I know we are all crazy after that tribal but we have to talk about what happened before.

We get back from tribal and Ron calls Gavin into his office talk about what he did. Ron goes full teacher mode and guilt trips him. Gavin explains to us that he felt Eric was keeping him behind the curtain. Gavin solidifies a six of Julia, Victoria, Kelley, Lauren, Wardog and himself. Rick and David reconnect because of that half idol that they have.

Extinction

Eric is struggling on Extinction between being there with Joe and the slowdown. The editors have been killing it this season on Extinction and they prove it again with the slowing down of the sky as Eric is talking. Chris catches a stingray and Joe breaks down that no one is gonna quit.

Vata

Rick checks in with Julie as the only person to vote with Ron and Julie. They form a four with David and Julie breaks down for first time this episode. This will not be the last time this happens. Julie wants to target Julia early on. Julia and Gavin want David out. Apparently to Lauren, Ron and the guy you have worked with before are the same to her.

Immunity

Balance a ball on a bow. I just gonna rant about the challenges for a second because this challenge had nothing interesting going on. Why does insist on giving us the same balance challenges every season. I don’t pay attention during challenges anymore unless something like Alec vs Christian or Lauren last week happens. This is an aspect that the show can improve that the casual audience would notice. Oops, the challenge ended while I was ranting and Gavin wins. He plans to take out David.

Vata

We get back to camp and everyone immediately scatters except David, Julia and Rick. Rick pitches to Julia as well as Gavin who comes by that the Lesu 3 should be broken up. Julia tells us about his “strategical” plan. Kama forms back up to take out either David or Kelley. Julie breaks down again and I am thinking, ‘Is she gonna quit?”. Gavin specifically wants David out for being a challenge beast. You know, legendary challenge competitor David Wright! Gavin is outvoted and he calls it a dictatorship. Clearly the US education system is failing when not getting your way is a dictatorship. This leads to a great scene of the silent dinner. Julia signals Kelley who is immediately suspicious. The group heads to tribal for none of the plans to matter.

Tribal

This will be the longest tribal section ever since tribal started with 25 minutes left. We start with an analogy from David about a shark eating minnows while he aquadumped. Rick considers himself the poop in the situation. Julia talks about the dysfunction of Kama and Lesu. Jeff calls her out and tribal blows up. Aubry is living for this! Aurora rips into Lesu for being organized. This leads to Rick proposing that Ron and Julie plus Lesu vote together. Julia calls Rick a passenger and all hell breaks loose. Everyone gets up to talk. Ron talks about voting Victoria right next to Victoria. Wardog pitches Aurora and Julie wants Julia so SHE IS JUMPING SHIP to Davids lap. We get a commercial break at tribal. Aurora is done with soccer moms. Julia tells Wardog to shut up. Just watch the tribal since I need a rewatch just to catch everything. They finally sit down and it is time to vote. Rick and David play the idol on David and Jeff reads the votes. By a vote of 9-1-1 Julia is voted out by everyone except Aurora.

Julia screwed herself at tribal by blowing up one of the plans and making Julie not feel comfortable. I think the winner is everyone except Aurora, Gavin and Victoria. The losers are vise versa. This episode was nuts between this tribal, the silent dinner, and Julie’s mental break. Oh yeah, Julia goes to Extinction.

The purple player of the week is Aurora being the only one without a confessional. We were light on Reem tonight.

Next time: Rick and Victoria make a duo and everyone is scrambling.

Grab your stuff and head back to camp!