Survivor Samoa: The Finale – Natalie Wins

Day 37: Brett immune & Jaison Voted off (4-1)

This episode started off just like I’d expect it to: The four Foa-Foa members want to vote off Brett, and feel they can, and have the odds stacked up againts Brett. Then, Russell tells Natalie she’s going if Brett wins immunity, just to keep the stronger guys in to beat Brett. Natalie seemed disappointed, and says to Russell she wants to keep her loyalty to him. So, st this immunity challenge, the survivors had to go through a course to retrieve a bag of puzzle pieces and put the puzzle together. The first to finish the puzzle would win. It was close between Mick and Brett, and it ended up to be Brett who won, meaning a former Foa-Foa member would have to send someone home. Back at camp, Russell decides to target Jaison and Mick, instead of Natalie. Russell tells Mick and Jaison who to vote for, and at Tribal Council, it was Jaison who got the votes, and he was voted off.

Day 38: Russell Immune & Brett Voted Off  (3-1)

The Survivors woke up to do the rights of passage, where they remember the sixteen Survivors voted off or in this case, medically evacuated. This is usually nothing special, but they’ve done this in just about every season. Then, it became time to the final immunity challenge. In this challenge, the survivors had to balance a statue on a pole that gets bigger as they go for as long as possible. The last one standing would win. After a little while, it was Mick, following  shortly after that, Natalie, who let go, making the challenge between Russeell and Brett. It was Brett who fell, and Russell won immunity. At the camp, Russell wonders if he’d end up switching the vote, keeping a stronger ompetitior in the game, and get Mick, a weaker competitor out. So, at tribal council, it was Brett who voted for Mick, but the other three stuck together, and Brett was voted off. Natalie, Mick, and Russell have became the official final three of this season.

    Day 39-Final Tribal Council: Natalie Wins, Russell takes Second, Mick takes third (7-2-0)

Natalie, Russell, and Mick head off to the final tribal council where these jurors disappoint me; they were lame in their questions. Jaison asked them who they were, and if they didn’t say who they were, he’d expose that for him. Shambo ripped Natalie and Mick, saying they were too horrible, and clearly stated she’s voting for Russell. Laura talks to Russell about making her leave, in which Rusell says to Laura she’d be up here, if she didn’t leave at that time. Brett’s question to Mick was creepy, he was talking about what they’d do on a “bro-date”, which probably had nothing to do with the game. I think about five or six of these jurors skipped out on asking all three jurors aquestion, they went to just one or two people. Erik was my favorite juror, who made a rather surprising plea. He says Natalie played the better game, as an honest, loyal person, where Russell was just cocky and arrogant the entire time. Erik clerly must have forgoten how Foa-Foa felt at tribal council when Russell S. was medically evacuated. So, in Los Angeles, the winner was revealed. Natalie was the winner with seven votes, recieving a vote from everyone except Shambo and John, who voted for Russell.

I think Natalie winning was a bit of a shock to me, I expected Natalie to just be underestinated by jurors, but apparently that was Mick who had that on him. Sometimes it’s always nice, but very ironic to see the “loyal one” win Survivor. You should’ve seen Russell at the finale/reunion, he was a lousy show off and a sore loser the entire time, and I think I’ve lost respect for him, until season twenty that is. Just like I reported earlier, there is a next season which will be called Heroes vs. Villains (I’m calling it Survivor HVV, for my blogs) that features the best nice players of honor and integrity, heroes play against the best decieptive, backstabbing villains. We’ll just have to see how this turns out, and see if this experiment was worth watching. I’m pretty sure most of my favourites there come from the heroes tribe, for sure. I’ve got one more post (my seasons & winners rankings) until I see you guys next year, as I will be blogging American Idol 9, Survivor: HVV, and The Amazing Race 16 this winter. Enjoy the new Survivor 20 logo.

2 Responses to “Survivor Samoa: The Finale – Natalie Wins”

  1. James Says:

    I think I can kinda understand Russ’s annoyance. After all – He was the guy who made all the power moves all season long.

    Its this what makes me think there should be a gap point between the reveal+reunion (maybe a day?) just to cool down some things.

  2. Dan Carneal Says:

    I don’t think the reunions would be as successful when it comes to people watching if it aired later than the finale day. In Survivor U.S. the winner is announced live but everything else is taped, it wouldn’t actually make much sense to just announce the winner live and do a live reunion later, if that’s what you mean.