Stereotypes were torched in the Survivor Cagayan premiere on Monday (3 October) when the Beauty tribe proved they have more Brains and Brawn than the other two tribes put together.
These are the 6 things about them that impressed me most:
1. Morgan's skulduggery at the very start when she tricked her tribe into thinking she'd selflessly given up the reward clue for a bag of rice. It was a classic and genius move because there's no way they'll find out the truth and it's put her in such a good light with them.
And she still has the clue.
2. The Beauties made fire as quickly as it takes to light a Blitz and didn't even break a sweat.
3. They didn't allow any one person to be in charge of building their shelter and avoided the nuclear explosion suffered by the Brains.
4. LJ has a wisdom beyond his horse trainer credentials because it's 100% true that hott girls are more dangerous than cute ones.
5. The Beauties are so much smarter than David you could write a whole thesis on it. He destroyed himself from his very first words by picking on the Ken doll like that. What a loser! You can't believe someone can know the show and make such a pathetic opening decision. I'm side-eyeing his attorney ally Kass as a result and don't see that I'll ever like her.
6. Ultimately the Beauties worked as one unit during the Immunity reward challenge and mastered each aspect of it from the strength and endurance to the brain teasers at the end.
I'm convinced that their victory has to do with the fact that the Brains and Brawn see themselves as being overly Brainy and Brawny so they've literally sabotaged themselves in their miiiiinds. The Beauties don't have the same problem though. The only concern they have is how good they look doing the challenges and they pulled that off effortlessly too.
It's clear that the other two tribes are going to have draw on something else besides their Brawn and Brains if they hope to take them on.
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