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Charlie probably knows how much he lost, but not what the other's lost, so he couldn't compare. Way back when everyone was mad a Q for not taking Liz on reward I said that if it was based on need it should have been Charlie, just based on the fact that he was dizzy all the time and how sickly he looked. Survivor never takes into account how much harder the food deprivation is on young men than the women.

I really, really wish the professional writers who write about reality shows where everyone is known, for months, by first name only, would find themselves capable of using those same first names when they write their articles, instead of being so far up their own asses they must use last names because that's what separates them from the lowly proletariat.

I had given the jury the benefit of the doubt and thought the 30 second thing was a producer rule. Ugh, how controlling of them. Now, I'm remembering how cruel Soda was to Ben by saying something very flattering to him so that he started to smile and then hitting him with, "but you have no agency." Suddenly Liz and Hunter are my favorites. Hunter always just seemed like a nice young teacher who liked games and was bewildered by all the shenanigans. Being bad at Survivor is getting to be a plus on that big resume in the sky.

Of course. And the rest of us have always been allowed to say whether or not we agree with their decision. If the juries continue to give the million to the person who is best at bragging, I'll probably keep complaining. I should have guessed Kenzie would win after she comforted Ben during a panic attack and then immediately talked about herself like she was the new Mother Teresa.

And that's what it comes down to, so many times. After 29 days of working hard, playing grueling challenges and keeping an even temper under extreme conditions of sleep deprivation and hunger, the jury votes on whether someone stroked their ego or touched their heart immediately before the vote. The game is supposed to be judged on who played the best game of outwit, outplay, outlast and year after year none of that seems to matter and it all comes down to the performance before the jury and the money goes to who outsold. If Survivor was a retreat for salesmen, or a camp to prepare people for job interviews, that would make sense, but other qualities are supposed to count more here. Time after time a great player loses because they "choked" before the jury. Reducing Survivor to the Toast Masters.

However Kenzie's remark about her eyes wasn't in response to a question. She was crying and talking about something else, then suddenly, Kenzie asked the producer, "Do my eyes look really blue? After I've been crying my eyes always look really blue!" Kenzie has an exaggerated view of herself, she can sit in front of the jury, covered with $5000 worth of tattoos and say she has worked in salons since she was fifteen and never spent any money on herself, so if she wins she's going to spend it all on herself, so she won't have to cut bangs when she's seventy. And they bought it! Suddenly owning a salon was the depths of poverty and cutting bangs worse than flipping burgers. They thought her story was better than Ben's and Ben actually had an impressive plan worked out to bring music to kids. Casting needs to quit confusing hubris with confidence. That's why we ended up with Bhanu who really thought he was winning the hearts of millions and Jalinsky who thought he could volunteer for everything but not have to do any work, and Maria who can "see right through" Ben and know when he's lying and really believed Liz and Kenzie when they told her it takes two to beat you -- even though she'd been beaten by one other person in quite a few challenges.

"Everybody wants to marry Liz," was how I remember her putting it.😊 I think Ben is the other person who thought Liz might win. He was the one who was really mad that Q didn't take her on reward. I think Ben is the type to be super sympathetic to anyone who is straight up seen as needy. In his mind Liz hadn't eaten in a long time and only a heartless goon would deny her food. He probably never once thought that it was her own fault for going on the show like we did. I think Ben thought that if Liz made final three she would win because she had suffered hunger more than anyone else. Period. I think the ones who voted for Kenzie were all a little like that. Q in particular. They simply took Kenzie at her word that she had never spent a penny on herself and let the other hairdressers use her salon for free, while she herself supported her family since she was a child, even though she never charged anyone. And I'm left bewildered until @Nashville explained it up thread. Meanwhile Charlie has been using his law degree to help immigrants and indicated he planned to continue to do so all his life, actually keeping families together and probably saving lives. Not that making people look pretty isn't nice, but, come on. The efforts of my hairdresser are usually gone by the time I walk to my car.

I agree, I was shocked when he didn't stop her. As they were going up the stairs for the final vote I happened to notice Jeff burst out laughing at the elbows-out way she was running. It had been gradually dawning on me that he really liked her. I do like the quirky characters and throughout the season Liz kept reminding me of The Andy Griffith Show's Lydia Crosswaith. The guys kept trying to fix her up with others, and she would deadpan her way through every date. She will flatly state that she hates: guitars, bridge, games, chit-chat, and that chocolate and car rides make her nauseous. Lydia. Definitely not a fun girl.

Every year the people on the jury say they're going to vote for the person who played the best game and then they vote for the person who's best at bragging, heck maybe Liz really would have won if she'd made it that far! I don't really see owning a beauty shop as a tragic backstory but the jury sure did. Now Kenzie can have a fabulous wedding and that's fine, but I kind of hate that so much of their final vote seemed to be about her need for the money. I wonder how Maria explained turning on Uncle Charlie to her kids.

I can't imagine him being unpopular in high school, good looking, extroverted and the oldest of three boys, it puts him at the top of the sibling placement theory in confidence and leadership. He's been in television, both behind and in front of the camera since 1982, in eleven TV shows and directing two movies, so I wouldn't call his success sudden either. As an aging adult myself with lots of aging friends, I don't think I've ever seen this desperation over whether or not they were popular in high school. Most of us can't remember high school.

Hilarious! That will sell much better than the Q-skirt. Watching his TH in the last episode, right after he found the idol, where he was teasing about what might be in his pocket, I was thinking what a good teacher he would be for little kids. He really is a handsome charmer when he wants to be.

There's an old episode of "The Big Bang Theory," where Leonard is in the comic book store holding a valuable comic he'd just found and a really pretty girl is trying to get it from him. Leonard says, 'I'd give it to you but you'd always know you didn't use your super powers for the good." Those little witches were not using their super powers for good and poor Erik was helpless against them.

What is up with all the happy, understanding, loving exit interviews? I get more sour losers and angry face icons on the online Hearts games. We know these people. None of them are so mature they should be able to take a sudden loss in a game they've been struggling with for 20 some days without a moment of bitterness and a short feeling of betrayal. I'm wondering if some of them come down the path of shame with both middle fingers up and a string of expletives shooting out of their mouths -- then they're given cookies and hugs and a reminder that their boss and their children will see this and they try again.

I just looked up Maria's bio and found out her proudest achievement was "birthing her three children at home on her own terms," and her job is, "Parent Coach." Frist of all no woman has a baby "on her own terms." Mother nature dictates that whole event, you can yell orders to stop the pain, all you want, it's just going to keep on coming until the baby decides to arrive. Maria may think she's done something no other woman has done before, and that partially raising three children makes her a universal expert qualified to teach others, but it just seems like more smugness to me. Did she ever admit she was wrong about Ben having an idol?

1. Don't go on Survivor if you're allergic to fruit and coconut. 2. Don't go on Survivor if you can't stand to be away from your kids. Particularly if you're going to be all sobbing and angry about it and blaming other people. The first few minutes of next week's episode is going to be good. Maybe Maria will tell Charlie that Ben wrote his name down because he couldn't think how to spell Q. I hope Charlie wins, but I wouldn't mind if Kenzie does. It takes a lot of kindness for a sleep deprived, starving person to get up with Ben every night. I hope he's going to be okay after all this is over and wont suffer some sort of PTSD.

Well, this talk about Liz got me doing a little research. Apparently lots of people have done 30 day water fasts with no harm done other than a little weakness and lack of focus. They suggest having supplements and medical checks for electrolyte balance. I think the cast is checked over every day by the medics so they would be watching Liz for these things. As for her constipation problem it, too, is normal when not eating and nothing to worry about, although she might have some diarrhea when she starts eating again. I also found out the internet is currently more fascinated with the p**p word than a newly trained toddler.

Oh gosh that cooking video was so bad! She was talking way too fast and obviously reading, plus my pet peeve from show cooks is someone cooking with her cuffs dragging in the food. Now, I'm suspicious that the GB producers wanted her for this from the time she had to suddenly go home because her daughter sounded sad. They might have asked Jerry if she was a real contender and then talked to her about it. Jerry has said it was Theresa from the first. (That little hand on his shoulder.)

I just searched on the Onyx in Atlanta and saw that it was burglarized a week ago and the thieves got $250,000 from the safe. The club may not appreciate all the advertising they got from Dateline.

I know courts favor the biological parents, but the court also knows Andre's mother raised a murderer. Andre may just be a bad seed but it still doesn't recommend his mother's parenting skills. I can't quite get over that whole sordid scene of strip club and dance club combined, people handing DJ's stacks of money to play their CD's. Andre and Adrian are a team straight from Hell. They decided to murder this kind young woman who had cooked holiday meals for both of them and bore Andre's children and been a loving wife to him all those years. And why? I don't understand the motive. She was going to keep the house but evidently he couldn't keep up the mortgage payments without her salary. How could he be in debt and unable to pay his bills if he was being handed stacks of cash every night of the week? Who did he think would care for the children that he apparently had no interest in? He knew his children were in the house with their mother whose face had been shot off and he just left them there.

Remember Dr. Joyce Brothers, late night talk show guest of the 70's? She got her start as a celebrity by going on, "The $64,000 Question, " a quiz show where you got to choose your category of expertise. Her category was boxing. She said she knew she would get cast since it was an unusual specialty for women. I'm starting to wonder if Charlie just pretended to be a Swifty since it's Taylor's big year and we don't expect young men to be big fans. It just seems really odd to me.

Yes, I was so touched by that. Venus playing for all the tall, slender, beautiful girls who get overlooked and never asked to dance. It just occurred to me that the reason Kenzie and Charlie were so mad at Maria is that the only reason they opted out of the reward was so Liz could go, not so Q could have 21 slices of pizza. ( Did that really happen?)

If Charlie doesn't win I'm going to turn away for a moment of silence while I arrange my face, the turn back and scream, "I'm pissed!" I'm tired of people like Charlie (Xander comes to mind) not winning because they haven't double crossed enough people. Ever since some young woman voted her mother out for no reason and Jeff praised her as though she'd done something fabulous, blindsiding your ride and die has become a requirement and I really don't see why, Complain about not being able to go to the bathroom. Beautiful.

What a waste, all that bother and jet lag just to cook a burger that everyone has to watch get covered in flies and then make three more that no one will eat because they're drunk and full of appetizers.

I was disappointed in Ben thinking Q should have given a spot to Liz for crying the hardest. Can he not look over at Venus? She's not crying, and yet her knees are now the biggest part of her body.

I liked watching it again and seeing stuff I missed last night, Tiff's awesome performance in the challenge, Venus starting to give Liz a hug and then jerking back in fear when Liz resumed her flailing. I forgot Liz saying later, "Q screwed me over," as if he had promised her something and then reneged. He did no such thing. Worst was during the immunity challenge when Tiff was praised and Liz mutters, "She got to eat." Right. Nothing makes one able to endure pain better than a huge snifter of booze and some quesadillas. I'll bet Tiff was throwing up blue all night.