Survivor: Palau commentary

Survivor: Palau episode 1 revisited

Wow. The series started with a blast. Intriguing to watch as the castaways fight the battle between game strategy and immunity inside their heads. The moment when everyone started jumping off the boat and swimming frantically towards shore was one of the tensest moments ever in the series.

Ian & Jolanda snagged immunity, Jolanda nearly knocking over Jenn on the way, then announcing herself as the strongest woman there. Bad move.

Everyone split up to get water, make fire, build shelter. Coby's the gay pink-shirted hairdresser who appears to be the resident strategist of the new season. Angie's the tattoo girl. Both hit it off right away but Coby cautions not to make himself a bigger target. Coby goes around trying to get people to vote out Jonathan.

James is the redneck, Tom the NYC firefighter, Janu the Las Vegas showgirl. Tom, Ian, Steph and Katie makes an alliance. Gregg is nervous that they have not been divided into tribes yet.

Tribes divided into brown older Koror and blue younger Ulong. Stephenie survives her earlier mistake of jumping in too early, but Jonathan did not, and was sent home along with wacky singing Wanda. Koror: Ian, Katie, Tom, Janu, Gregg, Jenn, Coby, Caryn, Willard. Ulong: Jolanda, Bobby Jon, Stephenie, Jeff, Kim, James, Ashlee, Ibrehem, Angie. Angie feels betrayed by Coby and thinks she's on the wrong tribe.

Immunity Challenge. Jolanda makes the critical error of insisting that they bring along food and water but not fire, interesting strategy. Koror brings only fire. Koror easily wins immunity while Ulong can't even cooperate long enough to get their boat going.

Tom leads Koror to select a new beach for their home. Overjoyed about bringing home fire and immunity, they capsized, leaving their fire at the bottom of the ocean.

Tribal council. Jolanda, seen as a too bossy and too much of a threat, snuffed.

posted by Jeff @ 11:04 PM