The Week All The Challenges Had Hugging
Updated 2006-10-17 17:00:00
The men of Raro are playing defense after the departure of J.P., so there's a lot of hunting and gathering and proving themselves going on. At a reward challenge literally involving weightlifting, Raro manages to beat Aitu and take home the fancy dining package. Back at camp, Cristina is bugging everyone with that bossy disappointed-mom routine that always gets people voted off almost immediately. In an incredibly tense immunity challenge combining puzzle-solving, balance, and some unconventional strategy elements, Aitu wiggles all eight of its members onto a tiny platform and wins immunity. Cristina is all over the chopping block, but when Stephannie makes yet another remark that sounds to Nate like she's feeling half-assed about wanting to be there, he turns it around on her, and she's voted out almost unanimously. It seems like she may have been a victim of things being taken a little more literally than she meant them, but at the same time, after being saved from just this problem in the last episode, you'd think she could have refrained from fantasizing about being voted off for one tribal council.