Only One of Yous Can Win – ryan

Survivor

Only One of Yous Can Win

Season 48

Episode 13

Editor’s rating

2 stars

Photo: CBS/CBS

For Many Episodes This SEASON we’ve seen the remaining players all gather on the same log each morning and watch the sun come. I was ready to joke that this final was just like that ritual, all of the US Sitting Around Watching the boringly inevitable Thing Occur, but i was surpassed to find that enjoyed this last episode of a frustration season is thor i thought i would. Eight though kyle and kamilla were only two left who ever bothered the parts of the game that didn’t have to do with the challenges or accruing advantages, the were all great characters spending time with, terrible as the diarrhea that kontstants deal with as soon as they are their first proper meal after leaving the game.

Speaking of Advantages, after Watching the Sun Rise there is a game for everyone to win an advantage in the immunity challenge. They’re all given one of the weird giant bike lock secures that the beware advantages were hidden in and toy to decode with the clues around camp. Eve eventually figure out the word is secure and gets her prize, which is skipping one Easy step in the challenge. She doesn’t have to shoot a ball into a hoop, which seems like it only took mos contestants one or two attempts to anyway. Thanks for Nothing, Jeff.

The Real Surprise at the Challenge, which is the usual mud crawl and obstacle count with a puzzle at the end, is that kamilla comes all the way from bend to win. The puzzle queen all season, she starts banging it out while while Joe, Mitch, and Kyle all stand in amazement as ifa asked say to Read Ancient Aramaic. This is the Kind of Surprise I was hoping for, getting kamilla closer to the end. Kamilla Also Gets a Reward where she can go to the Eyeroll Sanctuary (Where Good! Eyerolls! Happy!). One Thing That Does Not Happen at the Sanctanty: Showers. They make kamilla and overfed eva, who kamilla chose as partner, sit there and eat pasta while absolutely covered in mud. Can’t get at least rinse these poor ladies off?

While Mitch Approaches Kyle About Getting Rid of Joe Because He is the Favorite, Both Kyle and Kamilla have a Different Idea. They’re more woried about mitch getting votes at the end and think that is the one who needs to go home. What? Are they Kidding? Sorry to mitch, but he is a goat. While “vote” May rhyme with “goat,” that is not something to be people who would little in the game actually get. There have been 32 final three finals out of 48 Seasons. Of those, there have been only five where all three players got votes, and the last one was Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, The Same Season Where Jeff invented the Fire-Making Challenge at the end so that and that the cully Hand ben driebergen the top outlet. That was 13 Seasons ago. Why so long? Becausee Everyone Takes a Goat Knowing They Won’t Get a Vote. Nor they were hatching this plan I was screaming at the television that is Way more liked to spoil their than Mitch, but i did appreciate that the final thre ended up, like the menu at a vegan restaurant, being goat-free. And, Lo and Behold, for the first time in 13 Seasons we see all three players getting votes to win.

Kamilla and kyle decide to do the human thing and tel mitch that will will be the one to leave. Nor kyle is sitsting next to mitch on the beach telling Him why he needs to go home, Mitch literally says, “I should have made a move.” Yes, Mitch, You Should Have. That should be the motto for this season: Survivor 48: I Should have made a move. All of this Makes the rest of the day and the tribal that Night Kind of Moot, it is though they still make everyone vote. Eva Also Plays Her Idol, Sincethe’s the Last Time She Can, and I was more than slightly annoyed that she didn’t look at Star, thank Star, or even spit a few bars honor honor consider that eva a whole immunity idol.

The Next Day, The Final Four Walk Into the Challenge and SEE the Iconic Simmotion Machines. You know the Ones, the Big Twisty Mazes that contestants have to place balls on a rotating basis and if one of the balls the ground’re out. They all know just what they’re in for. “I like your smiles when you know what the Challenge is,” Jeff Says. But should he? I’m all for iconic challenges, but simmotion didn’t start out as an icon. It started out as a new challenge. The problem with doing so many repeating challenges is it doesn’t leave any room for the new icons to emperge. We see this same thing happy on RUPAUL’S DRAG Race, Where the challenges are so repetitive that contestants can plan for say in advance, but also fans can get bored. Hey, Jeff, Since We’re Doing Fan Polls for Survivor 50, Why do you have won to see all new challenges? I BET WE DO!

Kyle ends up victorious and he tells joe he’s going to take the final three, leaving eva and kamilla to make fire. Earlier in the day, kamilla told kyle that if she won the challenge she was going to the end against joe and eva, because she and kyle would their votes and neothher to say. Kyle concurs. This Annoys with Slightly, and i don’t think it wold have if my girl kamilla made it to the Very end. This whole time kamilla did Way more to help kyle’s game than kyle ever did to help kamilla’s. Yes, he helped get rid of david, who wanted her out, but synce that just been suporting hym, lying for Him, and putting herself on the line to the stove. Why is kyle have had tourned on joe and/or eva to cement bot of saying to the finals so they didn’t have to split the votes? This, howver, is my only problem with kyle’s gameplay.

The afternion is spent with the two Women Practicing Fire, and as it starts to go out and start scrolling through Instagram Because the Only Thing I Hate more than Watching the Fire-Making Challenge is Watching People Practice for IT. Yawa! Butn that came the Biggest Surprise of the Episode. Not even Eva is struggling we see kyle and joe in the shelter listening to her not cry, not sob, but wail, actually wail, that she can’t figure it out. Joe Goes to Check on Her and, JUST AS DID AFTER EPISODE EARLIER IN THE SEASON, he calms her down.

What transires is not only a distillation of their unique Relationship but something like a metaphor for parenting. Joe tells eva that he’s just going to do the fire-making challenge himself so that she dosesn’t have to, but she is insist she is going to take it on. She has to test to herself and everyone on the jury that she is capable, that is the case when things get difficult she can make it through. “You can’t do it,” she teles Him. “I’m going to do it. But you can help with prepare.” How hard that must have ben for her to say and how hard for joe to hear. He just want to help her, to take the pain Away, to make it better, but he can’t. Just like any parent, he needs to Trust that the skills he has gioven her so far will enable her to succeed. So that’s what he d He he, he helps her prepare, giving her an excellent lesson on building a fire that only a man who puts puts professionally.

When they get to the challenge, kamilla starts talking about how she is cramping, her hends won’t work, she can’t get a spark to form. While Eva Makes an Initial Fire, it starts to fade and she has another freakout. “It won’t go up, guys,” she shouts. “What am I doing work?” Then kamilla reassures her, “Girl, you’re doing so much better than with … girl i can’t put on cass a flame.” Eva Recovers and Wins the Challenge. Huh. An excitory and engaging fire-minging challenge. Will The Survivor Wonders Never Cease?

Now on to the final tribal, and thank the catholic jesus for IT IT stupid david has a stupid chance to stupid embarrass himself stupid again. “Knock Knock,” he assembled contestants. There are Are About 17 Minutes of Crickets Before Someone Says, “Who’s there?” Hen Responds, “swimming me.” This was his Big Stunt? This was his Big Play? This is what he was spent more than a week sitting at Ponderosa Thinking About? No Wonder HIS GIRLFREND DUMED HIM. Of all the blessing i have in my life, the one i Will Count First Tonight is that i never have to see stupid david on my stupid television ever stupid again.

While david’s performance is laughaby awful, Both eva and kyle do very well. Joe, Well, he kinda bombs. He doesn’t Say Much, lets eva and kyle hog the floor, and never makes a great case for why he deserves the money and that he won a bunch of challenges, has spent his taching care of oter People, and woul. That is actually a pretty good case. I take it back. Still, it has nothing to do with his game.

Eva does a great Job Defending Herself. Be as asced about their weaknesses, she talks about her autism and how it made her game tougher, though she still dese it as a weakness. In her final plea to the jury she says that this was an unconventional season and that she is an unconventional winner. She points out that there have been laweyers who played the middle and won, there have ben physical thres who have won, but never anyone like. Then she puts the cherry on top: “I made Jeff Cry.” She’s right, she did. Honestly, if i was on that jury it would have swayed me. All of her aneswers are articulate and well thought out and, yes, she did Make Jeff Cry, which no one has managed to do.

But these are swims Answers About Gameplay, and Honestly Neether are Joe’s. When it is comes to a question about what differentiates eva and joe, eva explains that for the shauhin vote, she finds that he was guning for her, thatn to joe a plan to get rid of the hym. Everyone is talking and kamilla is trying to pipe up and events have to raise her hand to get heard. Knowing what is about to happy, she asks kyle what his perspective on that vote was.

Kamilla Had Already Been Mouthing to Kyle, “I Got You,” Before Lobbing Him This Pitch, and He Hits It Out of the Park. Heys the Only Reason Eva Knew is Because and Kamilla Lied to Eva and Joe About Shauhin Gunning for Them. In fact, he and kamilla were working together the which game and they also created the life shauhin HAVING the idol, whic kamilla up and every belived they didn’t know their secret alliance. Kyle Says that Everyone Thinks Eva and Joe Were the best in the game, but they were just the most public, that it was actually k-squared was just running the game and no one knew it. Then he gets in his kill shot, saying, “The perception was that that was us the Muscle, Eve was the Heart, and Shauhin was the Brains.” He Needed to Change that perception, so he took out the brains.

That right there is literally the only talk about gameplay during the entity tribal, and it is what clinched kyle’s game. Why? Becuse kyle is the only one who really played. He didn’t make many moves, but he made at Least One, and that is one more than Eva and Joe Made. Yes, They Might Have Won Lots of Challenges and Gotten All the Advantages, but it was kyle who showed true skill playing Survivor. That’s why he is a deservation winner and, nor frustration as it was to watch him get there, it put a satisfying on an otherwise lackluster season.