This season is why the show remains popular. Everything is falling into place. One person dominates the entire show, but now finds himself on the outside with his only chance of winning is by winning immunity for the last time.
Maybe his bluff will carry the day, but if I were any one of the other three, I’d call it. I would have, if I were Tony, given the other idol to Trish to bring her to the final four - she has zero chance of winning.
Spencer must be able to smell the million right now. He’s one challenge away from winning it all.
The best thing for Tony to do is to wear his “special” idol to the last immunity challenge and refuse to participate. Just give up and try to convince the others that his idol is still live.
I’m starting to think they have us all snowed with the Tony, Kass tension. I wouldn’t be shocked if they didn’t work this angle from early on. I think they may be playing it for the others.
Before I saw Tony’s vote I thought he was an idiot. He could have gotten him and Trisha to vote for Kass, then before they were read give the standard idol to Trish… that guarantees they move on, and no matter how Woo votes it would have virtually guaranteed that Kass was gone with two votes. If somehow everyone tried to blindside Tony by guessing this strategy he could have used the special idol after the votes were read.
Do they do another immunity challenge with just four left?
Unless Spencer makes it to the Final 2 (or 3, which is it this season?) I’m going to hate this year because I don’t want Kass or Tony to win it, and I don’t think Woo deserves it.
Spencer: “Woo, what are your thoughts?”
Woo: “Uh, what are your thoughts?”
I wonder why the heck Tony voted for Trish (I don’t buy the Tony/Kass secret alliance theory, sorry).
I hope they call Tony’s bluff - if anything, I think it’s a bit unfair to not fill the others in on the rules. Bad enough they don’t know exactly how the Idol works, but saying you can still play it a round later seems unfair. I wish Probst would’ve said something like “Idols are no longer usable” at the end of TC.
I still think the winner will either be Spencer or Kass - I don’t think Tony has much of a shot without Trish, because I don’t think he can beat Spencer or Kass. Maybe Kass depending on how much people dislike her (I don’t think her explanation of Trish at TC was that good, and now Trish will badmouth the hell outta her to everyone else). I don’t see Woo having a shot - he hasn’t done anything in this game.
I think Tony is trying to make everybody think that his sooper sekrit speshul immunity idol can be played next week, so that they won’t vote for him, even though it’s really no longer playable, and that’s why he played the other one this week.
Yes - they do immunity challenges right up to the final TC before they go to the jury. Back in the final 2 days, the person who won the last challenge got to pick exactly who they went to the jury with.
That was his stated plan. Hopefully Spencer is smart enough to say “Since you won’t show us the instructions that say it’s still usable at the final 4 TC, you’re clearly lying.”
Spencer and Woo should be the last two people Tony wants to be sitting at FTC with, and yet he’s going to have to have at least one of them there now. He should have played both HIIs, the regular one before the vote for him and the Sooper Sekrit Speshul one on Trish after. There is SOME value in bluffing the deadline, but not as much value as retaining not only one of your allies, but one of your goats. Optimum FTC for Tony: Kass and Trish. Now that’s done.
Woo is incredibly likable. I think he’s a Duuuuude airhead but I still like him.
Spencer is, next to Tony, the star player this season. He’s done at least as much strategy as Tony has, with the advantage that his hands are ostensibly clean of almost everyone on the jury. Plus he’s lasted this long because he’s been scrambling CONSTANTLY since Merge. He’s been playing the hell out of the game with a minority alliance and a constant target on his back. Tony’s been playing well, too, but he has very dirty hands AND he’s been playing with a majority alliance behind him, with very little time spent with a real target on him.
My vote between Tony and Spencer would be Spencer, no doubt about it.
As oblivious and empty-headed as Woo is, his “it’s a dysfunctional family, with Tony as the dad, Trish as the mom, Spencer’s the son, Kass is the sister. And I’m the foreign exchange student just wondering what’s going on!” comment was absolutely hysterical. It’s a perfect description of him.
Tony let himself get ahead of the game. He must have caught a bit of the Special Agent Phillip bug thinking that his Special Immunity Idol gambit has more than a 2% chance of working, instead of just burning both of them last night to save Trish. (Did he really vote for her? I didn’t pay attention to the credits scene.)
Yes there were easy ways for Tony to save Trish, and since he voted for her, it’s not like he didn’t think of those reasons. He just didn’t want to sit next to her.
Everyone should want to take Tony and Kass to the final, and nobody should want to take Woo or Spencer to the final. I think Trish sealed her fate during tribal when she said, “I haven’t had an argument with anyone on the jury!” But to that point, wasn’t she involved with whoever it was who quit the game? I wonder if that’ll come up in the reunion.
Apparently I saw a completely different show than everyone else – didn’t Tony take out the second idol and just hand it to Jeff? Which of course was WTF enough on its own.
As I said last week, I think it is a Final Two this season. They got two hours and if they don’t have two IC’s it is going to Drag and Drag. They might a reward challenge that gives the winner an advantage in the Final Immunity Challenge.
I think last night was Day 36 and IIRC, that means 3 days left at camp.
Looks like the Loved Ones challenge was NIXED this season.
The TC last night was a good one. Woos analogy to a foreign exchange in a dysfunctional family was hilarious.
If I see one more powerful player lose because they didn’t spend any time pre-show learning some simple puzzle skills, I’ll go nuts. A 3x4 piece sliding puzzle with no duplicate tiles is INCREDIBLY easy once you’ve learned how, which takes all of 10 minutes for anyone with the slightest logical sense. Sliding puzzles happen often enough that it’s worth that 10 minutes.
He had one around his neck, which is the one he was publicly playing, and he pulled out the second and just handed it to Jeff and said “I have no use for this [fuck you Trish].”
He had the special idol around his neck. He wasn’t playing it, he was just displaying it. He couldn’t play the special one - the only time it can be played is if you lose the vote. That’s the plan he mentioned earlier - he’d play the regular idol at TC, then claim one of the powers of the special idol was that he could play it at the final 4 TC, to prevent the others from voting for him - “I’m going to play this idol tonight anyway, so if you vote for me, I’ll be picking who goes home, so you’d better do what I say one more time.”
But didn’t Jeff say that no one could vote against Tony once he pulled that out? In other words, he was using it for immunity before the vote, not after.
(Apparently I wasn’t paying full attention last night. Oh well.)
