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J&H were only 3 hours behind. If they all stayed at that hotel with the infinity pool and weren't segregated, they would have seen J&H for sure.

It may also be a side-effect of their strategy. In the clips I've seen, they've mentioned more than once that they aren't thinking about winning legs; I think they are intentionally aiming for middle-of-the-pack finishes so that their competitors don't start thinking about u-turning them. And on this show, most of the airtime goes to the teams in the front and the teams in the back.

If tribes were shuffled every week (another one of my coworker's ideas), no one would keep the physically strong players around.

Not what you wrote, but that's how I read it the first time. (That's what SHE said.)

I'm sure he was using it sarcastically, because he knows (and hates) that every time they add a new twist, there's a core group of fans who complain loudly about it and probably use that very phrase. I just read another interview with EW (or was it the same one?) where he was complaining about the fans who always ask them to do a season with no idols and no twists, just exactly like Season 1 (like my coworker). I have to agree with Probst: the twists are what have kept this show on the air.

I kinda like that idea, though it guarantees that the losing tribe will be a minority on both new teams. But I've always thought that if there were only one or two members left of a team at the "swap" (ala Malcolm and Denise), then the Reward should be that the team that wins the reward gets to pick which of the two is on their team. That can't be right, because all 3 remaining Brains ended up on the same team. But I think they don't do that because they want there to be a chance for a team that was losing before the swap to still have a chance at a majority after the swap, which is what the Brains practically managed to do.

Well, it WAS stupid of those girls to crawl under those rails.

Carolyn said something like, "So we're in agreement? If we go to TC, we cut off the head of the snake?" And Tyler and Joaquin were all, yeah yeah....Actually no, now that I think about it, I think they were kinda noncommittal, and Carolyn said something like, "Oh you guys are killing me here."

I don't remember Mike saying anything sexist in this episode, but his fight with Lindsey about how he never thanked the girls for their work likely indicates a sexist attitude toward them. Plus if I remember correctly, in an earlier episode the BC women were complaining that the men sat around and expected the women to do all the cooking and laundry. I do think Mike is probably less sexist and a better player than Rodney and Dan, but not by much.

Oh gosh, remember in Fiji when Michelle was so distracted with her calling that she fell off the calling platform? That was classic. Who live on farms these days? The only reason I know this is because I watch this show. And I had grandparents who raised chickens. I still don't know. I still think the theory that he loves it is because all the dudes are on one team is laughable. Well, they used this exact same challenge, with the platforms going up and down, on the Brains-Brawn-Beauty season, and no one got hurt. But yeah, they should avoid lifting heavy objects in these blindfold challenges from now on. Well there was Keith and his son and those two idiot brothers Alex and Drew. The brother who got voted off pre-merge was blatantly sexist, and the other three guys kept ignoring the women in their tribe and expecting them to clean things. John's fiancee (I can't remember her name) complained about them a lot and that's why they switched alliances. About Carolyn, I see both sides of her choice here. She may have been a little too quick to dump Max. But we saw that Tyler and Joaquin seemed to be fine with dumping him and Shirin (esp. Shirin), so it's not like she's turning her back on the whole White Collar tribe. Plus by dumping Max she only angers Shirin, but by dumping Will she would have pissed off both Jenn and Hali, and she's desperate to make new alliances because she can't stand M/S. If she had stuck with Max and Shirin this episode, she may have been forced to stick with them for the long haul, and she didn't want to be stuck with them.

That describes like half the cast!

Fans or not, she and Jenn are just a bit too lackadaisical about the game. After the switch they knew they needed to get to Kelly, but they took their time and let Shirin get to her first. And then they just assumed Carolyn would not flip, not even bothering to feel her out. They got lucky in this episode. ETA: And it's probably obvious to everyone on the tribe that they're a pair, but they just weren't as important to target as Max, Shirin, and Will.

The real question is whether Tyler was still aligned with Max or wanted him gone like Carolyn did. Carolyn talked to him and Joaquin as if that was the plan.

They even both have French last names. Or at least they look French.

She reminds me of Eliza Orlins: small, slight, dark hair, very animated, book smart but very poor at the game because apparently she talks too much and nobody likes her.

I was completely surprised by how the Blue Collar vote went down, though I guess I shouldn't have been considering Lindsey pissed off all 3 men at one point or another. I just expected Dan and Mike to stay at the bottom of this tribe after the first 4 episodes, I expected Kelly to stick with the women for some reason, and I expected Rodney to stick with the young women after he said he wanted to use the Hantz strategy in Episode 1. None of this was right. They really should have voted out Rodney though. No loss in taking out a physical threat just before a tribe swap, and they had to have seen it coming (Mike even predicted it).

For some reason she reminds me of Eliza of FvF fame. She'd probably give us some excellent reaction faces on the jury if she made it that far.

Not the best showing tonight, but at least wanted to make an alliance with shrewd Kelly and desperately tried to smooth things over with Sierra. Of the three men, he sounded the least sexist to me, but that's not saying much. I like him more than Rodney or Dan for sure.

Oh my god. Soooooo condescending. Even when he knows the right thing to say, his tone is way off, just oozing with contempt. But usually he just can't keep his mouth shut. I loved how he was bragging, "I'm twice as old as you Mike! I know how to talk to women!" And then they cut to him completely blowing it with Sierra.

Oh gosh. So clueless but so lovable. I thought for sure they'd vote her out but I'm glad they didn't!

He got "screwed" by the swap the same way that Kelly did...hopefully that means he'll be a swing vote and not the first out.

I thought they laid the groundwork of her not liking or trusting them much last week. Although maybe I'm confusing last week with the first hour of this week! Anyway, she's my favorite so far, and I feel like she may be getting a winner edit, though I should really refrain from saying things like that after last season!

What I'm loving about this season so far is that almost all of them seem to be big survivor fans, and at least half of them think they're survivor geniuses -- but these geniuses have no self-awareness and it's so funny! You can put at least Max, Shirin, Dan, and Rodney in that group, and maybe Joaquin, Mike, and Jenn too. Carolyn, I love her, she's my favorite so far, but she may have also jumped ship too quickly. But if they merge at 12 then she's probably safe. It's great that the two idols are in the hands of two women (though I'm not sure I like Jenn). Any chance Sierra may find the one still hidden at Blue Camp? What about All-Stars (Season 8)? I think Hatch, Tina, and Rob C. were all on different tribes and voted out before the scramble. I'm gonna defend Probst a little bit here. I agree that he's just biased in favor of male players as individuals -- he just think they tend to be more fascinating players. But I don't think he was thrilled about how this switch came out -- a strong mostly male team against a weak mostly female team. As a producer he's aware of what makes good TV, and having such a lopsided outcome is not it.

Thanks!!

I couldn't see what was going on in the scene very well (it was dark) but we did see the Kettlemans' kids. I thought maybe they assumed that one of them had taken the money out and played with it. If you told me there was a scene of the adults scolding the kids I would believe you (it was dark). ETA: carrps beat me to it!