Survivor Blog #6

In this episode of survivor it seemed to be center around trust within the tribes. To start off in the yellow tribe at the beginning of the episode Dales daughter was voted off in the previous episode and now he is worried that he will be next. Over in the blue tribe, they are continuing to starve from hunger as they do not have any rice left to properly feed the tribe members. This is frustrating for the members who were previously on the yellow tribe as they had food to feed their tribe because they rationed it out properly and this shows how the Blue tribe did not and they were eating more which could be a factor of why the tribe was doing so well in the previous challenges since they may have had more energy and strength do to eating more than the yellow tribe has. In order for the blue tribe to get more food they had to plead and give back all their items that they have won in the previous challenges and basically start off from scratch. This upsetting Jeremy as he could have lasted longer with barely to no food and believes that one of the future challenges may have been more food or equipment for hunting and would not have had to plead and give back the items they did for more food.

The blue tribe wins the first challenge and the reward was a BBQ for the tribe, Natalie from the blue tribe volunteers to go to exile island. Jeremy has been a bit distant from the tribe. I believe this has to do with him focusing more on his personal goals of getting father in the game vs. working as a team and focusing on tribe goals. This also can have to do with him being upset with the tribe doing the exchange for more food. Where he believes the tribe could have lasted a little longer before pleading for food. Julie begins to question leaving the game as she doesn’t think she can handle being on this island for much longer. Jeremy tries to convince her and bring up her hopes that she can do this and last longer as he needs her and her support to help further him into the game. He is doing this out of self interests and not really because he is concerned for her. He knows that she will need to leave before him but doesn’t believe that time is now.

 

The blue tribe wins the second challenge as well which means that the yellow tribe will have to attend tribal council. The problem in this tribe is that the majority of the tribe is made up of loved ones and that makes it difficult to vote someone off as no one wants to vote off their own ones. This influences sub-alliances with loved ones within the tribe and that breaks down the strength of the tribe overall. I believe what is going to happen for future episodes is that the ones in the tribe without loved ones are going to be the ones voted off the tribe first and then once the only thing left is loved ones the tribe members with their loved ones will all gang up with each other as like a couple vs. couple thing and once couples break apart due to being voted off the partner of the loved one that was previously voted off would be next and it would become a continuous cycle. To show proof of this in the tribal council Dale was voted off who did not have a loved one in the tribe as his daughter was on the yellow tribe and was voted off.