Probably the biggest, most unexpected development on Survivor Redemption Island came at the end of the episode during the preview—or seconds earlier on Twitter , if you were watching the show by reading Jeff Probst type what was about to happen three seconds later. The news was that tribes would merge next week after the final Redemption Island duel, which seems early but is about right on time. At this week’s duel, Matt won again, beating Stephanie in a game of memory because higher powers, who are apparently playing the game for him, wanted him to stick around (“I told God that I’m going to stay out here as long as he wants me to be out here,” Matt told us), so if he wins next week’s final duel, the sixth, he will have swept them. That’s an impressive feat, but he’ll face an even bigger one: Finding his way back into a game that he was voted out of. I’m not sure what I think about the duels ending at the merge. Is it a pretty fair point for Matt—er, the winner of next week’s duel—t...