The point I was trying to make is that Susie and Cara are obviously not team players, even though they are part of a team. In this sense, I don't think it really matters to Johnny, Alton, and Ace that they won; I think it matters to them that Susie is asking Cara to not do her best, and Cara is complying. If they lost the missions by seconds or even minutes, I would be blaming Cara, because she wasted time when she already had her giraffe. Alton's and Ace's times didn't help, but they weren't rolling around goofing off either. That said, I also loved the way Cara was acting because it was funny.
However, if Susie had won the lifeshield, she was sending Paula into the inferno, but sending in Cara would have been a better team choice. Paula is a team player and gives her best to the missions. She got the farthest on the rope challenge next to Susie, and she did well on the log walk challenge, even though she had to go first and didn't have the advantage of devising a strategy, while both Cara and Susie did. It just seems to me that Paula is a stronger player and that doesn't matter to Susie or Cara. The only thing that matters to either of them is Susie, and that's not how you win when you're on a team.
ETA:
They didn't show Johnny telling the team specifically about the markings. They showed him say "This is what is was..." and then his confessional had him explaining that he noticed the marks. Later, when Cara expressed surprise about the marks (in front of Johnny, no less), Alton also said that he didn't know anything about the marks. So either Alton was in on it (doubt it), Johnny wasn't clear about what he was saying (maybe) or Johnny didn't tell them. Obviously I love Cara, so I'm not impartial at all, but if Johnny told them about the marks, how did Cara, Alton, Susie and Ace all miss it while they were standing in a circle around him? And Paula is the only one who actually heard this information? Big coincidence, in my opinion.
I checked my DVR and Johnny definitely tells Paula, Ace, Davis, Cara, Susie, and Alton about his strategy. Cara is kind of standing behind Paula and Susie is not really in the shot, but from the footage run during his interview, you can tell Susie was there. Paula is standing closest to him and Cara is standing the farthest away, but definitely not more than about 6 or 7 feet away. The first time he says it all you hear is "I'll tell you what it was," and then it goes to Johnny's confessional or interview or whatever it is called and him explaining it to the viewers. But as he's doing his interview, its run over footage of him explaining it the rest of the team. During this, the team has kind of changed positions, and you can even see Susie standing right in front of him and in his interview he says "They're not taking me seriously." So when Ace claims that Johnny didn't tell him (during Ace's interview that takes place over Paula's run), he's kind of proven Johnny's point that Ace wasn't listening as Johnny was explaining it. During Johnny's interview, Johnny also makes the claim that he blurted it out, with no real care or concern that the other team was listening to him, so its possible that he didn't realize that not everyone heard him fully explain it. But everyone was definitely present for it.
The second time we see that footage, its longer and also captioned, but you can hear him say "I'll tell you what it was. There's markings on the legs." I assumed they cut the part about the feet the first time we see the footage because Johnny was explaining it to the viewers, and production figured that was better. They showed this scene at the end of the episode when he was fighting with Ace, but it took place during the challenge. You can tell because Bananas is all winded and such. He's kind of gasping for air as he says it, which is probably why they captioned it.
But even without this footage, when Paula is first starting, you hear Johnny yelling out "Look at the feet! Are there etchings by the feet?" And then Cara says to Alton "If Johnny knew about the marks by the feet, why didn't Ace know?" And Johnny says "I told him, but he wasn't listening to me." Alton and Cara are both speaking over Johnny saying that they didn't know about them either, but Johnny went after both Alton and Cara, so how could he have told them? This strengthens Johnny's argument that Cara was trying to turn Ace against him because who else would have brought this up to Ace? During the mission, Cara went over and deliberately said to Ace "Did you know about the markings," and Ace says he didn't. This was done in front of Johnny, so its logical that Johnny would assume that Cara was trying to start some shit between the guys.
Also, I think Johnny didn't want Paula to go home (rightfully so, IMO), so that's why he blurted it out during Paula's run. Perhaps he didn't yell it to Ace during Ace's run because he hadn't yet realized no one was listening to him, but when it was Paula's turn, it dawned on him that no one was listening and that's why he said to Cara that no one was listening.
As you can tell, my love for The Bananas knows no bounds!
This post has been edited by Remlab: Jun 5, 2007 @ 7:00 pm.
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