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Cut - Eliza Orlins

345. Eliza Orlins- Season 9- Vanuatu

Eliza's Vanuatu journey, what an absolute ~experience~ It starts, of course, with her talking and annoying everyone on the hike to camp. Ironically, she and Twila both wanted the tribe to ~press on~ while the others wanted to wait until morning to find camp. The only time she and Twila would agree on something, lel.

Anyway, Eliza immediately associated herself with the "young women and Lisa" alliance aka the "bowheads" where she continued to annoy everyone with her talking. Unfortunately at Yasur's first Tribal Council, Eliza very much felt in the hot seat! She was SURE she was going home, and then she didn't. This was the first of Eliza's "Cry Wolf" moments. But she flipped on the young women the first chance she got and took out swing vote Dolly alol. This caused Lisa to yell at her. Eliza would return the favour at the next Tribal Council when Lisa flipped on the alliance.

On Yasur Eliza met her two mortal enemies, and future allies, Scout and Twila. They hated Eliza's bug eyed alien ways and constant talking, and Eliza hated them because they were always on her back.

Come the swap, during the infamous Lisa episode. Eliza was a target again, this time for Scout. Funny because Scout said "I don't want to break up this women's alliance" but was happy to vote for Eliza. Or Liza as she christened her. We love Scout logic sometimes. Anyway, this is about Eliza.

Come the merge, she seemed nestled in the women's alliance, though a clear outsider. They knocked out Rory, Chad, and Sarge so Eliza seemed to be able to coast to 6th place! Yay. Truly a cockroach we can support. But wait! What's this? Leann and Julie are sick of Eliza getting off "every damn time" and decree that she needs to go instead of Chris. It seems like our fair cockroach heroine's time would be up. But help can often come from unexpected places and Twila swoops in to save her (well, more like to save Scout), and forms a ~new~ alliance of 4 to take over the game. We have a tribal, of course, the returning the nod moment when Ami nods condescendingly to Eliza like "yes it's your time," but then when the Leann votes come back, Eliza nods back at Ami like "actually it's Leann's time."

An underrated Eliza moment (bc it's a big Ami moment) is the final 6 reward where Eliza has to sleep terrified next to Ami alternately sweet talking her and threatening her in the same breath into her ear all night.

Once Ami was out of the way, Eliza saw her chance! Chris had a good relationship with Julie, she won herself immunity, and it was the perfect time to get her revenge on Scout and Twila! She schemes with Chris at the hammock, not realising Twila is right behind her listening to every word. Ofc Twila makes a great point that even with immunity Eliza was still paranoid. It leads to a fight, of course, where Eliza accuses Twila of "plotting against me from DAY ONE!" and says "I think you're a liar T" which is such a weird nickname to use for someone she actually hated? And ofc Twila spills some tea "you've been driving everyone freaking nuts, chill OUT!" which honestly it was probably a NIGHTMARE to actually live with Eliza despite how entertaining she was.

Now I feel like this may have happened before the final 4 but oh well it goes here. At this point Eliza is OVER Scout and Twila, especially that greedy pig Twila hoarding all the bananas. She marches up to her DEMANDING she tell her where she buried them, which leads to the great Scout line "are you hungry for a banana little one?" Twila refuses to tell her where they are and Eliza says "well maybe -I'll- go bury some of my own and not tell you where they are," which leads to queen of passive-aggressive jabs Scout to say "oh touche, touche, she got you, she got you Twila," sounding like a fucking 10 year old. What an amazing dynamic honestly.

Unfortunately at the final 4, Chris does not tie the vote and sends Eliza home, leading to the infamous Eliza staredown!

Eliza then returned on the jury to ~channel~ Helen Glover (http://funny115.com/elizahelen.htm) and berate the deceptive lying bitches in the final 2, and DEMAND their apology.

But yes, please raise a coconut to honour one of Survivor's biggest cockroaches.

Save- Man Eater Manthey,