dare I say villains<\/a>) and that they\u2019ve done a very good job introducing us to them and how they work in the game. That includes Jelly. The show portrays her as someone who is torn between not wanting to vote another woman out of the game and not wanting to vote out another Black person, particularly from the \u201chelicopter alliance.\u201d We know she is going to choose that chopper every single time. Last episode, Jelly and Devin were out there giggling on the beach like Will and Grace with sand stuck in their coochies. You expect us to think she\u2019s really going to turn on this man? Please. Just as we knew she would, Jelly joins Ori and Devin and sends Alexis back to that great jail cell in the sky. Well, it\u2019s just Ponderosa, but you know what I mean.<\/p>\nThings at Dina are far more exciting. Lewis knows that he\u2019s doomed, and he comes up with some malarkey (he\u2019s Irish, so I can say that) about how he got an advantage called the Blood Ring on Exile Island. He gives it to Sharonda and tells her it means they are linked, and if he goes home, then she goes with him, but after three Tribal Councils it turns into an idol. This is actually an excellent idea for an advantage, and the Open Era should mean that next season we get a \u201cLewis Blood Ring Advantage\u201d that shits all over the Billie Eilish Boomerang Idol. The four former Savu on their tribe quickly decide it\u2019s bullshit because Christian, a mute with a bowtie collection, says that Lewis described his traditional Irish wedding ring to him previously and it sounded a lot like this Blood Ring he gave Sharonda. Oh, Lewis\u2019s wife is going to be pissed. She\u2019s going to take his U.S. Passport and send him back to the Emerald Island on a raft with only a canteen and a Tupperware full of Mofongo.<\/p>\n
While this gambit failed, advantages are about to save his ass. Back at the Toka Beach, there is a sign that says someone needs to miss their reward of soggy donuts to get on a boat. Maggie is selected, and she finds out that she gets to give an extra vote to someone on the beach of her choice. She goes to Dina and talks to everyone individually, hearing that there is no way that Savu is going to break up and that one of her old tribe mates, either Lewis or Kilby, is going home. She gives Lewis the extra vote she got on the boat (the boat vote) and gives Kilby the extra vote that she and Brady found (the brodie vote). Now they have four and can force it to go to rocks. She says if they use them to vote for Linnea, who she doesn\u2019t like because of vibes. Okay. Sure. Any reason is good enough.<\/p>\n
This is the point where I prepared my screed against Jeff. Why would Kilby go to rocks? He\u2019s made real inroads with this new tribe, especially his Miyazaki-loving buddy Eric, and if he ousts Lewis, he gets to stay with this tribe that loves him, keep an extra brodie votie, and live to see another day. It would be one thing if they had enough votes to get the majority, but to just force a tie? It seems like there is no way that Kilby would do that. He even tells the majority four about the extra vote. At Tribal, he says that this is his new family and telling them about the vote gave them a reason to keep him. This does not seem like a guy who would betray his tribe.<\/p>\n
I have never been happier to be wrong. Jeff reads the votes, and sure enough, there are four for Lewis and four for Linnea. No, I take that back. There are three for \u201cLouis,\u201d one for \u201cLewis,\u201d and one each for \u201cLenaya,\u201d \u201cLenugha,\u201d \u201cLanayuh,\u201d and \u201cLuneighah.\u201d I mean, it\u2019s one thing to spell her name wrong; it\u2019s another thing for two people to both spell her name wrong two different ways. (I almost forgive Lewis. He\u2019s Irish. To him, the name \u201cNiamh\u201d makes phonetic sense.) Before the revote, I was hoping Linnea would have told them how to spell her name correctly. Thankfully she did not, and there are four votes for Lewis and, like a Saturday Night Live sketch where they just start comically misspelling someone\u2019s name, there are votes for \u201cLenaya,\u201d \u201cLenay,\u201d \u201cLanehah,\u201d and \u201cLanayyaah.\u201d<\/p>\n
They have one last chance to come up with a unanimous decision, and Lewis and Kilby stick to their guns. There\u2019s a reason that Kilby did this and, well, it\u2019s because he\u2019s not a good player. I don\u2019t even know if he\u2019s that smart. Remember when he thought he was Brady\u2019s No. 1 brodie but was also talking shit about him to everyone at camp? Yeah, this guy does not know how to play Survivor, and thank Parvati Shallow for that. For so many of the recent seasons, we had students of the game who would always play safe, and here we have a Canadian improv artist threatening to go to rocks for the LOLs. His rationale makes no sense. He tells the old Savu he wanted to make sure the vote wasn\u2019t him. He says that his odds are better going to rocks than they are at the vote. None of this makes sense. Sure, it\u2019s different inside the game than watching at home, but he was nerding out with the whole tribe while Lewis was pooping his pants on the beach. Didn\u2019t he see he was in a better position? He had the potential to make it through this vote and then convince the old Savu that he\u2019s worth more than Christian, who only brings with him bow ties and a tertiary knowledge of gemology and maybe even made it through another one.<\/p>\n
He knows that the \u201cSavu strong\u201d don\u2019t have the guts to go to rocks, though. When Kilby says that he\u2019s willing to, they end the game of chicken and send Linnea home rather than risk any of them pulling the bad rock. This was, for sure, an extremely interesting evening, and I\u2019m grateful that we got as much drama as a bunch of Real Housewives in the back of a Sprinter van, but it does leave Kilby in an even worse position. He and Lewis are still in the minority at their tribe, and now he\u2019s pissed off the majority and forced them to do something they didn\u2019t want to do. If they lost again, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if they got rid of Kilby rather than Lewis, particularly because Lewis could sell it as, \u201cHey, that guy is crazy. Look what he made you do?\u201d But, hey, who cares if Kilby blew up his own spot? We got a great episode of Survivor, and the machinations of the game and a set of players that we\u2019ve gotten to know well finally paid off.<\/p>\n
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