And when Jelinsky continued to make excuses, the host called him out for not owning that as well.
What did he make of Jelinskys misfortune?
Why did the host come at the player?
Jeff Probst on ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
How come Jess seemed completely unable to communicate?
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Okay Jeff.
Its just minutes after the first Tribal Council ofSurvivor 46.
David Jelinsky.Robert Voets/CBS
What’d you see in there?
If theydon’twork, you’re able to be in trouble.
And clearly there wasn’t.
David Jelinsky, Kenzie Veurink, Bhanu Gopal, Tiffany Ervin, Q Burdette, and Jess Chong on ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
Just from the outside, I would say it was probably the right choice.
But that high and that low and the contrast is whatSurvivoris all about.
And that’s why we have a vote.
Tiffany Ervin, Jess Chong, David Jelinsky, Q Burdette, and Bhanu Gopal on ‘Survivor 46’.Robert Voets/CBS
And that’s why a torch does get snuffed.
Because when you get to the end, what it means is it didn’t happen to you!
You survived Tribal after Tribal after Tribal.
That’s the game.
Tell me what you were hearing and why you had to come back at him a little bit.
I’m going to quit.
I’ve done that enough.
My feet hurt, and I don’t have any stake in it.
So yeah, I was pushing back.
Jelinsky finally did own it.
It took quite a bit of work to get him to own it.
Because if Q had had a different partner, I’m not sure they would’ve quit.
My guess is Q realized I can’t do it alone.
He’s going to give up.
So let’s just stop now.
Let me cut my losses now.
And that’s probably one of the reasons Jelinsky is gone.
And he clearly had no idea that the entire tribe had turned on him.
That’s the brutal part of the game.
Is that just bad luck, or do you make your own luck in this game?
Or is it a bit of both?
It’s a good philosophical question.
We test our tasks and our challenges so they can be successful, but they require work.
So he painted it as though it was impossible.
It’s not; we tested it a lot.
We could probably do it again next season and it would be accomplished.
Just happened to be his feet were hurting him.
I don’t know how bad they are.
They sound pretty bad.
So that’s real.
Those things can happen and make it hard to get around, but youve got to own it.
I don’t know, Dalton.
I mean, for real.
I don’t play.
I’m not out there.
I don’t know all the minutiae, I don’t know all the details.
I just see the big picture.
I think Jelinsky is going to look back and think, I could have played it differently.
I hope he doesn’t beat himself up.Survivoris a game.
You play, you take a shot, it works.
It doesn’t work.
But all you’re able to do is play your game.
Jelinsky played his game.
It didn’t work.
He got voted out.
You had Jess tonight, who really had trouble even speaking at this Tribal Council.
Do you see that a lot?
Or maybe even more.
I think it’s one of the hardest things to translate to the audience, how real it is.
And as Jelinsky said, sleeping on bamboo, it’s not comfortable.
You do it because it’s the best alternative.
Youve seen a lot of emotion in this game over many seasons.
It didn’t surprise me.
And a lot of that is deprivation also, not just food and sleep, but deprivation from trust.
And then you lose and realize you have to vote somebody out.
And if you have empathy, that can happen.
I don’t think anybody wanted to hurt Jelinsky.
So I think that’s where the emotion comes from.
