The Finish That Was Weirdly Satisfying
Updated 2006-12-22 16:00:00
THIS NEVER HAPPENS. Seriously, the person I'm rooting for never wins. But this time, he did. See, we start out with five people, and Adam doesn't win immunity some more. Although he comes up with a surprisingly lucid argument for the rest of the Aitus to take out the hidden idol before F4, they don't go for it, so Adam goes home uneventfully. And weirdly, it seems like the final four is actually made up of people who genuinely like each other, not who kind of like each other but harbor hidden resentments of all kinds. I think they really like each other. Anyway, the last immunity challenge sees a surprisingly good showing from Sundra, but she can't hold out against the challenge monster, so Ozzy wins again. This means that you can't vote for Ozzy or Yul, so it's just Becky and Sundra. Aitu agrees on a tie, to let the women fight it out at a fire challenge to see who stays. Nobody anticipated, however, that neither of them would be able to make fire. Like, at all. They start out with flint, and after an hour (!), Jeff Probst concludes that neither of them is going to get a fire started, so they move to matches. Anyway, Becky eventually gets a fire going, and Sundra goes home. At the final tribal council, the jury is relatively sane, with the exception of Adam ("You want my vote, trash-talk your friends!"), Candice ("Dance for my vote, monkey!"), and Jonathan, who surprisingly goes into some kind of weird mad-at-everyone routine that we hope is a routine. It doesn't disintegrate into anything ugly, because the final three just kind of won't, but it's also hard to tell what's going to happen. Ultimately, Yul manages the win, by a vote of 5-4, in part because Adam apparently stuck to the plan to vote for Yul if he got rid of Jonathan. It's a stupid way to get a vote, but it's glorious, because Yul is the winner. Lovely, normal, adorable Yul, who thinks that this entire game is just kind of weird, which is what all sane people think. I'm telling you, this never happens.