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Wacky Wanda Reviews Episode 11
« on: Apr 30th, 2007, 8:23am » |
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Here's Wacky Wanda's review of last week's episode of Survivor: Fiji...
A Farewell to Mookie: Bad-Luck Survivor of Fiji
Mookie made plenty of mistakes in the course of S-14, but we have to give him credit for being, in some ways, the "realest Survivor" or "most deserving of a little sympathy" of the cast. Consider this:
* Mookie was the only merge-Survivor never to have lived in Luxury Land, the welfare palace of Moto.
* Mookie was the only final-8-Survivor not to enjoy a reward. The first reward trip was won by Cassandra and enjoyed by her and her choices Yau-Man, Dreamz, and Boo, while the second reward trip picked up Earl, Alex, and Stacy. Dreamz got a second reward, and Mookie was once again left out.
* Mookie was more betrayed than any other Fiji Survivor.
-Dreamz betrayed him in the plan to take out Stacy, listening to Alex and voting out Michelle instead.
-Dreamz followed that by revealing the Mookie-Alex immunity idol, decimating the "Four (Three?) Horsemen" alliance by taking Edgardo out, followed by Mookie this week.
-For Mookie's grand finale, his best-bud Alex took him out. "Et tu, Alex! Then fall, Mookie!"
Okay, I will give the Mark Anthony speech: " I come to bury Mookie, not to praise him." Yeah, I almost have to pity the Mookster, but ya know, this guy started out on Ravu tribe with Earl and Yau-Man. He could have partnered with them from the beginning, and might thus be in a final three position by now, but the little Asian ("Mighty Mouse" Yau) and the big, thoughtful, trustworthy black man Earl did not catch his fancy, so he blew the opportunity fate gave him to develop the right alliance from the start, and it was all downhill for him from then on. He turned out to be a fun --sometimes funny -- and memorable character, though, as he and Alex blundered their way through the game while patting themselves on the back for their intelligence and cleverness! There's no doubt in my mind that Mookie will spend the rest of his life wondering "what might have been" if he had not given his immunity idol to Alex. If he had partnered with original Ravu tribemates Yau and Earl, the three of them could have had two immunity idols!
Small-scale observation:
I was surprised to hear Dreamz say that his betrayals of his former allies had to do with a strategy to pick up jury votes for his end-game! First, I didn't really think Dreamz was thinking far enough ahead to have an end-game plan! It appeared that he was only strategizing for personal safety from one TC to the next. Second, I don't remember that being the Man in the Middle, the tale-bearer, the Double Agent, was in the Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence Juries strategy manual for final Survivors!
Large-scale observation:
As in life, so in Survivor: How much is skill, smarts, and strategy, and how much is luck and fate? Stacy winning the "Battleship" immunity challenge is another example of the extent to which many outcomes in this Survivor have been determined more by rolls of the dice -- i.e., luck -- than by strength, skill, or cunning. In every game, the destiny of a player depends a great deal on the strengths (or weaknesses) and the personalities of the tribe in which he or she starts. In Fiji, Boo and Cassandra (who were Moto and NuMoto) had a whole lot less real surviving to do than Mookie, who was Ravu and NuRavu, or the others who experienced "six of one and half a dozen of the other." That's just a matter of luck and fate. Interventions such as a "largely luck" immunity challenge (Stacy's "battleship" being placed more fortuitously) make people wonder whether it's worth the effort to strategize.... but we all know that in life or in the game, we have to continue applying every asset we have toward supplementing our best luck and negating our worst luck.
Highlight statements of episode eleven:
Earl: "Two people are on death row right now." The demise of Mookie and Alex was succinctly foreshadowed.
Alex: "I've got one vote. I better make it count." How did he know that the way to make it count was to vote against best-bud Mookie? I understood immediately that that forecast his vote for Mookie, but Alex must somehow have known about the planned 3-3 split of the others. Will we find out next week who among the other six made him wise to the scheme? Or will we never know?
Jeff, after TC: "At this point, Alex is either odd-man-out -- or suddenly very valuable!"
No doubt about it. Yau, Earl, and Cassandra have staked out the top three spots, while Boo, Stacy, and Dreamz will be fighting it out for fourth, fifth, and sixth -- UNLESS! Unless they unite with Alex to reclaim bidding positions for the final three. Will they do this? I doubt it. And anyhow, we fans don't want 'em to, even though upsets are fun to watch. We like Yau Man, Earl, and Cassandra best.
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