Just watched last week's episode.
Spencer <3 (just one heart. I'm trying to tone it down for this post)
I'll just say a couple of things. I feel like this cycle (S27 and this one) was where they revisited terrible ideas that everybody already decided were really bad for really good reasons. Redemption Island was universally hated and was a terrible thing for so many valid reasons, and any good parts to it were just invisible to everyone except for Jeff Probst because the bad parts just completely ruined the game for me/everyone who watches Survivor ever (this is an exaggeration, but I've never heard from anyone who said they didn't hate RI with a fiery passion). They brought it back and it continued to suck.
Then, Tony's OP idol? Why did they think that was a good idea to bring back?! Come on, it just takes so much out of the game. It guarantees that a certain person makes F4. Why do we want that? It's a much more exciting and difficult game if everybody is vulnerable at every vote but there's always a way (immunity) to save yourself. An OP idol like that requires no skills to actually use, I can't appreciate it like I do normal idols because those are hard to use correctly. This idol is just so OP that it ruins all of that for me and I've never heard anyone say they liked that version of the idol more than what they have now.
Robz, I think your wording is so strong it
comes across as closed-minded. I get that you don't like Spencer, and he doesn't do everything perfectly, but that doesn't mean that everything he does is totally wrong. He made F6 and he's still there. Usually I react to that by just posting more hearts, but I'll just say that I think there's much more to the game than
it appears you're seeing.
Even with Kass, I agree she said some things this episode that made me want to see her lose, but I think that's the edit talking. Just because we aren't hearing the intelligent confessionals we used to from back before the merge doesn't mean she turned into an idiot out there. It means that her move probably didn't work out for her and we're supposed to understand/feel better about why it happened.
Tony is flexing his Survivor-muscles. People say they don't trust him, but he's the one controlling every vote and he holds all of the power in the game. Granted, he's really lucky in a lot of cases, but you make your own shuffle luck. The only two reasons I wouldn't root for him are as follows:
1. He has an OP idol, so if he wins it will be cheapened by that. I'd be OK if he never told anyone and didn't have to use it, so KEEP HOPE ALIVE.
2. I have a giant man-crush on Spencer and I'd spend weeks doing nothing but crying into my pillow if he doesn't win the game.
Neither of these are good reasons, really. Tony is playing hard and I'd love to see someone playing that hard win the game. Tony listened to Spencer because Spencer had some good reasons and it could very well be that his move was in his best interests. We'll have to see if it works out for him.
Finally, I'd just like to announce that I'm thrilled that the last remaining
model/actor recruit boobs/southern accent "beauty" tribe member is gone. I didn't think any of them were all that attractive anyways (except for maybe Brice
). I'd actually be OK with any of the remaining people winning at this point except for maybe Woo because he hasn't really done anything.
Why was there a love scene between Probst and Woo over ribs? Now I'm hungry.