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| Reward challenge: Water challenge
- Aras/Sally/? win something? |
From the CBS web teasers: "At the
Reward Challenge, one Survivor demonstrates clever leadership
skills, and forges a win with a weaker group." Not
very informative about who wins, but it does suggest
the challenge will be in three groups of three, and suggests
a mechanism for picking the two exiles.
The web promo isn't much help here. There is one shot
of a shirtless Terry, jumping, but that seems to be from
the IC. There's also a shot of a bikini-clad Sally (who
wears a shirt in the other challenge) hugging a soggy
Aras. That would seem likely to be an RC shot, but that
doesn't tell you much about teams and challenges.
Hope that clears it up for you.
Update: As noted by Flowerpower at
Blows (and more obliquely by ts2 at
MeSS), the image of Sally
with a flag, below left, matches her appearance when
hugging Aras. This shot came from a late pre-Ep7 ad,
and we assumed at the time that it was simply Sally
returning from exile in Ep7 (it wasn't). But
as Flowerpower suggests, it is probably actually from
this challenge.
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| Exile: Two! - Speculation |
 From the CBS web teasers: "When
two tribe members are sent to Exile Island, an unexpected
bond forms. Will this newfound friendship affect their alliance
and change the course of the game?" Sounds like it's
one La Mina and one Casaya. Unless it's just Terry and Sally.
Could be just about any pair, actually. Perhaps not Shane
and Courtney, though. Then again, maybe it is Shane and Courtney.
We've been trying to find an alternative to the conventional
wisdom that the shot of Danielle and
Austin at right is from
Exile Island, mainly because we can't figure out how (or
why) they got blankets and/or towels there. But we will concede
that the flora in the background do more closely resemble
Exile Island than Casaya camp. So we'll go with the flow,
since this seems as good a guess as any.
Again, we presume, unless told otherwise,
that the RC will be run in three groups of three, and that one person from each
losing group will be exiled. For what that's worth.
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| Immunity challenge: Fences,
puzzles, obstacles - Terry wins? |
As mentioned last week, ChillOne has
heard Terry "wins something like seven immunity
challenges in a row." We think it's something like
that here - Terry doesn't win immunity, but is still
safe from the boot ("The Power of the Idol").
Then Terry gets back to his IC-winning ways next week. Or
he could win it again, and just be blowing smoke about
having given someone the hidden idol. One of the two.
As for the challenge itself, it appears that it might
be a multi-stage, serial elimination event. The first
appears to be digging your way under a fence, something
all nine contestants appear to do. The first six finishers
proceed to stage two.
Stage two is a puzzle stage, just beyond
the fence. Shane can be seen crossing a line beyond the
fence, with no puzzle stages in view, and it looks like
only five puzzle stations are later there (with no Cirie,
Bruce, Austin, or Aras visible). The
overhead shot of Sally running reveals various nets and
other obstacles beyond them. Danielle and Shane are seen
traversing the nets, and Terry crawls through some wooden
tunnels. Austin is also there,
because he's later seen going under the obstacles (or
he will be when we get around to vidcapping it). The
net obstacle is in the background as Terry falls down
in the sand. This section cuts the field from 6 to 3.
We think the final leg of the challenge, which is designed
for three people, is the water pit shown at the bottom.
Sally enters the water first, but Terry is close behind.
Another guy (Shane?) is trailing them by quite a bit.
Visible observing from the bank are Aras, Cirie, Courtney,
Danielle, and two other people (along with Probst). Terry's
jump seems to catch him up with Sally in the water, so
one of Terry or Sally should win. Odds are, it's probably
just boring old Terry, but it would
at least be a bit entertaining if Sally could pull off
the surprise win here. But if Sally did win, Terry would
probably draw some votes, so maybe it is Terry after
all.
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3: Rope bridge, water jump - Sally has slight lead
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| BOOT: Austin? |
We had (from the title) though that
Terry finally uses the hidden idol here. But after
seeing the preview, and seeing that the bootee is most
likely Austin, we now think that's probably not the
case.
When Jeff Probst said, prior to Ep1 airing, "At one
point somebody said to me at Tribal, 'you know, we
think this has just changed the game too much.' I cracked
up," he was probably talking about this episode, and
all it appears to be about, on the surface at least,
is Terry offering to hand over the idol. Not him actually
doing so.
Austin is what we've
been told to expect for this week's boot.
But we're no longer convinced of that. It could be
Courtney, especially in light of the "remaining
Casaya members" part of the next episode's description. But
more likely, it's Austin.
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