This episode was another goodie. Who thought so? Once AGAIN my posts are late. It's midterms week over here in good old Wisconsin so all of us college students are juggling our busy lives and OF COURSE cramming in our weekly dose of Endurance as well. Sorry everyone!! Anyways, so lets just talk a little bit about the team dynamics right before the challenge.
So we all saw the orange / green alliance formed. At first i thought orange was foolish to allign with a team such as green when there were more powerful-LOOKING teams that seemed like better choices to allign with such as red, who i've been saying would make a formidable alliance from the start, but whatever. So nosey old Connor came stumbling in breaking up the few moments of privacy that these two teams had obviously planned out. His unwelcomeness clearly went right over his head, because why would these two teams engaged in a secret convo want him to come in and intrude. He wasn't able to read between the lines, or he may have chose to break up the pow wow in order to prevent such under the table deals to be made, but none the less, these four would have plenty of opportunities down the line to pitch deals without his presence, so him being there didn't seem to have any positive effect for him, and now green and orange probably see him as an unwanted appendage that they will have to sever somewhere down the road. At this point in the game i think purple is more doomed than even say yellow. although yellow's stance looks grim, their position in the group is well known... OUTSIDERSSSSS, where as flying below the radar teams like purple will be caught up in this season due to the fact that there are only 6 teams thus far and no one can really go unnoticed for that many temple missions. So all in all i thought it was pretty bogus that Connor interrupted, and his sneaky transparent ways need to be put on front street with a quick trip up to the temple, preferable against green where purple can find themselves stacked against some less than desirable odds. Yellow also did a great job of stating the obvious. Another insightful line from that boy on the yellow team told Briana to "make friends"... This order lacks the aspect of possibility. One cannot simply walk out of the huts one morning and decide they they are going to recconcile their differences wth all the teams and erase the poor reputation that looms over a player. Kids love to exclude. It's always alot more fun when someone is left out? isn't it? think about it, if someone is left out, the people in the "in-crowd" feel that much more secure and popular / wanted. To let the outcasts in as an equal would only subject the well liked teams to unsure standings amongst the group. So i think yellow is going to be the outsiders until they win a challenge and back some of these comfortable teams into a corner and force them to be nice or at least civil.
The challenge looked like a real pain! Seriously running in sand in that hot sun must have really took some... hmmm ENDURANCE! seriously, i KNOW i would have taken about three trips and then just said skip this ALL, forget the magic box, i'll see y'all at the temple mission... But some teams did not perform as i expected. i really expected a lot out of orange. caleb seems like the incredible hulk amongst these boys, but surprisingly they were not one of the front runners. red performed well like i suspected and green came out of left field with their job well done. the girl on the red team made some slick comment about how her partner was not being supportive enough or some crazy stuff like that. In all honesty, i think he was doing exactly what he should. he was forcefully motivating her to push thru the pain right at the end in hopes of winning. he sprinted in order to keep up with will. he had to run alot faster for the boy's half of the challenge where as the girls looked to be traveling at a slightly more moderate pace. Not to knock the girls performance in the challenge, but he was clearly busting butt to keep the team in contension to win, and i don't blame him for yelling... he wanted to have the MAGIC BOX.
so the green team got the magic box. i would have loved to see yellow win it and mess with everyone's head, and of course they might be the ones who needed it the most. but green pulled thru in the end and deservingly claimed their prize. The real prize was one free win at the temple. HAHAHA, i pity the fool that ends up across from green at the temple. please for a moment invision yourself maKING that long walk up the mountain bluff thing that the tample is located on, unsure of your status as it is, and then hear that for no reason at all you are going to face a disadvantage of already being negative one in the win count. Who ever goes against them better bring their lucky rabbit's foot, hope they have the luck peace, ask some fijian gods for help, shoot, idk... it'll look bleak for whoever that team is... CAN'T WAIT!
it was a pretty crafty strategy to tell the other teams that they're immune from the first temple. This bold move may secure their standings thru week one, but lord help them if anyone figures out this white-lie. i'm sure there will be some angry players on that beach lookin for some revenge if they catch wind of the truth. Even so green will be hiking up to temple with one win as it is and a good chance to come back and get the last laugh... so i must say that this magic box has shined light on a team that i did not immediatley predict to do so well.
Jackie was showing some good critical thinking when she hypothesized that the magic box most likely contained an advantage for green and not neccessarily a disadvantage in the form of some power for the rest of the teams. I think this girl has the brain power to call herself a champ... we'll just see what the endurance pieces have to say about that though...
I really don't know what to say, Endurance is really getting crazy. The drama is getting ridiculous. But yet its funny in the same way, idk. Anyways, in this episode I really liked Lauren, she proved that she was strong, again. (Troublemaker). Hannah & Jackie, I don't know whats going on there, I thought they were tight but idkkk. ha ha. I loved Jordyn in this one too, ha ha. "If this is wrong, I'm going to punch you." I really wanted blue to win , but I'm going to miss purple. I really like Jackie & Connor. It seems like the shows are like centered around a couple people, like Jonathon, Leslie, Will, Caleb were like never shown. It was really just Jackie & Hannah's show.
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