Survivor Gabon - November 6, 2008

I was away but thanks to Lynn for updating us on the Survivor Skullduggery for the week..

After the Kota tribal council, tribe members strategize about a possible merge. The Kota 6 will dominate - Corinne, Randy, Marcus, Susie, Bob and Charlie. Fang will be easy pickings. There's just one Spanish fly in the ointment - Susie. She gets called out because of her bold declaration that Corinne is the weakest member of the tribe. Kota is concerned that Susie will flip come the merge. Susie assures them she's going with the program, while secretly telling the camera she has all the power in the game. Those are some good drugs she's on. Over at Fang, Matty is still blown away by Ace's departure. He is praying for a merge. When Tree Mail arrives, Survivors learn they are going to have a beach bash. Oh, it's the merge, oh it's the merge! We are so happy, we are so happy! Indeed there is a mergeiful feast waiting on the beach for them. Food, beer and wine in abundance. Survivors are cautioned not to open the ominous looking box until they're done partying. While they're inhaling their food, Kenny spots a piece of paper sticking out from underneath the box. He trys to surreptitiously read the writing. It's directions to find another immunity idol. You can almost see Kenny's heart start to pump faster. However, Charlie catches him in the act and demands to know what's on the paper. He gives it up to Charlie who throws it out for the whole crew to read. Marcus suggests they find and throw the idol away to make it fair to everyone. Randy takes charge (the self-declared King Randy) and leads the hunt for the idol. Once found, King Randy and Prince Marcus send the idol to a floating grave. (Let's pause a moment here to remember our own Billy the Idol who met a tragic fate several seasons ago at the hands of our own Rick Minett. Rumour has it Rick burned Billy alive in the fireplace - oh the horror!!!). But back to the beach. All boozed up and pretty darn happy with themselves, the King and Prince stand by as the box is opened. Survivors are instructed to each take a numbered rock from a bag without looking at the number. Oh dear, it's not a merge. It's two new tribes. Kota continues their incredible streak of luck by ending up with 3 members and a majority on each tribe. The Kota 6 is unbroken. The new Kota tribe is Bob, Marcus, Crystal, Kenny and Susie. Fang is Matty, Sugar, Randy, Corinne and Charlie. At camp Matty pulls Sugar aside and tells her that Ace had her back. Sugar is devastated that she voted Ace out. We are going to chip in some money from our Survivor pool and get Sugar a T-shirt that says "I believe!". Cos she believed Ace when he told her that it was the two of them together forever, she believed Kenny when he said Ace was moving against her, and she believes Matty when he says Kenny was totally lying to her. She switches sides faster than the speed of light. Before the immunity challenge, the former Kota members on Fang discuss throwing the competition so they can vote Matty off. They figure it's a win win situation because they're rid of the strongest player from Fang and Marcus is safe from Tribal Council at Kota. At the challenge, each tribe member was required to balance a pole on the top of each hand. Resting across the top of the two poles was a board. Tribe members had to keep their board balanced. Guess who was the first one out?? C'mon, you can do it. She owns a piece of gold hardware that athletes around the world strive for. Yes, the Olympic gold medalist was out first. She lasted for 1 second. Enough said. Survivors from both tribes continued to drop their poles which brings us to a slight snag in Fang's plans. They forgot to tell Matty their tribe was supposed to throw the competition so they could vote him out. A slightly deranged Matty ended up in a showdown with Bob. Our Dimples thought Matty's hooting at Bob would be his demise, but Matty managed to hang on to win immunity for Fang. (Note to Crystal - Bob is the oldest member on Survivor and I don't think he's ever won any gold medals. Oh and by the way, Susie beat you too!!). Back at Kota, the Kota 6 members are still feeling confident. Marcus has discovered that Crystal is the cousin of one of his best friends so it would be ungentlemanlike to vote her out first therefore Kenny must go. Susie talks to Marcus and assures him she's sticking with him because he's taking her to the Final 3 - right?? Sure, sure, says Marcus in not so many words. Well really no words because he has no intention of taking Susie anywhere. Marcus tells his new best friend Crystal that he is going to keep her. She will be the newest member of the Kota 6. They'll start with Kenny this week and Susie gets chopped the next week. Not so fast says Crystal. Kenny is my boy. While the men cook dinner, Crystal cozies up to Susie in the tent for some girl talk. Susie assures Crystal that Marcus is taking her to the Final 3. Crystal starts dealing out a reality check to Susie. Was it successful? At Tribal Council, Kenny seems somewhat bitter barking at Marcus about his smugness. When Bob casts his vote for Kenny, he tells the camera that he hopes Kenny feels better after getting that off his chest. Marcus & Bob chuckle as Kenny's vote for MarcAce comes up. Poor deluded Kenny. The votes continue - Kenny, Kenny, Marcus (whoops that smile just slipped a little) and one more Marcus to seal the delectable doctor's fate. Bet he wishes he didn't murder the helpless idol now. With Marcus goes Selina Makofsky and if you got to go Selina, it might as well be with a hot doctor. Until next time,Lynn (aka Gillian - I had to look up her name it's been so long - Larson) P.S. Is it just me or is Matty starting to bear an uncanny resemblence to Leonardo Di Caprio in Blood Diamond??