Let's recap everything, tonight is the final show, they are giving away the Million dollars tonight. We have four survivors left in the game, aka the Final 4.
The show starts off with a challenge, Ian knows that he has to beat Tom in the first challenge to get rid of the games strongest player, Tom. To no avail, Tom won a series of untying knots and won and Ian finished second to advance to the last part of the Challenge. In the final challenge Tom out swam Ian and found his combination first to a box that contained his flag, winning him immunity at the nights first tribal council.
Before tribal council, Ian managed to stick his foot in his mouth by admitting to Tom that had Tom not won immunity he was going to vote him out. At tribal council all the pressure was on Ian before the vote. The vote came down to a 2-2 vote and Katie and Tom voted again because neither of them had a vote against them. After the second vote it was tied at 1-1. Going to a tie-breaker challenge between Jen and Ian. They had to build a fire to burn through a rope and raise their flag. Ian won the fire challenge sending Jennifer to the jury.
This is going to make the final immunity challenge a battle between the games two strongest players. Tom and Ian have pretty much dominated the entire game and I'm glad to see that the final challenge to go to the final two will involve them. If Ian wins, he'll take Katie, if Tom wins he'll probably take Katie and if Katie wins she will probably take Ian. Katie is looking good at making the final two.
When they returned from tribal council, Tom gave Ian the third degree over him possibly attempting to betray him and vote him out.
After the little run in, the three remaining players got a chance to reflect upon all players in the game in their rite of passage through the game. After they returned, they went to the final immunity challenge.
It was a bobbing challenge. Who balanced themselves longest wins immunity. Two hours into the game, the wind picked up pretty heavily and rain started. After four hours, all three were still in the game. After 4 hours and 51 minutes, Katie removed herself from the game, leaving Tom and Ian to battle it out. After 8 hours, Tom tried to make Ian a deal, he said if Ian stuck it out and he beat Ian, he was going to take Katie to the finals. If Ian stepped down then, Tom would take Ian to the finals. Ian did not agree with Tom's terms and it was still game on after eight hours. Both seemed very stubborn and neither appeared to want to give an inch.
I do have to say that throughout the game I had a funny feeling it would come down to these two guys, the games strongest players, battling it out to win the final immunity.
After 11 hours and 45 minutes, both players were still going strong. After 11 hours and 55 minutes, Ian pulled probably the games all-time most honorable move. He agreed to step down if Tom would agree to take Katie to the finals. He did it because he wanted to earn both players respect back. Probably the all-time most honorable move in the history of the game. Tom gave Ian a chance to change his mind after they were back on shore, but Ian wanted Tom to honor the agreement and take Katie to the finals. Ian has to just moved himself to the favorite to win the next survivor all-stars.
This makes the finals between Tom and Katie.
Tom
Katie
At the time when the jury was allowed to address each of the fianlists, I almost felt sorry for Katie, because everyone was just hounding on her more than Tom. They all basically called her lazy and worthless and didn't deserve to be there. She actually refused to even answer janu's question that was addressed to her.
After the jury had their say, I'll still have to go with my first instict when the game first started and say Tom will win. I have never called the winner yet eary in the game, but this could very well be a first for me. Tom played probably one of the strongest rounds of survivor ever. If I were on the jury, my vote would go to Tom.
Of course after the voting, Jeff would not read the votes again, leading us into the live New York City Show.
After the votes were tallied, the winner of $1,000,000 was my favorite and the games strongest player, Tom Westman. It only took 5 votes to get a 4-1 majority.
I do have to say this was one of my favorite rounds of survivor that I have watched. Congrats to Tom for playing hard and playing with integrity.
1 comment:
Psycho,
Just reading your recap. I myself am also a Survivor watcher from time to time. This version of it was very good. I'll have to link you up to my blog. BTW I voted for the Strongbad avatar, you got robbed man
RATSAFARI
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