Five episodes into Survivor 50, there’s been a lot of talk about the edit. Between the Zac Brown segments, the lack of confessionals for several women and how much we’ve gotten from Christian, fans have had a lot to say about what we’re seeing and what we might be missing. Those are all fair talking points, but to me, there’s another far more subtle storyline the edit seems to be setting up that could have major implications on the rest of the game.
With the exception of Christian, Rick, Emily and Cirie who I’ll get to later, we have really only spent time mapping out two specific alliances involving people still here. There’s Cirie, Rizo, Dee and Kamilla, who worked together to get out Charlie last episode, and there’s Coach, Colby, Joe and assumedly, Chrissy, who have been repeatedly shown bonding as warriors, tidewalkers and challenge beasts. Explained in another way, we have one group of schemers and more new school strategy wizards and another group of more old school castaways, at least in attitude, who like to play a straightforward game.
