The second week of Survivor: Guatemala started out with a recap of last week's episode, and then (after a moment or two of infrared sickness, puking, and whining), we move to:
...chatting and obvious skin problems, some of the guys are still sick, and then suddenly it's time for a...
This competition is for a decent set of fishing gear. No rods, but all the hooks, line, sinkers, bobbers, and worms a fisherperson could ask for. Seems that not only "crocs" live in the lake. And since these folks are down to eating ants and minnows and grasshoppers at this point, fishing gear could be valuable.
Here's the deal. One by one, you run across a net bridge to a large rope spider web horizontally placed over a pool of water. You have to travel on the underside of the web in order to reach one of eight small sacks tied to the rope web. Once you get to a sack, untie it. Drop into the water with your sack and swim back to a ladder leading up to the web ramp. Climb it and return to the starting line. Next team member starts out.
Eight sacks wins the challenge, and despite it being a very close race, NAKÚM wins the fishing gear.
Best Line Of The Show: "We got up at the ass-crack of dawn to go fishing" - Brandon
Of Note: Blake, Cindy, and Stephenie are studs. Rafe is so weak and helpless that, well, never mind (this blade isn't going to last very long).
Not much time for camp life. No alliances yet, so we go to:
Supposedly a Tug Of War "with a twist", the two teams are harnessed together in a big pit of mud. Rather than the classic "pulling with the hands" they wear waist belts. The twist is that team members are free to "interfere" with the opposing teams efforts.
I'm not sure what the TV execs had in mind, but this concept is totally lost on the tribes. At one point in the 15 minute challenge, one of the tribe members runs over to the other team and basically tackles one of the gals. They start wrestling in the mud, ass cracks are blurred out, but no benefit comes from this impromptu fling, other than amusement for those of us wondering if the heat has blurred their brains as well.
Article comments
1 - RogerMDillion
While I dig Heinlein, I'm not sure of the connection to the link. I'm not going to say whether or not I read the book after the beating Temple took regarding Lolita.
During tug o' war, I too didn't understand the point of one guy holding down two chicks. First, I would have given him an arm bar to the throat, but if you are essentially creating an anchor, then how would you expect your team to move closer??
I don't understand how Blue didn't get rid of Rafe. He was the worst at the reward challenge.
And just for clarification, Brian went to Lydia and told her to make her worth known, which she apparently did.
good job, Bennett. Us on the West Coast appreciate the post's title. Heh heh.
2 - Joanie
Finally, a tribe that gets it! Beauty doesn't bring fish back to camp. We'll see how long this thinking lasts, but for now, people are actually thinking about what the individual players can contribute.
3 - Bennett
Heh! Yeah, p'haps "Tunnel In The Sky" would be more appropriate...
Lydia is a trooper, and deserves to be around for a few more weeks.
I could see some benefit to the "interference" if you went back and started yanking at legs and feet while your team really put a surge of pulling into the deal.
But, I'm just an armchair (non-muddy) survivor!
Thanks Roger.
4 - Brent McKee
One big thing that did come out is that Gary's "secret identity" has been exposed by the woman sports reporter on Nakum. The trouble is that none of the people on Yaxha seems willing to believe it and he's able to conceal it, but you can bet everyone on Nakum is fully aware of who he is.
5 - Bennett
Brent - Yeah, I had that in my notes but failed to put it in the article.
That Gary is choosing to "deny" the whole thing is gonna come back and bite him right in the ass.
Should be fun!
6 - willcodfish
Wow- hard to believe anyone still watches garbage like this. But, hey - guess there's always a few flunkys about.
7 - Bennett
Yeah, that's us. BTW, what's a "flunky".