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kikaha

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  1. Whoever comes back from EoE will likely be great at challenges. The players in the game now don't look much like challenge beasts to me. Two wins for the returnee, at 6 and 5 (against players arguably worse at challenges) and he/she are probably odds on to make FTC. There they argue their case in front of a jury they've bonded with, in some cases for over a month. Hope it doesn't take place, but I could easily see the next returnee winning the season.
  2. That's because he's one of them: the castouts who were tossed from the game (unfairly in many of their minds). Very much an "us vs them" mentality, where so many bootees identify with Rick. If he makes it to FTC, that alone pretty much guarantees him the win.
  3. Here's a bizarre outcome that would perfectly fit this idiotic season: Rick gets booted after the next TC or so... returns to EoE... wins the second (and last) EoE challenge... goes back in the game and ends up winning the title of Sole Survivor.
  4. He just backstabbed his closest ally. Why would anyone trust a single thing he says from here on?
  5. I think Wardog is playing a good 5th or 6th place game. His problem IMO is that he is too visible. Everyone knows he's behind these big moves. Can't see them taking him to the end: they feel his 'resume' is too strong. And unless he's been faking it all season, he has no chance of winning challenges when it counts. Excellent strategic move to take out Kelley. Bet Wardog goes pretty soon afterward though. btw, the challenge beast of this season outside Joe is Aurora. Strong, great balance, iron control and focus. Several episodes ago during a team RC, she looked like a fish clipping through the water.
  6. The Gallup Poll from May 25, 2018 found 3.9% of all American men identify as gay. How is casting 20% of all men players 'token?' Its over five times as much as their proportion of the population.
  7. She's lurking in the background, seemingly never at risk, not posturing (like Julia fatally did this episode), not drawing attention to herself, marching deeper and deeper into the game.
  8. I think it's cool and exciting. It makes TC even more pivotal. e.g. I felt as tribal progressed that Julia was blowing it, giggling at the worst of times, talking down to others, acting imperiously. We often don't know where votes come from. That's part of the game, i.e. the contestants themselves get blindsided. It's also part of editing -- to give us some pieces of info, but keep us in the dark on others. Otherwise, where is the surprise, the drama? Other than EoE, I'm now enjoying the season immensely.
  9. Cerie got booted with zero votes cast against her.
  10. Lauren is just 21. She's tall, lean, a college athlete. At that age, with that physique and activity level, her metabolism must race at a thousand miles per hour. It's easy for me to believe she suffered more than the others in her tribe, who were older. I know when I was 21 (also lean and a college athlete) if I didn't eat three big meals a day I was a very unhappy camper. This is one big advantage older folks have on Survivor: they can handle the food privation better than the youngsters. As for the ones on EoE, I'm not sure they were getting less food than Lauren's tribe. Actually, with Chris' fishing, the EoE'ers might have eaten more. Also, they didn't have to take part in immunity and reward challenges. It's easy to say other food sources exist out there But getting that food requires a skill set few have. That is why so many people lose so many pounds on Survivor.
  11. Despite this, the rest of your post was so good I gave it a like.
  12. Those people are also his jury, assuming he makes it to the end. So I think he treats them as well as possible. Real good episode IMO. EoE was the only letdown. It still pisses me off that someone can miss most of the season, bond on EoE with the others who got booted and will make up most of the jury, come back near the end and win.
  13. Thanks to Kimberstormer for that video. Talk about fake news. Survivor producers/editors are badly misleading us, misrepresenting in whole what Kelley says and does, to push a false narrative. That's on top of the awful EoE theme, which makes a mockery of strategy and social game. Show is stooping to new lows IMO.
  14. My heart went out to Wendy tonight. She almost won the challenge at the start of the episode, and probably would have but for her health issues.
  15. Reem gets voted out first, yet she still can a) serve on the jury, and b) win the game. She gets not one but at least TWO chances to make it back in. Similar for Chris and Aubrey. This twist will prove iconic, all right. Iconically terrible.
  16. I agreed with your entire post, except for two points: 1. No one voted out has won, but Lil determined who won. She won the FIC, knew whoever she chose to go to FTC with her would win, and picked Sandra. So while I hate it whenever boots get to come back, they can impact the game in a crucial way. 2. JT is the reason Malcolm got booted. Brad took advantage of JT's idiocy, and booted maybe the biggest threat that season. Great play by Brad, awful play by JT.
  17. IMO Joe easily out-does Ozzie at challenges. He's as good as Ozzie physically, if not better. And he's also outstanding at puzzles. Alas, Joe is about Ozzie's equal at the rest of the game, which is by far the most important. He knows he needs to play better socially and strategically. But he doesn't really know what to do. One example is how easily the others in his tribes snookered him about working together. He thought they were his allies: they couldn't wait to boot him. In 2nd Chances Joe survived the first time he lost an IC. But it seems unlikely to me he can go deep any season unless he wins virtually everything.
  18. If chickens are like dogs, that may not clear things up.
  19. To carry on with this thought, David says he targets Kelley because she is the least trustworthy person out there. ??? She was very loyal in 2nd Chances. She stayed true to her alliance through thick and thin. Now, she also had friends outside her alliance. That helped keep her in the game to near the very end. If David fears her for her craftiness, or her social skills, I understand. But Kelley was loyal to a fault. btw, I'm enjoying the season, mostly because I like Kelley so much and she has been a target every episode, which keeps me on the edge of my seat from the moment her tribe loses the IC.
  20. Wardog has chosen the last two boots. i.e. others had picked the target (Kelley), set their plan in motion with majority backing, only to see Wardog turn everything on its head at the 11th hour. The whole time he was in zero danger of getting booted himself. That's good playing IMO, however goofy his name seems.
  21. I thought you meant "Wacky Wendy" and was applauding you...
  22. I completely agree with Kimberstormer. Kelley played one of the great games ever in Second Chances. Strategically, socially and physically. Through no fault of her own, due to a record number of tribal swaps and shuffles, she always found herself in the minority: she had to play from behind the entire season. Yet she was one tiny slip away from winning the F4 IC, which probably would have won the entire season for her. The cool thing is that Jeremy played an equally good game, and a few others weren't that far behind. One of several reasons Second Chances -- one of the hardest fought, most strategic seasons ever -- is among my three favorites. I get the sense Kelley has such a target on her, she will have to come up with a similar performance to make it deep this season.
  23. If they closed the border by sealing off the wall, that's not permanent is it? Couldn't someone on either side just as easily open the border again? A great series that was marred by the last two episodes IMO. Super-Mina, as many have pointed out, is one flaw. Howard Alpha not telling anyone about his wife's reveal for hours, as the fate of his world hung in the balance, is another. The writers got lazy?... rushed?... frustrated that their fine work spanning nearly two seasons had to come to such a premature end? Enough doors were left open for a sequel, which I would still like to see, even with the shortcomings of the finale.
  24. That might well be their goal, but seems to me impossible to achieve. All sorts of things must be different now that alpha and prime have diverged. No possible way to control how a mass infection will spread.
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