Chris Noble, the Floridian model, attempts to explain Survivor Ghost Island’s class warfare with Laurel, the up-and-coming collegiate athlete.
Survivor has always been a social experiment. Even before Jeff Probst flew out to the Borneo region close to two decades ago, everyone in production thought that this would be a neat little experiment intertwined with competition and anthropologic looks at tribe dynamics in the modern day. 35 seasons later and Survivor Ghost Island players are still trying to offer their takes on the game that have been established since Day One.
The Survivor Ghost Island episode 6 secret scene was cut likely in favor of keeping Chris Noble’s delusions of grandeur more about his narcissistic ways over him as the cunning “bigger picture” kind of player. However, it does show that Chris knows he’s a target as the merge approaches, with Laurel being the player of choice he wants to get to know better.
Whenever a recruit talks to a superfan about the game, a certain level of restraint needs to be performed to get past the obvious differences of opinion. Chris extensively tells Laurel “how it is” in Survivor Ghost Island, comparing the dynamics of goats, upper-crust players and floaters as the lower, upper and middle-class players of life.
Laurel gives Chris props for getting half of the analogy right; whatever people at home think about strong players not actually going out and winning challenges back-to-back-to-back, there’s still that perception held by a strong majority of players in the game. While she sees worth in Chris wanting to keep meat shields, Laurel notes that people watching at home should be watching for the strategic minds.
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This past week was an episode where everybody got a little piece of content (Libby being the exception), but with Yanuya built with physically and mentally strong players, it makes sense that this was cut so we could see more about what’s going on with Naviti and Malolo.