Coming off last week’s episode, “Bunking with the Devil,” we
saw Woo voted out. He was blindside by Takeo 2.0: Kass, Ciera, Abi and Spencer.
I thought it was neat how Spencer and Kass got to work together. Their plan
seemed to be to vote out Savage this week.
Pre-merge
Before,
the merge we go to see Savage in his darkest light. He was bitter and insulting
towards his fellow castaways, he said, “F them”. I am not a Savage fan, but I
did feel for the guy in Pearl Islands. He was a strong leader voted out by a
silly twist. Ciera, on the other hand,
was looking cute. There’s something magnetic about that girl that attracts me
to her. Her and Cochran are my favorite castaways of all time. The weather that
day was amazing. I really liked how the fog and the high tide current
contributed to the excitement and nervousness of the merge. Which with 13
castaways, was the biggest in Survivor history.
Merge
During
the merge, all the players sat to eat the merge picnic. The feast had:
crackers, wine and grapes. Right off the get-go it was Takeo 2.0(Ciera, Abi and
Kass) versus the Original Bayon (Jeremy, Savage and Tasha). After the feast
both groups scrambled to get Joe and Spencer to join their side. Joe and
Spencer shared a funny scene were Spencer used ‘Joe talk’ to communicate with
Joe. ‘Joe talk’ means talking about strategy in terms of football. I thought this showed a bit of jealously in
part of Spencer, given the Joe is the most popular character this season. Both
of these guys are extremely popular but I would say Spencer is smarter than
Joe, while Joe is more athletic than Spencer. It is highly interesting how to
big guys are the swing vote as opposed to the people on the chopping block.
Aside
from the ‘swing vote’, the show developed another storyline: ‘Chaos’ Kass
versus Tasha. Tasha doesn’t trust Kass because Kass screwed her over in
Survivor Cagayan. Kass sees all the Original Bayon staying together. Therefore,
she knows that she has ‘swing for the fences.’ In a desperate attempt to save
herself Kass tries to stir up trouble by saying, “Tasha said Bayon’s no more.”
Of course, everyone did not believe her. Then Ciera in her typical fashion[1]
jumps in to try to defend Kass and throws Savage[2]
under the bus, ‘Let’s lie to them and
see how it works out.’ This however, seems to backfire and further alienate her
from the ‘Alpha Alliance.[3]’To
be fair, the original Bayon excluded Ciera, Kass and Abi. They knew their
situation was dire and they rather do something than remain quiet.
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| Merge Feast |
Immunity challenge
and Tribal Council
The
immunity challenge this episode was, “Hard to Handle” from Survivor Cagayan.
Each castaway stands on beam while balancing a pole with a ball on one hand. As
the challenge progresses, each castaway has to go to a narrower section of the
beam. Then he/she has lower his/her hand on the pole. The challenge is run in ten
minute intervals, and the last person remaining wins. The results were not
surprising with Fishbach going out first and ‘ Joe winning the game.
During
tribal council Jeff captures the feel of this season, the idea of ‘voting
blocks’ its easier for everyone to just vote out Kass this time around. Since
she betrayed Andrew on the previous vote. Moreover, since the season is run by
the ‘Alpha Alliance’ is different from the usual one’s where big targets first
to go at the merge, as Stephen says, “What typical merge has three small women
as the presumptuous boot?”. Most of
Bayon consists on strong players: Savage, Jeremy, Joe, Keith and Tasha. Most of
them were targeted because they huge challenge threats. Now that they are in
power they are reversing the situation. In the end everyone, sides with the
Alpha alliance and vote out Kass. Only Ciera and Abi remain loyal to the Takeo
2.0. Wenthworth, Spencer and Joe go with the flow.
Looking forward
As
Spencer said, “tomorrow playing may looking really different.’ It seems a big
move is coming. It could be a Stephen versus Joe, an epic throw down. We'll see
what happens! Thank’s for reading and I hope that I will improve in my critique
of the show especially since I want to do something different than just a recap.
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