Well Rocky finally mouthed his way off the island. Too bad, I liked his style, well, for the most part.

And now Yao Man & Earl have an idol. Yao has brains, Earl has brawn and they are working together. If they can sway one vote (which should be easy with the idol) I see the 2 of them going quite far. And how about that strategy of Yao Man making a fake idol? Frikkin genious! Although I think he could have done a better job on it, still a fantastic idea.

I really hope that fake idol comes into play, that would be the funniest survivor moment ever.

holy crap. i totally forgot Survivor was on last night. What is wrong with me?

The only thing I like so far about this season is the fake idol. I hope Yao Man did a good enough job so that whoever finds it thinks it is real. I can imagine all kinds of scenarios where its use would be funny as hell.

Glad to see Lisi go. She reminded me too much of a relative of ours who is bull-headedly opinionated but simultaneously nuts, so you can't really argue with her even though she dominates all conversations around her.

She's one of those kooks who, if you call her husband on the phone, she will start calling out things in the background for him to say to us. Not occasionally - constantly. I can easily see Lisi doing that.

I agree... I'm definitely glad to see Lisi gone. I loved how Dreamz called her out at tribal counsel, I think that probably swayed the vote more than anything. I don't understand why she didn't just say "yes, I really really want to stay." Her two buddies already knew she changed her mind so it really didn't matter if she outed her intentions to Dreamz b/c he was going to vote for her anyway... but she totally fucked herself b/c no one is going to want to keep you around if you have the attitude of "just give me a chance to see what happens."

I did laugh when they showed her voting for Dreamz... "You're a grown man, you might want to think about a name change." lol

Yup, Lisi, bipolar?? Ever since the tribes changed and she went off to exile island, it's like she had a screw loose.

And I have to agree with those that posted it before. That fake idol NEEDS to come in to play. Can you imagine the look on Probst's face when he asks, if someone has the immunity idol play it now. And someone stands up and says here it is, a coconut with I I painted on it... It might be the best survivor scene ever...

It could even get funnier if whoever finds the fake idol thinks it is real and replaces it with another fake. Half the tribe could be fooled into thinking they have immunity. I wish Yao Man had spent more time on the fake so it looked more authentic.

Best....damn.....episode....by.....far!!!!! The whole season got redeemed for me with that one episode. I LOVE the twist of forcing a vote without strategizing.

Not only that, but they gave them plenty of time to come up with strategies before splitting them into teams for the challenge. Then all that goes out the window. I hope they do the random team challenge thing a few more times.

Looks like Yao Man's fake idol probably won't come into play, too bad. Lots of people already know that the 2 real ones were found.

Whoo weee!!! What a vote!

Now that's what I call Outwit!

this season was pretty "meh" until the last few episodes. Now IT"S ON!!!

I absolutely loved this past episode, the scheming was fantastic. I loved how when Yao Man heard that Mookie had the idol he asked what does it look like.

I felt kinda bad for Stacy, why does everyone hate her, have they really shown much about her in the episodes, she usually seems pretty quiet. I did far prefer Michelle though, but only for the perkyness factor - I think they are both very cute.

That was a fantastic episode. The look on the faces of the three in the other alliance was priceless.

The only thing that pissed me off was the previews for next week when they went digging through Yao-man's stuff.

Stacy and Lisi were total bitches to Dreamz in the original Moto camp. I think they tended to sit around on the hammock all day and roll their eyes at people

Outwit indeed! Dreamz is going to be so hosed because now its obvious that he has been playing both sides. Earl's alliance no longer needs him numbers-wise, and the horsemen are toast. Of course now the idol gets re-hidden and something is bound to get twisted with that.

Dreamz is now the Jonathan of this season, only because he's too dumb instead of too smart

In the previews for next week it looks like some of the tribe digs through Yao Man's bag and finds his immunity idol. I wonder if there are any rules against stealing it?

I haven't checked this thread in a while, but I have to say the tribal council where the "4 horseman" (anyone watch big brother?) thought they had this great scheme was awesome. Probably one of the best councils ever IMO. So yeah about people hating on Stacy, I started hating on the part about the French press where Lisi, and Stacy wouldn't even show Cas and Dreamz how to use the thing so they were drinking coffee grinds. Back then she was just so mean to some of the other people of their clan, that I was just turned off to her.

On the latest episode, that move by Alex, by voting for Mookie was huge for him, he would have been gone, but now he's still alive. With an alliance of 6, and him on the outside, the alliance will now be broken, and he'll be a swing vote I bet. IMO, such a big alliance is going to be tough, I bet in the next episode, smaller groups will try to grab Alex and create a smaller alliance to create a majority.

The six could survive by voting eachother for a while, if they stick to their guns...

Vote Alex next, he's on the outside
Vote Dreamz next, he's been playing the fence, too risky to keep him
Vote Stacy next, because most people don't like her
If any one of these 3 gets immunity, just switch the order.

That would widdle the current 7 down to the final 4, which is where it usually becomes everyone for themselves.

That is a weak ass strategy for Dreamz and Stacy though. It should be very clear to both of them (and Boo) that they are 4, 5, and 6. This is the point at which those three should take control of the game. They probably won't though, most of the 4-6 people are coattail riders that never have any game of their own.

Some strategic editing on the part of the producers really had me going there for a minute. At least up until they only showed 2 votes being cast. I had no idea that Dreamz was so tight with Earl & Cassandra, looks like my cenario won't play out, with Boo being the big outsider right now.

so, any guesses on how they get from 6 down to 1 in just two episodes?

Same old shit from the players. Cassandra, Boo, and Stacy all deserve to be booted out because they aren't playing the game.

I'm guessing that they will have a final three like last time. So after Thursday there will be five. They start Sunday and go to 4 then have the final challenge to determine the final 3.

right. Seems like the Final 3/Exile Island/Immunity Idols get a multi-season try out. I just hope this time they don't have a case where one of the 3 is totally out of it (didn't that one girl get zero votes last time?)

^ Yeah, and I laughed my ass off when she got nuttin! Thats what she deserved.

Where is the car giveaway? Where is the food auction? Where is the reward where their family members get to spend the night? Where is the video from home?

well they did get letters from home lol

I believe the car episode is coming up this week....

and they did the food auction way earlier

I thought they had, but when Warrrregl said they didnt I thought maybe I was remember something else. But then I went and reread the episode breakdowns and I cant find a reward that was a food auction

They did the gross-out food challenge early on, but not an auction that I can remember.

It sure is looking like a boring ride to F4 - as much as I HATED alex it would have definitely made the show more interesting coming down the stretch had he gotten some people to switch their alliances.... If Earl and Yau make it into the final 3, I bet the 3rd person will get no votes. How would you decide between Earl and Yau - that would be tough.

well stacey proved why she doesn't deserve to win. what a moron

Yeah, could she have tipped Yao off much more at tribal. I have a feeling he would have played it anyways.... I think he realizes his balls are on the line and obviously he knows he and earl have another one for the next round, so why not mitigate your risk. The others still don't know about the 2nd idol. I wonder if they'll take another shot at him next week. A very smart play by a very shrewd player. <3 Yao Man

Chessit. The survivor ka-tet has forgotten the face of their fathers ;)

Damn! Best. Episode. Evar! What a brilliant move by Yao Man making the deal with Dreamz, then sniffing out the vote. If Yao Man doesn't win the million, I'l be extremely upset. If for no other reason than the fact that he GAVE AWAY a BIG ASS truck like that.

^ Agree with you on Yao Man's strategizing. But don't you think it somewhat unfair that Yao ended up with the truck when he almost cost his team the contest? Since there could be only one winner of the truck it should have been an individual contest. Boo was the one that lead that team to victory, and to lose the truck by fluke to a guy he had to drag through the netting must have gutted him.

Dreamz was handicapped by 2 people who didn't put any real effort into the challenge -- they didn't even spread out a bit to dig for the hatchet -- and to lose after having gained such a big lead is almost inexcusable. Earl and Cassandra acted like they didn't want to get their hands dirty...

Hai. The world has moved on.

I knew it I knew it I knew it.....I KNEW dreamz was gonna go back on his friggin word