I will read more regularly then!

The "it's your big move to make and I support you" echoes really closely Penner's "what do you want your story to be, Lisa Whelchel?"

If they want to save the auction they need to remove all "game advantage" items from the bidding and tell the players that up front. It's the only solution. There will always be someone on the bottom who's hunger for staying in the game is stronger than any temptation. The auction would go back to being a…

Yeah they were laying it on real thick with Aubrey, making it pretty obvious she was their target, even though they were also trying to sell that Cydney was getting their votes. They were misted so hard by their own hubris.

Scot thought he was the mafioso strong-arming Aubrey in their anti-Cydney racketeering, but it was Tai all along who sent him to rest with the fishes.

He's the less-endearing curmudgeon type. A budget Keith Nale.

Again, they are doing what they can with what they have. You can't hype the big characters when they get prematurely pulled. You can't hype the strategy when it gets undermined by infections.

They don't rejoice in the drama, they play the hand they're dealt. I'm certain the show runners would prefer that no one ever gets injured to the point where they are removed from the game. But if it happens, they have to incorporate that into the narrative somehow.

I laughed the hardest at Debbie's reluctant endorsement of Neal to Cydney: "He *is* weird, but…"