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Survivor 29 Episode 10 Review

Nov 26, 2014 by Patrick319

That was seriously the best episode of the season. Once again, I seriously enjoyed everyone with the exception of Alec, who is completely off-putting and just grating to listen to. This merge is fantastic, and is definitely redeeming the tragic pre-merge boots of Nadiya, Val, and Kelley. #survivor

There was so much cute character development tonight. On top of this being Natalie's breakout merge episode, I found her content to be really cute and enjoyable (the spitting, idol-searching with Baylor). A Natalie win is definitely plausible after tonight. The fact she got a weak merge edit at first may serve as a strike against her but in what was such a heavy male-dominated early merge with the likes of Josh and Jeremy trying to eat each other off, and being eaten themselves, respectively, they hogged all the screentime, whereas Natalie wasn't as important to the subplot. Female winners generally receive those kinds of edits (Denise) where they're only shown and well-developed when absolutely necessary, such as how Natalie has been with her anti-Rocker pre-merge tantrums, to her strategies at the swap (including going to exile w/ Baylor), to now.

A Jon win isn't too far out of reach either, but given what Jeff has said about the end-game and eventual winner being "unorthodox", and given what happened with Josh and Jeremy, I don't think Jon wins. And the same goes for Reed, despite Reed having begun to become developed as an underdog. I'm pretty sure that the pattern of strong males eating each other off will continue, with tonight's episode heavily alluding to that fact too, with Reed having made it clear that he wanted Jon out, and vice versa essentially.

More specifically about Jonclyn though, can I just start off by saying what a perfect couple they are? I seriously love them. They have such a perfect relationship, and are such rays of sunshine to the barren wastelands of Nicaragua < 3 As I had brought up earlier today, Jaclyn's uterus was finally mentioned, though not by her, but mostly narrated by Jon which is probably better for Jon in the long-run. Firstly, we knew more about Jon's story for 9 episodes, and then when we finally found out Jaclyn's story, it was via Jon. Next week looks interesting, and I would love for Jaclyn to outlast Jon, or even lead their direction of gameplay (as she did with the Josh vote), but I don't see a loved one with less visibility outlasting their more-visible counterpart. I hope I'm wrong though.

Overall, this was a strong episode. And it made sense out of Jaclyn's #sticktotheplan tweets pre-merge.

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how is your blog picture not reed doing the split
like honestly i was screaming at that even though i hate reed

Sent by obscurity,Nov 26, 2014

Sent by Imthtawesom,Nov 26, 2014

obscurity reed was sent down from heaven to make this season better shut ur whore mouth

Sent by best,Nov 26, 2014

obscurity I go through the CBS pictures for the episode and pick out one which isn't a group shot. Reed's splits picture wasn't there lmao, but that was good.

Sent by Patrick319,Nov 26, 2014

https://38.media.tumblr.com/ffab2c70b6489eea0fda48608e1523e8/tumblr_nfocnyyjd31sp9h5lo1_1280.png

Sent by obscurity,Nov 26, 2014

obscurity I want that in gif form

Sent by best,Nov 26, 2014

Jeff said the season was unorthodox, not the winner.

Sent by ianfitz0012,Nov 27, 2014

ianfitz0012 I know, I'm just exaggerating his words.

Sent by Patrick319,Nov 27, 2014

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