I was actually introduced to my favorite movie of all-time in school. My English teacher showed us John Boorman's Excalibur in 10th grade while we were reading Le Morte D'Arthur. I'm not sure I've fallen in love with a movie quite so fast before or since, and my teacher didn't edit a thing. She let us see it all, from…

Jeff, is that you?

"You rack disciprine!"

"Hey hey let's go kenka suru. Taisetsu no mono protect my balls! Boku ga warui so let's fighting… Let's fighting love!"

I was just waiting for the Red Wedding parody. I guess maybe next week? Either way, I adored this episode. My favorite South Park episodes tend to be the ones where the kids are just being kids, and the story is focused on an over-dramatized version of a childish issue (I love "The List" for just that reason).

I'm still sore about how RI takes away the critical, pecking order-revealing reward challenges. Redemption Island came as close as it ever has to justifying its existence in the pre-merge of this season, but I sincerely doubt it'll give us anything that will change the game in the post-merge, since I just can't…

Don't know if it was brought up in any of last week's threads, but I just read that B.B. Andersen of Survivor: Borneo passed away. I'm both surprised and glad that there have been so few Survivor deaths, given the amount of older people who've played the game (EDIT: not that older citizens are the only ones capable of…

I feel like I'm a coach on The Voice and I'm slowly losing every one of my acts because America can't get its shit together and vote.

If Colton hadn't decided to quit, I would have been all for pushing him into the fire at Redemption to force his evacuation.

"YOU GUYS!" :(

You're right. It's strange how quickly all the fight went out of her the morning after Aras was blindsided. She just started talking with Katie about how best to prepare for her future in the game, assuming that the writing was on the wall and nothing whatsoever could be done to stop it. But Tina should really have…

I thought that was a misdirect. Although that was perhaps my worst season, predictions-wise. I just assumed that everything the editors showed us that season was a misdirect. Even when Denise won, I still thought Probst was going to pull another, secret handful votes out of his pocket.

I initially assumed they HAD to know, since the jury still reads their vote to the camera, and they have to see that footage while editing the finale. But I'm wondering if they actually start putting episodes together before the finale is even shot.

The reason I assume they don't know is because of all the reports in the early seasons of people leaking who won, even after they implemented the "reading the votes live at the reunion" after season one. I distinctly remember reading online that Ethan had won pretty early into Survivor: Africa, although to be fair, I…

That's always been my problem with anointing returning players as all-time great players. Sure, Boston Rob played an immaculate game in the first Redemption Island, but he had four chances to perfect his game. And it only happened for him when producers reverse-engineered a season for him to win.

I'm really surprised the newbies didn't think of ditching the returnees once it became apparent that nearly every immunity challenge was a challenge that one of the returnees had done before. So you'd think they'd try to neutralize the inherent advantage the returnees have by knocking them off.

Maybe Katie's youth makes her more of a challenge threat? I mean, if that was the concern, she ended up proving them right by winning immunity, although I'm not sure anyone would have expected her to, going in.

"There's no more trustworthy ally you could have than me!"

I don't think her edit has been any less substantial than Natalie White's. Granted, Natalie had the big John move to her credit by this point in Samoa, and Ciera has yet to have a defining moment (whether strategic, competitive, or even just in camp life). But from the previews, it looks like she's about to get a lot…

It really makes me wonder if perhaps the lead editor is allowed access to the final jury votes. Because it would be weird to give someone an afterthought, third-place edit without actually being 100% certain they didn't somehow stumble into the million dollars, or pull a Chase Rice (Nicaragua) and nearly upset the…