Nothing could take that Trial By Fire away from Skupin . Certainly it ' s still cool , but the fact I no longer have a lot empathy with Skupin detracts from it for sure . Also , it ' s not like the Kuchas are going to actually be able to win or do anything in the postmerge anyway , so knowing that sort of detracts from it as well . I feel like do to me knowing about SR before I watched survivor made me think that TrialbyFire was going to be way more untouchable as an episode than it really was . I know I ' m a bigger fan than most of Joe D C and Russell S , but I actually love their medevac episodes more than I love TrialbyFire because not only do they bring greater than TrialbyFire levels of emotion for me personally , but they also have a greater impact than TrialbyFire does down the road . Plus , I feel like Russell ' s total collapse is an equally stingingly ironic way for him to go out , same with Joe on his last reward . Bruce also has a pretty great medevac , but I think it was less good than the other three