I always wanted to see a comedy bit where someone was clapping to keep a fairy alive and the fairy inadvertently flew between the clapping hands.

That would have required one of them actually winning an immunity. Nothing to fear here.

When Carolyn got up to play it, I so wanted Mike to lean over to Dan and whisper "I told you I had the power to save you." Of course, he would have had no way of knowing that she had the idol but it would have been an awesome dick move to plant that in his head seconds before he was voted out.

I'm still standing by my increasingly unlikely theory that the Mike winner edit is just a hype job for his triumphant return in Second Chances.

Sierra could only beat Will at this point. She's like an even more worthless version of Woo.

The best part of that was when Mike came up on them so stealthily that he actually scared the shit out of Sierra.

Hey editors, forget Mike and Dan at the maze, give us more shots of Rodney swinging the grappling hook.

Surprised nothing was made of Sierra suggesting "fixin'" as a possiblity only to be immediately shut down.

Man, I was so hoping that Dan’s beard would light up when he was trying to start that fire. I’m a little bummed about him leaving though, I totally wanted to see him make it to the end just to watch the jury rip his balls off.

Don't bet on it. The promos for next week reek of misdirection and the program listings simply read "Another castaway is voted out.", that's Survivor Talk for "The inevitable and little else of note happens.". The fact that they're putting an All-Star season they were planning for next year on in the Fall and shelving…

I dunno, "Next week the alliance crumbles!" seems like a dead giveaway that the alliance stays strong and Mike is jury bound.

Just voted. A little tougher than I thought. Kind of sucks that you have to use all twenty votes. Of the thirty-two there were only ten I was excited to vote for (4women/6men) and the rest I had to rationalize as "eh, shouldn't be too bad." Would much rather be able to use the votes we don't want to cast to vote…

Jeff Varner got screwed over by his tribe's own stupidity. The tribes merged with even numbers and Jeff was voted out in a 5-5 tie/4-4revote. Tie-break rules at the time were that the tied player with the most previous votes would be the one eliminated. One of his tribe (I'm thinking Kimmi) let it slip that Jeff had…

I'm really hoping against Jim Rice making it. He's one of these knuckleheads that's infatuated with the drama of the game. "Oh, I can't wait to get out there and backstab and blindside and make Big Moves!". It never occurs to him that good players do those things when necessary, not for sport (Tony V notwithstanding).

"Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey"?

No one was "afraid" of Rob in All-Stars, he was dismissed as a twerp that couldn't pull his own weight.

I'm curious to see how Shane might do. His first go-around he was a chain smoker and thought that Survivor would be a great way to quit cold turkey. Unfortunately, it just wound up f-ing his head and his system up in a big way. It wasn't until he got back that a doctor informed him that staying heavily hydrated is the…

Good players vs. good tv? How do you plan on voting? I'm leaning strongly toward players.

I thought for sure Dan was a goner. The way he blamed Shirin's abuse and mistreatment on "karma" seemed to fit perfectly with a "clueless yet belligerent jagoff makes himself look even stupider before being voted out" edit.

I kept thinking about this season in respect to Cagayan, both had “Holy shit! This is going to be the best Survivor in years!” starts only to have them fizzle at the merge. The main difference for me is that at this point in Cagayan, we were left mostly with people I hated (Tony, Kass) or that I had little regard for…