Survivor 42 Episode 12 Recap: Never Say You're Confident At Tribal
From hours upon hours of podcasts to lengthy online recaps to every corner of Survivor Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Reddit, it was rare to find someone who didn't believe Omar Zaheer was in the driver's seat heading into the episode 12 of the 42nd season. He was "Survivor confident", but so were we all, swooned by his mastery of the game, hypnotized by his effortless maneuvering at each stage of play. Omar was calling the shots, but he walked through the game light-footedly—like the ostrich on his shirt—without anyone having a clue just how much power he wielded.
When Drea Wheeler left the game last week, she did so with great fanfare...like, literally, she blared those trumpets like no other. On her way out, the seventh place finisher spilled the beans that it was Omar who'd hatched the plan to hold onto Mike Turner's idol so that Drea's Knowledge Is Power plan would fail and she'd be blindsided. For the first time, the entire tribe was privy to the inner workings of Omar's brain. It clicked for Mike, and especially for Maryanne Oketch, that Omar had to be eliminated for anyone else to have a chance.
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Fortunately for the viewers, Omar wasn't ousted from the game amid a flurry of advantage plays. Instead, he was voted out because Maryanne refused to let a perfect opportunity slip through her fingers (or her imperfect toenails). She wrangled Romeo Escobar, whose allegiances the entire post-merge have been anyone's guess, and sent the biggest threat to the jury via a 3-2-2 vote.
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It took no time at all for fans to fall in love with Maryanne, what with her enthusiasm for even the tiniest rewards,
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