Back on Survivor. Just binged Panama, Cook Islands, and Fiji.
Panama was fun. Shane swearing on his son's life 25 times and threatening to kill people was wild. I was on Terry's side for a while, until he told Aras that his relationship with his mother wasn't as important as Terry's own relationship with his wife. Insane thing to say. I think Cirie played the best game, making some important moves like orchestrating the eliminations of Courtney and Shane. Aras got lucky with outcome of the fire-building tiebreaker between Cirie and Danielle. I don't think there's any way he would have beat Cirie in the final two.
I loved Cook Islands from start to finish. Loved watching the Aitu Four overcome a seemingly impossible numbers advantage, winning challenge after challenge. Yul played a fantastic, strategic game and so deserved that win. Probably the best game anyone had played up to that point in Survivor history. Love the way he used the hidden immunity idol to overcome the numbers advantage following the merge. The way he used Penner's vote to get the majority on his side, then voted Penner out to appease Adam. Good stuff. Ozzy was impressive with his fishing, climbing, and challenge domination, but for some reason, I just don't care about him that much. Also, why am I obsessed with Jonathan Penner? Please help me. There is something about his obvious intelligence, understanding of the game, eloquence, and ability to communicate with people vs. his disastrous strategic choices, flipping back and forth. Something about the way he was almost in tears when Cao-Boi knocked down the nest with the newborn baby bird. The way he stood his ground and kept a cool head when Candace, Parvati, and Adam were attacking him on a personal level over his gameplay. Also, his smartass comments to Jeff. "Oh please, Jeff." Lmaoooo. Someone tell me to shut up before I go insane. Speaking of Penner, Candice's (and Parvati's and Adam's, but mostly Candice's) reaction to him flipping on their tribe was truly psychotic. I mean, hello, welcome to the game.
Fiji was incredibly boring in the beginning, but it picked up a lot after the merge. Earl was playing hard from the start, controlling most of the game. He is another very deserving winner. The blindside of Edgardo, while Mookie and Alex were worried about passing the idol back and forth between each other, was a beautiful thing. Alex playing the idol and not getting a single vote cast against him. Beautiful. Good on Stacy for pushing that, even though I hate her guts. They can thank Dreamz for the intel on that one though. I still can't figure out if Dreamz had a carefully thought out strategy, or if he was just changing his mind from minute to minute. Regardless, the results were the same, and he played a fairly impressive game that got him to the final. I don't care that he promised Yau-Man immunity in exchange for the car. In fact, I was hoping he wouldn't follow through with the deal. Lol. I was very impressed by Yau-Man's survival game and his ability to win challenges as well.
