Eggman

FWIW, scheduling is a non-issue if you stream it through the CBS website. We've totally switched to watching it whenever we have time, rather than when it airs. If we feel like watching it on Sunday at 9:09, we can do that. The commercial breaks are shorter too. Recommended.

1. North Dakota has Mount Rushmore, and I'll bet that's where he went. 2. Some infections are problematic at school, because it's hard to actually get children to not touch each other. In this girls case, I'm sure they said "don't touch her." It costs a lot of money to get these people all the way out there and onto the beach, and they don't have understudies, so I figure they aren't going to pull the trigger for anything short of sepsis (last season) or a Heart Attack (previews.) 3. Not only did Rachel fail at the puzzle, she was talking too much and looking like she was pushing people around in the game. Easy first boot. 4. Why did they vote for Cici? Did I miss something?

The thing is, the final task almost always involves difficult instructions and thinking. If they both have to contribute, it should be interesting. Oh, and walking the plank is totally made up. Real pirates just took anyone they didn't want and kicked them overboard.

Point taken, you are probably right there, which leads me to this... to which I agree. They are just reaching for two-idol play drama, ala Parvati's great gambit. It's just another case of "this isn't a game, it's a show," which, whatever.

More to the point, they are still individual Hidden Immunity Idols, which cannot be transferred after the votes are read. We know that two HIIs can be joined into one SuperIdol, and we know that a SuperIdol can be played after the votes are read, but it's not stated when an HII can be transferred in order to effect a SuperIdol, and every rule we do know about says that an HII cannot be transferred after the reading of the vote. One thing about the "Yul and before" idol is that although it certainly could save you for one vote, it was difficult to use it to keep an alliance safe because, again, it could not be transferred at the time of use. You could play it after the votes were read, but you could not TRANSFER it at that time. You had to be already holding it to play it, so you had to know who the vote was going to be for in order for it to keep an alliance safe. (Yul actually faced this problem, but he flipped Penner and from then on it was a march to the finish and he kept the idol in his pocket.) Thus, I believe the existing rules clearly state when an HII can be transferred, and the players are *assuming* that playing the SuperIdol post-vote means that a post-vote transfer of the HII is possible. We don't know if they've been told that this is the case. Maybe, maybe not. The show doesn't always reveal rules until it's to their dramatic advantage. What we saw was Scott asking Tai for his HII. Tai refused the request. What we don't know is that if Tai had begun to transfer his HII to Scott, would Peachy have then said "ah, no, sorry, shoulda done that sooner." I doubt we'll know now, since the other traditional rule of thumb is one HII per tribe, and currently there is only one tribe. Only once, recently, have they re-hidden a second idol after the merge. Perhaps the possibility of a SuperIdol play would prompt them to do so again. The true goat is Joe, and Aubry has him firmly in her corner. It is not unusual for one of the F3 to be that sort of invisible player. To me, Debbie looks like a rotisserie chicken leg that's been lost behind the couch for a month. No thanks.

If you watched the balloon / wedding sequences carefully, you could see security in tan uniforms from time to time, and on the bike they were following a motorcycle with security on it. Based on how I saw the cheerleaders approached while they were doing the lights task and the balloon task, it certainly seems like it was warranted. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/world/asia/gang-rape-in-india-routine-and-invisible.html Ugh.

Heck, as far as Dan was considered at that point Dan was still going to the final 3 and Mike would be eliminated one way or another. Dan should have been cultivating Mike for a jury vote. These people really need to examine Parvati's play. In her 2nd and 3rd appearances she was nice to everyone, even if she had to grit her teeth to do it.

At that point I think you have more to gain by working with the other person than not. It's true they're taking a chance on their opponent acing the final task, but enhancing the possibility that you will actually reach the final task makes up for it. Consider also that they both thought they were playing for 2nd place, as they both say Blair/Haley leaving as they arrived. It's important to the show to get multiple teams to the final challenge at the same time so as to have some suspense. If one team reaches and essentially finishes the final challenge before the others, there goes any chance of suspense. For that to be the case, the challenges along the way need to be pretty easy, with the only differentiator the speed that they're done in.

Probably because Dan / Tyler actually played the game, to one degree or another. Joe? Not so much.

The cochran interview: http://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/news/1004219/survivor-s-dan-foley-is-snuffed-after-two-vote-advantage-works-against-him-to-have-fun-to-be-remembered-and-to-win-/

he still thinks that "flippers don't win" even after confronted with several examples of flippers who had won He's a bombastic twit, but I'll back him up here. While flippers HAVE won, in general, they don't. Many many more players flip on their alliance and disappear shortly thereafter. He didn't say "never" win, he said "don't" win. Dan is another reason I'm not watching the reunion, right after Shirin.

Right now you have Rodney / Sierra / Will remaining as an alliance, each thinking the other two are their goats. (and really, who can argue with them about that?) They will not defect to Mike / Carolyn, as that would be a losing move in their eyes. I predict Mike wins IC and Carolyn goes. Then you have 4. If Mike also wins that IC (which is what I assume as well) then it's a tossup for him. Which goat is the lesser of the three? Then it's over. I usually don't watch the reunion, but I'm definitely making sure I don't even catch a whiff of this one.

Assuming you can get it to work, all this season's episodes are easily streamed from cbs.com. That's how I watch the show. I can watch it whenever I want, starting at whatever time I want. For various reasons it's more convenient for me to watch on Friday night after, say, 10pm. The latest episode is usually posted right after it airs on the West coast. My wife & I skipped last week's episode and watched it before the current (as of this thread) episode, both a day late and 2 hours later. You don't have to be a slave to the TV.

At this point in the game the rewards are vital, because they include food. The food often makes the difference when it comes to competing in the following immunity challenge. What Rodney was asking for wasn't just someone being nice to him, he was asking for a significant advantage near the end of the game. That's unreasonable. There's only one player left who can plausibly be said to have played hard the whole way through, and that's Mike. I'm fully expecting to see him win ICs right up to the end. The other players have done what they had to do when faced with a dominant opponent - they stuck together, regardless of their relative position within the shrinking alliance. Allying with Mike would mean automatic loss at this point -- he has too many jury votes already, and every person who gets put on the jury has no reason to blame him for their elimination. Oh, and Boards on Boards (as it used to be known) -- could the moderators be bothered to lock the thread until the episode is over? The first page of posts from people who are posting while watching are awful to have to slog through after the fact. That's what twitter is for.

The producers have to look at the votes even before the end of FTC, in case of ties. There was some speculation that a relatively recent season had an FTC vote that resulted in a tie and they all had to go through the vote again, but it was only barely alluded to in a few after the fact interviews. The idea that they don't know who the winner is is naive. First and foremost, this is a television show.

I think you can watch all the AR seasons on cbs.com, for a fee of course.

I think Rodney is considering colors. He's hoping that if he stacks the jury with Blues, then they'll all vote for him as the final blue standing.

Careful examination shows that even with a calculator there were plenty of erasures and refiguring, we just weren't shown the initial mistakes. If you watch again, look at the answer portion of the chalkboard - there are smeared out figures on most of them. I want Blair and Haley to win. Blair because he deserves it. Haley because, boobs. (there, I said it.)

Even with his HII, Mike is toast - or not. He has 4 sympathetic jurors. If he loses an IC, he's gone. If he doesn't, then he wins. Everyone that shared the island with Shirin said she was almost intolerably annoying in multiple talking heads. I'm inclined to defer to their experience. I'm guessing Rodney thinks he can put all the blue collars on the jury and then, at FTC, argue that they should vote for him because, blue collar! I don't think that will work. It'll be Rodney, Will, and the winner.

He should ride in front of her because if they are riding single file, it's easier for other riders to pass. If you ride side by side you're hogging the whole bike lane, which is inconsiderate to others.

Tyler is playing a great game of "Let's you and him fight." By not getting in the middle of any conflicts and being pleasant to as many people as he can, he's well positioned to win the "I don't know you all that well, but i sure hate those other two people" vote.

I'm thinking iconic means "no pants".

Blair is a bachelor. He knows this will be over sooner or later. He also knows that being "more right" won't get him any closer to the finish line. He is not eligible for sainthood unless he's married to her, even though the harping she's doing is what you would expect to hear from a partner of 5 years, not 5 days. That said, I wish we had seen more of Haley in the hot tub. She brings it.

People who watch or don't watch Survivor because they have or don't have someone to "root for" are treating Survivor like football, and that's not what Survivor is. Survivor is an experiment where 20 or so more or less random individuals are plopped down on a beach and made to play a silly social game for a million bucks with surprisingly few social rules. Watching them do what people do, and what they in particular do, is the point. Liking them is not.

First off, I've always watched Survivor with the attitude that the show goes down a whole lot better if you don't care about the people playing it. I don't particularly like them. I also don't particularly hate them. They're just people who, thank god, I will never meet in person. It's not about someone I "like", winning. Whoever wins, wins. Everything is easier if you just think of them as lab rats. Anyway. It was pretty much a foregone conclusion that Jenn would go. She has two unswayable votes on the jury. No way would they keep her around. I liked how they managed to add uncertainty to what would normally have been a very boring episode. Second, what's going on is that Rodney has actually brought some very clever game. Dan & Sierra believe they are tightly allied with him (and supposedly Mike) as blue collar first, with Will as an adjunct, and that Tyler and Caroline are at the bottom. He's also trying to convince Tyler and Caroline that they are in the F4 - he has to do that to convince them to stick with them. Those promises to Will, Tyler and Caroline are what we've SEEN, but they don't mean that those 3 are really in the F4 - I'm sure that Rodney has made very convincing promises to Dan & Sierra, and given that they have been allied with him since the beginning, why shouldn't they take those promises seriously? By holding Will tight and making similar promises to Dan/Sierra and Tyler/Caroline, Rodney has indeed made viable 6 person alliance, for now. He's an ape, but he's making the right moves. What then happened is that Rodney managed to marginalize Mike, to the point where Caroline is comfortable announcing that it's 6 vs 3, right at tribal council. I'm unspoiled. My guess is that things will progress from here as you might expect, with Mike or Shirin going in the next two slots.