Dancing with the Fijians
Dancing with the Fijians by Roxanne McDonald
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Any day now, these reality TV programs are going to morph into one big show. And Lisi will be one of the ones to help them along. |
The immunity challenge is based on criteria that requires players to dance with authenticity, appearance, and spirit.
The back-dooring strategies and maligning maneuvers by Mookie this week outdo, outwit, and promise to outlast those of the most evil of reality TV players like Boogie and Dr. Will. As Edgardo says, “The game’s about to get a lot nastier.” Oh, yes, Ed, and crazier.
And the coo-coo flip-flopping of loyalties and slip-sliding of strategic decisions by Lisi rival any backstabbing finalists—from Ron Jeremy breaking his trust with Rob Van Winkle on “Surreal Life Fame Games” to…well, to Slimy Jon or Lying Jon, or whatever his name is on “Survivor” games past.
Too bad while shooting off her mouth Lisi shot off her own foot…or feet.
As Jeffrey D. Sadow of Reality News Online contends, her “strategic dullness…rubbed off on Alex and Edgardo.” But further, it got her—along with her luney toons deterioration at the end, there—voted off, despite her earlier allegiances
and alliances with the latter.
“They know me,” she tells us. She and Edgardo and Alex are the the three tightest in all of the game. Sure, they have had their times when they have gone to the brink…but they have come back!
Well, two of them have, anyway. Methinks you are still teetering, there, Lisi.
Next, Lisi is not on top of who to mistrust, and stupidly, really stupidly 1) gives the clues to the hidden Immunity Idol to Alex and Edgardo, who give them to Mookie, who finds the Idol right at Lisi’s sleeping feet; and 2) wakes to find Mookie doing what she infers is digging for the Idol (though he is trying to cover up evidence he was searching there), and tells us, “Dude, you’re going to have to wake up really, really early to fool an old cat like me. What’s wrong with you?!”
Uh-oh, Lisi. Too bad there aren’t any mirrors on the island….
She is equally clueless when, like a low-class thug who steals your shit and then feigns to help you find it, Mookie offers to help her look for the Idol. Oh, man.
We at home are screaming at her the way we would a mystery/horror character who is unaware of the monster behind her.
What is better on our hearts is how Edgardo, speaking for Alex and Mookie, I suppose, identifies Lisi’s deterioration and dementia, saying how the three of them must not tell Lisi they found the Idol, for she is too “unstable”.
Lisi confirms her head gone bye-bye as she tells us—right before a Luxury Challenge—how she just finds it silly to be exerting energy winning a challenge, just so they can all eat a bunch of food. Uh, what? And, further, what??!? Add her lack of interest in winning anything (why you are on Survivor, then, is now completely baffling to us) the comments she
continues to make about their team’s inability to “come together as a cohesive force,” and you have either a two-faced freak or a candidate for a critical thinking course.Besides laughing at her teammates—not in a self-effacing, aren’t we humans all in this together so silly laughing but a derisive, mean, mocking laughing—she does this absurd Fijian dance number, looking more like she is imitating an elderly person shuffling with a walker than someone trying to win a serious ritual competition. Moto, therefore, gets a 29 out of 30…oh, no, wait. That’s another show.
Moto does win, and again Lisi bitches about Ravu’s inability to get it together, to “win…even the simplest of challenges.”
Okay, wait. Sigh. Did you not just say how winning and therefore trying was absurd? Do ya think you might be one-quarter responsible for the erosion of your group? Are you silently realizing your contradictions and that’s why you now want to go home…again?
Apparently even Moto gets how ineffectual you are, and send you to Exile Island. Again. Well, actually, they rationalize that you would be the one with the clues, and no one else…though little do they know your strategies have included giving away your power left and right.
But Lisi does have power. Or did—until she scared the others out of trusting her, etc., etc..
As writer Sadow also suggests, Lisi’s voting clout was crucial to Edgardo and Alex: “…in the most important aspect of she equaled even the game’s greats like Rick, Yul, and Brian – she had a vote. For the Two Amigos, 100 percent of a Lisi vote is worth more than 90 percent of a Dre vote.”
But her flip-flopping, changing her mind, while every woman’s prerogative and all that, was way too risky a thing to count on by week eight.
After the Immunity Challenge, where Lisi has again done another half-assed job at, this time, blow darts and
spear-chucking, and after Ravu again loses, Lisi gets her buddies Alex and Edgardo to understand how she is “done like a Thanksgiving turkey,” how, as she has told us, she is “done with losers,” [don’t even get me started on this one] and convinces them to let her go…to vote her off. Then, 15 minutes before Tribal Council, she changes her mind—again, says Alex, who is now nearly apoplectic because Lisi has pulled him and Edgardo aside and shared her thoughts on staying, on keeping on going….
You can just hear their inner children shouting, “That’s it! We have had enough of you, Missy.”
And this they let her know by way of votes to snuff her crazy-assed light out once and for all.
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