Australian Survivor Report Card - Brains v Brawn 2 - Episode 20
Featuring Myles' blur, water torture and riddles
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Previously on Australian Survivor: Rocks were threatened, beds were made, and Logan was flipped on
Myles’ Blur
Grade: A
We return from Tribal Council with the post-Graduates in control. Or are they? Because suddenly, twenty episodes in, the show drops a game-changing bombshell!
Namely, that Kristin has been secretly the one behind all the exquisite hair-braiding the entire time. This ranks up there with one of the great twists in television history. Quite literally.
And it does also raise the question: if you don’t have hair to braid, how big of an Australian Survivor social setback is that? Asking for a bald writer of episode report cards.
Desperate to combat Kristin’s weaving wizardry, Myles suddenly entertains the rest of the tribe with some pixelated pole dancing.
How far is Kristin willing to go to counteract Myles’ showiness? Well, there’s too much blurring of his nether regions to know for sure…
Water Torture
Grade: D
Instead, it’s time for the immunity challenge, a classic game of Stretching Rack Water Torture. It’s a brutal challenge, forcing the players to hold their own body weight at ever-more-difficult angles, while occasionally being randomly sprayed with water, and the players grimace and groan as they strain to st—
Oh, wait. Kaelan’s fallen asleep.
While everybody waits for Kaelan to inevitably win the challenge, speculation turns to who has won the most individual Australian Survivor challenges.
“Uh, I believe that’s Brooke from All Stars with five,” says Myles, pushing his glasses up his nose.
“That is correct!” says JLP, who has absolutely no clue whether it is or isn’t. The man’s not a dork.
Riddles
Grade: D+
So after Kaelan wins, it’s time for the vote. Myles argues for something simple, namely the post-Graduates voting out Kristin.
“Something simple?!” says AJ, dry-retching a little. He instead suggests a needlessly complicated split votes plan that requires precision manipulation of Kate and Morgan.
And, to be fair, at this point in the game, it would be ten thousand times more suspicious if AJ didn’t propose an unnecessarily convoluted plan. That still doesn’t stop Zara and Myles from being annoyed by it, of course.
Or AJ from pseudo-pitching it to Kate in a desperate and doomed attempt to keep the back half of this episode interesting. He can’t properly pitch it, because the post-Graduates made a promise to one another not to tell the other three the plan, but he nods and winks and gestures and makes eye contact with Kate in an attempt to let her know what’s going on.
Kate, who initially assumed AJ was just engaging in yet another tiresome flirting session and wasn’t paying full attention, asks him to just come out and tell her who the vote is on.
“You have all the information you need…” declares AJ, mysteriously, and he drops a smoke bomb and disappears! (Although, as Morgan correctly points out, he’s just over there, crouching behind that small tree.)
It all kinda half-heartedly blows up at Tribal, with Kristin, Kate and Morgan getting annoyed (mostly with Myles, who is adamantly sticking to his argument that 4 is a bigger number than 3), but despite their best efforts to win over Zara, it doesn’t take. Kristin is voted out, and nothing will ever be the same again!
Hairwise, at least.
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