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Rants
9 November, 2001 Week 5 Clearly the producers of Survivor simply weren't happy with their tribes. On the one side you've got the big happy family of Boran. Snore. On the other side you have the Samburu tribe which puts the fun in dysfunctional. One tribe is so content they're barely worth wasting film on and the other is so amazingly combative that viewers are likely to hurt themselves cringing at their antics. A solution was needed. More on that in a moment. The show opens on the Samburu tribe returning from tribal council. Those whining kiddies are furious with the old folks because they all voted for Silas. Now this was pretty funny. These kids are so clueless on the workings of the human mind that they actually thought that the geezer brigade would vote the way the kids asked, just because they asked. In the future the producers might want to run the prospective contestants through an IQ test just to make sure something is going upstairs because this quartet appears to have sawdust between their ears. Now, that solution I mentioned was to send each tribe a message asking them to send along three members of their tribe. Boran sends Lex, Kelly and Tom while Samburu sends Silas, Frank and Teresa. They find our ever charming host who takes their buffs (those colored rags they always wear) and then swaps them. That's right, they switch tribes. Lex, Kelly and Tom now join Samburu and Silas, Frank and Teresa now become part of Boran. I started laughing so hard I nearly fell of the couch. But the amusement would only grow as the show went on. This move breaks up the whining kiddie sub tribe (WKST from now on) and frees the Samburu elders from their tyranny of idiocy. Plus, for added amusement, three hard working Boran are now forced to share space with the remaining three nappers of the WKST. I tell you, for my money it doesn't get much funnier than this. The remainder of the show gives us countless shots of Lindsey, lips a quivering, pouting her way through the days. On the other side we get to see Silas sulking for awhile before turning on that famous non-existent charm to try and get his new tribe to vote out Frank. Then things get really funny when the other members of Boran prove so impressed with Silas that they actually talk about deliberately losing the immunity challenge so that they can vote his ass off. That's just classic. I haven't been to thrilled with the people on this show and it was clear from watching this episode that the producers weren't either. They changed the rules of their own game to try and either make the existing contestants more tolerable or to weed out the worst ones. At least for one episode it worked. This doesn't exactly restore my faith in this show (wait, what faith?) but it made for some damn good laughs. Episode Rating: 8 out of 10
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