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Kyle can just say he lied to Kamilla about being a lawyer, to get points for playing Kamilla and taking her to the final 3. Why did Probst call out Eva for cheating in the reward challenge, instead of pretending not to notice? He must have figured she would slide right off anyway if she straightened her legs, or that she would get to eat at the reward meal, since winner of reward always brings her along.

Eva had placed a couple additional blocks and decided they were looking too precariously balanced to continue adding more. There was a chance of breeze, rain, bird, insect, or falling leaf causing something to fall. At the instant the hourglass ran out, a ruling should have been made about how many levels were complete. It makes sense to base it on number of levels that are complete as time runs out, not the total number of levels that were completed at some point during the time, or Level 1 could have been completed and knocked down 4 times (although a generous interpretation of the rules as written might allow it). If they want to let her knock down the pieces early because there is no chance of wind or rain and her structure is extremely stable, at least film it without the partially complete hourglass in the scene. They can insert a close up of the hourglass running out when editing later. It is ridiculous to suggest that she may have waited for the time to run out, then they decided to flip over the hourglass and let it run through halfway, so that they could film a scene of her knocking down all the blocks.

Eva mentioned that she would lose her vote if the tiles fell down while trying to build to level 8. If it doesn't matter if she knocks them over with time still on the clock, why not try to build 8 levels? Even if she has to verbally concede, she could still trying reaching level 8 and if it starts collapsing, quickly yell, "I am done, and will just keep my vote!" As is typical in building challenges, there is some rule for how long it must stand as a demonstration of it being a viable structure, sometimes it is 3 seconds. In this case the rules made it sound like the guideline is that it should be standing when the hourglass runs out, although the wording was not perfectly clear. Since the Knowledge is Power was the reward, which the producers know would be useless to Eva, this demonstrates it wasn't totally rigged in Eva's favor. She had nothing to gain by getting the purple rock. If it was rigged, they would have had a better prize available to her, and might have even had two islands prepared with different challenges and rewards depending on who got the purple stone.

Yes, this makes sense that there was virtually no discussion of voting out Eva or even trying to get her to use one of her immunities with no little time remaining in the game. Maybe fewer people have been giving up their spot in challenges in recent seasons, because they seasons are shorter than they used to be. But I don't get why a few people don't sit out in exchange for rice to last the rest of the season. It turned out that the only person who really needed immunity was Star and it looked like she was barely making an effort in the challenge anyway. They could also try to promise immunity to whoever sits out, which isn't as good as a true immunity, but is worth something. That particular challenge should be retired, for being too boring, and the chicken and waffles challenge wasn't much better.

What does everyone think of the way David lost that immunity challenge? I read that EW interview where he said something about instinctively moving forward as if trying to catch the ball is why he fell off the box, but rewatching it slow motion, it is not clear what happened. He did allow the ball to start rolling, then caught it, then it looked odd the way he appeared to have lost balance or had tremors in his legs that made him step off. The excuse that David still had plenty more in the tank was not very convincing. I am sure the players eliminated in the first few minutes had plenty left in the tank too, but they probably messed up in not knowing how much force needed to be applied to hold the ball in place. It was totally about still having strength left, it also required the skill to apply the right amount of force while staying balanced. It looked like the challenge was designed so that each player's arms started out bent at right angles, and this was achieved by having the players of differing height stand of different sized boxes.

In the Endangered Animals category, after a number of fairly obvious animals, here are the animals Andrew was given to finish: woodpecker, snake, beetle, dog, elephant, tiger Here is what David was shown during that time: wolverine, caiman, wombat, stork, koala, tortoise, hyena, rhinoceros, oryx Normally, they get more difficult near the end, but the ones Andrew got were quite easy compared to David's. It really helped that they only had to roughly get the type of animal instead of giving its full name. That was odd that if Andrew won the money, he said he would use it to help revitalize the animation industry, even though he said he was recently homeless. Does he realize that he has to pay taxes and support himself, and that the prize is $250k not $250 million or billion?

In previous seasons weren't there some secret advantages that required the person to successfully sneak out of camp without being noticed? Eva's note said she was to sneak out of camp to get her advantage, yet she was noticed doing so. Was that really a 50-50 chance that she would pick the Safety Without Power? It would have been nice if they had showed that the other bamboo really contained a note saying she lost the game.

Everyone had their own bowl of chips of the same kind, and Eva was seated at the far end from David and Mary, and there was a divider placed, separating Eva and Joe from David and Mary. It would be quite unlikely for any of the others to have been digging around in Eva's bowl of chips to find that note. These advantages usually don't amount to much, so maybe this isn't a big deal unless they make the next immunity dependent on an ice hockey based challenge involving skating on hockey skates. Typically the advantage gets a person past the first stage of challenge without having to expend much energy, with winning mainly about being able to solve the puzzle at the end.

It is hard to believe Chrissy did not try to convince anybody until her public plea in tribal council, and if she did try, that should have been shown. Seems like she could have had a decent chance of convincing enough people to team up on David or Joe, although she would have had to convince Shauhin and either Joe or Mary. Star losing her vote really messed up the voting. When I am watching the show, I don't really feel like trying to keep track of how many votes are needed, but would like to know. The best chance is when they show everybody sitting together at tribal council so I can do a count and to think about who is aligned with each other, but the shot of them together is always cut too short for me to do a count, which very annoying. Eva's advantage note does not say she has the option of going out at night to try to get the advantage. It says she should sneak out of camp and look for it when it feels like the time is right. Does this mean she has to do it, and what if somebody else happens to be out idol searching at night and is drawn to the fire with the secret advantage?

This was the first episode that was interesting enough for me to watch the whole thing without fast forwarding. I am glad Haley won, since she had a good attitude, but it did not seem like a good way to determine a winner. The code word was not allowed to be a contestant's name, but it was OK to use the nickname everyone calls Haley? What if Jake's nickname was Jacob, would that have been allowed? That was hilarious when the one guy whose code word was Trust, started spelling out his guess: T...R...U... and it looked like he was going to get it. Could Jake have just followed Haley instead of bothering to solve the Morse Code message? What if Jake was a ham radio operator and already knew the code? That would have been about as fair as having most of the challenge be paddling a raft with one of the contestants being a professional rafter. Funny how they kept trying to make the prize sound better by calling it "a quarter of a million dollars" instead of $250,000, which is a lot closer to zero than it is to a million. They should try that on other shows: "A twentieth of a million dollars"

I don't think this proves anything. Advantages and immunity idols typically say something like "You may use this immunity idol until there are 5 players remaining," without including an obvious qualifier such as "(unless you have been evicted before that time)." Agree with paul4295 that it was annoying that they showed nothing about how the major shift of everyone's vote from Kamilla to Chrissy occurred.

It looked like some of them were coloring. How many days are the contestants out there in the wilderness? That prize does seem quite skimpy after taxes and splitting it 3 ways considering all the suffering that one of them goes through.

Eva's note from the bowl of chips starts with "Your effort in today's challenge has also earned you a secret advantage..." Some are saying that this chance at an advantage would have gone to whomever won the immunity challenge, but I don't buy that theory. Keep this in mind if you are ever on Survivor in a reward feast. Offer to trade some of your best food items for whatever bowl of food the producer's favorite contestant has that contains a type of food suitable for holding a hidden note. Chrissy's tribal tirade was complaining about the strong men, but the women were the ones who dominated that immunity challenge. Her team was eliminated from the challenge not because of anyone's strength, but because they foolishly tried to crawl onto a plank before putting it securely on top of the rope bridge.

I also thought this might be reversed video, but the letters on the gym owner's shirt are not reversed. It is quite surprising that nobody involved with the show noticed he was punching the wrong side, although maybe a punch anywhere could the the last straw that bursts an inflamed appendix. At least 3 times this episode somebody said the irritating phrase "Two things can be true." Far more than two things can be and are true, and everybody knows it. So why do people think they are imparting wisdom by saying this. Do banks usually have large binders of papers for each client documenting all their transactions?

Does this show expect to win an Emmy for the close up of the woman who was vomiting? That is crazy not to take her out of the show when the doctor recommended it, and her pulse was down to 35 beats per minute. Isn't that a dangerously low pulse? I agree that the events at HQ are boring, but that seems to be mainly what this show is about. The survivors just lie around alone all day to conserve energy and aren't worth watching, except when they are given a task. That was unbelievable that the one guy tossed his entire steak into the lake because he couldn't start a fire. The bears walking by was some fake drama that didn't amount to anything.