Paul is dead. Sincerely, Billy Shears

Yep. Gotta be Leonard, with Pierce reflecting on his own mortality as a result.

And knowing is half the battle.

They've had subjective judgment challenges a couple of times. I remember during the Fiji season they had them learn a local dance and the tribes were judged on their performance by the locals. They even acknowledged "So You Think You Can Dance?" in the title of the episode if memory serves.

I remember when he actually called into a NYC radio show that was mocking his alphabet strategy to try and defend it as shrewd, because all of the Pagongs were at the beginning of the alphabet whereas all of the Tagis were at the end.

There are no stakes. The Sixers are only "the enemy" insofar as they have been presented as such. There's no sense of what "resources" these alleged powers back in the 22nd century are aiming to get their hands on. Jim and Elizabeth are utterly wooden, the "character" parts are only interesting in that they're not…

I think that the Albert/Sophie reasoning there was that because Edna isn't one of the "five", it wouldn't count as a real betrayal.

What I want to know is if they protest the culling of introduced species: like the cats that have hunted New Zealand flightless birds to extinction, or the rabbits that have driven half the marsupials (not to mention the native plants) in Australia to the brink.

Seriously. And they were eating rats- not indigenous wildlife, but an introduced species that probably had a huge negative effect on Pulau Tiga's actual indigenous wildlife. In a sense, they were probably helping out the island's ecosystem in the long run.

That's him. He also came back for All Stars, in season 8.

What's the surprise?

Maybe- I'll tell you this much: two of the three teams who will be in the final episode are Ernie & Cindy and the Dudez.

Mrs. Peacock was a MAN?!?

The Komodo is like an 80s high school bully. Show that you're not afraid and it loses all its power.

I don't find her all that bad. Remember Flo from TAR3? Now SHE was the gold standard of obnoxious.

Didn't say that they're heroes (I'd have to be pretty hard up for heroes to look for them on a reality show)- I said that they're getting the hero edit- subtle mixture of amount of screen-time given since the beginning (usually out of proportion to their placement in the early rankings), sympathetic portrayal of…

A country where it's usually portrayed as a negative character trait in reality television, particularly when it involves contestants being uncomfortable with "idolatry" because they're asked to respect/acknowledge non-Christian faiths as part of the competition.

As much as I love Fables, a network television version wouldn't have done justice to it- you'd need at least an AMC/FX level of willingness to depict violence/adult themes/sex, preferably an HBO level.

Maybe the show will try to address this at some point- it would make sense for there to be the illusion of time progressing, while in reality it just keeps looping back and repeating the same week or month or what have you. But that still wouldn't account for Henry's growth, or explain where these other kids came from…

The cosmology of this show makes my head hurt. So time was frozen until Emma showed up, right? The adult characters didn't age so, for example, "Cinderella" was pregnant ever since they made their transition to the real world. OK. Fine. But at the same time, Henry has been in the same town aging from an infant to a 10…