Krunch Time!

In this episode of survivor the allegiance within the tribes seem more apparent than ever. With this allegiance also comes a sense of being a strong group and working as a team. The tribe members that are aligned are supporting one another to victory. They all share a sense of meaningfulness they feel they are working in groups to be the remaining “top six”. Some of the tribe members have had an alliance since the beginning of the series. Jeremy feels a strong alliance with Natalie and missy. That however was not enough to keep him in the game. It seems to me that even though there are sub groups in the show, each member has a strong sense of choice which seems to be the turn of events every time. Every player on the island is extremely entitled to their choice of who to vote off next. It seems like there is always a target and it is usually the strongest players in the sense of motivating players to vote. Jeremy had done a great job of swaying votes in previous episode but along came Jon and he played on the fact that people had choice and bumped Jeremy off of the island. There is clearly a sense of competence among the alliances they are sure that each is a valuable player and contribute to the tribes. Even though they begin to attack others they believe are weaker like Keith who has clearly been targeted. Each individual on the island believes themselves to be competent and that I think is one of the driving forces of the show. As far as a sense of progress each person that remains on the island feels this, whether in a sub group or as a whole the fact that they remain in the game gives them a constant sense of accomplishment, as does reward or immunity. I think I might just watch the rest of the survivor series… or Nah?