Is Taj stupid or a criminal mastermind? I’m really not sure.
I’m loving TJ more and more every week. He’ll never replace Ozzie in my heart, but he’s pretty damn cool, in addition to being an amazing physical specimen.
Coach continues his toolish ways, and continues to be oblivious to the fact that others aren’t as enamored of him as he is of himself (which is, I guess, part of his toolishness).
Is Steven cross-eyed?
And, spoilered for those who get persnickety about “previews count as spoilers”:
The merge is a-comin’. Will the secret alliance work?
My only comment on this week’s episode is that I am still looking in every corner for spiders after seeing the nest “explode” with eight-legged creepy-crawlies from hell. That was some serious out-squicking footage. Still having chills, and it’s not the rain.
The snakes, however, were very cool this week.
Ok, my only two comments on this weeks episode are …
Yes, after the spiders, I had to rewind to the beginning credits and do about two dozen replays of the capybara flapping its ears. The cute was eventually able to wash the squick out of my system.
She is trying to keep her alliance with Steven and their possession of the idol secret, so what does she do? Leaves the idol sitting at the top of her bag uncovered, where it could be seen with minimal effort. This forced them to bring JT into their fold (which actually works well for them, but it was a total accident).
And her alliance with Steven doesn’t seem very strong, since he seems willing to cut her loose if necessary–especially since she was stupid enough to let him hold onto the idol that she should have kept solely in her own custody.
And the way she flipped out and started yelling at everyone a couple of weeks ago for no good reason was flat out brainless.
I don’t know…she wanted to tell JT but Stephen didn’t. Did she deliberately leave the idol where JT could find it, so they would have to tell him (as she wanted in the first place?)
I kind of wish they had gotten rid of Joe.
Ditto on the spiders. Grossest thing on Survivor EVER. I didn’t think to go back and replay the cute giant beaver things over and over. That would have definitely helped.
Dang it–I must have been distracted because I missed the spiders entirely. I’ll have to rewatch. Approximately when does it occur? Early? Middle? Late?
I have a feeling that he won’t be around much longer. Not only is he a physical threat and his closest ally was just taken out, but he doesn’t understand that if you are on the wrong side of a 6-4 merge, just sticking together doesn’t work.
Or his infection just might take him out. I doubt the editors would put that scene in for no reason.
Joe is too stupid to last much longer. Let’s see, we’re at five and we have to vote someone out. Two of the five come to you and say that they want to keep T and vote out S instead.
Let’s pause and do a little math. These two guys say they’ll be voting for S. T will obviously vote for S. Two plus one is . . . uh, three, right? Five minus three is . . . I think that’s two. Three is greater than two, last time I checked, so no matter how you vote, S is going home tonight.
Knowing that, what do you do? “Uh, gee, guys, I can’t possibly vote for S, I gave my word and trust is everything in this game. And besides, we have to stick together.”
So now Sydney is gone and at least two of the three others know that they can’t count on you for squat. Way to build trust and stick together, Joe.
Anyone with at least a few brain cells would have done that math, and said to the other guys, “Yeah, I’m on board with whatever you want. It’s going to be tough enough being four against six, we really need to stick together now more than ever.”
I seriously hope that the secret alliance of four is able to pull it off. They should vote out Joe first, if only to make everyone think that things are proceeding as expected.
If they’re smart (for very large values of if) the “secret alliance” will bring in Joe, since they already have TJ. In the merged tribe, including Brendan and Sierra, they’ll have a clear majority and both Hidden Immunity Idols. That leaves Coach, Erinn, Debra, and Tyson to be picked off (or they could substitute one of those for Joe, I guess), and they’ll just need to sort out the final from there (which is where it could get very interesting). Hasn’t Probst said this season has a record number of blindsides? We should see more coming, I think.
Oh, and put me in the “Taj is an idiot” camp. I don’t know if the Idol thing was deliberate or not, but she definitely seems to be more trusting of Stephen and TJ than they are of her.
Yes it has, in at least two seasons IIRC. Hell, last season one of the survivors made fake idols so well they looked better than the real one
You know what I was hoping for last episode? That Joe would give Sidney the fake one, Taj would ask for the real one back from Steven, and they would both play the idol at TC.
That is one of the all-time great Survivor moments. He’s told Eliza that he has the hidden immunity idol and she’s all excited about it. When he finally shows it to her, she takes one look at it and says, “That’s not an immunity idol! That’s a stick.”
No matter how well it was made can you imagine what a complete fool you’d feel like if it was you who fell for it. The humiliation would be unbearable.
Jeff wouldn’t be able to snuff my torch because I’d be gone so fast I’d leave a sonic boom. I’d also dedicate the remainder of my life to getting the SOB who did it to me.
Of course you’d also have to be pretty stupid not to have at least a suspicion that the real one had already been found.
This is what I didn’t understand about Joe and Erin (it was Erin who went out with Joe to Exile, right?) - they never once asked themselves “wouldn’t the last group of people out here, who had the exact same clues, already have found the idol?”
Sugar went to Exile a record number of times and everyone else was sure that she didn’t find it. Instead she found it on her first trip.
I think they should change it so instead of having a new clue everytime, you get a new clue for every trip. So if someone had gone for 3 times, and then you went once, you would get the first clue. Or make the clues harder. Wasn’t the third clue basically “It’s where you get mail everyday?”
