He thinks he's Boston Rob, but he's playing the exact same game as he played last time. His strategy really hasn't changed (well, he thinks he's more of a leader this time around) - he's still a barely-tolerated goat who will never, ever recognize he's a barely-tolerated goat character whose name is Philip.

Exactly. This (the Philip/Dawn/Cochran/etc.) alliance is in no way a done deal. Cochran stated that its a fragile alliance with a few loose canons and members likely to waver, and the other side has two hidden immunity idols (not to mention guys who are likely to win immunity challenges). As much as I'd like to see…

I feel the college money edit is probably for a shorter "letters from home leading to an emotional decision" episode than a winner's arc. Nothing I've seen about Dawn this season suggests to me she's changed all that much. I still think she's too wishy washy to control her own fate and win. But hey - prove me wrong,…

No. No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no.

My memory is really hazy - didn't Tom win that final immunity challenge by being a complete and utter prick to Ian?

However, persona au gratin is really delicious. I eat it with the determination of a gorilla.

I think some of you are giving Dawn far too much credit. She's not sneaky - she's incapable of being sneaky. I'm sure that just like her last season, her misplaced, blind loyalty is going to screw up the plans of someone I like.

I agree that the show becomes far less interesting after the blind auditions, but I think putting partitions between the chairs would be a mistake. It's a big part of the give-and-take: how coaches try to fake each other out, read each others' expressions, watch for reactions when the chairs turn around, and even make…

Last night's episode was great - it leaned less on tragedy (I think - I may have become desensitized) and I'm starting to get a feel for the new judge combo, which I like a lot. I understand the desire for reality show producers to add dickish people to shows for the drama of it all, but I think its more pleasurable…

It's natural to think that, but Cee-lo had the worst record for song choices out of the four, I think. Sometimes the left-fieldiness would work, but more often than not, it didn't.

What I want to know is how long the View Master movie is going to languish in pre-pre-development. THEY PROMISED ME A VIEW MASTER MOVIE, DAMMIT!

Oh yeah, Sugar. I remember Sugar. I have no idea if that was Gabon.

My overall feeling of Community this season is that it's being written from a place of fear. Instead of asking "How can we make the show awesome?" the writers are wondering "How can we not fuck this up?" Hence the mediocrity - no risk taking.

To me, it felt more like an extra had gone rogue. Like, "I'm going to sneak into this shot and look right into the camera, AND YOU CANNOT STOP ME OR USE AN ALTERNATE TAKE. BWAHAHAHA!"

Also: his clothes in the pilot. Gadzooks!

This is why it's not necessarily bad to be on a tribe that loses all the time. If you manage to survive all the TCs and get to a merge, then you can end up as a swing vote in a tribe that has never booted anyone due to the winning streak, and therefore has a lot of unresolved bitterness and tension.

In fairness to Cochran, I think his meek awkwardness came mostly from the fact that his tribe relentlessly bullied him. And the one time he stood up for himself and voted against the tribe, they went absolutely ballistic.

I am amused by how Philip talks about the lessons he's learned from Boston Rob while failing to see that the exact. Same. Thing. is happening to him this season. The only difference is that this time around, his goat ass is owned by a collective rather than one person.

Didn't Laura warn Gota of a potential tribe mix-up minutes before she was booted?

I think your memory lapse when it comes to Corrine is more of a testament to Gabon as a season than Corrine as a character.