'Survivor: Fans vs. Favorites' finale
Ah, blindsiding the blindsiders. What a fitting end to this season of Survivor.
The final four -- Parvati, Amanda, Cirie and Natalie -- went into what they thought was their final immunity challenge. Amanda won, and stuck with her alliance, sending Natalie packing.
But then the shocker: there would be another immunity challenge, taking them to a final two. Amanda won yet another challenge and tearfully voted out Cirie.
After one last night, Amanda and Parvati then faced the jury. (And I'm going to live-blogging and switching to present tense.)
Eliza is up first. She talks to Parvati about respecting her strategic game, but not the other things she did that made her seem like a mean person. She then tells Amanda that she also respects her strategic game, but finds her to be very superficial otherwise. (Her exact words are more along the lines of: "Your voice often made me literally want to kill myself.") Nice.
Jason asks Amanda if she would have told Ozzy about the plan if she'd known about it. Amanda says yes. He asks Parvati about her redeeming qualities, and she says her protectiveness and loyalty to her main alliance (Amanda and Cirie). And also that she didn't kill Gloria the chicken.
Alexis asks Parvati what makes her a better role model than Amanda for young girls. She says she is more outspoken and bolder. She then talks to Amanda about what part of her game was genuine -- adding that they were laughing at her tears in the last TC since she acted so hard during the play of the immunity idol.
Natalie asks Parvati how playing the flirt card in the game, "How does that translate in the bedroom?" Huh? Parvati admitted to flirting with girls and guys to get her way at home and in the game. She calls Amanda out for her "glazed-over look" on her face, and was that her strategy or was that just who she was. Amanda says she is a little reserved and that she believes she played a strategic and intellectual game.
Erik says that a few days ago, he 100 percent would have been voting for Amanda, but now he has a lot of questions. He says he felt thrown under the bus at two TCs. Amanda says everything she said at the TCs was honest, that she was hurt during those times. She says she's sorry, but he says it's too late, and he doesn't buy it.
James tells Jeff is finger is all right. James says he's not going to be mean, he thinks Amanda has it in the bag. So he asks Parvati to ... be more honest? She says, "Gotcha, sucka." He says that isn't what he is looking for. Parvati says she had no chance to win sticking with James and Ozzy, so she had to make the move against Ozzy when she did.
Cirie congratulates both of them. She asks Amanda why she deserves the million more than Cirie. Amanda says she thinks Parvati made bolder decisions and "was the powerhouse." She asks Parvati why Cirie should be in the final two instead of her. Parvati says she played a brilliant under the radar game, but she couldn't compete with a mother of three. Parvati asks for like the third time if her answer was good enough.
Ozzy says he thinks he's the biggest idiot up here and that he is to the bottom of his heart hurt by Parvati's move. He says she put a price on their friendship and she discarded him like garbage. (HELLO, IT IS A GAME, OZZY.) He says he doesn't want to talk to her, but he adds that the worst thing was she took away 14 more days he could have spent with Amanda. (Oooh, showmance lives!) He tells Amanda that he was not and is not faking his feelings for her -- "I honestly feel like I started to fall in love with you." Call me callous (or burnt out), but that was kind of barfy.
The votes we see: Erik votes for Amanda, saying she played a good game; Alexis votes for Parvati; Natalie votes for Parvati; and Ozzy votes for Amanda. Eliza has to be all dramatic and not cast her vote for like seven years, of course.
To the live finale, where suddenly makeup is in abundance.
Votes: Parvati, Amanda, Parvati, Amanda, Parvati, Amanda, Parvati and Parvati.
So ... Parvati is the winner, and she is shocked. She's not the only one! What do you think?
(I'll update a little later with more from the finale.)
(Hey, there wasn't a car challenge!)
