badlieut

What's up w/ Sandra's left foot? Looks like she has 6 toes.

Merkin Muffley

Obviously, Stephen was the brains behind the JT operation.

Parvati reading the letter may have passed, "It's a fucking stick," for my favorite funniest Survivor moment.

guildda

I really think JT and the entire Heroes tribe overthought things. On a regular season of Survivor, this would never, ever, EVER happen. But in trying to make a brilliant move, they just made a stupid one.

darkhawk

Heroes best choice next week is try to convince the Villians that they're voting for Russell or Parvati and vote Jerri out.

NiCK Crush

Yea, but JT did have the charm that first season. No one had a negative thing to say about him. Him trying to be all sneaky and strategize this time around just isn't going to work for him. But he is one of those guys that can go on a immunity challenge streak and go really far. So it'll be interesting. However, the jury will eat him alive this time if he made it to the end.

dolphinboy

Anyone else planning to eat at Outback Steakhouse soon? I'm taking my wife and kids tomorrow night!

outcastja

I think Parvati will end up blind siding Russell with her idol near the end. I agree that they should have voted Sandra over Courtney. It would be much easier for Russell to convince the Heroes that Sandra had to go before Parvati. The moment they merge, Sandra will just spill the beans to the Heroes on what Russell is up too.

wirefan

The most enjoyable part of the show is how Rupert seems like a bigger and bigger buffoon as time goes on (he's been a buffoon from day one, it just seems to get worse the more he's on screen) ... broken toe and all that weight and he thinks he'd be the best in that challenge? It was amusing to see him go first and watch the villains imitating him during the reward. Also amusing to see him laughing/grunting at how good the give the idol away strategy could be.

Hard to believe that Amanda seemed to be the only voice of reason about giving away the idol, though Candice did bring up a good point - at least it would get the idol away from JT. Still, it's mind-boggling how they could just assume they knew what was going on (and I think this is another case where Probst influences play with his leading questions...). It's one thing to ask questions at council.. but before challenges now? One question about the reaction of who went home... Ok.... but two questions, why doesn't he just put a villain buff on?

superfro

I personally don't give a shit if Russell ever wins the game of Survivor, but no one has ever caused or had more crazy shit happen to them in the entire history of this show. He's pretty goddamn amazing.

Howie2000

Stupidest move ever by JT and his allies Amanda and Rupert should have tried to talk him out of it.

From Candice's prespective I can see why JT possesing the idol is just as awful as any of the villians having it. Had she not won individual immunity the round James went JT would have tried to take her out.

Howie2000

Last season they had a lot of complete random individual challenges like slingshot,counting fish,bowling and that balancing thing Russell won that go against most seasons pattern of individual immunity challenges that favor athletic dudes.

I think the season Tom won,Micronesia and Cook Islands were the only seasons which the challenges were almost set up for the most athletic dude to go on a challenge run without at least 1 completely random challenge thrown in there. It would be almost a suicide mission for any person to actually be counting on a challenge run most seasons.

OscarBluth

I think Russell would go with #2 if they didn't have so much time left. I thought the same thing, or that JT would give Russell a fake idol and keep the real one without his tribe knowing.
Your socks are in my pants, Suzi Q.

dolphinboy

Not fair to lump Amanda in there. They showed us how she reacted for a reason, which was to give the audience some idea that someone actually thought JT's idea was not a good one. Who's knows how much more she said that they have to cut and if no one else is questioning JT, Amanda just makes herself a target if she starts some kind of fight.

Rupert is a full on idiot, but Colby has been horrible almost all season, in challenges anjd in his decision making. He's actually lucky to be there, since the idiots voted out, I think, their best player in Tom over James and then "came to their senses" a week/3 days later and booted James.

I understand how a few people can say that it really did seem, at the time, that there was an all girl alliance, but you just don't assume anything enough to give someone you don't know the idol and their group was clearly superior and if they'd stuck together for even a short period of time, they most likely would have knocked out several of the girls who are with Russell and, maybe, even the King, himself.

I'd kind of like them to either take the idol out in future seasons OR limit how often they put it into play.

Jeremy517

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CBS posted this clip. Russell talks about what he is going to say to the Heroes, with regards to Courtney going home instead of Parvati. I'm not sure if spoiler tags are necessary, but just in case:



It also gives away something that contradicts the editing we saw tonight:

Fandango

JT was right about making history.

wirefan

I'm not sure I see Parv and Russell turning on each other - they both may be each others' best bet in a jury vote. I only see them turning if one of them is at risk and has no other choice (or find someone along the way who would be more hated by the jury).

What could be a stupendous play next week is for Russell to play up that Sandra is the girl alliance ring leader (I assume the first thing Sandra does is to try to flip and convince folks that Russell is running the show and should go first). He can make it seem like Sandra is just lying so they can target another guy and at the same time make it seem like she's trying to win over Candice and Amanda by voting out a villain guy first before targeting the Hero guys. In parallel, Jeri could go to Rupert "trying" to get Russell out and Parv/Danielle go to Candice and Amanda with the same plan, and sell it as Sandra's plan, in hopes of pretending to create an all girl allliance.

If they could get the heroes thinking Sandra is the one to take out to break up the all girl alliance, then the villains may not even have to play an idol. And in doing so, Russell would earn some trust from the remaining Heroes and the Villains alliance would know who they were targeting next - which would set up an easy immunity idol blindside the following week (And if it's a guy, Russell might even potentially be able to go to the remaining guys and make it seem like it must have been an idol found at the villains camp and make it seem like one or two of the girls flipped)

wirefan

Jeremy517

TyroneJordan

They should've sent Sandra home. Now Sandra is going to ruin everything

TyroneJordan

All the Survivor contestants were surprisingly really friendly after the immunity challenge for some reason. Usually it's more hostile

Eric D.

The Outback Steakhouse stuff was super lame, especially Sandra's scripted speech about it.

the big train

Amanda thought it was a bad idea because she didn't want Parvati to go, not because she thought it would backfire on the Heroes. She wants to get rid of JT and now she is assuming one of her "options" is gone while JT gets to have Russell in his pocket.

freshticles

The heroes were mingling to throw the attention off of the JT/Russell transaction.

Goldberg74

Just like she did in the Pearl Islands.

I hate Sandra.

scoot95

Was it just my imagination or was Parvati sporting some major camel toe in the reward challenge?