Previously on Survivor, David used an idol in a big move
that everyone is unsure about. This episode that move was erased by a tribal
swap. You know what else has been erased? Firefighters. As in the firefighters
that were supposed to come to our house this morning and install a new fire
alarm for our malfunctioning ones. The firefighters I got up really early for.
I’m not bitter at all, but like David, I’m questioning my decision to get up on
time. Let’s dive on in to the episode.
After last tribal’s idol blindside, David is starting to
regret his move. He saved a person who essentially no one cared too much about
saving. He worries that the damage wasn’t worth the reward. You know who it did
reward? Ken. Jessica immediately runs to him crying and apologizes for doubting
his honest soul. She then tells him of the legacy advantage that she possesses
and that if she were to go, she would give it to him. While Ken is a nice guy,
so he won’t abuse this knowledge, I sure would have. You mean I get an
advantage if you are voted out? Well, I might just want to get others to vote
you out, but keep the betrayal secret and get the reward. Ken, being a better
person than me, just sees it as building up trust between them again.
Since the idol was used, GenX knows another idol can now be
found on the beach. This starts the mad rush for a person to be able to find
it. David has an advantage in that he already knows that the idol will be
hidden into something that has a special symbol on it. I do feel that the
producers should have alternated between having a symbol show it, and not
having a symbol, because that is a pretty unfair advantage for David to have.
However, this idol was in plain sight of Sunday and Cece and they missed it.
Therefore, I’m not too mad that David saw it and had to be patient until he
could grab it. Damn this boy is lucky. I’m
starting to come around on the little rat.
Instead of a reward challenge this week, Jeff decides to
spring some news on the players. There will be a tribe swap. But, there will be
3 tribes instead of two now. I’m thrilled because there is a chance for Figgy
and Taylor to be broken up. I even wrote a song in its honor.
“Figgy and Taylor are broken up
This season now won’t suck
About them, no one gives a ….”
And then I was cut off by my screams because the two in fact
ended up on the same tribe. One note about the tribe swap, the new third tribe
instead of having a camp to go back to, has to completely start from scratch
again. I find this incredibly unfair even with them being allowed an extra
member. They have to waste what little energy they still have building a
shelter all over again and starting a fire that the other tribes get to already
enjoy. Michaela is rightfully pissed and says she wants to flick Jeff off. I
feel you. I feel you. The three tribes now are purple, green, and orange. I
know they have tribal names, but they are honestly usually hard to remember and
it’s easy to just associate them with their color. On the purple tribe, Ken and
Jessica are a pair, Figgy and Taylor are a pair, with Adam in the middle. On
the orange tribe, it’s fairly even with no strong alliances. Green also has no
strong alliances already there.
As they adjust to their new tribes, Brett makes a GenX
metaphor. I’m done with that. Then Jay makes a millennial reference. I’m done
with that too. Jay is also acting really overconfident which is never a good
sign for someone’s longevity in the game. Figgy finally wakes up her brain and
realizes that her and Taylor should start downplaying their showmance. Taylor
and his friend are very upset. Taylor apparently has never seen a competitive reality
show in his life to know that showmances very rarely work out. When they do, it’s
because everyone in the season had a pair like BB18, or because people in that
season were incredibly stupid. Adam sees this opportunity to cozy up with Ken
and keep his options open to flip on his fellow millennials.
Over on the orange tribe, Zeke and Chris bond over their
Oklahoma connection. I think Zeke might have cried finding out Chris was his “idol”
that played on the Sooners team. Chris tells Zeke not to worry and that he will
turn on the Gen Xers and Cece will go. Cece should’ve gone a long time ago due
to her poor challenge performance, but better late than never.
On to the immunity challenge where each player had to dive
to get a buoy, swim it to a platform, repeat that 5 times, and then get those 5
buoys into a basketball hoop contraption. Last tribe to succeed goes to tribal
council. Green and Purple win and are safe from tribal. Orange is going to
tribal mainly due to David and Cece’s horrendous performances.
Chris trying to solidify trust tells David that the plan is
to vote out Cece and not one of the millennials. In theory, this is a decent
move. It builds trust and gives David a chance to show you loyalty. However,
because David has the idol there is always a chance this could blow up. David
agrees to the plan. However, Michelle almost screws it all up and proves she’s
not as great of a player as everyone thought she was. She doesn’t trust that
Cece is the target, goes to try to work with her, and spews that she wants
David gone. Sweetheart, when the options are you or Cece, you don’t introduce a
3rd variable! Furthermore, that 3rd variable should never
be over-paranoid David who is known to screw people over if he feels scared.
There’s no way that she hadn’t heard of his paranoia from Chris by then. Of
course, Cece rats her out to David and he starts questioning if he should use
his idol again. Instead of GenX vs. Millennial, this season really should be
called “Idol vs. No Idol”.
Yet again at tribal, Michelle presses her luck by explicitly
saying David should go home. She says this knowing that she will be voting Cece’s
name down. Have you ever watched this show? If you call someone out, you call
out the person leaving. Or, in a wiser move, you never mention a person’s name.
She’s lucky David decided to prioritize trust with Chris and vote out Cece
instead. This was the smart move, he has an idol still, and he is showing that
his betrayals are a thing of the past and not a normal occurrence.
Best Player
Yet again, no one made any outstanding plays that warrant
them this award. I’d say this was between Chris and David, but I’ll give it to
David because he still has an idol. Also, I know he's gotten this a lot. Its really only because he's gone to tribal so often that he gets more screen time for me to evaluate whether he should get best player. Since we don't have live feeds like in Big Brother, that's all I have to go off of.
Worst Player
Michelle.
For the reasons stated above, she has put herself on the bottom of her tribe
because if David is in trouble, he can simply use his idol to send her out
instead.
Favorite Player
Ken. He probably will be my favorite this whole season so I might just get rid of this segment.
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