What a finale it was. Two tribals, and the final four were really excellent. Xander, Heather, Deshawn and Erika.
They voted out Ricard who was the fifth, as they should. You can't out talk that man. He's so convincing, totally charming. He can project warmth and intelligence. In his interviews, he described himself as one of the legends of Survivor. I wouldn't go that far, but he was someone to beat.
Xander as the winner of the last challenge got to choose who sat with him and who did fire. This isn't a method of playing out the last of the game that I think works well. I also would rather have two people at the end instead of three. That scenario doesn't seem to be making a comeback.
He chose Erika to sit with him because he assumed she could make fire from her Exile Island time. Her practice attempts on that last day were half hearted and he could see she should have gone to the fire challenge.
Instead Heather and Deshawn had the most epic fire challenge with each one ahead at one point then each almost lost their flame altogether.
Sitting at the final three were Xander, Deshawn and Erika. I was fine with any of them winning, that's not always the case for me. I did think Xander played the best game I'd seen in a long time.
Unbelieveably, Xander got no votes, Deshawn got one, Erika got the rest.
In yet another bizarre twist, they read the votes out loud right there at camp. No Los Angeles, no big crowd. Pizza and champagne in a deluge for the players and Jeff. They did the post game analysis right on the spot.
The next episodes air in March.
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