Survivor: Philippines - Episode 4
Create a Little Chaos
By Ben Willoughby
October 11, 2012
The rain has cleared over at Kalabaw and Jonathan, Jeff Kent and Carter go out clamming. In interview, Jeff Kent says that he is out there with a bunch of kids who aren’t married and don’t know how to carry on a professional conversation. Are the two related? Meanwhile, Jonathan is married and therefore the only one who can carry on a professional conversation. Jeff Kent decides to adapt. Coot power!
Jonathan gets a moment with Jeff Kent, which was the whole point of clamming, and Jeff Kent goes on about how they each bring value – Jonathan with his experience and the hidden immunity idol and Jeff Kent with his relationships and the people he controls.
Jonathan is totally on board, and interviews that Jeff Kent likes him and they can be loyal to each other deep into the game, and in another interview taken just after the clamming says that he has “a real ally.”
Back at the canoe, Jeff Kent agrees with a “let’s ride together and see where we go.” And then he gives Jonathan all five fingers. He’s definitely less committed to the alliance than Jonathan is, but then Jonathan has nowhere else to go right now.
Jonathan then deigns to talk with Carter, to whom he’s probably spoken only five words since coming to the island. Jonathan feeds him some bull about a young man being true to his word playing a straight-up game, which is code for “you don’t come after me until after I’ve gotten rid of you”.
Carter tells Jonathan that being aligned with Dawson and Katie wouldn’t get him far in the game, and interviews that he’s allied with Jonathan. At least until the top five, when he can target him. So now, “the girls... are on the chopping block.” Poor Dana.
Of course, Dana, Dawson and Katie are all off together, talking about how the guys are off talking about them. Dana says “it was a democracy at the beginning, but now it’s a democracy between them three.” So, like the way democracy used to be. Eighteenth century democracy!
Dana suggests that the three of them should stick together, and come the merge gather in more ladies. Neither Dawson or Katie look like they want to play their hand this way, and while they are sitting in a row without any eye contact, no one is wanting to make eye contact with anyone else. “It’s about to get crazy,” says Katie. Poor Dana.
Day 9 on Matsing, and Russell is bemoaning the fact that he comes back on Survivor, and 50% of the tribe turned out to be almost useless, and that he will not make the merge because of “a smoker, a lunatic and a beauty queen.” Oh, Russell. Matsing’s closer to 66% useless.
Malcolm interviews he “sized Russell up pretty good right off the bat and he’s met my low expectations the entire way through.” He goes on that Russell lacks self-awareness, and “it’s apparent in challenges, it’s apparent in the way he talks to us around camp, it’s apparent in the way he loses his cool in Tribal for no reason.” Well, no reason except when he goes to Tribal Council he knows that it’s him or someone else, and he wants it to be the someone else.
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