Episode 3:



Please don't let Philip get voted off. He is GOLD.

Here's the synopsis:

I'm thinking that means

Hard to believe no one has been eliminated from the game yet.

I think.....

I agree.

That's what I'm thinking as well.

They don't get voted off redemption island do they? I thought they competed in a challenge to stick around.

That's correct.

Right, but the loser of the challenge is sent home.

For what it's worth, the episode title is -



So that's not a bad prediction.

I dont like that anybody watches the Redemption Island challenge. I think it would be much better if they are completely unaware of who is there other than the last person they sent.

Pretty smart move on Julie's (?) part to not flip and go with Russell and crew. She flips and they still don't have numbers so flipping doesn't make much sense.

Stephanie has some balls on her. She goes into Tribal talking shit (which might be why Julie decided not to flip after all) and even after Russell gets voted out she's still talking shit. She's not long for this game.

The best part is initially she was the one most upset about Russell entering the game and joining her tribe. I'm pretty confident that Russell will beat Matt next week and we'll end up with a Russell/Rob face-off at RI at some point.

Yep, didn't like that at all. Plus it takes up too much time of the show, so we get less time with them at camp.

It would be much more entertaining for Rob or Russell to end up there and run the table to get back in the game and shock everybody at their return.

I thought the black chick was going to beat the blond dude. In the end the blond dude ended up beating the black chick. Now Russell has to go against the blond dude, instead of the black chick. He thought he'd be facing the black chick, not the blond dude. Black chick...blond dude

I liked how Russell didn't even know the name of "the old lady" on his tribe yet.

Did you see the guns on that old lady?

That's his people skills at work.

Russell just went into this season with the wrong game plan. Rob is definitely playing a much smarter game. And I am a Russell fan. It'll be interesting to see if he can run the gauntlet on Redemption.

Rob is gonna be elated

Steve the silver fox

at the close-up of the one woman's big jugs with the immunity idol around her neck during the re-cap!

Very entertaining episode, especially with the confidence Russell and Stephanie had going into TC, only to see the smiles wiped off their faces while Ralph sat there and laughed at them.

I'm not really sure what those dolts on Russell's tribe think they were accomplishing by lying about who won the RI challenge.

Not just Rob. You're going to hear a huge cheer when Jeff tells them "Russell voted out at last tribal council"

Seemed a strange move to me too, especially since they hadn't confirmed the "throw the challenge" strategy. I guess they got an extra kick out of imaging Russell thinking he'd have the advantage, only to see a younger stronger guy there instead.

I'm just amazed those idiots pulled it off I was thinking that Ralph wasn't going to take any chances and reveal he had the HII (meaning they didn't have to worry about splitting votes). I wonder if Stephanie's bratty attitude was the difference between the "old lady" sticking with her original alliance versus siding with Russell.

I don't think Julie ever considered voting with Russell. She just humored them by listening to their plan and the producers edited it to give us a more exciting tribal council. The guy doing the puzzle couldn't have been more obvious about throwing the competition. From that point on, I'm sure Russell knew he was getting the boot.

I guess there is a chance that Rob's tribe, upon finding out that Russell was voted out, will re-think their strategy and determine that it might be best to get him out early.

I was looking forward to Russell being voted out, but after that pathetic challenge-throwing, I now hope he comes back and picks each of them off.