Australian Survivor Report Card - Brains v Brawn 2 - Episode 21
Featuring meeting Morgan, breaking challenge records, angles and tears
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Previously on Australian Survivor: Morgan was sore, Kate was in Saw, and Kristin was seen
Meeting Morgan
Grade: B-
It’s the final six and the Post-Graduates (AJ, Myles, Zara and Kaelan) have taken control of the game. They vow to stick with one another and go to the final four together, picking off Kate, then Morgan.
Fortunately for us, the loyal viewers, Myles at least has the common decency to pretend that this might not be his plan - that he might instead break early and take out Kaelan.
He goes to talk to Morgan (!) about this.
“Hello,” he says, shaking her hand. “I’m Myles. And you’re…?”
“Morgan.”
“Lovely to meet you, Morgan. Care to discuss voting out Kaelan if he loses the challenge?”
“Of course,” responds Morgan. “I’m willing to break bread.”
Hmmm, thinks Myles. Maybe it will be a bread-breaking challenge.
AJ, meanwhile, declares without a single shred of evidence that he can see paranoia! This, it turns out, is a specific type of aura-spotting technique that Laura taught him before he noticed how unparanoid she was and voted her out.
Breaking Challenge Records
Grade: C
It is, however, time for the challenge, which, it turns out, has little to do with battering baguettes, and is instead a classic game of Waterball Push-Em-Ups! Before the challenge starts, JLP advises all the players that if Kaelan wins the challenge, he will break the record for most immunity challenge wins in a season.
“Hooray!” everybody cheers.
“Deny us safety!”
“Vote us all out!”
Kaelan smiles at the support, but soon stops smiling when Myles proves to be a more formidable opponent than expected, taking a critical lead in the final leg of the challenge.
“Psst,” whispers Kaelan to JLP. “Is this a puzzle?”
JLP shrugs. “Probably as close as you’ll get from now on.”
“Okay, fine,” says Kaelan. “You can tell them I’m good at puzzles.”
And JLP does. And Kaelan wins. And everybody cheers and embraces him.
Angles
Grade: C+
The plan, then, is simple. The Post-Graduates will split the vote between Kate and Morgan, with Kate the primary target on a revote. Easy-peasy. Not a problem.
Of course, AJ is a part of this alliance, and being in an alliance with AJ is like playing Survivor with an improvised jazz session, so it’s not quite that simple.
First, AJ tries to talk Zara into maybe making Morgan the primary target of the two of them, but Zara is not having it. “I need Kate gone,” she hisses. “And every time I ask you to do it, you vote somewhere else. What kind of PTA is this?”
Undeterred, AJ heads off to talk to Kate. “I’m a poker player,” he tells us on the way. “Which means I know all the angles.” So he’s clearly thinking of a surveyor there, but they’re 83 days into this game, so cut him some slack.
Tears
Grade: D
AJ reconvenes with Kate, and explains that if she wants to survive, she’ll need to vote for Morgan, a prospect that reduces her to tears.
The sight of a pretty girl sobbing is enough to not only dismantle all of AJ’s strategic defences, but those of the show’s producers as well, and they hastily cobble together a second immunity challenge at Tribal Council, a classic game of Timed Totter Towers!
“Awesome!” says Kaelan, who is number 4 in the World Timed Totter Tower Rankings.
“No Kaelans allowed!” clarifies JLP, who doesn’t want Kate to cry again. He explains the rest of the rules: “This challenge will go until Kate’s tower reaches the top of the pole, or until time runs out and Kate has the highest tower.”
And so Kate wins the second immunity, and Morgan goes home.
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