Yeah, Wardog fucked himself over haaard with playing too hard and not having a backup plan.

The Survivor community is so funny sometimes during the airing of seasons. On reddit people were mentioning that Lauren/Kelley/Wardog was one of the best Survivor trios of all time, and that Wardog was as good a player as Tony which was hilarious when viewed in retrospect given their 'alliance' just fell apart with no explanation whatsoever on why. Also, those 'balls of steel' memes and HYPE-machines when it came to Kelley/Lauren not using their idols to only have Kelley be voted out with an idol shows how hilariously reactionary the community is sometimes. Part of it's charm I guess? Haha. Hype culture is fun to a certain degree. It's funny seeing people get way ahead of themselves though.

I'm sure the editing doesn't help this season either, as it feels disjointed at best and can in result of that feel misleading... no overarching storylines and very inconsistent bond development between the castaways. Which I'm sure largely has to do with EoE, I couldn't imagine how daunting of a task it is to edit this season. Really makes me wish the episodes were atleast 20 minutes longer. Jeff was apparently making a point about that in an article I read last week... possibly for S40?

Either way though - this episode by itself was the best one of the season for me personally. Very old-school type of vibe which I particularly enjoyed (with no pre-tribal advantage talk, a cultured reward, human moments with real emotions)! Much better than the rushed episode of last week!

So far I'm getting the impression that this season will go down as an odd-ball type of season in retrospect. Kind of in the same vein as South Pacific but in a different kind of way. But I feel like it's been a divisive enough season for it to garner a cult-following as the years go by. Interested to see if my prediction is right.