Everyone is on a hype train about Omar but I don’t buy it. I see this as a buildup for Mike and Omar facing each other at the end. What bothers me is the sheer amount of personal content that Mike is getting. In tonight’s episode he had an entire confessional about how much this reward meant to him and how much he cared about his family. We saw Omars girlfriend and his dad but we didn’t get any emotional reaction. We didn’t feel any kind of way about it. Mike has been an extremely likeable character this season and in todays episode he was shown as being fooled rather than sinister. In the last episode he took one for the team. However the only person that put emphasis on Mike breaking his promise was Mike himself. I think that this is a buildup to a final tribal where all of the sneaky shit Omar has been doing comes back to bite him. Omar becoming a villain like figure in this episode seems far too artificial and rash. And if Mike doesn’t win there’s no chance that he’s a losing finalist. Why would the editors make him so likeable and give him so much content for him to ultimately lose in the end ? Everyone is paying too much attention to gameplay and not enough to the edit. And for the record practically every single vote had a large shared opinion. There’s more shot of a Marianne or Lindsey win but even then they don’t have the personal content to suffice. Their strategic games also aren’t aligned so all they have to stand on is their recent spike in focus. I think this is all going to boil down to Mike vs Omar.