| Episode
5 |
| "Earthquakes
and Shakeups" |
Filmed July 8-9,
2004
Airs October 14, 2004 |
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| RC
speculation |
| IC
speculation |
| Boot
speculation |
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| Episode
descriptions |
CBS: -Both
tribes receive unexpected visits from Vanuatu natives bearing
a message with consequences for all the castaways.
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A massive
earthquake rocks the island, literally shaking things up for
the tribes.
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A trip for one tribe leads to bonding and makes one
castaway very happy.
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One castaway is caught by a tribemate while
attempting to communicate secretly with a member of the opposing
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| SWITCH
and REWARD CHALLENGE/ Diving - Lopevi wins? |
If
you're like us, you're thinking, "WTF is this 'one chief'
bull?" Apparently,
Rory is more like us than we think. Maybe it's that he helps the
damn canoe land, but Lea gets to wear all the trappings of power.
Screw that! And, based on gender preferences in the opening ceremony,
we're guessing the Vanuatu natives are like us as they pull up
to the Yasur tribe's beach. Ami appears to be taking the various
trinkets for the women, unless it's Scout, as Bungler suggests.
But whatever. Not clear how the switch is involved, but since both
challenges
feature
switched
tribesmates,
it must happen early, as does the earthquake. Presumably, forcing
someone to be chief may play a role in the mechanism of the switch. There's
no evidence for anyone switching beyond Twila and Rory, and there's
evidence against every woman switching, except Twila (obviously)
and Julie. For the men, there is evidence against Lea, John K.,
and Chris switching. So we'll play it safe, and conclude that
the only switchers are those we can see: Twila and Rory.
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| SWITCH
pictures/ Click on thumbnails above for larger version |
No,
my name is not "Mr. T". Why the devil do you keep asking
me that? |
Please,
take our fake cultural trinkets! That will be $5, please.
No, we don't take Visa. |
All
right. Drop and give me 20, or I'll start whacking y'all
with my totem stick thingy here. |
As for the reward challenge itself, an identically-clothed
Jeff Probst both tells the contestants to drop their
buffs, and comments on the length
of two people's dives. That suggests reasonably strongly that the switch
occurs immediately before the diving challenge. Since both challenges feature
switched people, that further suggests diving is the
RC. This would appear, on the
surface at least, to favor Lopevi. If they win, that might explain the
bonding going on on the reward trip, where Twila gets to escape hanging
out with the womenfolk.
We note that
those gossip-mongers at Vanuatu
Survivor claimed:
| Mele
Cascades was closed for a 'private' function
to film a survivors challenge 'reward' on Thursday
8th. The winning contestants had a full-on
meal supplied to them near the waterfall in
which they were swimming with nobody to bother
them. The next challenge is being stage today
in a pig pen. Presumably contestants have to
find something racing around in a dirty smelly
pig pen with 'ferocious' wild pigs in order
to win a live pig to eat. |
The
reward-at-Mele-Cascades part fits with the filming schedule,
and the CBS clues. The composition of the challenges
seems less likely, although the pig challenge could well
take place in Ep6.
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| REWARD
CHALLENGE pictures/ Click on thumbnails above
for larger version |
Letting
his hat do the talking: "I love you, Lopevi!" |
Hey
Rory, quit chatting up the ladies! |
"Please
let the guys drown, please let them drown!" |
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| IMMUNITY
CHALLENGE/ Running? - Lopevi wins? |
The running challenge
itself, originally suggested by aka
Ives at MESS, appears to be for immunity, and was cleverly
disguised with "shaking" camerawork in the Web Promo
to resemble contestants running from the eartquake. It's not clear
that this
is necessarily the IC, but we have to talk about it somewhere.
Given the relative compositions of the teams, we suspect Yasur
may also have a disadvantage here. The men are presumably well-fed
now, and John K. appears quite speedy. If Scout foolishly sat out
the diving, she has to run here, and she's old and
has
an artificial
knee -
probably
not good. Plus, the women are now saddled with Rory, who appears
none too fleet of foot. We'd call this a slight edge to Lopevi.
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| IMMUNITY
CHALLENGE pictures/ Click on thumbnails above for larger
version |
Apparently,
there was a problem with the Steadycam for this challenge.
Oh well. Run, Johnny, run! |
Please,
Leann, just give up. You're stuck with Rory. |
We're
too lazy to make an
animated GIF, but in the ad, CBS made flames come out of
Eliza's butt. Har! |
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| BOOT/
Lisa |
Lisa sticks
with her old tribe, it appears, as does Eliza. She's definitely
the next woman to go, but so soon? On the other hand, she does
say "Oh
no!" in
the preview, which may be symbolic. After all, turning your back
on alliance-mates is not generally a good long-term strategy, Rob
Cesternino
excepted. Also, Orangeena says
she's gone, and who are we to question Orange saucers? Or,
for that matter, MickeyKnocks's cryptic lunch orders?
John K. is the last youngster standing
in Lopevi. Not a good spot on a team accustomed to losing.
Still, if you're looking for him in the previews, it's
like he's already gone, or on the run at least. Hard to
boot someone you can't see, right? That's enough out of
you,
Zoe and
Erin.
Travis is
known not to make the final nine, and he expressed his desire to
go home last week. His promo appearances are negative: wincing
in fear, wiping his forehead in shock. But his boot wouldn't make
internal sense at this point, at least without some miraculous turn
of events that would save John K.'s skin. |
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