Lady Calypso

Q and Venus are fighting to be in that third place spot, as I doubt both of them can't make F3. One, or both, are even gonna struggle to get to the finale since they're pissing people off.

Maybe not. Remember, we got four hours of Bhanu and he still went early. My hope is that the egos can't handle the other egos in the game so the egos take each other out.

So many players this season have huge egos. Q, Liz, Venus all have the biggest of egos.

Liz doesn't realize that she WANTS to fade in the background and then bring it up at F3. Her own ego also can't handle not being the center of attention.

Honestly, this might be the most fun I've had watching Survivor. Typically, all of these bad players would annoy me but there's something about this group that I find hilarious rather than frustrating. Bhanu was frustrating, but Q and Venus are just...funny bad. Somehow, Venus has become a slightly better contender to the end than Q. And that's saying a lot, given how everyone has stated how much they don't like playing with Venus. Q has managed to put himself in a solid "can never win" situation with his antics. At the very least, he's joined that placement with Venus. It's interesting to watch Q talk about how in control he is, how this is his game, how everyone should be playing his game. It does give me the impression that he's playing up a character. But the way he reacted at Tribal also gives me pause. Asking everyone to vote him out because he wants everyone to have a fresh start in the game not only makes it clear that Q wants to take back control, he believes the game revolves completely around him. By taking himself out and saying that the game will start fresh, it implies that him leaving resets the game. It's just fascinating to watch. We haven't seen characters like Q or Venus in a long time, especially not in the New Era. Their cockiness, arrogance and way of playing is just....refreshing. It's bad, it can be frustrating, but it's also hilarious, knowing they don't have a shot to win. And funny how Liz has emerged as a potential contender. The Tevin vote was fully on her, I give her credit for that. By sticking to her vote, it probably solidified the very shaky vote with Q's distraction at Tribal, but even before that with people unsure of who to vote. I do think that someone being adamant on sticking to a vote helps to direct other people to do the same. So good on Liz, she's went from also being a no chancer to having a slim chance to win. Fun stuff this episode, for sure. The Hide and Seek segment was hilarious, given's Q's "BIG MISTAKE" stuff with people either finding other players like him or hiding too well.

Q falls in the Venus territory for me; both entertaining players to watch, but frustrating players due to their poor gameplay and inability to see how poor they are. I think Venus goes in the next couple of Tribals. I can foresee, once Q goes (and I think he goes next; he's not gonna be happy that he ALSO had no control over this vote and he's gonna piss people off) that Venus will be more in danger. I think people will see how dangerous Q was, and how they don't want Venus to skate to the end. Or Venus goes next week and Q follows her right after. But I do think we're getting the next two boots being Q and Venus in some sort of order. There's a small possibility that Hunter gets thrown in the mix too, because I think people will be intimidated by his challenge prowess. But this does make me feel a bit more certain that Tiffany's a late jury boot. I think she'll be able to skate by the next few Tribals, even after she was just in danger.

Luckily, he shot his way to a win through the ground. Nobody respects him now. Even Liz can now win against Q.

You can even tell his mindset with how he thought him "graciously quitting" would put everyone back on an even playing field. No, Q, the game doesn't completely change just because you've been voted out. It goes to show that he even truly believed that he was not just in control, the entire game revolved around him. And now I think that's genuine.

If it was a plan, it was a terrible plan. He's gonna likely brag about how it was his plan, but given how NOBODY knew about it and it made Q look like a pathetic quitter, it didn't work in his favour. They're just gonna want him out sooner.

Honestly, Tevin should be furious. Q wants to quit and Jeff allows a vote AND everyone but him and Hunter vote out Venus. I wouldn't blame him for being mad. It's ridiculous that Jeff allowed Q to whine about wanting to quit and not doing it.

Wait, they're not even voting out Q and they're voting Tevin out. Hot damn.

Jeff is the one that said at some point during last season in an interview that he won't allow quits to be voted out, right? I see why he's said that with 45's quits AND this season's dumbass quit.

I love how Kenzie AND Ben also echoed Hunter's sentiments.

Hunter has summed it up perfectly. "This is the dumbest thing ever."

Yeah, just let the man quit. Kenzie and Tevin have it right, in that Q is screwing up some people's gameplans because of his quit, and that he should just quit and walk out and nobody should stop him.

I can't, I really can't. Is this as bad as Sean's quit last season? Probably, it makes no sense.

I'm sorry, what the fuck? Q's now quitting?

I liked it because the alliance is being very blatantly an alliance. You can't tell people to go away to let a big group talk and expect it to go well. It was smart of her to not care. It won't win her any points, but I applaud her for doing that. Don't let a big group that could be a majority actually talk strategy for too long because obviously, they're gonna be talking about the people NOT over in the group.

Ok, Venus going to break up the blatant alliance was pretty good. She has no tact but I'm glad she just went over to do that. She shouldn't have walked away again, stay with them! Don't let them finish talking!

I mean, is Hunter gonna play the idol on Tevin? Is it gonna go back on Tiff? Is Q gonna go? Is Liz gonna go? The preview may be correct; Tribal's gonna be nuts.

I haven't gotten that low. Bhanu was absolutely terrible as a player and terrible to watch. Q's bad and his ego is through the roof, but he's still entertaining to watch.

Damn, was really hoping for a Venus win. A Charlie win would be interesting, but Hunter has probably got this.

I'm not surprised at Q and Liz dropping immediately. It's a surprise that Kenzie dropped.

I'm gonna put on my Q-Hat and say that it's very telling that not enough people sat out for rice; it shows that NONE of these people trust each other and alliances are extremely shaky, at best.

Producers must have told Jeff he can't stab the rice because the interns have to clean it up afterward.