Calling A Bluff B#5

For episode six of survivor can connect a lot with chapter 7 about listening from the text. The episode began with an interesting situation on the blue tribe with their food situation. There definitely seemed to be a divide on what should be done about moving forward with bartering for food. Members of the group that wanted to barter for the bag of rice appeared to outnumber the number of members that felt the barter was a bad idea. While the communication was not shown it would appear the non verbal cues were not picked up by the other tribe members and members like Julie and Jeremy both felt that the trade was a bad decision. Especially for Julie during the rain. Listening also played a key role in the elimination challenge and what followed. The listening to respond and understand didn’t take place for the yellow group, so they lost yet another challenge, and it is the continual loss of the yellow tribe that is really making the show depressing to watch. No one wants to watch a team get completely dominated in a competition and i for one am tired of watch Coupa lose.

Listening was also interesting in the situation with Dale. Dale played a good game using the bluff immunity idol to his interest, and even though it didn’t work out for him in the end, it was still a good play on his part. Ultimately the What’s In It For Me just wasn’t large enough to get John to listen to Dale and switch sides at tribal council.  I think that what Dale was missing was mainly personality differences within his tribe. We didn’t really see the day to day operations of the tribe, and what i think ultimately happened was Dale made him self an outsider do to his differences in personality with his tribe, which ended up painting a target on his back.