Writer_Commentary

What this episode may lack in dramatic tribal councils or really intense challenges, it makes up for in character development and shows people in ways that you don't always see in today's show. This is one of the good reasons that they don't always need the twists and advantages that you will see in later seasons. All it really needed to do was focus on the people in the show and their developments with each other. One has seemed like an outcast from the beginning, but tries to fit in. As the title implies, it could be too late for this person. I like the reward challenge and wish that it were used more in seasons of today. It can test a tribe's cohesiveness while also pitting them against the unknown of what the other tribe is doing. The immunity challenge should have been used again (and still can be), even if you won't always know just how other tribe members are faring at times so you might not always know who cost you the challenge. It is interesting to see a player display their cockiness at tribal council, only to instantly regret it. Still, we haven't gotten to any surprise vote outs yet, but it is hard to know when such a thing might occur in the future.

What is there to say? The show is slowly improving in this episode as we get to more tribal relationships. It seems that one tribe is doing well, but the edit can be misleading at times. It is interesting that we get to one of the first times where a player wasn't sure that they were getting voted out, although the audience can once again see it coming. It is obvious and can be hard to see it as anything other than a simple vote off that they didn't see coming. I also know that we actually see the reward challenge in this episode in addition to the immunity challenge as well. It is a good episode, even with some limitations in the edit.

There are some things to like about this episode, but a lot of it are still not as good as they could be. I do like how we get our first real sense of drama on this show without it being manufactured by production in the form of a twist. Obviously, we aren't going to get into twists this early into the show. B. B. Is the main instigator of the problems on his tribe simply by being himself. That's part of the reason that casting makes the choices that it did as they wouldn't ever put a cohesive group together for everything to be Kumbaya. I hate that the first ever reward challenge isn't in this episode. It was edited out for one reason or another. I guess that the episode flowed smoother without it leaving more time for drama and character development. The immunity challenge is much better handled in future seasons. The tribal council isn't much of anything with too much of the results seeming predictable.