I'm watching the voting confessionals now, and just LOL at Sandra. "I came here voting Colby." Really? Good God, she is clueless.

I couldn't tell if he was confused wrt spelling her name or if he was debating whether or not to actually vote for her. Considering he spelled it Danellie, it's probably the former, but I'm far from 100% sure.

what a dumbass

In his defense though, Danielle is a stupid name.

Well, good movies, books, stories, etc. are generally more enjoyable with an ending that complements the good storyline. Obviously the season has been interesting & entertaining, but Russell winning would make for a better ending than say Colby winning (in my opinion).

Yeah, obv it's pretty easy to see how close Danielle & Parvati are while watching the eps from the couch, but even still, it seemed pretty clear that they were closer than anyone else out there was to anyone else imo.

Gonna be a miracle if Russell gets any jury votes this season (if he makes it to the finals). I could see maybe JT voting for him b/c he seems like the type of dude that respects good gameplay. Possibly Coach too, but I think he's pretty much screwed with the rest of the cast (calling Rupert a dumbass seems like a 100% guarantee that he'll never get Rupert's vote as Rupert is obviously v stubborn & probably remembers every kid who called him fat in middle school).

Who's Russell's best shot at winning (or actually getting votes) against, Kos (or anyone else)? Colby b/c he hasn't done anything? Even though I don't think Sandra has done much more than Colby, I feel like she'd somehow get more votes (not sure why). Not sure how votes would fall for Jerri or Rupert, as neither has done much either (although Jerri probably wouldn't get a vote from Coach).

btw, what do u think that note that came with the HII was???

I dont remember any other idols coming with a note

ehm some idols had a note that said something like that: congratulation, you have jest found HII. HII may be used .....blablabla....

+1, he wanted to hve last thoughts before sending home ally member

All the HII's come with a note, that basically tells them what it is and how to use it

Re: Voting Danielle instead of Parvati

I think Russell would have taken out either, but Danielle was the one he had a shot at, based on how things around camp went. His first swing at it was bringing up booting Parv to Danielle, and when she didn't bite at that, he immediately went to Parv. After that, it was just a question of which one he could get Jerri to vote for, and I imagine he had a pretty good idea how upset Danielle was and thought he could manipulate her in to a mistake at Tribal, whereas Parv was pretty calm about the whole thing

My predictions for FTC votes for each remaining Survivor. Nothing spoiler in here but tagging it anyways.

Here is the order I would vote if I was on the jury.

Parv
Sandra
Rupert
Jerri
Russell
Colby

The Phil Helmuth of Survivor!

for me it doesnt matter now who wins the game as long as it is not colby or jerri. I would even like Rupert to finally win some because I had awful memories about Samoa (aka. stay low, play social game)

Whats the difference...Russell Hantz is one of the richest men in the world just ask him to to see his bank statement.

Isn't Big Brother a CBS show? They should swap the casts with Survivor after their original airings.. Would make for great TV.

OMG, what an unbelievable idea. I love this. Too bad it would never happen.

Should the winner be the Survivor at the end, or the best middle game player? Are there different skills required for different sections of the game? If a player can "play" the jury should they be named the winner? Of these 3 questions. Russel's name is only on 1.

edit: Russel's hidden vid where he whines about the girls liking Colby was hilarious. What a small, low self esteemed person to now start to cry cause the girls would rather flirt with a good looking guy instead of a troll. I wonder if he goes to jail for assault again this weekend

Yeah, I think Russell gets a lot of credit for his awesome foresight to bust up Parvarti and Danielle, when reality is probably much closer to he is insane with rage because he is not in sole control. Why not vote out Parv? He could have voted out either. Danielle would be easier to control than Parv and also easier to out speak at FTC. Someone who cries because her emotions are stirred up is going to say things that shoot herself in the foot with her words. Parv remains much calmer. The whole idea that he's getting rid of people who he can't beat in the end is laughable considering he can't beat anyone and the more he bullies and back stabs, the more he can't beat anyone.

Probably would piss me off. But what if I, the 100 box producer, am a raging a-hole and make the work environment a miserable experience for the boss and everyone else involved? Maybe those 10 boxes/hour are not worth it for him. And as the boss he has the right to make that decision.

I just watched Colby's pre-TC video

Two things I took out of that

1. He knows what's going on, and he hasn't completely given up. He thinks his best strategy is to let the Villains self destruct
2. He has thrown some challenges this season, which doesn't necessarily mean he can win any in the future, but some of his incompetence has been purposeful.

Kos, do you think the majority of people are primarily rational? You keep insisting that Russell is so great at Survivor when, if it's true that most people will vote for the person they like the most, he might be the definition of awful. Those two thoughts just don't go together.

Why do we need to have this debate for 200 posts every week?

Kos thinks the most important part of being good at Survivor is the strategy
Other people disagree

The end.

"He types in the code, he pushes the button and it stops, the end"

I can't speak for others, but I work very hard to not be spoiled and have not been. I guess my feeling that Sandra is not awful is based on the mind control of the CBS editors. I don't think she's awesome, but I don't think she is awful either. In fact, I'm a little suspect of those who think she is awful because that seems really wrong to me. On the other side of things, I'm also suspect of those who can't appreciate Russell at all. Blaze of glory and all.

Why would Kevin have won easily when alliance-wise he and Natalie played the same game? Oh yeah...people liked him. Weird.

If Russell could only sound more neutral and negotiate voting out ppl in a business-like way like Rob C or Yul or Dan on BB8 he'd be a lock to win. But then he wouldn't be Russell Hantz!!!

Amazing how bitter people are on ponderosa. And there are ppl over there who won, made finals etc ffs. I don't think I've hated Amanda more than anyone else in Survivor's history. The only person with class over there is probably Candice.

Probst:
- The only person to cross Russell and still survive is Sandra!!!!!11
Sandra then proceeds to be invisible the whole show.
Clue is in the title imo.

Master strategist, dude. Didn't you see his big coup to get himself heads up with Ivey?

I haven't watched the scenes yet. Can you tell exactly when it was from? I'm curious to see if it was around the same time he conspired to get Danielle out, while keeping Parv. No one has bothered attempting to explain keeping Parv over Danielle. Usually there are a few ITT who are assigning some brilliant motivations to all of Russells moves. No one at the plate on this one.

If Parv starts giving him the cold shoulder following this week, and he decides to target her...I'm sure that will have been his plan all along.