I really fucking loved this episode

Like

Really fucking loved it

Definitely my new favourite

But then again, every episode that I've seen when it actually came out has been my new favourite until the next one came out
(I was about to go on with a big rant about a summery of everything I loved in each episode since s2e9 (aka the first episode I watched when it came out) but this is probably gonna be wordy even without that, and I've just made you all sit through 16 parts of a reaction/review, so I'm just gonna spare you from that lol)
And I know that 15 and 16 will somehow top this, which seems almost impossible at this point because of how good 14 was, but they always find a way to top themselves, so I have no doubt that the next two episodes are gonna blow me away too

We just need to take a moment to appreciate everything that went into actually making the show
The backgrounds are gorgeous, I could just stare at them for hours
The music is always so breathtaking. In the livestream a few weeks ago(edit: months ago lol), John Mietus was 100% right, he is the reason why we feel so many emotions watching it. I love the soundtrack so much and honestly just can't wait for volume 2
The animation is so smooth
And the voice acting is so good
I actually can't talk enough about how much of a good job everyone does when making each episode
Especially this one
It's just so good
We just need to appreciate everything that went into making this episode
Definitely worth the wait

And that's just how much I love the making of the episode, I haven't even gotten to how much I love the story and character developments and just in general everything else in the episode (though you can definitely guess how I feel about all of that from the reaction reviews)

I actually can't even put into words how much I love this episode

So apparently one of the original ideas for this episode was to have the Prime Shimmer give everyone (or at least almost everyone)a personality swap, so like Fan would suddenly become the shows biggest critic, and Taco would be more like s1 Taco, but in the end they decided not to do this for a number of reasons that I'm too lazy to repeat so here's a screenshot of a summery of that from Brian's tumblr

Also I do believe they said in the stream another reason was because of the limited amount of time each episode meant if they did this it would just all end up rushed

So I don't blame them from not doing this in the end
But at the same time
I am slightly disappointed that we didn't get to see this
It kinda reminds me of a potential story idea that I had years ago, back when I was towards the end of writing icci and thinking of more story ideas for something I could write afterwards. And it was an idea that I really liked but didn't think much about, so I never got around to writing it
So now they tell us that they had the idea to do this
And I just instantly wanted to see that actually happening

I mean, the episode is incredible as it is, but now I know that we could have seen reverse insanity (which is what I'm calling an au for this) I am very disappointed that we didn't see that

Or better yet, rather than having all the characters reversed
I really wanna see only some of the characters reversed, and everyone else having to deal with them and try to get them back to normal

In this scenario some of the hotel OJ residents have been reversed too, so they all go out to interact with the final 6 and try to figure out what's happening(cough my excuse to 1-see the eliminated contestants/past players, and 2-have some long awaited (by me) Pickle and Taco interactions)

(Ok originally I was gonna go on a big rant here about how I would write this scenario, which characters would change and how they would, and how we would get them back, but I decided to to delete that because 1-it was very long, 2- it was quite off topic as this is a theory/discussion thing, and that ended up as more like a fanfic, and 3-I realised that it would actually be a pretty good fanfic (or maybe a comic series at some point after I'm done with owh maybe) because I'm really enjoying this idea so I might actually do that assuming I have enough time now I'm back at college oof. Also if I make this don't expect it to turn out like the episode because even though I love how the episode ended I don't like characters being sad and want a happy ending for all(but then again I also love writing angst so maybe I shall choose to rip out my heart again in the same way Adam did in this episode multiple times lmao))

Also if I do do it I will be taking some of the ideas that the crew said about (because I love the ideas of Fan being this huge critic, and Mic and Knife having to deal with s1 Taco), but a couple things will be different(for example their idea for Test Tube is to make her dumb because she's so smart, I don't like this idea because it's a personality swap, and her intelligence isn't a personality trait but a result of one of her personality traits (her enthusiasm and passion for science and learning). By making her stupid it would be taking away her intelligence, which would mean her loosing information she already has, and if we were to do that, where would we draw the line? How much information would she loose? Why would the information loss stick only to facts, and not basic skills like walking, talking, breathing, etc, or to memories? And why only effect one person with information loss, why not everyone? Same if I were to reverse Apple(I probably won't though), I wouldn't make her intelligent because how would she suddenly know all of this stuff that she didn't know before if she had no chance to learn it for herself? And why would she be the only person to gain information from this experience. Just flat out no changes in intelligence for any characters, only changes in enthusiasm to learn new things. Although that being said, although they won't learn anything new on their own, if a character like Apple were to swap, and then teach herself quadratic equations (in a situation where you both have enthusiasm to learn new things and can finally understand things easier this would be a golden opportunity to teach yourself something like this as you can actually teach yourself effectively), when she goes back to normal she would remember it and how to do it, as (like I said) no information gain or loss from this experience, she would have learnt that herself. So basically no changes in any intelligence, it's just that Test Tube can't be bothered to think up a way to fix this and just flat out couldn't care less about anything)

Anyway, enough of that idea (even though I really wanna talk about it and have got a big rant about everything now copied and pasted from on here to my notes on my phone so I can refer to those later. If I don't actually make this though I will post said notes because I don't want this story to go to waste)

Anyway

Uhhhh

Also they said that they considered Baxter being a Baby Shimmer who hatched on earth so he looks like an earth crab, which I understand why they didn't do it but it would have been really cool to see
Especially if Bulby and Painty found out and knew they had to give him up just like how Fan and Tuby had to give up Egg Baby Shimmer, because it's the right thing to do
Imagine how heart wrenching that would be
Because Bulby is slowly loosing all her friends to the elimination, but at least she can see them all again when she's eliminated or after the show is done(or if they come to visit). If they give back Baxter she would never see him again and imagine how sad she would be
I mean she definitely would give him back, because she wouldn't want to break up the family, but she would be so sad

Anyway, moving on from that

Uhhhhhhh

So what part of the episode do I actually want to talk about

I guess I kinda did say a lot about it with the screenshots and shit but I just wanna make sure I'm not missing out anything out

Uhhh did I talk about the music yet?
I wrote half of this so long ago I honestly can't remember cause I got a shit memory
I'll just talk about it again just in case, worse case scenario I can just delete this later

So the music is fucking amazing
I loved every second of it

When we first got the teaser with Mic and Taco and Mephone and Mepad, I was listening to the music in the Mic and Taco part at the beginning(I guess that's Mics theme) and I really loved it.
It kinda gives me spirited away vibes (idk I probably sound crazy and shit, but I really love that movie and the soundtrack is beautiful I love listening to it when reading and shit it's just really nice, and idk it just sorta sounds like a song that could be in the spirited away soundtrack I hope I don't sound stupid when I say that and someone knows what I mean(also if you haven't seen spirited away definitely do it's such a good movie, a timeless classic that I will never grow tired of (you can watch spirited away on Netflix if you haven't seen it, but I'm not sure if that's just in the UK because I know Netflix has different shows and movies in different places, so if not then idk where you can watch it, but if you can definitely do because it's so good)))

I'm really looking forward to Firey Fest because I can't wait to hear all the cool object show music in it, and I'm especially looking forward to the ii songs in it (and really hope that we get ii soundtrack volume 2 soon. I think either they're gonna wait for Firey Fest to drop that, or we'll have to wait until the finale which is understandable because there's only 2 episodes left so it makes sense to put all the rest of the songs including ones that haven't dropped yet all together, but still I really wanna  listen to volume 2 and just have the rest of the background music without the actual dialogue, so I'm just really hoping that will happen soon)

Also I can't remember if I said about it before (I may have briefly mentioned part of it) but
I really love how Fans phone is a metaphor for his relationship with Test Tube. At first it was really good. Then this episode he dropped his phone, breaking it(also he dropped it because of her because if she had been nicer to him when he was eliminated and/or let him look after the egg while she stayed in or something, their relationship at the beginning of this episode would be better and he wouldn't of gone out to try and see the Egg). TT brings it with her when she tries to save him, and says that even though it's pretty broken, she can try to fix it, but in the end they have to leave that phone behind. But back on earth TT works hard to make him a new phone, a different one
"What I did to you was really cold and......I'm worried that.......things won't be the same"
"Yeah. Things will be different. But that's ok. Cause we got it. And you know what? I think they do too"
They left behind the old phone on the ship where they let Baby Shimmer be with their family
They let go of that part of their relationship and created a new bond because of what happened

Also the lights out thing I am not ok

I guess I've said everything I wanna say about this episode (if I think of something later I can just add it before this point and you'll never know) so I guess I'm gonna just theorise on the future of this show now

Okie doki doki

First of all, kinda suspicious that Mephone was glitching out but Mepad wasn't.
We know that the egg thing happened before Mephone was made(cause otherwise surely Mephone would have known about the older Mephones), so maybe Cobbs did something to the other Egg and used it to make Mephone
Or maybe he used it to make 4s, (because even though it's Mephone now, it's still originally 4s' body)
Maybe both of them
Idk
The fact is we know that 2 eggs were taken, but Cobbs definitely didn't get 1 of them, we don't know what happened to the other, and Mephone was glitching at the sound of Baby Shimmer hatching, which is kinda sus

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But then again, Fan started glitching when he was being beamed up, cause that's the whole reason why he dropped his phone

So why did Mephone and Fan start glitching?
I'm guessing Fan because of the tractor beam but for all we know it could be anything

Idk just an idea probably not right

But I really wanna know what happened to the other egg and really hope nothing bad happened to them

Also the crew has said that just because a character has been eliminated it doesn't mean that their story is done
We saw a lot of that this episode with Fan, but also for the past few episodes with Taco, and a few episodes back Bow(I know they're both past players not an eliminated contestants, it still counts though)
I do believe they said something about Paintys story not being done yet(which makes sense with the beginning of the episode), so I'm really looking forward to seeing them (probably)next time
Also Taylor did say on his tumblr that "I wouldn't personally say we're past the chance for Trophy! Maybe I said that in the past but...well...just keep watching!"

So were most likely getting more character development for Painty and Trophy. Other characters that I think will get more development that aren't currently competing but have been:

Taco-like I've said multiple times, I think we will get a Taco redemption. The problem with that is that idk how this is gonna happen. I originally thought it would be due to her friendship with Mic, but now that is very unlikely to happen, so it makes me wonder how this will happen. I'm sure she has some tragic backstory, which I'm sure we would have gotten if Mic had stayed with her. But now that Mic is gone, I'm terrified that the only way Taco will get a redemption ark is through a self sacrifice, 4s style. I hate to admit it, but at this point I feel like that would be the only way for anyone to trust her. Or maybe she'll realise she's fucked up bad with Mic(and Pickle) and try to better herself because of it, which I'm all for. But like I said, I doubt any of the characters would even consider trusting or forgiving her or anything like that unless she did something big like a self sacrifice. Idk, I just want my girl to be happy and I don't know how that's gonna happen. The only thing I know is that her story is far from over, they left too much with her open ended for them to not come back to it at some point (portal scene in the lab, Tacos reaction to Mic quitting, and letters to Pickle, I'm looking at you)

Nickel. As you all know I used to hate him. I nicknamed him dickel for a while back then. But then I took another look at the show and at the character. He's now one of my favourite characters. I'm not saying how he treated Suitcase and Balloon was right (cause he really did treat them like shit especially Balloon), but I can sorta understand where he was coming from. Honestly a lot of what he said to Suitcase was more sarcastically mean, the same way you might joke around with your friends by calling them a bitch or something at first. He started treating her really bad by getting her to steal the battery, but that was because he just wanted to get on with the challenge and she didn't speak up as much back then so he was right when he said that people would be less likely to notice her being gone. He didn't know that he pushed her past her limit, he didn't even consider it because he didn't see it as a big deal, so he was angry with her when she cracked under the presser and fessed up cause he couldn't understand why she would do that. After that point most of their conflict was to do with how he was treating Balloon, which, yeah, wasn't ok, but it was understandable after everything he did last season. Yeah it was all an act, and he was really trying to be better this time around, but if you look at it from the POV of everyone who competed last time, this personality shift kinda came out of no where and it did look kinda sus . 　　　。　　　　•　 　ﾟ　　。 　　.

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Nickel did seem to realise towards the end that Balloon was changing, but he still had every reason to not believe him. Remember Balloon only told the truth about why he acted like he did to Suitcase, so you really can't blame anyone who didn't hear than conversation to think maybe he hadn't changed and was just putting on an act. (Edit, yeah, I know that the comics exist and that in them Balloon wrote letters to everyone to apologise, and everyone except Nickel forgave him, it's still understandable that he hasn't forgiven him, even though I think he should have)
So yeah, what he did wasn't right, but it was understandable. So I think maybe it would be a good idea for him to see that he was in the wrong, forgive Ballon for everything, and forgive Suitcase for eliminating him and everything else, and maybe ask that they forgive him for how he treated them (Balloon clearly has cause otherwise he wouldn't have written him a letter in that one comic). Because I really love his character now and I really hope that he can become a better person

Tissues, Cherries, and YinYang were all eliminated quite early, and we didn't get to see them last season, so I really hope we get to see more development for them (I didn't include Trophy because it was basically confirmed that we're most likely getting development for him, and I didn't include Box for obvious reasons. Actually, no, scratch that, I want to know the in universe reason why a cardboard box is competing for $100000. I know the irl reason, the crew did it as a joke to see how far he would get, which btw is hilarious, but I want to know what absolute legend in universe entered a cardboard Box, filled out all the appropriate paper work, and sent him to the collection point where Mephone got all the season 2 newbies and put them into that plane, because they are my new personal hero.
And I want to know why Mephone just went along with it. Did he think it was an actual person called Box and then was genuinely surprised that it was an actual box but at that point it was too late, or did he know from the beginning and thought it would be hilarious. Actually what even is the process for signing up for ii.
I have a headcannon that they have to fill out a bunch of paperwork saying stuff like name, address, contact info, family, etc (and that Taco didn't fill it out correctly, she just put her name, a throw away email address, and for every other question she wrote something along the lines of(and in extra neat and fancy handwriting) "suck my w e e n", and Mephone added her because she was the only person who didn't say anything about herself so he was genuinely interested in what sort of person she is) and then just hand in the form (which is why Taco, Pickle, Baseball, and Nickel we're together in the stupid trailer), but still I'm genuinely interested in what actually happens).

We're seeing more from everyone in the hotel in the comics which I really love, but still I wanna see more of them in episodes

Maybe also Cheesy and Soap. Other than Pickle, if Mic tells anyone about Taco, it's most likely to be them, as they were her only friends before the Taco thing started. Yeah, I don't think it's as likely she'll tell them, but if she does tell anyone other than Pickle, it's gonna be Soap. Less likely Cheesy, as she wasn't as close to him, but I wanted to add him just because. But still, I really wanna see them both again, especially if they're helping Mic get over the Taco situation

Also Dough. The only episodes we've seen him properly are episodes 5 and 11. Yeah he was originally intended to be a cheap joke because he's such a Bow knock off, but I really think that if we saw enough of him we could learn something about him. Clearly he isn't Bows brother (if he were why would she say she doesn't know him? In icci I made a joke that he's her step brother but she doesn't want to admit it, but I genuinely don't think this is the case), so why the hell would he pretend to be her brother. Was he a super fan of hers who wanted to pretend that he knew her and told everyone this, but he got trapped in a spiral of lies and by the time Toilet found him it was too late to back out so he just let it happen because he didn't know what else to do? Did he just want some 5 minutes of fame? Or was there a more sinister reason why he lied about this? Probably not that last one, I don't think he's a bad guy, just putting it out there cause we really don't know.
And how did Toilet even find him in the first place? These are questions that I need to be answered.
Actually just in general, I wanna see how the purgatory mansion gang is doing.

It's been a while since we've seen anything much with Bomb, I definitely want to see more from him.

Characters that were never contestants and who currently aren't in the show much but should/probably will get development:

Toilet. He was done dirty, he deserves justice. I can understand where Mephone came from in the fight, but Toilet didn't deserve to be treated so poorly from day one, and he certainly didn't deserve to be kicked out. And he most definitely didn't deserve to be fucking murdered(most likely) by Mephone X. In general Meeple as a whole (with the exception of Mepad)has treated him poorly, and he deserves better

Mepad. Currently MIA thanks to Taco, but when she eventually lets him go (or someone rescues him) he's still gonna be mad at Mephone for snapping at him, and that is perfectly justified. In general, Mephone has 2 fucking big apologies to hand out when those 2 come back (assuming they're both still alive because things aren't looking all that great for Toilet rn and in all honesty I have a bad feeling that Mephone never made life icons for both of them. We've never seen them die so we don't know, but I genuinely am worried that he forgot. Or even worse, what if he made one for Mepad but not Toilet. Not only is that once again favouritism and completely not fair, but also means that Toilet is probably in even more danger than Mepad at any given time, even without the threat of Mephone X

Also I really wanna see more character development with more meeple devices. The only Meeple devices that we've seen any development happen with are Mephone 4, Mephone 4S and Mepad (and maybe Mephone 3GS because he didn't seem like the biggest fan of Cobbs in the end but it does look like it was him who took the eggs, so idk. I definitely do wanna learn more about him). But if 4S, who actively enjoyed the pain and torment of everyone around him, could learn the error of his ways and redeem himself, I have hope for the others (plus it kinda makes sense now why he acted like he did now we've seen what Cobbs was like towards Mephone, who knows, he could have been even more harsh on 4S. Or maybe he programmed him to have a personality like that so if he found out about what Cobbs was really doing he wouldn't leave like 4 did, but in the end 4S broke through his coding and became a better person cause he wanted to be. Idk I'm just kinda in a 4S mood rn he didn't deserve to die he needs justice I really hope we get to see him as a ghost or something cause I'm gonna be real sad if we never see him again)

Also the infinity characters. Yeah that timeline didn't happen as Bulby and Tuby fixed it, but I find it hard to believe that they just stopped existing. Even if we don't see them properly, I really wanna see at the end of the finale just maybe a part where we see what every character ever in the show is doing like a year later or something, and there's a part where we see the infinity characters, each of them getting their own segment as well as being together because they deserve more screen time and to be more happy than they were in the other timeline. Maybe Bulby will see them and say hi like "hey I know you don't know me but you're all really cool and special and unique and deserve individual attention, don't let anyone tell you any different". Maybe we'll see a small scene with all the minor characters in the end, like we see Rusty Joe finally getting out of prison, and Judge Gavel doing a trial, and we see what life is like for Baby Shimmer who are now living happily with the rest of the Prime Shimmer, and other characters that I can't think of rn or that we haven't met yet. That would be really nice. Idk I'm just a sucker for a happy ending lol

And finally Cobbs. I never said it had to be good character development. I want to see him embrace full on asshole mode, and I'm sure that's gonna happen. I mean yeah, he hasn't been all that great in the times we have seen him, but I'm sure that we haven't seen him at his worst. All he's done so far (towards the contestants and Mephone)is mistreat Mephone badly, send several Mephones to try and kill him, and try to steal Egg (twice). I mean he created ADAM, so he's technically the creator of the show AND Mephones boss, if he wanted he could come along like "ok this is my show, I'm taking over now you all don't have a choice anyone who argues gets eliminated, anyone not currently competing who argues will get an even more severe punishment" and could use this to control everyone's every move, and when someone tries to leave he brings up a contract they signed to compete and they legally can't (cough a good opportunity to have certain characters who might not currently be interacting for whatever reason such as, just for a random example Taco and literally everyone, to interact and for characters that might not get a long such as, just for a random example Taco and literally everyone, to bond over trying to get rid of him cough)
Or worse, if he wanted he could cancel the show. Imagine that, he gets together everyone who has been involved in the show together just to say it's cancelled and he's taking the million.
And that's just the power he has over the show
Meeple is a big company. Cobbs is a rich man. Meeple is probably really powerful. And Cobbs has full control over the company, so he is probably really powerful, when it comes to things such as business, influence, and money (cause let's face it, if you're rich enough you can probably get away with anything). Basically he can probably do whatever he wants and no one can do anything about it.
Oh yeah, and I've not even mentioned that time when he fucking destroyed an entire planet to try and use the life forms on said planet for some unknown purpose
In summery, he can fuck them over as much as he wants and unless they work together perfectly they are all screwed, and I really wanna see this

Uhhhh what else do I wanna talk about with the future of the show

Oh yeah, my elimination order thing
God I was wrong with that one lmao
"No guys, I'm almost certain Mic will make it to second place and then loose and it will be just like last season. I'm 99.9% sure of this there is no way anything else will happen, that's the only thing on my elimination order list that I'm certain of" lmao me from half a year ago was hilarious

Ok so new updated one
This one I'm even less certain of, cause like I said, the Mic thing was the only thing I was certain of, so now that I know how wrong I was about that, I know I'm probably wrong about the rest of this, but oh well

So I still think Bulby will win. Or maybe I just really hope she does. Idk. The fact of the matter is she's smarter than everyone gives her credit for, she has lots of cool powers (like her electricity, or ability to light up), and she's probably one of the most popular contestants. It would be very easy for anyone left in to overlook her, and think she doesn't pose a threat, and if they do, I think that's how she's gonna win.
However, the main thing not in her favour is the fact that this episode Knife, Baseball, and Casey all teamed up to eliminate Tuby, so if they do this again Bulby doesn't stand a chance. But despite that, like I said, she's smarter than everyone gives her credit for (yeah her ideas aren't the most conventional, but they're effective, only difference is she thinks outside the box), and her special talents are her biggest strengths, gameplay wise, and thanks to her personality, unless you have actually seen her process of thinking or overheard her heart to heart with Test Tube about how she does try, you could easily overlook these things as her quirks (like I did before episode 12), which really does suck, but at the moment she has to rely on the others thinking that it's just her quirks and not her very thought out and personalised gameplay strategy, as if they figure out just how much of a threat to their game she is, no one would want to compete against her in the finale, but if they don't, they may try to keep her on, and they may underestimate her abilities when competing against her in the finale, and therefore not be as careful as they would be competing against one of the others, which is her best shot at winning

If Bulby doesn't win, I really hope Knife wins. Nothing against Baseball or Suitcase, I just really love Knife and Lightbulb, and really think they deserved to win(frankly they all do, but still). Knife is strong, smart and also has become more and more popular over time. Plus spoilers for inanimate battle he's won literally every inanimate battle, so he has that going for him. However, some things that don't work in his favour are 1-everyone knows he's a threat, so no one left in would even consider it remotely a good idea to compete against him in the finale,  2-even though he's got friends now, he's only gotten those friends by changing from that bully that he was last season, so anyone who hasn't seen him change, or people like Trophy who don't like him in general, might not want him to stick around and win, and 3-he was the one trying to convince Mic to leave Taco, and even though it was completely Mics decision in the end, Taco might not see it that way, and might be real angry at him for trying to get her to do the right thing, and I have a horrible feeling that Taco is not the sort of person you want to make angry

Baseball is such a good guy, he definitely does deserve to come this far, and I wouldn't mind if he did win. Plus, if he and Bulby made it to the finale, it would be kinda cool cause team leaders, I think that would be a pretty fun finale idea. Also, he's made up with Suitcase now, so I don't think he has anyone who actually would want him eliminated(except maybe Tuby, out of revenge for this elimination, but they were friends so I'm not entirely sure). His 2 biggest problems are 1-other than Knife, he is the biggest (obvious) threat left in, so no one would probably want to go against him in the finale, and 2-even though he was friends with Test Tube he still voted her out, and even though she said she understood, we have seen her get real salty this episode and the end of last episode, and also Tuby is close with Fan and Bulby, who might not be all that happy that he voted her out. Idk, just a potential idea

And finally there's Casey. I love her, I really do, but I don't think she should stay in. She definitely does deserve to win, but the trouble is the show isn't healthy for her. Yeah, she's made up with Baseball now, but she isn't getting any better with her hallucinations. In fact she's getting worse, before she was only getting them when alone, but now she's starting to get them around the others. She really does deserve to win, but honestly I think the best thing for her would be to quit and go to therapy ASAP. Mic and Marshy both realised the game how they were playing it wasn't healthy, and so they both quit (well Marshy purposefully got herself disqualified, but the point still stands), so I have hope that Casey can do the same. But I am genuinely worried for her health and well-being.
That being said, she is also quite popular, and she doesn't put right pose any sort of threat to anyone, so I don't think that the others would much mind going up against her in the finale.
However, her mental state would probably be her biggest thing stopping her from winning. Imagine if she's 5 steps away from the finish line and then suddenly and without warning her hallucinations start up again. That wouldn't be good for her at all. Also the Nickel situation isn't the best. When he was eliminated he was real mad at her. And yeah, she's made up with Baseball, but who knows how Nickel's telling the story in the hotel. I mean, Balloon (and anyone else who was eliminated after this happened) would probably clear things up, but 1-she did still completely betray and vote out her own alliance member, and 2-at the very least Nickel is gonna be real mad at her still

Like I said though, I think Bulby will win, Knife will come in second place, then Casey, then Baseball. But don't quote me on this, at this point it's anyone's game, and frankly, although I would rather Bulby win, and if not Knife, I honestly wouldn't be upset whoever wins, they all deserve it

Also, since there are 2 episodes left, either next episode will be a double elimination(or at the very least 2 people will go, just like this episode), or we will have a 3 person finale. I'm leaning more towards double elimination though, idk, I just prefer the idea of just a 1 against 1 in 16, like last season. Idk, just how I feel about it

As for the actual elimination next episode, I kinda wanna have a similar elimination to the penultimate poll last season, with the eliminated contestants/past players all voting for the last person to be gone

So maybe there will be 2 eliminations: 1 where everyone left in decided who should go and 1 where everyone else does

Or maybe, something a bit more interesting, maybe they'll vote who should stay in, kinda like voting in bfb. That would be quite cool, rather than deciding who you hate the most, deciding who you love the most, and who you think deserves it more (but the only rule is no one in the final 4 are allowed to vote for themself)

Of course there should also probably be a challenge. As much as I would love to see everyone just hanging out deciding who should stay and who should go for 1 episode, I think that there should still be a challenge, so that they still have something to do for the next episode.

And as for the challenge in the finale, idk about all of you, but I really wanna see them do a master challenge 2.0
Where they have to redo every challenge from both seasons
That would be pretty cool to see
If they did this, Casey would be really disadvantaged for the season 1 challenges
Well, to be fair, so would Baseball and Knife, they were both eliminated quite early(especially BB, he was eliminated super early)
If they did this, Bulby would definitely have the advantage, she did the most challenges out of all of them. But still, she didn't do all the challenges, so she might still struggle with some

Anyway, I think that's all I wanna say about this episode, so I'm gonna go now. Hopefully my review of the next episode won't take as long to write and won't have so many parts lol