Mwahahahahaha...OK, first thing's first.For the contestants:
That was absolutely, positively the worst display of making fire I have ever seen in my life. In 38 days, those two couldn't figure out how to make a damn fire. And Sundra couldn't even do it with matches! Next time, for the tiebreak, just have them spin their heads on a baseball bat 50 times and run toward a giant cake. Sheesh. No wonder Becky didn't get any votes. The people's final two were Ozzy and Yul.
Also, Adam - the Scorched Earth strategy is kind of a neat idea, but next time, try to stay in the game. Rally Ozzy and Sundra to ditch Becky or something. Try something already. None of this "Boo hoo, I'm boned, but I want to take it out on Yul for finding the idol." Rarotonga must be Polynesian for "We're a bunch of morons."
And Becky - your entire performance was pathetic. Next time, take the damn idol, tell everyone it was Yul's idea, make him look like a douchebag, and take a few of his votes. If nothing else, you split the electorate's vote and Ozzy wins. At least go with what works.
Oh yeah, and Yul - if you have an immunity idol but no immunity necklace at F4, don't even consider giving it up. Don't. It's a bad idea. It ranks right up there with throwing a challenge, which worked out for Ozzy only because he's superhuman. Any mere mortal who attempted something like that would last a very short time. Yul, you are a mere mortal. Don't risk the 3-1 boot that would have befallen Terry in the forgotten twelfth season.
Now to rake the producers over the coals.
First off, three people in the final two? I know enough math to know 2 /= 3. It worked this time because Yul and Ozzy were the only ones who got votes and it was a best-of-nine between them. However, if Becky nabbed two of Yul's votes and one of Ozzy's, we have a three-way tie. There is no sane way to break such a tie. You would have been colossally screwed in the ear. And what if it was 4-3-2 and someone won the million without a majority? That would have blown goats too.
Oh yeah, and the jury's time to shine...wasn't. That was not a good round of jury questioning. Why? Because there were too many people addressing too many people. Seven people addressing two worked. I don't blame EPMB for experimenting, but this one was a flawed experiment from the beginning.
I'm also with someone earlier who didn't like that the final three didn't get a chance to speak one more time. Sundra got the last word. Sundra's cool and everything (although she makes fire like a drunken mongoose with no limbs) but the last words should have come from those who are actually competing for the million bucks.
And while we're at it...Brad said he had only a fifteen-second conversation with Ozzy. How in the screw can he make an informed decision in that case? All he knows is that Ozzy kept coming into Tribal Council with the immunity necklace on. That's about it. Yul earned it, but he shouldn't warn it like that.
Lastly...Survivor: Fiji is another huge risk. There are 19 people? That's a gender imbalance, something the show has NEVER had. What is this, Big Brother? And the big solution to the problem with the idol never coming into play is...two idols. Whoop-dee-damn-doo. Idol multiball is potentially dangerous stuff. Take a page from Estee's book already.
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