Survivor: Samoa - Ben Voted off (6-1)

In this episode of Survivor, Russell H. gloats about being in control, still, and says soon he’ll have everyone here acting like zombies. Russell H. is seen asking Natalie who she thinks should be voted off. Natalie says “Uhhhh, Ummmm”. Then, Jaison claims he wants Ben out for his comment he made towards Yasmin, as Jaison is still offended. Ben says he’s the only one doing work around camp, and that all of the survivors, who struggle to make a fire, would die out there if he was to be voted off. Then, Russell H. stirs the pot up again and tells Ben is was Ashley who tried to get him out. We know it was all Betsy’s idea, as that’s why she didn’t take control, and Ben believed Russell, and tells Ashley off, but Ashley backs out o that fight. Good girl, Ashley, the last thing we need other than Russell is Ben attempting to say something else ignorant.

At the Galu tribe, Shambo is appalled over seeing Laura leading three other tribe mates in a yoga class. There’s nothing wrong with yoga, I mean, It must work, simply because Galu keeps winning. In the third immunity challenge, the Survivors had to run into the water and retrieved colored boxes and arrange them so that the colors don’t repeat. The first tribe to finish wins immunity & reward, which Jeff revealed to be comfort items. The Galu tribe won, again, and Russell S. chose to keep he comfort items over the other items, as he claims he’s trying to make the women happy. That’s nice, I mean, if it were Ben there, he’d probably say “I’m uh make deeze gals, uhh, suffer her,, and uhhh, take the stuff.”. Shambo was selected to spend time on Foa-Foa’s camp.

At Galu, the women were indeed happy with the comfort, but one of the guys said he wasn’t so happy. Meanwhile, Shambo tells Foa-Foa that she hates her tribe, and that they were doing yoga, and that they don’t work, etc. The Foa-Foa tribe loves Shambo, however, and says she’s very positive round camp, and all. Then, it was more game time for Foa-Foa. Jaison claims he refuses to play the game with Ben around, and would likely quit if Ben wasn’t voted off, saying no million dollars is worth to see Ben around. Russell H. objected, saying he still wants Ashley out, telling the guys that Liz, Ashley and Natalie could very well collide together if Ashley got to stay.

At Tribal Council, Jaison confronts Ben about his remark towards Yasmin, saying it was a racist remark, and saying stuff about history, yeah, all that jazz. Ben says his remark wasn’t racist and tells Jaison that he’s not a slave and such. So, at the vote, it looked like it was between Ashley and Ben. It was Ben who got all the tribe’s votes, and he was voted off. I personally can’t be more happier to see Ben go, simply because he’s got to be one of the most ignorant Survivor’s to date. Jaison, however, doesn’t look like he’ll stand a chance, judging by the previews. Usually, when we see a tribe down four freaking members, they usually spend ten minutes of the show whining about how much they are a horrible tribe at challenges. However, this year, I don’t think we’ve seen Foa-Foa too worried about losing, which is a mystery to me.

I would like to see Foa-Foa win, so Shambo can either be voted off or flip her status around and work on building trusts with her tribe mates. I think Kelly or Bret would be the first to go, most likely Kelly from Galu, simply because she hasn’t been seen and it’s been three episodes. I’d be happy too if Foa-Foa continued losing, because I truly want Russell H to merge with less numbers, just to see him attempt to get Galu members on his side. Which, Shambo would be on board, but no truly anyone else, so far. I really hope Ashley gets to stick around, she’s been a target twice and managed to escaper from being voted off. She is probably the woman who’s doing the best strategically, given I don’t see any potential game play from Monica or Kelly, maybe Laura looks like she’s paying a decent social game and I don’t know where Yasmin stands as of now.

Here is two rankings of the Survivor Samoa cast: One is the LLNMD list I’ve been doing, and the other is a “Power Ranking” thread, where on a scale of 1-5, I’ll rank each Survivor’s chances of winning, based on strategic play, social play, show visibility and eventually, Jury relations of each Survivor. 5 means this Survivor has a strong chance of winning this game, and 3 means they have a fair chance of winning ,depending on where the game ends up taking off to, and one means, I don’t think they have any chance of winning the show. So, here’s LLNMD & 1-5PR.

LLNMD:
Love: Laura, Mick,
Like: Liz, Russell S., Ashley,
Neutral: Jaison,
Meh: Natalie, Russell H., Brett, Monica, Kelly, Dave, Erik, John, Yasmin, Shambo,
Dislike: Ben

1-5PR:
5:
4: Mick, Russell H, Dave, Erik,
3: Russell S, Ashley, John,
2: Laura, Liz, Jaison, Yasmin, Shambo,
1: Natalie, Brett, Monica, Kelly,