and let the backstabbing begin!

i thoroughly enjoyed last night’s episode of ‘survivor’. the first part of the show was kinda boring though. again, each tribe had to build something and, again, rupert, being the master builder that he thinks he is, believes he can lead his tribe to a win. and as expected, he designs the slowest raft and his tribe gets dissolved. (i didn’t really watch much of survivor: pearl islands, but i don’t understand why rupert is such a ‘fan-favourite’. i just find him to be a pompous / arrogant jackass!) at the immunity challenge, they play capture the flag on balance beams. we also get a ‘viewer discretion is advised’ message at right before the segment ‘cause we get to see richard ‘big fat gay naked guy’ hatch flaunt his manhood up against sue ‘trucker hag’ hawk. i dunno what the hell she was complaining about—she practically invited him over. anyway, colby & co. lose and it’s off to tribal council later that night. .

this is where ‘survivor’ is at its best. originally, they were gonna kick off ethan, then colby changes his mind and organizes a revolt against ‘king’ hatch. jerri doesn’t trust colby ‘cause she doesn’t want her ass to get kicked again and decides to let richard in on the plan. richard then tries to boot colby for turning on him. and of course, dragon lady and kathy just sit there and follow the rest of the crowd. so it's down to rich & colby, with both of them thinking that the other one is done. of course, at tribal council richard gets the wool pulled over his eyes and gets voted out 6-1. even mr. hatch himself is impressed that he got out-schemed this time around.

anyway, it's kinda too bad to see the original survivor go out so soon. yah, he's a cocky s.o.b., but he's the one who makes everyone else even more interesting. still, i'm glad i don't need to see any more nude fat guys! call it real drama or maybe just good editing, but hopefully there will be more episodes like this where everyone is totally playing each other.