Oh yeah… when I was watching that, I was thinking “she’s gonna need to get transferred to a desk job after this.” If she ever had to testify in a criminal case about things that happened quickly and required some quick memorization before being noted down, well, Exhibit A…
I’m from New England, and trust me… Rodney is not acting. He also has “small man complex”. He also sucks at challenges. He might just be stupid and a bad enough player to keep around.
Hey, yeah, are we to the point of the game where people start looking for goats to drag to the end? Maybe not quite, but pretty close.
What goats would you pick if you were playing? I think I might drag super annoying yahoo lady with me to the end. Rodney is a close second.
Time to start lining up the goats. I also liked how they never mentioned it again. Jeff didn’t say anything. They didn’t mention it at tribal. No standard line from Jeff, “Okay, Merica, welcome to your first individual immunity challenge!” Just… dead air.
It may have just been creative editing on their part, but I liked how Shirin seems to have said “Hey, I need to shut the fuck up” and then proceeded to do so. That’s rare, among the perpetually annoying. “Oh, and, maybe keep my pants on.”
There is no better way to defeat a meathead than to let them think they are running things and to praise them to their face.
That way, their minds just go off thinking about how wonderful it will be when they have the million dollars and they will just remain paralyzed when they are given the boot.
Their mistake tonight, I think, was sending Shirin to reel in Tyler. Joe should have gone himself. Yes, Shirin is one of Tyler’s old tribemates, but she’s not one that’s been in any kind of copaceticity with him at any real point in the game so far. I think he’d have respected Joe coming to him more, possibly to the point of jumping.
And I would pay to see Rodney get spined right through the foot by a stingray and dragged out to sea, never to be seen again.
Dammit, Tyler was my guy until tonight. Now I hate him. Not as much as I hate Roidney, Mike and Dan, but still … I wonder why Tyler never bothered to try to find the idol.
Joe is not long for the game unless he wins every freaking challenge. But I still suspect there is an idol out there, not counting the one Mike found (dammit). Because the one at one of the tribes was never found and Jenn’s is back in play.
Rodney is hilarious!
He keeps on saying that he is running the game and yet …
everything he wants and plans on happening just blows up in his face.
First Joc is voted out and then Kelly is voted out instead of the lady he wanted to go.
If Rodney really wants to win this game, the best strategy he could employ would be to try and get himself voted out because it would be bound to fail.
What a meathead!
Don’t make me hate you Jenn. I swear if you quit I’m going to hate hating you 
Speaking of the idol being back in play, I’m amazed that it got used exactly the way it’s intended to be used: she found it, kept it a secret until the last minute so she could discuss whether or not to give it to the other one who was likely to be voted out, then orchestrated a blindside that would only work if she got most of the votes, and then used it.
How do you know that he never bothered to find the idol?
Well, he certainly didnt spend as much time looking for it as the dude who found it.
It is not necessarily true that the idol clue Joe got is for the idol that Mike found–it could have been for a rehidden idol that Jenn played last week. The clue that was read doesn’t seem to point to where Mike actually found his idol. Note that the idol that Mike found was blue-colored; it could have been the one initially hidden on the Blue Collar beach (where 'Murica is currently) that was never found since Mike and Dan opted for the big bag of beans instead of the HII clue.
We have no idea if that is true.
They have like 42 minutes of actual show per episode, most of which is taken up with challenges and Tribal Counsel. They used much of the remaining screen time showing Mike actually finding the idol which is more interesting than showing Tyler looking around and coming up empty. He might not have bothered looking or he might have spent hours looking. There is no way to know.
However, they have been fairly consistent about showing them finding the idol, even if they only have them look for a couple minutes… somebody found one earlier in the season and it took up almost no screen time. I don’t think they’d want to go all the way to the TC reveal without telling us that it was there because of the possibility that somebody would actually play it that way: find it, don’t tell anybody, wait until they think they’re about to get voted off, and play it. Which would be awesome, but kind of a WTF moment for the audience. Which is why it would be awesome, as well: Welcome to the game, guys.
I don’t follow you here. All I was saying is that we don’t know one way or the other if Tyler put in effort to look because they have to condense two or three days down to less than an hour.
My bad… I misread it as “we don’t know whether or not he has one,” rather than “whether or not he’s looked for one.” They could be sitting on hours of footage of him searching, waiting for him to find the damn thing, then they’ll cut together the best bits for the reveal scene.
This can be a problem with Survivor - when played correctly (as in when you have a majority, stick together) it can get boring. It looks like a straight Pagonging from here on out, and the original five blue collar will then take out whoever’s left of the switchers (Will, and Carolyn).
It’s time for one of those challenges that exposes everyone’s position on the totem pole.
Joe is dominant in challenges, but he took all the swing votes for reward and couldn’t get a one to switch to his side. In fact, it didn’t even look like he tried. And giving up the idol clue made no sense.
There are only four Blues left: Sierra, Dan, Mike*, Rodney.
Three Whites: Tyler, Carolyn* (both voting with Blue) and Shirin (voting with No)
Three Nos: Joe and Jenn. And Will who seems to have flipped to Blue.
*Have immunity idols
Right?