Episode 2

Episode two of Blood vs. Water is the first time that we see the tribes begin to create personal bonds within their tribes and group membership can be observed. Member roles started to appear in both tribes. On the blue team Drew and Jon started to act like the recognition seekers of the tribe, always bragging and showing off. Missy, who is competing against her daughter in the game, has become the encourager-supporter taking on her motherly instincts to calm down Natalie after her sister got voted off the island.

The blue tribe continued to dominate the challenges and the yellow team ended up sending another group member home due to lack of organization and membership roles. The membership roles aren’t very clear in the yellow team, but Josh is a hot commodity that both the men and women want on their side when it comes to voting someone off. I think that the subgroup in the yellow team, which is divided by gender, is really what is hurting them. They all need to bond together and create bonds regardless of gender. During the immunity challenge quite a few loved ones went up against their other half, and the yellow team lost every time but once. This was poor strategy and if they had a group member who was a coordinator then they could of organized them in a better fashion.

Overall I think it is still too soon for group membership to be completely clear in the two teams, they have only been together for a number of days, and the dynamic is about to change because of Val being voted off and Jeremy will now try to get Julie voted off and fight harder against John Rocker for not protecting his wife like they agreed to do while they were on exile island.