Mid-Season Recap of Survivor: Cook Islands
Tonight’s show leads us thorough the first 18 days of the Survivor adventure. We got to re-witness Billy’s admission of love at first sight with Candice (which she was totally shocked to hear about when back at camp.)
We saw Cao Boi’s mistaken mission for eggs that resulted in a baby bird being temporarily homeless. As an animal lover, when I first saw this, I was upset about the baby bird until they showed Jonathan and Cao Boi rescuing it and placing it back in the tree for the mother to care for. This was good editing, because I’m sure there’s a ton of really meaningless footage they have to sift through for each episode. I always enjoy the more unexpected things, like this.
There was a lot of discussion of the cast members’ thoughts on the division by ethnicities. I wasn’t the only one who was uncomfortable with the decision to start the season that way. It just seems meaningless to me. And there was so much potential for negativity, prejudice and disharmony. I still tend to think it was a low point for reality TV…a bad publicity stunt.
We got to see Cao Boi give his traditional healing treatments for headaches that left marks. What a hoot! But there are times that I wish I knew the trick to get rid of my own headaches.
Some funny, never before aired scenes showed boats capsizing, people being uncoordinated, people getting drunk and some comments we haven’t heard before.
Adam and Candice nearly got carried out to sea in their boat and had to sacrifice it to get back to the island.
Sekou, the jazz musician was the first to go. Followed by Billy the heavy metal musician. I guess this was a bad season for musicians.
On day 6, Yul, the second person to stay on Exile island, found the immunity idol. We got to see unaired footage of how he hid the fact that it was found. He tore up the note and threw it into the ocean. Then he wrapped the box the idol had been inside in coconut husks, then set it adrift in the ocean as well. Very clever forethought! I wonder why they didn’t show it in the original show. I guess they have to leave some new things for the mid-season show.
On day 7, the teams “integrated.” They combined from 4 teams into two new teams. Now it was time to see if the old team allegiances would hold up.
Cecelia was the third to go, allowing Becky to escape elimination that had seemed inevitable earlier in the day.
Next, the wom,en outsmarted and outnumbered the men on the raro tribe by making sure that J.P. was the next to be eliminated. His bossy ways would no longer be a problem in the camp.
Cao Boi, Jessica and Ozzie set out to look for food on a nearby island and ended up finding the other tribe. There was an awkward moment as the visitors joined the other team for stories around the fire. They didn’t seem to realize they were really not all that welcome. What a funny first…one of the teams dropping in unexpectedly on the other.
Stephannie was eliminated on day 14 after talking far too much about home and mashed potatoes. Then, in a double elimination, my favorite player, Cao Boi, and Cristina, the cop, were eliminated. Apparently, they both got on their teammates’ nerves. Even Cao Boi’s “plan voodoo” failed miserably.
Now we go on to see when the immunity idol will be revealed.
We’ll follow Ozzie who is the fabulous fisherman, the one who can climb the palm trees and bring down the coconuts, the athletic one that excels in the challenges. He’s such a fierce competitor that he will either continue to dominate or be eliminated because he’s such a threat. It will be interesting to watch how it progresses.
Nate has been kidnapped by the other tribe. He gets to witness some disharmony in the aitu tribe. It will be interesting to see how all of it affects strategy.
Now only thirteen players remain. Stay tuned for next week’s details after the show airs.
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