The EP4 preview got big mileage out of Boran's encounter with the water buffalo. When we saw the episode, the incident couldn't have been more boring. MB hypes little to drum up ratings. This major 'twist' will be a lot less drastic than what the the hype is trying to lead us to believe.Remember the following:
The Samburu water problem got a lot of camera time in EP4. For something like this to drive the old narrative engine for that long (in the second half of the episode), it must have some importance in the upcoming episode.
The big 'twist' will be directly linked to Samburu's water problem (Jiffy Probe will make a visit to the tribes and have a little heart to heart - a la the food for flag incident of Seaon 2). No mention of sub-alliances will be made (in order to avoid any indication that the rules would be modified simply to 'make the game more exciting).
Jiffy will simply say "Water is life in Africa... Samburu - you have no clean water and you no longer can make clean water. Boran you have clean water and the ability to make more clean water. Both tribes have the same number of people at this point... therefore we merge early."
A SIMPLE early merge at 12...
Note that the preview states that the twist will happen in the first 15 minutes. The reason for this is that the reward challenge will be for individual reward and not team reward. The merge must come before the reward challenge.
Note that the preview shows no challenge pics... MB can't show challenge pics if the tribes are wearing the merged team colors.
We won't see challenge pics at all for the previews of this episode - only shots of people in their own clothing or in tribal clothing before the anouncement of the merge.
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