Survivor 46 – Episode 2

This post is coming a little late because I really didn’t like this episode and don’t know exactly how to write about it beyond the bullet points I wrote down when I watched the episode, so these are pretty much just my raw reactions here. I still haven’t watched episode 3.

Charlie

• I wish Charlie would STOP TALKING ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT. Like buddy, we get it, you like Taylor. But that doesn’t have to be your entire personality.

Venus

• I like Venus, but I don’t want her to just jump into this alliance with Brandon so quickly and just automatically think she can trust him. I actually do believe she CAN trust him, I just don’t want to see her getting blindsided by trusting people too fast.

Yanu Tribe

• I really freaking hate this tribe. I think anyone that got placed on this tribe was screwed from the start. Jess was barely able to speak or be spoken to on this tribe, Bhanu is so vocal that it screws him and his tribemates over, Kenzie (and Tiff by association) are your stereotypical mean girl, Q is stuck between a rock and a hard place, and don’t even get me started on Jelisnky.
• I really do have a hard time speaking about reality tv online – everyone on this show is a real person and I don’t want to come on here talking poorly about them (it’s not like a scripted series where everyone is acting a part) – but what I will say is that I do not like Kenzie.
  • I think she’s a complete mean girl and I don’t like how she treated Jess at ALL.
    • I will admit that Jess never spoke her mind and I do believe she WAS a weak player, but Kenzie and Tiff were genuinely mean to her and I didn’t appreciate that at all.
    • I just felt like they were bullying Jess and doing everything they could to be MEAN and get her out of the game. Getting people out of Survivor is the name of the game, but their actions were so mean spirited and there was simply no need for that. Kenzie and Tiff treated Jess like she was stupid and like they were superior to her and it just painted them as mean girls in my eyes.
      • I don’t think there was anything wrong with Q making a fake idol for Jess – it was pretty smart – but I hated the way the girls talked about Jess when she couldn’t find it and how they were laughing at her and talking about her like she was stupid.
• Kenzie comes off like she thinks she’s above everybody else – she said something along the lines of: “we’re the only people here who know anything about the game” and “Jess is a bad survivor player. It is what it is.” In saying this, she placed herself on such a high pedestal and looked down on most of the other people, and honestly, she’s been in the game for such few days (and hasn’t done anything remarkable) that she hasn’t done anything to justify such an arrogant attitude. There was even a moment during Tribal when I felt like Kenzie was looking at Jeff like she was above him and the game too and that’s just not true.
• I disliked the way Kenzie treated Bhanu also. She treated him like he was a child and all of them actively excluded Jess at Tribal? Like what the hell?
  • I don’t dislike Bhanu as a person, but I do dislike him as a player. I think he’s too emotional and he doesn’t seem to really understand the game; he completely panics and is all around way too overly emotional. But I don’t think that’s an excuse for Kenzie to treat him like a child either.
• I was glad that Jess thought their gameplay at Tribal was incredible because I sure didn’t. Honestly, I had angry, hot tears in my eyes after how they treated her.

Some overall observations–

• This one hit me like a ton of bricks: Growing up is being more interested in the interpersonal dynamics of all the people on the show than the comps. I’ve watched reality tv since I was a kid, and I was always way more interested in the comps, whereas my mom, who I’d watch with, would always tune out the comps and pay attention to the people and I thought she was crazy. Now, that’s kind of exactly what I do! The drama is way more interesting now than watching everyone compete in comps!
• I’m not a fan of how these people treat each other. I don’t like the interpersonal dynamics yet this season, and it’s really taking away from me enjoying the game because I truly just don’t like many of these people and don’t think they treat each other well. I know that it’s a game and deception and strategy is part of that, but my issue lies in the fact that I don’t think these people are showing each other respect and treating each other like they’re also people.