survivor - heroes vs. villains

I'm loving this season. I loved the All-Stars season as well.

Fans vs. Favorites was idiotic. Essentially every contestant is a "fan" of the show, or at least everybody since Season 1.

In most seasons, it's pretty predictable until the merge. The old people get voted off, the weak people get voted off and it's pretty boring for several weeks, with a few exceptions.

One of the few exceptions was Marquesas where there was some guy, who looked like he was going to be that season's Tom. He kicked ass in all the challenges and was the clear leader of the tribe for several weeks and almost out of nowhere Boston Rob rallied enough support to get him voted off. It was great.

If memory serves, Boston Rob didn't even last until the merger that season.

 

I have no idea if this is correct, but there's an internet rumor about who goes home tonight and how. If it happens, it will be a doozy.

Major spoiler alert... Again, I have no idea if any of this is true.


http://www.realitytvcalendar.com/shows/survivor-20/spoilers/ep-04-p1.html

 

There's a YouTube video that has been posted since Christmas that has the order of people eliminated and they nailed the first three and have the same person going tonight that the other sites have.

If this stuff is true, Survivor did a terrible job of keeping this stuff under wraps.

Interesting Final 3 if true.

 

JT is the shit. I mean, no idea if that was a good move, but what a badass move. Don't see many shifts of that magnitude come from someone so safe in their own alliance.

I like Cirie too, but she's too good at this for her own good.

 

How and why did Tom get all those votes against him?

Didn't everybody in the Heroes tribe know that he had the immunity idol? And didn't they know he knew he was a target and was feeling threatened, and that he would play the idol if he felt the need?

Who did they think he was? James?

 

My wife asked, "Do we know what Amanda does when she's not being on Survivor?"

I answered, "Bathing. Applying lotions and oils. Trying on bikinis and lingerie. Yoga. Erotically eating bananas."

It's a pretty big upset that I'm spending the night indoors.

 

They didn't figure there was any way one of their six would flip, so it'd be a 3-3 with the two people they wanted gone. If one of them had played the idol, the other would be gone. If neither played the idol the six could revote and change their votes so as to actually get rid of someone.

It was a fine way to flush out the idol and still achieve the goal so long as no one flips. But someone flipped.

Gotta love Cirie's reaction: "Eh, nice move. I can't be mad. I'd have done it if it were me. I was getting powerful" (or something to that effect)

 

Nice episode. Nice finish. It's nice to see Candace smirk when the idol is played, only to be horrified when it didn't go as planned. That never gets old.

 

The strategy is called "flushing out the idol." If they got rid of Colby, they'd take Tom next. Been used in many previous seasons. He managed to pull the brilliant backfire.

And Arnold, I think you're spot on with Amanda's off-screen activities.

 

I guess I just get surprised sometimes by how much these "alliances" seem to trust each other, although maybe they don't have too much choice.

I never really thought of JT as part of the alliance from which he supposedly flipped, and, given that, my vote, had I had one, would have been more direct in this instance.

Ergo, I would not have voted for somebody who I knew had the idol and who I thought would have been inclined to play it.

 

Damn, I had to watch last night's tribal again because it was such a thing of beauty.

JT should have sided with Tom, Colby, and Steph from the get-go

 

JT should have listened to Tom from Day 1 when Tom told him, look, we need each other because the only way a past winner wins is if they're up against another person who won.

Although, if you believe the spoiler sites, there are two former winners among the Final 3. I hope the spoiler sites are wrong, but they've been 4 for 4 so far.