I think they spent WAY too much time talking about Adam's mom, to be honest. I'd've rather they talked more about some of the big moves, the Taylor/Adam fiasco, and the reward-stealing advantage, personally.

Not to mention how he and Zeke bullied David in that one Tribal. They both fell squarely into asshole territory to me after that.

I lost all respect for Bret when he and Zeke bullied David so savagely at that one Tribal Council. The minute someone turns bully in this game, I'm done with them (e.g. Colton, Will from Worlds Apart, Scot & Jason from Kaoh Rong, etc.)

Yes. This. This exactly. I spoke to this point further up the thread.

Totally agree. Final tribal almost seems like an afterthought as opposed to the place where castaways are supposed to "argue their cases to the jury".

But to be fair, he was shitting all over her game, taking credit for things she did, and nobody was listening to her. Was she not supposed to defend herself? As a woman in a male-dominated industry myself, I see that shit happen to women all the time, and you either have to speak up for yourself and risk being "a…

In other fun #EverydaySexism news, I especially loved when Probst said "Women can get so caught up being wives and mothers" at the reunion as if we do literally nothing else in our lives. >:(

Ok, so the entire theme of this season was terrible, and Jeff's constant need to shoehorn it into everything was as insulting as it was annoying. Worlds Apart, Cook Islands, and One World had similar issues. I think the last really good themed season was Blood vs Water (Heroes vs Villains and Fans vs Favorites were…

It's too soon after the election for this comment to not make me want to jump out the window.

Or, to vote for Adam to force the tie and hope he loses the fire-making challenge. That way he gets the same result but his hands are clean and he's still honor dude.

Me too. Especially since he revealed at FTC. It will always look calculated to me. That, and because *every* reality TV personality has a sob story these days, they just don't work on me anymore. In fact, they actively annoy me at this point.

That whole moment was soured for me almost immediately afterward when Zeke and Bret used their newfound bond to immediately and brutally bully David.

I'm not gonna lie, the whole story about his mother made me feel nothing. Maybe because *every* reality TV personality has a sob story these days, and I'm kind of sick of it (or jaded or desensitised to it), but the sob stories just do not work on me anymore. And anyone who doesn't bring it up the entire game only to…

Exactly. If I was on the jury, Ken would have lost my vote the second he flipped on David (not that he would have had my vote over David anyway, though, after the whole Will debacle). You can't base your entire game on loyalty, integrity, and relationships with people and then disregard that when it matters most. That…

I agree with everything you've said, but as a CIA agent, you're a legitimate government employee of a well-connected agency with top-level training. That's a little different than being a street-level vigilante with minimal training and zero superpowers who breaks the law about 25 times a day. One part of keeping the…

Maybe I'm jaded or desensitised because it seems like EVERY Reality TV star has their own sob story these days, but his big reveal at Final Tribal, etc. didn't affect me at all.

Fair point, but it's not exactly unexpected. Pretty much every superhero/vigilante starts off keeping their identity secret from everyone they love in order to protect them. And after seeing all the drama dragged out with Barry & Iris on Flash (keeping secrets because reasons!), I actually liked that Paul wasn't…

It looked a hell of a lot better here than it did on Robert Downey Jr in Civil War.

Congratulations. Now you know what it's been like for women for most of history.

Oh my god, the Heather/Valencia/Rebecca girl group is exactly what's been missing in my life for all those years. Valencia is a goddamn treasure, and I'm loving every second of her.