Episode Report Card Sara M: B+ | 4 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Titanic
By Sara M | Season 20 | Episode 12 | Aired on 05.06.2010
Immunity challenge #2! This time, it's a variation on a reward challenge back in Season 12, except this time the "puzzle" element of the challenge comes at the end and it's one of those giant sliding puzzles. Also, it will be run in stages: they'll all do the table maze, with the first five to finish moving on to the wall. The first three to finish that move onto the sliding puzzle, and the winner of that gets immunity.
Probst says go, and the contestants run to their individual burial plots to dig up their pegs for the table maze. Rupert gets his first, followed by Parvati, then Sandra, Danielle, and Li'l Russell. Even Jerri gets her peg before Colby. He is the worst! And yet, honestly proud of how he played this game. Rupert is the first to finish his maze, breaking his tile with the peg decisively. Sandra is the second, and after she breaks her tile, she says, "I can't believe it." Oh, Sandra. You're so great. Li'l Russell and Parvati are third and fourth, making it a race for last place between Colby, Danielle, and Jerri, who is nowhere near the end of the maze. I don't think she even knows how to find her way out of the shelter anymore, let alone this maze. Danielle gets the fifth spot. Colby is out of the competition already. But proud. Don't forget that.
Probst calls go on the second stage. Li'l Russell grabs his climbing pegs and runs as far up the wall as he can without them. Probst is in awe of his talents, claiming he got "halfway up the wall" when we can see in a wide shot that he really went all of three feet up there and, in fact, Parvati is in the lead at that moment. She soon loses it to Li'l Russell, though, as he manages to get all the way to the top using just two of his pegs. Parvati and Rupert are in the second and third position, with Danielle not too far behind and Sandra not even close. Rupert and Parvati get to the top at about the same time and move on to the finals. "Now, how do I get down?" Sandra asks. I think the editors love her as much as I do. The final three get started on their sliding puzzles. Li'l Russell seems to be in the lead the entire time, but that might not mean anything since with sliding puzzles, you can get every piece in the right spot except for one, which will always be, like, in the opposite corner from where it should be. And then you pretty much have to start over again. Not this time, though. Li'l Russell completes the puzzle and calls Probst over to confirm. "RUSSELL WINS IMMUNITY!!!!" Probst says, so happy. During the slo-mo walk of shame, Rupert sighs that he came up short again and then he says something about believing in himself or whatever.