'Survivor: Island of the Idols' Episode 8

Wow! What an amazing double episode of Survivor tonight! First off, nice job on the blindside, Kellee & Dean. Great move, until Noura outed you after tribal. Then, there's damage control. Luckily, Janet believed Kellee, but Jamal didn't. But, Kellee then found the idol! So, Kellee isn't in that bad of a spot! Plus, THE MERGE! The tribes are all together into one! And now, it's a brand new game. Some want Vokai vs Lairo, some want mixed, but Tommy wants his own game. Kellee & Janet don't want to join up with Tommy and the new Vokai, then it's nine and they are at the bottom. They want all Vokai, take out all Lairo starting with the four Lairo from the new Vokai and Missy as the first vote. But, Tommy doesn't want that. So, it's a brand new game, who knows who will vote who.

At the official Lumuwaku tribe, there were talks about getting Missy out. Then, a name came up around multiple women, Dan. Dan is a very touchy person. Touchy meaning, he touches the women... A LOT and they are not comfortable. That is freaking creepy! Women should not have to worry about getting touched uncomfortably at night or looking bad while pointing out an obvious creep who is touching people without consent. Don't do that, dude! That should be obvious. Even producers stepped in and warned him. He should not be touching people that's creepy.

Anyway, so the Lairos came up with a plan. To use the un-comfortability of Dan as a way to get in with the Vokai. However, Kellee wants Missy out. Sure, Dan is incredibly uncomfortable to be around, but she doesn't want emotions to infere with her game. So, Missy is her biggest threat. But then, Lauren warned Missy of Kellee's betrayal and told her that she had to win immunity. This gave Missy a bit of an idea to try and make a big move of her own.

At the immunity challenge, the castaways all hung on to two poles connected to a table, with poles underneath carrying balls. But, if they moved their poles too much, the poles under the table would go up and the balls would drop. Last person with balls on their table would win. It was a long, hard fought challenge. And unfortunately for Missy, she fought hard but came out in fourth in the challenge. Meanwhile, while others slipped, Jamal fell to the ground, giving Aaron the first individual Immunity. Luckily, Jamal was just tired, didn't need medical, his tribe-mates helped him up and the tribe cheered as Aaron had the necklace placed on him. And Kellee plotted Missy's Survivor demise.

Before Tribal Council, a new plan started to get into motion. Tommy & Lauren were convinced to go with the original Lairo and blindside Kellee, which they were all for. So, it seemed like Kellee was possibly going to be blindsided with an idol. Then, Jamal & Noura flipped the vote. They, along with Janet and others, decided it would be best that morally, it would be better to vote Dan out for his actions. So, Jamal and Janet were gathering people to take Dan out. But, Elizabeth didn't buy it, so she told Elaine and Elaine told Dan, who was convinced to join the fight against Kellee. But, Kellee realized something was off, so she went and found a second idol. So now, it could be a whole new game. Kellee has two idols, Dan is a target, Kellee herself is a target, this game is going to be flipped on its head.

At Tribal Council, it was talk about trust vs. deception. Is the vote about trust or deception, can you trust the people you're with, etc. Also talks about tribal lines, some laughter from Kellee, some talk about trust from Dean, who needs someone to trust considering how his game has been thus far, so, all that is truly known is its Kellee or Dan, one of them will be blindsided. But, who? Will Dean stick with the person that saved him, Kellee? Is Kellee actually good with Tommy & Lauren? Nobody really knows until the votes are read.

Then, Kellee DID NOT PLAY EITHER OF HER IDOLS and was blindsided. Wow, really Kellee? You're a brilliant player, but you should've played one of those idols. Afterwards, Janet was pissed. She changed her vote to make the girls feel comfortable but then Kellee was voted out by those very girls. So, Janet talked to Tommy & Lauren, who both admitted to voting Kellee. Janet then spoke with Dan and confessed about his uncomfortable touching. He then went to Elizabeth & Lauren, who denied that they even spoke to Janet about it. Dan told Janet about it and Janet got Elizabeth to confess that she did, but she later told Dan that she lied to get Janet off of her back.

So, Janet, after this huge defeat despite voting based on actual morals, slept alone on the beach, sad. Then, she awoke to Missy & Aaron walking, not even caring about her, as they were going idol hunting. So, Janet followed them. And jokes on Missy & Aaron, since Janet found that idol before they did. So, Janet didn't get full revenge yet, but she has a start and she'll hopefully be safe for a while.

Next, Karishma & Jamal go off walking. They talk about how they need to get back in after being left out of the Kellee vote. Then, a note appears out of nowhere, Jamal grabs it and it tells him to go to the Island of the Idols. Once he arrives, he meets Boston Rob & Sandra. Once he gets there, he realizes the test is about sabotage, as grabbing the note lost him his vote. But, the test was to make his own fake advantage. Something to use to sabotage the tribe's dynamic in some way.

So, he comes back and lets them know a fake story about being given a 50/50 chance that he won, so he was able to make an advantage to give to someone. But, it's fake, but he didn't say that. And since it was Dean's birthday, he handed the "legacy advantage" to him that he made. So now, people assume Dean has an advantage, putting a target on his back. However, it also puts a target on Jamal, since he made the advantage and gave it to Dean. So, it helps Jamal but could also hurt him.

At the immunity challenge, the castaways hung on to poles that at every five minutes, got lowered and lowered, closer to the ocean while they hung on. The last man and the last woman would win immunity and be safe at Tribal Council. It was a long fight to hang on to not fall. Ultimately, Aaron was the last man standing, winning immunity. Then, it was down to Missy & Elizabeth for the women. But, Elizabeth fell and Missy won it for the women. So now, Missy & Aaron are safe and the main targets for the majority alliance are Janet, Jamal, Karishma & Noura.

Before Tribal Council, the plan became to split the votes between Jamal and Karishma, in the case that Jamal had an idol. But, Janet's name was also tossed around. And she knew that, so she knew to bring her idol with her to Tribal Council. And she was told to vote Jamal so she didn't know what to do. All that was known was that Jamal or Karishma were likely to go home and then they went to a very fascinating Tribal Council.

At this Tribal Council, there was quite the talk. Basically, it started out as a talk about Janet and how she used her morals to help others in the vote. Then it became about the Dan situation, how people were affected by it and how Janet just wanted to help. There were arguments basically saying, "If I didn't hear about it, it wasn't true." And that is absolutely false and ridiculous. This mirrors life as Survivor often does, especially this season. It shows us how we are as a society. Just because you didn't hear it, doesn't mean it didn't happen. It takes a lot to tell someone if you've been harassed or made uncomfortable. So, yes, it can happen even if you didn't hear about it.

Dan then spoke about the situation himself and he explained that he never realized how big of an issue it was. He immediately apologized in a big way, explaining his life and how he feels morally devastated that he made people feel uncomfortable. Everyone then pretty much agreed that Janet's actions, while the vote didn't turn out her way, her morally heroic, trying to make the others feel comfortable. She then considered quitting but decided to stay after everyone convinced her about how much they loved and appreciated her.

Then, the vote happened. And the game went back to how it is. Janet played her idol, saved herself, but only got two votes. And unfortunately, for another person that I think helped add morality to the game, Jamal was voted out. It was pretty sad, since he has been one of my favorites this season with how he explains these big situations about morality, race, sexism; all these big issues and more that happen in this game and in real life. He helped others realize these issues and how we need to do this world right. So, thank you, Jamal. Thanks for adding morality and character to Survivor and really made us viewers think about our actions.

So overall, this was a very fascinating two hour Survivor episode tonight and I absolutely loved it. I can't wait to see what happens next week when two people will be voted out, names are spread around and anyone could be voted out. This has been an amazing season so far, amazing and fascinating to watch and I cannot wait to see how it continues to develop into one of the greatest Survivor seasons in history. And to anyone that has ever had any harassment effect them, I am here for you. Everyone is here for you. You are not alone. You matter.

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