LAST EDITED ON 05-15-14 AT 11:33 AM (EST)@JordanKalish 8h
@SpencerBGM What are your thoughts on the Tyler Perry (formerly Yul Kwon/Terry Deitz) idol? #RHAP
@SpencerBGM 6h
@JordanKalish Not a fan. I also think everyone should have been informed about what it did
So, we have finally been told why Spencer is 'not a fan':
Tony tells the other remaining contestants that his last - 'Special Powers' - Idol is still in play at the F4 Tribal Council. And because the Rules concerning that Idol were revealed only to Tony, one or more of Kass, Spencer and/or Woo are duped into voting for someone - anyone - other than Tony?
If that is the case, the whole affair was grossly unfair. And (if it went that far) the harm to the person booted at that Tribal Council should have been addressed/redressed (even after the fact of their own culpability) by Survivor's producers.
But, it would seem that it wasn't. So, is it the contestants' burden to ask for clarifications or explanations of Rules or Powers that seem suspect? Or, perhaps more to the point, do the Game's producers - and most expecially, its host - have a responsibility to answer those questions? Truthfully? During a Tribal Council? Before a vote occurs?
Note: Earlier I expressed the opinion that Tony would lie about the Idol. But I thought that he might tell the others that its 'Special Power' was that, when played, it voided every vote but his own. And that would have been bad enough. Brilliant but bad. And borderline unfair. However, Tony's legal and moral obligation was to play the Game. It is Survivor's legal and moral duty to provide a level playing field.
So, for the Game's producers to allow contestants to leave an F5 Tribal Council without knowing that HII(s) were, from that point forward, invalid, was inexcusable. It is one thing to have to determine whether a stick is a stick or an Idol. It is another to be defrauded by the deliberate collusion of the show's staff.