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Personally, I hope all this returning player stuff turns out to be bogus, perhaps an intentional red herring that makes whatever twists are in this game seem palatable by comparison. And I agree with Webby, the rations at loozerlodge are more simply explained as a means to throw off weight loss spoilers. Occam's Razor.
That said, however: In August there were reports (rumors, I don't think anything was ever confirmed) that the shoot ran longer than the 39 days. One possible explanation for this would be if an endurance challenge late in the game ran longer than expected (happened in Survivor U.K.). If, however, the returning player stuff isn't bogus, another explanation would be that they actually intended from the start to shoot for 42 days, with an extra episode thrown in somewhere for an additional boot prior to the finale.
Hope not, Thanksgiving is the perfect time for a throwaway recap episode, and alternately having the finale on Christmas night is just unfeasable, and a Sunday finale the week of Christmas would be a pain in the rear as well.
Just random thoughts, putting some possibilities out there (much as I don't like them).
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