He may not be seen as the mastermind, but he still was caught backstabbing his tribe. Between that and his challenge ability, he has enlarged the target on his back. Like @avclub-d9c9a056f6052ffbfa3526be3478d45e:disqus says, there was no reason to move yet anyway. Not only was Reynold the more obvious challenge…

@avclub-f56766ef62b1d6867e6ace4bfc82c82e:disqus I don't agree that Erik can keep flip-flopping back and forth. Remember, as far as Malcom's team goes, he just stabbed them in the back this week. Also, they will don't know it was Dawn that spilled the beans. For all they know, it was Erik.

On the logic behind Brenda and Erik voting with the Favorites, I think your Malcolm crush is blinding you to the obvious. They would be at the bottom of the Malcolm's alliance too, and it is usually worse to jump ship and be at the bottom of a new alliance than to be at the bottom of an alliance you already belong to.…

Malcolm is playing a pretty weak game so far, outside of challenges. He is his own downfall. He built an alliance of Reynold, Eddie, Corrine and Michael, all of whom had desperate loser stink on them. Well, maybe not Eddie, as he might be to dumb to realize. Still, you can't surround yourself with losers and not…

Clearly she meant to say she wasn't taking applications for new hetero friends. Getting a new gay seemed to be the centerpiece of her strategy.

Speaking of Phillip, I began to groan when he went to Sherri to get her vote. She was the easiest vote to get in this scenario, and he tries his tough guy act and makes her feel reluctant to accept a chance to save her skin. Tonight he really showed how he can be a serious liability for an alliance.

I didn't know that. What has he said to indicate he is ready this?

I'm built like Cochran (I'm not bragging. It's just the truth), and I would easily scarf down for quarter pounders in a sitting when I in my early twenties. We super skinny guys have metabolisms like a furnace.

I though Fran got bitten by going to Andrea. She was the one that ran to Phillip.

Cochran seems to have an iron-clad bullshit detector. I don't think he will buy his story if he denies it. Dawn has an interest in believing he betrayed them too, as she was the one that spread the story.

Yeah, you really nailed the reason her plan failed @avclub-15b6f28363206ef318d53ecd59b53dfb:disqus . She needed to make Dawn feel special to make her flip, but instead Corrine made it clear that she was scraping the bottom of the barrel for one more vote and she figured Dawn was an easy mark.

I think tonight was the first time we saw him sweat. I was pleased to see he held it together though. He's not the same guy who was on the show last time.

I took at her regretting not following him. She did scare me by saying that her mistake was not telling anyone. That wasn't her mistake at all. It was on being afraid to make a move and going down with the losers.

Remember what a self-righteous prick he was in the last episode of the previous season? He was the one that broke of his alliance with Denise, when she was going to stick by him. Then we she scrambled to successfully save herself, he acted like he was the world's greatest victim. When he was tearing into Denise, I was…

My best friend in high school taught for the local state college and he got free tuition. I live in the U.S., so it isn't just Canada. Maybe she just teaches at a really shitty school and doesn't want her kids going there.

While I enjoyed the blindside tonight, I was really glad to see that we aren't just going to see Team Bro go down in flames after tonight. It looks like they are still in the game.

Yeah. Malcolm apparently pretends he is Boston Rob when he lies in bed too.

I'd be with you if the swap had been a schoolyard pick, but it was a random shuffle. Anyway, I don't think anyone was upset about the merge. It only seemed to open up opportunities for everybody. Granted, some used those opportunities better than others.

Okay, had the timing off. Still,  I am confused. Wouldn't the split have helped her alliance? I thought she didn't want it because Phillip did.

Erik has been pretty clear on his dislike of Phillip in earlier eps. I think it would have been easy to get him on board for that. Still, I don't see how removing Phillip actually would have moved anyone's strategy forward.