| Episode
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| "Dangerous
Creatures and Horrible Setbacks" |
Filmed
November 7, 2004
Airs March 3, 2005
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| RC speculation |
| IC speculation |
| Boot speculation |
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Episode
descriptions
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CBS: "-One
tribe relaxes after winning a Challenge, which annoys a tribemate
frustrated with the lack of a work ethic.
-A war of words erupts between two tribe members as one lays
into the other for being bossy.
-Just as a Challenge is set to begin, one tribe faces a setback
when a member suffers an injury. Will this affect their ability
to compete?
-Two fearless castaways take it upon themselves to confront some
deadly creatures on the island." |
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| REWARD
CHALLENGE/ Fighting over life preservers - Ulong wins |
This
challenge
appears to involve the two tribes racing into the water and retrieving
life preservers. There may be an initial free-for-all, since Angie,
Gregg and Bobby Jon are all shown entering the water at once. A
number of individual battles are also shown (Jeff vs. Tom,
Gregg vs.
Angie
and Stephenie
vs.
Jenn),
but from
a Probst statement in the web promo ("The
showdown is on!"), it appears the challenge may come down
to a final face-off of some kind. The race between Stephenie for
Ulong and
Jenn for Koror seems to be highlighted, so that's a reasonable
guess for the participants. It's hard to imagine Jenn
coming out ahead in that face-off. So we'll go with another Ulong
RC win.
This fits with the CBS clues about a tribe' that "relaxes
after winning a challenge, which annoys a tribemate frustrated
with the
lack of work ethic." Since Koror seems to be pretty excited
about (and participating in) shark hunting, slacking, Jolanda-free
Ulong
seems like a much better fit. And since we don't usually see the
IC-winning tribe much after that challenge, Ulong would make sense
as the RC winners.
The Palau challenge board (discussed at length at Phoenix and Sucks)
also suggests this will be a tribal switch episode (also that the
reward is a choice of a sail boat, bedding, or rain gear). From
the title of this challenge, this would appears to be the one that
initiates
it. But this challenge in no way resembles "Shoot and Switch."
So we doubt anything happens here.
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| REWARD
CHALLENGE pictures/ Click on thumbnails above for larger version |
Waah!
Give me back my lifesaver! |
Hmm,
the nanny vs. the athlete. Can't guess how this turns
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| IMMUNITY
CHALLENGE/ "Hot Pursuit" - Koror wins |
Preparations
for this
challenge were featured in TVGuide Channel's pre-show coverage.
Tribe members are roped together, and each carries a 25-lb backpack.
The tribes start on opposite sides of a large rope circle in wading-depth
water, and attempt to catch each other. As you might expect, this
is pretty grueling. Individual players can drop out, but they have
to pass their packs off to another tribemate. Eventually, one or
more pack-laden people have to catch the other tribe's packhorse(s).
Who wins? Chances are, it's Koror, even though, once again, they
have a physically-oriented challenge that Ulong should (on paper,
at least) dominate. But we see an exhausted-looking Ibrehem barely
moving in the promos, which makes it hard to believe he's going
to catch the other tribe. And Jeff appears fine in the RC, so he
must injure his foot before this challenge. Sucks poster callmecrazee states,
" I don't believe Jeff quits the game. I believe he quits
the Hot Pursuit challenge." Later, callmecrazee further
proclaims, "Jeff bags it because he's hurt, and gives his rice
bag to a woman."
Seems plausible. Jeff is visible racing Tom into the
water
in the
RC, but
only Ibrehem
and Bobby Jon seem to be around toward the end of the IC for Ulong.
Without
Jeff, Ulong may have a numbers disadvantage, with Koror's Ian,
Tom, and
Gregg all capable of carrying reasonable amounts of weight. The
promo also shows an exhausted Coby lying in the water (an apparent
in-challenge collapse, as an Ulong crosses the frame in the foreground).
Hard to draw solid conclusions from the minimal coverage in the
promo, but we'll still lean toward
a Koror
win here. It wouldn't be much of a setback if they got
to avoid Tribal Council now, would it?
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| IMMUNITY
CHALLENGE pictures/ Click on thumbnails above for larger version |
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| BOOT/
Jeff |
Clearly,
Jeff gets hurt, based on the promos. This was
presaged by Mersaydeez, who said, nearly two days before Ep2: "Want
to know who quits? Jeff. He gets hurt." His tribemates (mostly
James)
are also starting to grumble about his
relationship
with Kim, who doesn't seem to be doing much else
apart from snuggling with Jeff, and demanding to know if she's
being voted against.
So the Ulongs face a choice: keep injured Jeff, and hope he recovers,
or send him packing, and hope vainly that Kim starts to contribute?
Tough choice, but we think they'll ditch the young guy. Besides,
we'll keep picking Jeff to go until he does.
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