I'm not rewatching the fucking episode... Even w/ Coronavirus, and even w/ this season being mostly fantastic, I got better things to do. So here's a very hasty, probably very inaccurate Edgic based on a single viewing I did half a week ago.
Merged Tribe
Michele- MOR2 - We still hear from Michele here and there, but her impact on the story is getting more and more negligible. Her granting Jeremy her 50/50 coin showed that her mind is thinking strategically, but to what effect? We're losing sight of her place in the game, and it's not good.
Nick - UTR2- Nick, linked with Michele in many ways, is also sliding. Though he got some content in the challenge, it wasn't exactly positive: even if he got a Fire Token out of it, it's never a good look to cede an immunity in exchange for food.
Kim - MOR3- Kim was finally identified as one of the island's great strategic threats and, after a lot of hemming and hawing, "dealt with" by Tony. She had a pretty quiet, average boot episode, which makes sense given her quiet, average edit. We did see flashes of her ally-making genius throughout the season, but never enough to sustain a narrative.
Denise- MOR2- Denise only getting an MOR because of her compelling immunity idol victory, which was shown to by the sort of gutsy, winner-worthy play we're supposed to admire (as oppoed to Kim and Michele stepping down). She was otherwise pretty UTR this episode.
Jeremy- MOR3- We got more swinging from Jeremy this episode, and a bit of strategic content between him and Michele. He seems too Game Bot-y to win this Winners Season. We never get a sense of a "larger narrative" here, not like we did with "Second Chance."
Tony- CPP4- More Tony dominance! How is this guy still around? He didn't seem quite as strong as last episode, and was shown making some strategic mistakes. Nevertheless, it is Tony's lens through which we are meant to view the island's proceedings, and it's Tony's machinations that are winning the day. It'll take a big upset to knock him out at this point...
Sarah- CP3- The big character story now is the on-and-off partnership/potential blindside/frenemy "Cops R Us" pairing of Sarah and Tony. Sarah did well to re-assert her bonafides in this episode. She initially seemed furious with Tony, as one might expect, but eventually calmed down to make her typically careful, cunning decisions.
Ben- MORN4- Lots of screentime for Ben here, but maybe not too much content? Caught between the bigger (better?) forces of Jeremy and Tony, Ben is consistently involved but still a inconsistent strategist. His effort to hide his idol, "his season"-style, from Tony, met with laughter from Tony and at least two viewers. I detected a bit of negative shading, too: in his relationship with Jeremy, Ben still seems like the catty, unprincipled one.
EOE
Natalie, Amber, Danni, Ethan, Rob, Parvati, Yul, Wendell, Adam, Tyson, Sophie
Another exhausting (some might say... overlong) challenge leads to a boatload of testimonials. Natalie is consistently (appropriately) getting those "challenge beast" comments. Rob busted his elbow and was made to seem like a GOD when even w/ no hope of success, he continued the challenge. Is fucking Rob actually coming back?
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