Uhhhhhh….. OK?
Shirin had to be removed from her home by child protective services. That's not "her dad yelling at her". Way to completely ignore anything that didn't fit into the picture you so clearly wanted to paint…

Except this way he has a likely extra vote with Dan going back with him. A large chance that Sierra will join too, AND he still has an idol (AND Dan's extra extra vote). If he had played his idol he would no longer have it to play and it would probably have been Dan going home.

How? He gives his immunity idol away and then gets voted out next Tribal? Having Shirin still in the game and as an ally doesn't outweigh the need for Mike to prevent himself from going home next/forcing the alliance of 6 to splinter and begin to cannibalize each other. If Mike had used his idol it would have been Dan…

I find it highly unlikely that Missy was the evil homophobic monster Reed/Josh is trying to paint her as.
1. Why have we never heard this from any other person?
2. Why did we never hear about this, either before or after?
3. Why was this never brought up until an excuse was needed for Reed's own bad behaviour?

Carolyn is so awful? Why the hate for Carolyn it's not like she did anything this episode that was negative…

Yeah, Jenn is kind of terrible. Fun for the laughs but I can't imagine hanging out with her and actually enjoying myself. She's just so incredibly privileged, and whiny, and self-entitled.

I actually really like the play by play. I think it makes the challenges far more engaging.

Except that's not what happened. The chain of events was Will gets the short end off the straw at the auction (a fate that has happened to many if not in this particular way). The short straw magically ends up being a secret surprise which he decides to share with the rest of the tribe in order to win "brownie points…

I've been watching this season with my mom and we both think this season is pretty great. Are there annoying or even terrible parts, sure, but overall it's been extremely enjoyable.

Ugggghhhhhh grosss!!!!

Haha I feel good about my Carolyn, but I will say, of anyone, Tyler is the one I think that could beat her out.

I mean I think a lot of it has to do with the entitlement that men have, particularly men who are largely white, athletic, used to having their voices heard, and otherwise "made for survivor" forced to consider people who they feel are beneath them as threats. There's a similar paranoia against people who are good at…

Definitely! There's no reason to get rid of Carolyn at this point and if she does get into trouble later on she is good at challenges, she has relationships with most everyone (including people she just met), and she has an idol. She should be fine for quite a while.

That being said though, Mike at least, clearly believes that he found the blue collar idol going by one of his scenes on youtube.

"I mean he is such a fucking moron he is making think of changing my username to 'TheKingOfSockMonkeys'"

Haha! Thank goodness no. I was actually pretty bummed out that someone with my username was that bad at Survivor. My issue with the No Collars is that although they are extremely likeable people they don't seem to realize that that's not enough and that they have to do more than that.

When someone calls a challenge completed everyone else always needs to stop. It always happens that way.

Right, Jenn said that because Nina was using her deafness as an excuse, for everything. Even Jeff called her out on it! What might be unsavoury comments in another context is just airing legitimate frustrations, when said comment is factually accurate.

Mike at this point really needs to get a smaller group of people down on lock. I assume he'll have Sierra because she hates Rodney (as long as he can keep Dan corraled), and Dan, but I don't know who else he can honestly say he has 100%.

I have to say I think I'm liking the No Collar's less and less as time goes by.
Hali's utter shock and inability to get up and get her torch snuffed because she literally could not believe that things hadn't gone her way was I feel really telling. I think it says a lot about the No Collar tribe's gameplay so far and…