Fok

I'm glad Rob and Amber got split up, Rob was getting way too cocky. I'd vote off Rob and Lex next as they seem to be the big power players. WTF is up with Lex telling people they're next, what a dumb ass.
I still hope Rupet wins, he seems to be the most deserving.

potvin48

You in the Battle Creek area???

Jim

I thought the beginning of the show might be telling when they showed Big Tom and Rupert and they told how they go out fishing together every morning. Could be an alliance there that they haven't shown so far.

Anyone else catch how when Lex was telling Cathy about why they should vote off Jerri he said it was a good strategic move and then as he realized what he was saying quickly added "for the team".

Jadzia

They were showing it on the Detroit station. I guess in case the kidnapper drove east.

Struz

I'd like to see Rupert, Tom, Alicia and Jenna form an alliance and get rid of Rob.

Jeremy517

They would be fools to not do it.

Of course, none of those four are particularly good strategists, so it doesn't seem likely to happen...

Roto

They hadn't shown them hanging out much, but I remember Tom saying he liked Rupert and saw him as someone he could hang out with. I think that was the episode they dismembered the Oompa Loompa tribe and split them between the two remaining tribes.

The other thing that I didn't like about this episode was Chapera losing their camp to Mogo Mogo. I don't even like most of the people on Chapera, but to call this the All Star edition and just randomly flip everything around like that was pretty lame when one was doing so much better than the other. If they wanted to do this they should've incorperated it into some kind of challenge. If someobdy fails they have to switch sides.

SpaceBoy

I agree, I was hoping they would lose the challenge, because of rob trying to throw it(which is what it seemed like he was going to try to do), and vote rob off..

I enjoyed him more the first time, on all-star not as much. He's to full of himself, and amber isn't that hot, so I dont' understand what he's going on about.

I enjoy seeing tom and rupert, having a normal life, going fishing, just enjoying being there, unlike all the lazy people who just sleep, and wait for handouts.. Way to much food given out, I doin't see how those guys can even be hungry anymore..

Pretty lame survivor so far I think, way to easy for the guys. Except Jerri, which from listening to her, you would think never played the game before..

mariakitty

I am skeptical that there will ever be a merger, at least until we get down to the final 4 or 6. Both teams keep anticipating this and I think it's better to keep them guessing.

Also, what was the deal with the paint? They didn't make it clear to the tribes that it was face paint, so the whole idea fell flat.

cdollaz

What was the deal with the teams numbering 1-4 and 1-6 for the first "challenge". What did the numbers have to do with anything? Did I miss something?

Red Dog

That's how they paired them up for the lunch and 1-on-1 discussion.

Howiefan

Spoiler about the next episode and the boot :

cdollaz

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure they took turns choosing who they wanted to have lunch with.

Jeremy517

The numbers were to decide who picked first.

Gil Jawetz

das Monkey

Agreed

das

Patman

I was never on the Rupert bandwagon in season 7, and that hasn't changed in All-Stars either. He's a dolt.

SunMonkey

With only 9 now left, we are into the jury selection.

I was very much hoping they would vote out Amber for no other reason than to see Rob go berserk over it. That would have been some good TV.

I certainly hope Tom and Rupert are thinking of an alliance. They are by far the most likable pair left in the game, and I would love to see either win, especially Rupert. He is a good guy, and that evidently threatens people.

mookiemeister

As much as I like Rupert and want him to win Survivor, I don't think he was in the final 2. Remember during the Survivor Pearl Island reunion show, he made a comment about at least he finished ahead of Richard Hatch. From that comment, I just got the feeling he didn't get to the final 2.

TheBang

That's an assumption. Jeff was very careful this week saying only "and you'll have a one in nine chance of becoming the sole survivor." He didn't say, "and a guaranteed spot on the jury" as he has in the past seasons.

This might be some subtle semantics trickery, like in Survivor Thailand when he said "you'll be two tribes living on one beach" and everyone assumed that they had merged.

Chrisedge

The one thing I don't get is why didn't the ladies get rid of Lex? The four of them allow themselves to be puppets for him. Shoulda got rid of him, thinking they must be merging soon.

Roto

They've been trying to keep them guessing on the merge ever since the 2nd or 3rd season because everyone had seen the show before and expected it.

Seems like every time they do it, they hint about a merge and throw some twist instead, like the time they brought back the loser tribe As far as I remember every time they pull something like that they end up doing the merge the next show. I'll be surprised if they don't merge this week, plus the one tribe is getting pretty small after losing AGAIN. I think the main point of the buff exchange was just to even them up to delay the merge.

Patman

The producers got a little unlucky when the tribes flip-flopped when picking buffs out of the jar, with only Amber being the odd woman out. But with the Rob-Amber hook-up, perhaps that was enough to get some strange gameplay from both of them to make it interesting anyway.

SunMonkey

I suppose so. But, I can't see why they would change that part of the game as it really doesn't effect much if the players don't know in adavance. I would think they would keep an odd number of people so as to not have a tie, and 5 people on the jury seems a bit small, and surely 3 would be silly.

Who knows, though.

Chrisedge