I decided to split the double episode in half so the post does not turn into a novel. Also, the first boot of this double episode deserves his own post. Last time, BING and now on to the recap.

We start off with Carl talking about the success of tribal. Carl is gonna go through a lot over the course of the night. Angelina feels betrayed by her old tribemates and is ready to turn up. I was so ready for Angelina to make the world burn. The next morning, Davie and Nick are searching for an idol and find that Nick needs to leave camp at night to get the idol. I like the night idol but it always seems like a forgone conclusion that the person will get the idol. Also, I am praying we don’t get a repeat of Ben with the Davids. That would ruin the season. After that we get to the reward challenge.

The challenge consists of the tribe being split into two teams and they have to cross a rope bridge and toss some rungs. the teams were split into orange: Gabby, Christian, Alison, Alec, and Mike vs Purple: Kara, Carl, Davie, Nick and Angelina. The teams were Strike force minus Nick vs Nick and everyone else. First off, I am glad Orange won because their water was deeper compared to Purple. The best moment of the challenge is Angelina crossing the ropes and she holds the rope with her neck. Her face could be a meme for a long time. Orange wins and Carl is ready to take out Alec and I am not team Carl. I like Alec so much so I wanted Carl to fail so badly.

At the reward, Alec and Alison are trying hard to get Christian and Gabby on their side. Alec relates it to being a bartender and trying to get a hot girls number. Christian is the hot girl. Also they found letters from home. Christian’s dad told him to find an idol, win a feast and make Jeff laugh. Christian succeeded on those fronts. This could foreshadow that Christian will leave soon because he accomplished his goals. Another to note is that you can see Alison sobbing in the background.

Back at camp, Carl strong arms everyone there to vote Alec. He does this in front of one of Alec’s closest allies in Kara. Carl is mad that he never wins rewards. I swear half of Carl’s story is about food. The winners get back and Kara tells Alec about the plan. Alec knows he has to win immunity but he is feeling sick. In fact everyone who won is sick. No Angelina, Alison is not doing yoga. That night, Nick gets the idol. The only chance of it blowing up happened when Alison got up to throw up more. I swear every episode Alison is involved with some bodily function.

immunity Challenge

It’s the Crucifixion challenge from San Juan Del Sur! This challenge brought us Wes’ chicken nugget story, Alec looking like Jesus and Natalie spitting on herself. This challenge delivers every time they use it including now. This is one of the best edited challenges ever. The challenge starts with a compete or eat and Nick, Carl and Angelina choose to eat. The challenge starts and Carl feels the need to comment on how much Alec needs this. As Gabby says to Jeff later, “That’s redundant”. Alec is not dropping til he wins. As the challenge goes on it comes down to Christian vs Alec. Christian plays mind games by starting a filibuster that goes on for hours. The quote in my title is from that filibuster. Alec is so annoyed during this. Towards the end of this 5 and a half hour challenge Alec gives up and Christian wins. Alec’s fate was sealed

We get back to camp and Alec is crying because he is getting voted off for his strength so none of his relationships mattered. He did not come out there to be a unanimous vote. I feel for him. At this point I was hoping Carl some how screws this up. Carl and Gabby argue due to Kara being told about the plan. Gabby feels that Carl does not respect her and wants to possibly flip the game. Alec talks to Christian and offers himself as a meatshield for him. Christian is considering it and Gabby says they can be a pendulum. Somewhere, Will Wahl is exploding.

Tribal

We get to tribal and Christian talks about his win saying he will only play once. I’m thinking Christian is gonna play at least one more time. Christian mentions Jeff as his captive audience and Jeff agrees he was a captive. Carl explains his decision to eat and the jury is not sympathetic. Dan says, ” Cry me a river, it’s a game”. The jury in general was chatty tonight. Those nachos could be million dollar nachos but, they were not.

To the disappointment of the audience, Alec was voted out 9-1. I am crushed he is gone. Alec added chaos to the season and made it exciting. He was my favorite person left in the game. I’m gonna miss him. #UnbanAlec

His biggest mistake was just being strong. I am amazed it took so long for him to be targeted. I am not saying who won or lost on this boat because we saw that minutes later in part 2.

The purple player of the first episode was Mike. Alison was invisible as well but, She had some great background moments.

Episode 11 will be posted tonight. Follow the blog to see it immediately or look for the post on Reddit, /r/survivor. As always it is posted under /u/KHMeneo.

Grab your stuff and head back to camp!