This week’s episode of Survivor features a double-elimination tribal council. In this episode, we also saw some greats and geniuses around. In my opinion, my favorite here is the silent war between Brenda and Marty! TV Fanatic has additional things to say below.
In a departure from the Survivor norm, the show only hinted at the possibility of something shocking happening with the La Flor tribe and did so only once, never returning to the idea. Typically we’re inundated with different suggestions and possibilities from various interviews.
Marty spun a hilarious lie to Jud about being a chess grandmaster all with the intention of trying to get Jud to do something for him. Whatever that was, we haven’t been told yet. All we got out of Marty is that it would be one of the boldest moves in Survivor history and Jud wouldn’t even really have to make a decision in the process.
That’s it. That’s all we ever heard about it. Instead the show sent us on a wild goose chase of interviews with Marty proclaiming to go with the flow of the tribe and shots of him asking the young La Flor’s who they were voting for so he could vote with them. The scene with Jud was seemingly so insignificant, I didn’t write anything down about it and had to go back to watch it after the fact.
After seeing how the split vote and revote played out, it’s clear Marty’s reference to Jud not having to make a decision was in reference to the split vote. We can’t be sure what the plan was, but Marty must have given Jud (and in turn all of the LaFlor’s except Jane and Kelly B) different scenarios depending upon how the split went down.
What I want to know is how did Marty’s plan go from a brusquely mentioned idea to Jud to a full fledged plan that even Brenda was in on? Beyond that, if Brenda was in on the plan, what was with Marty’s venom towards her when he wrote her name down?
Until we unravel what happens – and there’s no way the show doesn’t tell us next week, right? – we have three options to consider with Marty. Either he’s a genius and incredibly influencing, sniffed out the entire La Flor plan and figured out how to roll with those punches or is absurdly lucky.
For some reason the young La Flor’s stuck with their plan to split the vote, but then had a different vote when it came time for the revote. Even if they anticipated that Marty would play his idol on the revote that would flush out his idol and Kelly B would still go home.
However, I’m not certain Marty had the option to play the idol after the initial vote but before the revote. Jeff certainly did not present that option to the tribe. That means La Flor had a plan NOT to vote for Marty on the revote, but still go through with the split vote. Huh?
Breaking everything down it would appear Marty did not get lucky. Assuming everyone knew he did not have the option to play his idol there was no plan he could sniff out. Somehow Marty convinced the La Flor tribe to go with their initial plan and then vote for Kelly B after the split.
Did he tell them that he would play the idol during the split in exchange for Kelly B going home and then go back on his word? Is there a more elaborate plan that involves Jud and Sash who seemed to be more pleased with the result than Brenda did? And what was with his last minute plea to Jane to vote for Brenda?
he first two questions are near impossible to answer. The last one I think was a display of dominance to Jane. He must have known what was about to happen and wanted to show that to Jane by telling her who to vote for so that when the vote did not go the way she expected, but the way Marty told her, she felt vulnerable. Clearly Jane was not part of the revote plan.
If Marty orchestrated the entire split vote/revote scenario at this week’s tribal council, we need to erase Parvati’s name from the top of the GOAT (greatest of all time) list in case Marty continues to play the other Survivor contestants like a piano.
So what’s on your mind?
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