Basic human decency is being uncomfortable with the way the group is laughing at her — even if she deserves it — and protesting, or at least leaving the pitchfork-wielding mob.

It reminds me of Kim handling Kat — not that Kat is unstable the way Abi is, but I can just see Kim handling Abi like a crazy-whisperer.

I agree, but I also know if I were on Survivor and went home because Abi picked me as her imaginary nemesis, I'd be so pissed. (Actually, this time, Abi's imaginary fight with her imaginary nemesis is sending other people home, which is even worse!)

The one thing I will say in Abi's favor (not as a Survivor contestant, necessarily, but as a human being) is that, unless I'm forgetting something from her season, she is completely incapable of duplicity. She says whatever she is feeling, and she doesn't lie. She reminds me of Cordelia in the episode in which Buffy…

At the very least, it was an instance — or edited to look like an instance — of someone not reading the room (camp) right.

Abi is killing me. On the one hand, I get that she's good TV; I get that she's a wild card who can prompt fascinating dynamics by simultaneously being unpredictable as fuck and a goat. But I can't handle her introduce-drama-then-play-the-victim dynamic, especially when it's rewarded with validation from the other…

"And now you're going to die, wearing that stupid little hat."

No. I am the least physically competent person in the world, and I also lack all common sense, and even I know he needed to step on that fucking log if he was going to have any shot at breaking it up with that axe. That was a man devoted to looking useless, for some reason.

Vytas: "I know someone from Hong Kong, and she looks just like you." Oh, Vytas. No. Bad Vytas!

Yeah, Joe is pretty, but the clincher is that he seems so damned nice.

He addressed her as "Kelley Wentworth" when they first arrived. I don't know if he stuck with that or not, though.

I don't think that's totally fair. Keith acknowledged that Joe worked hard setting up the camp, starting the fire, etc. He just doesn't get the yoga thing.

The We Hate Movies podcast discussing Cliffhanger is rather great. I haven't seen the movie since I was young either, but the podcast managed to make me remember it fondly and want to see it again even as they mocked it.

Beck Weathers' fate is what has stuck with me the most from reading Into Thin Air years ago. If memory serves, everyone assumed he was dead, then he sort of wandered into camp frozen, and they put him in a tent, assuming he'd die in the night, and his tent collapsed and he froze some more, but he was STILL ALIVE and…

I think the makers of Day of the Animals might want to have a chat with SyFy.

Even in the Japanese version they celebrated Chie Tanabe, who for a time at least was the only woman to complete stage 1 of the competition. The Japanese version didn't include the earlier city qualifying and final rounds (just what in the American version is the "Vegas finals"), so there are fewer "milestones" to…

Yeah, her fall in Vegas was a straight-up technical error on her part (note: I probably could not climb the steps to get to the starting line, so no judgment here); she missed the trampoline. But the obstacle on which she fell in the city qualifier was pretty much impossible for someone of her size. She was never…

I had one of those on my roster last semester: Obsesshon. At first glance, it was kind of pretty and vaguely Indian-looking, but then I realized it was just a ridiculous way to spell "obsession." I generally don't buy into the "let's make fun of this stupid newfangled name" thing because all our names were made up at…

The worst one for me is "I see you, [X contestant]." Of COURSE you see him! You're watching him run the course and narrating his progress!

Hell, golf gives money for making the cut. By that rationale, ANW should pay out to anyone who makes it through the city finals.