All of it comes all the way down to this.
In Wednesday’s season finale of Survivor, the sport’s prime two frontrunners had been left within the mud, as Gabler, Cassidy and Owen secured their seats on the ultimate Tribal Council of the yr. (Disenchanted Karla or Jesse didn’t make it there? I’m gonna exit on a limb and say you’re not alone.)
However earlier than the jury may take a crack on the finalists, one final benefit sought to shake up the sport, giving one castaway the possibility to get a leg up on the competitors on the Remaining 5 immunity problem. Plus, one other journey to the Survivor sanctuary! So who obtained the grub, and extra importantly, who grew to become the collection’ latest Sole Survivor? Let’s break all of it down.
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ADVANTAGE CLUE | It wouldn’t be a Survivor finale with out one final benefit, solely this time, the gamers should once more unscramble a collection of phrases earlier than they will begin their hunt. Cass is hoping to beat Karla to the punch as a result of she’s nonetheless jonesing to get her former No. 1 out of this sport. However Karla is the primary to take off and she or he’s in a position to safe the package deal, with Owen simply inches away from her! Contemplating her accidents, that’s fairly main.
IMMUNITY IS BACK UP FOR GRABS | Karla’s huge win provides her a slight benefit within the problem the place they need to maneuver a buoy by way of obstacles, carry blocks to a phrase puzzle and remedy the key phrase (which hopefully has nothing to do with broccoli). They’re additionally enjoying for rewards: Steak, potatoes, veggies, wine and cheesecake.
Karla will get to begin with 10 of her letter blocks already at her end desk, saving her a couple of journeys by way of the problem. She does get all of her letters over first, however Owen beats her to the punch and takes the cake steak. He picks Cassidy to dine with, and she or he convinces him that Karla is the following huge goal to gun for.
In the meantime again at camp, Karla is stirring all of it up, telling Cassidy how harmful Jesse is (who then shares that with Jesse), whereas making an attempt to get Jesse to vote Cass. Jesse nonetheless holds on to the season’s ultimate immunity idol, however what he does with it is going to seemingly crush another person’s dream.
TRIBAL NO. 1 | Karla, once more, tries to play up Jesse’s huge resume, solely he whips out Jeanine’s idol, who’s sitting on the jury with essentially the most shocked face we’ve seen since Eliza Orlins. Karla asks Jesse if he’d entertain a much bigger transfer than her, and the 2 conform to step apart and “dance” within the nook. Or one thing. I feel it was code for “scheme like your life is dependent upon it.” They need to attempt to get Gabler to vote for Cass. Quickly sufficient, everyone seems to be standing and whispering, so this Tribal is completely reside.
When Jeff reads the votes, Jesse performs the idol… for himself. (He’s no dummy.) The votes are available and “Khaos Karla” turns into the following member of the jury.
FINAL IMMUNITY | It’s the stacking bowls on a spring-loaded contraption problem, and the winner of this, after all, will get a fast-pass straight to the Remaining 3. These problem repeats have gotten me down, you guys. What number of instances have we seen this one (and the one-handed, place-the-balls-in-a-metal contraption one)? TOO MANY TIMES.
It’s a showdown between Cass and Owen, however when Owen’s stack topples, it’s clear Cassidy has this one within the bag. Now she has to make a giant, million-dollar resolution. She wants somebody to take out Jesse. No ifs, ands or buts about it. However is Owen or Gabler the precise man for the job?
Gabler and Owen are each trying to make one huge splashy transfer, in order that they’re each pleased to go in and make hearth. However what? They need to’ve thought of this DAYS AGO. As an alternative, Gabler was so targeted on enjoying stealthy that he… didn’t do something? Gabler then says one thing that made my jaw slam to the bottom. He plans on donating all the prize to charity, if he wins. Properly, that’d actually be a Survivor first.
Jesse, in the meantime, tries to persuade Cassidy to go in opposition to him within the hearth job, and fairly truthfully, it’s his dumbest, most determined Hail Mary but. It ain’t taking place, bruh.
FIRE | Cass makes her selection and sends Gabler and Jesse into battle. (I’ve been overlaying Survivor for TVLine for a couple of years now. Have I ever talked about how a lot I LOATHE the fire-making problem? Oh, I’ve? Are you sick of listening to me gripe about it? Alright, alright. Shifting on!)
In one of the troublesome Survivor scenes to observe of late, Gabler takes household man Jesse. The poor man is in tears as he talks about his children, his lack of security web at residence and the way one unsuitable transfer led to all of it crashing down on him. Anybody else emotions gutted for him? With that, the coulda-been, shoulda-been winner of Season 43 will get his torch snuffed and exits the sport. Bummer.
FINAL TRIBAL | It’s not that these three remaining gamers don’t need to win or that they didn’t play first rate video games, it’s simply that they’re not Jesse or Karla. However I’m going to need to recover from that actually quick as a result of after a bountiful breakfast, Cassidy, Gabler and Owen face the jury and plead their case.
Gabler performs up his relationship-building and the way he had a number of methods to get to the top at each stage of the sport. Cass says she was by no means on the unsuitable aspect of the vote, whereas Owen, a self-proclaimed underdog and “scholar of the sport,” says that he clawed and scratched himself out of holes that neither of the opposite two needed to do.
The jury appears extremely entertained by Gabler’s explanations, and so they’re additionally impressed by the Remaining 3’s bodily prowess. They query why Cass despatched Gabler into hearth, what everybody’s greatest errors had been and the way persuasion performed a component of their video games.
However it all comes all the way down to the ultimate vote, and the tribe has spoken: Gabler wins the sport with eight votes.
What do you consider this Remaining 3, and did the precise particular person win the money? Drop some feedback under!
