I understand what you're saying, using it last night wouldn't have made a difference, in theory - who knows if it would have made those working the puzzle work faster had they gotten the pieces first.
I did miss something, if the medallion can be used at any challenge, and if that is the case, the youth would have used it at the next reward challenge, giving back the medallion for the next immunity challenge.
Plus, the other problem with not using it is that if a team loses, that's another floating target on the backs of everyone who said 'don't use it', and in a social game like Survivor, that can be the difference between staying and going home at tribal council.
As an aside, Survivor really needs to add an extra hour to the first episode. I'd really like to see more of the first three days, for both teams, than what they show now. Too often we only get tiny glimpses of how things are going, because they've only got 25 minutes to show us what's going on outside the introduction, the challenge and the tribal council.
Nothing has really matched that first episode of Survivor in the first season, where they didn't really know what they were doing, and yet turned out one of the best starts ever. That extra 40 minutes could break out from the formula they've fallen into and give us a whole lot more insight into how the tribes are doing, give us more characters to follow, and stop so directly highlighting who's going home at the end of the episode.
Won't happen, I know, as CBS needs that lead in to prop up whatever show's going to go off at 9pm, but I can still wish and want.
ITA, they do need an extra hour at the beginning. It’s the time viewers get to the know the contestants and see how they interact within the tribe. The only clue we had that Wendy was on the outs was when someone (see, I didn’t get the extra time to remember whom) said she was strange and then then poof! we have Johnson talking about putting her up instead of him. Sure, she had a small one on one with the camera but it wasn’t until the actual “wait, don’t vote until you all know I’m dingy” that most of the audience knew the deal. Apologies to her FRiend but she really stepped into it there.
The Oldsters aren’t buying Johnson’s pep talks or his “I’m here so you can win the $” strategy. Sure, he probaby doesn’t need the $ but is there for the 15 minutes and the experience, however, like Wendy, that’s the wrong speech to make to these people.
High five to Jane and her fire-making skills. It’s about time! Every year since the first episode, you KNOW you’re supposed to be able to make fire. Hellllooo, Jeff tells them at every tribal council, “Fire is life.”
Is anyone going to be the Ping Master for Amazing Race?