"Survivor" finale!

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ADDED #1, spoiler: Ah, didn't you know as soon as you saw the challenge that Yau-Man would win? But it was impressive of Boo and Dreamz to keep up, and bizarrely embarrassing for Earl and Cassandra to get left back where they were. Now, what's to stop Yau-Man from winning? Can you imagine Dreamz double-crossing him on the deal about the truck from last week? I can't. I'm picturing Dreamz getting voted out at this point, just as a deal to try to stop Yau-Man.

ADDED #2: Oh, no! They voted out Boo. Doesn't this mean Yau-Man will win?

ADDED #3: The final immunity challenge requires you to just hang on while lying on a plank that is moved to a more and more difficult angle. How long will Cassandra even bother to hold on? She doesn't even try to win. That is a strategy. Dreamz really should try to win, even though he'll have to give his immunity to Yau-Man. It makes him more sympathetic.

ADDED: #4: Earl has the best strategy, getting over to the side and out of the water flow. But it gets harder and harder. Cassandra goes. Earl goes. Yau-Man goes! So it's Dreamz! Perfect! Does he renege? No, he can't.

ADDED #5: Oh, no! Dreamz! [Dreamz reneges on his deal with Yau-Man and keeps the immunity.]

ADDED #6: Ohhh! Yau-Man. [Yau-Man is voted out.] Poor Dreamz! What a bad decision. Yau-Man says, "Enjoy the truck." The deal was not enforceable, so Dreamz, apparently, will keep it. But I don't see how he can possibly win the vote, having reneged in front of the jury and doomed the most brilliant player. It's quite obvious now that Earl will win. Who would vote for Dreamz? (Which is why, even out of pure self-interest, he should have given the immunity necklace to Yau.) And who would vote for Cassandra? What has she ever done? But Earl was a good player. It's all downhill from here. I think we know Earl will win, right?

ADDED #7: "It's a game and everybody else played it and slithered through this game," says Dreamz, who's blustering, trying to convince himself that what he did was okay. Hmmm, mmm-mmmm, Cassandra looks happy. I think maybe she knows she's the only one no one has anything against. At breakfast, food has been delivered, and Dreamz is drinking syrup out of a champagne glass. He's so happy, he says: "I feel like I'm standing next to... Oprah."

ADDED #8: The questioning by the jury was intense. Most amazing was Eduardo Boo, who repeatedly challenged Dreamz for his failure to be a good Christian. I can't think of any time I've ever seen a reality show contestant talk not just about his own religion, but actively challenge another contestant to live up to his religion. Extraordinary. [MORE: There must have been a lot of discussion of religion, especially between Boo and Dreamz, that was edited out of the show all season. Now, it seems very weird to have Boo go all religious, but I assume it was a natural part of the interaction, a theme that the editors rejected as a story line. In the end when Boo was entitled to his turn as a juror, we saw there was dimension to this enigma, but because it suddenly burst out at the very end, it made him seem nutty. Religion: too nutty to show consistently, and because it's not shown consistently, it's really nutty.]

ADDED #9: Back in NY, announcing the vote. Oh! All three of them got so chubby! And Earl wins! Unanimously, as far as we can see. Oh, poor tragic Dreamz! Jeff tells us that all 9 votes went to Earl, and that this was the first time ever on the show that the $1 million was won by unanimous vote.