Especially as Spencer is barely more than a child. How old was he when he said that? And is it any more stupid than the stuff that half of us said in our early twenties?

What it suggests is the producers are ultimately more interested in Kass (and Spencer) than they are in Abi.

Agreed. That's not even an Abi thing, that's a Survivor thing - you want a swing vote to vote with you, don't get greedy; let them pick the target.

Ciera said on Twitter that it was because of Abi. I guess she was willing to vote for Woo but not for Savage.

That was Monica? I thought that was Ciera?

I don't think she really scrambled, she just got greedy. She was already safe with 'we want to vote for a player who is not you'; she tried to upgrade to 'vote for this specific player of my choice'.

*and try not to cut your fingers off*

I think Colby probably legitimately thought he might win anyway though. And he did have a case. Meanwhile no one thought Woo had any chance of beating Tony other than Woo (and apparently Tasha).

Awesome, then here is the blog that I start planning to write as soon as I watch the episode, then ACTUALLY write between about 1 and 3am UK time the night the next episode airs…

I picked Spencer for the winner episode 1, and decided to blog about it.

Maybe next week Monica too will get to serve food to the alpha males whilst they lie in hammocks.

He wants to feel what love is.

Ta Keo won the race part of last episode's challenge (climbing over the pyramids), only slowed by Varner. They went on to lose the strength and puzzle elements, but Abi hasn't been a hindrance so far.

Spencer and Stephen have both had a lot of airtime over on Bayon as well.

Varner is looking impressive, but I think he's been playing too hard to far (exactly what he was accusing Spencer and Shirin of last time) and it's already started to blow up in his face.

i blogged the story arcs of the first two episodes for the first time this season, and I totally agree with you about Spencer - narrative-wise he's looking great, even if his position on paper looks shaky right now.

i'm calling it as Joe makes the family visit like he said he wanted to in the premier, gets to hang out with his dad, and then gets offed.

Neither of them has enough of a story yet for me. Kass has had a couple of nice moments but little in the way of strategy, while Joe feels more like someone we are passively looking at than actively watching, if that makes sense? He's not being presented as a protagonist.

Agreed. Get to the merge without having been a total jerk up to that point and there will surely be SOMEONE with a worse game than you.

It was Peih-Gee's comment about Savage's lawyerly pitch that I think did her in, a little. More perceptive than Abi, more likely to think for herself, therefore more dangerous.