I don’t think they were, but by targeting Debby they ensured it wouldn’t be one of them going home. The problem is now they have the same problem next week.
I guess their only hope is that Tai doesn’t really favor the idea of facing Scott and Jason during the last few immunity challenges.
If Scott or Jason had the second highest number of votes at a TC, Tai could actually play the super idol and send Scott or Jason home. Whether that would be a good idea or not, it would be a Big Move™
Tai said on Twitter that he gave Kyle Jason his idol back after the TC.
Wow, what an episode. At the start, never would’ve thought Debbie would be the one going home, but she really did dig her own grave. She seemed pretty smart but this episode really screwed up - first by completely misreading Julia, and second by not thinking they had any idols. (Wasn’t Cydney present when the Brawn found their HII? Why not mention it?)
I’m actually enjoying this season a lot… people are coming to play. The only person who doesn’t seem to be playing hard is Joe. Yeah, there were some dumb moves, but at least people are trying.
I don’t blame the girls for turning on Debbie, necessarily. She was showing that she was taking control of deciding who to vote for (saying she absolutely wasn’t going to vote for Julia, pre-immunity) and that’s dangerous when she’s making bad calls. And given that the person who would’ve gone home if they had just voted normally to flush the idol would’ve been Cydney, Cydney absolutely made the right move to get people to vote out Debbie instead. It’s all about making sure the vote isn’t you, even if it isn’t necessarily who you’d like to take out.
Along those lines, wouldn’t surprise me if Joe was the sacrifice next week.
Whoah, I wonder if he’ll get in trouble for tweeting that. It’s something that affects the game, that we haven’t seen on TV yet - usually a big no no for contestants. Usually they tweet behind the scenes stuff that didn’t make it into the show, but which had already happened by the end of the episode.
And by trouble of course I mean a sternly worded letter from CBS & Burnett’s attorneys.
I’m surprised, too, though I don’t follow any of them on twitter. I hope he ran it by CBS before sending it out.
In other news, that immunity challenge was brutally fun. Although it looked like the problem was that as soon as you let your dominoes go, the whole thing starts to shake and cause the pieces to fall off.
Yeah, there were multiple attempts where a domino further down the chain fell off the side while the early ones were still falling.
This challenge was brutally unfair to Scot and his size 19 canoes though.
Why do you keep calling him Kyle Jason?
Ironically, she didn’t misread Julia. She’s the only one who correctly believed Julia would stay with the girls, which she did.
Thank you. That’s what it was.
This episode–with the vile behavior and the stupidity, there’s no one to root for. And is everyone actually gaining weight this season (other than Debby)?
That’s his name. Jason is his last name.
Well, huh. It is indeed.
What a terrible name.
lets get back to the survival aspect. remember survivor 1—everyone was skin and bones.
Doesn’t look like he did, since it looks like he removed the tweet, and then responded to someone else being a lot more vague about the matter.
Yeah, but I still feel like I’m missing out on some snark. Why are people referring to him as Kyle Jason here? Because Kyle is his real first name and he’s going by Jason on the show? Seems like a minor infraction at worst.
Because he’s an asshole, so I snark where I can.
Good post! I don’t know why other people in this thread are saying “they voted out their ally!” Debbie wasn’t their ally anymore. She demanded absolute control, including veto power, over everything their alliance did. She wasn’t making rational decisions, and her towering ego meant that she couldn’t even conceive of being wrong about anything. That kind of player is far more dangerous than those smirking boneheads Scot and Jason.
If they had kept Debbie, she would have driven their group right off a cliff. In many ways she reminds me of Rupert, who made some spectacularly bad strategic decisions while bullying his alliance members into unquestioning obedience.
Ooooh! Now THAT was a blindside! (The following is a spoiler for tonight’s show, fyi.)
[spoiler]However, it was not a betrayal. If Tai had given Scot his idol to go super saiyan…er, idol, then it comes down to a tie between Tai and Aubrey. At this point in the game, the tiebreaker is a revote between the two tied players. The tied players cannot vote. So it goes to revote and Tai KNOWS that Joe, Julia, Michelle and Cydney are voting for him again. He’s not even absolutely certain that Scot or Jason aren’t going to vote for him now that his usefulness (as an idol-bearer) is over. Tai HAD to refuse Scot the idol.
That Jason and Scot EXPECTED Tai to sacrifice himself to save Scot does pretty well show where Tai stands in that alliance, though.[/spoiler]