Fair point. Although Laurel's grief over her father's loss, and her potentially being unable to forgive him for having that blindspot about Andy, could have left Diggle feeling guilty enough to go down a rage spiral.

While I adore Paul Blackthorne, the absence of Capt. Lance just reaffirms to me how stupid it was to kill off Laurel instead of the guy whose story has reached its natural conclusion.

Either he's working with Darhk and the show is giving us a repeat of Thea banging some dude working for the Big Bad, or he's an absolute moron who couldn't pick up on the very strange, very valid details Thea was pointing out.

My issue with the seasonal flashbacks is that they all tend to go the same way. Either the subject of all the flashbacks dies or they become the new big bad. And their outcome tends to rely on an inevitability that becomes painfully obvious long before the show ever chooses to deliver the payoff.

Even The Godfather excuse of not killing his brother out of respect to their mother doesn't tread water if the younger brother is trying to murder her grandchild!

Until the brief flash of Russian Island Dressing's eyes lighting up yellow, I didn't even notice there hadn't been any flashbacks. That's how utterly superfluous they've been to the narrative this season.

So glad Diggle pulled the trigger. I get why things are the way they are, but I was getting really tired of all the half-measures.

And here, I thought Under the Dome had been canceled.

Thank you!

Penner told Probst to be quiet once, at which point, Probst continued with his commentary…

I think you might be right about Tai being a shield for Aubry. If she knows Tai is playing his idol at final five no matter what, then she essentially has a second person playing to win immunity for her, since Tai winning immunity means he can either give her the necklace or the hidden immunity idol afterwards. He…

But Aubry and Joe could have clued in one other party, and it would have been enough to send Tai packing.

I wonder how many more times the show is going to keep using the extra vote advantage before they just cut bait. No one seems to have any idea how to use it right, and the only decent outcome of this occasion was that at least the person playing it didn't go home this time.

How quickly we forget Chicken Morris from Survivor: China. Truly, a man for all seasons.

What I don't get is why no one proposed just blindsiding Tai. He'd already said he was saving his idol for final five. Did they think the extra vote would make him harder to eliminate? I mean, if they were never going to go along with Tai's plan to vote out Michele, then Jason made more sense to keep around than Tai,…

Jason garnering any other vote but Scot's would depend largely on the type of argument he makes at FTC. Nobody anticipated Chase Rice would come within an eyelash of winning Nicaragua, yet he went from being a guy no one respected to being one vote away from the title, all by defending each and every single one of his…

Tai has been playing such a spectacularly sloppy game the past few weeks that I'm amazed he's even still here. He should go out of his way not to speak at any more tribal councils. Just plead the fifth and move on. Because he's digging his own grave with some of these responses. Hell, it's part of the reason I no…

I did find it kind of hilarious that Jeff was verbally berating Cydney for spending half the challenge in last place, only for her to go on and win it anyway.

Yeah, I started to see an underdog edit forming for Jason. He's by no means a favorite, but these past two weeks have given us our most palatable Jason yet. A Jason who speaks common sense to the rival alliance when offering alternatives to their plans. Coupled with the autistic kid, the backlash against Tai, and his…

At this rate, it's kind of miraculous that Tai is even still in the game, since he's been rubbing people the wrong way, left and right, for almost three weeks now. It really makes me wonder how smart he was to have jettisoned the Jason/Scot alliance in the first place. Hindsight being what it is, Tai essentially…