Previously on Survivor, it was blindside of the attorneys.
Chris was voted out and then Jessica left due to an unfortunate rock draw. Predictably,
the episode starts with people still freaking out over the rock draw. To
explain, since I did not cover last week, a rock draw occurs when the vote is
tied and no player is willing to switch their vote to break it. Then, the
players who were the subject of the tie are declared safe and everyone else
without immunity must blindly draw a rock. The person who draws the wrong
colored rock is then the one voted out. It’s a sucky way to go and most times
it can be avoided. Including last episode it has only ever happened 3 times.
Either way, back to the players freaking out. Hannah makes
Jessica’s elimination all about her and how she feels guilty since she was one
of the players at danger of going home from the tie. Basically, its slightly
arrogant thinking that she believes they did it for her. They did it because
they disliked Zeke, you were just the person paired up next to him to go home.
David is also worried after the results of tribal. He burned his idol thinking
that they were actually targeting Ken, and now he has no idol safety net. He
also just lost a number so he thinks his time in this game is running out.
The show cuts to Zeke talking about how he is an
overconfident asshole. Okay. He didn’t say that, but that’s how he was acting
saying he was 100 % going to final 5. In Survivor, if they show that, your time
is numbered. It is here in the episode that I knew something was going to
happen to screw up Zeke’s game. I’ve told you before; Survivor editing is easy
to figure out. If they show someone being confident, it is because they are
about to be knocked down a peg.
In other news, Ken receives the legacy advantage willed to
him by Jessica. He talks about how he cherishes authentic relationships like
theirs and how he wants to better his life through this show for his daughter.
This is where I wanted to go off and cry about how perfect he was, but the rest
of the episode changed that opinion for me. There’s a tease for you to keep
reading.
We have now come to the infamous loved ones visit, where
after only 30 days of being on the island, they get to see their family members
and cry as if they had not seen them for 10 years. I have always found the emotions to be out of
proportion to their situation. The only two times where I have found it
reasonable was in a situation’s like Adam’s where he would find out how his
terminally ill parent was doing(or any other sick family member), or if it was
a parent seeing their kid, since 30 days is a long time to be without your
children.
Basically, the gist of the challenge is that the players all
compete to get to spend a full meal with their visiting loved ones. Whomever
loses does not even get to hug them goodbye. The winner of the challenge then
gets to pick 3 other people to enjoy the reward with them, so it often reveals
who they are working with. Adam announces before the challenge begins that he
does not intend to use his advantage to steal this reward from someone if he
does not win. Obviously his tribe was not able at this moment to see how classy
that was, but that made me really respect him. If anyone had a justification to
be a jerk this reward, it was him considering he needed to hear about his
mother.
So to win the challenge, the players while attached to a
rope must maneuver through a set of obstacles and then hit a button. The first
to finish wins. Jay is ultimately the winner. He obviously picks his two
closest allies of Will and Sunday. Then he surprises everyone by picking Adam,
his game archenemy to be the third person to enjoy the reward. It was really a
touching moment with Jay crying about how he respects Adam despite everything
for not stealing the reward and Adam being so touched that Jay would put aside
personal differences and pick him. Adam, in fact, is so grateful that he ends
up giving Jay his advantage to steal a reward from a challenge. That obviously was not a smart game move from
Adam, but it was a touching gesture of thankfulness making this episode fitting
to be the most recent one after Thanksgiving. I would love to see these two
team up late game.
While they are enjoying their reward, Will is not enjoying
himself at all. He feels his alliance is not respecting him because he is only
18 and he wants the world to think he is an adult. So he throws the Survivor
equivalent of a tantrum and switches sides. He will now join David, Ken,
Hannah, and Adam to vote out Zeke. Newsflash Will: if you want to be treated
like an adult, you have to act like one and not throw a fit when things are not
going your way. For example, later in tribal council he rails into Sunday
because she had the nerve to call him “kid.”
Anyway before I start ranting about those darn millennials,
let’s jump into the immunity challenge. The players have to hold onto two sides
of a bar to hold tension. If they lose tension, the bar drops, breaking a tile
and eliminating them from the challenge. The last person remaining wins. Adam
wins immunity. I smile??? Does that mean I like him now???? What a difference
an episode makes.
As they get back to camp, Jay shows why he is my new
favorite player with a great read on the situation. He immediately notices that
usually paranoid David is not acting paranoid. In Survivor, that means they
know that they are safe. Now Jay and Zeke are worried that that side has an
idol, so they should take out Ken instead. Unfortunately, they told this to
Will as well.
Will then tells Ken that he is the target. Ken then goes and
makes one of the stupidest moves that moves him out of ever being in contention
for my favorite player again. He immediately rats out Will to Jay as a “test”
to see if Will was telling the truth. Ken, you are the one in danger! Will is
the one trying to save you! You don’t get to “test” him. He tests you. And you
failed. He sold Will out and now Will had to scramble to undo the damage Ken
did by revealing him as a flipper. Jay wisely sees this as an opportunity to
try and mend fences with Will. People still hate Jay for blindsiding Michaela,
but the guy has good instincts and a great social game.
However, now since the other side knows there is a chance of
Will leaving their alliance, they wonder if Ken is who they should really
target. They then come up with the idea to go after Hannah so that if there is
an idol, it is misplayed again. Tribal council starts and quite honestly it was
an amazing one. Everyone had decent game points to make to Will about why he
should vote with them. In particular, not to beat a dead horse, but Jay nailed
it when he gave Will joint credit for his blindside of Michaela. In all
honesty, I had thought that that could have flipped Will back. Brett also made
a good point about David being known for backstabbing any alliance not named
Ken.
Not content to let Will get credit for a big move, Adam
plays his idol to save Hannah and ensure Zeke goes home. I have to give some
credit to Hannah for knowing that she was the one going, but even more props to
Adam for acting on it. The funny thing is though, Will ended up siding with
them and voting out Zeke. So the idol was technically wasted, but it made sense
as to why he played it. Also, I keep laughing at Will because what was supposed
to be his big move got overshadowed by Adam’s idol and now Will needs to find
another way to beef up his resume.
Best Player
Adam. It was a heck of an episode for him. He got the reward
without winning it, won immunity, and played an idol well. Great job.
Worst Player
Ken. It pains me for him to have fallen so far, but tonight
was a really bad night for him when it came to intelligence.
Favorite Player
Jay. He is now my undisputed favorite, even if he is a part
of an alliance that I do not like at all.
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