Survivor: Snowglobe

 Oooh, another SHAKEUP!! Another TWIST brought to you by someone clearly with a high COVID fever!  

Prior to the BIG TWIST Shan and Ricard are going at it because Shan is a control freak who wants to hold all of the idols.  Ricard is mad because she shook him down for the advantage before tribal.  Shan says it's MIIIINE, ALL MIIIIINE, ME WANTS THE PRECIOUS!!!!      Ricard reminds her they found it together and he could have just as easily opened it.  MIIIIIIIIIIINE.    

Ricard: I feel like you don't trust me. (Moderator: SHE DOESN'T)

Shan: Next idol is yours

Ricard: Thanks for permission to have ONE.

Tree mail A MILESTONE OF EVERY SEASON but lets have some "fun" first.  Wooohooo that must mean we are merged!!!

Yellow is all "we're totally a solid 4.....maybe 3....." Lianna is "chompin to flip the narrative"

Some on blue are uneasy because, having never gone to tribal, they have never had to vote and solidify alliances.  Naseer is ALL IN WITH BLUE.  Danny thinks there are big cracks.  

Jeff gets a candid shot where he tells US about the big twist (which I had to rewind twice to figure out).  There's no tribal tonight, and the winners will think they are safe and send one person away but also give them BIG POWER.  

Everyone is told they are now in the next phase and they can DROP YER BUFFS!  Everyone is happy especially those who have used their old buff to wipe their ass this morning.  You are now not EXACTLY merged.  There are no tribes but you have to earn your way to a merge.  

They have to draw rocks to split into 2 teams then do a challenge with a giant buried boulder, an obstacle course, keys, and a word puzzle.  The first team gets merge buffs and a meal and are safe.  The other team has to go to tribal or an immunity challenge then tribal??  I was lost here but I think Jeff was being vague.  2 players get gray rocks and don't get to compete.  

Yellow:

Xander

Heather

Liana

Tiffany

Shan

Blue

Danny

Ricard

Sydney

Deshawn

Evvie

Gray rocks Naseer and Erika.  

I'm sure you can guess by the split which team wins,  Blue kicks ass and wins.  They have to chose one of the gray's to join them and one to send to an isolated island for 2 days all alone.  They pick Naseer to join them and send poor Erika off to the island which I don't even think has a cute marketing name.  

The losers do get rice for one day while the other feast.  They all leave to go to their new camp.

Jeff asks Erika how she feels and she tells him she was pretty sure she was at the bottom anyway.  She's terrified of being alone on the island.  

At the feast Naseer is all happy.  Evvie asks if they like Erika or what that shit is?  Deshawn tells her that they've been watching Yellow knock all of the men off and they were concerned about the male privilege.  

Erika is scared to be alone.  She finds a little bit of rice and water.  She starts a fire and tells her story about being from the Philippines and living in Canada and how being on Survivor is like a love letter to her parents and as usual I'm like BITCH WE ALL HAVE STORIES.

Back on mergeland Xander is downtrodden and really wants to get to the full merge.  He's still stuck on the suck team.  Tiffany shows off her total lack of social skills by asking Shan if she got the idol in front of everyone.  Shan then talks to Liana about who has idols and who has advantages.  They're still all bonded.  Liana talk about what a pain in the ass Tiffany is.  Tiffany gets her panties in a wad about Liana and Shan bonding and leaving her out so she says she "may not have Liana's back".  

Everyone is bonding on camp.  There's apparently a black person alliance for the "first time".  Danny is worried Erika is going to come back with an advantage and a grudge.  

Erika is working on her fire and JEFF pulls up in a boat and sits down on the sand with her and for a minute I thought this might get kind of creepy and then I worried even more about this girl all alone on a isolated island and I was more afraid of the film/production crew than any animals.  Jeff pushes her buttons by asking what it feels like to be alone.  She tells him she feels left behind and is going to have to catch up.  Jeff tells her about the magic hourglass she has that allows her to leave the game as is OR to DRAMATICALLY shift the game by turning back the clock and changing who won the challenge yesterday.  She has to decide by tomorrow whether or not to change who the winners of yesterday's challenge was.  Erika thinks about how the 6 now safe were her original tribe, BUT she's clearly on the bottom of that group.  

TO BE CONTINUED!!!