Hello, Survivor fans welcome to my recap of episode 3 of David vs. Goliath. Overall, I’m really enjoying this season. The cast and the editing has been brought up a notch. Last time on survivor, Jessica was voted out leaving Bi, Davie and Carl on the bottom. One thing the recap on the show failed to mention is that Elizabeth was responsible for that flip. Now on to episode 3!

We start off on the David tribe post tribal. Davie goes up to Christian for an explanation and he blames the flip on Gabby. This shows that Nick is his true number 1 in my opinion. We also find out Davie was close to Nick and Christian and feels betrayed but, he has the idol so he should be fine for a bit. Next, Nick is estatic because now Mason Dixon is in the middle. This spot can be good but, in the long run it could crash and burn. Carl is taking Jessica’s elimination pretty hard. She was a daughter to him and we get an emotional confessional. This bodes well for Carl in a normal season but, this is David vs. Goliath where the editors are trying to mix it up.

The next morning, Bi has a fire lit underneath her and she is ready to play. She wants Gabby gone after she flipped on her last episode and left her out of the loop. It’s nice to see Bi not rolling over and die. Bi gets Carl and Davie on board and wants Nick to join them.

Over on Goliath, John (since he wants to be just John on the island I will use his real name sorry) is making connections on his tribe. A lot of really funny moments happen during this segment like, the unintentional Sea Bass reference, Alec being summoned by Natalie and the crab race. I’m sad the crab race ended on a cliff hanger. The most important thing to get from this segment was that he wants to work with Natalie despite her target. I like John on this season. He is one of the better celebrity contestants on the show. We cut to Jeremy doing a Natalie impression and bonding with Mike. Mike is showing Ned like tendencies by wanting to be bossed around Jeremy. Jeremy tells Mike and the audience about him and his fathers relationship. At this point I thought that Jeremy was staying around because of this confessional but then, the rest of the episode happens, We will get to that soon.

Back at the David camp, Christian and Gabby are discussing the heirarchy of Slamtown. This is another example of Christian being Christian. I think he is gonna swap to a tribe with John based of the editors showing this conversation. Next, Bi and Nick are on a boat talking about getting out Gabby again. Nick is open to the idea so he is Christian’s number one. Christian is killing it with these connections.

Now it’s time for the main event, The downfall of Jeremy. It first starts with Jeremy holding a tribe meeting to get people to stop having side conversations. Everyone knows Team meetings in every reality show never turns out well for the person who call them. That’s strike one. Then, Jeremy blabs to everyone about Dan’s Idol. This makes him look sketchy for looking in someone’s stuff, strike two.

Challenge Time: Rain Edition. The reward is comfort items like,blankets,pillows and other bedware. Everyone is smiling in the rain. Angelina and Natalia sit out because Natalie wants to do the puzzle. We start with Alec vs Bi again. They have to untangle themselves from rope. The theme of the challenge is rope. I’m surprised rope wasn’t the puzzle too. Alec and Bi finish at the same time and move on to the next section. Three tribe members must work together to untangle themselves. Nothing big happens so, next section. One member must rope a box to their tribe mat. Elizabeth did really well on this section against John. The final section is a puzzle as always. I was thinking maybe a challenge should start with a puzzle to make it not always come down to the puzzle. It’s Allison and Natalie vs. Gabby and Christian and… David tribe wins. David tribe leaves the challenge area and Bi gets her knee checked after banging it in the first section. Jeff asks Natalia if the sit outs had anything to do with the loss. Natalia shades Natalie hard by saying Angelina should have been in because she could see the puzzle which is complete bull. Natalia gets the post challenge confessional saying, more like yelling that Natalie will go home.

Post challemge we open on the Davids? The segment is about how Bi hurt her knee. We never see the winning tribe after a challenge making me think Bi’s injury will “Bi” her demise.

At Goliath, Angelina is talking to Allison and she wants to target Jeremy before Natalie. Allison comes out of the shadows and is on board with the idea. I personally think this move could hurt Angelina in the long run because why would you stick your neck out this early. Mike is obviously against the move and so is Natalia because she doesn’t like Natalie. At least Natalia is honest that the vote is personal. We also find out Natalie is on a softball team and can throws some low balls. Just like fellow queen Rimmer, queen Natalie is striking them out. The majority discusses the decision with Alec as the main skeptic on the plan to get Jeremy. Alec makes some good points that Natalie could trash talk all of them. Next, we have Jeremy vs Natalie fight time. Jeremy refuses to let Natalie pitch for her staying so they plus Kara go have a confrontation. Kara stands there as this is going and it is really funny watching her throughout the fight. Jeremy does the same argument as last week and adds that he says how he is a superfan. Jeremy don’t admit that it makes you a juicy target. Natalie won this fight by pointing out how hypocritical he was being. The scene ends with Natalie saying, “Cut it off” and they the screen goes to black. Nice editing on that scene. The whole fight had no music making it more intense.

It’s tribal time! The whole tribal comes down to Jeremy throwing Natalie under, as jeff said it, ” A freeway of 18 wheelers”. Jeff is on point about it as some of the comments got nasty especially when Jeremy said that no one on the tribal would go to her funeral. That crossed the line a bit, Strike three. Now its time to vote and for one of the best voting confessionals. I will link it right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OFZd7toG7U Please watch it is glorious. I can’t write it down to get the same effect.

The final vote is 9-1 and the eliminated castaway is:

Jeremy is unanimously voted out. Even Mike voted for him. The Natalie Napalm takes out it’s first victim. Not since Jenny in Koah Rong have we had such a epic destruction of a game in one episode. The key point when Jeremy went wrong was telling everyone abou the idol because it gave Angelina the idea to target Jeremy. The winner of tonight is Angelina by showing the control she has on her alliance but, I’m caution about her going forward. The big loser is Mike because he lost his only alliance.

The purple person, or in this case people, is Lyrsa and Elizabeth. I’m sad after a great episode last time they got shafted.

Next time, it’s the swap so anyone could go home. Who is gonna get swap screwed, we’ll see next week.

Grab your stuff and head back to camp.