If so, you should be taking place in our weekly prediction contest. “I was just holding my bag as Jeff started reading the votes”.
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Ciera tells her she would move against Joe if he lost immunity. Wentworth talks to Ciera she’s fine with Stephen. Is Spencer playing the best or worst game on Survivor: Second Chance? Ciera said she was begging people to wake up and play the game. And she was entertaining to boot!
It seemed she had finally found her niche between the reserved game of your average successful female player and her own preference for aggression (and trolling).
It’s Pandora’s Box. You open it. So I don’t know if it was “Chaos Kass”. She reminds everyone that Savage, Jeremy, Tasha and Stephen are solid.
On tonight’s episode as per the CBS synopsis, “An intense water challenge leaves castaways thirsty for a much-needed reward”.
It wasn’t all emotion, of course. Stephen feels that he could get the votes to blindside Joe should he not win. With Abi in the fold, the only possible option was Woo.
However, it’s easy to rationalize game moves and impossible to separate emotions from Survivor. It would have made just as much strategic sense to lie low after the merge and nudge the game to a different target, to highlight another player’s conflict. And at the end of the day, their personal conflict was too much for the rest of the tribe. Not appreciated. Savage flips her off as he exits.
With 11 castaways still remaining, it’s hard to tell who is going to come out on top.
So why was it that the majority went against Kass? This is the stage where Keith won it last time. Maybe not in the episode they are first brought up but soon they could be leaving the game. And I did that and I think people saw that. Joe realizes that Jeremy, Stephen, Andrew, and Spencer are tight and wonders where he fits in with that alliance. And yet, while it was a a great move and all, this will only buy Wentworth another three days in this game unless she finds a way to divide Bayon and get the numbers on her side. Stephen talks to Jeremy and Jeremy sees Joe as a shield out ahead of him. It was an unconventional choice.
Considering that the entire narrative of the episode hinged on whether or not Joe would win immunity, it probably should have been clearer from the beginning that the idea of Stephen being able to get rid of Joe was never going to pan out. It’s the kind of ending that only happens on Survivor, which is why it’s 31 seasons in and still going strong. Believing she was in danger of being voted out, Kelley Wentworth used the idol she swiped at the season’s very first challenge and then watched the nine votes against her become immediately null and void.
If they pull it off, this might be a first.
Speaking of immunity, it’s another balancing challenge. After 10 minutes, they will have to move their hands down the ropes, making it even more hard.
This is an interesting season of the CBS staple, given the premise of having castaways who have all played before but never won. Were they so sure none of those women had an idol that they didn’t even think splitting the votes was a little bit of a good idea? Kimmi is in trouble and finally loses it. Now it’s four.
What he did do right was to flip with a group. Jeff says why aren’t the other eight fighting back and Kelley says the others won’t make a move. That’s the ideal place to be… if he can count on his seven being the core seven. Tasha comes to Joe who says they’re not ready to take out Fish right now. He’s referring to voting off Kass. When the opportunity to target Kass emerged at the merge (the earliest and largest in the show’s history, with timing that certainly saved Savage’s skin and equally certainly put Kass and Ciera in an unenviable position), Tasha went after the person she knew, historically, she could not trust. Stephen is only risky insofar as his alliance allows him to be. What Tasha lacks is anything cohesive. He NEEDS the other Bayons if he’s going to do anything in this game. They don’t even mention each other in confessional. The survivors struggle to form strong alliances.
Ciera talks about her comments at Tribal and is fishing for alliances.
“Second, we need to run it”, she continues. At the very least, she’s an extra jury vote; at best she’s an informant. Then there is Spencer who is enigma. “So I decided to make this the best Ponderosa ever”, she says. Because a few viewers could argue it looked like producers influenced you to keep Spencer around since you had such a sudden change of heart in wanting to save him. Is he playing a good or awful game? I’d love it if this was a winner’s edit, but I don’t think Survivor is there yet. He knows they don’t want him around. “I was getting along well with people, I was sleeping in the middle of the shelter with people snuggling me”, she says. I will work for you if it works to my benefit. The editing team did a brilliant job of masking that Savage would be the next to get booted, while also planting a seed that at least suggested it, as the girls tossed his name out there. Andrew thinks the others are planning a big move so he can try and mess up their plan.
They load it while Spencer’s team drifts away. Perhaps he doesn’t want that… after all, being the lesser of a pair didn’t work out for him last time. He has an alliance with Joe and he’s not going to let Joe get blindsided.
Stephen explained that his poetry recital was about building relationships with potential jurors, and he’s spot on in his theory. From competition, to broken alliances, to chaos and betrayal, it has everything you could ever want out of a reality show, and this season of second chances is already making “Survivor” history in more ways than one. He can be more self-assured with strategy (and poetry), but he needs to turn his weaknesses into assets rather than passing them off as irrelevant to the game. No juror wants to hear: “This part of the game you’re good at doesn’t count”.
The brutal truth is that the Bayon trio parallels Stephen’s Jalapão three. Keith and Jeremy did this before in their season. So I guess the flaw there is that I let that person have that power to do that. “I’m out of the million dollars, but I decide who gets the million”. After all, he’s the guy the jury wants to bro-down with. I think he has a leg up on Joe in jury respect anyway, if only by virtue of his age. If ever a player could, it would be Joe.
Can he do it though? Kelley then pulled out the immunity idol and cashed it in.
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Tasha tells Joe that the others don’t want to take out Fish, yet. Kimmi and Stephen might need to stop targeting Joe and start isolating him. They have a better chance of convincing the jury that Golden Boy is their pawn than they do with Jeremy.
