I am seeing a 3-2 vote, yes. But I would love to see the look on Rob’s face if Chastain86 is a psycic.
Me too, buddy boy, me too. (Go Chastain! Go Chastain!) If I have to hear Rob say one more time, “I’ll get the girl and the million,” I swear to Og I’m going to commit hare krishna.
It was him and anyone left, I’d vote the money to Rob. He’s played a very good game - everyone else has played poorly in comparison IMO.
But I think Chastain has it down pat. I know lots of people on the board here don’t like Amber, but I don’t. I think she’s been a victim of editing. Many of the past winners were cut out of large parts of the first half of the season. If she’s been playing the quiet, manipulative sexpot, Burnett isn’t going to spotlight that - it’s too easy to predict that route being successful. So you portray Amber as a silent, coattail riding piece of eye candy, nothing more, and surprise the hell out of everyone at the end.
Plus, with that strategy, you have to wait until the final moment to spring your trap. Any earlier than final 5 and you can’t get it to last you to the final 2. Sure, it means you have to win the final endurance challenge, but that strengthens your argument to the jury, “Yes, I was manipulative and secret and not as contributing as others. But I physically won the most important challenge and mentally manipulated my position to the final 2. That is what a Survivor champion does to win, that’s what I did, and the person sitting next to me got here primarily through luck alone and not being named Rob.”
Umm, you mean hari-kari?
Yup. That was intentional, BTW. Borrowed it from the mom in “The Goonies.”
Yep, that’s what I’m starting to think. I can definitely see Amber dumping Rob for someone else for the Final Two.
And remember, the 2-hour finale is on this Sunday - not next week!
Oh, and FWIW, Friends is on at 9:00 (eastern) tonight. At 8:00 is a restrospective, and the finale is after that. I’ll watch Survivor and then switch over to Friends for the finale.
I’m so bored by this season that I don’t even care who gets voted off.
I think it’ll be Tom.
Personally I think most everybody left hs played the game about as well as they can.
I do think Rupert learned alot from his first game. He is a great physical threat, but he made to the final five. He could pull off an immunity run and make it to the finals, not having pissed off anybody on the jury that I can remember. Pretty much the same for the rest of them, If they had done anything else, they would probably be gone by now.
Game on!
“Et tu, Brute” Jesus said that too? Cool.
These are NOT all stars by any stretch! I’m thinking twice about watching this show any more. :rolleyes:
You know, I was thinking the same damn thing. “Say what?” But I thought maybe I was just mis-hearing the Tom-speak.
You know, tonight strikes me as the first bad move Rob has made. What would have made sense tonight was to get rid of Rupert or Jenna. Both are much greater immunity threats than Tom and by keeping them you take the chance of a tie at the next tribal council. Had they taken Tom with them, assuring him final three, it would have made much more sense.
Not that I am complaining as I like Rupert, but strategically it wasn’t a good move.
Tonight was perfect for Rob. He really is the master of this game. Tom went out while Jenna got one vote. So Sunday, unless Jenna wins immunity, she will lose a tie vote. Then it comes down to Amber, Rob and Rupert in the endurance test which I have no doubt Rupert will lose. He has been working himself ragged while the other two are lounging around. From here on out unless Jenna wins immunity, Rob controls the game.
As for Tom’s comment of “Jesus said that too”. He meant “Jesus said the same thing about being betrayed”, because he then quoted Jesus admonishing Paul for betraying him.
Quick question:
How many votes have each of the final 4 gotten if there is a tie (which there will be) in the first vote on Sunday?
I wonder if either pair are smart enough to choose which one of the other group they vote for based on that information.
I must confess to being a little confused. Why did Rob and Amber choose to vote Tom off, rather than Jenna?
Obviously, in scenes we didn’t get to see, Rob & Amber and Rupert & Jenna agreed to vote out Tom. So, Rob and Amber are faced with a choice: follow the agreement with Tom, and vote out Jenna, or follow the agreement with Rupe and Jenna, and vote out Tom. If both Tom and Rupert & Jenna were lying to them, and all three planned to vote for Amber, it made no difference to them, as Amber was gone either way they voted.
So why did they decide to go to the final four with Rupert and Jenna rather than Rupert and Tom? As Rob demonstrated (loved that bit, btw), it wouldn’t be real difficult to play Rupert and Tom against each other, whereas I expect Rupert and Jenna to exhibit more loyalty. Now they’re faced with the prospect of a tie vote next round, with gods only know what arbitrary tiebreaker Burnett might choose.
Only two possibilities that I see:
(A) They’re playing for the jury - this alienates Tom, whereas there won’t be any hurt feelings in three days, simply because it’s down to four. Voting for Jenna would have alienated two potential jury votes instead of just one. This would be pretty stupid, though, since (1) there’s a decent chance at least one of Jenna and Rupert make it into the final pair, and so they’ll only have one jury vote between them, and (2) the whole alienating jury votes thing is vastly overrated.
(B) Amber made the call and is playing Rob. By preserving the Jenna and Rupert pair, she makes it easier to get herself into the final three by turning on Rob. See, she figures going to the final two with Rob guarantees her second place, since he’s obviously played the more dominant role in challenges, and that’s the only clear distinguishing factor, gamewise, between the two. On the other hand, if she turns on Rob at the next council, and gets herself into the final pair by winning the challenge or by general deviousness, she’s got a great argument for having played a nice strategic game - form a tight alliance with someone capable at challenges, then do some slick outwitting at the end. Worst case, Rob wins the next immunity, and she’s only marginally worse off facing Rupert and Jenna than Rupert and Tom.
On the other hand, the previews are clearly intended to make us think that (B) is the likely outcome, so it probably won’t be. My bet is the “guaranteed surprise” has something to do with a tiebreaker - either unfairly arbitrary, or a bonus challenge between the two tied votees, likely grotesque and/or dangerous, a la the Fear Factoresque reward challenge last time.
Not likely. They haven’t used the past votes tiebreaker since the third season. They changed it in Marquesas to the unspeakably unfair purple rock of shame. There has not been a tie vote since Paschal was tossed due to the luck of the draw that season.
So assuming they continue to use this system, is it were a tie vote between Amber and Jenna, would those two be the ones drawing rocks?
Unknown. There have been occasional noises from the producers, after the purple rock went over like a lead balloon, that they had adopted a new tiebreaking system, but we have never seen it. If their purpose with the rock was to discourage tie votes, they have done it very well.
Also, what I heard on the previews was that the shocking, unbelievable, really amazing thing that nobody will believe is on the reunion show.
And in Marquesas, everybody who wasn’t immune had to draw a rock. The situation was a 2-2 tie, with Kathy and Vecepia (who had immunity) voting against Neleh, and Paschal and Neleh voting against Kathy. They had like a minute to change their votes after Probst announced how the tiebreaker would work, which was designed to pressure somebody into flipping. Nobody switched, so everybody drew. Bye-bye, Paschal.
Did either of the two people who were voted against have votes against them previous to that competition?