I'm all but convinced that Phillip was hired by the producers to purposefully "lose" the game in a way that would help Rob win.

It's all due to Great Caesar's Ghost.

Should I ever go wading through shit, rest assured, it will be in a Superman costume.

Yup on all counts. Though as much as I like Lionel, I gave up on him as a character when he was killed, came back, became good, died again . . . or something like that. As for the election being in 2018, by that point, I just thought they were distancing themselves from reality as far as possible, as if that might…

You said what I was trying to say below just a little better. This show didn't have a clear vision of what it wanted to be, or what story it wanted to tell, which explains how it wound up running for so long. I had actually forgotten about Bad-Acting-Action Lana, and I was so stunned by the awful plotting surrounding…

C+?
That's being generous. Way too much crammed into that double episode; a ton of exposition ("Don't you know that ring would take away my powers forever?!"), terribly choreographed action sequences (only the Clark/Oliver scene was mildly entertaining), a fizzling and flimsy big bad (really? Darkseid . . . wrapped up…

Really Surprised . . .
Not at the show, which has always been twisting and turning around, but by the loyal commentators here. Of course Damon will die, though I like the suggestion that the werewolf bite is fatal only to the human side. After all, they did just introduce a magical elixir that brings *supernatural*…

Talk About Burns!
The Outsourced notice was just fine, but how about the devil's revelation that the people in hell have TV, but only NBC?

Yeah, I knew I'd seen it somewhere before. Funnier on South Park, and they took it further, but yeah, SNL was there, if not first, then before South Park. (And how often can you say that about SNL?)

Yeah . . . such a shame that you can only get all of the episodes they've ever aired . . . for free . . . online . . . from them. But hey, sure, knock their actual on-air distribution for being lax.

What's that you say?
The cuttlefish with asparagus? Are you sure? Not the vanilla paste? Okay, then. If that's what you want. Coming right up.

::sings:: Please . . . drive . . . faa-aaa-ster!

I dunno if Rob has to worry about Grant. He could more or less take *anybody* to the finals with him, and he'd still win. The real issue for him is going to be whether or not he can trust anybody to take *him* to the finals — you can boil this any way you like, but unless Rob wins the final challenge, it's doubtful…

Sheesh…
I'm not sure exactly what the rules are, but the division between the two merged tribes does seem a little odd at this point. Is the food normally kept separate? Also, if we're saying that it's OK for a person to steal Phillip's shorts simply because they don't like him, then aren't we also excusing, say,…

I'm fairly sure that Grant's strategy is to win every immunity challenge from here on out, just as his strategy thus far has been to hang around the one dude with a bigger target on his back than him. He doesn't need to talk about his strategy; his whole point is that he *doesn't*.

Personally, I've always thought that a good strategy on the show would be to be that irritating guy, somewhat guaranteeing yourself a final spot, and to then pitch this to the jury: Unhappy that I was kept around when you were voted off? Then vote for me to win, and ensure that no future Survivor players assume that…

I thought the concept of doing three at once, aside from saving the producers the trouble of designing another challenge and making up for the imbalance that RI has created (in terms of number of people still on the show at this point) was that it keeps the pressure on high. First prize is, you stay. Second prize is,…

Unless the second episode involves a flash mob beating Howie Mandel to death, I'm not interested. (Or, to be PG, they could just all start touching him. That'd work, too.)

Agreed. It's pure peer pressure: it's meeting a vulnerable person on a blind date, whipping out the ol' Ted Mosby charm (i.e., blurt out "I love you"), then, in front of a huge crowd (and elaborate expense), whipping out the ring . . . then whipping out the priest to marry the two of you . . . then whipping out maybe…

But, Wait . . .
Has nobody commented yet on the deus ex portal? I mean, we knew it was out there (though Palmer-lite seems to have forgotten that it was used to save his life from an assassination his own people organized), but if it's able to "lock on" to moving targets, or shake apart the Washington Monument, why…