QUOTE(Earendil_Mithrandir (Me) @ Dec 6 2006, 11:23 PM (Sometime before the final episode))
I may have counted wrong, but instead of there being seven members in the jury like the past seasons, they started it with twelve people left in the game. The would leave either a ten-person jury against the final two, or there could be a nine-person jury against the final three. Did anyone else see that, or did I count wrong? I think there will be a twist in which the final three are up against the jury this time, and have an extra two peolpe in the jury. Or perhaps some people won't be in the jury...
Woah... I said that a while before that last episode. I predicted correctly!! Spooky... I never exactly expected to be right. As interesting as that twist was, I don't think Jeff should do that for the next season. It throws away the power that the winner of the last imunity holds. For those who just started watching this season, the jury usually votes for the final two, and in the final three, the person who won the last immunity challenge would choose who goes to the final two with him/her. Since the two that lost that last immunity challenge could only vote for each other, the winner must cast the deciding vote. In the past seasons, it was a huge power to hold, because you could just bring someone like Jonathon with you and you would almost guarantee a win. Except a few years ago, a Scoutmaster (Boy Scouts) won the last immunity challenge. She had to decide between a Jonathon-like evil person and someone else whom everyone just
adored. Being the nice person that she was, she brought the second person along with her and lost to the jury. I suppose she did this because the second place Survivor still gets some money, and she didn't want the evil guy to get the runner-up prize.
This evil guy (I think his name was John, so they ended up nicknaming him "Johnny-Fairplay") played one of the dirtiest (and funniest, once you get over the shock of it) tricks in the entire history of the game. He told his friend before the whole game started that when it came time for the "loved-one" challenge, he would tell John that his grandmother had died. They had set it up so that John would then break down in tears and announce it to everyone else, who had felt sorry for him and let him win the challenge so that he could spend time with his friend and find out what had happened. This was only one of his numerous deceptions.
Okay, my next Survivor story is a bit weird. Someone had somehow "felt a vibe" that her mother was dying. She left the game to go spend time with her, and the next week, her mother was dead... Creepy.
*Yawn* I guess that's it for Survivor storytelling.
Earendil_Mithrandir