going to force Theresa and Linda so he is “basically taking chances right now.” Their watches were ok the night before although he is not sure about their quality. He doesn’t know what it is but their security is “lax.” He wants the fence to be thicker and he says he has been procrastinating about building a gate, holding off to see if one of the other guys wanted to do it. They are down to no firewood and little water and he isn’t going to bust his ass for them, he wants to see how they do things. He says if they “don’t give a damn” then he won’t “carry their asses all the way through.”

An intense Tribal Council voting—Lindsey votes saying “It’s a game.” (Sounds like they cut her off some) Brandon votes in a whisper saying “she can totally hear” but says Linda had him going from the start. He thought she was this great, sweet “Earth Mother” and was looking forward to spending time with her but then he saw this other side of her 4-5 times and she turned her “compadres” against the young people so…bye. Linda votes for Silas saying “Well buddy, you have two favourite sayings.” One of them is “strength and honour” but “we believe that honour is more important” so her vote is for Carl, for Frank and for Theresa. His other favourite is “It’s only a game” so she says “It’s only a game, play nicely.” Theresa votes saying “strength and honour and this is for honour.” She says she sticks with her alliance and this is for Linda and Frank and “this is for you Carl.” Frank votes saying “Samburu’s motto is strength and honour and it is my job to uphold the honour.” He holds up his card saying “This is for Carl.” Silas votes saying there should be no hard feelings, it is part of the strategy and “see you on the other side.” Kim votes saying it is really hard for her because she has learned so much from Linda. She hopes Linda continues to enjoy her time in Africa and Kim hopes to see her “on the other side.” (Think they rehearse what they want to say with each other?)

Kep421

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 12:28 pm Click here to edit this post
Thank you Joan...I really enjoyed seeing the Boran tribe forming alliances. I never would have thought Clarence and Kelly....wow.

Misslibra

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 01:06 pm Click here to edit this post
Thank you from me to Joan. :) And Kep I so agree with you about Clarence and Kelly... I never would of thought of them two as a alliances, and it seems Lex is wearing on their nerves, I'm surprised they were complaining about Lex instead of Tom.

Snee

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 01:14 pm Click here to edit this post
i loved that part about kelly and clarence saying they can act their ages when they're alone...and then they mimick lex. umm, how old are they supposed to be??

anyway, thanks joan! this is great!

Micknrc

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 02:15 pm Click here to edit this post
Okay...they're after my man lex...

It's awnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!

thank you joan I still can't get judy's ftps (i'm jus stoopid with french fried taters an kedtchup...unh..hunh...) so your viewpoint is invaluable...

sitting in the bleachers with a Jameson's Irish coffee and a guinness....

slainte
mick

Micknrc

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 02:34 pm Click here to edit this post
ps kelly's evil
I voted her off the first week
okay so I went 2/3 deadpool
I was trying to like Clarence..
but if Kelly's the best thing he can come up with...
*********him too!

Go LEX! (I know it's editing, but he doesn't seem that awful to me...)

GO LEX
GO ETHAN
GO BORAN ....(or whatever form you take after "twist"

Lancecrossfire

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 02:38 pm Click here to edit this post
Thanks Joan!! It's great to see some of the others things going on.

It makes sense Clarence would choose Lex--Tom and Clarence are bonding pretty well, and Ethan is a team player (I call it that instead of being a sheep). Most everyone is looked down upon who takes a leadership role at the beginning. Not saying it's deserved--just saying it happens that way for some reason.

Micknrc

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 03:13 pm Click here to edit this post
baaa

Egbok

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 09:07 pm Click here to edit this post
Thank you Joan, I really enjoy your summaries.

Tksoard

Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 09:49 pm Click here to edit this post
Joan, You are the BEST!! Thank you!!

Tntitanfan

Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 05:06 am Click here to edit this post
Joan, thank you so much for taking the time to do these summaries for us! It really takes the game to a whole other dimension to have more exposure to how the folks interact.

Ark

Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 07:30 pm Click here to edit this post
You are a sweetheart Joan

Sunshinemiss

Sunday, November 04, 2001 - 10:08 pm Click here to edit this post
Thanks Joan, this adds a lot to the show, a whole new side to some folks.

Sawheel17

Monday, November 05, 2001 - 11:19 am Click here to edit this post
Thanks Joan. I have my fix now and feel so much better. Off to vote I go.