And how about the slow-motion replay? Are you having a laugh? Yeah, mate. Yeah, I am.

I wish they'd kept the shared beach intact, but I'm in favor of shaking up tribes: it forces players to not make their alliances *quite* so obvious. For instance, if Colton *hadn't* gotten Bill out last week, and then had wound up on a new tribe with him, he might be in hot water. Also, if you're sharing a beach and…

Haysoos, I think last season they had an FF that nobody was able to complete (the one where you had to consume an entire meal before your tram car finished the route it was on), and several teams attempted it, so it's not an obvious conclusion that if one team is there, you shouldn't try it, nor even that if one team…

Agreed with this theory; my guess is that Illythia manages to talk her way out of immediate execution by pointing out that she's actually carrying Spartacus's kid.

Exactly. Doesn't mean he won't lose a few limbs in the process, though.

What's been interesting to me this season is how poorly Lucretia has read everyone else. Whereas she was a great schemer in Season 1, perhaps she *has* gone a little mad, what with having a blade run through her unborn baby…. With the exception of trusting Illythia with her plan to kill Glaber, she's been mistaken on…

I think this was something I was questioning the whole time: Gannicus is a God of the Arena. You want to hire him to kill Spartacus. You know he's a sick former gladiator, and so to prevent him from leaving the city . . . you have *one* dude follow him around. As if he couldn't kill that one dude. (And, as we see, a…

Agreed, but I'm good with where they've written Glaber.

It's actually even better than one challenge as opposed to two — you don't have to find any of the other clues, either, like visiting the Tin Lizzy. I'm not saying that the FF will always be easy, or that there isn't an inherent risk in doing it, especially if you know another team is attempting it, but when you've…

I was surprised that more than one team didn't try for the FastForward, especially knowing that another team was ~1.5 hours behind them. Go to the FF, see if it's been completed, put pressure on the other team if they haven't (and maybe beat them), and then only head back to the Road Block if you lose the FF or don't…

Or maybe it was a misdirect; David knows Caitlin is getting married and quitting — he wants to know what Alicia said to her to convince her that that was a good idea, and to imply (as Diane says later) that she'd better mentor up and convince her to stay.

This was a painful episode of television to watch. I thought the whole point of keeping Colton around, nay, elevating him to a position of power was that he'd be able to pull girls over to the men's alliance after the merge. With numbers like that, it wouldn't matter if Bill were to flip, especially since with him…

This is exactly what I thought every time I saw him.

Penny can!

Speaking of invented traditions, what about "Cougar Town"? They do pretty well, too.

I disagree. Jeff's taken an active role in trying to make each season as competitive and strategic as it can be, hoping to call people out on stupid shit, catch them in their lies, and expose things to the entire tribe — so that everybody *has* to play the game, not just sit back and revel in the easy winning of it.…

I'm also vague on the idea of what sort of monetary (or other) credit he thinks he's entitled to for half-suggesting they do Marilyn: The Musical. He's not contributing any music, lyrics, or book ideas, nor even structural input; if it were that easy to claim credit, I could just make a monster blogpost right now…

I mean, it's unlikely that anybody would stage a straight-up revue of Bruno Mars songs, but yeah, straight-up ludicrous for La Mama to do it.

I'm going to keep agreeing with everyone who mentions this, because that line really pissed me off. I mentioned NYTW above (since that's across the street), but yeah, Second Stage, Vineyard, Roundabout Underground — at least those places could afford to license Bruno Mars's music, and might be willing to gamble on an…

Re: LaMama; no (at least not without being a fire hazard). That was bugging me, too! And as IPCR points out, it's not the type of show that would ever run there — I'd much more expect it to be across the street at NYTW, and even then, only if it had a book backing it up (i.e., not merely a revue). Also, I imagine the…