Survivor Winners at War finale

Well, here we are. After the next three

hours is Survivor 40 there is no more Survivor for at least this year. Noooo!

Today we’ll see who comes back from the Edge. Will all those fire token advantages pay off for those who have been out of the game long enough to accumulate them?

Now, I know the world is divided into Team Tony and Anyone But Tony (just as it was with the Golden God) but no matter what we have a fascinating few hours of TV ahead.

Yes, Edge of Extinction sucks but it is what it is. The fascinating thing will be whether the Edger can manoeuvre themselves into an on-beach alliance. Or will Michelle, Tony, Sarah and Ben finally unite to repel the enemy (given they likely have the jury vote locked up).

Go is screening Survivor “live”, from about 10am AEST time. It will screen again tonight in the usual time slot.

Do not read the comments if you are worried about spoilers as some people will watch it this morning.



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Survivor Game Changers premiere thoughts

No recap from me as I leave it to the experts like Dalton Ross at EW (ew recap here) and Rob Cesternino on his podcast (if you’re a Survivor fan and not listening to RHAP, you’re mad).
If you missed the two-hour premiere on Go tonight, they put it up early on 9 Now.
– Caleb (the one who almost died and had to be medevaced from Kaoh Rong the first time he played) should not have bothered swimming after Ozzy at the start. No-one is beating Ozzy in a swimming and diving race. Note none of the others bothered to try.
– OMG – I loved it when they got to camp and started talking about building the shelter and Tony just yelled “I’m looking for the idol – yippee!” and ran into the jungle. Hilarious.
– It makes me happy to see Zeke so excited about being in the presence of Survivor royalty. I really hope he gets to stick around and is not the first voteout because, as an unknown, they could be worried he is a Russell Hantz-style player (Russell, the biggest villain in Survivor history, also played his second season before his first season had aired on TV, so no-one knew what a conniving bastard he was – albeit a great character to watch.) If Zeke is lucky they’ll think he just got cast on the strength of his floral shirts and mo.
– It seems Ciera didn’t learn much from Secon CHances, when she played too hard – and overtly so – and it bit her on the bum.
– Michaela is lucky that she didn’t go instead of Ciera – she needs to control her face.
– I loved that Tony and Sandra started off in an alliance – with a good strategy of an all-winners final three – but it quickly turned to war. There were some terrific to-camera pieces from both of them.
– Why in the drag-the-snake challenge was Varner sent out to do the physical stuff instead of Michaela? Surely he would have been better at untying the snake. He is very lucky Tony and Sandra were at war, because he is obviously the most physically weak player on that team.
– I hope Aubry can forge a new alliance next week and is not tainted by the Tony vote out. So sad to see Tony go before his spy dugout was even finished.
– Good to see Caleb getting some air time that’s actually strategic talk. I felt sorry for him when he had to dig in the sand for the bags – he must have been flashing back to his scary medevac. Or perhaps it was scarier to watch as a viewer.
Next week: It looks like there’s a tribe swap already. A good thing, as it looked like JT and Ozzy’s tribe was going to keep whipping Sandra’s tribe. Maybe now we’ll get to see people like Andrea have some confessionals. Or that famous game changer, cowgirl Sierra Dawn Thomas …

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