Episode Report Card Sara M: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT How Do You Like Them Apples?
By Sara M | Season 16 | Episode 11 | Aired on 04.24.2008
After the credits, Cirie notices a cut on James's finger is looking infected. He put some coconut oil on it, but I don't think that's going to do a whole lot. "James' finger wasn't really doing too good," says the nurse, and I hope she wins this game, both for her sake and that of her patients, because then she can quit being a nurse. The last thing you want to hear when you stagger into the ER with a gaping head wound is a medical professional telling you, "Your head isn't really doing too good." Cirie says cuts tend to get infected in this place, as they live in a dank dark cave surrounded by rats and bats and no antibiotics.
Parvati walks up and spots James. She hesitates briefly, then announces that she just walked around the island three times looking for him. SUCH SACRIFICE!!!! Parvati really is trying to mend fences here, with all this walking. Parvati tells us that she needs to do some "serious damage control" with James and Amanda, and I hope she's not counting on that too much here, because they are pissed and will never trust her again. Say hello to your future jury, Parv! She says she knew this was going to happen, so she'll just have to take what comes. She's not too worried about it, though.
She pulls James aside, and he accuses her of voting Ozzy out because she got "paranoid." Paranoid of what? Of getting to the Final Four with him and then being voted out after he either wins the immunity challenge or plays his idol? What Parvati did may not have been "nice," but it wasn't "paranoid." In fact, I daresay it was "smart gameplay." James asks her what her plan is now and who she'll be taking with her to the end. "Girls," Parvati says truthfully. She realizes she won't be getting anywhere with James and says she's sorry for not being able to tell him about Ozzy. "Sorry's not what you mean. 'Ha ha' is what you mean," James says, somehow managing to be condescending even in defeat. He promises her things will be "awkward" from here on out, and starts that off by saying that Parvati is like Eve and couldn't just be happy with the Garden of Eden; she had to eat the apple. Since when was a Final Four in which Parvati had a slim chance of winning equal the Garden of Eden? Maybe for James it was. His chances would have been much better. He calls Parvati an "apple chewer," and says he's known that from the first day he saw her. And yet, he made an alliance with her because she was hot, so who's greedy now? "Hopefully you make it," James says. "Yeah. Hopefully. Because you wouldn't give me credit for having a plan anyways," Parvati says. Oh, truth comes out! Sounds to me like James's Garden of Eden, like the one in the Bible, is a place where women are meant to serve men's needs. He denies Parvati's claims that he thinks she's stupid, saying he merely thinks she's selfish. James tells us that he doesn't appreciate Parvati insulting his intelligence by trying to mask her deception in self-pity, but I don't think that's what she was doing. I think the men have been treating the women like useless idiots, be they deserving of the title or not, and now Parvati's enjoying being able to fight back. If you didn't like it when Parvati insulted your intelligence, James, imagine how she felt when you insulted hers over and over again. James says he sees what kind of a person Parvati is now, and he "can't stand it." Well, yeah, now that she isn't on your side and ruined your chances of winning a million dollars, you don't like her.