Welcome to Season 50’s Next Time On Survivor weekly feature on the Inside Survivor site! If you’re new around here, I’m Steph from sunny, tropical, humid Singapore. This is a tiny space where I give my best attempts at understanding preview trailers and make my predictions for the show’s next episodes.
The post-tribal council preview reveals the aftermath of the biggest blindside from the last episode. Tiffany is furious that she was blindsided by Jonathan, who agreed to vote for Chrissy with her and Kamilla. Instead, he took Chrissy and Stephenie’s side and voted Kamilla out, and in the process burned the bridge with Tiff. Her confessional is definitely one of the most enraged so far this season, so I won’t be surprised if she spends the next tribal councils campaigning to get Jonathan out.
In another preview trailer, the repercussions of Jonathan’s decision are again highlighted in an argument with Dee. After the players reunite with the whole merge group, Dee is clearly shocked and angered that Jonathan was involved in voting out Kamilla. Dee and Jonathan were on the original Kalo and swapped Cila tribes, and seemed to have an alliance to protect each other. I’m guessing that Jonathan will justify himself by reminding Dee that she had previously also blindsided him by voting off Charlie in the earlier episode. I think it’s safe to say that Dee and Tiffany aren’t going to be working with Jonathan moving forward.
And that is fine for him at the moment, as he has gained and cemented a new alliance with Chrissy and Stephenie. They can probably pull in Joe and Coach at least, making this old-school principled, honor-and-integrity group to navigate the next stages of the game. In another season, five players may be enough to tide through the post-merge. However, with fourteen players left, this alliance will need to put in the work to survive the next votes, especially with Jonathan being enemy #1 for at least two vengeful players.
In a second sneak preview scene, we also see some reactions from when Ozzy and Rizo returned from their night at Exile. Most prominently, Coach tells Rizo that Dee is on a witch hunt for him, but finds it ridiculous, as he doesn’t think he’s dangerous. In the previous episode, Dee eventually voted with the majority for Colby but strongly considered getting Coach out.
The way I see it, there are two factions of the merged tribe—firstly, there’s the alliance of Coach, Joe, Jonathan, Stephenie, and Chrissy. They seem more detached from the rest of the players, but also look to be more steady with each other. Conversely, the other players seem to be more fluid and adaptable, though there are multiple smaller alliances. Rizo, Ozzy, and Cirie are locked in and loaded with three advantages to play with. Tiffany and Dee are tight and can work with them as well.
Christian, Rick, and Aubry look like another trio, with Emily somewhat hanging out close by. My prediction is that we’ll see a relatively straightforward vote targeting someone from the minority alliance. I think it’ll be simple to make a case to target Jonathan, Joe, or Chrissy as challenge threats if they don’t win individual immunity.
What do you think will happen in Episode 7? Leave your predictions in the comments!
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