Anyway, Dean won and chose the idol nullifier, thereby most likely nullifying all our dreams of a Janet victory Online Cigarettes Store USA in the process, which makes me want to hide his shoes or something. Tommy, Dean, and Dan had a secret final three alliance, which kinda made sense because none of them wanted to go against Elaine, Janet, or Lauren at the end. But now that Dan has been pulled from the game, who fills that spot? Is it Noura (who would be seen as the most beatable) or Lauren (who has closer ties to the others)? Essentially, when you get down to the final four, it doesn’t really matter. Tommy and Dean no doubt plan to bring each other Newport Cigarettes Shop to the end should they win the final immunity, and then let the two women battle it out at fire… Yet another reason why the final four fire-making needs to go. Finally, an immunity challenge where people are actually moving! Last week I was complaining about all the stand-in-a-station-for-as-long-as-you-can challenges, and so it was a sight for sore eyes to see this week’s competition in which players had to spin to unravel themselves from a coil of rope, go across obstacles, and then solve a Survivor word puzzle which read: “This game will mess with your mind.” (Not to mention, your morals.)
I’ll never understand why Noura was not better at the spinning portion of this challenge seeing as that’s how she likes to spend her spare time on the beach while in Fiji. She did, however, manage to make it to the puzzle first. As the contestants all fumbled around trying to make sense of it (I couldn’t help but notice that at one point Dan had assembled the word “Sith”) a leader finally emerged in Elaine. Elaine? Yes, the woman who repeatedly stated how bad she was with words was on the right track and appeared headed for victory before she was overtaken by sneaker-loving Dean at the very end. Elaine was so visibly distraught by her narrow defeat that she did her impersonation of Rick Devens impersonating Kool-Aid Man, knocking down her puzzle in a fit of fruit-punch flavored rage.
We all knew it was Elaine going after that. She tried to scramble and point out that keeping her around kept Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes one more shield, but nobody was going to fall for that. It was tough to see the fan-favorite go, and even more tough hearing her talk about how unlucky she has been in life and that “other than getting on this, nothing good has ever really happened.” Players both in the game and on the jury got weepy as Elaine talked about her mom passing away three months ago. Of course, that also incentivized the current players even more to get rid of her because who wants to sit next to THAT at final Tribal? Elaine was impossible not to like and root for… which, ultimately, was her undoing.