There was a stretch of seasons where it felt like every other season was a returnee season, and it bugged me, because I wanted to see new blood play the game.

Julia's in a pretty great position in the sense that she has the numbers to force a tie with the Aubry, Michele, Cydney and Joe alliance. And that's at worst. At best, she gets Michele to come over and vote with her, Scot, Jason and Tai in a final five pact. Once they're down to final five, I'd think Michele would be…

That's awesome. I hope Tai combines them like the pieces of the Triforce.

That…is genius, and I'm jealous I didn't think of it. Have them put up or shut up, and see if they're really tight enough to give up the safety that the super idol provides for the next couple weeks just to save one of their own.

I wonder if the two idols physically fit together to form one idol, like halves of a cookie.

Yeah, the super idol is just too overpowered. Jason and Scot are essentially untouchable until Top 5 unless Tai decides to bail on that alliance, or unless the majority alliance decides to just flush out the idol by voting one of the three men out of the game unanimously, and accepting that one of them will be going…

And yet, would anyone blame him for wanting to go to the end with those two?

Then we get Survivor's first-ever hung jury. A 0-0 deadlock.

I mean, how many possibilities are there for what a super idol could do that a regular one couldn't? Other than playing after the vote, I can't think of any others. Perhaps a super idol could be played for two people? But that'd be a gamebreaker, and I would hope the remaining castaways would recognize that it's…

I'm not sure they had a choice but to fall for Jason and Scot's play. I assume that due to Tai's slip-up last week, everyone knows that two idols together makes a super idol. At the very least, Cydney should know. So the real question becomes whether or not Tai would have gone through with playing the idol to save…

Jason and Scot are essentially playing for third place right now. They really ought to have feigned surprise about the ax and machete going missing, if for no other reason than as an excuse to go hunting for another idol under the auspices of searching for the missing tools. This is, of course, assuming that Neal's…

I hate how overpowered the super idol is, since it essentially makes a person untouchable until final five. That is, unless the Aubry alliance decides to just bite the bullet and vote out one of the three men to flush out the super idol. But that would mean each member of that alliance accepting the risk that the…

While I'm sad to see Debbie go, I can't pretend this wasn't entirely her doing from how she stonewalled Aubry.

What I liked was that each of them got straight-up told. Whether it was Hannah getting the business from Fran and Ray, Shosh getting knocked by Jason Ritter, Jessa getting stonewalled by Adam, or even Marnie being checked by Lisa Bonet, each girl had to answer for her questionable behavior by coming face-to-face with…

He almost read it like he was in a commercial.

That said, I love Ray going through the first and last names of all his conquests in his attempt to tell Hannah off.

And she totally bailed on Ray, who only came out there to pick her silly ass up!

Dated Shosh.
Slept with Marnie (repeatedly).
Got dome from Hannah.

Yeah, why not have someone join the group who gloms onto Phil and thinks everyone else in the group is a raging asshole? Maybe have Carol become the jealous one while everyone else wonders what's wrong with themselves that this person sees Tandy as the only decent person in the group?

Honestly, this is the episode where it makes sense why they cast Jason Sudeikis.