Before we get started, a reminder of who has whom:
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Brian |
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Iyasah |
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Rachel |
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Angela |
Teeny |
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Dylan |
Genevieve |
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Lia |
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Sheila |
Sue |
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Roberta |
Sam |
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Carol |
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Andy |
Sorry for the long-ish update today but the penultimate episode
is a 2-hour job with two tribals and two new jurors as we rush toward Wednesday’s
finale! The Final Four will be set tonight!
We pick up back at camp following Operation: Italy’s
successful blindside of Caroline, and Sue thinks it sucked. Everyone knows it was The Joker that flipped,
and Teeny realizes he was better at the game than they thought. Sue thinks no one has ever flipped as much as
he has. She may be right, but he’s doing it to form positions of power and it’s
leading vote after vote. In that way, he’s
unique.
The group gives Teeny an explanation that splitting Caroline
and Sue was a priority, and when Teeny presses The Joker about flipping, he
laughs it off. Fiji is in the tropics,
but it’s snowing around Teeny and she’s totally buying their snow job. They convince Teeny to flip with them against
Rachel and Caroline – so much for that all-women foursome, I guess.
AND RACHEL CHANNELLED TONY AND SNUCK UP AND HEARD THE WHOLE
THING.
She joins Sue who’s idol hunting and their newly bonded
trust leads Rachel to
break Rule #1 and tell Sue about her idol. WHY??? She wants to gain Sue’s
trust? Sue’s got nowhere else to go! (1 point for “Mention ‘in this game’”
[Rachel] to Iyasah!) Sue also has an idol no one knows about but keeps her
mouth shut about it. I guess she doesn’t need to “gain Rachels trust?”.
At the individual immunity and reward challenge they have to
swim to a platform, move a buoy through an obstacle course and solve a Survivor
logo puzzle.
Sam takes an early lead, but Genevieve passes him in Stage 2
and is first to the puzzle. Rachel
quickly catches up and takes the lead on the puzzle, but Genevieve flies
through the 2nd half of it and wins! (16 points for “Win
individual immunity” and “Win individual reward” [Genevieve] to Dylan!). That’s the fastest Jeff has ever seen any one
do the logo puzzle, and that probably includes Season 45’s Carson
who 3d printed and memorized them! As
opposed to Sam, who left his enemies alone to plot against him, Genevieve picks
Teeny and Sue to go with her. (3 points each for “Chosen by someone else to
go on reward” [Teeny], [Sue] to Angela and Sheila!)
At the Sanctuary,
it’s a social game for Genevieve and she’s open about voting out Rachel. Teeny’s fine voting out Rachel but too much
wine leads the 23-year-old to spill Genevieve’s idol news to Sue. (1 point for “Mention ‘in this game’”
[Teeny] to Angela!). Genevieve tells us she’s more than happy for Teeny to
keep spreading that news. This is up
there with the best fake idols in Survivor history. They have everyone fooled.
Back at camp, Sam and Andy come clean to Rachel about the
Caroline blindside (1 point for “Mention ‘in this game’” [Sam] to Roberta!) and
flat out tell her she’s the next vote.
To her credit, Rachel plays it well. They have no idea she has an idol.
This vote is going to be brutal.
In an effort to keep her idol safe one more night, Rachel tries
to flip The Joker, saying Sam would beat him, jury won’t see him as a winner
and people underestimate him. She’s
playing him and he’s getting played badly. (1 point for “Mention ‘in this
game’” [The Joker] to Carol!). It’s easy
to envision Andy flipping again.
After the winners return, Genevieve tries to ensure Rachel
is still the vote as The Joker recounts how Rachel let him, and Sam have it. In a last-ditch effort to flip him, Rachel
tells Andy she can block Sam’s vote and promises to keep him if he votes with
them today. Rachel is looking for a
reason to keep her idol, but Sue knocks sense into her – don’t trust The Joker. That’s some sage advice right there.
In their final conversation before tribal, The Joker feels
safe enough to do some jury management.
He tells Rachel he’s voting for her and lays out his entire game. Rachel was planning to get Sam, but now sees
Andy as a bigger threat, recognizing that he’s fooled her three times. The evil genius has finally made his mistake.
Pride goes before the fall is a saying for a reason, I suppose.
At tribal, Caroline still looks angry. I wonder if production tells them to look mad
at the first night on jury? Teeny admits
to not knowing why Caroline went home, and that she didn’t know what was going
on in several votes. The jury is right there, Teeny. This isn’t a great story for
them to hear. I can only imagine what it’d
be like for her to watch this back.
Rachel explains how Andy flipped and today was a do-or-die
comp…and she died, so today was her funeral.
Genevieve told Rachel the truth too – they were opposites the whole game
and neither would bend. Every question
comes back to why everyone’s voting for Rachel, and she plays it perfectly.
At the vote, Rachel blocks Sam’s vote (2 points for “Use
a secret advantage” [Rachel] to Iyasah!) and uses her idol (2 points for
“Play a hidden immunity idol on yourself” [Rachel] to Iyasah!). The look of awe and shock is
fantastic! Outplayed, indeed. Rachel received three votes, and would’ve
been going to jury, but instead it’s time for the Joker to return to
Arkham.
His gameplay was great, but The Joker’s need to brag about
it finally undid him and he’s voted out becoming Juror #6. (3 points for “Received vote against” [Rachel]
to Iyasah!), (2 points for “Received vote against” [The Joker] to Carol!), (-2
points for “The Tribe Has Spoken” [The Joker] against Carol!) and finally (2
points for “Jury member” [The Joker] to Carol!).
Sol and Kyle are caught talking about it on Jury so (5
points each for “Shown talking on jury” [Sol], [Kyle] to Carol and Lia!)
The tables turned, and this time Sue and Rachel walked out
of tribal triumphant
Back at camp, Rachel tells everyone about how she found her
idol while Genevieve smoothly lies about how she “found” hers. (1 point for “Mention ‘in this game’”
[Genevieve] to Dylan!). Genevieve and
Rachel are the nemesis of the season and are openly against each other, but in
a weird frenemy sort of way. Yes, I used
the word frenemy. I’m old, not dead.
Rachel goes idol hunting and Genevieve babysits her,
following her around. Meanwhile, Sam and Sue dump Rachel’s bag looking for
another idol. (1 point for “Mention ‘in this game’” [Sue] to Sheila!). Those back at camp are bothered at how
Genevieve and Rachel assume one of them will win but can they come together and
vote the other two out?
At the immunity challenge, they have to race in from the
ocean, dig sand out from under a log. Then they have to stack 6 balls on a stand
while balancing on a wobbly beam.
They all get to the beam about the same time, but adrenaline
works against them here. The stacks get to 2,3, 4..and drop. And drop. And drop
again. And again. And again. And again...
Finally, and I mean FINALLY, Rachel and Genevieve
come down to the 6th ball and when Genevieve drops, Rachel places
her 6th and VERY SLOWLY backs away taking home the win! (8 points
for “Win individual immunity” [Rachel] to Iyasah!). God, that was a
frustrating challenge.
Back at camp, Sam sees himself as the likely target and with
Rachel immune he tries to shift focus to Genevieve, telling Teeny about
Operation Italy, that her idol is fake and that’s why Andy flipped.
Teeny has fallen for every trap and feels like a fool. She tells Sue and Rachel that it’s fake, but
they don’t believe her. If you recall about 800 words ago, Rachel secretly listened
to Teeny flipping on her. II wouldn’t buy it either, as the two women invent theory
after theory on how it’s just another play.
Teeny comes clean to Genevieve who tells her the truth.
Teeny buys it, but Sue still believes it’s fake and Rachel is caught in-between.
They don’t know which way is up and it’s brilliant. Their heads are spinning around.
As Jeff asks what Camp was like, Teeny calmly recounts her afternoon:
Adding fuel to the fire, Sam tells everyone that if you want
a “secret” to get out there, tell Teeny.
Ouch. Teeny takes it in stride, saying none of her friends would be
surprised to hear this and the one thing she’s certain of is that she’s
completely uncertain. Sam and Genevieve
laugh at how their plans have played out and how the truth doesn’t matter any
more than what they say. Well, it will in a few minutes…
Sam’s voting for Genevieve, Teeny tells Rachel she’s going
for Genevieve but Rachel cautions that the idol ricochet could land on Teeny.
As this is the last vote, Sue plays her idol for herself (3
points for “Play hidden immunity idol for yourself” [Sue] for Sheila!). Sam gets two votes, but Genevieve’s fake idol
doesn’t save her. She catches the other three votes, becoming Juror #7. (2
points for “Received vote against” [Sam] to Roberta!), (3 points for “Received
vote against” [Genevieve] to Dylan!), (-2 points for “The Tribe Has Spoken”
[Genevieve] against Dylan!) and (2 points for “Jury member” [Genevieve]
to Dylan!)
So, what does this mean for our scores? Angela remains in the lead thanks to Teeny titling the episode, getting chosen for reward and some bonus points. Iyasah is 29 points back, but with powerhouse Rachel, she’s a serious threat to win our game. Now 3rd place Carol passes now 4th place Lia, but her game will end there as Andy was sent to Jury. 5th place Roberta is not quite out of it, if Sam can have a huge final episode. Unfortunately, I don’t think the same can be said for 7th place Shiela, who is still alive but too far back to win, or for 6th place Dylan and 8th place Brian who’ve lost their final players.
- Angela 195
- Iyasah 166
- Carol 150
- Lia 146
- Roberta 139
- Dylan 131
- Sheila 101
- Brian 94
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