This is going to be snarky, even for me. Sorry folks, but this season is giving me fodder and I am not the kind to sit buy and idly NOT say the nasty things that come into my head.

Who's dumber, Shambo for losing the chicken or Russell for putting her in charge of them? Seriously, she didn't help win the darn things, she's on the outs with the tribe, is a bit of an odd duck (ha) and ended up channelling Mr. 'God as my witness I thought turkeys could fly' Carlson from WKRP. Russell expressed contempt for her for not knowing this. I submit that as a tribal leader, he's dangerously clueless.

Like being surprised that there is an almost-everyone-except-him alliance on Galu.

Of course, Shambo may not know chickens, but she also doesn't know survivor. Knowing where the HII is is power. Finding it is more power. Handing it to someone else and then saying 'your bad if you screw me over' is just plain...

Yasmin - I love the logic that if you don't do any work, no one can criticize you for doing it wrong. Brilliant! Almost as good as the grammar that got my eight year old to ask 'why does she talk like that?' "I have did everything I was asked." Please, it's a game of stepping up, not following and obviously one of the thing she was asked was not to attend English language classes. Nice shoes though. Byeeee.

Reward challenge - Dave (is that his name?) my new fav. Thrilled on the inside, playing it cool on the outside. But his facial expression of shock and delight was priceless when he won the challenge. Too bad Russell was there with the 'in-your-face' pointing and cheering.

Where was Jeff for this challenge? And how cool was it that they had to figure it out for themselves. I wonder how long they really stood there. Also interesting that they worked completely separately rather than all six coming together to figure it out.

RussHell - he still thinks he has control, and now his alliance is just him and Natalie. The one he calls dumb. Nice to see her showing what got her cast in the confessionals. Nice body.

Monica - who? - on Galu did a credible job taking the noose off of her neck for losing them the challenge on the rope bridge. Making it about who contributes at camp - the the tribe - was brilliant. Russell also showed at TC that he's Lost control of the hearts and minds of his tribe. He said it was all about winning challenges and the rest falls into place. That doesn't explain why he picked comfort over practicality at the last reward. And I believe that was the decision that ultimately will cost him leadership and The Game. He went with being popular with the hot cute chicks, not doing what was right for the tribe. And judging by the previews, they're all about to discover that pillows cannot deflect a monsoon.

I have to admit this season is making me look forward to All Stars 2.5; because I am tired of watching people who cannot play The Game.

I believe we're telegraphing Jaison's inability to deal with the physical conditions and that next week he may Osten out. He's complaining to RussHell aready and it has not begun to get hard. He says it's the worst decision he ever made 'coming here for adventure.' What, is this season one? Here's a clue, if you haven't ever watch the show - get on line and check out any one of the 1,000,000 web sites that will let you know what it is really like.

Keeping the flaming alive...

That was the best summary I read from you...fantastic!

great job, as usual!

It was good to see a little more of Galu this episode. Most of them, I didn't recognize or remember! Monica? Dave? A few I still can't remember!

I did notice that everyone voted for Jasmin (even Russell) except for Jasmin & one of the guys (still not sure which one...)

[quote=LurkNoMore]great job, as usual! :hug: :clap: :notworthy: :jump:

It was good to see a little more of Galu this episode. Most of them, I didn't recognize or remember! Monica? Dave? A few I still can't remember!

I did notice that everyone voted for Jasmin (even Russell) except for Jasmin & one of the guys (still not sure which one...) [/quote]
Yeah, I guess you could say it was one of the guys. The other Monica vote was from Shambo.

So ya, one of the guys...

Why aren't you doing the recaps instead of the Zap2it person. Yours was funnier, more comprehensive and better all around!

LOL but I love shamboo

As always, very happy to see the Sarcastic Summary here. A few thoughts of my own to add to the mix:

1) Russell could not have picked a better season to be in. I have a sneaking suspicion that Richard, and either of the Robs would have seen through his BS rather quickly. The may not have seen all of the lies (like the firefighter one), but they would've picked up on enough to get Russell out of there.

2) Russell's early game has been OK and his end-game strategy seems pretty good, assuming he actually follows through with his promise to say "I did X,Y and Z, and worked all of you" at Final Tribal. Here's the problem I see. His middle game will self destruct, because its basically non-existent. His slash-and-burn strategy of weakening his tribe so he can manipulate them seems woefully short-sighted. If he does turn out to be that last one standing, unless he's incredibly charming, Galu will vote him out after the merge, because he'll be perceived as an outsider and a threat.

3) Two players (at least) this season have chosen to employ a very risky, and yet oddly popular, Survivor strategy: "its OK if I'm really useless in way A because I'm super valuable in way B". Both Shambo and Yasmin tried this and, as we saw, it got Yasmin voted off. Shambo seems to be relishing the outsider role because she's the "provider" and Yasmin was content to do nothing in camp because she was so good at challenges. The problem is, in order, for that strategy to work you need to have Richard or Rupert levels of fishing skill or Ethan or Ozzy levels of challenge prowess. Shambo has already broken the fishing equipment and Lost a chicken, and Yasmin was decent, but not dominant, in the challenges. If you aren't strong enough in your "specialty" your weaknesses seem that much greater. Guess Yasmin learned that the hard way, and Shambo may well be close behind.

Just my two cents.

The Sarcastic Summary has existed since Survivor: Thailand, at the encouragement of CharlesofOrg (although he may deny this!) with only one season hiatus due to burn out and a lack of time to devote to it while handling my paying gig(s). At one point Heather had expressed a potential to make it regular 'feature' but those conversations never went anywhere. If "Anonymous" is someone who works for Zap, I'd welcome renewing the conversation. Please know, faithful readers, it is not The Scribe who is posting those suggestions.