Sue Hawk Borneo Recap

Here I am doing another recap of a Survivor contestant who played multiple seasons. This was her first season. I don’t know when I’ll be getting Survivor: Blood versus Water on DVD, but it has to be out on DVD before I could get it. The earliest, I think, that it could potentially happen by is Christmas and that’s just me getting it and not me watching it. This won the poll I did in the Addicted to Survivor facebook group. I will give this more priority than Blood versus Water if I get it on DVD. First I’ll have to watch the movie length special. Then, I’ll have to add it this to my show watching on DVD list. I have changed the way that I have done my TV blog so I won’t have to roll this show once a month, at the moment at least. We’ll see if things change with that.

I’m going to post a warning on all the rambling that I’m going to do before getting to the main point of this post at some point, I promise. I will write in all caps when the truly important part of the post begins even though this will edit out the movie length special before the show starts that I like to watch and recap about. I do want to limit the amount of rambling that I do in this post compared to the last time I did a recap of a player’s time on the game where I said far too much in the extended version that I first did a regular version with just the recap of it. This time, when I get to the episodes, I won’t talk about anything outside of the recap until the post is over.

When it comes to adding the Survivor: Borneo special to my movie watching list, I know that I will not be adding it to a list on Wednesday since I don’t update my Survivor blog on most other days typically. So we’ll have to see what list it gets added to. While I could have changed when the Wednesday list was, I was ultimately able to put it on the Friday list so I’ll have to wait to see when it gets rolled. Meanwhile, I’m close to cutting back on the lists since I’m running out of options to watch. I’m getting rid of what used to be Sunday’s list. This ultimately shouldn’t affect the Survivor: Borneo special being on the Friday list. Not as long as no other lists are removed yet.

What’s interesting about the list now is that outside of the two choices that have been on the list for as long as I’ve had it, only the Survivor: Borneo special is still on the list as the other three choices were all from the list I got rid of after my old Friday choices were rolled away to make room for replacements.

Now the list that I did have on Wednesday (so I wouldn’t be able to roll a TV show during the day Survivor was on, and, thus, not potentially roll Survivor) was moved to Sunday and Wednesdays are now movieless (which is good, since I’ve changed the way I update one of my blogs, and won’t need to roll Survivor at all for a while).

On 9-30-2016, I rolled the movie choice to do this recap (actually, it was the day before when I actually rolled it). This means that Survivor: Borneo can officially be added to my TV on DVD rolling list. Well, it will be added to the waiting list to be on the main watching list. We’ll see what happens with that. Anyways, on to the recap!

The Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments Special- She’s shown as trusting Kelly, but they become frenemies instead of real friends. Sue considers Kelly a replacement to her own best friend, but this is before their problems started. Sue and Kelly have a fight over the alliance. Kelly thinks that she was doing the right thing by pretending there wasn’t an alliance. Many people didn’t like Sue, but it seems like a lot of the cast didn’t like each other. It seems that not much can be gained from the special alone, but the episodes will reveal more about her.

Now it could be a long while before I’m able to add Survivor: Borneo to my watching list again. There’s a lot of other shows to be added before it and one of them is an s choice, meaning that it will get to stay on the list until I finish watching it before I add Survivor: Borneo to the list again.

Meanwhile, there could be problems if Survivor: Blood versus Water is released to DVD because I do want that to watch again. I guess that we’ll see what ends up happening regarding that front. It was September of 2016 when I could add the show to the waiting list and we’ll see just how long it takes before we get to the next part being able to watch.

While I’m trying to avoid this becoming a whole random, rambling post, I’m not sure if I can avoid this. I think that the best way to do this is to keep the updates of when I roll this show in my Madam Secretary blog and not mention it in this one.

I learn on January 4, 2017 that Dan Kay from Survivor: Gabon has died. This could mean a delay of when I watch this if I get that season on DVD. Right now, I won’t be watching it unless I get it either for myself or as a gift. With Christmas past, the next time I’d get any gifts would be my summer birthday. I’ll let you know if I get it or not. If you read the extended version of the last player recap that I did, then you’ll know that there were shows to be transferred to the main list. Three of them still haven’t been transferred yet. Meanwhile, Survivor: Borneo is 10^th in line to be added to the list of choices that I have and another s choice is on the list before it.

Well, there’s no real update yet on when Survivor: Borneo will be added to the list just yet, but after my summer birthday of 2017, I didn’t get Survivor: Gabon on DVD. This might be good in reality as things could get too confusing if I did get it now. Of course, I’ll still want it at some point in time. Now my list of what I watch hasn’t seen any major changes yet and Survivor: Borneo is now 9^th in line to be added. I know that it will be on the list at one point, but it seems to be taking a long time.

You have read this in a previous post about how a grandmother of mine had died. I remember watching some Survivor episodes at her old house as a lot aired on Thanksgiving at the time and I would normally be at her house for that event. I miss her and all the great meals that she made. At least I still have my other grandmother for now who can annoy me with her teasing.

I mentioned in this post when I watched Survivor: Borneo- The Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments and mentioned part of it relating to Sue. It is now a year later as of this paragraph. The s choice that is on the list before this is called Shining Time Station as I have some of it on tape. It is hard to switch between different choices that have the same letter which I could do but don’t have to unless worst comes to worst. It is worth noting that I could change the letter Survivor is if I wanted to. But there isn’t much of it so I’ll tell you what happens when it happens and how it could affect other blogs of mine. If you want to know, then read the other blogs of mine.

Remember when I said that I had another s choice before I could add Survivor: Borneo to the list? Well, it was a tape collection Shining Time Station and I’m done with that. It still might be a while before I can add it to the list and I don’t think that I’ll get to it before Christmas, which might be good if I wind up with an old Survivor season on DVD.

I did not get an old season of Survivor for Christmas in 2017. So that is at least three times where I could have gotten a gift of an old Survivor season on DVD, but didn’t get it. Now at this point in time, Survivor: Borneo is the next in line to be added. I think that I will get an old season for myself, but I will wait until I start watching this season again before I get it for myself. That way, it can take over once I am done with the recap here.

While I probably will be getting Gabon for myself at some point, right now, I’ve added Borneo on to my list and will watch it and not start watching Gabon for myself until I’m done with Borneo. If you want to know when I watch each episode, my Madam Secretary blog will state when I rolled it and my TV blog will be updated on days I watch it unless that day is Saturday, in which case my Madam Secretary blog will have a political post instead. For more details, check the archive of my Madam Secretary blog as the first post on an episode in March should explain more about it. It will explain any and all changes in this and other blogs. I will explain any interruptions when and if they happen. THE IMPORTANT PART OF THIS POST STARTS IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH.

The Marooning: Sue is mentioned in the introduction as being a truck driver. Sue talks to Richard and they butt heads initially over what should be done at the beach. Sue notices someone has a pierced nipple. In her first confessional, she says that a rat is a squirrel without a fuzzy tail. She then mentions that Stacey wants her to vote off Rudy. Only Sue isn’t going with him. The tribal council doesn’t seem as good as the modern ones. Sue casts her first vote for Sonja, joining the majority of her tribe in voting her out. She gets a voting confessional as a result. Confessional count: 1.

The Generation Gap: Sue is mentioned in the recap as not going along with the rest of the women who were wanting to vote out Rudy. Sue thinks that being gay is a lifestyle while Rich insists that it is not a choice. They are not the same thing, lifestyles and choices. Sue talks about Sean’s ineffective super pole fishing invention in her second confessional of the season. Her tribe wins immunity so there isn’t much else to her story this time around. New confessional count: 1. Total confessional count: 2.

Quest for Food: Sue talks about the lack of food in the introduction. She goes on a boat with Stacey and they talk about various things. She talks in a confessional about how despite being buddies with all of the tribe members she wants to be with, she wants to vote out Stacey. Stacey knows this when Sue will not talk about it on the boat ride. Sue is annoyed by Dirk’s constant talk of Christianity. She tells the then virgin Dirk that he should try sex sometime as he might like it. I’ll never know for sure whether or not men and woman experience sex the same way.

Her tribe wins the reward challenge, which I think might have used footage from the unaired first ever reward that should have aired in the second episode. She gets yet another confessional before the upcoming immunity challenge about how important winning is. She is the leader for the challenge. Her tribe loses the immunity challenge.

She gets a quick confessional where it seems like her vote at tribal council is up in the air still. Sue says at tribal council that the fish that Rich is getting doesn’t matter that much right now. Jeff actually cuts things short due to the storm that is going on during the council and it seems to have poor coverage at the set. Sue sticks with her original plan and winds up voting off Stacey with a majority of her tribe. New confessional count: 5. Total confessional count: 7.

Too Little Too Late?: Sue isn’t seen much in this episode. She criticizes Sean for building a bowling alley while she searches for nuts and tapioca. She helps build the signal and her tribe wins the reward. She joins the alliance that Richard started with Kelly. Rudy joins it later. Her tribe wins immunity and she is not seen that much in the episode. New confessional count: 2. Total confessional count: 9.

Pulling Your Own Weight- Sue is annoyed that people are fishing as they aren’t catching any fish. Sue is good in practice at throwing a spear and thinks that she would be able to do better than any man in the challenge. She does not beat Joel as her tribe loses the challenge at that point. She’s actually okay that the challenge was lost as she didn’t like chickens. Her tribe loses the immunity challenge. While Dirk votes against Sue, Sue joins the majority of her tribe in voting out Dirk. New confessional count: 2. Total confessional count: 11.

Udder Revenge: Sue talks about who she wants to vote out of Pagong. It doesn’t seem like she likes any of them. Sue gets a pocket knife during the challenge and that’s about all she does during that part. Her tribe wins the immunity challenge. New confessional count: 1. Total confessional count: 12.

The Merger: Sue gets a confessional about the upcoming visit from a Pagong member. She mentions that she likes company, even if she doesn’t get it much. Sue gets another confessional about the alliance and another one about why Sean isn’t a part of it. Sue is worried that Sean has spent too much time on the sand spit and that they miss him in another confessional.

Greg is annoyed by Sue’s accent. She is kind of loud. Sue talks about the new tribe dynamics and roof collapse of the shelter that people were trying to “fix.” Sue doesn’t last that long into the first immunity challenge. Sue gets a vote against her from Gervase. Meanwhile, she joins her alliance and a plurality of her tribe by voting out Gretchen. New confessional count: 5. Total confessional count: 17.

Thy Name is Duplicity: Sue likes Jenna better than she thought she would. Sue doesn’t want to join the possible woman’s alliance that Jenna was wanting to do. Sue wants to ration the food for at least herself due to wanting to stay until the end. Sue loses the reward challenge. She thinks later that Gervase is a slacker. Perhaps she thinks that no Peterson in the history of Survivor has ever amounted to anything. Well, history is about to change.

Sue loses the immunity challenge. She talks later about who the plan is for who to vote for. At tribal council, Sue lies about there being an alliance. When it comes time to vote, she joins the majority of her tribe in voting out Greg. New confessional count: 5. Total confessional count: 22.

Old and New Bonds: Sue talks about the tribal council that happened and how she had to lie about not being in an alliance. She felt that it wasn’t a good idea to just say what was going on. I think that she was right to think that. Sue later gets a second confessional over issues with the fish due to people who did not cook it right. Sue then thinks in two more confessionals that they were able to catch a fish when Rich thinks that only he gets them. She loses the reward challenge.

Sue wishes Rich a happy birthday in this episode. Sue loses the immunity challenge. At tribal council, Sue joins the majority of her tribe and her alliance by voting out Jenna. The vote largely works due to Sean and his alphabetical strategy. New confessional count: 4. Total confessional count: 26.

Crack in the Alliance: Sue briefly talks about Rich when he says that he wants to stop fishing and being the tribe’s provider as a result. Sue talks about how she feels that the former Pagong members are a bit dumb. She thinks that playing the dumb redneck might help her. She reveals that she never trusted Rich. Perhaps he rubbed her the wrong way. Wait, that’s not until a later season. She later gets emotional as she talked about her best friend who had died and how Kelly might have filled that role. She then wants to team up with Kelly and take Rich out.

Sue goes through the first leg of the reward challenge successfully and barely loses the second part of it and the reward as a result. Sue talks to Rich later about alliances and Pagong. It doesn’t seem like she makes a lot of headway in the immunity challenge that she loses. Sue talks about alliances and how they work in politics such as with political donations or other examples of how they work in real life. This is at tribal council when asked about alliances. When the votes are cast, she votes against Gervase who gets voted out of the game as a result. New confessional count: 3. Total confessional count: 29.

Long Hard Days: Colleen talks about how that Tagi alliance is all over the place. Sue could be on all sorts of different tribes. Sue doesn’t like Kelly anymore and the alliance plans to take her out. At the reward challenge, Sue is the second person out of it. Later, back at camp, she talks about what the weather is like here. Sue talks later about Sean’s decision to take Rich on the reward instead of Kelly. Sue wants to stop eating altogether since all they have is rice.

Sue is the second to last person out of the immunity challenge. Sue talks about wanting to target Kelly after the latter won immunity. This is on the way to tribal council that this confessional is shown. Sue votes for Colleen as does the majority of her tribe and she is voted out of the game as a result. New confessional count: 6. Total confessional count: 35.

Unrelated note: Yes, I know that I promised after saying that the important part of this post would start that I wouldn’t have any random segues and parts of it unrelated to the recap. I still feel like saying now that after seeing the previous episode and before seeing the next one is when I learned about the death of Ashley Massaro from Survivor: China. I feel that she is worth a mention now simply so you know what was going on around the time that I’m writing this.

Death of an Alliance: Sue and Kelly are seen fighting briefly, although you couldn’t tell much why this had happened. Sue believes that Kelly was trying to make herself look like the only good guy in the whole group alliance. Later, Sue is shown hunting a stingray or something like it. She says that this is the eighth one she had the whole time in the game. Sue later gets another confessional about wanting to talk to her family again, wanting to call them as soon as she can regardless of what time it might be for them there. She later talks to Rudy about a dig in bucket that arrived.

Jeff explains the mud volcano to the contestants at the reward challenge. Sue comes in third place in the challenge. The contestants have fun cleaning the mud off each other next. Sue and Kelly seem to be more okay with each other at least for now. Sue even gets two confessionals about it. Kelly talks about Sue at her reward and their tumultuous relationship. Sue continues to butt heads with Kelly while also wanting to be civil going forward until the end. Sue talks about how she hasn’t won any challenges yet. She is with the whole group when they get treemail about the immunity challenge.

Sue doesn’t do as well at certain parts of the challenge. She might have made it at one point, but does not wind up winning the challenge. There is a huge rain storm coming later. She talks briefly about that in a confessional. The possibility of Sue being voted out is brought up by the other players in the game. Sue talks at tribal council about money and her place in the game. At tribal council, Sue gets a vote from Sean. She joins the rest of her tribe in voting out Sean. She even gets a voting confessional about it. New confessional count: 7. Total confessional count: 42.

The Final Four: Sue talks about how there only 60 hours are left in the game. Sue talks about how she does not like Kelly as much since Kelly turned on them. But she also mentioned how she might not last against Kelly at the end. Sue is open in more confessionals to think that Kelly is the open target. If only someone other than Kelly wins immunity, Kelly will be voted out. Even then, they made the edit far too obvious at times. The contestants all arrive at tribal council. There is where they start off the immunity challenge. She comes in second place at the immunity challenge, not getting Sonja’s last name.

Sue votes against Rich, her only time not voting in the majority this season. With Kelly also voting against Rich, Rich and Rudy voted against Sue, which leads to a tie between Sue and Rich. Sue tried to sway the revote, but might have known that it wouldn’t do any good. Both Rudy and Kelly vote for her at the revote, leading to Sue’s elimination. She gives a voting confessional about how well she had done in the game. New confessional count: 5. Total confessional count: 47.

We don’t see much of her for the rest of the episode. But we do see her on the jury. We also see her with a montage of the other castaways on the rites of passage. Before the final tribal council, she talks about how she will hold her values as true to herself. At the final tribal council, she talks about how Rich is incredibly pompous. She also thinks that Rich doesn’t admit much wrong about himself which makes him a bit of a loser in life.

Sue goes really hard on Kelly, saying that she fails a lot at life and the game. But she admits that she is voting for Richard and hopes that it is the vote that loses Kelly the money. Sure enough, it is the key vote as to why Richard wins. Sue says that Kelly is a rat, running from the snake, and that Richard is a snake, knowingly going after prey. Sue votes for Rich to win and he does.

The Reunion Show: Bryan Gumble talks about how Sue didn’t give Kelly a hug or handshake after the game was over. Sue thinks that things are cool between them now. She is introduced with the rest of the players as the reunion show happens. She is proud of her speech as she was pissed at the time. At one point, all Sue wanted to do was to beat Rich. Bryan wonders if the speech was a little harsh. Sue says that she was a bad liar when it came to alliances in the game. We see part of Sue’s audition tape at the reunion show where she seems to be sweeter than usual and reads a poem she made up.

A special feature on the DVD shows her saying this on David Letterman’s top ten list, “Any time you feel like a couple of nights back in civilization, just fake scurvy.” She isn’t seen as much on any of the special features on the DVD outside of that.

Well, that’s all for this blog post. I’m glad after all this time that I’ve finally finished this and can get to posting about the season of Survivor: Gabon starting this Sunday. With posts on Sundays and the show still on hiatus, don’t expect any more random Wednesday posts during this hiatus. You might not get them on the next one either. But this post is finally now done. Sorry for all of you Addicted to Survivor people who were waiting so long for this. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.