Survivor 50 was meant to be an ode to the history of the game over the last 25 years. And we’ve actually seen a lot of history repeat itself. Ozzy Lusth getting voted out with an idol in his pocket. Emily Flippen being voted out on day 21. Rizo Velovic having a known idol basically the entire game and using it on the last day possible.
And now that we’re down to our Final Five, I can’t help but wonder if there’s one or two more—big—pieces of history that’s going to repeat in the finale. The first being if Rizo Velovic is once again going to put his fate in the hands of fire and the second being if our Final Three players will be the only three players left in the game who were previously finalists.
Aubry Bracco, Jonathan Young, and Joe Hunter are the only players left who have been finalists on a former Survivor season.
And—whether history’s been repeating itself or not—right now they seem like a very viable crew to make up the players fighting for their life at Final Tribal Council. Aubry has repeatedly been saying that she doesn’t want history to repeat by getting her to the end against a player she can’t beat—the way Michele Fitzgerald won at the Final Three in Survivor: Koah Rong. So it would make perfect sense for her to take people she knows didn’t play as well as she did this season.
While she’s been doing her best to fly under the radar for most of the game, she’s been on somebody’s threat list every day since our castaways arrived on the marooning beach. And yet every week, she’s deflected the vote from herself and been a key factor in eliminating a majority of the jury.
Of course it’s likely that if he makes it to Final Tribal Council, Jonathan will try and take credit for nearly every juror’s elimination—except Coach Wade and Chrissy Hofbeck—he truly was never the brains behind any vote this season. He might have voiced his desire for some people to leave the game, but as far as strategizing goes, someone else was always behind him making the true moves while he just talked a lot.
And as far as the viewer edit goes, Joe Hunter’s only resume items this season have been winning a couple of immunity challenges. While he does have a chance to tie the record for most individual immunity wins of all time—if the history books consider his win alongside Tiffany Ervin an individual immunity, which it technically is…—I doubt this group of jurors will see that as a game-winning move.
So Jonathan and Joe are actually the exact players Aubry is looking for to join her at the finale. There’s no world in which either of them beat her. She’d have a little more difficulty with Tiffany or Rizo joining her, but honestly, at this point, it’s her game to lose. She’s played her best game yet this season—being responsible for both the Cirie Fields elimination as well as Ozzy’s bindside—and it’s still not over. She has a bit of space to really make her mark in the live finale this coming Wednesday, May 20.
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