Phillip is being edited for a massive blindside.

I did forget about Greg.  I'm sure you understand.

She has such a flat affect to her voice and her facial expressions - in a group of normal, well-adjusted human beings, she's probably perfectly fun to hang around with.  In a group of weirdo Survivor players, she resolutely sticks out like a sore thumb.  I do genuinely feel some sympathy for her; casting obviously…

He should get the point.  In the Prisoner's Dilemma, they both picked snitch.

I love that challenge and yeah, I always think of the Tom and Ian-dominated one from Palau (I think that was the first time they did that challenge.)

Well, this season is officially over.  I don't see any reason to continue after tonight's vote out, and I'm sure everyone agrees with me.  Last one out, turn off the lights.

They used to do that one fairly regularly, but I guess they decided it was too subjective and didn't make terribly compelling television (some guy in a helicopter picks one, and then they win.)

That spider was on camera for a weirdly long time.  Spiders usually mean "women plotting" on Survivor, so I assume it was some sort of Corinne-related thing.

"A woman who does motorsports" doesn't seem totally far-fetched as someone that casting was actively searching for.

The same dynamic happened when they did the tribal shake-up in Survivor: Fiji - all the muscle ended up on one tribe.  But in the end, someone from the weaker tribe won the game.

Logically speaking, she's the obvious boot next week anyway - Bikal will probably lose, meaning a Fan goes home, and since Corinne has some weird attachment to Michael, they'll target Julia.

This felt like a pretty definitive "pre-boot episode" for Julia.  She got just enough screen time this week to establish that she's a person who exists, so that next week her story can wrap up as she's voted out.  I definitely see the Julia train crashing and burning next week.  I'll be sad, at least.

With the Favorites in firm control of Bikal, there's no reason for them to keep strong players around in order to win challenges.  If their alliance is strong, and it seems like it is, then they're actually better off with a shitty, challenge-losing tribe, so that they can get rid of the remnants of the Fans in their…

"I've been calling her Crandall!  Oh, I've been making an idiot out of myself!"

Thanks, baby.

It has been a weirdly edited season, with multiple players who are completely invisible.  Erik, Brenda and Julia are whispers of a rumor in this game.

Damn, Savage was like, mid-30's.  That's an old man now?  Christ, fit me for white shoes and pants that go up to my nipples.

She seems like a perfectly pleasant girl who is probably just not that interesting on camera.  She can't win, obviously, because they would have figured something out by now.  I just hope she coasts for a long time like the similarly-named Julie from Vanuatu.

My ladies, just plugging along.  "Julia's on camera, Julia's on camera!"  You've got to enjoy the little things.

Yeah, he had Brandon on a leash.  I do think that if Brandon felt he was part of a final five alliance this season with the in-crowd, things might have been different.  Him being clearly on the outs with the core alliance of the tribe put him in a position where I imagine he felt less in control.