Survivor: Philippines - Episode 6

Down and Dirty

By Ben Willoughby

October 26, 2012

At least I didn't say anything about cookies.

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Then Jonathan realizes that there are envelopes addressed to each of the castaways, so he bigs those up as well. They contain letters from home and everyone tears up. We go through the interview rounds, with Carter talking about how much it hit him, Denise saying that it gives her a different motivation to keep going and Jonathan saying that everything from the reward – the food and the letters - will keep them strong for the immunity challenge. Also, everyone read theirs at the table, while Jonathan snuck away to read his on his own.

Tandang arrives back at camp, and Artis is still annoyed. “It is brutal that Kalabaw is enjoying the reward that we should have,” he interviews. “We had a member of our tribe making decisions for our tribe who’s done nothing for our tribe,” Artis says in interview. And then he whines about RC encouraging Michael. I bet he'd complain this much if he was celebrating his birthday back home.

Pete says “here’s the rice you wanted to forfeit for,” so he’s already denying any responsibility, and Lisa interviews that this forfeit is worse than a loss, because it’s a giving up. So we have four out of the seven members of the tribe – who were all supposed to have agreed to the deal – complaining about it. This isn’t the tribe I thought this would happen to.

Anyway, the Tandang members look at the rice from Kalabaw and it’s about the same amount of rice that Tandang has anyway. So it’s two days of rice, “not a week like they thought.” They all grumble about that, too. But at least that’s two days of rice more than Kalabaw has. Tandang even grumbles when Malcolm tries to brightside things.




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Tandang “never comes back from a challenge happy, and in Survivor you have to swallow your pride and do things you don’t normally do, but this is just nasty,” RC says about how everyone is complaining about Michael. In a moment away, RC tells Michael that Artis was cursing at him during the competition. Michael is clueless: “What? What did I do?” “Nothing,” lies RC.

Michael compares Artis to a little teenage girl, saying that he will whisper to everyone else but he won’t confront. That’s some wishful thinking by Michael, because I think Artis is not only willing to confront Michael – he’s also willing to rip out Michael’s skull and his spine and use it to flail at Michael’s quivering corpse. But that would land him in a Filipino jail where he’d have nothing to do but learn dance moves for YouTube.

Michael and RC both agree that Michael asked everyone and that everyone agreed – which is not true, as Artis never agreed and Abi disavowed everything after Pete said he was in and Lisa said “whatever the majority wants.”

RC interviews that “Artis, Pete and Abi are all nasty and angry and cruel,” but they have the upper hand so her plan is to let Abi blow up constantly and fly under the radar. Like Lisa last week, she seems to think that Abi’s explosiveness has to do with her fiery Brazilian-ness. Of course! Being Brazilian is the only explanation! Brazilians are all time-bombs waiting to explode!


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