violet and green

She's got a lot more experience on navigating a social strategy game, having done very well on Survivor, than Bob the Drag Queen - who I only remember for his runway schtick with the big rectangular purse. Carolyn has also successfully sold herself to the rest of the Faithful as one of them. They're just not listening to her because they don't make the time to hear her out, and assume she is a ditz. Her reasoning is sound.

That was a disappointing first boot. I don't understand why Lucky, if she makes all her own costumes, couldn't have made something arty with the fabrics available, and certainly done something a little more avant-garde with her makeup. It was a real misstep, or series of missteps - including that lip sync. Good they gave out another Vegas holiday. Once again, Acacia did not disappoint! I love her unique angle on things. Am also really enjoying Onya Nerve.

She knows how she wants to navigate, the other Traitors just won't listen to her. She is insightful and has good intuition and good ideas, but they talk over her and ignore her. So glad they got Bob the Drag Queen out for that reason alone, but he has worked on my last nerve since episode one. Throwing out Rob's name via that loud, unnecessary comment at the end of the challenge was a dumb move and I am glad it bit him back immediately! Now I just need Danielle out; also Wes.

Still too many!

I'm so sad Tony is out this soon. I love him on my tv. Also sad he left so upset. Didn't realise how quite short he is, until I saw him standing next to all those heffalumps at the woodland challenge. As usual, too many Housewives. And I wish those two loud know-it-all Traitors would shut up and pay attention to Carolyn's reads, as she has been spot on so far. Rather hoping she and Boston team up to take it deep, and she is left at the end to win, as he sure won't be!

Damned with faint praise! I like that both Acacia and Hormona survived. It breaks up the monotony of overly-confident sassy young queens to have some different energies in the cast. I especially enjoy Acacia's vintage Billy Ray Cyrus confessional look and gruff comments. I've forgotten which sassy young queen referred to her as "Grandma"... I know it's just banter, but really.

I'm still a bit stunned by Katy Perry telling Ru to knock off the puns during her intro. Interesting group of queens. I really hope Acacia does not go home first.

Yeah, I kept hoping she would come to her senses and form a secret pact with Kyle to work together... It's interesting to see how many of this season's cast brought about their own undoing. Rome, by being Rome. Genevieve, I believe, by getting high on her own deviousness and jumping the gun on Sol . Andy, undone by pride, showing off all his moves to Rachael because he thought she was definitely going. Sam and Teeny by being too comfortable, and never bothering to make fire before they had to make fire for their place in the final. Teeny, focusing on Sam's exterior, and being generally oblivious. There's a much bigger list, but that's the general drift. It was a season of Pyrrhic victories and shooting themselves in the foot.

My understanding is that Sue, like Kyle, grew up in poverty. So I guess no-one was reading Alice in Wonderland to her when she was a child. She only heard that Kyle was saying it from Andy, who twisted it to "Tweedledee and Tweedledumber", and made it out to be a clear insult. I liked Kyle a lot, he was up there for most of the time as second in line to Sol as my faves of the season, but that one episode where the edit let him bang on about his family values, I was ready to throw a coconut at his head, so I can imagine it must have got particularly annoying at camp to hear that all the time. Plus he wrote her name down! Hahaha.

My heart sank when I saw that final immunity challenge - with a freaking puzzle at the end. It really couldn't have been any more obvious who was going to win the challenge, and hence the season. Jeff's intro to the episode, also, was so "Rachel, Rachel, Rachel, and the rest" that it rather took any excitement out of the equation. So I hoped there'd be a surprise event that overturned her obvious run to the finish... Nope. I too came round to rooting for Sam. Great moment when he won the fire making. I watched the jury's reactions three times. (Sol, sitting there, impassive, stoic, unmoved!) I thought he did really well in the final tribal, too. Sue handled herself really well, looking proud of herself and poised, and pleased for both Rachel and Sam. I'm glad she made it to the final three. And whatever anyone says about her age or her looks or her presentation, she was out there roughing it (with some sulky babies) along with a cast that was mostly half her age, won a challenge outright and came close to winning several others - and if it had been an endurance final challenge I bet she would have won that one, too. Kind of a dull ending to the season. Operation Italy was the peak, and then it was very predictable from there on in.

Like a prince! An Arabian prince. Like a king! I bet he has his own wind machine that follows him everywhere as he struts down the road to a secret rhythm in skintight pants and a vest, flicking his hair back with his bejewelled and nail-polished fingers.

And when sitting in the final three (politely letting her have her moment) was Sam, also 24.

That was in a later episode, though. I agree about that. Maybe the memory?

Rachel is a worthy winner - I'm just hoping for a plot twist.

That was Keira Knightley's character Helen's nanny, I think.