It’s complicated on Vatu as we learned in full power tonight with how things went with their most recent visit to tribal council…..but I’ll get there with the happenings. Starting from the beginning.
Tonight’s episode opened up with Stephenie reeling from the surprise of the Q vote by Vatu. Emily is feeling great saying they lost physical help for the tribe but she feels better about who she’s got loyalty wise. Ozzy and Stephenie talk about the vote saying they need to work relationships. Ozzy talks about how he wants Angelina out so he can be Mike’s number one. That brings us to Day 9 where we start at Cila. Charlie is still fuming over the news of Rizo not voting for his number one which is still bringing out his PTSD strong from his own season. We move over to Kalo where we have an alone feeling Aubry out looking for an idol. She is feeling alone in the game but she isn’t alone physically for long as Genevieve notices Aubry is gone and starts looking for her. Genevieve says the look on Aubry’s face showed to her that she was out looking for an idol. Aubry was looking to add to her idols but instead Genevieve added to the boomerang idols that she has found. Genevieve finds the boomerang and decides that she is keeping the info of that she found it to herself this time. She decides she wants to give it to Rizo with the thinking of it being that it will come back to her.
The immunity challenge is early in the episode. I’m thinking is there two going home tonight? Then, Jeff Probst announces Zac Brown. Oh, they need the challenge early cause we’re going to get way too much celebrity segment time tonight which ended up being correct. The team to win first gets to hang out with Zac including him fishing for them and singing for them. Second will be safe for the vote. Last goes back to tribal council. Kalo barely wins over Cila. Vatu finishes a distant last as they are literally stuck in the sand with the boat. Vatu is definitely missing Q here as they don’t have much muscle now so there was the risk of taking out a physical threat. The other teams do have muscle including Jonathan who could probably bench press the boat. LOL. Kalo gets to go to the sanctuary with Zac Brown for the reward. Back at Clia, Rizo gets his boomerang idol to which he says a line of “you know what happens when I have these things at tribal councils” and how he “loves to make noises”. Yes, we learned you do things for no reason that make zero sense is what I learned from 49. LOL.
All attention turns to Vatu from here on where the vote is going to go. Emily and Stephenie talk about wanting to vote out Angelina. Ozzy wants Angelina out. Mike however wants to save his friend, Angelina. Mike gets right to it going to Stephenie telling her that Angelina is not a threat in this game and instead they need to go for a threat with that being Emily. Mike talks to Angelina and Christian on the beach telling Angelina straight up that he is hearing she is the vote. Mike tells her to stay calm though because he has a plan to save her. He pitches Emily to which Christian is not for as he is aligned with Emily. Christian and Mike talk alone after this and Christian won’t commit to the Emily plan. Mike then brings up that he thinks Christian is another Gabby situation with Mike reminding him that Gabby turned on him trying to vote him out. He tells Christian that you’ve lived this already. This sets Christian off in the confessional putting him in tears looking back on what happened with Gabby saying it’s been 7 years and he’s never cried about it until now. He says Mike knows right where to hit you and how he’s the most dangerous person there cause of that. Christian now decides he’s going for Mike to try and take him out of the game. He pitches Mike to Stephenie. Stephenie is on board and listening to the pitch as Stephenie is obviously in anybody but me. Christian tells her that he wants to leave Ozzy out of it though cause Ozzy “wants a cameo on The White Lotus”. He doesn’t trust Ozzy to have this info. Christian tells Emily that Mike wants her out and that he’s trying to save her. Emily says in confessional that she feels stuck because Ozzy really trusted her on the Q vote so she doesn’t want to leave him out of this. We have the next “you can’t tell Emily anything” moment LOL where right out in the open at camp in front of Christian, Emily calls Ozzy over and says they are going after Mike. We get another Christian reaction moment for Emily of “WHAT ARE YOU DOING??!!!”. LOL. As she and Ozzy are talking, Christian is behind Ozzy giving the stop talking sign. Christian then ponders on maybe getting rid of Emily saying he can’t trust her.
Vatu returns to tribal council. Where are these votes going to go? You can feel the tension here with this tribal especially with Mike and Christian. Mike talks at one point about how his job in the real world is having to con people at times selling people on things. Emily speaks up late in the tribal saying she feels like she has a sinking feeling and that the vibes are off. This opens a bunch of eyes at tribal of paranoia. We get to the vote. Mike votes for Emily saying “you’re a wolf in sheep’s clothing. I like you”. The votes are revealed and the votes for Emily to go are Angelina and Mike. The votes for Mike are Stephenie, Emily, and Christian. We have one vote for Angelina which is Ozzy who thinks that is the plan. Mike is voted out on a blindside with a 3-2-1 vote which he takes very well. After the vote leaving, Ozzy is is mad over the blindside with Christian telling him “I’ll catch you up” to which Ozzy responds “too late”. With the previews next week, we see Ozzy is furious over what happened and we also have more Charlie vs Rizo coming up with Charlie zeroing in on him.
This vote was super interesting this week. The tension between Mike and Christian was can’t take my eyes off of it to see how it goes. We have Christian mad at Mike over how Mike played his emotions on Gabby saying don’t let Emily be your downfall like Gabby tried to pull on you. On the flip side, we have Emily continuing to be a scary ally to have in how much of a wild card she can be cause she can’t keep information and what if she gets you voted out. You’ve had two big moments of her spilling info immediately and that is scary to align with especially when she’s doing it right in front of you. Also, what if she picks Ozzy over Christian? Meanwhile, we had Mike playing that Gabby play as he is trying to keep Angelina. We have an angry Ozzy. We have Stephenie doing what she can to make moves with people that hopefully just insures her to stay in the game. So much of the theme of this season is that there is some major PTSD from these returnees for many different reasons of how their previous game went. Some are over correcting and some are trying to just correct it. It’s very interesting. Very interesting.
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