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True Dork Times Survivor 18: Tocantins spoilers
Episode 9: "It's Funny When People Cry" Filmed: Nov. 26-28, 2008
Airdate: April 23, 2009
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Survivor: Tocantins (recap-based) future challenge spoilers/ speculation
  Clips from several future episodes were featured in the recap episode (aired 3/25/09). This page compiles what we and others have gleaned from them, about how the game plays out going forward. As in Ep6, it's unlikely any of these will show up yet, but here they are again, for future reference.
Future challenge 1: "Spider" | Eight or four players left (final four)
Note: from the Ep9 previews, this is clearly not from the Final 8, so it must be final four.

  From the overhead shot, the layout of this course is like a giant spider, with long net tunnels for the legs, and puzzle tables (we're guessing that's what they're for) on the abdomen. The nets lead to bags, presumably of puzzle pieces. There are only four tables, and they're color-coded (black, green, white, red), so the challenge is at the individual stage of the game - either in four pairs of two at F8, or four solo contestants at F4 (we'd guess F4). JT and Taj are the only players shown, with JT collecting green items, and Taj is wearing black.
   Note that JT has acquired a stripe of blue paint on the back of his shirt at this point. Also, the colors on both his and Taj's buffs, while matching each other, have clearly been altered, and don't resemble the normal color of the Jalapao buffs seen in the first five episodes. Just an attempt by CBS to hide the true color.
   Also, a DreamTeam run-through of this challenge is shown behind Jeff Probst in the "behind the scenes" video CBS posted, showing the making of the main title sequence. VolcanicGlass at Survivor Phoenix has some excellent caps of those shots.

Future challenge 1 vidcaps: click to view larger picture
overhead shot probst says go Taj gets ready to race
JT, Taj start JT, Taj start JT exits a tunnel
JT reaches for a bag JT misses a bag

Future challenge 2: Skinny Coach reaction

  Not much to go on here, challenge-wise, apart from Coach apparently not winning something. (It would be amusing if it's from his boot episode). But he's in a false-colored, presumably merge tribe buff (made to look black... -ish), and is much skinnier, more weathered, and more heavily bearded than he was in Ep5. So it looks like he lasts a while. Doesn't appear to be from future challenge 1 (the spider one), since he has no colored headband on.

Future challenge 2 vidcaps: click to view larger picture
skinny Coach reacts  

Future challenge 3: Emotional Taj (family visit?)

  Again, not much to work with challenge-wise, but this one shows Taj reacting happily to something, next to Probst. Since it's a solo shot of her with Probst, it's from the individual challenge portion of the game. From the body language, either she won a great reward, or it could be from the family visit episode. It doesn't appear to be from future challenge 1 (the spider one), since she's dressed differently.

Future challenge 3 vidcaps: click to view larger picture
Probst, Taj    


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