So far, Survivor: One World has really been a disaster in my eyes. Any time they have to mix up teams only a few weeks in, you know they had poor planning and a poor gimmick. The show is having a terrible run of cast members who appear to be more focused on furthering their career outside the game than actually trying to win. I guess that’s what happens when you recruit models/actors instead of relying on applications.
It looked like it was going to be another season of that when Colton Cumbie was running the show, and every other person was sitting back and letting him. He was getting so arrogant that he had no problem telling Christina that it was her turn to go next. I understand trying to be the big shot right before tribal, but he’s telling her this before they even played for immunity. If he said that to someone on an All-Star season, or blatantly showed his own idol, he would have been one of the first to go.
Nobody is really playing the game. It has basically been to form an alliance, stay together, peg off those not lucky enough to get with the ‘in crowd’, and hope they don’t shake the game up on them. It may be a sound strategy to get further in the game if you have the numbers, but as we seen last year, when you play games like that, people get all emotional and hurt when you betray them. That’s why Russell lost a few times, and why Coach lost last year. You almost get punished for outwitting people now, so nobody does it. It’s a joke, and a bore to watch.
I didn’t watch Survivor until about 11pm so I was already getting wind that something big happened in the game. When I saw Christina chatting with the guys, I thought “Ok, this is it. She’s going to convince the guys to backdoor Colton (not literally), and finally we’ll see a real shakeup in the game”. Of course, she targeted Alicia instead, which would have caused Colton to use his idol next week and therefor potentially peg off one of their own alliance, but hey I’ll take whatever strategy I can get at this point.
Did it happen? Nope. Colton woke up really sick, turned out he had appendicitis and was removed from the game, which made me wonder a few things:
- Why were we given the impression Kourtney would have been allowed back in the game if x-rays were negative, yet Colton was going to be removed from the game the second he left?
- When did Colton put on all the same clothes and head back into the jungle to film his interviews? Did they bring him from the hospital, drive him to some random place and sit him in front of trees? I understand why they did it, because interviewing him in the hospital midway through the episode would have given it away, but it still seemed weird.
- If I’m ever sick, please keep Jeff away. I don’t want him narrating my painful ordeal and interviewing doctors as they’re treating me.
- This makes me wonder if karma really exists. Colton is so negative and arrogant, telling Christina to jump in the fire to leave via med, but then has to leave that way himself. Or perhaps it was staged that way? Nah, a reality show would never do that!
What are your thoughts on how it went last night?
Oh and before I close this post, I forgot to mention yet another change. Now the tribes have been merged to one complete tribe. This has to be the earliest this has ever been done, further proof of the train wreck they got themselves into with the men versus women gimmick.