So just when the whole One World Boys vs. Girl starts to get a wee bit stagnant, One World goes out the window, the tribes are matched and new intrigue arises. This was another solid episode of Survivor, with plenty of things to fill my 5 Things feature. so let's get to it!
1. Mixing, Matching and Plugging Holes: Survivor wastes no time and after seeing some girl reaction to the boys idiocy, we get right to the challenge and the tribal swap. 4 of the main girl alliance (Everyone except Alicia) wind up with the remaining two of Matt's old Alliance (Mike and Jay) plus Troyzan to become the new Salani, while the rest of Colton's misfit alliance gets Alicia, Monica, and Christina. These new tribes should allow for lots of good drama before they get merged back into One World. Then, they had to fight for their camp by trying to pour enough water (from a hole-filled bucket) into a container. This was fun to watch and ended with New Salani keeping the camp, while New Manono was sent into the unknown.
2. A Tale of Two Tribes: Now that One World is gone until the merge, we were afforded the chance to see two camps trying to survive separate of each other and man, was there a lovely contrast. Salani (Who Colton refers to as a tribe of Greek Gods) has all their old stuff and quickly catches lots of food to go along with their Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches that they won in the challenge. They all get along and everything's fine. Manono on the other hand is a weaker tribe starting from nothing, and as they try to rebuild, Colton starts scheming with everybody. Colton has reverted back from being a sociopathic asshole last week to more normal levels of hatred. He's still an evil schemer who his tribe should probably get rid of, but I don't hate him with the passion of a thousand burning suns. Anyhow, the new tribe dynamics are great. Best part of this whole part of the episode: Manono catching a chicken which promptly escapes.
3. Kim and Chelsea Take It Up A Notch: In the early stages of the game, I was a fan of Kim, but she didn't really have much screentime to make much of an impression. The new tribe dynamics change that, first with Kim making a potential "keeping her options open" alliance with Troy and Jay, and then with her finding the lost Salani idol. Sharing it with Chelsea (Who I'm also a fan of), this was a good moment as the two of them now have a lot more power in the game. It should be interesting to see how this plays out.
4. Surprise, Surprise, The Super Strong, Super Athletic Tribe... Wins. OK, It Wasn't That Surprising: The Immunity Challenge of full contact water Basketball went pretty much the way you'd expect it to. Sure Monica scored a point for Manono tribe and Leif put up a surprising valiant effort trying to stop Mike from scoring (and almost scoring a goal himself), but at the end of the day, this was the worst possible scenario for the new Manono tribe and they wound up being losers. Can they turn it around before the merge? Maybe but probably not.
5. Monica Is Voted Out For Reasons I Cannot Explinate: So Colton and Alicia would rather vote out the strongest person on their tribe because she could be a threat down the line than vote out their actual weakest link? That's a worse move than when the girls elected to keep in Kat over Nina, because Nina wasn't that big a powerhouse. Manono is in trouble, but at least it's entertaining trouble and we can get more entertainment from Tarzan, who uses fancy words (both real and made up), refuses to answer certain questions because "the game is afoot" and actually has a condition where he can barely remember names (Explaining why he called Jonas by the name of Jason last week.). So Monica goes home, and Manono is left in a worse situation than before. Man, I like this season.
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