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We are only six minutes and 19 seconds in the episode when someone says, Siga Strong.
It seems like no one on Siga is really playing.
They want to do everything together, but if they keep it up, they will all die together.
(For the record, we heard it five times over the course of the episode.
We only heard Nami Strong once, and Yanu was like, Girl, you saw how we played.
Theres nothing strong about us.)
(Its so Republican coded that there are no handouts onSurvivor.)
Here is where Grandpa Moylan starts yelling to get off his lawn about howSurvivoris played in the new era.
All of these people are superfans, as they and Jeff tell us all the time.
They know that the merge is going to happen at 13.
Why have the merge at 13?
Why not do more of that?
People expect certain things to happen at certain times and play their game accordingly.
Why not move the merge earlier, or later.
Thwart both player and viewer expectations.
Keep the people on their toes so they never stop playing.
Thats what Jeff wants, right?
Also, why are we merging at 13?
Why not just wait a week and have the tribes divided evenly?
I dont like the way the two teams are picked for this challenge, either.
Why are they just putting their hands in the bag?
What if the smallest tribe gets to pick the teams?
What if the whole collective has to decide on the teams together?
What if the last person voted out gets to pick the tribes?
They also get to go to the merge feast.
For most ofSurvivors history, Jeff has treated the game like it is sacrosanct.
(Remember how terribly he treated anyone who ever wanted to quit?)
Everyone got one vote, and the person with the most votes left.Period.
Dot.But that isnt true of the new era.
(Well, just Tevin, because Maria burned her last tribal for no good reason.)
This is no longer a one person, one vote society.
If were in Survivorlimbo, lets play around with that idea.
Here is my suggestion.
Call it theCirie Fields Memorial Non-Vote-Off.
Then have an individual immunity, then have a full vote.
(Are we sure Im not a producer on this show?)
The two teams that draw from multiple tribes is a good start, but it needs to go further.
What happens with the rest of the episode?
Thats exactly what happens, and Hunter says as much at tribal council.
The Siga members, however, wont give up a name.
Thats the best pitch for siding with Nami that Yanu has.
So, its Venus or Moriah, Moriah or Venus.
(Of course, shes going to get back with her now-widowed high-school boyfriend to save the hot-chocolate stand.
Not a horrible plan, but no one listens.
He says in confessional, If shes going to be ungrateful, Ill send her ass back to Canada.
Like hes the one letting her play the game?
There arent only two choices, as much as the tribe would like us to believe.
There are 13 choices.
No, scratch that.
Oh, sister, thats like a Smurf missing homeroom; its too little and too late.
Q tells her that he asked her what happened at tribal, and she said it was unanimous.
That means she was either lying to him then or shes lying to him now.
Why would anyone want to work with a liar?
Everyone votes for Moriah except Charlie, who votes for Venus.
Maybe in case Moriah had an idol, but wouldnt he have known about it?
Those Sigas are so close.
