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"S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ranking..."
I don't know what hapenned to everyone around here. Are they all afraid of Ghosts? Well, we are one week away from closing this game of Survivor and I ain't afraid of no Ghost.

We’re Done Talking, Remember?

This season has been arduous to follow for many reasons, the most obvious being a lack of character development and the very linear strategy adopted by the Naviti players. The early episodes focused a lot on short term players leaving us with half a dozen stand-ins (Libby, Des, Jenna, Sebastian, Chelsea and Angela) when it came time to merge. The strategy, from the start, has been “Keeping Naviti Strong” which led to a decimation of Malolo.

However, I think that simple analysis of the strategic display is a distortion caused by our expectation of “Big Moves”. There was an underlying brilliance to Domenick’s overall game plan that cast a shadow on everyone else’s play. The most important part of his strategy was keeping his alliance with Laurel and Donathan secret even while promoting the idea of “Keeping Naviti Strong”. It was his connection with Laurel that has given him most of the information he needed to avoid being blindsided and it was her votes that kept him on track. Kim, in One World, also had a brilliant game plan that made everyone around her look dumb but look back at the way she turned Troyzan against Michael or, even better, how she got Alicia to turn on Kat and Tarzan and you realize her genius. We are lucky to witness someone of similar caliber.

1- Domenick:

The line of the evening, for me, came after Donathan first said he didn’t want to hear what Domenick had to say and then said out loud that he didn’t know anything about the “hammock Plan”. Domenick’s directly answered “That’s because we’re done talking, remember?” That reply was almost as powerful as some of those unforgettable movie lines; “You talking to me?” for example. Like he did for the Vanua kids during the reward, I think Domenick is about to bring his children a gift, a million dollar gift! Even the Vanua woman kept looking at Domenick when Laurel asked which of the three would win in the end!

2-Wendell:

Wendell’s fans must be clamoring for Survivor to adopt a video replay challenge system because it would have shown that he had it won. While Wendell’s grace is commendable, it could be detrimental in the end. It wouldn’t surprise me to see the jury penalizing Wendell for being too laid back. The latest Immunity challenge was just another example indicating that Wendell doesn’t care enough about winning it all. Even if it’s only an impression, a naturally nonchalant attitude that doesn’t prevent someone from being a true competitor, why would the jury give him the title? It’s even easier to dismiss his competitiveness when you compare him to someone who fought tooth and nail from day one to win it? If the jury rewards the biggest competitor, Wendell doesn’t stand a chance.

3-Laurel:

As she said during the reward, Laurel’s best hope is to go to the end with the two guys and have the jury split the votes between the two, leaving her just enough to squeeze by. Even if Kellyn, Donathan, Angela and Laurel had voted together and avoided Dom and Wendell’s idol, that wouldn’t have given Laurel a pathway to glory. Kellyn would have had so many goats around her that Laurel would have become their first target. Making a “big Move” would simply have given the game to Kellyn so Laurel was absolutely right to go with the smart move.


4- Sebastian:


Sebastian words said it all. He’s on Day 33 and he knows that he hasn’t shown anyone that he can play Survivor yet. He’ll try to make that move with his extra vote but an idol beats all the extra votes you can get in Ghost Island. Like a remora, is he will have to be satisfied with the scraps that the game’s shark will leave for him.

5- Angela:

This was the Previously on Survivor, recap: “Facing Tribal Council, Kellyn saw her opportunity to strike but Wendell and Domenick had their own agenda leaving Donathan and Laurel in the middle. At Tribal Council, Donathan and Laurel stuck with Wendell and Domenick leaving Kellyn without an ally in the game.”

Wasn’t Angela aligned with Kellyn? Like Kellyn and Chelsea, she voted against Wendell and she was also blindsided by the vote against Chelsea but Jeff words tell us that Angela doesn’t matter. She is like a ghost in this story. Wendell didn’t even bother telling her which name she should write during the revote, shrugging his shoulders when she turned to him for guidance. No one picked Angela for the reward and no one would pick her to win this game.

6- Donathan:

Did you notice the satisfied look Donathan gave to the jury when he realized Kellyn was leaving instead of him? It was as if he thought he had accomplished something worth noting when, in actuality, that revote clearly meant that he was insignificant. Being inside a solid Final 4, Donathan should have quietly worked on an outsider or two like Sebastian or Angela to have enough votes against Wendell and Domenick at Final 5 or Final 6. Showing his volatility only turned him into a pariah, someone that even his allies don’t want hanging around.

Booted – Kellyn

The tears she had in her eyes when Jeff called her name during the revote showed how much she cared about the game. Still, she left with a tremendous amount of class. Sticking with Naviti proved her undoing but she simply was bettered by a much more devious player who managed to keep the secret about his alliance outside of Naviti.


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 S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ranking...   michel2     05-19-18       
   RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   Aruba     05-20-18     1  
     RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   michel2     05-20-18     2  
         RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   Aruba     05-20-18     3  
             RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   michel2     05-20-18     4  
                 RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   Aruba     05-21-18     7  
   RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   kingfish     05-21-18     5  
     RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   michel2     05-21-18     6  
         RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   kingfish     05-21-18     10  
             RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   michel2     05-21-18     11  
                 RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   kingfish     05-22-18     15  
                     RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   michel2     05-22-18     17  
                         RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   kingfish     05-23-18     18  
                             RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   michel2     05-23-18     19  
                                 RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   kingfish     05-26-18     23  
                                     RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   michel2     05-26-18     25  
     RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   Aruba     05-21-18     8  
         RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   michel2     05-21-18     9  
             RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   Aruba     05-22-18     12  
                 RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   michel2     05-22-18     13  
                     RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   Aruba     05-22-18     14  
                         RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   michel2     05-22-18     16  
                             RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   Aruba     05-23-18     20  
                                 RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   michel2     05-23-18     21  
                                     RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   Aruba     05-23-18     22  
                                         RE: S36 Ghost Island Episode 13 Ran...   michel2     05-26-18     24  

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