All of Sylvester's problems would be solved by turning her intelligence down to zero and making her a vegetable, and then both of them telling Theresa's department what happened (leaving out the robo-prostitution part). Her blackmail and death threats were completely toothless because of that, and he would have known…

In this episode they showed other naked hosts walking around with techs like Maeve was doing, so that seems like it's a normal thing around the office. Probably just how they get the hosts from one place to another.

The biggest reason I can never buy the "two timelines" theory, and think it would ruin the show:

She's vulnerable in the sense that they could always just go back into her "stats" page, turn her intelligence down to zero, and make her a drooling vegetable. As they could have done the first time she had them change her stats. Or if they couldn't do that for some reason, waiting until she's back in the park and…

She and Theresa had the "blood sacrifice" conversation in the same room as a host - the gunslinger-turned-sexbot that Charlotte (thought) she had turned off.

Obviously it's just a theory, but it does seem to be the only way to explain the body shop guys' decision in a way that makes any kind of sense.

"Similarly, why have either of the random body shop schlubs be a robot? What would Ford want out of that? Doesn't make sense."

"2) Maeve wants to escape the park. Jolly good. But what happens once
she's out in the real world? She'd have no birth certificate, no Social
Security number, and no credentials; she'd therfore be unemployable, and
would have to survive by stealing or — wait for it — by being a
prostitute. And when she inevitably…

Outmaneuvered. .

I'm not an expert on the history of the show, but every cop that has been on it lately says that cops in earlier seasons never fared well.

"Joe and Malcolms challenge threatiness was based on actually winning individual challenges something Micheala had not done at all."

Eh, if it happens later in the game, Michaela seems like she knows the game well enough to understand it and get over it by the time they get to the vote.

I mean…… dude looks like a cop, sounds like a cop, acts like a cop, and his fake backstory sounds totally made up.. "Yeah, I'm a funeral directah. Like, caskets and talking to the family and stuff."

I mean, I don't doubt that racial dynamics can often play a role in Survivor…. I'm just doubting the idea that any of these boots this season had much of a racial component.

"Certainly Hannah is upset, but I haven't seen any ability from her to be decisive and woo people."

Mari - Was outside the majority alliance, painted herself as the biggest target of the 4 people outside of the majority alliance by constantly talking about strategy on the first few days of the game. Easy decision for the majority alliance.

I mean, there's always other avenues to take, that's the game they're playin…. but other than this week with voting Michaela out one or two tribals too early, I'd say basically all those votes were easily the correct moves under the circumstances.

Yeah, even before it became clear that she was going to get voted out, I was ready to comment here along the lines of " I highly doubt she'd make it past the first post-merge vote," (or, I should say, the first vote where she didn't have the immunity idol.)

Copying what I said in another reply….. it's not like there weren't very good, normal reasons for basically all those votes that would have applied to any of the white male contestants if they did the same things.

I mean, basically all of those had extremely good reasons to be voted out.