That Jeff Probst Is One Cruel Man

This is the first episode of Survivor: Terra Nova

Challenges
Reward Challenge: Skull Crush One person from each tribe will race into the woods, once in the woods they will head to a clearing, where they will find a pile of skulls. They will break one skull open at a time, looking for an amulet inside. Reward: The winning tribe will decide at what camp they and the other two tribes get to live. Winner: TBD

Immunity Challenge: Challenge Title Challenge mechanics. Winner: Tribe/person/s who won the challenge

Day 1
Three open flatbed trucks drive down a dirt road. Sitting in these flatbed trucks are the newest castaways. All eighteen members look nervous as they ride down the road. Jeff Probst then begins his voice over, talking about how the castaways are about to embark on a thirty-nine day journey in the Canadian wilderness. The eighteen castaways have been divided into three teams of six. The three tribes are the Mi'kmaq Tribe which will be an all-female tribe, the Cabot Tribe which will be an all-male tribe, and the Beothuk Tribe which will be a mixed-gender tribe. Who will have what it takes to survive thirty-nine days in the Canadian wilderness and become the winner of Survivor: Terra Nova?

After the opening credits are done, we see the eighteen castaways standing on mats in front of Jeff. Jeff welcomes the castaways to Terra Nova National Park and informs the castaways that the Tribes have not been pre-selected but they have just been chosen by the castaways.

Most of the castaways look confused over this, Jeff tells the castaways that they have chosen what tribe they will be on by which mat they chose to stand on. He then tells the castaways to flip over the mats to see which team they are on. Here is how the teams ended up:

The Beothuk Tribe will have Billie Jean, George, Marlon, Paul, Violet, and Zelda on it.

The Mi'kmaq Tribe will have Jillian, Jocelyn, Lauren, Molly, Octavia, and Pearl on it.

The Cabot Tribe will have Andy, Angelo, Hank, Kyle, Simon, and Urban on it.

"cabot"

- I was not too happy when I found out that I was going to be on a team full of guys. I mean look at me I’m the geekiest of geeks, of course I will be the first person voted off my team if we lose. After the tribes are selected, Jeff informs the castaways that the first challenge is about to begin. It is a reward challenge. The teams are playing for the right to be able to select which camp they will be living in. There are three camps the first one has a pre-built shelter and has various amenities. The second camp has all the wood and tools to build an adequate shelter. The third camp has nothing and the team must build the shelter themselves with whatever meager supplies are given to them by Jeff. The winning team for this Reward Challenge will get to decide which camp the other two teams get.

"cabot"

- That Jeff Probst is one cruel man, I’ll tell you what. I mean we ain’t been out here for more than fifteen minutes and he is already making us do a challenge and if we win the challenge we’re going to piss off at least one tribe. This plain old sucks! Reward Challange:

Jeff explains the rules for the challenge; he then asks if there are any questions. With that the challenge begins.

Marlon, Andy, and Jillian are the runners selected for their teams. Andy takes an early lead and he reaches the jungle quicker than either Marlon or Jillian. Andy soon finds the clearing where the skulls are and he goes to work on busting them open. Moments later both Jillian and Marlon arrive at the clearing and they also go to work on busting open the skulls.

We get a time lapsed view of them busting open skulls and not finding anything inside them. Finally Jillian finds an amulet inside one of the skulls that she busted open. Jillian squeaks in delight and coyly says to Marlon and Andy…

"tribename"

- So long boys. Jillian then heads back into the woods. Moments after Jillian takes off Andy finds an amulet in one of his skulls. He then takes off after Jillian. Andy manages to catch up with and pass Jillian right as they leave the woods. Andy then manages to cross the finish line and wins the challenge for his tribe.

"mi'kmaq"

- When I heard Andy coming up from behind me in the challenge I was like noooooooo! After all I felt like I let my team down and it is only day one. Such a sucky feeling… Jeff congratulates Andy on a hard fought victory. He then tells the Cabot Tribe that he will give them a few moments to decide which team will end up at which camp.

Hank is adamant that the Mi'kmaq Tribe be given the luxury camp because they are an all-woman tribe and therefore they might not be strong enough to build their own shelter. Kyle quickly shoots that idea down saying that if they did that they would look sexist. He says that they should take the luxury camp because they earned it and let the women have the decent camp. Both Andy and Angelo agree with that sentiment and so Andy tells Jeff that his tribe will take the luxury camp. The Mi'kmaq Tribe will have the decent camp and the Beothuk Tribe will get the bad camp. Jeff says all right and hands each tribe a map to their respective camps.

The Beothuk Tribe arrives at their camp and Violet does not seem at all happy about her surroundings. Violet starts crying during her confessional…

"beothuk"

- You know when I applied to be on this show I thought I would end up in a nice warm tropical location. I wasn’t expecting to be stuck up here in the freaking tundra. It is so cold up here and it’s the middle of the damn summer. And then to top it all off, the guys stick us in camp suck. We have to build our own shelter and we have hardly any materials to build the damn thing. I have a feeling that this game is going to suck for me. The various members of the Beothuk Tribe begin building their shelter. Violet helps out but she is not working as hard as the rest of her tribe. This is a fact that is not lost on Paul. Paul goes over to where Violet is and asks her what is wrong. Violet tells him (Paul) about how much it sucks that they ended up at the bad camp. Paul pats her on her shoulder and says that while it does suck, they have to make the best of it and he feels that they will only become stronger as a tribe because they have not been handed anything.

"beothuk"

- I am glad that we did not end up in either of the other two camps. I mean shoot I came out here to play Survivor. I did not come out here expecting to have a pre-made shelter ready for me. I do feel a little bad for Violet because it is clear that she is not used to being in an environment like this. That was why I tried to give her a little pep talk. After all there is no reason to sit around and mope if you can’t change your circumstances then you just have to live with them and make the best out of them. Meanwhile the Mi'kmaq Tribe has just arrived at their camp. Jillian asks her teammates for a moment of their time before they begin to try and build their shelter. She (Jillian) apologizes to her teammates for losing the Reward Challenge. Pearl says that she thinks that she speaks for the tribe and then proceeds to tell Jillian not to worry about the challenge and that they are all bound to make mistakes in the game.

"mi'kmaq"

- When Miss Pearl told Jillian that she spoke for our team and then told Jillian not to worry about costing us the challenge. I felt like saying oh hell no you don’t speak for me. I mean, I was pissed about losing the challenge because now I have to get all sorts of sweaty while helping to build this damn shelter. "mi'kmaq"

- I think most of my tribe was accepting of me even after I cost them the Reward Challenge. Well everyone except Octavia, she was kind of cold to me and really would not talk to me much once we got to camp and started to build our shelter. The Cabot Tribe arrives at their camp and the men are ecstatic at just how nice their camp is.

"cabot"

- When we arrived at camp I was shocked at just how nice our shelter is. We have a pre-built shelter, inside the shelter there are three mattresses which can fit two people on each mattress, and there are blankets and pillows to go along with those mattresses. Jeff Probst wasn’t joking when he said this was the luxury camp. Heck I think I am just going to start calling this Club Med because it is so nice. Kyle pulls Hank aside asking him if they can talk about what went down after the challenge.

Hank and Kyle shake hands.

"cabot"

- You know I can respect the fact that Hank wanted to be chivalrous at the Reward Challenge and give the women the luxury camp. But there is a time for chivalry and that just was not one of those times. I mean let’s be real here, this is a team game for the first few weeks and the object of the game is to beat the other teams. There is no way in hell I would be willing to give the women any type of advantage in this game, especially if it came at my expense. The other two tribes can think of me as a jerk, but to be honest I really don’t care if that is what they think about me. Because at the end of the day I am going to be living in the nice shelter and sleeping on an actual bed while they are struggling to build their shelters. Right now life is good for me. "cabot"

- I going to be blunt, I don’t like Kyle already. To me he comes across as a cocky little turd. The guy had a chance to earn some good will with the other tribes and instead he decided that we should not do that. Now if I am one of the other two tribes, I am going to work extra hard just so that I can beat the team that deprived me of better living conditions. I mean I hope that ain’t the case but it is probably what will end up happening. Back at the Mi'kmaq Tribe’s camp, the women are not doing a good job at building a shelter. Lauren and Molly start talking about just how much of a problem they are having building the shelter.

"mi'kmaq"

- There are a bunch of young ladies on this tribe who seem to think work is a foreign word. They are just standing around shooting the breeze, complaining about how cold it is out here. Well maybe if they lifted a finger to help the rest of us out, they might start feeling warmer. At the Cabot Tribe the men talk about if they should try to start a fire or not. Hank and Simon try to make a fire but after a few minutes of nothing happening they give up. Kyle, who is sitting on a wooden bench in front of their shelter, begins laughing at them because they gave up so quickly.

Hank says that if he finds it so funny maybe he should try to make fire and see just how hard it is to do it. Kyle tells Hank that they do not need fire yet and they should just relax and enjoy their surroundings. He says they will get fire when they need to get fire.

"cabot"

- Hank is such an intense dude, that old guy needs to mellow out. Right now fire is not a priority out here, if we have it we have it. But I really don’t care about it right now. "cabot"

- Kyle is a trifling young fool who is working my last nerve. He says we don’t need no fire out here right now. I guess he don’t want to drink or eat anything. Look we have this great pre-built shelter but we need fire in order to survive out here and I am a little surprised that nobody seems to care about it but me and Simon. With the shelter building going along pretty well, Paul and George decide to try and build a fire for the Beothuk Tribe.

"beothuk"

- The shelter was coming along rather nicely, we got some real workhorses on the team and just about everyone with the exception of Violet was working hard on making the shelter. It was at that point that Paul and I decided to try and make a fire. We struggled for a bit but we were soon able to accomplish the task of making fire. It was such a great moment for our team. I guess being an Eagle Scout did pay off for me! We do not see the footage of George and Paul making the fire. As soon as the fire is going, Paul jumps up and does an awkward dance much to the delight of his tribe.

"beothuk"

- Man you know how there is that stereotype out there about how white people can’t dance? Well Paul lived up to that stereotype today as he flat out made a fool out of himself when he danced. But I’ve got to say, anyone who has the balls to make themselves look the fool in front of five strangers, is good people in my book. Back at the Mi'kmaq Tribe, Molly, Octavia, and Lauren are standing in the woods talking about the first challenge.

"mi'kmaq"

- Well it’s day one and I am already in an alliance! This could end up being a very crazy move for me to make this early on in the game. I just can’t believe how fast that happened, but I must say that I have already instantly bonded with Octavia and Molly so I know the three of us are the best suited people to control this tribe. It is now nighttime at the Beothuk camp and all of the members of the tribe are sitting around the fire telling their teammates about themselves. Billie-Jean is hesitant to tell her tribe what it is she does for a living but after some good natured prodding from Marlon, who asked her jokingly if she was a stripper, Billie-Jean admitted to being a Lawyer.

She (Billie-Jean) told the members of her tribe that she did not want to admit to being a Lawyer because she was afraid that they would think she wanted to play a cutthroat game. She (Billie-Jean) assured them that, that was not the game she wanted to play and that she is a loyal person who will stick by the people that are loyal to her.

When it came time for Paul to tell his teammates what it is that he does for a living, he had none of the hang-ups that Billie Jean had. That is because he told them that he was a Contractor, instead of telling them that he is a Homicide Detective.

"beothuk"

- I feel for Billie-Jean…I really do. Being a lawyer in a game like this puts a huge target on your back. Likewise being a Homicide Detective would also put a huge target on your back, which is why I told them that I was a Contractor. I don’t want the members of my tribe to be in a constant state of nervousness around me because they think I can easily read them. Nah, I would rather they think I am just an average Joe. Violet does not share much about herself saying that she is currently unemployed and an only child. She then gazes into the fire as everyone else talks around her.

"beothuk"

- I feel out of place on my tribe. I mean I just can’t relate to any of these people because I am so young. George and Marlon are the closest to me in age but they are both much older than me, so when it came time to talk I just said a little bit and shut-up. "beothuk"

- The campfire talk was enlightening. I felt like it was a tremendous bonding experience for our tribe. The one thing that I did notice was that Violet mainly kept to herself while everyone else was engaged in the conversation. I am not sure if she is just a little shy or what, but this is a social game and if you cannot be…well social…you are not going to last very long in this game.

Author's Notes

 * I know that I said I would put up the first episode after I had written all of the bios. I will get to the other three bios soon, I just wanted to get some of this episode out there.