I'm not disagreeing with your central premise, but I'll be very surprised if the merge happens within 3 episodes with 14 people left. I'd bet, unless something disastrous happens, it happens when there are 10 left.

*air guitar riff*

I think the merge is just far enough away that to keep losing challenges due to Will is a real danger to your alliance.

Carolyn is the one with the idol from the former White Collar tribe. Rod (sorry) is the sexist Boston Rob-wannabe who thinks he's Tom Brady.

Yessssssss. Give me that false hope.

Look, I've met Mr. Phipps. I respect Mr. Phipps. He's a very nice man. But jesus, he's wrong on Dredd.

O captain, my captain…

I'm clinging to a vain hope that Shrin will step up her game or some other twist will start picking off the weird people who vote off folks they find annoying instead of voting strategically.

Still alive, but I'm not happy about my pick at all.

Quite fair.

Wait. Sorry. I was thinking of Hailey.

Because at this stage you don't want to get voted out. You keep losing challenges, and Will has shown to be almost no help in any challenge, and someone has to be voted out. Once Shirin is gone, then you're cannibalizing your alliance.

That's taking a big chance, with these dopes, that their alliance doesn't fall apart the second Jenn sees a shiny pebble.

Hell, the Heat were 2 of the Bulls 10 losses in that season. And then promptly lost 4-1 to the Bulls in the playoffs.

Damn straight. The second vote was flat-out stupid, but I'm still annoyed at people not taking out Rodney earlier in the night.

Jenn can't keep up with all those words! It's like trying to keep up with the 1996 Bulls!

I'm mystified by the dislike for Shirin on a season that has Caroline, Jenn, Rob and the oil drill guy annoying people.

I'd like to congratulate the new tribe in making one of the dumbest tribal council votes in quite a while. Have fun losing the next couple of challenges until you wise up and vote off Will.

Reminds me of the story Melissa Fumero told about auditioning for Brooklyn Nine-Nine and just assuming that she wasn't going to get a job when Stephanie Beatriz was cast, because what show has two Latino women at the same time that isn't Devious Maids?

Well, she's sure as hell not lying about those Little Miss Sunshine pants. Sweet jesus, those are perfectly awful.