Sunday, October 26, 2014

Five Drinks Into Reality TV: Survivor Season 29 Blood v. Water 2 San Juan Del Sur Episode 5

Tom's Take:

We've got a tribe swap episode, which gave us a very interesting dynamic for these couple of pre-merge episodes. Some people benefited greatly from the swap, while others were put into a much weaker position.










Coyopa Tribe









1. Jaclyn


Wow. What a turn around. Jaclyn went from being one of the next two people I would have expected to be voted out into being in a power position with her boyfriend Jon. The result is that I think the couple is definitely bound for the merge, and could make a run there if they manage to come out on top of the Jeremy vs. Josh tribe. Why did Jaclyn choose to go with Baylor over Dale? Is it just a matter of Baylor being the better player, or was there more going on? I'm curious to see how the Baylor/Jaclyn relationship will play out over the rest of the season. My guess is that this was actually a mistake on Jaclyn's part.


1st Episode Prediction: Early Boot
2nd Episode Prediction: Early Boot
3rd Episode Prediction: Early Boot
4th Episode Prediction: Pre-Merge
5th Episode Prediction: Late Juror






2. Dale


Okay, so Dale is officially not  a good player, because I don't see why Jaclyn chose Baylor over him. The only real possibility is that Baylor just outplayed Dale, and I think Dale will be going home next week.


1st Episode Prediction: Early Juror
2nd Episode Prediction: Early Juror
3rd Episode Prediction: Pre-Merge
4th Episode Prediction: Early Juror
5th Episode Prediction: Pre-Merge






3. Baylor


I love Baylor, and I am cheering for her to win, but I don't think she will. I just don't see the route to victory for her. Still she is united with her mom and now they will have a chance to face off against the other major players once they hit the merge. Baylor has a great story to tell the jury if she makes it to the end, but can she get there?


1st Episode Prediction: Winner!
2nd Episode Prediction: Early Juror
3rd Episode Prediction: Early Juror
4th Episode Prediction: Winner!
5th Episode Prediction: Late Juror



4. Jon


Jon has new life! The guy is probably going to get his ass kicked at the merge, but it'll be fun to watch him get there. And he's got his girlfriend to have fun with!


1st episode Prediction: Early Juror.
2nd Episode Prediction: Early Juror
3rd Episode Prediction: Pre-Jury
4th Episode Prediction: Pre-Merge
5th Episode Prediction: Early Juror





5. Keith

Oh Keith, what are you doing in this game?


1st Episode Prediction: Early Boot
2nd Episode Prediction: Early Boot
3rd Episode Prediction: Early Juror
4th Episode Prediction: Early Juror
5th Episode Prediction: Early Juror






6. Missy


Missy played a very very sloppy game once she reunited with her daughter. Just calm down and keep your mouth shut about the rice Missy. I worry she might actually drag Baylor's game down, even though she won the episode. We'll see.


1st Episode Prediction: Late Juror/Runner Up
2nd Episode Prediction: Late Juror
3rd Episode Prediction: Late Juror
4th Episode Prediction: Late Juror/Runner Up
5th Episode Prediction: Late Juror









Hunahpu Tribe






7. Natalie

Natalie is going to be our runner up. She is playing every bit as much as Jeremy is, but not getting as much credit. The result is that when those two make it to final tribal, Jeremy will beat her.

1st Episode Prediction: Late Jury
2nd Episode Prediction: Late Juror
3rd Episode Prediction: Runner Up
4th Episode Prediction: Late Juror
5th Episode Prediction: Runner Up









8. Jeremy


Jeremy is going to win the game. The guy keeps playing strategically even when the edit is focusing on other character relationships, Jeremy keeps playing.

2nd Episode Prediction: Winner
3rd Episode Prediction: Winner
4th Episode Prediction: Late Juror
5th Episode Prediction: Winner







9. Reed

Reed is Josh's boyfriend. That's it.

1st Episode Prediction: Early Juror
2nd Episode Prediction: Early Juror
3rd Episode Prediction: Early Juror
4th Episode Prediction: Pre-Merge
5th Episode Prediction: Pre-Merge






10. Julie


Julie is a single on the tribe of singles, which is great for her, but she's not getting enough of a strategic edit for me to think she'll win.

1st Episode Prediction: Late Juror
2nd Episode Prediction: Pre-Jury
3rd Episode Prediction: Late Juror
4th Episode Prediction: Late Juror
5th Episode Prediction: Late Juror









11. Josh


Josh is a character and narrator on this show. But I think his time of running the game has officially passed.


1st Episode Prediction: Early Juror
2nd Episode Prediction: Early Juror
3rd Episode Prediction: Early Juror
4th Episode Prediction: Early Juror





12. Alec

Hmmm. I'm curious as to what role Alec will play in this game since he is becoming more and more involved in the narrative.

1st Episode Prediction: Early Juror
2nd Episode Prediction: Early Juror
3rd Episode Prediction: Early Juror
4th Episode Prediction: Early Juror
5th Episode Prediction: Late Juror









13. Wes

What is Wes doing?

1st Episode Prediction: Early Juror
2nd Episode Prediction: Early Juror
3rd Episode Prediction: Early Juror
4th Episode Prediction: Early Juror
5th Episode Prediction: Early Juror







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