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.

Definitely unlikely. Kelley and Jeremy have no prior animosity with one another.

I think Dante snapping and throwing Lulu running off with Dillon in her face was about the best Dominic did. Other than that . . . meh.

Many other ANTM fans (mostly those who came from the former TWoP) called Sal (who went by her full name, Saleisha, at the time) "Tootie" since her makeover resembled Tootie from The Facts of Life. She's been widely considered one of ANTM's worst winners, mainly due to the fact that she was kind of a mean girl on that show. So far, I've been willing to give her a chance outside of ANTM, and I'm happy to say she's winning me over since I even rarely think about her time on the show.

My UO here is that I'm fine with Carly finding out about Jake being Jason and possibly blowing up the secret. Her connection with Jason (which she reminds us and other characters about over and over and over again) makes her the almost perfect candidate to do so. Truthfully, there really are four characters currently on the canvas for whom it'd make sense to reveal it -- Sam, Carly, Michael, and, on an off chance, Monica. Sam should ideally have been the one to put the pieces together. But if she couldn't, then if one takes a moment to step back and look at the whole thing with some objectivity, Carly was the next best thing. So it doesn't bother me. And contrary to what's being said on the thread for the episode discussion, I'm more than okay with Maxie being mad at Nathan for not telling her about Dante and Valerie. She was right that she could've found a way to get Dante to come clean months ago, with Nathan's help, and avoid Lulu being publicly humiliated. Hell, as has been said, she could've found a way to force Dante's hand! But I'm also glad that she doesn't seem mad at Nathan anymore since she at least understands that he was in a tough, unenviable position.

I really don't see what the anger directed toward Maxie is all about. She was right that as much as she would've wanted to, she wouldn't have gone right to Lulu. She and Nathan could've found a way to convince Dante to confess to Lulu months before she could've found out this way.

Sorry. I meant to say "innocent," but the word "guilty" was in my mind when I wrote that. I meant Abigail could believe that Chad was innocent while not suspecting Ben's guilt. Also, up until now, Ben had done a decent job covering his tracks. He'd been very careful. So again, no reason for her to be suspicious. Her or anyone else. And as much as I wanna believe it, I've seen no proof that Rafe suspects Ben. It looks like it, but he's never said a word about it. And THIS is why, in spite of everything, I already respect Josh as a writer over the last two writers. They're actually honoring history by connecting Lani to someone who really is from Abe's past.

Uh, how could she have figured out it was Ben, exactly? It's perfectly reasonable for her to think Chad's innocent without suspecting Ben. No one else has, after all. So if she is a "doofus," then so is everyone else.

Tend to be, but aren't always. Rocky from Fiji had only the worst possible edit. Jaime from the next season, China, was positive up until her boot episode, when she got a slightly negative, dumb edit. Marcus from Gabon got a positive one until his boot episode, when he was made to look like the arrogant dick he really was. Coach got a buffoon edit in Heroes vs. Villains. Jim got a greatly negative edit in South Pacific. Michael was borderline invisibile until his boot episode in Caramoan. Aras was kind of so-so in Blood vs. Water. Josh actually started out positive, but grew negative in San Juan del Sur. So no, the first juror isn't always positive. Complex, yes, always. Positive, no, not always.

Hell, I'd have liked a twist in Belle pulling the sword instead since she is more heroic than Rumple. Emilie de Raven's pregnant? Really?

Funny. Sounds like what happened in season seven. Gwen can talk about girl power and how much she wants women on her team all she wants. She loves being surrounded by men. Loves it. Both times, she's decimated her female-heavy teams into male-heavy ones.