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This episode is a perfect distillation of everything I hate about the new era.
The first is to never leave anything down to chance.
Jeff assembles the players and tells them theyre going to be divided into two groups of six.
When there are no decisions, there are still consequences, but they arent that interesting.
Why did Tiyana go home at the end of this Tribal Council?
Its essentially bad luck.
For the challenge, two groups of six people were selected by random draw.
Now, imagine this if there were some decisions to be made.
If they were right, that means those people are safe.
If they were wrong, they and the losing player are all up for elimination.
That would be super interesting and somethingSurvivorhasnt done before.
I know Jeff would never adopt this tenet.
Well, on the Apply forSurvivor commercial we get every episode, Jeff says, Random draws are unpredictable.
Thats why theyre so much fun!
Know what else is unpredictable?
When you get large groups of people together with complex dynamics, you let them make bargains and decisions.
A random draw lasts 30 seconds; this could last all episode.
The other tenet I would lobby for is that everyone votes every time.
Again, decisions have consequences, and consequences make for good television.
Again, the bigger the group, the more dynamics at play, which means more potentially explosive gameplay.
But I know why they were separated.
This happened just before she pulled offthe Kishan ouster.
That means Genevieve and Andy are confirmed making it to the finale.
It will be interesting to see who else gets this new and interesting editing technique.
As soon as he gets it, we know that hes giving it to Rachel.
The way the teams shake out (stupid luck!)
Rachel is the only non-Tuku on her team.
However, the talk about voting out one of their own never seems to get off the ground.
She tells Tiyana she would consider it if the sixth person was anyone other than Rachel.
This is why it sucks breaking people up, especially by luck.
I swear to God, whispers at Tribal Council are like Viagra for Jeffrey Lee Probst.
Its the only thing that excites him anymore.
This is also a failure of the former Tuku.
Rachel is approached by Tiyana about getting Gabe out and Gabe also approaches her about getting Caroline out.
The failure to do so seems like its already backfired on Tuku.
There was also a missed opportunity during the Tribal whispers portion of the evening.
Gabe tells Kyle, Caroline will do whatever we fucking want.
But he was given a choice, and he got to make it, which led to consequences.
See, that was the best part of the episode.
