Out of the Mouths of Rubes

Out of the Mouths of Rubes by Roxanne McDonald

What the hell, Peih-Gee and Jaime, what the hell?

As if these messy little switches aren’t bad enough, nasty little Peih-Gee tosses sabotage into the mix. What if producers decide to teach you a lesson and keep the

teams the way they are? You just forfeited one of the strongest members of either tribe.
The switch brought out the sanest, the best, and the worst in each of the remaining players.

James – Considered a great athlete and “immunity hog,” James offers to work for Zhan Hu, telling us he has to work his way into the system all over again.

Sherea feels like she is starting over [too], and says her tribe never thought Fei Long would get to pick also—just that Zhan Hu would have two new, strong members. She also admits to not being the hardest of workers on her tribe, so here at the Fei Long camp she is going to have to step it up.

Todd, as ever, is ready to forge new bonds—excited as he is to meet and greet and shmooze in his favor.

Frosti is also instantly deflated, saying he feels outnumbered by old Fei Long members. Cautious but clever, Frosti looks to find where he can make himself most useful, for, as he tells us, that’s gonna keep him around.

John Robert, still irritating the hell out of every tribemate, makes a token gesture to wake early and cook breakfast and check traps—saying he will give his tribe a head start for the day. But still referring to himself in the third person, he reports that today was a bad day for Fei Long and a god-awful day for John Robert.

Denise, who was delighted to be increasing her worth by working next to James at camp, is bummed to lose James to Zhan Hu, is so not going to be the one to fight with Jean Robert, and inevitably challenges JR anyway.

Aaron was all pro-Fei Long, saying they were a great force, had a great camp, and had great momentum…until the switch screwed that up. Then he turns just as quickly and tells Zhan Hu he is confident that with this new tribe composition they can win again and again and again. Then he tries to convince us that all that was to save his butt from immunity. Woops.
Peih-Gee starts her wheels turning over what a great power shift it will be to have two more players on Zhan Hu than on Fei Long. When this turns out to be embarrassing, she just has to get really nasty and convince Jaime [who I thought was so sweet originally] to throw the Immunity Challenge, dump one of the strong and therefore threatening newcomers, and be that much better off for the merge. Oh I hope PG is tossed out on her head for this.

Jaime is first not all that vociferous…, just going along with Peih-Gee. Then she gets cocky and downright ridiculous, openly laughing and clearly intentionally fumbling during the Immunity Challenge.

Erik just goes along for the “safest” alliance he can have at this point. After all, they have no physical strength, so they are left to using—or misusing—their heads… which are in la-la love and looting of the existing strengths of others.

Again, I hope beyond hope this backfires.

After all, while some vilified players earn the right to the win, I and many of my friends would agree that we would rather see a quiet, focused, hard-working, amiable powerhouse like James take the prize over a lazy, conniving, bossy snake of a snake.

I really thought I was going to have to have a tantrum when James almost got sent home.

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