RedbirdNelly

it seemed like a really unnecessary move for Genevieve. She outs herself as someone who is playing hard--or can be described as a threat as an excuse to turn the spotlight on her---for what? it makes sense if she's getting rid of a big threat but can't see how Sol was that at this point. He could have been later, but she lost someone who viewed her as an ally, missed a chance to get rid of Kyle, and labeled herself someone you should get rid of. Timing seemed very off. Andy is annoying. I get not enjoying being at the bottom of your tribe and I respect not just sitting back and letting it happen. But it would be nice if his confessionals indicated a bit of awareness/humility. He wasn't at the bottom because he wasn't cool. He was at the bottom because he freaked out after the first immunity and made himself seem to be unreliable and unstable. He doesn't have to play Sam's game the whole time as a "thank you for not voting me out" but a little bit of "I appreciate they didn't vote me out that first vote and gave me a 2nd chance, but I still need to play the game that is best for me at this point" would be helpful. Not the smug/I'm a dirty player crap.

all the tears etc was hard to take. I get you are in a pressure bubble, but this is not your first time on the show. There will only be one winner per gender so stop it. You know the numbers go down and picking people or going against people is not optional. If Olivia and Michelle played chess, would they cry before taking the other player's king? I also found it funny to have Michelle and crew be catty about other girls "skating through" when they were perfectly fine sitting on the sidelines while Jenny gets sent in again and again. It's a game and you can be on the top or bottom at different times.

Amelia and Linc were a good couple--and I'm still not into Jo/Linc. I wish they'd found someone new for Jo and kept the brother/sister relationship with Linc

meant to add that I feel like the term "purge" suggests more than 2 people leave, so was disappointed with that. They should just call it automatic elimination or something and save purge for really gutting the field. most of the eliminations have not been direct physical--I guess they save those for when Fessy is at risk. :)

I'm not a Johnny fan but so glad he won. Theo is not interesting tv and Johnny in a war with half the house is much more interesting. The dailies are often not that great of TV --so need some drama to make this something besides boring. And Olivia annoys me, so seeing her disappointed makes me happy. Same with Michele. Michele would be less annoying if she would work on not using up-talk all the time. I did dislike the chance element of the hi-lo part. Less luck/more skill is always better.

I loved Clooney on Sisters and Selena Ward's scene where she breaks down just tour me up. I didn't start watching until season 2 and then understood why he needed to move on to ER.

I just learned from these posts that Schmidt is leaving. I'm so happy to hear that. I've been wishing that his character would leave/get electrocuted in that ambulance, etc for years. He's a bit less annoying now but still. I never got his character at all. I'm fine with him having a happy exit though as long as he leaves.

I hate that we were back to the random split up into groups/half are immune situation. If there was some merit to getting into the safe group (top 6 finishers are immune), that would at least help.

I was rooting for Johnny just because it seemed to guarantee the most drama in future episodes. What a boring challenge. I don't like it when the challenges require people to put themselves in physical danger or where it's basically a guaranteed win for the physically bigger person. But they also need to involve some skill and put the more in-shape/skillful person at an advantage. Having better cart driving skills isn't really what I mean. If it was somehow besting some course with hills or something maybe--but drive in circles until you catch the other person?

maybe i'm expecting too much but it annoyed me that she ranked Rachel low. I mean show some respect for what Rachel has handled and it's not like Rachel was gunning for Kaycee the whole time. I also wonder about the tight hair pull back.

I'm not a Josh fan but I was team Josh this episode--found it odd they want to blame him as if he had power over Rachel. I don't hate Kaycee but she's been floating along and seems to expect everyone else to play their game for her benefit. I understand wanting that, but she seemed to overdo it--being annoyed with Rachel despite Kaycee doing nothing previously to help her out. Devin also has a tendency to get mad if everyone else isn't organizing their lives for his benefit. I understand wanting to keep people who have your back, but I appreciate people who have self awareness to not get mad when the other person tries to do so when they can, but ultimately puts themselves first.

it would have been a bit more believable if they had a scene where Savannah assures Joy that she called and left a message with Amy or whoever letting them know she was ok--around day 2 of her being gone. Being gone 11 days with no attempt to assure her family is not reasonable behavior. overall enjoyed it but had to ignore things that were just there because its a story and not realistic

so glad Bhanu is gone for his sake (he seemed unstable) and ours. His mood swing/personality whiplash was painful to watch. If he really is the person we saw, i cannot believe he is a superfan. He played like Survivor had some how foudn a person who has been locked away somewhere with no tv or internet for the last 25 years so he has no idea how this Surivivor thing works.

I could not remember who Sam was. I wanted them to deflate the tires from the get-go. My favorite part was when Katherine was tearing into mer and said that Katherine hadn't had to dance that much since the 80s. I think that was intentional and my 80s watching Fame-self was there for it.

I did not get Phaedra or MJ being mad. MJ did nothing the whole game and was wrong almost the entire time. Up until the end, she was backing Phaedra; then she was backing Kate. I don't think Dan went after Phaedra to be mean--at that point, it was his only out (due to his crappy playing up to then). He had to point the finger at a real traitor. Everyone already suspected Parvati so going that way, did nothing. But if he outed someone not well suspected, many would think "huh, maybe Dan is ok after all." I also have less sympathy with Phaedra because she hardly ever seemed to contribute anything. As Kate said--no plan. If Phaedra had more of a plan versus "whatever you want" then I'd be more in her corner.