Survivor 33 Recap "Chicken Littles"

  How ironic is it that the episode I missed recapping due to debate was likely the best blindside we will have all season? It was so beautiful and she truly did not see it coming. Heck, even I didn’t see it coming and thought that Jay/Will would back out of it. I hope the rest of this season can be as entertaining. Debate itself is a lot like Survivor. Of course, there are a certain set of skills you should come into the game knowing how to do like swimming and basic social skills. However, each season has different people/judges that you have to tailor your skills around. That is what Michaela failed at and what the winner of this season will ultimately have to prove they can do.

  So now on to this episode. After the Michaela vote, Hannah is blindsided and upset. Hannah is probably the biggest person ever to play the victim. When she has a freak out about every vote, it’s obvious why Jay and will wouldn’t want to fill her in on a potential blindside. She would’ve told Michaela. It has nothing to do with Jay thinking that he is so “charming” and that you will fall in line.  Hannah seems to be taking the Revenge of the Nerds thing too far and wants to isolate people that she has no reason to isolate. Please get her off of my screen Survivor gods. Please. 

  After this, we are treated to the Survivor merge. For those of you new to Survivor, it is no longer a tribe game. At this point, everyone is on their own. The rest pretty much works the same as usual, there will be an immunity challenge, but only one person will win it. Then everyone will attend tribal with whomever won immunity being safe. This is where the real game kicks in, and as Adam put it “separates the great players from the mediocre ones”. And boy did he foreshadow which side he’d be on. (Hint: It’s the latter.)

  Old groups from before the tribal swap reemerge as allies and the millennials think they are sitting pretty. Jay even calls himself the “kingpen”. I roll my eyes because whenever Survivor shows someone overconfident you know that that very episode they will suffer a setback. Overconfidence is a Survivor killer. This overconfidence shows itself to Zeke who is now desperate to take out Jay. Adam is also desperate, but in a different way. He goes searching for another immunity idol to add to his collection. Instead, he finds an advantage that allows him to steal another person’s reward. This is a freaking pointless advantage. The only reward challenge that is even worth the anger of stealing it from someone is the advantage in the final 4 immunity challenge. But after tonight, we all know Adam won’t make it anywhere close to that point. So all in all, a fail of a Survivor twist. Try harder.

  Another fail this episode was Taylor. Boy, how many times was this kid dropped on the head as a baby? I’m guessing enough that Child Protective Services should have been called because this boy is not very smart. He decides he’s going to steal the tribe’s food because he is hungry. The worst part is that he isn’t stealthy about it at all, and he doesn’t make sure everyone is asleep. However, this wasn’t even the stupidest move of this episode. Yes, unfortunately that is true. The stupidest move goes to Adam. Adam runs up to Taylor and tells him about his advantage. ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? You just voted out his girlfriend, and you are telling him not only about your advantage, but the fact that you want to target his best friend Jay, and Jay’s best friend Will. In what universe did he think Taylor wouldn’t rat on him? As much as I dislike Taylor, I wanted Adam to go home this episode due to the sheer amount of stupidity shown by Adam.

  GenX gets together to discuss which of the millennials they want out. The consensus is that they want it to be Will or Jay, until David intercedes. He thinks Jay has an idol and so instead they should vote out Michelle, who will be blindsided and the idol won’t be played. It’s not a smart idea. As evidenced by tribal later, Taylor and Jay thought they had this in the bag. They could’ve blindsided Jay without the idol being played and taken care of two birds with one stone. But instead they’ve taken out a worthless player and alerted Jay to the fact that he will need his idol in the future. They’ve lost the element of surprise. But, I digress.

  The players head off to their first individual immunity challenge and it’s a tough one. The players must balance on a small pedestal, while holding onto a metal bar. If their arms even slightly move off of the bar, a bucket of water will drop on them eliminating them from the challenge. Ultimately after a long battle between Jessica and Will, Will wins. This, along with intel from Zeke, convinces Adam that Taylor had revealed his plan to vote out Will to other people. I roll my eyes because he should’ve assumed that the second Taylor left the conversation and ran straight back to Jay. 

  The Genx members are in a pickle because they can’t seem to agree on who to vote out. This frightens Adam so he goes back to the millennial tribe and tries to work with them. Of course, this frightens already paranoid David into doubting him. Hannah tells Adam that he needs to chill it with the flip-flopping because it is ruining his chances at this game. Screw Adam for making Hannah have a moment where I agree with her. 

  So we head off to tribal council and all in all it wasn’t very interesting. There was more comparison of GenX vs. Millennials that made me want to vomit. Taylor continued to act like an overconfident bozo and then Michelle was voted out. The vote could have been suspenseful if they hadn’t shown Zeke saying while voting “I have never trusted you.” Obviously, that wouldn’t apply to Adam so everyone knew then and there that Michelle was a goner. Yet again, I find this to be a dumb move. They could have easily gotten Jay or Taylor if they had played their cards right. Now Jay knows to be on the lookout to play his idol and he may even start the search to find another one to give Taylor. 

Worst Player:

Taylor. Now, this was really close between him and Adam. Both were idiots that have no chance of winning the game now. The difference is, at least Adam showed some signs of figuring that out. So based on that, Taylor gets worst player of the episode.

Best Player:

No one really stood out. Sure David pitched the Michelle vote, but I ultimately think that was a bad move, so I won’t give it to him. Instead, I’ll give it to Zeke for effortlessly transferring to a position of power on the Genx side of the tribe.

Favorite Player:

 Ken is still my favorite, but Jay is rising up the ranks and could challenge him if he makes it far enough. So, for the sake of variety, I'll give this episode to Jay.