Oscirus

I knew the other team had it as soon as I saw Kellyn was on their team. Like her or hate her, Kellyn excels at puzzles. Me too. Jennas apparently the one with perma bitch face ( or so she thinks) currently in a showmance with seb, Chelsea's the red head currently working with Kellyn. Truth be told, It's not even that hard to separate naviti from malolo since malolo generally tends to be around each other a lot.

He just outted the fact that he has a secret alliance to Laurel in neon letters and Kellyn pretty much ignored it. Kellyn had her boot Michael blinders on though so pretty much anything would've gotten past her at that point.

Just goes to show how long its been since I watched this lol. They might if they don't think he will. Hell Donathon might even lose it following one of Michael's idol plans.

I don't think Laurel is scared as much as I think that she likes power. Right now she has two alliances depending on her so she has all the power in the world. By getting rid of a naviti and keeping malolo strong she can keep her situation more fluid. Only real problem she has is now she has the spotlight on her a bit, which eh, it's final 10, got to get your hands dirty eventually.

You had an African dance and you didn't put it Chris's dope beats? what the hell survivor? get your stuff together.

Now onto my spec for the remaining players Michael and Jenna-bye Chelsea- if she had any chance of winning, she'd be getting way more camera time Sebastian- Would be getting the fun guy edit if Donathon wasn't around. Kellyn- I fear that your big move will be getting out Michael, you'll be unceremoniously dumped soon after. Tis a shame, she really had a chance to win. Angela- Be around until her vote is no longer necessary Donathon- eh? He's the party guy. At least he'll win fan fav. Wendell- Playing the social game can only take you so far. Especially if you're a guy. You'll likely fade into goat status/ get booted at4/5 soon if you don't make a move. Laurel- if she makes it to the final 2/3 she should have malolo votes but can she flip naviti votes her way? That'll be the question Dom- As of now the overwhelming favorite. Most would be fools to take him to the finals at this juntrure.

Apparently not that bad since she trusted him enough to choose them over Dez. As for Don? He just told the two people on the bottom that he had an idol because he couldn't wait for camp to clear out. It looks like next week is straight forward, Michael and Jenna boots locked in. Week after is when the fun should really begin.

After all my complaints about watching players accept their fate and play till they're gone, Im not mad at this episode. Dez- Almost a good move, but you failed on two things. One never plan a major move until after the IC when the idol winner is locked in, two, don't tell a whole group tell one person and send out feelers. Donathon- Are you kidding me? You weren't in danger and nobody else knew about the idol, why not wait until after the camp was cleared as opposed to letting four people in on your secret? Chelsea- Good job on that IC. Quite the warrior Angie- Even though I know this won't do you any good now. For some reason, they always put the no vote in the right most vessel. Don't choose that one Laurel- I'm not hating your commitment to dom Wendell. It's better to be third in a strong three then fifth/sixth in a weak six. Kellyn- Good job letting Dez go, now the question is how do you recover from the loss of one of your closest allies? Micheal- I really hope that you're not one of those skin of their teeth winners. You need to hurry up and go so the real game can begin. Sebastian- nice showing in the comp Jenna- Easily the most forgettable juror this year. Dom- Congrats on finding a new rival. Props for steamrolling kellyn. Might want to dial it back a bit. Wendell- I see you working your social game. Let those other fools cause drama, you'll just stay in the background, when you should be getting targeted.

Yea Jenna and Libby. Donathon told Dom not to try and get them because he was there when Chris told Libby that Dom was targeting her. It's not like his advice had that much effect on them since in the very next scene, Wendell's doing just that. I believe the key to the alliance is that Laurel and Wendell like working together. Dom and Donathon both have had other options but they keep returning to that four. I can see either Wendell or Laurel being targeted because either Dom or Donathon don't want to share. As for Dom and Wendell, if they make it to the final four, they'll both have to explain why they didn't stay naviti strong. If their answer isn't sufficient, that by itself could be enough to push don or Laurel to ghe win. No way forward for her going malolo strong. Best way for her is to exploit the crack in the alliance that she's already got. A really interesting question is if I'm reading the editing right, Kellyn must really mess up. Homegirl's in the driver seat at the moment, I wonder how they catch her sleeping.

Wendell Donathon is not very tight. Donathon was ready to jump last week and Wendell sees Donathon as little more then a Laurel vote. Laurel/dom have a better connection but not much better. I tend to believe that she's working with Dom because she wants to work with Wendell and vice versa. Interesting questions are Will Laurel be able to get Wendell out in time and if she does, what's her safety net. Will Wendell dom view the pair as jury threats and stab them first? How long till their alliance is outted? Id say three tribals at the most. One if Michael goes next week. On another note those previews really make it look like Desiree is in trouble. She gets her hand caught in the cookie jar and tries to turn the flip the vote back towards malolo once naviti finds out what shes up to.

The editing tells me that the the winner comes out of the Wendell dom Laurel trio and that Donathon is way over his head. The way Donathon flipped and flipped back over the course of three days without anybody but Laurel noticing tells me that he's not all that important to this alliance. I still think that if not next week, whenever Michael gets booted, everybody's coming for Wendell. If these people have any game whatsoever everybody not in his alliance will be targeting him, he's a physical threat and his social game is great. There should be a few opportunities to target him along the way but before these two (mainly Laurel) does it, they have to make sure that they have a tight endgame alliance to get them to the end. I'd say around 7 there should be options by then.

I actually believe that the danger will happen as soon as Michael goes down. That's when she'll really have to commit one way or the other. I believe Wendell becomes public enemy no.1 at that point, but even if he doesn't then Laurel is the obvious target between the remaining three malolos given her challenge prowess.

No he doesn't he's worse then both those guys. He literally blabbed the split plan to Libby. If she had any game whatsoever, she could've flipped the target on him easily. All he is at the moment is a vote to the other three. Unless the editors are hiding his cesterino like abilities to escape such a predicament, all he is ,is somebody to use until their vote is no longer important or a goat to drag to the three.

I think Donathon is that goat who gets a good edit that we get from time to time. Next week we'll probably get 1-2 idols popping up. I imagine the person not picked for the reward challenge will get a shot at one and the person on ghost island will get a shot as well.

Actually Dom also told Laurel that he had an idol shortly after the Morgan boot when he was first hammering in an alliance with Don/Laurel. We'll see what happens in the future, but I'd argue it builds trust with Laurel and demonstrates to her that she's an important part of their alliance as opposed to just a number that can be disposed of at will. Regardless of what her face may or may not have said, her actions spoke volumes. That she hasn't shared it with anybody and unlike Donathon, she never seemed to waiver tells me it worked.

Nope that's it Kellyn's steal a vote which lost its power and became an extra vote.

Laurel is probably in the best place in the game. She knows of all but one of the special powers, the two most powerful players in the game are protecting her, she goes to every tribal council with two votes and nobody's even thinking about her. Plus as soon as Michael goes down, Wendell will likely become public enemy number one meaning her vote's about to become super valuable in the near future. What she does in that situation will show us how good she really is.

Yep and Laurel ain't exactly a weakling. Wendell's boot pulls her right into the spotlight for two reasons, she's also a challenge beast and Dom's pissed. Wendell's boot does nothing for her game. The crazy thing is that Donathon had already jumped ( he told Libby about the plan), Laurel had to bring him back over.

Her complaints about her hair and everybody lying to her about it did draw a giggle from me.

To be fair, Dom was literally labeling her parvati not too long ago and plotting her demise as well. If not for bigger threats, she'd be gone pre jury and it would've had nothing to do with Des

I'd argue that in both instances, they weren't really mistakes. In the first one, the genie was already out of the bottle that he was a physical threat. If he starts messing up, playing it down now, it would become more obvious then if he embraced it. In the second one, he didn't really do that at all. Editing makes one think that but I have a feeling that by revealing his secret to her when he didn't have to, he strengthened their bond, not the opposite. If anything, that hammered home the fact that he was telling Laurel everything since she already knew about Dom's idol.

I assume Michael was the captain vs one of the girls or donathon: first pick sea bass other captain picks Wendell second pick dom other captain picks either laurel or Donathon etc etc.

So after this week. Michael and Jenna are dead people walking so don't merit consideration. Chelsea's ironic comment at tribal doesn't bode well for her. Still on the fence about Kellyn. Desiree seems to at best be a goat. While Angela did show some gameplay, It didn't raise her profile too much in the endgame. Sebastian is practically invisible at this point. Donathon is all over the place but not in a good way. Dom went from in your face to background noise. Not a good sign. Laurel just got a huge chunk of footage. I'm definitely putting her as a frontrunner at this point. My favorite is still Wendell. Haven't seen anything for him to not be my favorite at this point. He's front and center in all of the strategy talk.

I don't think shes on the bottom of her alliance, no and she doesn't have the benefit of watching the editing so Im not knocking her gameplay. Im just saying it would be an ironic statement if shes gone in the near future. I think a lot of people question why naviti's not targeting it's own but it makes sense not to do so for both sides. The women believe they have a 4-3 advantage and don't know about either Dom or Wendell's idol, so in their view, if they can get the maolos to manageable numbers (maybe 2) they can then use those to get rid of the males then ride to the finals.

Out of the loop on quite a few votes, if she wants an alliance, she'll likely have to demonstrate value. That was a decent way to do it. Still think it's a wasted move, but I get what she was going for.