An exciting and pivotal episode!
A colossal clusterf*ck for COURTNEY, who was shown to be completely irrational, a potential flipper with no "street smarts." And she hates everyone. Then Jean-Robert goes and negates the whole thing by pointing out what a threat she is. (What me, threat?) Shii Ann's assessment of Ass Amber, anyone?
Speaking of ASS Amber, AMANDA'S arc has been far more Amber than the predicted DANNI. She sure has Todd by the nutsack. The problem is that everyone knows it. Amber didn't really set out to do that with Rob. She's kind of counting on people getting pissed off at Todd and letting her win by default for doing so. That might work in a one-on-one vote. She CERTAINLY has JR's vote. But if the Toddmanda votes are split down the middle as Romber's were, Door #3 has an excellent chance. She doesn't seem to be playing the jury they way that TINA did to defeat Colby. Courtney's "Love Connection" non-strategy might actually work.
And the roots of TODD'S downfall were certainly showed last night. So far, he's been in total control. Now he realizes giving James TWO Immunity Idols coming into the Merge was a pretty crappy idea, his first strategic FAILURE.
Todd looks like a juggler who was juggling four batons at a time. Excellent. Then someone tosses him another. He's doing OK. Then someone tosses him ANOTHER. And ANOTHER. You want to control the whole game? Here. Control THIS! Next the game throws him flaming batons, chainsaws and cats. Suddenly, there's a flaming cat. Did he just saw a cat in half??? Now he has to juggle the PIECES. Good Luck, Bro. Good Luck.
FROSTI - What a guy. In a perfect world he should pull an Ozzy and walk away with a cool Mill. Too bad.
JAMES - Great episode for him. He had all the best lines. I'd love to see him go on an immunity run and make Todd choke on those HIIs. Again, too bad.
DENISE - Her only line had to be captioned. HERE'S your damn Goat, Todd!!! Wake the f up.
PG - My strategy utterly FAILED. Dead woman walking. Couldn't even win back Frosti. GO AWAY.
Erik - I don't know enough about him to check to see if his name is spelled with a "c" or a "k." Nor DO I CARE. All I hope for about him is that he can get laid in Losers' Lounge.
Jean-Robert - NEXT. Courtney held off her spite vote to get the numbers. The numbers are IN. It's 7-2. Zhan Hu is TOAST. And it's time to send JR PACKING. Courtney has no reason NOT to pull a KEITH and JERRI his ass outta there.
Courtney has no idea what she's doing, but tossing the other side a BONE has proved EFFECTIVE Survivor strategy. Like Tina cutting Jerri loose to appease the Kuchas, or Yul tossing Jonathan under the wheels to win over ADUMB'S vote. Making it seem like people go when they DESERVE to go. PG, Eriq and Frosti will appreciate this gesture and feel like Courtney was the only one fighting for their interests against the Toddmanda machine.
A colossal clusterf*ck for COURTNEY, who was shown to be completely irrational, a potential flipper with no "street smarts." And she hates everyone. Then Jean-Robert goes and negates the whole thing by pointing out what a threat she is. (What me, threat?) Shii Ann's assessment of Ass Amber, anyone?
Speaking of ASS Amber, AMANDA'S arc has been far more Amber than the predicted DANNI. She sure has Todd by the nutsack. The problem is that everyone knows it. Amber didn't really set out to do that with Rob. She's kind of counting on people getting pissed off at Todd and letting her win by default for doing so. That might work in a one-on-one vote. She CERTAINLY has JR's vote. But if the Toddmanda votes are split down the middle as Romber's were, Door #3 has an excellent chance. She doesn't seem to be playing the jury they way that TINA did to defeat Colby. Courtney's "Love Connection" non-strategy might actually work.
And the roots of TODD'S downfall were certainly showed last night. So far, he's been in total control. Now he realizes giving James TWO Immunity Idols coming into the Merge was a pretty crappy idea, his first strategic FAILURE.
Todd looks like a juggler who was juggling four batons at a time. Excellent. Then someone tosses him another. He's doing OK. Then someone tosses him ANOTHER. And ANOTHER. You want to control the whole game? Here. Control THIS! Next the game throws him flaming batons, chainsaws and cats. Suddenly, there's a flaming cat. Did he just saw a cat in half??? Now he has to juggle the PIECES. Good Luck, Bro. Good Luck.
FROSTI - What a guy. In a perfect world he should pull an Ozzy and walk away with a cool Mill. Too bad.
JAMES - Great episode for him. He had all the best lines. I'd love to see him go on an immunity run and make Todd choke on those HIIs. Again, too bad.
DENISE - Her only line had to be captioned. HERE'S your damn Goat, Todd!!! Wake the f up.
PG - My strategy utterly FAILED. Dead woman walking. Couldn't even win back Frosti. GO AWAY.
Erik - I don't know enough about him to check to see if his name is spelled with a "c" or a "k." Nor DO I CARE. All I hope for about him is that he can get laid in Losers' Lounge.
Jean-Robert - NEXT. Courtney held off her spite vote to get the numbers. The numbers are IN. It's 7-2. Zhan Hu is TOAST. And it's time to send JR PACKING. Courtney has no reason NOT to pull a KEITH and JERRI his ass outta there.
Courtney has no idea what she's doing, but tossing the other side a BONE has proved EFFECTIVE Survivor strategy. Like Tina cutting Jerri loose to appease the Kuchas, or Yul tossing Jonathan under the wheels to win over ADUMB'S vote. Making it seem like people go when they DESERVE to go. PG, Eriq and Frosti will appreciate this gesture and feel like Courtney was the only one fighting for their interests against the Toddmanda machine.
