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Wacky Wanda's Episode 12 Review!
« on: May 9th, 2006, 2:41pm » |
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Here's what Wanda sent us this week...
Terry did it again... and again! Captain America won two more challenges, the four stage reward challenge and then the high-post, water-pourin' immunity challenge. With the immunity idol still in his bag, he only has to win one more time to be in the final two.
Superman looks like the winner all the way. With the days till the finale now countable on our fingers, we can also start finger-tabulating final jury votes. If Terry's on the ballot, we know he has Austin and Sally on his side for sure. It is also likely that he gets Shane's vote, since (1) he let Shane have an overnight with Boston, since (2) he has not voted against Shane, and since (3) Shane is most likely to be ticked at the betrayal by his former Casaya allies. That leaves just one more vote for Terry to garner from either Bruce, who undoubtedly respects Terry, or from Courtney, who was blindsided by her Casaya friends and who was solicited by Terry after their reward challenge win to go with him to the final 3 and likely the final 2. Count Aras on your other hand: It is fairly certain that Aras (likely to be F-4) will not vote for Terry. Cirie (likely to be F-3) will be a wild card on the jury, one with strong Casaya friendships. Terry could win the jury 4-3, 5-2, or even 6-1.
The preview showed Danielle finally conceding that an alliance with Terry could be a good thing for her, and it seems likely that she would be Terry's best choice for F-2, as she has been on the bottom of Casaya's totem pole for weeks. Likewise, if Danielle (or Aras or Cirie) should by skill or chance win the final endurance challenge, Terry would be the best choice to take to F-2, with the hope that Casayans would choose one of their own tribal friends as opposed to the tiger from LaMina.
It's ironic that Terry has been politically the underdog since before the merge, but that in another sense he has been the Top Dog who made everyone else the underdog in every challenge. Those who like to root for underdogs have been perpetually confused about whether to root for underdog Terry or underdog Aras -- or underdog Shane, Cirie, Courtney -- ANYBODY to beat the "underdog" who wins all the time!
That strong wind that rattled the glass in your windows five minutes before the show was over Thursday night was a collective sigh of relief by millions of viewers who have been waiting for Shane to get his eviction notice and go off for his chocolate ice cream bar at the Ponderosa, AKA Loser Lodge. But most of these folks, like the underdog-rooters, have found themselves just a bit ambivalent by this point. Shane's devotion to Boston, and the boy's admiration for his dad, touch us all. In addition, we cannot fail to acknowledge that Shane was right at TC when he noted that he hasn't lied to anyone. Unlike previous Survivor villains, such as Johnny Foulplay, the greatest premeditated liar of all Survivors, or Judd Sergeant, the pathological liar who could probably pass lie detector tests any day of the week because he doesn't differentiate between truth and lies, Shane's "villainy" has been a different sort.
Why have we despised him so? For sheer ugliness, he's been hard to beat, but you can't really hold that against a man, except insofar as a visit to a barber before starting the game would have been a good investment in viewer appreciation. It's also true that Shane has not performed like a champ in challenges. His nicotine problem made him want to quit in the beginning. He was first to quit in the "hold your weight" competition, going out even before Cirie. He was first out in the four-stage reward challenge this week -- but we'll grant that that was sheer bad luck -- he surely wanted to find the sandbag and go on to be with Boston. He was substantially in last place on the high-post water-in-the-tube immunity challenge, leading Jeff and others to wonder if he really cared much about winning immunities. Aras and the women almost always seem to have been investing more effort into the futile attempts to beat the Unstoppable T. Shane's been moody and has needed his time-outs, but mostly he's been disliked for his take-charge directness. Remember the first Casaya immunity loss? He told Mindy and Cirie, "One of you goes this time and one the next time. I don't care which." He was calling the shots from the get-go till he got-gone. He was a leader, an authoritarian, not a listener, not normally compassionate (except with Bruce's medical emergency). But he was a straight-shooter.
I've heard that Margaret of Guatemala decided he was worse than Judd. That's where my dear Margaret and I will disagree. Shane was uglier, but not nastier. Not worse. At least you always knew where you were at with Shane.
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