It's happened
Hein-god and demigod Dick have left the Island.
So why am I not jumping around doing the dance of joy? WHY was I watching last nights episode with a feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach?
When someone really REALLY irritates me, I am so relieved when they are well and truly whacked. I mean really, when Johnny Foulplay's flame was finally doused, did everyone not laugh and scream and throw huge parades? So where is the big band for Dick? The cheerleaders? The drummies for goodness sake?????
It's true. The unthinkable has happened and I'm a traitor to myself. Those feelings of hatred for Dick have completely disappeared and he did NOTHING to redeem his status as Pig number 1.
From the very beginning he has rubbed me the wrong way, The condescending way he spoke to his tribe mates and the comment about people and colour and swimming. Everything!
And now it's just fizzled out and died, like his flame, and I can truly say I am disappointed that he is gone. It's probably because he's so controversial and not because he was newly shaved and not at all as shaggy looking as last week. I know Tashi, I know. Treacherous, traitorous me.
I know I said that I would like Lorette to win the 30-second challenge but I didn't carefully think of the implications when I said it. I just wanted Hein-god gone. I completely forgot that his followers would be at the mercy of THE OTHERS.
The 30-second challenge on its own was very baffling. How could Heingod miscalculate like that?
My strategy would be, as soon as I heard the stop watch of the other person click, then I would touch the skull too.
The law of averages is that a human being will UNDER count because they count too fast. So, if Lorette was under 30 seconds and Hein touched the scull a second later, he wins.
You take the risk off course if the person has over counted but then why wait 17 seconds?????? I was counting in my head but the tension was too much for me and didn't come close to Lorette's 26 seconds. BUT I KNEW Hein-god was way off. What was he thinking? I refuse to believe that he threw that challenge. Maybe he thought it was 60 seconds? But even then, as soon as Lorette's clock stopped, he would be assured winning if he touched it there and then? Makes no sense to me.
I am baffled and confused as to what his thinking was.
The rest of the game I was worried for Dick. I knew there was no way he was going to swing it.
And then he gone and went and won the RC. Obviously you want to win challenges but sometimes it's better to concede, no? Now, not only was he a strong competitor physically, but mentally he was a threat too. He might as well have painted a huge target on his forehead.
I like that he didn't use his prize to butter up the opponents though. Actually, I wish he did, so then it would have given me a reason to dislike him. I was clutching at straws, anything to get back my hatred for him.
AND he speaks Xhosa (please correct me if I'm wrong, I just presumed it was) The way he chatted to Mandla showed us another side of Dick. It made me think that his previous comment about people of colour was more stereotyping than racism.
So once the radox challenge was over and they radoxed their way off the island and were radoxed to death by radox masseurs and drank radox cocktails and they came back all radoxy and literally rubbed it into the other contestants faces, I just knew that he was going. And I was hoping for a miracle.
Has Grant's eyes always looked like that?
It was huge and sunken into his head and hey kept getting bigger and bigger as he spoke. He's really not a dumb boytjie, he just makes assumptions that are not quite correct.
And then he went ahead and told Dick that they were voting for him and didn't fall for Dick's last minute scramble. Still don't like him though. Shifty eyes.
Angie and Grant are on my number one pig list. With Amanda following a very close second.
I wanted to get duct tape and seal both Angie and Amanda's mouths shut. I LOVED the incessant, incoherent ramblings of Angela because it pissed Angie off so much.
For this reason alone, Angela should win Survivor. I will gladly award her with the million buckaroos if she manages to drive Angie stark, raving mad enough to swim off the island.
Did anybody else have a good chuckle at Loretta's whinging about the word whinge? The irony of it... Which she also probably didn't get.
I didn't like the IC at all.
It didn't give Dick a chance to EARN his necklace. Do you know what I'm trying to say? This challenge it might have ended in one person winning but it started off with THE OTHERS ganging up on Dick - which they could not have done in a normal challenge.
Where the necklace should have remained
And yoh, did you see how upset he was afterward? I'm surprised he didn't make a bigger fuss about it back at camp. I would have. If you're screwed anyway, might as well go out with a bang. Might give those people who really want to hate you a chance to hate you again. But noooooooo, he was all nice to Mandla, laughing and chatting away as if they didn't just give him the biggest shove off an Island that I ever did see.
At TC I CAN NOT understand why there was one vote for Angie and 2 votes for Grant. Who voted that way? Did they not have a pre-TC chat??? Why did they not show the rest of the votes again? Something is afoot and I want to know what it is!.
So, just to recap - pig list - Grant, Angie & Amanda.
Winner - ANGELA!!!!
Oh crap - almost forgot about being sad that Hein was gone. He was a brilliant survivor, bless him, and although i feel a tinge of sadness that he didn't at least make the final 4, I didn't want him to win.
hein-god & shark (unaware that the other sharks were of the 2-legged kind)
And thank you M-Net for not pausing for a radox break in the middle of the challenge. (Hee - did you see that dig at Dick just AFTER the challenge though)