Last time, Angelina was thirsty for a jacket and Natalie was voted out. Now on to the episode!

On Jabeni, Lyrsa is happy she is still there and compares herself to a cat. Angelina’s jacket stunt rubbed Lyrsa the wrong way and she wants Angelina gone. The whole tribe dicusses the whole jacket situation and just laughs about the bizarre nature of what Angelina did. We also have it confirmed that Angelina was votng with Natalie in order to get the jacket. Angelina calls the vote bittersweet because Natalie is bitter and the tribe is sweet. Great line by Angelina. Angelina is the presumed target for the time being.

At Tiva, Christian is learning how to spearfish. This is probably the closest to a spearfishing tutorial that the show has ever shown us. Christian did not catch anything but he still tried so, yay Christian!

Reward challenge time

The reward for this challenge is cooking utensils and kabobs. the only difference between first and second is that second gets less kabobs. I would like to note how pumped Alec looks for these kabobs. In this challenge the tribe must carry a bag of coconuts to the shore. Then, one tribemate goes over a ladder and collects four rings while still connected to the bag so, the other tribemates must hold the bag up. After the rings are retrieved they must unclip from the bag and one person plays ring toss. Kara and Allison sit out. Nothing funny happens in ths challenge but, I found it weird that getting two rings on the same post counted since there are four rings and four posts. Wouldn’t it make sense that each post needed one ring. I disgress, Tiva wins (of course) and suprisingly Jabeni comes from behind and gets second. On the way out, Mike has a confessional about possibly keeping Angelina based on the reactions of the other tribes.

Back at Tiva, Dan feels amazing about his position which is never a good thing because when your comfortable, you get sloppy. Christian is evolving into a Goliath and I feel happy that he is good out there because he has felt isolated in the real world. I can relate to Christian being the friend that is left out. John talks to Christian about dance moves and we cut to Gabby making a connection with Allison. Gabby then says the truest thing ever said on Survivor and I am surprised it is not the title quote, “Hope is not a strategy”. I love this statement because often players are passive and that gets them booted. So, Allison is empathetic to Gabby because of her skills as a doctor and wants to blindside Dan. At this point I thought Dan was dead since he had the everything is fine confessional and Allison wants to target him. My other thought is Allison is about to get Michaela’d to fit with the MvGX 2.0 theme.

For the first time, at Vuku, Kara is giving Elizabeth a massage. Elizabeth had a back condition right before the game that prevented her from getting up so, she feels uncomfortable on the bamboo logs. The tribe wanted to split the bamboo to make it more comfortable but, they have not done it yet. So, Elizabeth and Kara get to work but, Davie does not want to do it yet because it will get dark soon so, Davie and Elizabeth fight. Elizabeth does not like lazy people or stupid people. She cannot contain her emotions. I wish I had a screenshot of her face in that confessional but, I will add it if I find it. The big takeaway is Carl wants to target Elizabeth and Kara loves the conflict because it keeps her safe.

Immunity Challenge time

The challenge is each tribe will carry a saucer full of water across a three balance beams to fill a well that will drop the puzzles pieces. The unique thing about the balance beams is that each member must be on a balance beam but, there are four tribe members and three balance beams. Gabby and Elizabeth sit out and the challenge begins but not before Christian adjusts his sweater. Jeff even specifically asks if Christian is ready. I love this challenge because of how unique it is. The idea of the tribe working together to balance something is not used enough. Jabeni was a trainwreck in this challenge. It was hard to watch. It felt like Angkor in the blindfold challenge in Cambodia where they rested on the puzzle pieces out of exhaustion. To say the least, Jabeni lost and is heading to tribal. Mike gets emotional about voting out anyone and I was think that Mike might quit.

Back at Jabeni each side of the tribal trys to get one of the other side to flip since no one wants to go to rocks at 14. Angelina and Mike try to get Nick. Nick and Lyrsa try to get Mike. It is gonna be Lyrsa or Angelina. Lyrsa does make a funny comment about giving Angelina a sock with a hole in it instead of her jacket. Mike feels like he has a choker on that is getting tighter.

Tribal

Not much happens. This tribal was a very generic tribal consisting of, is the David and Goliath lines sticking or is someone gonna flip. They go to vote, Angelina and Lyrsa vote for each other to no ones surprise. The vote is read and the person voted out is…

Lyrsa 😦 by a vote of 3-1. I am so sad she is leaving. Every episode that Lyrsa gets screentime she delivers. It is brutal that we lose Natalie and Lyrsa back to back. The winner of tonight is Angelina and the loser is Nick.

Lyrsa gets some great final words. She is mad that she has to sit next to Natalie at the reunion and see her at Ponderosa. That made me laugh. Overall, this episode is a downgrade from last episode and was the worst episode of the season so far.

The purple player of the week is… Alec. I expected to write this name more for the purple player of the week. Alec at least did well in the challeneges as usual and based on the preview will have a role.

Next time, the merge hits. The merge can make or break a season so we will see if David vs Goliath holds up after a great premerge. I will rate the premerge in a separate bonus post this weekend.

Grab your stuff and head back to camp