Archive for year: 2014

This episode began with a tribe swap which changed the complexity of the game. The Hunahpu tribe ended up with only one pair of loved ones while the Coyopa tribe only had one individual without a loved one. It seems like the dynamics of the two tribes are beginning to  change causing diversity among the groups. In the Coyopa tribe, Keith seems to be the odd man out making him believe that he might be the one to get voted off the island. The Hunahpu tribe of strangers seemed to be communicating better than the Coyopa tribe of loved ones causing the Hunahpu tribe to win the challenge. Personalities seemed to be definite when Missy used her feelings to decide her actions. For example, after hearing that Dale tried to vote her daughter, Baylor, off the island, she based her actions off of her negative feelings towards Dale. Missy and Baylor then encouraged the other tribe members to vote either Dale or his daughter off the island. The conflict of the diversity within the group also emerged while Missy was making rice for the group. Dale tried to inform Missy to use less of the rice in order to save some rice for future days on the island. Missy then went against Dales orders causing conflict between the two.  Missy’s customs from her previous tribe caused conflict with Dale because he was used to rationing the rice rather than using it all up. In the end, the majority of the Coyopa tribe decided to voted Kelly off the island.

In the episode Blood is Blood there was a bit of a twist. At first, tribe Hunahpu just laughed about their last tribal meeting because they kicked off Drew. Jon started admitting to everyone what Drew was saying about the tribe. Jon  starts to apologize because he does not want to get sent home. Tribe Coyopa had no idea that Drew got sent home. When they all saw that he was sent home, they were all shocked and said that Drew was one of the stronger members. Then the host decided to change things up and switch the teams up. On tribe Hunahpu it was most of the singles except Josh and Reed. And most of the loved ones are on tribe Coyopa except for Keith because his son, Wes, is on the other tribe. Keith kind of feels left out because everyone has their loved one on the tribe and Jaclyn and Jon are constantly all over each other. Coyopa was very happy because all of the food they have but Dale was was monitoring Missy and Baylor. Baylor told her mom that Dale tried voting her off last time, which caused some tension between Missy ( Baylor’s mom) and Dale. Kelley had to talk to her dad to calm him down and tried telling him it was pointless to make it a big deal because then they will try to vote him off first.

While that was happening tribe Hunahpu was kind of struggling. When they got back to their site, they saw how little food they had- which was only 3 days worth of food. Alec was thinking positive about the whole situation, while Jeremy was upset of who was on his tribe. He almost started acting selfish just like Drew and he thinks Alec will get kicked off because he is the same exact as Drew. They were worried that they would lose the immunity challenge because of the amount of food they had, but they ended up winning anyways.

The new tribe Coyopa worked a little better together, the only problems that were going on were between Baylor and Dale. Other than that not that many people in the tribe were talking about each other behind their backs. But when you looked at how tribe Hunahpu was acting, you could really tell that those people were being selfish and just wanted to win the competition already and they would just pick on someone to talk bad about to get voted off. Once again, things work best when the whole group thinks positive and does not point fingers at people. At the end I was kind of surprised that they kicked Kelley off because she was not the one who was really creating any problems, she was just trying to make “peace” with all the tension between Baylor and her father. That one shocked me the most and I am not really sure if I agree with them.. kind of wish they voted Dale off because of his attitude.

Episode of Blood is Blood surrounded the shifting of many different tides in the members of survivor, the tribes and the tensions. The cast members on the opposite side returned after tribal council time speculating what could have happened and who could have possibly been eliminated. Alec was so confident that his brother was not eliminated but little did he know that is what happened. Due to them speculating so many different things it defined the episode because a lot of cultures, personalities and barriers changed.

Once all the members of Survivor arrived at the tribal immunity challenged they learned that they would be switching sides which was beneficial to some members and detrimental to others. In chapter 4 on group diversity,  shows how the cultures of a tribes and homogeneous groups; and how they become redefined. Keith in the Coyopa tribe was now worried because he is the odd man out.  In homogeneous groups diversity still exists in the group such as with Keith but with Keith being the only one without a loved on it makes him feel on similar with the group and put up a different barrier when working with the barriers.

Others barriers from chapter 4, that came about during this episode were prejudices and discrimination. Prejudices came up in the new Hanuphu tribe with Alec the new tribe compared him to his brother Drew who was just voted out and decided they would basically be fake towards to him so they could boast his ego and then later on get rid of him. I’m sure Alec and Drew are two birds of a feather but it is interesting that they made that prejudiced toward Drew and then discriminated him.  Back in the Coyopa tribe barriers and segregation came up when Baylor told her mother about her previous history with Dale and then tensions increased when they fought over the amount of rice that should be allowed to cook. (While in Coyopa they were surviving because they were eating rice like kings) it was interesting because both parents had very distinct personalities and that course caused more prejudice in the tribe and decisions on voting. This relates to personality dimension because both parents personalities clashed and that boiled over to their tribes voting. Tensions over rice and personality then lead to Kelley being the fifth voted off Survivor San Jan Del Sur.

In this episode of Survivor their seems to be tensions rising within the tribes, especially in the blue tribe. In the beginning of the episode the tribe members of the blue tribe were becoming extremely annoyed with Drew. The tribe found the old flint in the beginning of the episode and this opened up wounds from an earlier episode when they originally lost the flint the first time and traded the fishing gear in order to get another flint. Drew at this point keep bringing up how the group should have not traded the fishing gear in the first place. It seems like Drew thinks of himself as the leader of the group and the only person who would be able to lead the group.

The first challenge the Blue tribe wins once again and John sends his girl friend to exile island and in addition sends Drew from his tribe to accompany her. While on exile island Drew mentions to Drew’s girlfriend that he is going to throw off the next challenge that way the yellow tribe will win and the blue tribe will be forced to vote someone off the island. Drew wanted to do this because he felt it was time to vote someone out from his tribe and by doing this it would further his chances of making it longer in the game, at least he thought it would.

Back in the blue tribe Keith and Jeramy begin to have problems. Keith gets a hint of where an immunity idol is and where he attempts to recover it he could not find it. This made him believe that Jeramy has it because he was the last person to be at exile island before him. So he goes back to the group and tells his fellow members that Jeramy has a idol without knowing for sure if he does have one. This made Jeramy feel betrayed since he thought they had an alliance since they are both firemen and now because of this Jeramy wants to get Keith voted off from the tribe. Keith after telling the group members goes back for another attempt at finding the idol and actually finds it.

In the yellow tribe, Alec seemed to be acting like a brother figure with one of the girls from the group and called this girl out on not doing her part on something. After doing this Alec confronts her and tells her why he did what he did and acted in the why he did. He mentioned its a part of his personality because of his childhood and the way he was taught growing up from his father why it came to doing his part and doing a lot of the work himself. This I saw was an example from the textbook on the chapter about Diversity.

Towards the end of the episode, the Blue tribe ends up having a tribal council since they lost the second challenge due to Drew throwing off the challenge. Drew thought he was going to be able to convince the tribe members to vote the person he wanted out of the tribe but it didn’t end up working in his favor. The tribe ended up voting Drew himself out.

Dale on the orange team realizes that he was left out on the betrayal round and he decides to get back in the social aspect of the game. On the blue team, the surfer guy decides he’s going to try to trade flint for fishing gear despite the unyielding disagreement of the group. The groups come together to find the big guy was voted off, much to their pleasure. They believed that his presence was a dark cloud over the group with his prejudice and violent temperament, especially towards ethnically, or otherwise people. The surfer guy on blue announces his trade idea, but is laughed off by the host guy. The blue team clearly not happy with his reckless abandon.

The challenge is on, and it’s boyfriend vs. girlfriend. The boyfriend starts off losing, but comes full circle and wins it for his tribe. There really wasn’t a big masculinity/femininity debacle because of the love and respect shared between the couple. Ultimately, very respectable and I hope they go far. The surfer guy on the blue volunteers for exile, which is highly bizarre. The ramifications on that could be huge.

The old guy on blue goes out looking for an idol, when he gets found by the team. He claims Jeremy has it, but later finds it himself. However, him telling the group that Jeremy has an idol has effectively put a target on his back. On exile island, the surfer dude proclaims that he will inhibit the team from winning so he can get rid of the snakes hidden on his team. I can’t believe anyone would think that basely. He also was blatantly checking out the girlfriend, which might not bode well for him. They return from exile in time for the next immunity challenge, the challenge requires physical prowess which the younger, fitter men seem to have an overwhelmingly huge advantage in. The orange team pulls it together, and wins the challenge at the blue team’s expense. Supposedly, the surfer guy lost intentionally so we’ll see what happens because of it.

The blue team comes together to decide on who should get voted out and Drew cries the loudest to get out Kelly, who is the most innocuous person on the team, and the group couldn’t get behind it. Some wanted Keith, others Julie, but in the end, because of the chaos and misalignment, Drew gets the boot. It was a bad play from the get-go and assuming your kingpin of a group generally only works out for you if you actually are. In hindsight, maybe he’ll think back on how not smart it was to lose intentionally, yell the loudest and most openly on who to take out, and then admit he doesn’t care about people, just that he wants what he says goes.