Haven In Hell – NightHeaven's Blog

Since they announced this new season of Survivor: Heroes Vs. Villains, I’ve been looking forward to it. I’d love to see how some heroes (especially Cirie and Amanda) will backstab other people again. But the greatest pleasure will be seeing how the ten villains working together. The premiere had some moments that we could’ve predicted (some contestants that played together in previous seasons teaming up, Russell plays his mind game on the girls), and some we would never see coming (Coach and Jerri are having a romance?!). Anyway, I love the premiere, and will definitely follow it the whole season.

The 20 contestants are brought to the beach in two waves, heroes team first, then the villains team. Love the music they played when the villains team’s helicopters flied in, quite dramatic.

After a few chats with both teams, Jeff starts their first reward challenge, and we all know what the reward would be, flint. In this challenge, teams of two would race out to dig up a bag in the sand and get it back to their mat, the opposing tribe could use any means to get it away from them.

Right from the start, the challenge became some kind of beach wrestling, very brutal and violent. First, Stephenie’s shoulder got dislocated (and the medic helped her relocated it), Rupert broke a toe (I think he might be pulled off the show some time later), and Sugar was topless. The villains took the first point, but the heroes evened it. Then Colby was embarrassed by Coach, who rode him all the way back to his own mat. How hilarious. Then the topless Sugar evened the score again. However, it was James who helped the heroes win the challenge, no one could stop him.

At first, the whole villain tribe looks like a mass, no one wants to build a good shelter, no one wants to do anything. But the next day, Boston Rob surprised everyone. He decided to make fire, by using two sticks! And he succeeded! I wasn’t quite fond of Rob before, but now I would love to see him stick around.

And then there was one more thing that I would never thought happen, that Coach and Jerri might have something. It seems that they attracted and intrigued by each other, but they try to keep some distance as they don’t want to draw others’ attention.

Meanwhile, the heroes are working quite well at first, though I think they built their shelter on the wrong site. And they’ve got four chickens. (Did the producers intentionally put them there? My guess is yes.) Again, someone surprised us in this tribe. Sugar annoyed everyone at their first night, especially Colby. Now, I really don’t get her doing that. She had no friends in this tribe, it just made her the target to be voted off.

In the immunity challenge, teams had to build a boat, then paddle it out in the ocean, retrieve a torch and paddle back, disassemble the boat, take the planks from the boat which they would use to build a ladder after a tough puzzle was solved. Candace and Parvati had completed together and won this challenge on Cook Islands, but this time they were in different teams. The heroes took a very huge lead at first, however Amanda, Cirie, Sugar and Rupert were panicked on the puzzle. The villains caught up and solved the puzzle way ahead of the heroes. Villains won immunity.

There’s no question that Sugar is the target. Though we still saw buzz starting around the camp, Cirie, Amanda and Stephenie all became a secondary target.

At the tribal council, Jeff points out that everyone is a big threat for different reasons, people who played together in previous seasons, people who had won, people who had played this game twice or even three times. Still, in the end, everyone wanted to vote for the weakest person, and that person was no one else but Sugar. Sugar was sent home.