Survivor Guatemala: Episode 7
Pool Party, Second Chances And A Merge
Recap by Professor Dan
October 28, 2005
In the recap, we see a little of Judd's outburst against Margaret, and his grin when Nakum voted her out.
We take up this week at Nakum, on Night 15. Tribal Council is over, and Judd is KIND OF apologizing to the rest of his Tribe for his outburst. "I'm not a loose cannon," he tells us. Jamie doesn't mind, though-he thinks Judd would be perfect to take to the Final Two, because then Jamie would sweep the votes: he assures us that Judd's "gonna keep blowing up…"
Yaxha, Day 16: Bobby Jon is shown painfully peeling off his shirt, which is stuck to his shoulder. Both he and Brandon have open sores on their shoulders from where they rubbed them against the giant ball in the last Reward Challenge. But, Brandon tells us, that won't matter in the next Challenge-they won't even feel their sores.
Speaking of which, we are now at the Reward Challenge, which is a doozy. As a stern Jeff Probst tells them, there are four poles for each Tribe, each of which has 30 feet of fabric wound around it. There will be a player at each pole. On Jeff's go, the first person will attach the material to their belt, then proceed to go around and around the pole, unspooling the fabric from the pole, and winding it around themselves. They'll have another Tribemate (the "winder") to help them. Then they'll go to the next pole, where the person there will hook on and BOTH of them will do the unspooling/winding thing, with the "winder's" help. Then on to poles three and four, same deal. Once they've reached the end of the fabric on the fourth pole, the "winder" will run to the mat. The players will then start unwinding themselves, with each person who unwinds from the group running to the mat. First Tribe to get all five players on the mat wins Reward! Want to know what you're playing for? Just once, I'd like them to say "No Jeff, we really don't give a crap!" Anyway, it seems the ancient Maya invented lots of cool stuff, but their greatest discovery may have been: chocolate! So the Reward will be a chocolate feast, AND a chance to ride a zip line through the jungle. Worth playing for? And just once, I'd like them to say "Hell no, screw THAT, we'll sit this one out!", but that never happens either...
Judd sits out for Nakum to even up the sides, and Yaxha and Nakum have chosen Amy and Jamie to be their "winders". For Nakum, it's Stephenie, Lydia, Rafe, and Cindy on the poles, while Yaxha has Brandon, Gary, Bobby Jon, and Danni. It's kind of a cool challenge to watch, especially once Steph and Brandon get their fabric wound around them and have to go on to the next person. Having two people (then three, then four) going round and round a pole, essentially bound together, without tripping or messing up, isn't easy. It's also interesting that when Brandon and Gary started going around in tandem, they chose to go front-to-back, whereas Steph and Lydia went for the face-to-face position. As a guy, I'm thinking I'd want to avoid being bound face to face with another guy (although front-to-back is awfully… well… gay-looking too!) Then again, having everybody facing in the same direction makes sense, because it's easier than one or more people having to walk backwards. In any case, the Tribes are pretty much even at the fourth and final pole. BUT, when the "winders" depart and the teams have to unwind, Yaxha takes a slight lead. Then, disaster: Nakum falls down, and they can't get up! They keep stumbling and falling! Yaxha gets a decisive victory! Jeff compliments Yaxha on their teamwork, then with his now-usual sourness says to Nakum: "Flip side, YOU fell down, you couldn't get up, you panicked. I got nothing for you. Head back to camp." Whatta guy…
Still Day 16, and Amy is up a tree. Literally. And she's about to zip line through the jungle. Now, Amy is afraid of heights, but she sucks it up and goes. Afterwards, she tells us that it was "an unbelievable experience, but probably for me, just a once-in-a-lifetime experience!" The others take their turns on the zip line, and they all love it (Brandon's comment: "God it was so COOL…") After the ziplining, they arrive at their feast-all kinds of chocolate candy, chocolate-covered strawberries and cherries, chocolate cake, and milk to wash it down with (I thought I saw a wine bottle too, but nobody seemed to want to indulge-they stuck with milk.) They gorged themselves, then took back bowls of leftovers to their camp.
Day 17, Nakum: Rafe has made a deck of "cards" out of leaves by painting the suits and all on them, and a few of them are playing, when Yaxha comes rowing up to their dock and calls them out! No, it's not a rumble - Yaxha just wants to invite Nakum to a "pool party" in honor of Danni's birthday. Jamie and Cindy immediately don't want to go because they're "the other side", even though Gary promises that it'll just be fun: "We stay at the dock, nobody going anywhere, there's no buffs, no game talk, just have fun in the pool." Danni also mentions they have some leftover chocolate, and that seals the deal- Nakum is in! Of course, on the way over Jamie and Cindy keep grumbling about "Why do we have to do this?" Jamie says, "I don't like these people…" and Cindy agrees. Privately, she tells us "I thought it was stupid," then goes on to ask "Why should we go and hang out with the people that we want to get rid of?" Well, let's see-because you're probably about one Tribal Council away from the MERGE, moron, and pissing off a bunch of people you're gonna shortly be spending quality time with, is NOT a good idea! Not to mention you're just being RUDE...
The "pool party" goes.....
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