I disagree. They've shown Joe actively engaged in strategy. The Joe hate seems to stem from his "Golden Boy" image and ability to be a challenge beast.

Monotheistic religion actively promotes intolerance and bigotry by purporting to be the Word of the divine Creator - with Islam being the "last and final" revelation of God. I don't know about you, but "last and final" sounds pretty f*cking scary to me. Woe be those who don't follow any one of these Bronze Age…

Un hunh.

I think he still does. Ciera was becoming a mastermind threat and an alliance with Stephen (and, more importantly, his advantage) could be secured by protecting him with the idol.

Clearly, if they keep up with the theme "Second Chance" they would have to eliminate any cast members who have already been on two seasons.

You're right. He's now at version 1.01.

Jeremy wanted Ciera out at all cost. An idol was the only way he could achieve that. It was a great move and will definitely work for his story if he makes it to the final tribal.

Considering that all but Joe and Keith voted to have a shelter built it's pretty clear to me that the tribe was beyond miserable and suffering outrageously.

How the hell is Joe boring? He's a challenge beast and he seems to be actively engaged in the social game (especially recently).

This. A hundred times this. Tasha actually pointed this out a few tribals back but it didn't seem to resonate as the notion of "voting blocs" was aggressively pushed into the narrative.

The proper choice would have been to put both votes on Abi. Fishbach should have known that if an idol was going to be in play it surely would have been used on Joe and not Abi. Who the hell would save Abi? And what was the likelihood that she would have an idol and would actually use it?

"Islamophobia" is a hard sell with many atheists (not just Christian-born) because it usually conflates criticism of Islam the religion with Muslims the people. While I fully acknowledge that there is evidence of rampant racism against Muslims the idea that we cannot criticize Islam without being misrepresented as…

Up until this year I would have said that I would never date any person with serious religious affiliations but would consider dating those who identified with "casual" belief.

I had no idea MMF implied one of the men in the equation being in the middle.. or for that matter, that the sequence of letters was an equation! You learn something new every day!

Gizmo.

They could do worse…

If we can end an internet thread war in peace surely there's hope for the middle east!

Fair enough. Based on this new perspective, I formally wish to retract my applied smuggishness in previous comments . Cheers!

Presumably, Chasing Ghosts - Beyond the Arcade?

"Well, if you're pleased with having no gag reflex for pandering, convoluted, watered down garbage… YMMV?"