It would be interesting to see Nadiya in a future All-Stars season. See if Survivor is in the DNA.

Is this league open? Is it possible to participate next season? (complete newbie).

Well, according to Purple Rock Podcast the original alliance-of-five plan was to vote one of each couple out (and if that is true, then we have the ironic case that after two blindsides the F3 is exactly as the group of 5 planned - except of course Jaclyn instead of Jon, which might have made all the difference), so…

I feel this was a great last episode (I would give it at least an A-), and Natalie is an awesome winner, so it does certainly improve the ranking. I believe after these last 3-4 episodes few(er?) people will wonder whether this is the worst season of Survivor yet, but it certainly is bottom 10 for me.

I feel the reviews are way too harsh on the series. I feel a large part of the misunderstanding is expecting Marco to be the main character. As I see it (and as he is portrayed by the show, like "Marco, go there and observe!"), he is supposed to be the eyes of the viewer, a way of connecting us to and understanding…

Yes, my point was that no matter how well you play you can't assure a 100% chance of win. A good player can get to F5 with around 30-50% chance of win, which is what I imagine Natalie has.

The perfect ending for this season would be a Missy, Baylor and Natalie FTC with Missy winning. That would be the perfect final slap in our faces.

As I understood it, he was saying that if he had played his idol she would have been eliminated, and that she might have better chances of getting to F3 than him. I don't see him hinting at leaving her the idol. Not saying he didn't, though.

I agree completely, but I feel this is not worse than most winners or best-players-that-never-won get at this point. They have to win the final immunity challenge and they win the game.

I also started watching AR this season and it is extremely fun! But by watching Rob's podcast (he also has a weekly one for AR) and comments on internet I get the impression this season is the exception, not the rule, as in it is significantly better than the average (at least recent) AR season.

This episode really cements my feelings that Jon was never a good strategist and player. What confuses me the most is that he repeatedly refers to a possible FTC against Natalie (once in the episode, when saying he will tell them her mistake, and again in a secret scene talking about challenge wins).

I'm actually starting to think that they really had a good story here but they totally ruined the edit. If they had focused from the start on Natalie, showing her as the hero, and shown from the beginning Jon as a villain, they could get a whole season arc in which Jon betrays her, takes out her sidekick (because…

What I thought weird in the Ponderosa video is how everyone seemed to immediately give all credit to Missy, both on the blind-side and last week vote. It is very weird how no one seems to give Natalie any credit this season. This really speaks well for her game. I hope Keith when he gets to the Jury can show them how…

Keith is next to go. Natalie has idol and it doesn't make much sense to get rid of Jaclyn at this point.

The question is, what was his F5 plan? The show didn't give any indication he had one. Thinking of taking Natalie makes no sense (she was BFF of Baylor and of course would side with the goats), maybe he trusted he could bring Missy?

If he were a bit smart he would put it in her pockets (?) when he was kissing good bye. I doubt he did it.

Are they even allowed to change challenges like that to benefit a player? Isn't this against game-show best practices? (AFAIK they even have a consultant on site that verifies whether the game is being fair).

Do you think they will change the challenges since she hurt her foot? I don't know what the rules say about this, but many of these challenges seem to be prepared many days in advance.

Whenever I see people complaining about that I get the feeling it is one of those things that are hard to understand unless you live it.

I was confused by that, didn't she just a couple of episodes ago give Baylor the "you have to lie to win this game" speech?