Survivor 47 (and some bonus info!)

In one of the competitions, the sitting out player, she was clearly searching the bench.

But she should have know it could have been her. She had to get Caroline to change up,

Yep, great move, and great expressions on his face.

Yep, becuase sure they’d be 5, and the two other team 6- but 3 of each other tribe. Getting those six together would not be simple or easy.

Someone who pretty much thought they werent getting voted out, but who wanted to make sure a alliance member was safe. But not in this case, of course. Safety was the Only way.

For like one vote it has, but has it lasted more than two votes ever?

They arent, in fact just these season one team came back and found enough glowing embers to restart their fire.

And there was also one time this season where a tribe lamented that they hadn’t stoked their fire this time even though they normally did. Which is idiotic - I can’t imagine ever leaving your camp without getting the fire raging if there was a chance you might lose your flint.

I remember a season in which a tribe’s camp burned to the ground while they were at tribal.

Probst only started to take the flint away in Season 41 when the tribe lost an immunity challenge, when they went to 26 day seasons. IMO, I don’t think he should do that.

If Sol had sent the advantage to Kyle (who had the immunity necklace), there would be no need to for him to use the “Safety w/o Power” option, so he could choose “block a vote” if he wanted to target a player from the group.

I agree about the flint. I still wonder what they did with those raw eggs- of course those are perfectly edible raw.

If Sol had given it to Kyle, that would have just meant Rachel being voted off.

Kyle was wanted to vote out Gabe. If he blocks Gabe’s vote, then it’s 3 votes on Gabe and 2 on Rachel.

It was pretty clear they had decided on Rachel. The panic that set in after the Advantage was telling.

If Sol had given it to Kyle, that would have just meant Rachel being voted off.

Yes, I was trying to illustrate that the “Block a Vote” option was a viable option depending on who Sol gave it too.

True, but Sol, who is smart and strategic, wanted one of the five strong team voted off, and it worked. Also is sowed dissention there.

They settled on Rachel because they didn’t have enough votes to get Gabe. I think if Kyle got the advantage they would’ve switched.

After Rachel took the safety, I would have liked to have seen the remaining people immediately vote without the chance to discuss it amongst themselves. I get that it is more dramatic for TV in that moment, but I think it would have had some fun to watch implications to see which players can think on their feet and which ones flounder in the moment.

After one season, viewers complained about all the whispering, so they stopped it for a season, and now sometimes we can get captioning. I think the whispering needs to end. Mind you, your idea would work also.

Yeah, immediately after Rachel walked away, I was expecting (hoping?) Jeff to say, “Okay, now it’s time to vote!”

The latest episode was rather a come down, imho. Half an hour of a food auction and yet another “Do X for as long as possible” challenge. For all the attempts at ‘targeting’ various players, the tribe as a whole did the sensible thing and broke up the clearly committed twosome.

Best part of the show: the scene with Andy lamenting over how he never saw any bamboo tubes while the camera showed him walking past obviously visible ones in tree crotches, beside bushes, and even plat out in the open atop a stone. What the heck was he looking for?

I’ll disagree. I really enjoyed this episode. They really took the time to show how the vote was changed, altered, then changed again. It was some great tension on who would be voted out.

And again, I really liked the challenges. All done very well. And the auction was fun, too.

I could do, however, without another extreme close-up of Sue.

I dislike the rule of losing your vote if you have the most money at the end. Mostly everyone just bids all their money for each item, and each item goes to whoever has the most money. That doesn’t make for an interesting auction. It would be more interesting if the contestants had to weigh the possibility of bidding for food now over bidding for something better later. Now people just mostly want to dump all their money as quickly as possible regardless of what item is offered.

Well, previously, without that rule people were just holding onto their cash until they got to the end, just waiting for the advantages. That made it really boring.
In this version, there was such unequal amount of cash because some of them sucked in finding the bamboo tubes. If everyone had close to the same amounts, there would have been more strategy.

I like the new auction. I’m actually just glad the auction is back again the last few seasons. I enjoy it.

He almost touched that last one. As I am fond of saying (it comes from my parents, so blame them)- “If it was a snake, it would have bitten you!”

I concur.

Right. Some even said “I dont care about any advantage, i am hungry!”.

Few bidders got goats, except the woman who got fish eyes.

Right!

Everyone: “Kyle keeps winning immunity! We need to get him out as soon as he loses!”

Kyle: Loses immunity challenge

Everyone: “Hey, let’s all vote for Sol!”