Possession is everything with a HII. If Keith had gotten voted out and Wes had it in his bag, he would be able to use it himself in the future.
Yep. My take is that Keith failed to understand that Reed was talking up the “Wes has the idol” story to bolster the split the vote plan. I think it would have worked if Keith had not run his mouth.
It absolutely would have worked. And beyond the irony of Keith basically getting his son voted out I enjoyed watching Jon completely fail to figure out it. He told Jaclyn that it was still good, shutting down her scramble attempt. Then he told Reed he was still on board. Then he was very skeptical when Natalie told him to play the idol. He really just doesn’t get it.
Part of me was really hoping he’d go home, just because his (and Jaclyn’s) sketchy decision last episode deserved swift karmic retribution. But losing the idol and basically relinquishing control for at least a few votes is pretty good too.
What a great episode from Natalie - found an idol, correctly surmised that it was not time to gun for Jon until the boys were whittled down, then sniffed out the double-cross, got TWO idols played with her desired targets still going home. One of the best all-around episodes I can remember from a single player.
Yeah, the Twinnies were lousy TAR contestants but Natalie, at least, appears to be an excellent Survivor player.
I’ve never cared for Natalie, but that was some skillful game-playing on her part this episode. And I really liked Jeff’s commentary at the end, about them starting something that they can’t stop. I’m looking forward to a good ending to this season. Is next week the finale?
I don’t think so, yet. I think TAR still has 2 more weeks and Survivor finale is usually the week after TAR’s. Of course, that was when TAR and the Survivor finale were both on Sunday night, so I don’t know.
OK. I was thrown off by mr DVR’s on screen guide for next week, which shows 2 episodes. But maybe it’s just 2 regular episodes. Never seen that before.
Which was usually delayed by a football game…
Yup, Keith proved he doesn’t have the smarts to win this game (I had already decided long before that Wes has no chance, but Keith might be able to finangle it somehow). He blew the whole blindside, got his son voted out, AND lost his Idol.
Yeah, I have the feeling her IQ actually jumps when her sister is not around. I’m not sold on her move of keeping Jon in the game … but at least she managed to burn his Idol, leaving her with the only one. And if she thinks she can end up in a situation where, for example, she’s in a Final Five with Jon/Jaclyn and Missy/Baylor, she might be able to play that into being the deciding vote.
The fact that Jon confirmed to Natalie that he had the idol (which she probably suspected already) to bring her back into the alliance allowed her to save him at the subsequent Tribal. Is this the most [unintentionally] effective usage of the “share the fact you have an immunity idol to build trust” play since Yul flipped Penner in Cook Islands?
Up until this episode, I thought Keith was playinga good game, but then his “let’s just stick to the plan,” comment blew everything up.
Me neither.
Why is tomorrow night’s episode two hours long? Anyone know?
The Clocks fell back to Standard time a month ago. Maybe its finally catching up with CBS and they had a hour of programming to fill. 
tvguide.com has it listed as two separate episodes aired back to back, not a single 2 hr episode. Different episode titles and everything.