Creatures of Habit / Winners vs. non winners /Week 3 / All Stars

I am not going to gloat that I told you so, but I did. Remember J.T. saying he was going to play this game differently this time around, remember? And my response was, no you won't? Remember? If you don't remember then you need to make a doctor's appointment and get checked for Alzheimer's because it just happened last week. Well, J.T.'s new strategy worked for all of about three days in Survivorville because we see him apologizing to Tom for voting out Stephenie, instead of voting for James. Yeah dude, you and I and about 11 million other people know you would have never apologized if James had been voted out. Me thinks that one will come back to haunt you. Then we see Tom telling James to "play gentler." We then see Tom and Colby reflecting on what has happened and how they may have to change. Again, ain't gonna happen. This brings me to my first huge point of the week, pitting former winner's against non-winners will never work in Survivor. With everything being equal and it will happen as it happened in the first Survivor All Stars, the vote will come down to a non-winner staying over a winner. Yes folks it will happen a few times this season, that will be the reasoning. That's my main reasoning why Parvati, Tom, J.T., Sandra, and Rupert and probably Rob because his wife won, won't win.
Speaking of Rob, I never gave him props for building fire last week without flint. Then he makes a keen observation that who people sleep by makes a difference. That was one of those comments that made perfect sense right when he said it. We see people jumping around when Tom recaptures the chicken, must have been a boring three days. Coach makes a comment to Russell that Parvati is very dangerous, ya think? Even before the game started I circled her as one to get rid of quickly, especially if I am a guy. Talk about a creature of habit, this is her third time playing and she plays exactly the same each time, flirting with the guys and then getting rid of them. We then see our favorite bully Russell hiding the machete. Since no one from his season is playing, this was a bold move in an attempt to cause discord at camp. However, with this being the second and third go around for the players, it may not cause any problems. We then see Russell being buddies with Parvati telling her he wants to take her to the final two. Again, these aren't first time players and they aren't going to fall for this. Then we get to this week's foreshadowing. Randy goes out and finds a huge shell and asks people if they want to share? Dude? I said people are creatures of habit and Randy asks people if they want to share, pinch me.
No one wants any at first but then Parv and Sandra have a little. We then see Courtney looking pissed. I think of 200 - 300 people who have played Survivor before and I am trying to think of one reason why they brought her back over the other 199 - 299 players. She didn't do squat the first time around and this time around I would have to give her a D- for even doing squat. I don't get it. I actually hope the tribe mistakes her for a chicken and puts her into one of the cages. J.T. makes another mistake in telling Cirie that he thinks Candance doesn't trust her which of course causes Cirie to ask Candance who of course denies it. Then we see Candance breaking a cardinal rule as she starts asking everybody at camp about it. A few words of advice Candance, don't get paranoid and start asking people if they are talking about you because if you do this, people will start talking about you. Play the game to win, not to be scared.
The Immunity Challenge lasted about thirty seconds, that's how long it took Tom to beat Russell's ass in the padded mud wrestling competition. The villains treated this just like they treated their camp, not much interest. It sort of reminded me of the movie Cold Running with John Candy, the true story of the Jamaican Bob Sled team. Watching this has inspired me to try out for the USA Curling team for 2014, hey if I am going travel half way around the world to get my butt beat on national television, I might as well get a good ass kicking. The villains got beat 8 - 0 in one of the worst butt kickings in the history of Survivor.
We see the pre-tribal council talking and Sandra says "As long as its not me," for about the 20th time since she first started playing. Again, you can't tell me they picked her over other former players? What the hell, did all the other former players have weddings and funerals to go to? My goodness I think a blind guy with a wooden leg would be a better player. Jerri and Parvati don't really care for one another, go figure someone not liking Jerri, except Coach.
Anyhow, Randy gets voted out by a 9 - 1 count. Dude, 9 - 1? Really? Randy, one of the main things to accomplish is to make friends. Again, why did they take this guy for a second go around? Another prediction, Randy will get about five seconds of air time at the finale this year, he'll get to say hi to his dog.
For the record after three vote outs, here are my early observations. The hereo's want to work together as a team, but when the total team is working in a challenge they suck, they have a better camp setup, they work better in challenges when it involves one or two people at a time and they have a hard time handling adversity. The villains have a lousy camp, don't really care if they work together as a team, talk in terms of me, do better in team challenges and simply don't trust one another, other than the two people who people love to hate, Coach and Jerri. Someone do the math on that one.
Next week we see people looking for the hidden idol (hopefully if James finds it he will know how to use it this time) and Rob is shooting for Russell which probably means Rob is going home.

Until next week, Uncle Andy.