Survivor Nicaragua

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlum

Biggest blindside of the season, IMO. Brenda was just HOSED by Sash. Will be interesting if he gets to the finals.

I haven't watched a lot of this season, but I wouldn't really consider what happened to Brenda a "blindside". She knew she was going home. She was just too proud to admit it.

And I'm not so sure she really believed Sash would give her the HII. I think they just edited that scene at tribal council to make it look like Brenda was looking at Sash and counting on him to save her.

I wasn't all that surprised to see Chase vote for her, either. I think he did it to try to save his own ass going into the next few days, because he started turning everyone off after he was telling Brenda everything.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

One would think first grade science would be enough time for people to learn some basic camp-protocol. What were they thinking?

Hey! Let's surround our campfire with WOODEN CHESTS, filled with supplies, and then leave it unattended while we all go away for the day!

FIFY.

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

I haven't watched a lot of this season, but I wouldn't really consider what happened to Brenda a "blindside". She knew she was going home. She was just too proud to admit it.

And I'm not so sure she really believed Sash would give her the HII. I think they just edited that scene at tribal council to make it look like Brenda was looking at Sash and counting on him to save her.

Based on Brenda's interview at Reality News Online, she saw it coming, but she found out too late before tribal council, and it came as such a surprise to her that she was, in her words, "paralyzed." And knew Sash wouldn't give her the idol.

RNO: The big question of the day: Why didn’t you use Sash’s idol? Did he refuse to give it to you?

Brenda: Yeah. If I was Sash, I wouldn’t have given it to me either. What people didn’t see is that one reason NaOnka decided I was very dangerous is because I trusted her so much that I trusted her with my plan to take out Sash. When Sash and the guys went out to the reward challenge, I thought, “Sash is probably playing me. If there’s one person who can stop me, it’s him. Maybe I should take him out before he takes me out.” I shared that with NaOnka. I was like, “We have to stick together.” I think that was when she was like, Brenda is [scheming].

One of the first things she said to Sash [on last night’s episode] was Brenda is planning to take him out, so there’s no way he was going to say, “Here you go, girl.” I was going to doing it. The time when I needed his idol or NaOnka’s idol, it didn’t make sense. It was hopeful thinking. You know the song, “All I Need Is a Miracle”? That song was what I was thinking – “All I need is that freaking idol!” But there was no way they were going to give it up.

RNO: We saw Chase and Sash vote against you along with just about everybody else – did you essentially give up and give them permission to do so?

Brenda: We talked and talked about it. I tried to push for Benry and NaOnka and threw out the whole idol thing. In the end, they told me point blank, “We cannot do anything. We have to look out for ourselves in the game.” What do you do when somebody tells you that? I still had hopeful wishful thinking they would somehow be like, “Brenda didn’t scramble because she’s still with us.” I didn’t scramble for a reason! It was not the pride thing. I wanted them to see I’m sticking with you guys ‘til the end. I trust you guys and want to play the game with you guys. That was what I was thinking the whole time and they didn’t [go along with it] – they voted for me. It’s all good and I understand why.

Meanwhile, Purplekelly is clueless, despite her 20 years of wisdom. (Heh.) And old-lady Jane rocked the immunity challenge.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Meanwhile, Purplekelly is clueless, despite her 20 years of wisdom. (Heh.) And old-lady Jane rocked the immunity challenge.

Purplekelly was the one I forgot about this episode. When Jeff called on her at Tribal, I had a "Who?" moment.

I hope Jane wins EVERY challenge to the end and wins it all.


There for a little while I thought Nay was going. Not knowing all of the backstory that Brenda provided to RNO, I thought maybe Sash and Brenda would use the HII to eliminate Nay (and the other idol).

The alliances and pecking order have shifted SOO quickly this season. I haven't read RNO this season, except what MC has posted here, but it's definitely not following their "rules" AT ALL. I wonder if they'll make big adjustments thinking that since the show has been on so long, the traditional strategies are no longer effective, or if they'll just assume this season is a freak of nature.