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Survivor Season 47 has had some wild gameplay moments so removed from myriad gamers, lots of them who’ve already been ousted from the competitors. Forward of studying who will take residence the Survivor prize cash throughout subsequent week’s big double header finale, there are six gamers left: Sam, Genevieve, Andy, Teeny, Sue and Rachel and a number of idols and benefits nonetheless within the combine. Regardless of this, “Operation Italy” – a combo of Sam, Genevieve and Andy – used nothing however rumor, bluster and a few stable appearing to get out Caroline this week, and I’m simply obsessive about how dramatic of a flip Andy’s trajectory has been on the present this season. Seems, that’s all the opposite followers need to speak about too.
When Survivor Season 47 kicked off, Andy Rueda actually didn’t have his personal sport going. He nearly bought kicked off the present nicely earlier than the merge due to a freakout in entrance of your complete forged. Then, for some time he highway on the coattails of the Sierra and Sam alliance, earlier than betraying everybody close to and expensive to him in a number of fell swoops. However up till this week’s episode none of that had actually been his grasp plan, and he’d largely ridden on the coattails of different peoples’ concepts.
This time, nevertheless, Andy determined to go boldly the place some nice Survivor gamers have gone earlier than him and he, together with Genevieve and Sam, totally smashed it out of the park. Andy satisfied individuals to separate the vote, regardless of some concern from Rachel. Sam performed useless within the water convincingly and Genevieve threw out a faux idol and story convincingly sufficient that Teeny purchased it.
The top end result was among the finest Survivor episodes I’d ever seen.
If I’m being frank, I didn’t have a complete lot of respect for Andy’s sport up till this level, regardless of his repeated protestations that he was taking part in and nobody was giving him due respect. Andy was taking part in, he simply wasn’t at all times essentially doing so in ways in which would make him stand out as somebody to be revered or reckoned with by his friends. Seems, a number of followers are seeing the adjustments he made to his technique this week and applauding his daring transfer.
The truth that Genevieve/Sam/Andy pulled that vote off with no benefits is EXACTLY the way you play Survivor!! They’d nothing however a posh technique and saved their wits. That is all. That might be a LEGENDARY Survior transfer. Effectively executed trio. #Survivor #Survivor47 pic.twitter.com/g6kaOKwqBRDecember 5, 2024
Any participant who will get their very own Jeff Goldblum meme must be fairly comfortable about their Survivor actions, imo.
Everybody to Andy #Survivor #Survivor47 pic.twitter.com/8AzuNFu2X2December 5, 2024
Truthfully my response was a bit extra one in all awe and nearer to what this fan mentioned on Twitter (X):
Operation Italy. Wow. Andy’s arc on this season of Survivor: LEGEN-DARY. From wounded gazelle to king of the jungle.Teeny is perhaps dumber than Rome. Sue’s bought no sport. Rachel simply misplaced a transparent path to victory. Greatest episode IN YEARS. #Survivor47 pic.twitter.com/2NKdrj0hlgDecember 5, 2024
I imply severely, Rueda’s arc from clueless to really getting the sport to then with the ability to manipulate the place it goes has been spectacular to observe. I’ve seen gamers change this a lot throughout seasons however nothing fairly as drastic as what we’ve seen from Andy, a minimum of insofar as how his edit has portrayed him.
Andy went from dying on the seaside week 1 to executing a blind aspect to make 6 #survivor47 #survivor pic.twitter.com/zx7YGJBQnLDecember 5, 2024
Even some that aren’t nonetheless completely bought on Andy as a participant are a minimum of giving credit score the place credit score is due.
Andy I don’t know what to think about you however Operation Italy kinda going into historical past books #survivor47 pic.twitter.com/yqf2oipaqRDecember 5, 2024
And Caroline mainly mentioned Andy’s chaotic gameplay earlier on was what did her on this week. She instructed Parade they have been mainly attempting to appease Andy as a result of they knew he needed to make a transfer they usually needed to maintain him within the fold. Little did they know he needed to make a mark in an even bigger approach than they anticipated, and used their lack of respect for him as a literal benefit.
We must always have simply actually dictated what the cut up vote was going to be. However the entire purpose we did not do this was truly due to me. I used to be the one advocating in opposition to all of these issues, and the reason is, I personally actually seen this vote as “Andy administration.” I may inform Andy was actually ready the place he needed to make his mark on the sport, particularly after we form of shut him down laborious for attempting to go for Genevieve in the course of the Kyle vote, more durable than what was proven. I knew that Andy actually needed to really feel revered and that he was making an enormous transfer.
Truthfully, up till this level, I believed Survivor 47 was going to observe the identical trajectory as a bunch of the previous seasons. I believed the main gamers would get voted out after making massive strikes, and we might find yourself with a not-so-amazing last 3. However given Andy is taking part in laborious, Genevieve is sharp, Rachel is prospering and has benefits, and Sam’s a fairly good problem and technique participant, we may find yourself with some actually attention-grabbing last 3 combos, significantly given Teeny is an emotional participant and Sue nonetheless has her idol.
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