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Episode 9 Recaps
« on: Nov 15^th, 2002, 1:42am »

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'Survivor: Thailand' Finally Merges
Thu, Nov 14, 2002 11:27 PM PDT
by Brill Bundy
Zap2it, TV New

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - The remaining members of the Chuay Gahn and Sook Jai tribes finally merged on Thursday (Nov. 14) night after uneasily living together on the same beach separately through two group Immunity Challenges.

Things start out on Night 24 as the Chuay Gahns await the return of the Sook Jai from Tribal Council. While debating whether or not Erin or Ken was voted out, Helen and Jan mock Penny's insincere sweetness while Brian impersonates Ken as babe magnet.

The remaining Sook Jais return, minus Erin, and Jake thanks the Chuay Gahns for staying up and "mourning" with them.

Despite Jake's genuine behavior, the Chuay Gahns are not impressed. The next day Clay calls Jake's stories "Will Rogers tales" while Ted says he only tells them to impress people.

Jake defends himself by saying that he tells stories of his past to let everyone know that while he might be old; he's still an adventurer.

Remarkably, no one makes fun of Helen for serenading the full moon with "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" Perhaps it's because there's nothing she can gain from it.

Jeff gathers the troops together and teases each of them with a glimpse of a video from loved ones at home. Then, finally, they merge.

After bestowing new gold buffs and explaining that paint and fabric for a new tribe flag will be waiting when they get back to camp, Jeff says that the luxury challenge winner will be allowed to see their full video.

Following a couple elimination rounds on an obstacle course, the challenge comes down between Brian and Helen. Brian wins and the whole group gathers to watch the video from his wife.

Former porn actor Brian apologizes in advance for anything his might do because "she's a little crazy."

Clay comments that the little woman is quite a fox, but Helen is busy taking notes on the baby grand piano in the living room and two new cars in the garage. She notes that if she werent on Brian's side seeing that he doesn't need the money would be cause enough for her to vote him out right then.

Brian's wife ends her message by encouraging him to win so they can all go to Fiji.

Back at camp, the group dubs itself the Chuay-Jai (again) and paints their flag.

Ted decides to take some alone time and goes out by himself in the boat. He comments that people rarely go off alone because they don't want to give the others an opportunity to talk about them, but quiet reflection is important.

Proving his point, everyone busily condemns him for his loner ways back on the beach and Clay tells Jake that the former Chuay Gahns are leaning towards sending Ted home.

At the Immunity Challenge, everyone is given 30 seconds to memorize the Thai characters for the number one to nine. Jeff then quizzes them, eliminating them down to two -- Clay and Ken -- for the next level.

Using the Thai characters and some basic navigation, the two are sent on individual searches for 10 disks. Ken gets off to a bad start and never recovers; Clay handily wins.

At the first Tribal Council for the Chuay-Jai, former Sook Jais Ken, Jake and Penny take Clay's word from before and vote for Ted. Meanwhile, the five former Chuay Gahns band together to oust Ken, setting a predictable precedent for the remainder of the game.

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Chuay Gahn sits at camp reveling in their new power position while Sook Jai is off at tribal council voting another person off, which would leave Chuay Gahn with a 5-3 advantage. Sook Jai returns despondent, announcing that they have eliminated Erin. We quickly come to the realization that the non-merger fake-out was a great move for one episode, but has been a dud of an arrangement since nothing is happening once again. Last week we learned that Helen talks a lot about recipes, and this week we learn that Jake likes to tell stories about his adventures. There's the one where he killed him a bear when he was only three, then his expeditions with his giant blue ox, and then about the time he tamed a tornado. The goal of his stories to win the Chuay Gahn tribe members over, but they are having the opposite effect.

Then everyone starts talking about how they miss their families and loved ones, so we know this is going to be the message from home episode, and yes, after the commercials Jeff brings out the VCR and videotape. Everyone gets to see a quick greeting from a loved one. That means eight times in a row, "We love you. We miss you. We're proud of you. We're rooting for you. We're thinking of you. We support you. Good luck." Jeff also makes the announcement that the tribes have now merged, and the first individual reward challenge is for the opportunity to see the full video from home. The first part of the challenge is an obstacle course, and Brian and Helen advance to the second part, which is a puzzle, and Brian wins.

Jeff pulls out a tape with simply the name "Brian" written on it. It looks like they just taped over an old tape because it looks like "The Regina Pierce Affair" has been crossed out. The tape is of Brian's wife, and surprise, surprise, it looks like he married one of his costars. The only thing missing is a pole. She also shows everyone their baby grand piano and two new cars in the garage. That revelation perks up a few ears as other contestants realize that he is obviously not the most needy among the bunch.

Now that everyone is one tribe, they name themselves Chuay Jai and make their new flag. Now the big observation is that everyone is doing little things that annoy the others. Great television - a cavalcade of people doing irritating things. Ted gets frustrated and decides he needs some quality "me time," so he goes off by himself in the canoe. I think maybe he 's off searching for something to grind with at night.

Meanwhile everyone is practicing their strategery. This is particularly important for members of the old Sook Jai tribe, who are outnumbered and have to turn one of the Chuay Gahn to their side to have a chance. Ken seems fairly resigned to being the next to go due to a "vote out the threat" approach, but Jake is still working on the Chuay Gahn, who give him some nibbles that they might be willing to vote out the standoffish Ted.

Of course, there isn't a whole lot of sense in getting too set in any plan until after the first individual immunity challenge. Again, it's a two-part contest. The first portion involves learning the Thai symbols for the numbers 1-9. They are not too successful at it as five of the eight go out in the first round and then Ken and Clay wind up as the final two to move onto the second stage of the challenge. This stage involves following coordinate directions to find ten disks in a puzzle grid. Ken fails miserably at this stage, so the lesson learned is if you ever get lost in New York, Ken is not the cop to ask for directions.

Jake moves into desperation mode, hatching a plan to try to convince Clay to turn and vote Brian out. Oddly, there never seems to be any attempt to approach the Chuay Gahn women to get them on his side, so everything depends on Clay. Though there is an attempt to edit in some suspense, there was never really any strong indication that Chuay Gahn would splinter, and they follow through on their plan to vote out the person they think might be the biggest threat in challenges, and Ken is eliminated. (Ted doesn't get scolded for writing down a nickname instead of an actual name.) Old tribal lines still stand, which likely means at least two more extremely dull episodes until we have a chance at anything interesting happening again.

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End of Ken

Is that the ugliest immunity necklace ever? Plus, Dalton Ross observes that Ken was too much of a threat, the new tribe name is just silly, and Brian's wife ruined his chances by bragging about Fiji

TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD Ken was a threat, so he had to go

Okay, we can go on about how much Brian's wife may have just cost him the game, how it would have been better NOT to merge the two tribes, and assorted other tidbits from the latest ''Survivor''episode. But before we do (and trust me, we will), can we spend just a minute talking about that new immunity necklace. Is that the ugliest thing you've ever seen in your life or what? I'm trying to think of something ridiculous to compare it to, but I can't! It's, like, in its own stratosphere of ridiculousness.

Not that I'm a fashion diva or anything (I've worn the same pair of black jeans every day for about a decade), but I'm not sure I would want to win immunity if it meant putting that thing around my neck. First off, it's butt ugly, which we've already established. Secondly, with all those pointy things coming out of it, if you walked into someone, you might inadvertently take an eye out or something, and as our parents always told us, it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.

Ah, if only this edition of ''Survivor'' were much fun to begin with. I thought the non-merge idea was a good call by Mark Burnett, but two weeks later, he ditches it and does the merge. See, I liked the tension of competing against the team you have to live with. I also thought it actually gave a Sook Jai member a chance in hell of winning, in that if they won the next two team challenges, they'd be right back to even.

But Burnett got rid of it, Chuay Ghan is now getting rid of Sook Jai one by one, and the next few weeks are simply playing out the string. Another reason I don't like the merge? The new tribe name -- Chuay Jai. Are you kidding me? At least in the last four editions they bothered to come up with a new name. Combining their previous tribe names is just lazy (not to mention cheesy).

For the past few weeks it's looked like Brian was the strongest player. He did well in challenges, got along with everybody, and kept the information output about himself to an absolute minimum. Boy, did his wife mess him up on that last count in her video message -- showing off his grand piano, two cars, and talking about a trip to Fiji. Yo, babe, why don't you just wave a big wad of cash at the camera while you're at it!

At this point, players are looking for ANY reason to get rid of somebody and turn the tide against strong opponents, and Brian's not-so better half just gave them that reason.

At least Brian gets to stick around a little longer than Ken. Anyone who didn't see his ouster coming a mile away obviously doesn't watch the show much. (Similarly, anyone that was fooled for a minute by Ted getting the first three votes doesn't know the lengths Burnett will go to create fake drama. Nice try, MB, but c'mon, who do you take us for?)

Ken seemed like a good guy, but he was too strong and threatened to start winning all the challenges, a la Colby from "''The Australian Outback,'' so strategically, he was the natural choice for the Chuay Ghan people to vote out. Penny, I wouldn't get too comfortable, because unless Jake gets even more annoyingly desperate, you're probably the next to go. Personally, I'd keep you around and vote out that immunity necklace instead, but I don't think Mark Burnett allows that. Yet.
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