ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Kellyn gets sent back to Ghost Island, and this time she had a 2/3 chance of winning an advantage if she played as opposed to the 50 percent that she and Jacob had before. What brought about that change at this time?
JEFF PROBST: It was always the idea to up the stakes as the season progressed to make the temptation to risk your vote just a bit more appealing. As it gets deeper in the game, your vote becomes that much more valuable… but so does a game-changing advantage. So what do you do? And this season we have the added element of the Naviti tribe attempting to hold onto their numbers advantage, which makes it even trickier for Kellyn to risk her vote.
Kellyn gets Sarah’s steal-a-vote that took out Michaela on Game Changers, yet now it only has powers as an extra vote, and not stealing someone else’s. Why make that change this time around?
One of the ideas that we really liked for Ghost Island is that based on what happened the first time around, an advantage may have more — or less — power. If something has been living on Ghost Island for a long time, like Ozzy’s stick, maybe it has matured… or if something was horribly misplayed, maybe it lost some of its power. We felt like Michaela’s blown opportunity fell into the “horribly misplayed” category and had to come with an invoice! So we stripped some of the power. But an extra vote is still a game-changing advantage.
This is bull crap.
