I'm all for the knee socks. Cute AND practical.

I stand by my zero percent lockdown on Tony (which is good, because there are no take backs), but I could see him making a long run, being a feature character, and being brought back for a future run.

I'm guessing what's happened is that tribes have thrown challenges weren't actually shown discussing the plan to throw challenges. The show really doesn't want to endorse the behaviour.

If you didn't want to put a number to the list and instead just went with "Shows NBC should reboot before Heroes", you probably could've made it really easy on yourself and just wrote "All of them".

Thought I just had: under rule three, Terry Deitz would've gotten a bunch of points for holding on to his idol, even though his best hope in winning would've come from playing it earlier to try and alter the game. Playing it would've only given him the points once, while doing nothing gives him points for weeks.

Let's go with 2, but hold off 3. No need to introduce too many new scores.

My basic stance on the male "beauties" this season is thus: none of them are so attractive as to be undeniably so by dudes like us.

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If Kat hasn't played the most games of beer pong in the history of Survivor candidates, she's gotta be in the top five.

Obviously, I'm in for #1. We should do something for #2, since making the jury is a big deal for players in the game, so we can join in on the excitement (we can decide if it should be 2 or 3). I don't think I'm all that pumped for #3. We want to see idols played, not held.

I am typically thought of as the brawny one around here.

Okay, that Clooney pick is absolutely crazy. I'll allow that the series was able to withstand his departure and still remain good (and popular), but it in no way got "better". And the write-up doesn't try to argue otherwise.
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The lady (lady?) herself called it a booty shake. I shall honour her words.

To answer my own question, I'd say Kat is probably the quintessential lady-bro, but I might challenge anyone trying to put her on for a third time.

Especially in the early stages when the beefy types are growing accustomed to the starvation.

Working from stereotypes, I think the Beauty tribe will become friends instantly, and thus have the most cohesiveness (barring any chaos from Bryce), but may not put in enough work at camp to have a solid foundation. Pretty people tend to clique up really easily both on this show and in life (then within those…

Alright, I'm going all in on my Sarah and Tony will team up and do well prediction then. Tony Vlachos for me, Brice Johnston for Ms Woozah.

It'd be tough to cast three lady-bros.
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Yeah, him and his goofball brother who came for the family visit (and was apparently completely drunk at the time).

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