JasonEvans
02-16-2008, 11:58 AM
Ladies and Gents, we have a new candidate for idiot of the year and it is Joel, the Hulk from the new Survivor.
Joel's tribe has just gotten blown out in a challenge because chet was unable to swim -- AT ALL. MikeyB, showing he is too smart for his own good, comes up with a confusing plan to vote Chet out but make sure they do not get blindsided by the immunity idol. Joel is too dumb to understand the plan so he hatches his own plan to get rid of Mary, who is becoming a close pal of MikeyB.
Why Joel chose to pounce on MikeyB and Mary this early is anyone's guess. It makes no sense to me. Get rid of the dead weight from the start and clearly chet is dead weight. He is old and weak and not exactly a brainiac. If Joel feels threatened by MikeyB, he can wait and get rid of the dude later. I just saw no reason to make this move this early. It smacks of folks who are overthinking the game. Survivor is simple in the early stages. Now Joel has made it complicated and divided his tribe even more and has put a big target on his back. I am baffled.
What Joel needs to realize is that he needs as many strong allies as possible or he will be first man out after the merge. He is just too big of an immunity threat to go far unless he has a lot of help. Alienating MikeyB, a guy who would have gone out front as the leader and who would be a strong physical threat too, was a huge mistake in my mind.
I will say this for Joel. Maybe he realizes his only hope is to get to the merge and then win each and every immunity challenge. If that is his plan, then getting rid of stronger players and keeping the dumb, weak ones is smart. I imagine he will target MikeyB next or at least in the very near future. I am sorta amazed that we are going to get that kind of major showdown between two physical players this early, but that is how I seeit stacking up.
As an aside, MikeyB is a loon for thinking that he needed to have a "just in case Kathy found the immunity idol" contingency. It was waaay too early for her to find it (it is always hard to find at first and then made easier around the third or fourth clue) and even if she found it I doube she would play it this early to keep Chet alive. That would be a bad move -- even for someone as emotionally unstable and unsophisticated as Kathy.
Ok, one last thing-- did anyone else notice that Joel did not vote for Mary?!?!?! When they showed the votes at the end, he had voted for Kathy instead. What was up with that? He engineered a coup and then did not take part in it? Hmmmm. What was he thinking there? Is he trying to make his allies in the coup think that one of them did not take part in it and is still part of MikeyB's alliance? Was he trying to cover his tracks for later in the game and say that he was not the person who voted Mary off or something like that? I am really trying to figure out what he has going on.
--Jason "it was good to see Ozzie the challenge stud emerge again -- that dude is the stud swimmer of all-time in Survivor" Evans
Joel's tribe has just gotten blown out in a challenge because chet was unable to swim -- AT ALL. MikeyB, showing he is too smart for his own good, comes up with a confusing plan to vote Chet out but make sure they do not get blindsided by the immunity idol. Joel is too dumb to understand the plan so he hatches his own plan to get rid of Mary, who is becoming a close pal of MikeyB.
Why Joel chose to pounce on MikeyB and Mary this early is anyone's guess. It makes no sense to me. Get rid of the dead weight from the start and clearly chet is dead weight. He is old and weak and not exactly a brainiac. If Joel feels threatened by MikeyB, he can wait and get rid of the dude later. I just saw no reason to make this move this early. It smacks of folks who are overthinking the game. Survivor is simple in the early stages. Now Joel has made it complicated and divided his tribe even more and has put a big target on his back. I am baffled.
What Joel needs to realize is that he needs as many strong allies as possible or he will be first man out after the merge. He is just too big of an immunity threat to go far unless he has a lot of help. Alienating MikeyB, a guy who would have gone out front as the leader and who would be a strong physical threat too, was a huge mistake in my mind.
I will say this for Joel. Maybe he realizes his only hope is to get to the merge and then win each and every immunity challenge. If that is his plan, then getting rid of stronger players and keeping the dumb, weak ones is smart. I imagine he will target MikeyB next or at least in the very near future. I am sorta amazed that we are going to get that kind of major showdown between two physical players this early, but that is how I seeit stacking up.
As an aside, MikeyB is a loon for thinking that he needed to have a "just in case Kathy found the immunity idol" contingency. It was waaay too early for her to find it (it is always hard to find at first and then made easier around the third or fourth clue) and even if she found it I doube she would play it this early to keep Chet alive. That would be a bad move -- even for someone as emotionally unstable and unsophisticated as Kathy.
Ok, one last thing-- did anyone else notice that Joel did not vote for Mary?!?!?! When they showed the votes at the end, he had voted for Kathy instead. What was up with that? He engineered a coup and then did not take part in it? Hmmmm. What was he thinking there? Is he trying to make his allies in the coup think that one of them did not take part in it and is still part of MikeyB's alliance? Was he trying to cover his tracks for later in the game and say that he was not the person who voted Mary off or something like that? I am really trying to figure out what he has going on.
--Jason "it was good to see Ozzie the challenge stud emerge again -- that dude is the stud swimmer of all-time in Survivor" Evans