Will Cara Maria And Marie's New Bond Help Them Win In Challenge Armageddon?

Without a hint of hyperbole, this much is safe to say: Cara Maria’s Challenge partnership with avowed vendetta Marie has for now been a unmitigated mess. While Cara’s the reigning champ of the game and Marie usually has a performer name on the series’ political movements, the combustion of the two has — strangely — yielded little more than discord, confusion and also a handful of last-place finishes.


Nevertheless have the tides finally turned, and are Cara and Marie finally united enough to push past the coming Final Reckoning elimination round?


On tonight’s episode, the two former avowed enemies slowly did away with their oil-and-water dynamic and teetered toward something more soluble. Cara felt heartened that Marie had stood up for her against the Lavender Females — people Marie had imagined were companions — although it put Marie at risk for becoming a pariah of the group.


Yet Marie’s bold stance bore a unexpected benefit: In the game’s next mission, “What Goes Up Must Come Down,” she and Cara competed as a united front in a way that they never had before. Though they didn’t win the game -- a high-stakes puzzle that concluded with a 200-foot walk down the face of a building -- they put up a good fight, and Marie even achieved the unlikely feat of beating Cara to the finish line, proving how far she’d come as a competitor.


“It is more crucial than ever before to prove to Cara Maria that I’m here to compete,” Marie mentioned. “I think I sort of put each person to shame. Who expected me to be good at this?”


Still, Cara and Marie had to grapple with a unfortunate inevitability: Since fellow outliers Johnny Bananas and Tony — the only other team not at least peripherally connected to the Lavender Girls alliance — won the mission, it looked like a sure thing that Team Pink could be the goal of the collective residence Armageddon vote.


And while Marie eventually came to terms with the fact that she’d become the hope of the people she thought were her companions, Cara sympathized in a way she hadn’t before. She started to cry out of agitation for Marie, and in an instant, the former enemies formed a bond that hadn’t previously existed.


“F*ck you for hurting my friend,” Cara mentioned to the nominations screen — which featured a photo of Shane — as she teared up. “I don’t like seeing you treated like that. That’s your one friend.”


And Marie was incredulous that, for the opening time, Cara had spoken of her fondly.


“No, that’s my second friend,” she corrected. “You’re my friend too…[You’ve] been loyal and cool, and our vendetta is no longer.”


Finally, because the females predicted could be the case, the bulk of the Armageddon votes went their way right following the cast set foot into the battleground. Nevertheless for the initial time, Cara and Marie were a united front, and any time TJ gave them their choice of opponents, they determined to swing for the fences and put their new resolve to good use.


They voted for Shane and Nelson.


“I don’t just burn bridges, I drop bombs because fires are also slow,” Marie said.


And Cara echoed the sentiment.


“I’m here for you, Marie, and I’m prepared to fight,” she mentioned. “I got you…Why not attempt to go big?”


Nevertheless will going big pay off or prove to be an even bigger mistake? Is it finally time for Cara and Marie to shine, and can they take out elimination-round assassins Nelson and Shane? Or has their harmony manifested a little bit also late, and is it only a matter of time before they’re banished to the Redemption Residence? Share your thoughts, and visualize who comes out of Armageddon alive next Tuesday night!