Episode Report Card Sara M: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Russell Dies
By Sara M | Season 19 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.22.2009
After the break, a shark swims casually up to a school of fish and eats one. Well, that fish had it coming. When a shark swims up to you, you get the hell out of there. My god, this episode must be boring (except for the part where Russell kind of died) if I've resorted to recapping the fish.
We slowly transition to Camp Foa Foa, where Liz says her tribe was "close to winning" when "Big Russell had his medical accident." Oh, Liz, just stop talking. You constantly sound like a moron, and I'm like 75% sure you are not a moron. She says that the win didn't matter much anyway, since they have to vote someone out no matter what, something she finds "surprising" and "a little upsetting." I'll say -- it means Foa Foa is down to four people (maximum) going into a merge. So, they're screwed. Liz and Natalie eat some mini-bananas and discuss the vote. They realize they're both voting for each other and high-five about it. Liz says it only makes sense to vote a woman off tonight because they need the guys to win challenges. Because those guys have done such a great job of winning so far. Why does Liz hate women so much? If she hadn't rallied so hard to vote women off before, she wouldn't be in such a bad position now. Li'l Russell meets with Natalie on the beach and tells her to vote for Liz. He says he's voting for her and he's sure Mick will do whatever he asks. He probably thinks that Natalie is only voting for Liz because he told her to. Meanwhile, we saw her make that decision before. But I'm sure the previously segment next week will tell us all how Li'l Russell engineered Liz's ouster right after he single-handedly caused Galu's Russell to collapse from dehydration.
Meanwhile, Liz talks to Jaison and Mick. Both are non-committal about which way they're voting. Jaison just wants to whine about how his tribe has terrible luck, even to the point that when they're about to win pizza, someone on Galu almost dies and ruins it for them. Way to be selfish, Jaison. I'm pretty sure Russell's collapse was fate saying "fuck you" to Russell, not Foa Foa. And honestly, there was no guarantee that Foa Foa would have won that challenge if Russell hadn't been sick, since a big reason why Galu fell behind was because of Russell's inability to move and stuff. Jaison does say that he hopes Russell is okay and it was the right decision to cancel the challenge, though. I think he just really wanted that pizza, and has no idea that even if they had won it, fate would have dealt them the cruelest blow of all and it would have been disgusting Survivor pizza. In the shelter, he says he doesn't think their tribe will last much longer in this game no matter who goes home tonight because they're outnumbered. "I think it can be done," Natalie says. She doesn't know how, of course, but still. Optimism is a good thing.