I’m still confused at how easily they let Colton run the tribe. The first week he did nothing but whine and tried to live at the girls camp while the men stood back and talked about how useless he was. Granted he continued being useless it the difference was he had an idol. So he who holds the idol calls the shots? I say they should have back doored him (no pun intended) by making him not feel threatened to use the idol. But instead he whined and got them to vote out possibly the strongest guy which IMO was as arrogant as Colton it to let him lead the tribe and cower down to him. Then just sitting back and let him and Alicia attack Christina personally like that? That whole tribe has been a let down. Monica should have never gotten voted out this early. But at least you can always bet on karma.
The reason why Colton stuck around so long was that he target people for personal reasons, and wouldn’t let up until he got his way. Say you decided to blindside him. All it would take is for one person to let it slip to him your plan, and you become the next target. Unless you’re guaranteed to go next, no one wants to take that risk.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who took great pleasure in Colton’s suffering. What a little prick. I wonder, though, did his reference to karma on twitter mean that he realized he acted badly? Has he experienced some personal growth? Has he learned humility?
<stevemartin> …Naaaaah. </stevemartin>
So how close are they to having enough medical evacuees to cast a “second chance” season? I think that would be quite interesting, even with Colton included. I doubt that anybody who’s previously played would stand for his antics very long.
Oh, and (sorry for the double-post, but I just remembered I’d wanted to say this), did anybody else think that the episode title – “Thanks for the Souvenir” – pretty much telegraphed who was going home? Between that and last week’s preview that suggested there would be a medical evacuation, it wasn’t hard to guess what was going to happen. They usually do a better job of keeping both the titles and the previews intentionally vague.
I honestly thought the editors were trying to trick us for a little bit. I remembered the evac from the previews, and as soon as I saw Colton in pain I thought, “He’s not going home, that’s what they want us to think!”
When they cut from Colton writhing in pain, to Colton’s to-the-camera confessional in seemingly good health, I thought that meant he recovered and didn’t leave. I don’t recall any precedent for a medevac’d player giving commentary after the fact.
Call me doubting Thomas, but I wanna see the appendectomy scar at the reunion show.
As **singular1 **posted upthread, the word on the intarwebs now is that it turns out he had a bacterial infection and not appendicitis.
How appropriate. “One World” = “War of the Worlds.”
I was hoping he’d jump into the fire.
I love the double Karma…Alicia getting hung out to dry by Colton’s selfishness.
I need to listen to that again but it sounded like it was recorded when he first got sick and the voice over portions were edited in from later conversations.
According to this interview, it was a bacterial infection.
Also in that piece, he tries to defend some of his actions but ends up digging a bigger hole:
That’s not a good way to say you’re not racist.
It’s not like Alicia cast the deciding vote–it was already 4 men/3 women on Manono. The meaningful look that Alicia and Sabrina shared at tribal council after the merge was announced suggests that Alicia is back in it together with Kim, Sabrina, Chelsea, and Kat. I’m curious to see whether Jay and Troyzan decide to stick it out with them.
How awesome was Christina for caring for Colton. I may be as naive as Kat but I thought she was doing it just because she is a caring person and not because of a master strategy to stay in the game. But it was a little jarring when Colton had his head in her lap after all of the vitriol.
…And then he ruined the moment by accepting her mothering, then saying, “At this point, she’d do ANYTHING to stay in the game.”
He’s a real tool.