No, sorry, I was unclear – the “he” who’s no fool is Jeff.
What on Earth was with Debbie’s offer to go to the final 3 with Steven & J.T. but settle for third? Who would believe an offer like that - if you’re sick of the game and don’t want the million, you’d just quit. If you want to stay in 6 more days, you’re going for the million - simple as that. I’m relieved they were smart enough to not buy her bullshit.
I tried memorizing the symbols by making words based on P, M, T, & D. Didn’t get a good enough look at all the operators to do it, but I bet that would have worked too.
Yeah, she was dumb to make a promise like that…it’s impossible to believe, and makes you look like you’re planning to backstab them. She could have made it work by saying she has the idol, and maybe they could use it as a team…that’s worked before, I think, like saying that whoever most needs it could use it, or something like that. But stating you’ll just hand it over for no apparent reason…that you’ll backstab your alliance to get into the final three, and then give up a chance at winning? That makes no sense at all.
I’m sure when he’s watching the clips of him mediating with the bird imagery and the classical music he’s thinking, “Damn, I’m more badass that I thought I was.”
I was curious if their sequential arithmetic formula on the challenge also asserted proper order of operations. I tried freeze-framing but couldn’t find anything conclusive.
I pretty sure it didn’t. There was a space below every two numbers so you were just supposed to do it in sequence. I notice J.T. wrote down PEMDAS, which probably confused him more.
Nope because the second step was 2 divided by 4
I wondered the same thing and came to the same conclusion.
Here’s what amazes me:
They merged with 6 Timburu and 4 Jalapao, right? (Well, I probably screwed up both spellings, but you know what I mean.) And then J lost another member to infection right away, bringing it to T6/J3. Perfect setup for a Pagoning, right?
So here we are, four weeks later, at T2/J3. And it seems for all the world that NOBODY has noticed it!
Or, at least, the editors haven’t let us see anyone commenting on it.
It just takes an amazing amount of blindness on T’s account. I guess Coach gets most of the blame. He wanted Brendan and Sierra gone, and then even when they blindsided him and took out Tyson he seemed to still imagine he was in control of what was going on.
Do you think he will finally wake up to reality now that they’ve dumped his only remaining ally?
Oh, hell no. If he gets voted out, his parting words will be “Ha! My plan is working perfectly!” And if he goes to final 2 or 3, he’ll say that was his plan all along, because whoever he loses to will be a True Warrior, just like himself, who deserved to win. And he’ll pat himself on the back with his feather, sure that he changed the game forever. :smack:
During the finale, I just wonder how Coach will justify his flat-out lies the week Sierra got kicked off.
Blame them on the pygmy cannibals?
As a (granted, 6th grade) math teacher, I was really bothered by this challenge. Jeff said the contestants would be making a math equation that they would then solve. Therefore, in my mind, they would have needed to follow the order of operations simply because that’s what you do with an equation involving multiple operations.
DeathLlama and I actually paused the DVR with the equation on the screen to debate this point. DL saw it as a game along the lines of “Think of a number. Okay, add 8. Now divide by 3…” -etc., which would make it immune from the order of operations. I saw it as a written math equation that should have followed a fairly basic rule of math computation.
It was obvious that that is not what the producers were going for–following the OOO, contestants would have had to divide 5 by 3 at one point. It would not have gotten the correct answer–er, excuse me. The answer the producers wanted.
DL argued that was a fairly obscure rule (then acquiesced “obscure” is not the right word), but I argued that shouldn’t matter.
My 6th graders would have done what JT was doing, and gotten it wrong as a result. (Of course, they would probably multiply before they divide because they still forget that it’s multiply OR divide in order from left to right–dammit! In order! Whatever’s first! sigh)
Now you’ve got be rooting for a Taj/Erinn final two.
Let’s see Coach keep a straight face as he claims they ‘out warriored’ him. 
Which lies specifically? Forgive me, he’s told so many.
The biggest one (in that he got called on) was saying that Sierra came to him to make after Tyson left, when it was really the other way around.
Absotively. If both JT or Stephen is in final 3, then when Coach loses he can pull out the True Warriors trope – I can already taste the reflux. Go Erinn! Go Taj! It would be a bittersweet outcome if either TJ or Stephen goes to final TC and loses, but, hey, having Coach not win is a worthy outcome. And having Taj win is pretty cool, too. Having Erinn win… well, Coach still lost, I could somehow face up to this.
Why the Stephen/JT hate?
Who, me? That was Coach hate. JT/Stephen were theoretical casualties.
All I have to say to Stephen is: Be the Wizard.