Just a few comments off the top of my head before I slog through all the posts I've missed. Warning: Don't forget that my comments which follow are naturally my opinion which is naturally based on my perception of the presentation that CBS the editors shared with during last night's episode. If you get your panties in a wad about my bitchy, know-it-all tone, at least you've been warned.
Marty on Jill: "Jill was an incredible player, a great contender, a lover of the game, and there's people left who I think have no right to be in this game." Whether based on friendship or not, I think people get points from player X for simply chosing to align with/or even just sharing information with player X. I don't know if it's the nature of the game, or the level of information players have, but I think it is really hard to remain objective about who is playing well while you are actually in the fray.
Does Naonka/Detta Walker have a writer? Could this train wreck be any better if it was scripted? And were there really people who couldn't understand why she was drawing dead from a game play standpoint? Chick is like a mine field--I thought about saying time bomb, but those usually go off and then are done--Naonka is more the gift that keeps on giving. Dare I say this girl needs a phsychiatrist?
I loved the scene where everyone in her inner circle is standing around saying that they have to protect Nay. But Alina is getting the ax for 'being a part of' Naonka's crime. Is Naonka the diabolical super genius? I mean, with a few random acts of theft, she has not only solidified her position with the movers and shakers to want to take her to end game, but she intensified the target on a former enemy, AND curried favor with that enemy (and first member of the jury) by sharing information with her. Is she following George Costanza's "do the opposite" strategy?
On that note: Jane is putting all her cards on the table. Telling how she preped for the game by getting in shape. Telling her life story. Catching the fish. Staying in the challenge even after she had won. Being overly focused on Marty. ...Not that she's wrong. He's a threat, but that's not why she is focused on him. And I think she just gives away too much information about her motives by being so upfront about not liking Marty.
Marty is 100% correct about Jane. I disagree with he and Jane over this battle they are having. I just don't think it is a good idea to be this focused on a single opponent for obvious personal reasons. But I'd give the Survivor advantage to Marty on this round. Not that he improved his position over Jane so much that he hurt her position more than she hurt his...which seems to be their primary goal at the moment. Sure she beat him in the IIC--it didn't matter, they weren't competing against each other. She did no real damage to him, but his speech at TC was probably devastating to her.
Of course, maybe Marty is just smarter than me, and he's smoke screening. I thought Alina was prudently attempting to direct attention to the alternate person on the block in Marty, but maybe it was exactly her prudence that did her in. Perhaps the Survivors were like, hmmm, Alina is making some sense and Marty is trying to direct attention to someone we can't even vote for on this round (hidden genius?) so he still seems like a harmless/powerless (and distracted) loon. Alina has to go. Again, I'm not sure it was the correct decision. Vote off the isolated misfit who can't muster enough support for herself even when there is some strong opposition to her opponent. Yeah, she tried to scramble and made some good points, but she didn't get far with it.
Should Holly call out Naonka the minute she sees her taking off with the flour? Does the game change if she does?
I thought it was a mistake for Dan to take the Chase info right to Marty saying that Chase was going to blindside Marty--which wasn't even what he said. All Dan needs to do is lay low and continue to be non-threatening. If this gets back to Chase, he might lose his information pipeline. Also, by using the term blindside he lit a fire under Marty. Marty did more damage to himself than Jane ever could by pushing people so hard about whether he was being voted out.
Fabio, "It should be Naonka first." "I would piss a lot of people off if I would do that." How does he think he is ever going to get Naonka out if not by alligning with some of these people who are not Brenda, Sash, Chase, and Invisible Kelly? If you want something to happen, and it seems like it should happen, but you can't make it happen, don't you give some thought to where the primary resistance is coming from and draw some conclusions about where you and others stand in the game? Nevermind, I'm talking about Fabio here.
Benry seems like an idiot. Where does he think he stands in the super alliance? By my estimation he's not far from the '100% Grade A dirt squirrel'--whatever that is. I think he and Fabio need Marty to save them, but Marty is so preoccupied with Jane, I don't see how it happens.