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58. Nine Person Jury


Seasons: Cook Islands, Fiji
Memorable Quote: "Who is she again?" -Yul, Becky, and Ozzy asking about Rebecca

Haha, I guess my spoiler clues were a little harder than I thought they'd be. This is another twist that is just a ridiculous idea, and I have no idea what the producers were thinking. For some obscure reason, they decided to bring back all these undeserving people who didn't even make the freaking merge and throw them on the jury to decide the winner. In both Cook Islands and Fiji, some of these people hadn't even met one of the members of the final three. Oh and Rebecca, hadn't met ANY of them. How the hell was she supposed to vote to give a million dollars to someone that she had never spoken to until day 39?

I've heard rumors that say producers wanted 9 jurors to make sure that there wasn't a single race as the majority voting for another to win. Well guess what Burnett? Not everyone is a fucking racist.

There is actually a really funny parody about the Cook Islands jury (and their twists in general) out there written by SenseiKreese (http://www.averdata.net/~locbaseb/archives/cookislandfc.htm).































































57. "Leader" divides the tribes


Seasons: Fiji
Memorable Quote: "I missed a whole day with them, I'm not part of the core right now." -Sylvia

Here comes another twist from Fiji...what a shocker. This twist was another quick decision that had to be made when Melissa pussied out. The tribe, as a whole, decided that Sylvia was the leader of builder the luxury camp, so she is rewarded by being allowed to divide the tribes. Ok, that's not that bad. But wait, there's more. In addition to picking the tribes, she gets to be sent to Exile Island and is given clue number one. Again, not that bad. But here's the clincher, she'll be coming back the next day to whichever tribe loses the challenge and votes off a member. Wait, hold up. That doesn't seem that bad, right? She's immune and cannot be voted off first. Oh yeah, she's also stuck no matter what on the shitty tribe with no food that is bound to lose every challenge from hear on out. On top of that, she'll be showing up late, and she'll have less time to bond/strategize with the others.

To sum it all up, she's screwed.

This twist saved Sylvia for one round...whopdee doo. Now she has zero shot of winning this game or even making the tribal swap. How she survived her first tribal council over Erica, I have no idea, but I do know that when she left the next episode, we lost one of Fiji's best characters. Nice job Burnett.




















































56. Chinese Swicheroo

Seasons: China
Memorable Quote: "I'm good at Sudoku" -Peigh Gee while throwing a challenge

This twist was the tribal switch up in China where each tribe was given a piece of parchment that said to choose the two strongest members from the opposite tribe, and they would be brought over to you. What Zhan Hu didn't know (Fei Long figured it out pretty easily) was that the other tribe would also be taking two of their members. Don't unpack was meant for James and Aaron who had a zero percent shot at both making it out of Zhan Hu alive. Still not positive why they didn't go to tribal council the second time, but I assume Jaime found out about James' idol before the challenge.

Originally, I didn't think this twist was that unfair because if your tribe was smart, they could just throw the challenge and keep you. The part I didn't seem to realize was that James and Aaron/Frosti and Sherea couldn't do anything to save themselves while in enemy camp. They had no idea if their former tribemates would be throwing any challenges to keep them safe. They had no ways of communicating with them tribe to make sure it happened (well they could, but it didn't work out so well for Bubba). All they could do was work their asses off during challenges and hope it would be enough to win immunity.

And tullfan, I forgot to add this, but another huge reason was that I liked Sylvia. My personal bias towards certain people definitely affects how they'll be ranked, but I've listed quite a few other reasons in my write up why it wasn't fair and an awful twist.

Oh and here's spoilers for the next three...

I thought the switch in China was not a bad twist, it was definetly less unfair than most of the twists so far.

Some people liked it, some people hated it as you can see by others' posts after yours.

I hated the China twist. Oooo lets give each tribe two free boots! Oh and make sure they're the strongest.

Exactly what I mean.

Actually, they had a challenge (reward?) where they each sent a tribe member into a building where they had to search for something. PG tried communicating with Sharea while both were in there together, but I think Sharea shrugged her off or something. I think PG was telling her they were throwing the challenges to save her and Frosti. PG love for being super smart.

Well you know what I meant. Sherea didn't even respond because she didn't want Fei Long thinking that she'd flip back to Zhan Hu.

Great entries. I'd have the China twist even lower because it was so biased.

Thanks, and I couldn't do that just because I originally didn't see the problem with it. Every twist (from 56 on) I can at least understand what they were trying to do even if some turned out to be complete failures.