Man. Cole so attractive. And ruins it by being so dumb. Sigh.

Chrissy with the nice play of throwing the 'she wants and all girls alliance' out there.

Is it a good idea to eat all that sugar after starving for a few days?

Do we think Ryan and Devon will be reunited in the future?

i got chrissy and ryan going all the way, chrissy will definitely reconnect with ben assuming they make the merge, same with ryan and devon. I really like both of their spots right now.

Cole is LOL dumb. Its not even cringe worthy, its legit funny.

why didnt ryan just tell ali that everyones on board for voting out roark and that he would prefer that?

blindside your own best or second best ally yay!

lol_roark, she really did sound dumb.

Showrunners trying to sell us that miss ghost suddenly might eliminate the player with the most winning edit so far.

Season is already a near lock that ryan or chrissy wins

Ali...yummmm.

Does anyone know what's happening on Survivor in February...cast wise or something? They can't have 2 bad seasons back to back.

nvm..I just googled it.

I suspect there's some sort of conflict between them that hasn't been shown that is irresolvable. Ryan mentioned something about it - that the two of them would never work together.

That said, I think he made a mistake. If his choices to vote out were ally Chrissy or neutral Roark, by choosing Roark he ensures Ali will be upset. If he votes out Chrissy, Chrissy will be upset, but she'll also be out of the game pre-jury so who cares?

I'm sticking with Ben, since he was my pre-season pick. I definitely think he, Chrissy and Ryan are top 3 in some order. I'd be shocked if anyone else won at this point

I must give Roark credit. She went hard in the paint at her only tribal. If she made a run, I think there is an inkling of an entertaining character there.

Will this affect Survivor tonight?

so, is this season any good so far? stopped watching after losing survivor survivor heh

No.
Survivor has run it's course imo.

Dammit Ali was beautiful and seemed like a decent player early on too. Was the right move though.

Cole is a complete sociopath

Am I missing something, or was the immunity challenge as easy has giving all the letters to one player and having the other three team members pull back as tightly as they can, and then that player with the letters goes back and forth only needing to touch the rope but not pull? If so, talk about a design flaw.

I think each spoke of the wheel had specific letters and they had to be placed by the people on those spokes.

It sure didn't seem that way once the winning team "figured it out". I could be wrong but I thought only two of the four had to place letters. Either way, if the letter placer essentially had to do nothing relating to the rope - that is, there was no risk while they were placing the letter, then it sure took away from the difficulty of the challenge.

The merge makes immunity better anyways - team immunity never quite has the same tension to it.

What - if any - rules are there on whether a new immunity idol is hidden post-merge? Do they always introduce one no matter what, or must a certain number of pre-merge idols have to have been played, or not found, or gone home in the pocket(s) of people who didn't use them?

Suppose someone plays an idol before a post-merge idol is found. Would that make them hide a second post-merge idol?

What if the post-merge idol is found and either played or otherwise removed from the game, then do they replace it?

I'm usually bored by most of the challenges, but I thought that was one of the more exciting ones. Don't know if it was due to design or editing though.

Sucks that Ali is out.

there are definitely no official rules and Survivor can do whatever they want. typically whenever an idol is played, a new one is introduced. I would guess the same is true of someone getting voted off with an idol - basically so that a certain amount of idols are always in play.

I would assume the post-merge one is in a different location. It was kind of an unfair advantage to have these 3 all in the same spots, so that the healers got them all. I guess you could argue that’s the fault of hustlers/healers and they should’ve found it on their own tribe before swapping. They did this same thing last season when Tai found multiple so they were obviously aware that someone could easily get 2. I guess they don’t mind though

I mean, it was pretty crazy/unlikely that all 3 tribes would finish their blocks and be ‘racing’ to the finish while having to move carefully enough to not topple it. That is a pretty intriguing situation. I did like the design though; they’ve done this in individual immunities but not as a team before. I thought it was a good shift from other challenges which are pretty repetitive. This was all communication and balance.

I would like to see some more strategical challenges though. They used to have some of those every once in a while, like where it’s a giant version of some game they play each other. Or they used to do the one where Jeff reads a story and they race to answer questions about it. Now it seems like everything is some combination of a race, carrying things, untying knots, and either throwing balls at or in something, or solving a puzzle, to end it. Basically the format is always the same, but they used to vary more between types of challenges between physical with strength, speed, or balance, mental with strategy or memory, and some other creative types. Idk how hard it would be for Survivor to just crowdsource challenge ideas and pick some new good ones that are doable

It looked to me like once they figured it out, it didn't matter who was placing the letter. The idea was for the three non-placers to find a way to hold the platform level without the fourth person.

Hypothesis: Whoever plays the best post-merge is going to win this season.

I don't find Ryan likable at all. He's no Cochran

Probably being a nit but do the guys need to wear underwear all the time? It's gross and I've seen enough of their junk flopping around. Just wear swim trunks or shorts.

Also this cast is a dud, rooting for Jersey mom I guess just because she was probably hot in her day.

Whoever plays the best will go out 4th making fire.