The Survivor Tocantins Episode Nobody Saw Coming

After a blindside Survivor was ready to send another home, but not before some drama of course. Promos have been billing Sierra as a potential immunity winner and if she can pull it off, things are gonna get ugly. Back at camp after sending out Brendan, Sierra wasn’t feeling to good. She knew she was the next to go and just wanted everyone to be civil with her. It then got a bit brighter though as she talked to Coach. She was upset about voting for him, and he seemed to care. At least more then you would think. Could Coach actually sympathize with Sierra and keep her? I doubt it but I can only hope! The next morning it was, like all episodes, all about Coach. He did his yoga in the lake and talked about beating Brendan, he was happy about beating out the “kids” but he still has a few left to beat.

Back up at camp Sierra was begging and pleading to stay. It was more like she making excuses to why she voted for Coach, but nobody was buying it. JT and Stephen still wanted to send her out, even they could use her. I mean she said she just voted how Brendan told her to, so she could be an easy controllable vote. Tyson then talked to Sierra along and continued to put her down. He called her “too stupid” to formulate the vote for Coach and told her that there was nothing to do to stay. Sierra understands her position in the game, going from top to bottom and will do anything to stay. Sadly I don’t think she will.

At the reward challenge it was time for a huge puzzle, this time in groups. They split into three groups for the challenge red: JT, Debbie, Tyson and Erinn and black: Taj, Coach, Stephen and Sierra. What they had to do was first go and get four huge puzzle pieces and fit them into a stand. Once they were all back, they then had to move the pieces around so they could see letters through the holes of the puzzle. The winner would be the first team to put together a phrase using those letters. Black was in the lead early until the third puzzle, when Red took the lead and kept it. In the end the Red team won the challenge as they got the puzzle while the other group was still putting their initial puzzle together. They won a feast and martial arts show and thanks for the hope of a new idol, sent Stephen to exile.

Thanks to their win Erinn, Debbie, Tyson and JT headed out to their feast. Erinn was enjoying all the food on her first reward while Debbie was enjoying the company of the children. She’s a high school principal, took them long enough to actually reveal that. We’ve hardly seen anything of Debbie this entire show, could she be the new Bob? During the martial arts/dance show the four were pulled in to dance. Thanks to her full stomach and crazy dancing, Erinn didn’t feel too good aftwards and gave the seasonal puck during the food reward. She wasn’t the only one feeling down though as Stephen learned that there was no new idol in the game. He went to Exile for no reason and spent his time being bored in the sand.

The next day and back at camp, Sierra was still on the “keep me” plan. She talked to Debbie. She cried a few times but in the end it ended badly as Sierra took control, ending the conversation with Debbie. Erinn was chiming in throughout the convo and Sierra couldn’t take it, believing nobody was giving her a chance. There was a moment though between her and Coach that seemed genuine. She poured her heart out to Coach, telling him how he’s taught her to be strong and grow. He seemed to feel bad for Sierra, saying he’d love to give her a second chance but due to the game he just couldn’t. In the end Coach basically told Sierra to give up, but she just couldn’t do that.

It was then time for that immunity that makes some people wonder why people do what they do. They were either allowed to eat pizza or play for immunity, which dealt with sliding a puck through the Survivor Shuffle Board. Coach, JT and Stephen sat out while everyone else played. After the first round it was all rather close but Tyson dominated the second round, having two pucks close to the X. In the final round Sierra was second to last to go and gained the closest puck to the X, and a possible win. But as Sierra celebrated her joy quickly became sorrow as Debbie pushed her puck away, giving Debbie the immunity win.

Back at camp following the immunity Sierra looked like she was obviously going and didn’t do much to stay. Everyone celebrated Debbie’s win, well Tyson and Coach did at least. Erinn was brewing something and was ready to change up the game. She’s been laying low lately but tonight she made a huge move. She suggested that she, Taj, Stephen and JT vote for Tyson. She wanted him out of the game due to his double immunity wins, and it was a pretty smart play. Stephen took the bait and ran with it, getting Taj on board. It once again all came down to JT though as he didn’t want to keep Sierra around.

It was then time for Tribal Council and oh what a Tribal Council it was. It all began with Sierra telling Jeff that she was going. Tyson then spoke and didn’t seem worried about going and that’s where all the drama began. While Sierra discussed her reasons for why she should stay, Jeff wasn’t following. Tyson then jumped in and said he could speak for her, which Sierra didn’t like. The two then argued until Jeff pulled them apart, asking what the problem was. Sierra then went on to say that he’s basically hated her the entire time, and should go because he’s strong. That made Jeff shift towards Coach, asking how Brendan going is any different then voting out Tyson. He went on to say that Brendan went against him, Tyson didn’t. I guess it makes sense, but Coach is still a douche and I’m sure he’ll be an even bigger one next week. As the votes were read it seemed obvious that Sierra would go. She got three votes but then things changed, Tyson got a vote and more kept coming. In the end Tyson was sent home, and I didn’t even see it coming! Errin’s idea swapped the game and sent Tyson packing, although he did leave rather nicely. Sierra’s face was priceless though as she was more surprised then any. She lives to see another day and I’m sure it will be oh so exciting next week as Survivor keeps getting better.