Bryce Smith

I think you'd call that a grouping, not a pairing.

Holy shit! Gorilla Grodd is doing a Marvel show! Heh. That was my reaction to seeing Powers Boothe's name in the credits. And despite having never seen his live-action form (I only know him from his voice acting on Justice League and Justice League Unlimited), I knew him the moment I heard his voice with Strucker. So Andrew really is Lash. I know some people thought that, but I dismissed it. At least they didn't drag out the reveal for very long. But why would he wanna kill Inhumans? He seemed like such a nice guy when we first met him last season. The only real letdown of the episode to me was that May and Bobbi didn't actually find Ward. I was looking forward to them kicking his ass.

It came during the planning before Tribal Council. Keith gave this confessional, and then, we saw Kass, Ciera, Kelley, and Abi all look over and see him strategizing with Jeremy, Andrew, Stephen, Kimmi, Tasha, Spencer, Joe, and Kelly. That was when they realized that they'd lost him.

Keith made it quite clear in his confessional that Kass and Ciera lost him due to the confrontation with Andrew and Tasha, so I'd go with a critical error on their part.

Well, "Soulless" from season four gave me another entry here. Mitch Wilkens, aka Eric Wayne Proctor. As a kid, he tortures a three-year-old boy to death, fools his counselors in juvie to get out two years early with good behavior, and then kills socialite Chloe Dutton after getting her gang-raped. And along with this, he makes his mother lie for him while giving her a bracelet he gets off Chloe's body. At his trial, even his own mother admits that he's a terrible person who shouldn't be out among society. And at the end, to make matters worse, it's found out that the brownstone he was living in belonged to an old woman he murdered, and he won't give up where he stashed her body to Elliot and Olivia. Sociopathy at its (not-so-)finest, ladies and gentlemen.

Points to Kimmi, then. She's a bit of an oddball, but I'm giving her props for the nice gesture. I just wish it would've come out on-screen. I'm glad Stephen gave her the credit for it rather than try and take it himself.

Nope. Sorry. Don't agree. It was fair game to lie to Kass about that. 'Tis part of the game. If Kass couldn't take it, that's her problem, not Tasha's. Kass did her own fair share of lying at other times in this season and Cagayan, so she shouldn't be butthurt when Tasha does it to her. Plain. And. Simple.

The hell -- ?! My post disappeared! Oh, well. I'll just repeat that Probst was right that this post-merge game will be crazy if that chaotic Tribal Council is of any indication. I still think the two people in the best positions are Jeremy and Kelley. Jeremy has everyone in the tribe coming to him for strategy most of the time, and Kelley just has the confessionals that lets me think that she's in for the long haul. It was obvious that Ciera threw her vote to Andrew because she realized that Spencer wasn't flipping to them to vote out Tasha. That, and seeing that they'd lost Keith due to her and Kass's antics before the Immunity Challenge. Kelley probably let them know that she was going with the numbers, as well. So Ciera didn't want to write Kass's name down, thus choosing to throw her vote at Andrew.

It's not going to Spencer, either, since he didn't try to save her. She was. I think they're going to stay allied for the time being. I don't see her turning on Jeremy or any of the others till any possible outsiders are gone. Um, unnecessary? What was she supposed to do? Give up all of Bayon's alliances and her bonds, in particular, like her being tight with Jeremy, Andrew, Stephen, and Kimmi? *Scoffs* Yeah. Riiiiiiiight. "Unnecessary." That said, I'll sadly agree that the edit is probably going to start to point to her loss. But it's definitely pointing to Spencer losing, too, so there's the silver lining, at least. (Sorry. Still not impressed with him, and my liking for him from Cagayan is still drastically plummeting week to week.)

They'd have to do a season of past first-outs for that.

He leaked All-Stars's boot list, so I wouldn't put it past him.

Actually, last season, there were way more than women than men when the Lives arrived. Seven men, thirteen women. Adam was the only one with a male-heavy team, with three men (Joshua Davis, Brian Johnson, and Nathan Hermida) to two women (Deanna Johnson and Tonya Boyd-Cannon). Pharrell, Christina, and Blake all had female-heavy teams. Pharrell's ratio was two men (Sawyer Fredericks and Lowell Oakley) to three women (Koryn Hawthorne, Mia Z, and Caitlin Caporale). Christina had one(!) man (Rob Taylor) to four(!) women (India Carney, Kimberly Nichole, Lexi Dávila, and Sonic). And Blake had the same ratio of one man (Corey Kent White) to four women (Meghan Linsey, Hannah Kirby, Sarah Potenza, and Brooke Adee).

Jason's identity and Nikolas's part in it are coming out soon. I guess Elizabeth's part in it takes a few weeks longer.

Given everything else Xander did and didn't go to prison for, I'm not bothered by him going down for something he didn't do.

Perhaps not so much not caring so much as trying to play Dante as defeated and knowing that there's not much he can say to explain or defend himself. Like he knows he deserves everything Lulu wants to unleash on him. Hence why he didn't shoot back as hard as he probably could've.