Recap - Survivor Season 19 Episode 03
By: Rivere Victor Thomas
Original Article
for RealityTVMatrix.com

Thursday, October 1, 2009
Survivor Season 19, Episode 3
"It's Called A Russell Seed"


King Russell? Not Really...

As usual the show starts off with the Foa Foa tribe and the comic musings of Russell H. thinking that he’s the puppet master, arguing with Ashley [Russell H. -vs- Ashley] and telling Ben that Ashley is out to get him. He thinks the seed [Ashley versus Ben] has been planted; but, little did he know that Ben had planted his own seed when he kept calling Yasmin Gilese "ghetto trash" which enraged Jaison Robinson. Meanwhile, over at Galu tribe they where enjoying a nice relaxing session of yoga -- how sweet it is at Galu.

Immunity Challenge:
Well, let us get to the violence which is the Immunity / Reward challenge. The 2 players need to run past their opponent in the water, retrieve a big block, place it on the mat to be stacked later -- after retrieving all 4 blocks. Once again a very hands on and physical challenge. Russell S. from Galu and Ben from Foa Foa were in the water stopping the men and each other. Ashley from Foa Foa and Kelly from Galu where in the water stopping the women. Everyone on the Foa Foa tribe did their best but still came up short against the Galu yoga masters.

Galu won the immunity challenge and they got to pick between two rewards of either comfort or function, so the leader of Galu (Russell Swan) chose comfort: pillows and blankets. WTF? This idiot gives this soliloquy about protecting the women blah blah blah. Did he forget it’s a game? Russell S. also got to send another person to Foa Foa. This time it was Shannon Waters, the former Marine (OOORAH - Semper FI Marines).

Strategy Sessions:
Back at the Foa Foa tribe Shannon tries to "get joe" with Foa Foa and it works; they love her. She also received a clue to find the hidden immunity idol on Foa Foa’s beach but little does she know that the garden gnome Russell H. already has it. [Strategy ensues, but it's mostly Russell H. versus Ashley, Jaison Robinson versus Ben].

Tribal Council:
Back to tribal council again for Foa Foa. Russel the gnome is trying to get his tribe mates to vote off Ashley but the racial comments made by Ben last episode has well educated Jaison seeing red. Let's make a long story short: Jaison told his tribe, Jeff Probst and all of America "it is not worth a million dollars to stay in this game with Ben; if he stays I’m gone." Ben is so despicable that everyone voted for Ben except Ben. Bye Ben -- so sorry. Ben probably has lots of non-white friends. ;)

Next Week:
The castaways face an additional challenge. Stay tuned to find out what they get!