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What? Survivor: Collar Edition? Heh.

Pretty awesome, Lantern7. Although your guess is as good as mine, heh

I agree on the assessment of Jaclyn's jury speech - I don't think anyone bought it despite the efforts of Jon to try to bump up her Survivor cred. I like how Natalie not only stroked Alec's ego in her response to his question, but also gave a nod to Jon and Baylor at the same time. Josh threw the "are you a goat" question to Jaclyn, who seemed to deflect it well but Josh pressed it a bit more. I really like Keith's wife for some reason.

She played gutsy at the end, and worked her plan brilliantly when she knew the game was out of her hands.

I'll also add Alec to the "Ignored" speculation list. Drew a slight chance of a Q because he engineered the throwing of a challenge. Val may get shafted if Probst overindulges Josh, Reed and John.

Okay, Final Five. Short of winning Immunity, is there any way for Keith to survive the next vote? Equally as importantly, can we go an episode without Keith spitting somewhere?

Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't the Purple Rock tiebreaker in the situation 2 - deadlock mean that either Baylor or Missy would go home (ie, the people with immunity or who got votes would be immune)? That said, it was overall a good plan from Natalie, and wonder how Baylor and Natalie were finally able to convince Missy to abandon her silly loyalty to Jon schtick? If Natalie can pull it off, taking Jaclyn and Missy to a F3 would be brilliant, especially if it turns out there's a F2 instead. Among the women, Baylor is the second-most likely winner of a Final Immunity Challenge after Natalie. Jaclyn is surprisingly quite inept at ICs. But priority #1 has to be taking out Keith, for all of them.

Wow and whoa. A lot of freaking stuff just happened this episode. Damn "Winter Finales". It looks like Mac is at least, recovered. Skye's father is a heckuva fighter. And what the devil is Raina now? And that's just half the burning items on my mind right now...

Thing is, Probst is always smiling even when he's ticked off, and I suppose you can definitely argue it both ways on how he felt when the players talked out loudly about who to chop next, et al. Perhaps this particular variety of challenge needs to be retired if the players are seeing through it.

It was just before Probst went into his "I got nothing for you" speech to the losers. If you weren't watching Missy in the distance you may miss it, just enough finger was raised to get the blur effect applied.

Wait, Coulson said SHIELD solved the Bermuda Triangle in the 80s? You'd think someone would have told me, heh. Mind you, Puerto Rico represents one of the corners of said triangle.

#SILENTTREATMENT is a win... #WINKWINK, not so much. Between Josh, Reed, and John, somebody's going to strain a muscle there. When Natalie won reward, I thought it was a bit odd to choose both Jon and Jacklyn, to share a bed. You're risking being an unwilling participant in cozy-snuggle-time. Jacklyn and Missy would have made sense to me, and you'd have avoided annoying wine conversation. But I do get that Natalie wanted to cement her tie with the other couple, plus she did get the confirmation that Jon found another immunity idol. All of this. Natalie if she so chooses, can plead a number of things (although feigning ignorance may be the preferred one) to explain Keith over Alec. That said I think she shouldn't have rocked the boat. There are no Immunity Monsters in this game right now (heck, Baylor has won immunity), there will be other chances to blindside Jon if she doesn't panic.

I thought Natalie was calmly biding her time, but now she's showing signs of real desperation. Why would she go against the plan for such a simple maneuver?

One possible school-yard pick for the last RC?: Jaclyn vs Missy Jon.......Baylor Alec......Wes Reed......Natalie (Keith)

I'm glad Missy got to eat this episode. She's a strange player in that her antics are propelling Baylor further in the game while at the same time damaging her own chances at winning. She's rubbed a few people the wrong way already and I can't see her winning a popularity vote of any of the remaining players at a Final TC.

Wes turned out to be the quintessential non-entity as far as this game goes. Regarding the kids playing baseball, I'd like to think that the producers treated the kids to something nice after the game, the hot dogs and popcorn to the reward winners was just given the extra emphasis. I felt for Natalie when her spit attempt landed on her own shirt. Gross. And ew. I'd have wanted to jump down right then and there. Good on her for lasting three hours. Makes Jon's bailing out after 7 minutes for candy look a bit sad. Reed, however, rocked. Crazy that after all that time he took the effort to do the splits on the sand. Ouch. Impressive, I suppose, but you'd never find me trying it (not that I could do it without breaking something, heh). Natalie already revealed that she wanted Jon gone, but knew she couldn't be rash about it and risk her own standing in the game. It's why bailing on her majority alliance to be bottom of another wasn't even considered by her. Finding the third hidden idol gave her the confidence to feel like she could control things from here on out. And in the end, she got nearly everything she wished for - Jon's idol flushed and burned, Keith's flushed and burned, and Reed's alliance diminishes. On top of that, another couple is broken. She can target Reed or Jon at any time now.

Indeed. That was more of a Hashtag Blindside (groan) than many of the other clearly telegraphed episodes of recent past. Jeremy was dumbfounded. Was it a good move for Jon? Probably. But I don't know why Missy and Baylor saw this as a good move. Missy, especially, was in position for F4 with Jeremy and Natalie. Instead, Reed has new life, and Missy possibly loses Natalie's support at some point. Reed smirking back and forth with Josh on the jury was just as annoying as the continued PDA between Jon and Jaclyn. Missed the first 10 minutes, anything of note happened there?

She seems pretty astute and thoughtful, probably needs more THs (give her some of Wes's, he hasn't offered much of anything).

I could guess that the schoolyard pick could have gone: Captains Reed vs Josh. In alternating order, the next picks are Jeremy, Jon, Wes, Alec, Keith, Jaclyn, Natalie. Leaving Baylor and Missy as perceived weakest physical players. Baylor picked since she's younger than her mom. [/speculation] Small blessing is that the taco reward wasn't co-sponsored by Mountain Dew (or even Taco Bell). Although from the gastric after-effects, it probably wouldn't have mattered to the competitors. As for Belch&Fart-Gate, I would tend to agree with Jeremy's analysis of the situation, especially in the Survivor context where you're trying to maintain votes. Yes, Jaclyn's switch had more to do with feeling left out vs feeling grossed out, but any activity that makes your tribemates feel disgusted at you is going to hurt you. Memory-based Immunity challenges like this episode's are a real yawner. Fairly standard TC vote-off. Baylor racking up the votes-against count (didn't Aras have the record?). And now we have two idols held in secret.

I think she was still wearing her old Hunapu buff at that time, and was probably just stretching out the new one before replacing her chest harness. Quitters, yeah. Yuck. And agree that it's another dagger in the throat to the people who apply constantly to get on the show. The whole episode was pretty much a big letdown.

I've completely forgotten that the Race airs on Fridays, the past *four* times. Thank goodness for cbs.com... and the hola internet plugin for Chrome, heh. How do you train a chicken to sit on your head, and then a dove to sit on the chicken? In the end I suppose there's also a missing Colonel Sanders joke in it, so heck. Good episode.

As the herd thins out, I feel their chances of making it to the end have plummeted. Without the capacity to self-navigate, they have no chance at keeping up with the Dentists, the Cyclists or the Surfers. They're firmly in that lower tier with the Wrestlers and the Dating couple. Mind you, I hope I'm wrong.

A good episode sandwiched between an all-too-brief Agent Carter promo and a super-cool Avengers 2 promo. It was a good evening. Jemma is freaking ticked off. She stood in front of Skye to cut Ward's hopeful glances off, and told him point blank she's going to kill him next time she sees him. Perhaps they need to get *her* into field work, not just Skye.

I think, as others here (and I think Probst last episode) have suggested before, the freedom of not having a loved one to be concerned about can be a blessing. You can focus solely on your own progress in the game. You can already see Jeremy, Natalie (and to a lesser extent, Julie) being able to strategise better.

Ok, well clearly the producers must give the castaways toothpaste and or mouthwash because Jon and Jaclyn were kissing like it was a Scope commercial or something. The NuHunapu dynamic does appear to be interesting to figure out. I would have expected Josh and his boyfriend to be immediate easy targets, but could they have leverage?