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Gotta give Nashville some props here. So good it should be a spoiler all its own. A very simple, elegant script to explain the rest of the boot list. Occam's Razor and all I think you are on to something Nashville. Kudos.

Weighing all the 'evidence' I think tonight one of the 'obvious' targets goes home. With a episode that has both a RC and IC and a story line that seemingly is going to address the weather finally turning bad, I don't think that there will be enough time to feature any 'new' explanation for who is going home. If Joe loses IC and Stephen finally gets his chance to eliminate him, that will have been a completion of a story arc. If Ciera goes then it is just because she is the obvious target of the majority alliance. Maybe even Stephen since he seemingly fights for and/or gets the IC advantage in the RC but I don't think he would taunt his detractors in his tweet if tonight is the night. And an outside chance that it is Kimmi. Anyone else would be a surprise. Just my two cents.

LadyChatts wrote: "I wonder if the other tribe does in fact go to Ta'Keo or Angkor. The idol hasn't been found yet. Maybe they divide up, and whatever tribe loses goes to Angkor, and the other tribe can decide if they want to go to Bayon or Ta'Keo, and they pick Bayon." Now that would be a twist. I like the way you think Ms. Chatts. But really the 'Have Not' tribe on the Angkor camp would be just completely dooming them to IC failure except for the fact that we know(?) this is only a one (two?) episode shuffle before the merge, so it would be the ultimate 'psych!' on the show. I was disappointed to see that Redmond confirmed that they go back to Bayon and Ta'Keo camps. Would have been interesting angle in an already interesting episode. This episode coming up does seem to confirm that the producers don't have every twist planned in advance and set in stone (if you ever really believed that). Without Terry going home the realignment back to 2 tribes would had to have taken place next episode to get an even split.

Has anyone given thought of what next episode's title might mean? 'Bunking with the Devil' The only 'villain' so far has been Abi, is she the 'Devil' of the title? Is Woo going to speak of 'bunking with her' before his exit (if boot list continues to be right)? The way Varner has been speaking about Tasha and Savage, they might suddenly get the villain edit. Or is this a quote from Tasha speaking about someone since according to Varner she has been playing the 'Churchianity' card? Or maybe she is referring to her style of play?

I think we need to come up with the term that means what Oscirus wrote: "Sudden tv time talking about strategy when one has basically been under the radar is normally a dead giveaway that said castaway is in danger." We refer to the 'Winner's Edit' maybe this is 'Elimination Foreshadowing Edit' or EFE? - 'Dead Man Talking'? - suggestions?

Okay, last minute thoughts. I've kinda been swept up in the maybe it is not Angkor at TC tonight line of reasoning. Simply because they are so far ahead in the released IC picture. But, I just reviewed my earlier post and I am telling myself "Don't overthink this..." I don't think there has been any discussion on one of the pieces of information I noted on my piece, Peih-Gee's comment on xfinity's interview"It’s really my own fault. If I said nothing and let Jeff go, he’d 100% be the one going home. They didn’t show it, but right after I was voted out, Tasha yelled out, “It shouldn’t have been you tonight. It should have been Jeff.” Anyway, it was my own fault. It would’ve only bought me three more days." Is her comment of "It would've only bought me three more days" literal or more hypothetical? If Woo, her closest ally, is next to go and she knows this then she would realistically speculate that it would have been her in three days time. But this means that Angkor blew that huge lead and struggled hard with the puzzle in the IC. A possibility to be sure, but, if the picture is to be believed, two teams would have to overtake what seems an insurmountable lead for Angkor which seems unlikely. So, I guess I am currently leaning to the idea that Angkor does not go to TC, Bayon does and it might be Monica and Spenser as the two in the 'plead for their lives situation' which also explains the release of the 'snuggle picture.' and my current guess is that Monica goes home.

Interesting point with the photo AnthonyD, I didn't notice that before. But I still am uncertain about what two players would be so obvious about the Bayon Tribe that the two members would know that they were the two on the chopping block and thus result in a pleading for their lives moment. Convince me, I think my scenario is too obvious as well, and while I would like to win my week in my office pool, I would also like to be surprised watching the episode.

At the risk of simply being boring, isn't this the most obvious scenario based upon what we know so far? The three (4?) pieces of 'spoiler' info that I would be focused on are: AnthonyD's radio (?) tease: "Three castaways leave it all on the beach in a gut-wrenching challenge, and two castaways plead for their lives in the game at a heated tribal council. Also, Abi-Maria continues to ruffle feathers with her tribe," Some of Peih-Gee's comments in some post TC interviews "It’s really my own fault. If I said nothing and let Jeff go, he’d 100% be the one going home. They didn’t show it, but right after I was voted out, Tasha yelled out, “It shouldn’t have been you tonight. It should have been Jeff.” Anyway, it was my own fault. It would’ve only bought me three more days." And the SurvivorFever Press Images of this week's challenges. The 'boot list' is taken into account but only as it confirms the above sources. So, it seems we have an award challenge, a 'Hero's Challenge' where Jeremy, Andrew and Terry compete for a reward of food and food preparation items. The photos do seem to indicate that Andrew from Angkor wins food for his tribe. This clearly is what the radio tease is referring to when they say "Three castaways leave it all on the beach..." But, I am going to speculate here. I think the Angkor tribe lobbies the other tribe to let them win this challenge. Certainly if Tasha voices up that they have no food at their camp (Peih-Gee indicates that they were eating coconuts and some seafood that she caught and kept in a 'tide pool' of sorts.) the other two tribes could have 'pulled their punches' so to speak and not tried too hard. That could even explain why Terry instead of Joe for Ta Keo. Then the IC which pictures show is "Blindfold Challenge" I will go out on a limb and say that Angkor losses this one again. Not really a stretch. The other tribes field three men running around and collecting the huge (heavy?) pieces of the puzzle while Angkor chooses to put Varner in the booth calling to Abi/Andrew and Tasha/Woo. That Angkor losses again is the easiest explanation for the second part of the radio tease: certainly Woo and Jeff would know that it would be one of them going home, they would be the two pleading for their lives. Any of the other tribes the 'two' wouldn't be so apparent and so probably would not be in a situation where they knew enough to plead. Plus, with two challenges this week, this doesn't really give a great deal of time in the episode to explain the other tribe's dynamics and relationships in a compelling enough manner to create drama at TC. Now I am leaning toward Woo over Jeff at this point as the elimination only because of the set up that Jeff has received this season and Peih-Gee's comment that she would only have 3 more days, the person most aligned with PG was Woo according to her interviews and of course Abi's comment to Woo that 'You wrote me down twice.' But Jeff could easily go as well and so I put the break down as 60% likely Woo and 40% Jeff which of course would match the boot list but then we would question all the screen time Jeff has had to this point. My thoughts on the matter.

Not sure if Joe would be one to 'plead for his life' if Anthony's reasoning on Ta Keo potentially losing is correct. Seems to me Joe would fall victim to a blindside and not outright know that he was one of two going home.

Playing detective is certainly a great deal of the fun. That and 'monday morning quarterbacking' as well. Over on Xfinity's exit interview Peih-Gee had an interesting comment, she says that Tasha yelled out "it shouldn't have been you tonight, It should have been Jeff." And then saying it would have only bought her three more days." Does this mean that Angkor losses again and she definitely knew she would not have survived another TC? I'm hard pressed to come up with her reasoning on that score, but maybe it means that Abi is again calling the shots in the next TC and she wouldn't have survived two TCs with Abi in charge? At the very least this further illuminates the bad feelings that Jeff has for Tasha. So the question is, who (whom? or even Woo?) will Abi be gunning after if indeed Angkor goes to TC next week? And at this point, it seems a done deal that Angkor will continue to lose challenges.

Lesson Learned from "We Got a Rat" Episode: Never underestimate the cattiness and vengeance of a crazy woman. PG never had a chance when Abi was gunning for her. Maybe lesson number two for the 'spoiler' crowd, sometimes we get so wrapped up in the 'hidden' and 'uncovered' tips we can't see the obvious. Once PG and Abi ended up on the same tribe, a tribe that appeared to be weaker physically in an obvious physical challenge, it was over. The crazy was going to be dominant and it was only a matter of which one of the girls would go. It appeared that Abi communicated first that she would align herself fully with Savage and Tasha so she was the choice. BTW: Really enjoy this forum. Kudos to LadyChatts, anthonyd46 and cooksdelight as moderator for the discussions.