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I had to finish that for you.
So here we are at the Survivor food auction. As far as I can tell from the previews, this is the big excitement for tonight. And Cochrane getting to eat off someone’s fingers. Maybe that’s enough.
Well that sucked… not the whole episode, just the outcome.
Did I hear Dawn right?
“If I didn’t have diarrhea I’d be so nervous!”
Brenda speaks!
decided it should be in spoiler box but can’t figure out the mechanism. so just saying Wow!
Once only three votes showed up for Andrea, even Eddie knew that Malcolm was going home on the revote, so he voted with them.
Yes… yes you did. Brenda should have kept her teeth and used them as a fake immunity idol.
I know it’s easy to say in retrospect, but even when Andrea was sitting there, I don’t know why Malcolm just sat there as well. Just dig for it! Even if she digs right next to you, a 50% shot at an idol is better than a 0% chance. He acted like he really thought someone would jump ship, though (I’m not sure why - I’d prefer being the 6th man in the weak tribe than the 4th or 5th man in an alliance with the three challenge monsters).
It made no sense to me why Malcolm didn’t keep looking for the idol.
I loved when Cochran told Jeff…‘more often than you think’.
Looking back, it now seems obvious that the 3 guys should have not said who they were voting for last TC. They should have forced the other 7 to vote against each other,to reveal splits that they needed to leverage this week. No one flipped because no one saw their name written at TC last week.
I was surprised at how badly Malcolm did in his conversation with Sherri. He failed to promise her final three in a similar way that he failed to promise Denise final three last season. He failed to let her choose who they would vote out. I think if he had taken some more time between seasons, he probably would have played this one better.
Malcolm said that he felt safe even he had the idol he wouldnt have played it.
Unless Malcolm won the imunity challenge he was done one way or the other.
I think Sherri made a mistake, she is bottom of the barrel on her current alliance and switching to other side that would give her a shot of being at least in the final 4. With her alliance Im not sure she will stay around for much longer.
I have the feeling that Andrea and Cochrane are feeling too cocky (and their faces at TC showed that) will go very far. Theres only Reynolds and Eric left and then they will be on the chopping block.
Im also not sure had Cochrane not won this week if he wouldnt be gone too.
Yep. I was wondering that, myself.
Or: Send Reynold or Eddie to look for it, if he could trust them to give it to him. If they gave it to him, he’d have the HII. If they found it and one of them decided to keep it, and if that came out (and the other one knew), then he might have been flipped to get rid of the one without it and he might have stayed for another three or six days. Or: Let’s say Reynold found it and didn’t give it to Malcolm. He could let the other side know that he has it, and that he’s going to play it. Get everyone to vote for Malcolm. Then give Malcolm the HII at the TC.
Of course, Malcolm said he wouldn’t have played it anyway. Bad thinking.
That’s the second time she’s brought up the squirts this season. After losing a pre-merge food reward challenge several episodes ago, she told the rest of her tribe “All that food will just give them diarrhea anyway.”
I don’t blame Erik for not switching. Once the three amigos are gone, he would be the alpha male left. He wins any strength/speed challenges IMO.
If I was Sherri, I would have switched. Reynold and Eddie should not be wanting to go to the end with Malcolm.
It was funny that Malcolm called Andrea his annoying little sister than shadows him.
And yes, Dag Otto, Malcolm (and Reynold & Eddie) played last week’s Tribal Council totally wrong. They should have exploited the fissures in the majority alliance.
After thinking about, they should have asked Jeff what would happen if they threw there votes towards the two guys with the HII.
Obviously if all votes don’t count, and everyone revotes, but they have to vote for someone in the StealthRUs alliance, then that is exactly what they should have done.
They way they did it, they really didn’t expose any cracks in the alliance and expose the bottom of the alliance.
I didn’t buy for one second during that episode that either Erik or Sherri would flip. No suspense at all. Alliances tend to run on autopilot, and Erik and Sherri (especially the former) aren’t savvy enough to tie their shoes some days, much less “shake up the game”.
I still think they did the right thing last week. The most important strategy was to try to shift the vote to Phillip as much as possible, in the hopes of being able to keep any of the HIIs. It’s hard to think too many steps ahead, and it wasn’t that much of a stretch to think you could sway one or two people from SRU to make a big move. The problem is that they did an absolutely terrible job of doing that.
Props to Cochran for winning, even though that advantage was WAY too much of an advantage. It would have been fair if there was a knot on the very bottom of the rope for everyone else to hang on to, giving Cochran the advantage of more leverage and less weight, but the addition of that knot pushed it over the edge.
The problem with trying to expose the cracks is what happens if StealthRUs unanimously votes out Sherri? Then the Three Amigos have only managed to expose the bottom person who is out anyways. And they would not have gotten rid of an opposing leader.
The problem with Malcolm finding and using the hidden idol is that StealthRUs already had a lock on removing one of the Three Amigos this week, no matter what. Even if Eddie had bid $500 for the advantage and won the individual immunity and Malcolm had the hidden idol, they could not stop Stealth from voting out Reynold. Playing an idol only keeps Malcolm around another week.
At this point, I don’t think there’s any doubt that the Three Amigos will be gone in short order. The edits to point to “fractures” in StealthRUs are just producer misdirection tricks to keep things interesting for the audience. None of the Stealth alliance wants challenge monsters around in a season with solidly jock-heavy challenges.
It’s sad that Malcolm’s gone, but he completely mismanaged his threat-level and he was not as crafty as he thought with his alliance moves.
I think StealthRUs embodies a new Survivor model of success that started with Boston Rob’s winning season. The model is basically this: one intelligent player recruits a bunch of insecure wimps and rules them with an iron fist. Let the minions know they are constantly watched and tested for “loyalty”. That way, if the opposing alliance tries to pick off the bottom of your alliance, they go tell the leader and the alliance uses that info to crush all attempts.
It’s the first real innovation since Richard Hatch’s alliance model and it fixes the fundamental flaw of the minority alliance trying to roll you up from the bottom.
I’m not seeing it. The only person that was attempted to be “picked off” was Dawn (twice), and she isn’t at the bottom of the alliance - she was just perceived to be. And all of the “testing for loyalty” nonsense that Phillip was doing was bluster and noise - there weren’t any actual tests of loyalty at any point.
Dawn was targeted because she is perceived to be a weak player and has a low chance of winning challenges or votes. As such, she is perceived to be very insecure and thus a ripe target as a potential turncoat. If the StealthRUs model had not indoctrinated her to immediately rat out attempts to turn her, she would have repeated her earlier season.