Welcome back to Burnett's personal torture island. Janu, who thought she was going home, doesn't seem happy and everyone knows it. When Katie begins to gossip about her, Janu overhears and a confrontation erupts. The reward challenge pits two randomly chosen teams of four against each other to build a tower in the water. The reward is a Palau feast. SuperTom carries his team toward reward and Janu seems almost hysterically happy to have won. Flash forward to the middle of the feast, when Janu starts barfing. The winning team returns to the tribe with some small bits of dessert. Suddenly Janu gets her appetite back and eats some of the food that her winning team brought back for the other part of the tribe. Girlie is not making points here.The immunity challenge involves hanging in the water holding onto a set of bars and having the bars slowly lower and the water rise over you. The first to bail out has to live alone for the evening. Janu is first to bail after a mere six minutes and the team laughs at her expense. After an hour with the water rising over their faces, people began to bail out and Tom wins again.
On Loser Island, Janu struggles to make fire but perseveres and finds there is joy in being alone. She returns to the tribe blissed out and the fact that she is happier seems to make people angry. It should be Janu's time to go but Stephenie feels like they are out for her instead.
Jeff does his usual tribal roundup and Janu says she feels unwanted and Tom and Rick say that they are voting for who might be a threat and Stephenie hangs her head. Janu admits she wants to go home. Stephenie loses her cool and breaks down, admitting that she knows she might go and really wants to stay and feels that the team should let Janu go. Jeff keeps prodding the team who are clearly gunning for Stephenie until Janu decides to lay down her torch saving Stephenie. Stephenie smiles her cat smile at jury member Coby making me wonder if the tears were all for show.
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6-29-2005 @ 9:44PM
Dan said...
I agree that it almost seemed like Jeff kept pushing Janu to quit until she finally relented. I think the producers know that Stephanie provides needed charisma to the show and needs to hang around for a while.
Wonder if the producers realized that the immunity challenge was very close to a horrific torture technique used by the North Vietnames against our troops. Bet there were some very nervous and possibly upset vets out there last nite.
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6-22-2005 @ 6:49AM
Dave said...
This was supposed to be the season that Jeff was to take a more active role in the show and this was a big role. It started by his egging on of Janu and culminated with tribal council.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
foxy said...
Hey, lets get real, Jeff did not have anything to do with Janu's decision to lay down her torch. It seemed like what he was trying to do was get her to make up her flippin mind. He could not do anything until she spoke up and said what she really wanted to do. Yes she did want off for i have seen the clip of her talking to Jenna on live but she was afraid if she layed her torch down she would not get to be on the jury! Well why should she get to be after all she quit and as she tell's it very willingly. Why do people watch this show if they are so incensed about everything, i don't get it. This is not life and death here it is reality TV. Either you like it or you don't. I get sick of all of these comments that always are putting Jeff down like what do you want him to do . Maybe you need to see if you can get his job or something, lol.
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