His success in the Finals had little to do with his board-hopping strategy, though. He got those leads because he knows a lot of stuff and he's quick on the trigger. Really, all three contestants were jumping around on both value amounts and categories, even Julia, who's an incredibly traditional player. I tend to…

I got stuck with the same thing. Irritating.

I give Tony more strategic credit than that. Dude was psychotically energetic and weird, but the supposed blindsides always came when his alliance was up by two. He wasn't just engineering them at random. He was doing it at a time when his alliance would keep the numbers. It certainly looked haphazard on screen, but…

I pick up things with my feet all the time, but my legs would have started to shake by the second level because my core is filled with laziness. No way I would have been close to winning.

Oh how I hated that promo. It was hyperbolic, but you could almost immediately narrow the boot down to Jeremy/Jon/Jaclyn/Natalie, with a strong lean toward Jeremy just based on how confident he was coming into the episode.

Do we know that they weren't in the loop? Obviously those three humans voted in a strange way, but Keith knew that his idol was common knowledge and he didn't play it. The only reason he wouldn't is if he was either very confident that the majority alliance wasn't gunning for him, or that he's an idiot. He is an…

Unless she's not actually siding with Jon/Jaclyn, just using them. Which would be my guess.

They didn't tie themselves to Jon/Jaclyn, though, as this season we've seen no indication that any alliance is binding in the long haul. All they did was vote out a threat. It's far, far more likely that people turn on Jon than turn on Missy. Jon is Captain America. He's such an easy target. And his idol isn't even a…

I think the opposite. I think Missy is playing for herself. If there's a Blood voting out Blood instance this season, it's going to be Missy voting out Baylor, not Baylor voting out Missy. This is the opposite of how I thought pre-merge. Pre-merge, I thought Baylor might be emotional enough to flip on her mom. Not of…

I don't dislike Jon, exactly, but it's weird that he's making strategic moves without actually showing any sense of strategy. Maybe he's just an idiot savant at 'Survivor' and everything he does will end up working out. I don't know. It's hard for me to credit somebody who goes from "We need to get Jeremy out, we're…

They already rifled through Julie's bag. Maybe there are just a lot of snoops this season. It did give us the lovely juxtaposition of Keith leaving the clue out in the (relative) open and Jon (too proudly) saying, "I BURNT MINE!!!!!!!!"

Damn. That was pretty much my reaction after the episode ended. Fare thee well, Jeremy. You were (probably) the best player on a lackluster season, but you took a few missteps and that was your end. Onward we march. I vehemently disagree with the grade, as much as one can "vehemently disagree" with the grade on a pop…

I understand why some people like Arthur Chu, but I'd need him to dial it down at least 20% before I fell into that camp. He's constantly moving at 100 mph, which annoys me. I have no problem with his strategy of category-jumping (though it does hurt my head), but I don't need Chu running over Trebek when Trebek is…

She struck me as boring at first, but eventually I got used to her presence in my life and came to find her complete baseline normalcy to be refreshing. I would be curious to see what the rooting breakdown will be for the Arthur/Julia/Other Person match. Assuming it doesn't become Julia/Other Person/Other Person.

Gotta do it. I can't have vortexes of negative energy fucking up my barely existent vibe.

I was afraid Julia would trip up our long-awaited Good vs Evil match against Arthur. Really happy that she survived to make the Finals, though the Clue Crew should probably give her an IV or some steroids or something.

HEY. Don't backtalk my girl! She seemed really sweet in the podcast I listened to some months back and she's always struck me as an incredibly normal human being in her awkward chit-chat with Alex. Any pretentiousness that comes across probably is due to the fact that they already did 20+ days of awkward chit-chat and…

That cronut bit was great. Props.

There are certain challenges I know I would bomb in. I wouldn't be able to balance things and I wouldn't be able to remember things. I would, however, be able to race madly through an obstacle course and I might—might—be a decent puzzle player. Except if I failed to see patterns immediately, I think I'd be one of…

I really wanted to see that! Don't play with our hearts, Jeff.