Survivor Blog 02-Million Dollar Decision

The last Survivor, Blood v. Water, episode I watched aired on November fifth and was called “Million Dollar Decision”.  Since watching the past episodes, it seemed like most logical step, according to the way they organized the tribes. They have really been trying to test all of the tribe members with all of the switch ups in the last few episodes and this one was definitely one of the most drastic switch ups.  In this switch up, they simply put the tribes together. This didn’t seem to intense when I heard it but as I watched, I realized why it was a difficult situation for the tribe members.

The combining of the tribes created pressure for some of the couples but mostly for everyone individually and especially the members without loved ones.  When everyone came together, it intensified the feeling of being by themselves for the singles since  there was no tribe they were apart of.  Im sure seeing the others with loved ones didn’t help the situation. Josh made it even more stressful on the singles because he was trying to get rid of all of the them in order to just have couples in the competition.  Jeremy  was suspicious  that Reed and Josh may become leaders which caused stress and negative pressure between them so Jeremy thought he may be voted off.   So in order to avoid being voted off, Jeremy tried to be friendly with everyone. With the new switch up, Keith reconnected the alliance with his son.  Keith heard some frustrating news when Missy told him that she and Baylor had voted against him. She admitted it was only because of the potential threat of Dale’s possible idol. Explained in chapter 9 in Working Group,the Toulmin Model has three additional components beyond the “basic T”. Reservation, backing and qualifier. Missy and Baylor try and use reservationin order to justify voting against Keith. This component of reservation recognizes exceptions to their argument and how the threat of the idol was a circumstance in which it was the right thing to do.